 Simu Liu will be hosting the 2024 People's Choice Awards, but oddly enough, a lot of Asians on the internet feel weird about it. Let's talk about why. Oh my god, they're going to do him like Joe Coy. They're going to elevate an Asian-American male to host the show, but then say he did a bad job. Ah, we got to talk about this, David, because Simu is going to be hosting the People's Choice Awards, so that's cool. We got an Asian guy hosting. First Asian to ever host it, and of course, the first Asian-American male to host it. Right, right. But in the response to that, the main responses of people are like, oh, that's good for Simu. Oh, I'm glad to see it. Number two is, oh my gosh, I hope it's not another Joe Coy at the Golden Globe situation where he gets roasted afterwards for doing a mediocre job. And then two, and then three, some people are like, oh, I'm sick of seeing Simu man. He's the only Asian guy. Why can't we have another Asian guy do something for once? So we're going to talk about it. We're going to discuss it from our point of view. So please hit that Like button. Check out other episodes of the hot pot boys. But you know what else people need to check out? Small ass sauce. You're probably not sick seeing this, because I don't know. Maybe you didn't buy it. It's almost sold out, though, so it's really delicious. From such one, assistantly guys, Simu recently had a viral tweet saying, guys, there's going to be no Taylor slander at the 2024 PCAs. That's a personal guarantee. So I'll tell you this, Simu always had a knack for viral tweets, though. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Simu's a good tweeter. And yeah, I mean, I think it's cool, because we're friends with Simu. But I still, we got to be intellectually honest about why does it seem like, oddly enough, there's like a weird I hate Simu train on a site even as technically pro-Asian as Nexshark. Why that is, why there shouldn't be, or shouldn't be, or what's the root of it? It's really interesting that of all controversial Asian figures, Simu Liu is one of them. I don't know why. Like, I think it literally goes, if you fake Ramaswamy and then Simu Liu, I'm just kidding. No, they're not as controversial as you. But that's how it feels in the Nexshark comments sometimes. And I don't really understand it, because to me, listen. Now, whether or not you like everything that Simu has said or done, he's an Asian dude. He's a straight Asian dude. He plays volleyball, basketball, he likes Boba. He's very pro-Asian. A lot of his friends are Asian. He's not shy about his heritage. He's made it from Canada and China. So technically, he's an immigrant twice. And honestly, I just feel like he's kind of talented at a lot of things. Now, maybe not everybody loves everything that he does, but to me, it's impressive. And to me, he's an Asian dude. So I'm like, I mean, we have, like this is what we're always crying about is like, yo, we need Asian guys. We need Asian guy representation. We need normal Asian guys. We need Asian guys to be normalized. And here we are. We got Simu. I almost think that people don't like how multifaceted he is because he hosted the Juno Awards a bunch of times. He obviously has witty tweets. He wrote a book or like multiple books or whatever. You think it's just because people are hating on him in a jealousy way? Or they're like, Simu, if you're gonna try to be a jack of all trades, can you just be better at him? Can make the singing better? Make the tweets better. Make the this better. Make this better, Simu. First of all, I do think he has a very, in a way, and it's not good or bad. He has a Canadian sensibility about approaching certain things, which I don't, I will say this. He's a Sagamon. It's difficult to explain why Americans sometimes don't fully connect with Canadians because those cultures are so similar. So I think that, I don't know, it's like a Drake thing. You know how like Drake is the biggest rapper now, but he had to get way more gangster because when Drake first came out there like wheelchair Jimmy, him doing like all this like, you know what I mean? People just really wasn't with how the Canadians developed. Sure, sure, sure. It's a little different, I guess. And I guess just that I think that people feel like he's from such a similar background to other Asian Americans that were overachievers born into like those high achieving responsibility Asian parents like tiger parents, but he's like the cockiest, snarkiest version of a guy that they know in their real life. Whereas, you know, somebody like, let's just say Bruce Lee or Jackie Chan, you didn't even know a guy like that. Right, right, right. Or the K-pop stars and the BTS guys, you don't know anybody like that. How about this though? And we're gonna get into the comment section, but I guess my last thing would be like, I guess take Simu in in the macro. I think when you put anybody under a microscope and you look at every single clip, every single interview, every single red carpet interview. Oh, what did you say clip and are you referring to this clip from Spider-Man? What's your favorite Spider-Man? Me? I was Spider-Man for kids' birthday parties. Thank you very much. And I feel like I'm an underappreciated Spider-Man. You know, I didn't do it for this. I didn't do it for this. I did it for the smile on the children's faces. Hey, somebody sent that to us and was like, see, this is what I'm talking about. Yeah, I mean, he could have had a different answer. I agree, you know what? That's why I'm saying, if you put anybody under a microscope though, anybody, literally David, who could you put under a microscope, like 99% of stars, if you put them under a microscope, you're gonna find some things that you don't agree with or that you're like, why don't you do it differently? Oh, it could have a better answer. Oh, he was a little cheesy then. I'm like, yeah, but you take it in the macro, in the big picture. Right, especially people who are prolific and hyperconfident in how they're feeling at the moment. Like when people are hyperconfident, not everybody's gonna like everything that they're confident about in that moment, with that timing, in that context. And I think it's biased. Last thing is that because people are Asian and follow an Asian page like Nexshark, you're gonna see Simu's face more often than if you only follow TMZ. If you only follow TMZ, you've seen Simu's face pop up maybe once. But if you follow People Magazine or Newsweek or all these other media sites, you're proud, E-Entertainment, you're only gonna see Simu a couple of times, but since you follow Nexshark, then you see Simu's face often because they cover the Asian pages. And not only that, Simu's the only guy who sort of fits into that E or like access Hollywood world, where like he could have, you know what I mean, been a host for Access Hollywood as well. Like he has a very mainstream skill set. Like I think a lot of people love Steven Yeun, but he's like very, how to describe it. He's a very like sad. Yeah. And like, I know- Like it's not a mainstream skill set. And shout out to Young Mazzino cause some people were like, oh, why don't we have like Young Mazzino do it? I'm like, Young Mazzino is relatively new to the game. And you only see him in one role so far. So I'm like, why would people pick him? Like he's not like, he doesn't have the comedy chops. I'm saying that's what it's shown so far. So I'm saying of course Simu is going to be the best Asian pick right now. Simu to me is the only Asian-American actor that fits into that Michael J. Fox, like Tom Cruise, almost like old school, like 80s, 90s leading man thing. Like- Are you even going to watch the people's choice awards? I'm not going to lie. I'm going to tune in now because of Simu, but like previously I did not watch that show. Right, right, right. Anyway, let's just get into the comments section. Somebody said how many parents and math jokes are they going to be? How many times is he going to bring up that he was fired from his accounting job before becoming a full-time actor, et cetera, et cetera. So these were kind of comments where they're like, I guess kind of like, kind of making fun of him. These are only deep cut comments because you're Asian and you followed Simu this whole journey. You have to understand he's going to probably be making jokes mostly for an audience that is not as familiar with his story and only maybe has seen him in Barbie. Right, but- Like they didn't watch Shang-Chi. Honestly, I think he's going to do like an eight out of 10 job at the people's choice awards. I think he's going to do good. Because like he has the hosting chops and the most important thing are like, you have that skill set for that given situation. Somebody said my gripe with Simu is that he tries too hard to please and it comes off as desperate. Okay, here's my thing. It's like, if I was in his position, you would see me trying out a 10 out of 10 level too. You know what I mean? And like- What do you mean? Try hard, I guess. I could see where they're coming from too, but it's just like, man, when you're the only one to really get the platform, I mean, I see some people say that like, Aquafina tries too hard or whatever too. And I'm just like, yo, listen, to be the first one, you gotta try too hard. I don't know. It's like, but yeah, it's true. And of course everybody's going to like- I think anybody who's multifaceted, I guess gets viewed as try hard, you know? I guess Stephen Yuen could have been another pick, but what, I mean, he's too serious and he's too old. He probably didn't want to do that. Like Simu fits in with the people's choice. Here's some negative comments. He's about to embarrass the entire Asian community. I'm all for Asian representation. I just don't want this guy representing us. And then other people were like, what are you talking about? He didn't really do anything. Representation is representation. This guy said, Scotty, no, Joe Coy already set his back. I don't need it to happen again. This is a hilarious comment, by the way, who's somebody whose avatar is Kobe and Scotty Pippen Morph together, by the way. I just noticed that it's actually kind of funny. But I mean, yeah, and then other people were just like debating about like, who made him the self-appointed face of Asian people? The self-appointed. I mean, he didn't self-appoint himself. He just, he kind of got appointed. Yeah, I mean, I think the thing is he got to keep himself relevant and in the new cycle too, you know what I mean? So it's like, if you have the skill set, is it weird that an Asian leading man is also doing hosting? Hosting gigs used to be like, or very much considered like thankless jobs. But it's just like, man, Asian American males, it's like, I feel our archetype, it's almost in terms of getting downplayed. It's probably getting downplayed the most in Hollywood. So you got to try extra hard to combat that fractionation of your opacity, essentially. Somebody just said, you know what is going on with the I hate Simulio hate train? Yeah, I don't get it. I think it's like too strong. Somebody is calling out the Asian community saying, you know what, man, on most other media sites, this is positive, but our next shark, there's like a crab in a bucket mentality where like other East Asians don't like seeing other East Asians and they feel like it only represents them. Do you think that there is a crab in the bucket mentality and that is contributing to the hate on Simulio? Yes. I think so, here's my reason why. Because particularly, I'm just gonna say East Asians, let's just focus on them for now. They are hyper competitive. We all know this. So coming from a hyper competitive kind of background. Well, let's be honest, it's kind of nerds, right? Yeah, hyper competitive nerds that are judgmental, all right, and you're high achievers and you're of course, you're gonna judge Simulio. He, you know, you look like, you know. Because you know what it is? That's what it goes back to my original point and I had to let my thoughts process. It's because he's too similar. You feel like he's from your overachiever friend group that was inter-competitive and petty. You mean it feels like Simulio was not elevated enough for you to praise him all the time. He doesn't look like an anime character. He doesn't look like, he's not like super OD crazy. Because he's kind of a normal guy. Like he's above normal, obviously, but he's like normal for an actor. Very normal for an actor, to be honest. And I'm saying that that's interesting because some people love him for it, but then it's so interesting that it almost creates that same pettiness you would see amongst like the kids who are trying to get the best GPAs. I'm gonna be honest, I'm gonna be honest. I think a lot of the people who are having negative reactions to Simulio may or may not be Chinese. And I think that when some people see just a normal Chinese guy or a normal Asian guy or they think Simulio said some cringe or cheesy stuff or whatever throughout his time, I guess like I could see them being like, normal Chinese guy, man, it's not that cool. Why is this guy the thing? You know, and then I'm just like... But I think other Asians might slot him in that normal Chinese guy role and... Like it. You mean like it. Some people like him for it and some people don't like him for it. No, some people like him for it and some people don't like him for it. It's a little bit like Jeremy Lin. You know, Jeremy Lin, I think he had the physicality. And shout out to Jeremy. It's like, but on some aspects, he is like a really normal dude. But some people want the Asian pioneers to be fantastical in a way that to me, like I'm not saying people haven't soured on him since, but like Eddie Huang at one point was bombastic and fantastical in how he was acting. Right, as far as what he was saying, yeah. So I think that it's this weird thing in Asian America where we're so used to how entertainment is back in Asia where people have to be born with like crazy genetic proportions to even get a chance to get on. You know what I mean? And so that's why I think it's just so different. Anyway, ultimately, man, what's your takeaways? I hope Simu does a really good job. Honestly, he always kills it with the Junior Awards. He's dancing Bollywood. He's doing this, he's doing that. I'm sure he's gonna hit all his cues. He's practicing right now. I mean, ultimately, I think it's a good look for Asian dudes, but you know, the internet, how they feel is valid too. No, I think Simu's gonna do fine. I think he's gonna do good. And I think I predict that it'll be better than everybody thinks. I think Simu's gonna impress you, man. I think Simu takes this kind of stuff seriously. He does not take it lightly. And I think he will impress you. All the haters out there. Anyways, guys, let us know in the comments down below. Obviously, Simu gets a lot of press on this channel just because he's an Asian guy who is achieving a lot and doing a lot of things. So we're gonna talk about him. But you guys let us know in the comments down below what you think. And until next time, we out. Peace.