Welcome to the final episode of the $6.99 Per Pound Podcast. Jojo, Jaeki and Michael get together one more time to reminisce around the last two years working together and where they are all headed next.

It was a wild ride with over 50 episodes published but all good things must come to an end. We want to thank all the listeners that showed up to support us in so many different ways. Your words of encouragement really keep us going over the years. Please go back and listen to the episodes that inspired you or gave you insight into a profession or lifestyle foreign to you. We can all stand to learn more from each other.

Please also, continue to support other BIPOC podcast out there that are telling our stories for ourselves.

Time Stamps:

02:30 - Life Updates from Jojo, Jaeki, Michael

09:40 - What is going on with $6.99, why did we disband?

15: 40 - Jojo, Jaeki, Michael’s favorite moments while working on $6.99 Per Pound.

25:45 - The teams favorite episodes.

34:30 - What Jojo, Jaeki, and Michael took away from working on $6.99 and what do we want listeners to take away from the episodes

56:10 - The team recommends other podcasts you should listen too.

01:04:35 - What is next for Jojo, Jaeki, and Michael?

Check out a panel hosted by Jojo Called Trailblazers: Women at the Forefront for Apex for Youth on Feb. 25th 7:30PM EST @jojoparque

Check out Michael’s film photos @madnames_photos and DM him if you have any connections that would help him move to Japan. @madnames

Check out Jaeki’s Tik Tok and his Righteous Eats videos where he highlights NYC local restaurants and the stores he helps manage Alumni of NY and Hatchet Supply in New York. @jaekicho

Thank you again for the last two years, we appreciate all the love and support you showed us. Now go out there and go after you and your communities dreams and aspirations.

Hosted by Jaeki Cho, Michael Stewart, Joann Park

Produced by Michael Stewart

Audio Editing/Mixing by Marcus Hahm

Thank you everyone that was pivotal in making $6.99 come to life:

Julie Young (Founder), Sophia Kwan (Designer), Nicole Ro (Videographer), Lily Liu (Designer), Ye Eun Jeong (Website Designer), and Tristan Hsu (Videographer).

About Us: Paying homage to Korean-owned hot food delis of New York City, we treat listeners to a buffet of HOT takes on career, culture and community.

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$6.99 Live episode #06! This week we talk about the Jessica Krug scandal, The Whitney canceling an exhibit after Black Artist called out their underhanded dealings, the future of unemployment, what is next after you take down a racist statue, and Michael says goodbye one last time.

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News round-up:

Jessica Krug, self-proclaimed unrepentant and unreformed child of the hood, gets exposed as a white woman from Kansas aka Rachel Dolezal 2.0?

Whitney Cancels Exhibition after Black artists calls out the museum for underhanded dealings in acquiring art from featured artists.

Host Segments:

Jaeki’s Pocket Watch - Jaeki leads the team in a discussion about the changing nature of work and the struggles employees in service jobs face as technology is introduced in the workplace at an accelerated rate. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/04/business/economy/service-economy-workers.html

Guest Segment: Monuments & Public Spaces - Our guest Tricia Kim discusses the national reckoning with our public spaces and how statues of figures associated with racism have been taken down. As people celebrate, what comes next? How do we use public spaces and monuments? https://calderamag.com/editorial/unmaking-monuments-moving-towards-justice

Who the F is Michael - Michael talks about how he joined the podcast after meeting Jaeki. Now two years later he is sadly leaving the show. We like to thank him for all the work he has done to build the podcast to what it is today.

Shouts of the Week

Michael -  Send Chinatown Love Food Crawl & 46 Mott https://www.sendchinatownlove.com/food-crawl.html

Jaeki - Our producer Michael Ken Stewart

Tricia - A Place to Visit  https://www.artwithjip.com/

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Hosted by Jaeki Cho, Michael Stewart, Tricia Kim

Produced by Michael Stewart & Wynton Wong

Audio Editing/Mixing by Marcus Hahm

About Us: Paying homage to Korean-owned hot food delis of New York City, we treat listeners to a buffet of HOT takes on career, culture and community.

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$6.99 Live episode #05! This week we talk about the passing of Chadwick Boseman and his legacy, DNC vs. RNC, NBA players on strike, decline of GAP and casual wear, importance of Community College, and the documentary, Boys State.

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News round-up:

Chadwick Boseman and John Thompson passing away, RIP Kings https://twitter.com/chadwickboseman/status/1299530165463199747/photo/1

DNC vs RNC, which was more entertaining and effective?

NBA on strike, Did the players make the right decision to come back to play out the playoffs?

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/28/nba-to-turn-arenas-into-polling-places-404457

Host Segments:

Jaeki’s Pocket Watch - GAP INC. sales drop 18% while its E-commerce sales doubled during the second quarter. The team discusses the accelerated change in the “casual” wear clothing retail segment. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/27/gap-gps-reports-q2-2020-loss-per-share-sales-drop-18percent.html

Who the F is Michael - Michael shares his journey going to a community college and how it led him to think differently about the college system. https://www.princetonreview.com/college-advice/community-college

Guest Segment w/ Donnie Kwok - Boys State is an American Legion summer program that brings 1000 boys together to create their own government. What does it tell us about the state of American politics as a whole? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1Kh_T5ZBIM

Shouts of the Week

Michael -  Donnie Chin, founder of International District Emergency Center https://nbcnews.to/3lMBIJ9

Jaeki - Brad’s Organic Rice Cakes https://www.bradsorganic.com/Product/chips-snacks/brads-org-rice-cakes-no-salt-46oz-1-case12-bags

Donnie Kwok - Time to Say Goodbye Podcast https://goodbye.substack.com/

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Hosted by Jaeki Cho, Michael Stewart, Donnie Kwok

Produced by Michael Stewart & Wynton Wong

Audio Editing/Mixing by Marcus Hahm

About Us: Paying homage to Korean-owned hot food delis of New York City, the inquisitive trio Joann Park, Jaeki Cho, Michael Ken Stewart treat listeners to a buffet of HOT takes on career, culture and community.

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$6.99 Live episode #04! This week we talk about ... the shooting of Jacob Blake, the inmates fighting the wildfires in California, Flint residents reaching a $600 million settlement with the state of Michigan, Kobe Bryant’s birthday, battle between Uber and Lyft and California about independent contractors, and the legacy of Ichiro in the MLB.

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News round-up:

06:00 - California Firefighters raging with Inmate Firefighters fighting the blaze only getting paid $2 - $5 an hour. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37LpBFEN9J0

11:50 - Jacob Blake shooting in Wisconsin and the role of police in America. https://bit.ly/3b4XwKV

25:56 - Flint residents reach $600 million settlement with State of Michigan https://bit.ly/3gDjwh9

30:26 - Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee buys ads on Asian cable TV channel to target Vietnamese American voters in California. https://bit.ly/2YuMA3Z

33:06 - Happy Birthday Kobe and Rest and Peace

Host Segments:

40:16 - Jaeki’s Pocketwatch - Jaeki and Michael discuss the stand off between Uber / Lyft and the State of California about complying with AB5 (passed last year) reclassifying gig economy workers from independent contractors to full-time employees.  https://n.pr/2EG2qC6

01:02:28 - Who the F is Michael? - Michael talks about how Ichiro made a big impact in this life as a Japanese American in Seattle who played baseball. Also, get into the legendary high school baseball tournament in Japan called Koshien. https://bit.ly/2Qy3Tgn

01:20:43 - Shouts of the Week

Michael -  Corky Lee - Photographer http://chineseamerican.nyhistory.org/corky-lee/

Jaeki - C Marty’s Jerk Sauce https://www.cmartymar.com/product-page/cmarty-jerk-seasoning

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Hosts Jaeki Cho, Michael Stewart

Produced by Michael Stewart & Wynton Wong

Audio Editing/Mixing by Marcus Hahm

About Us: Paying homage to Korean-owned hot food delis of New York City, the inquisitive trio Joann Park, Jaeki Cho, Michael Ken Stewart treat listeners to a buffet of HOT takes on career, culture and community.

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$6.99 Live episode #03! This week we talk about the record number of people leaving from New York, Kamala Harris’s VP Nomination, saving the Post Office, Intermittent Reinforcement and dating, the Alibaba empire, and growing up listening to Weird Al.

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News round-up:

04:06 - Escape for New York. The pandemic has resulted in many people leaving NYC. Right now there are 13,000 empty apartments in Manhattan and are offering an average of 1.7 months rent-free now. https://secretnyc.co/manhattan-apartment-vacancies/

11:23 - Is Kamala Harris Black and Asian Enough? After Kamala Harris was named the VP nominee for the Biden campaign, questions about her Indo-Jamaican American identity has been a topic of great discussion. https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Kamala-Harris-was-shaped-by-Berkeley-and-a-mother-15485359.php

20:16 Post Office services delayed. Trump came out and said part of the reason he is not interested in funding the post office is that it allows Mail-in voting. This has lead to increased pressure from public officials and everyday people for the federal government to provide the needed funding ASAP. https://tcrn.ch/2Y2uaby

Host Segments:

30:30 Jojo's Glow up Report -  Intermittent Reinforcement during dating is when a guy or girl you are texting seems HOT then cold. This seems to draw people in more and more. Why do we go for people who are so unpredictable? https://bit.ly/2CNnCWc

51:41 Jaeki's Pocket Watch Report - What is Alibaba? One of the world’s largest online retail platforms in the world is more than you think it is. They are a multinational conglomerate that only started in 1999 with funding from Goldman Sachs and Softbank. This company transcends national boundaries. https://www.alibabagroup.com/en/about/overview

01:14:20 Who the F is Michael - Reminiscing about listening to Weird Al. Growing up Michael’s dad listened to Weird Al CD’s on their drives around town. This led him to know the parodies before hearing the original hits. The team also talks about their first CDs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Weird_Al%22_Yankovic

01:31:34 Shouts of the Week

Jojo - Slant’d Issue 04 Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/slantdmag/slantd-issue-04-revolution

Michael -  His little brother for working hard on himself.

Jaeki - Balconi MIX MAX Snack

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$6.99 Live episode #02! This week we talk about Indian matchmaking, Trump’s Tik Tok & Wechat ban, why you need to fill out the Census, how to talk about money and get financially naked with your partner, saving small businesses during COVID-19, and the 75th anniversary of Hiroshima Bombing.

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News round-up:

03:48 Indian Matchmaking has been a popular show on Netflix. There has been a mixed bag of reviews and to better equip our listeners, Jojo shares a guide created by a Indian American academic to use when watching Indian Matchmaker through a critical lens. https://tinyurl.com/y6sh87zs

12:53 The Trump administration threatens to ban Tik Tok and Wechat through executive order. Jaeki points out when Big Tech reaches a certain level they don’t really has allegiance to one nation state. https://www.cnet.com/news/trump-effectively-bans-tiktok-wechat-with-executive-orders/

17:57 The Census is closing their outreach counting on Sept. 30th. There is great concern over the strong possibility of an undercount with everything happening with COVID-19. https://2020census.gov/en.html

Host Lead Segments:

24:09 For Jojo's Glow up Report, she talks about how transparency about money is important and recommends ways to get financially naked with your partner. The team talks about their personal experience negotiating money in their relationships and dating life from buying big ticket items to splitting the check on a dinner date. Learn more about this from the book: Broke Millennial https://bit.ly/3is0paZ

44:20 For Jaeki's Pocket Watch Report, he talks about the small businesses in New York City shuttering due to COVID-19. As restaurants in K-town or Chinatown are suffering the cultural identity of these spaces are in jeopardy. 

01:03:57 For Who the F is Michael, he talks about his family's history with the atomic bombing of Hiroshima 75 years ago and why it should be remembered in the world that nuclear threats are still alive and well.  https://www.cnn.com/2015/08/05/asia/japan-hiroshima-nuclear-lessons/index.html

01:18:21 Shouts of the Week

Jojo: Slant’d Community Cookbook https://slantd.com/

Michael: Kanlungan https://www.kanlungan.org.uk/

Jaeki: Turkish Delights snacks

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Welcome to our first episode of $6.99 Live! This week, talk about the Uncle Rogers Rice cooking reaction video, controversy around China Mac organizing a protest in Brooklyn, What is next for Tik Tok, and finding knowledge of Self through meditation and humility.

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News round-up: 

How to make rice with Uncle Rogers and Hersha Patel 

https://news.abs-cbn.com/ancx/food-drink/features/07/28/20/nothing-wrong-with-how-that-lady-cooked-ricebut-all-sorts-of-wrong-with-how-the-internet-reacted

89-year old women attacked in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, New York 

https://abc7ny.com/woman-set-on-fire-elderly-attack-89-year-old-attacked-bensonhurst-crime/6333749/

https://nextshark.com/china-mac-rally-89-year-old-asian-woman-nyc/

Host Segments:

Jojo's Glow up Report - Making Meditation Work for You

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alicegwalton/2015/02/09/7-ways-meditation-can-actually-change-the-brain/#2aa11ff81465

Jaeki's Pocket Watch Report - Tik Tok, ByteDance, & Microsoft

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/aug/01/tiktok-ban-china-bytedance-divest-microsoft

Who the F is Michael - Asian Pride and Finding Yourself 

https://forpositivepeace.org/2020/01/01/i-want-to-be-chinese/

Shouts of the Week 

Jojo - East West Players https://eastwestplayers.org/

Michael - Think! Chinatown https://www.thinkchinatown.org/assembly/

Jaeki - Ottogi http://www.ottogi.co.kr/eng/product/product_list.asp

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About Us: Paying homage to Korean-owned hot food delis of New York City, the inquisitive trio Joann Park, Jaeki Cho, Michael Ken Stewart treat listeners to a buffet of HOT takes on career, culture and community. 

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Hi $6.99 Per Pound listeners - we are going to be going live on Twitch officially on August 3rd! Don't worry the podcast stream is not going anywhere. Twitch live streaming is growing steady and we are excited about joining the next wave. In this mini episode, we explain why we decided to make the move to Twitch and what you can expect from us. Tell us what you think and make sure to fill out our listener survey to shape our live show!

Link to Listener survey - https://bit.ly/32mO6s2

Join us for our next Twitch streams :

Jaeki on the Hot Seat Solo Stream - July 16th at 7:30pm EST

Preview Episode 2 - July 20th at 7:00pm EST

Make sure to go to twitch.tv/699perpoundlive and follow us. 

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Produced by Michael Stewart

Mixed and Music by Marcus 'Avecplaisir' Hahm

This week Jaeki and Jojo sit down with Author and cultural critic, Jeff Chang, to talk about his journey as a Hip-Hop author and journalist and the current state of the Asian America.  He has been recently featured in the PBS Documentary Asian Americans and he is most known for his award-winning book, Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation.  Jeff has also written books called Who We Be and We Gon' Be Alright and has been published in the Guardian, Slate, NY Times, and VIBE. As someone that lived through the LA riots of 1992 and Co-founder of Bay Area Hip-Hop collective SoleSides, aka Quannum Projects, Jeff has a unique take on Asian's place in hip-hop and what it means to truly have an exchange of cultures without exploitation. Learn about how he got his start writing for Hip-Hop magazines and what it takes to write and publish a book. We get into anything and everything. Tune in now!

Learn more about Jeff Chang at https://jeffchang.net/

Make sure to purchase his book Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation 

Follow him on IG and Twitter @zentronix

Check out Racefoward.org & Colorlines.com to learn more about racial equity work and stay up-to-date on the latest.  

Also make sure to check out ESPN's Bruce Lee Doc on 30 for 30: Be Water 

Make sure to fill out our Listener Survey to be invited to view our live streamed test episodes. 

https://forms.gle/L9NXQTk61gvBp3mBA

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Mixed and Music by Marcus 'Avecplaisir' Hahm

This week, we sat down with Seth Cheeks, Sr. Visual Designer at Google, about how he creates AR Branded Experiences and his journey of becoming an Senior-level designer at Google. As a High School dropout, skater, and 2-year Technical School graduate, Seth is not the archetype for a designer at Google. The key to his success was putting in the time to learn technical design skills and facing his anxiety head on through TM meditative practices. Seth also provides us with valuable insight into what his day-to-day is like at Google and how designers should negotiate compensation with large tech companies. Tune in, we guarantee you will be inspired by Seth!

Check out Seth's work at sethcheeks.com

Dribble @sethcheeks |  IG @seth.cheeks  |  Twitter @alldayandday

Also, Support Seth's work:

P O R T R A I T  clothing brand at https://o-portrait-o.com/

The Drive - online shop of emerging designers at https://thedrivenewyork.com/

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Mixed and Music by Marcus 'Avecplaisir' Hahm