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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Would it be possible to find anybody? And I know
I'm going to mispronounce the name of this game good stuff.
The I just I know I am well, people know
what you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
I think so. And I think I think Diana will
be able to help me.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Okay, no, no, no, no, because I'm call into games.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
No, but I think you'll know this.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Is it foreign?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (00:22):
Oh? No? Well, I mean, should Diane just give it
a shot off the bat?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
The oh, Diana know what it is? Dianell know what
it is. And by the way, Diane's perception of it is.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
Going to be wrong, her perception. How do I spell it? Oh?
My god? What continents are we talking here?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
North America?
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Oh? I said it was.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Like where I was. No, I'm in North America. I
don't know where it's from.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Majohn, Is that right? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (00:59):
I always thought, even though there's not one in there,
that it's Marjong mar John mar John.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
No, I thought it was Majong.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Mar Jong Marjon.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
I don't think that you put an R in there.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
Now.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
My mom puts ours in Alabama, so maybe that's where
it came from.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Washington.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
The No, that's my mother in law. The how do
I say it, ma Jong, ma Jong.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Yeah, it's it's still sneaking a little r in there.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
I can't get the r out and I can't get
the g in Marjong Marjo mar ma ma ma Jong
ma jong jong.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Yeah, ma Jong.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
I mean it's a little stumble in the middle. At
least didn't put an iron ma Jong. No. No, now
you're getting worse. It's it's one word.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Ye.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
It even sounds wrong when Diane says it.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Does it to me too? Yeah, majongjong.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Have you ever played it?
Speaker 4 (01:57):
No?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
I haven't either, because when you think of it, what
do you think of.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
It's like an old person's game, old Jewish grandmothers.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Yeah, yeah, like it's an old Jews game. No, it
really is. It's all old Jews. Josh, your bubby play it?
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Yeah, of course, But is that not something just old Jewish?
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Actually no, no, well also a lot of older Asian
people as well.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
The no what, I don't think. So I think the
game may have been I don't. I don't know where
it started. Based on some things. It may come from Asia,
you know what. It's Brooklyn. No, No, but it was
so I was reading about it, right, and I'll end
up with the big shock of it all.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
It did. I don't know where it started out, but
it really became.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Known as a like an old not an old but
like a Jewish household game.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
This is the game with the tiles.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Yeah, yeah, but it's not Dominoes.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
No, it's more like Rummy, right it has I've never
played rummanyither it is? You know?
Speaker 3 (02:57):
The first thing about Rummy?
Speaker 2 (02:59):
No isn't there isn't it, Jim Rummy.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
That's a hard games. I have no idea. I have
no idea, not a farcle anyway.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
You have it on by the way, on his phone, No.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
On his iPad? No, but that makes sense. Number one.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
He's like an old Jewish grandmother. No, no, No, here's
the shocker of it all. It is so popular right now,
and not with old Jewish grandmothers. It is very, very
very popular as an app. The yes, well, I mean
(03:36):
it can also be Josh, do you play that where
you interact with people online?
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Just you?
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Got that friends?
Speaker 2 (03:43):
The I'm kidding. I like Josh.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
The Josha's previous favorite game was just called words.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
No, but they were saying that yes, there there are
there are groups that play because it is a very
interactive game, very interactive.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
But also I've never played it. I don't know anything about.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
It, so it's not like a thing that like grandparents
would play with the little kids and then the kids
grew up. Now they're like feeling nostalgic about it.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
No, no, no, no, no, it's not it would be
all like Jewish kids.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
And it's not.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
So how are people of being exposed to it?
Speaker 2 (04:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Is it topping the charts on the app store? Yes,
so real it is popular.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
It is killing it and again, not just not just online,
but also in person. So like I think people are
playing it online, but then we'll get together and play
it in person.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
I don't know anything about the game.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
I honestly know nothing about the game other than I
was shocked to hear that there was anybody a under
the age of eighty b not Jewish, playing the game.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
But they make it sound like it is like I.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Know you mentioned words with friends, wordal, but they make
it sound like it is.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
It is kind of in the same world.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Was there a movie or a TV show it was
featured in.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
I could tell you based on pre like recent things
that I've seen, it was not in Tulsa King, and
it was not in the Menendez Monsters. So no, no,
Now that's the only thing I've seen recently.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Why is it so popular.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
And how young our kids get into it?
Speaker 1 (05:27):
I mean it sounds I don't know. I don't know
the answer to that. But young, But I don't think
it's like eight or nine years. No, they say it's
actually very easy.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
I know. They also say that about Rummy, and I can't.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Well, you don't know if rummy's easy or hard because
you don't know how to play, nor do I because
I don't know how.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
To me, it sounds hard.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
I don't know the rules well.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
But for example, I know the game of spades is easy.
I just don't know how to play it. I've never
played spades in.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
My life, Diane.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
You used to play spades all the time, and now
I can't think of how to play it.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Right. But it's not hard, right, and it's interactive and
it's fun and people really like it. I don't know
if it causes a lot of fights or anything. However,
I don't know how to play spades, so to me,
it sounds hard. When somebody's like, oh, well, you have
two teams and they sit across from each other, and
you've got to guess how many trumps or whatever it
is that you have. I don't know what it is.
(06:19):
And I hear it in my eyes roll back in
my head. I go like, this is way too hard,
And the truth is it's easy. So Marjong may be
very very easy, or rummy may be very very easy.
But if you if it sounds foreign like a foreign language,
foreign languages are easy if you speak it.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Some sound funny, Hug and Venie, All right, it's missus
g plays her group of friends rotates houses for dinner
every month. The last time they played here it sounded stupid.
So is there like communication between the people? Well, I mean,
I think you're allowed to.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Talk in your you're on teams.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Don't Diane.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
I've never played it, but if you play, is this
the new version for like like missus jenvany, is this
the new Bunco.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Bunco?
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Do I have the game wrong?
Speaker 5 (07:12):
No?
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Bunko was a thing, right, like you're ten ten or
so years ago? Right, right, Matt?
Speaker 1 (07:17):
But wasn't that Wasn't that like a bunch of Yenta's
going house to house to house playing But this doesn't sound.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Like as a dice game.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Yeah, it was just a social excuse to get around
and drink.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
I thought, like the hash house harriers, we're drinkers, we're
running problem.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Yeah, Rachel says, as a middle aged white woman, it
is very popular with us right now firsthand experience, for sure?
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Is it really? But by the way, I know that
she said she's middle aged. They make it sound like
it's much younger than that, like twenties thirties.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
But are you if if he was listening to them
play online, if you are with other people, is there
a lot of chat?
Speaker 1 (08:01):
I only know one person that plays online, and he's
got He's got no online or real.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Sue says that Majong was played in Crazy Rich Asians.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
A couple of years ago.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
I was gonna say, too long ago, too long ago
too to catch a good show to catch?
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Yeah, what was the what was let it go?
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Oh, I know what you're thinking of. Oh man, it
doesn't matter wrong, you know what I'm talking about though, right.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
Yes, Elliott, Yeah, I'm not saying it.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
No the name of the show, but now I can't
even think of it.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
That's it, I said, straight, not ites fresh.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
That's how they said it in the opening.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
I don't remember that.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
I do.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
They sang it with Fresh.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
On the Bow.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
I don't remember that.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Yes, was that a baby at work or an actor? Damn?
Any who? I hated when that show was on because
you used to do that whole book.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Yes, because it's not an impression.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
You did watch that show.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Yes, it was very good.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Whenever you mentioned the show, you would do that, and
it made us all really uncomfortable.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
There's no reason to be uncomfortable. That's how the show started.
What Fresh on the Bow?
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Actually the grandmother on the show, she couldn't even like like,
she didn't speak any English, but that was the theme song.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
I think they had her try to sing the themes
that right, absolutely Fresh on the Bow. Hi, yellye in
the morning, I got you? Who's this.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
From Rockville?
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Hey? Zach? What can I do for you? Sir?
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (09:56):
I heard you were asking about.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Do you play it?
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Yeah? I actually do.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
I play a little bit.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Do you play online or in person?
Speaker 1 (10:07):
So?
Speaker 5 (10:08):
I actually, and this might answer why a couple like
younger people like my age, I'm twenty six, uh play
So there was a video game series that came out
or that's been pretty popular, and they've been screaming it
on Twitch lately and they play a lot of my
gen and so that's how I got into it. So
a friend of mine showed me the game, started playing it.
It has you go through and you just start playing it,
(10:29):
and then I picked it up from there, and so
I played solo either through that game or with friends
as well, and just play Majong through that.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
So and you said, you're twenty six years old, do
you have like like are you? Is there is there
an online like? I know that you said, either you're
playing by yourself or you're playing online? Is there a
big online community?
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Like are you? Are you chatting with people while you're playing?
Speaker 5 (10:54):
So for me, I chat with you know, my friends
who I play the series, the game, the game seri
is called Yakuza. It's actually they're it's getting an Amazon show,
so you might see more maj on there. That's where
that's where we play. And so I play with chat
with friends. I know there are online like hubs and
servers to play with people. It's super big over in Asia,
(11:16):
especially for China and Japan. They have entire game stores
and parlors dedicated to it.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Are you serious?
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (11:23):
Yeah, they have entire just like just like you would
go to a casino, they also have like their own
majan parlors there.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Wow. Wow, I would have had no idea. And it is.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
But at least they're I mean, at least now I know.
Like he said, it's all. It's all like I told you,
it's all twenty year olds that are playing Marjon. And
to me it's Grandma Stella and Flow and Aunt Wendy,
like that's who's playing Oh in rubber lips, like that's
who's playing Marjon.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Seriously, so is it not always like Chinese characters on
the tiles? Uh?
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Is?
Speaker 5 (12:00):
There could be symbols, and there are dragons and other
arts such as trees and flowers as well. It depends
on the kind of hands you want. I think it
almost like poker as well, where you're changing out hands
and card It works like that with changing piles or
almost if you've played scrabble too, it's a good way
to think about it.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Okay, I get scrabble, but scrabble has letters.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
Yeah, in this case, they're trying to do either characters
or numbers, and there are a bunch of hands and
I'm not the best of the game. And it's already
picking it up and trying to explain it. It's hard,
but the more you play it, the more you just
get it that way?
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Is it addictive?
Speaker 6 (12:37):
For some?
Speaker 1 (12:37):
It is?
Speaker 5 (12:38):
Like I know, like again back to those parlors that
are talking to you about a lot of people gamble
there and you know, just like any other like you're
playing poker, blackjack, like people can lose a bunch of
money at that.
Speaker 6 (12:47):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Wow, all right, very good. Hey, I appreciate it, Thank you,
my friend, Thank you, sir.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Should have guess twitch the watching people play, watch of
them wanting to play yourself? Damn it. It was right there.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Isn't that crazy though? It's getting a TV show?
Speaker 6 (13:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (13:08):
What was that? But why what do you call that?
Speaker 2 (13:12):
No?
Speaker 4 (13:12):
He just said, uh uh, he definitely gave a name.
You don't want to think stab about it.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
I don't remember yea let it go? The I know amazon,
yaka yaka zona?
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Was that what he said?
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Yakozna yakazuna? No, the that let it go, Let it go, Elliott,
the strike left the No.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
But what was I going to say? What was I
going to say? Oh?
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Is it if they're gambling on it? Overseas? Will it
end up as a casino game here? Like?
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Is it the next pie Gow?
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Hmmm? I don't know exactly how it's played and how
the gambling works, but why not They always try to
bring in new games and stuff that's trending.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
That'd be two.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
I don't understand. I don't understand pie Gow, although I
wish I did. People win so much money?
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Okay? You also, uh, unless you've scheduled private tutoring from
Hispanic soup, you don't understand poker either.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
I have no idea how to play poker. I have
no idea how to play poker. No, I was gonna say.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
The the only other Asian game that I can think
of is pie gow, and I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Hi Ellie at the morning.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Hey this name?
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Yeah, Hi, who's this?
Speaker 4 (14:28):
Hey?
Speaker 6 (14:28):
This is read Elia.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Hey don't Hey, I'm doing great.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Are you a marjong player?
Speaker 6 (14:33):
I am not, but I just wanted to mention. There's
a TV show on Netflix called The Brother's Son s
U n Uh and and they they played majong on
that quite a bit. The mom and the show ends
up playing and gambling in the in The Brother's Son
to uh to get information from people uh, from other
(14:54):
old ladies. They're they're playing in the back in the
back room of a majong parlor.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
It's it's a it's a.
Speaker 6 (14:59):
Pretty Hilary's show. The Brother's Son, if you haven't seen
it about these the family of assassins that comes over
to San Francisco to try not to be assassins anymore.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Gotcha, gotcha, Hey, I appreciate it, thank you, sir. By
the way, are there, like he said, marjong partlers or
they're like whole.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
That's got to be overseas like that, that's not here.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
The Brother's Son also featuring this group from Taiwan, which
I believe wasn't that. Weren't they Taiwanese and fresh off
the boat? Yes, I'm sorry. Were you recalling a specific episode,
but was that? It feels like you're going through the
(15:43):
rolodex of your mind.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
No, I'm trying to think of like if they ever said,
like where they were from. I know they had they
had a restaurant. I know where they came from the boat.
Would it be possible to find anybody? And I know
I'm going to mispronounce the name of this game good stuff.
The I just I know I am well, people know
what you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
I think so. And I think I think Diana will
be able to help me.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Okay, no, no, no, no, because I'm call into games.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
No, but I think you'll know this.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Is it foreign?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (00:22):
Oh? No? Well, I mean, should Diane just give it
a shot off the bat?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
The oh, Diana know what it is? Dianell know what
it is. And by the way, Diane's perception of it is.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
Going to be wrong, her perception. How do I spell it? Oh?
My god? What continents are we talking here?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
North America?
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Oh? I said it was.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Like where I was. No, I'm in North America. I
don't know where it's from.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Majohn, Is that right? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (00:59):
I always thought, even though there's not one in there,
that it's Marjong mar John mar John.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
No, I thought it was Majong.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Mar Jong Marjon.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
I don't think that you put an R in there.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
Now.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
My mom puts ours in Alabama, so maybe that's where
it came from.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Washington.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
The No, that's my mother in law. The how do
I say it, ma Jong, ma Jong.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Yeah, it's it's still sneaking a little r in there.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
I can't get the r out and I can't get
the g in Marjong Marjo mar ma ma ma Jong
ma jong jong.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Yeah, ma Jong.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
I mean it's a little stumble in the middle. At
least didn't put an iron ma Jong. No. No, now
you're getting worse. It's it's one word.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Ye.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
It even sounds wrong when Diane says it.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Does it to me too? Yeah, majongjong.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Have you ever played it?
Speaker 4 (01:57):
No?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
I haven't either, because when you think of it, what
do you think of.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
It's like an old person's game, old Jewish grandmothers.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Yeah, yeah, like it's an old Jews game. No, it
really is. It's all old Jews. Josh, your bubby play it?
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Yeah, of course, But is that not something just old Jewish?
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Actually no, no, well also a lot of older Asian
people as well.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
The no what, I don't think. So I think the
game may have been I don't. I don't know where
it started. Based on some things. It may come from Asia,
you know what. It's Brooklyn. No, No, but it was
so I was reading about it, right, and I'll end
up with the big shock of it all.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
It did. I don't know where it started out, but
it really became.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Known as a like an old not an old but
like a Jewish household game.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
This is the game with the tiles.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Yeah, yeah, but it's not Dominoes.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
No, it's more like Rummy, right it has I've never
played rummanyither it is? You know?
Speaker 3 (02:57):
The first thing about Rummy?
Speaker 2 (02:59):
No isn't there isn't it, Jim Rummy.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
That's a hard games. I have no idea. I have
no idea, not a farcle anyway.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
You have it on by the way, on his phone, No.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
On his iPad? No, but that makes sense. Number one.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
He's like an old Jewish grandmother. No, no, No, here's
the shocker of it all. It is so popular right now,
and not with old Jewish grandmothers. It is very, very
very popular as an app. The yes, well, I mean
(03:36):
it can also be Josh, do you play that where
you interact with people online?
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Just you?
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Got that friends?
Speaker 2 (03:43):
The I'm kidding. I like Josh.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
The Josha's previous favorite game was just called words.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
No, but they were saying that yes, there there are
there are groups that play because it is a very
interactive game, very interactive.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
But also I've never played it. I don't know anything about.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
It, so it's not like a thing that like grandparents
would play with the little kids and then the kids
grew up. Now they're like feeling nostalgic about it.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
No, no, no, no, no, it's not it would be
all like Jewish kids.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
And it's not.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
So how are people of being exposed to it?
Speaker 2 (04:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Is it topping the charts on the app store? Yes,
so real it is popular.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
It is killing it and again, not just not just online,
but also in person. So like I think people are
playing it online, but then we'll get together and play
it in person.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
I don't know anything about the game.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
I honestly know nothing about the game other than I
was shocked to hear that there was anybody a under
the age of eighty b not Jewish, playing the game.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
But they make it sound like it is like I.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Know you mentioned words with friends, wordal, but they make
it sound like it is.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
It is kind of in the same world.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Was there a movie or a TV show it was
featured in.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
I could tell you based on pre like recent things
that I've seen, it was not in Tulsa King, and
it was not in the Menendez Monsters. So no, no,
Now that's the only thing I've seen recently.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Why is it so popular.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
And how young our kids get into it?
Speaker 1 (05:27):
I mean it sounds I don't know. I don't know
the answer to that. But young, But I don't think
it's like eight or nine years. No, they say it's
actually very easy.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
I know. They also say that about Rummy, and I can't.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Well, you don't know if rummy's easy or hard because
you don't know how to play, nor do I because
I don't know how.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
To me, it sounds hard.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
I don't know the rules well.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
But for example, I know the game of spades is easy.
I just don't know how to play it. I've never
played spades in.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
My life, Diane.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
You used to play spades all the time, and now
I can't think of how to play it.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Right. But it's not hard, right, and it's interactive and
it's fun and people really like it. I don't know
if it causes a lot of fights or anything. However,
I don't know how to play spades, so to me,
it sounds hard. When somebody's like, oh, well, you have
two teams and they sit across from each other, and
you've got to guess how many trumps or whatever it
is that you have. I don't know what it is.
(06:19):
And I hear it in my eyes roll back in
my head. I go like, this is way too hard,
And the truth is it's easy. So Marjong may be
very very easy, or rummy may be very very easy.
But if you if it sounds foreign like a foreign language,
foreign languages are easy if you speak it.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Some sound funny, Hug and Venie, All right, it's missus
g plays her group of friends rotates houses for dinner
every month. The last time they played here it sounded stupid.
So is there like communication between the people? Well, I mean,
I think you're allowed to.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Talk in your you're on teams.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Don't Diane.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
I've never played it, but if you play, is this
the new version for like like missus jenvany, is this
the new Bunco.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Bunco?
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Do I have the game wrong?
Speaker 5 (07:12):
No?
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Bunko was a thing, right, like you're ten ten or
so years ago? Right, right, Matt?
Speaker 1 (07:17):
But wasn't that Wasn't that like a bunch of Yenta's
going house to house to house playing But this doesn't sound.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Like as a dice game.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Yeah, it was just a social excuse to get around
and drink.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
I thought, like the hash house harriers, we're drinkers, we're
running problem.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Yeah, Rachel says, as a middle aged white woman, it
is very popular with us right now firsthand experience, for sure?
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Is it really? But by the way, I know that
she said she's middle aged. They make it sound like
it's much younger than that, like twenties thirties.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
But are you if if he was listening to them
play online, if you are with other people, is there
a lot of chat?
Speaker 1 (08:01):
I only know one person that plays online, and he's
got He's got no online or real.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Sue says that Majong was played in Crazy Rich Asians.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
A couple of years ago.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
I was gonna say, too long ago, too long ago
too to catch a good show to catch?
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Yeah, what was the what was let it go?
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Oh, I know what you're thinking of. Oh man, it
doesn't matter wrong, you know what I'm talking about though, right.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
Yes, Elliott, Yeah, I'm not saying it.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
No the name of the show, but now I can't
even think of it.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
That's it, I said, straight, not ites fresh.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
That's how they said it in the opening.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
I don't remember that.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
I do.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
They sang it with Fresh.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
On the Bow.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
I don't remember that.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Yes, was that a baby at work or an actor? Damn?
Any who? I hated when that show was on because
you used to do that whole book.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Yes, because it's not an impression.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
You did watch that show.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Yes, it was very good.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Whenever you mentioned the show, you would do that, and
it made us all really uncomfortable.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
There's no reason to be uncomfortable. That's how the show started.
What Fresh on the Bow?
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Actually the grandmother on the show, she couldn't even like like,
she didn't speak any English, but that was the theme song.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
I think they had her try to sing the themes
that right, absolutely Fresh on the Bow. Hi, yellye in
the morning, I got you? Who's this.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
From Rockville?
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Hey? Zach? What can I do for you? Sir?
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (09:56):
I heard you were asking about.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Do you play it?
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Yeah? I actually do.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
I play a little bit.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Do you play online or in person?
Speaker 1 (10:07):
So?
Speaker 5 (10:08):
I actually, and this might answer why a couple like
younger people like my age, I'm twenty six, uh play
So there was a video game series that came out
or that's been pretty popular, and they've been screaming it
on Twitch lately and they play a lot of my
gen and so that's how I got into it. So
a friend of mine showed me the game, started playing it.
It has you go through and you just start playing it,
(10:29):
and then I picked it up from there, and so
I played solo either through that game or with friends
as well, and just play Majong through that.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
So and you said, you're twenty six years old, do
you have like like are you? Is there is there
an online like? I know that you said, either you're
playing by yourself or you're playing online? Is there a
big online community?
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Like are you? Are you chatting with people while you're playing?
Speaker 5 (10:54):
So for me, I chat with you know, my friends
who I play the series, the game, the game seri
is called Yakuza. It's actually they're it's getting an Amazon show,
so you might see more maj on there. That's where
that's where we play. And so I play with chat
with friends. I know there are online like hubs and
servers to play with people. It's super big over in Asia,
(11:16):
especially for China and Japan. They have entire game stores
and parlors dedicated to it.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Are you serious?
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (11:23):
Yeah, they have entire just like just like you would
go to a casino, they also have like their own
majan parlors there.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Wow. Wow, I would have had no idea. And it is.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
But at least they're I mean, at least now I know.
Like he said, it's all. It's all like I told you,
it's all twenty year olds that are playing Marjon. And
to me it's Grandma Stella and Flow and Aunt Wendy,
like that's who's playing Oh in rubber lips, like that's
who's playing Marjon.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Seriously, so is it not always like Chinese characters on
the tiles? Uh?
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Is?
Speaker 5 (12:00):
There could be symbols, and there are dragons and other
arts such as trees and flowers as well. It depends
on the kind of hands you want. I think it
almost like poker as well, where you're changing out hands
and card It works like that with changing piles or
almost if you've played scrabble too, it's a good way
to think about it.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Okay, I get scrabble, but scrabble has letters.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
Yeah, in this case, they're trying to do either characters
or numbers, and there are a bunch of hands and
I'm not the best of the game. And it's already
picking it up and trying to explain it. It's hard,
but the more you play it, the more you just
get it that way?
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Is it addictive?
Speaker 6 (12:37):
For some?
Speaker 1 (12:37):
It is?
Speaker 5 (12:38):
Like I know, like again back to those parlors that
are talking to you about a lot of people gamble
there and you know, just like any other like you're
playing poker, blackjack, like people can lose a bunch of
money at that.
Speaker 6 (12:47):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Wow, all right, very good. Hey, I appreciate it, Thank you,
my friend, Thank you, sir.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Should have guess twitch the watching people play, watch of
them wanting to play yourself? Damn it. It was right there.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Isn't that crazy though? It's getting a TV show?
Speaker 6 (13:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (13:08):
What was that? But why what do you call that?
Speaker 2 (13:12):
No?
Speaker 4 (13:12):
He just said, uh uh, he definitely gave a name.
You don't want to think stab about it.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
I don't remember yea let it go? The I know amazon,
yaka yaka zona?
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Was that what he said?
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Yakozna yakazuna? No, the that let it go, Let it go, Elliott,
the strike left the No.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
But what was I going to say? What was I
going to say? Oh?
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Is it if they're gambling on it? Overseas? Will it
end up as a casino game here? Like?
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Is it the next pie Gow?
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Hmmm? I don't know exactly how it's played and how
the gambling works, but why not They always try to
bring in new games and stuff that's trending.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
That'd be two.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
I don't understand. I don't understand pie Gow, although I
wish I did. People win so much money?
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Okay? You also, uh, unless you've scheduled private tutoring from
Hispanic soup, you don't understand poker either.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
I have no idea how to play poker. I have
no idea how to play poker. No, I was gonna say.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
The the only other Asian game that I can think
of is pie gow, and I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Hi Ellie at the morning.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Hey this name?
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Yeah, Hi, who's this?
Speaker 4 (14:28):
Hey?
Speaker 6 (14:28):
This is read Elia.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Hey don't Hey, I'm doing great.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Are you a marjong player?
Speaker 6 (14:33):
I am not, but I just wanted to mention. There's
a TV show on Netflix called The Brother's Son s
U n Uh and and they they played majong on
that quite a bit. The mom and the show ends
up playing and gambling in the in The Brother's Son
to uh to get information from people uh, from other
(14:54):
old ladies. They're they're playing in the back in the
back room of a majong parlor.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
It's it's a it's a.
Speaker 6 (14:59):
Pretty Hilary's show. The Brother's Son, if you haven't seen
it about these the family of assassins that comes over
to San Francisco to try not to be assassins anymore.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Gotcha, gotcha, Hey, I appreciate it, thank you, sir. By
the way, are there, like he said, marjong partlers or
they're like whole.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
That's got to be overseas like that, that's not here.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
The Brother's Son also featuring this group from Taiwan, which
I believe wasn't that. Weren't they Taiwanese and fresh off
the boat? Yes, I'm sorry. Were you recalling a specific episode,
but was that? It feels like you're going through the
(15:43):
rolodex of your mind.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
No, I'm trying to think of like if they ever said,
like where they were from. I know they had they
had a restaurant. I know where they came from the boat.
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