Escape From Plan A

In the last month, there has been a slate of new Asian American media offerings from Tigertail, The Half of It, and Never Have I Ever. Filip and Chris are joined by Eliza and new guest Arnav to talk some real shit about these movies and shows.

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TWITTER:

Eliza (@aesthdistance1)

Filip (@filipgwriting)

Chris (@JesuInToast)

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"Fuck Out My Face" by Ayekay (open.spotify.com/artist/16zQKaDN5XgHAhfOJHTigJ)

The escalating cold war with China did not start with the coronavirus pandemic, and it will likely continue long afterwards. Independent journalist Ajit Singh talks to Teen about the geopolitical context of this simmering conflict between the United States and China, and how serious a matter it really is.

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TWITTER:

Ajit Singh (@ajitxsingh)

Teen (@mont_jiang)

REFERENCED RESOURCES:

Ajit Singh's Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/ajitxsingh)

China’s rise threatens U.S. imperialism, not American people (https://mronline.org/2018/04/09/chinas-rise-threatens-u-s-imperialism-not-american-people/)

How a Trump media dump mainstreamed Chinese lab coronavirus conspiracy theory (https://thegrayzone.com/author/ajit-singh/)

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"Fuck Out My Face" by Ayekay (open.spotify.com/artist/16zQKaDN5XgHAhfOJHTigJ)

Jess and Teen assess just how bad things have gotten in America, not just for Asian Americans but on the whole. The American ideal of optimism and progress seems to have been destroyed once and for all. But this seemed to have been a dream that only the top tenth of Americans could achieve at any one point in time. What does it mean to be in that top tenth? How do they control where we go from here?

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TWITTER:

Jess (@cogitatotomato)

Teen (@mont_jiang)

REFERENCED RESOURCES:

Trump Orders Meat Plants to Stay Open in Move Unions Slam (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-28/trump-says-he-s-issuing-order-for-tyson-s-unique-liability)

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"Fuck Out My Face" by Ayekay (open.spotify.com/artist/16zQKaDN5XgHAhfOJHTigJ)

And we thought the Global Financial Crisis was bad. Chris, C.S., and Christina (a Plan A co-founder making a long-awaited return after some time away!) discuss the generational ramifications that COVID-19 will have on Millennials and Gen Z in terms of our values and dreams. Is the Millennial ideal of "do what you love" truly dead? Will Gen Z be the first generation to know nothing but American decline? What new demands will be placed on identifying as "Asian American"?

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TWITTER:

C.S. (@c_taniguchi)

Chris (@JesuInToast)

REFERENCED RESOURCES:

Is This the End of Influencing as We Knew It?:https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2020/04/influencers-coronavirus-arielle-charnas-escape-new-york

Mira Jacob's NYT Coronavirus Comic Twitter Reaction: https://twitter.com/mirajacob/status/1248772510365011969?s=20

John Cho's article in LA Times: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-22/asian-american-discrimination-john-cho-coronavirus

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"Fuck Out My Face" by Ayekay (open.spotify.com/artist/16zQKaDN5XgHAhfOJHTigJ)

Mark, Filip, and Chris get together to talk about all the shameless gaming they've been doing during the lockdown and focus in particular on Sleeping Dogs, the excellent open world driving game about a 2nd-generation Asian American undercover cop who goes to Hong Kong to infiltrate the Triads. In addition to discussing the game, they talk about how they related to the Asian American male protagonist and his story.

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TWITTER:

Mark (@snbatman)

Filip (@filipgwriting)

Chris (@JesuInToast)

REFERENCED RESOURCES:

What Sleeping Dogs Gets So Right About Being An Asian American by Kevin Wong: https://kotaku.com/what-sleeping-dogs-gets-so-right-about-being-an-asian-a-1644011008

Revisiting Sleeping Dogs or Why The Movie Won't Work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SN1TPqVdpPo

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"Fuck Out My Face" by Ayekay (open.spotify.com/artist/16zQKaDN5XgHAhfOJHTigJ)

Diana and Teen talk about living in an age of pessimism. We are told constantly to look on the bright side, even as we are inundated with horribly depressing news. The total failure of our government, the rise of fascist anti-Chinese racism, the collapse of the progressive movement, all topped off by an economic depression. But look at these people sing on their balconies! And how these cops rode in formation to celebrate a child's birthday! Where do we go when optimism is a cracked veneer of bullshit, and pessimism is objectively justifiable?

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Diana (@discoveryduck)

Teen (@mont_jiang)

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"Fuck Out My Face" by Ayekay (open.spotify.com/artist/16zQKaDN5XgHAhfOJHTigJ)

Liza is back! And with Filip and Chris, the three of them discuss four important Asian American YA books that span three decades: Marie G. Lee's "Finding My Voice" and "If It Hadn't Been For Yoon Jun," Gene Luen Yang's "American Born Chinese," and Randy Ribay's "Patron Saints of Nothing." Issues discussed include how to read older works in the context of their time and whether POC writers are automatically qualified to write characters of their own race.

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TWITTER:

Eliza (@aesthdistance1)

Filip (@filipgwriting)

Chris (@JesuInToast)

REFERENCED RESOURCES:

Best Asian Americans Book of 2019 | Aesthetic Distance: https://aestheticdistance.com/blog/top-books-2019

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"Fuck Out My Face" by Ayekay (open.spotify.com/artist/16zQKaDN5XgHAhfOJHTigJ)

Doug Kim and Andray Domise join Teen to kill some time during the ongoing lockdown to talk about economics, UBI, and what went wrong with Andrew Yang's entire campaign. Also, is there such a thing as a true Biden supporter?

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Andray Domise (@andraydomise)

Doug Kim (@sweetjustice)

Teen (@mont_jiang)

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"Fuck Out My Face" by Ayekay (open.spotify.com/artist/16zQKaDN5XgHAhfOJHTigJ)

Chris, Jess and Mark talk about what's stressing them out during the coronavirus lockdown. Jess dissects the so-called $2 trillion bailout package and how it's going to decimate small businesses. In addition, secession, while seemingly laughable even half a year ago, doesn't sound so crazy now in light of Jared Kushner's use of "our" during one of the recent, daily White House press conferences. We also have a wry chuckle at how a silly movie like Demolition Man suddenly doesn't seem too silly anymore.

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TWITTER:

Chris (@JesuInToast)

Jess (@cogitatotomato)

Mark (@snbatman)

REFERENCED RESOURCES:

Small Business Administration CARE Act Information website (https://www.sba.gov/funding-programs/loans/coronavirus-relief-options)

Fed taking PPE supplies from Massachusetts (https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/27/nation/states-intense-chase-protective-equipment-coronavirus-isnt-only-rival/)

Modern US piracy of PPE supplies, this time from France (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/02/global-battle-coronavirus-equipment-masks-tests)

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Shin joins the podcast to talk with Teen about the politics of the Korean American left, how that informs views on the complex history of the Korean nation and the United States.

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Shin (@ReclaimKorea)

Teen (@mont_jiang)

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