Jess and Teen go deep yet again on "cultural appropriation" and why there can be no meaningful understanding about culture, art and theft so long as this bogus idea frames the discussion. Current events touched upon include the difference in opinion between Asian Americans and native Asians over Gwen Stefani-san's Japanese DNA, and Rick Rubin's laissez faire attitude towards musical influence and borrowing.

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REFERENCED RESOURCES:

Japan Shrugs as Americans Fume: https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2023/1/15/japan-shrugs-as-us-fumes-over-gwen-stefani-appropriation-furore

Broken Record Podcast ft. Rick Rubin: https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/broken-record/rick-rubin-2

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Liza and Chris and are joined by returning guest and filmmaker Dan Chen to talk about Velma, Everything Everywhere All At Once, the dead-end of diversity self-insert culture, divorcing one's self-esteem from media rep, and striving to create instead of just criticize.

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Liza, Jess, Chris and Teen discuss the widespread phenomenon of embracing older creative technologies such as film cameras and typewriters, and lessening the amount of time we spend on digital technologies esp. the modern smartphone. What is the appeal of pre-digital technology, and what do we stand to gain from it? Also, what does OpenAI's content-generating colossi ChatGPT and Dall-E mean for the career prospects of 'content creators'?

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The Day The Music Burned: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/11/magazine/universal-fire-master-recordings.html

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Happy New Year! One of the highlights of the year for us at Plan A was kicking off a short film project helmed by the director Dan Chen, cinematographer Philips Shum, and producer Millicent Cho. Shan and Teen reminisce about the trio's five eventful days of shooting in New York City, the sights they saw, the people they met, the stories they heard.

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Millie's IG story about the shoot: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl8w5-lIJQX/?hl=en

Dan Chen's website: https://danchen.co/

Philips Shum's website: https://www.philipsshum.com/

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Teen and Chris talk about wanting to regularly publish pieces as they once used to, but now with a newfound focus on creation rather than criticism, and their hope that that can help foster a new Asian American artistic subculture that is just more interesting and honest, even offensively so, than what passes for Asian American culture these days.

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REFERENCED RESOURCES:

Asian American Psycho by Chris Jesu Lee | Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2022/06/asian-american-psycho

Transgression, An Elegy by Laura Kipnis: http://laurakipnis.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Transgression-an-Elegy.pdf

Enough With The Sad Put-Upon Woman Essay by Rachel Connolly | Slate: https://slate.com/human-interest/2022/12/guardian-writer-essay-response-patriarchy.html

r/deuxmoi: Mindy Kaling, It's Getting Weird | Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Deuxmoi/comments/zpt2jo/mindy_kaling_its_getting_weird/

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Chris, Teen, and Filip talk about how the new AI writing program ChatGPT could either spell doom for human writers or usher in a renaissance where mediocre shitlib writing is rendered obsolete and only those with interesting things to say can flourish.

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Chris just spent 3 weeks in Korea to see his parents for the first time in almost 4 years, and he and Filip talk about aging parents and the impact their increasingly apparent mortality has on how we balance our own interests vs. their desires for our careers, dating and marriage, and other life pursuits.

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REFERENCED RESOURCES:

The Tail End by Tim Urban | WaitButWhy: waitbutwhy.com/2015/12/the-tail-end.html

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Filip (@filipgwriting)

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Chris and Adam talk about Korea's dramatic progression to the knockout stage of the 2022 World Cup, how much we tie up self-worth to international sporting spectacles, and the rise of Cho Gue-sung as the Hot Guy of the World Cup.

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Jess and Teen talk about the difference in life approach between those of us who seek achievement within an organization or otherwise within the confines of a competition, versus those of us who seek achievement entirely as self-satisfaction. Are these really two separate groups of people, or archetypes that both exist within each of us? And how does this relate to archetypes of Asian American people?

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REFERENCED RESOURCES:

Deadline interview with Alejandro Inarritu: https://deadline.com/2014/10/birdman-director-alejandro-gonzalez-inarritu-writers-interview-852206/

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Jess and Teen talk about spending habits, addictive consumerism, and how materialism -- the love of material possessions -- is not the problem. It might be the solution.

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