Ep 31 features a special guest - an extremely talented artist/muralist/activist - Lauren YS aka Squidlicker.  But first, Susie and Ed discuss Susie's oldest daughter's birthday karaoke extravaganza in Koreatown.  Ed ate a lot including getting Rice Box one last time. Ed also thinks he found the best fried chicken sandwich in all of Los Angeles.  Susie and her family inhaled all of Ed's kimchi.  Susie and Ed talk about doing a fried chicken sandwich tour of LA.  Lauren YS is a non-binary queer half-Chinese artist who advocates for and represents their communities (and marginalized communities) in their artwork. Lauren talks about their upbringing as a hapa in Denver and Hawaii and how being a 3rd generation Chinese American affected how they viewed themselves and their Asian identity.  Lauren, Susie, and Ed discuss when they first realized they were Asian and not white.  Lauren talks about grasping to their roots and heritage more recently through their artwork.  Ed remembers the first time he saw Lauren in a club (before he ever met)... walking a man on a leash.  Lauren discusses their love for Chinese mythology especially after discovering a queer Chinese god.  Lauren discusses their journey to sobriety.  Lauren reminisces on their time at Stanford pursuing a double major to pursue a dream in creating a graphic novel that they are currently sort of in the path of actualizing.  Lauren also discusses the importance of representation in their work.

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