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Feeling Asian
By Youngmi Mayer & Brian ParkSociety & Culture
Feeling Asian episodes
- I Miss Sleeping With People I Don't Trust (feat. Joel Kim Booster, Comedian)
Joel Kim Booster is an amazing comedian and actor whose work you may have seen on NBC, Comedy Central and NPR. Joel joins Feeling Asian to discuss how he misses the comfort of chaos and what he does to remedy that. He also opens up about his relationship to his "Asian"-ness and the challenges that come with striving to be a good representative for Asian-Americans. Follow him @ihatejoelkim. Follow us @itsbrianpark, @ymmayer and @feelingasianpodcast. Like, subscribe and donate to our patreon!
51 min - Welcome To Chinatown (feat. Jen Tam & Vic Lee, co-founders of Welcome to Chinatown)
Welcome to Chinatown is a grassroots initiative to support Chinatown businesses and amplify community voices to preserve one of NYC's most vibrant neighborhoods. Jen Tam and Vic Lee join Feeling Asian to discuss the inspiration behind Welcome to Chinatown, Covid-19 related racism and their relationship to their Chinese heritage and American upbringing. For more information on this great initiative please visit their website: https://www.welcometochinatown.com/. Follow them on instagram @welcome.to.chinatown and donate to our Patreon if you enjoy the pod!
1 hr 5 min - Asia Extreme (feat. Jenny Wang Medina, PhD East Asian Languages and Cultures)
Jenny Wang Medina is a Professor of East Asian Culture at Emory University and a former goth. She joins Feeling Asian to discuss Asian-American culture and also dismantles our false preconceptions of East Asia. Jenny also decolonizes our minds regarding the modernization of Korea and provides her insight on the globalization of Kpop. Follow us @itsbrianpark, @ymmayer and @feelingasianpodcast. Like, subscribe and donate to our Patreon please!
59 min - One Year Anniversary!
It's our one year anniversary! Woo! Honestly, it felt kind of weird congratulating ourselves for this but we’re proud :) Youngmi and I are so, so grateful for your support and being ride or die with us on these chaotic emotional streets. We recap some of our favorite podcast moments from the past year and express our hopes for Feeling Asian in the year ahead. Follow us @itsbrianpark, @ymmayer and @feelingasianpodcast. Please like, subscribe and support our Patreon!
57 min - Maybe It Was The Khaki Pants (feat. Moss Perricone, Patriot Act)
Moss Perricone is a talented comedian and former staff writer for Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj. He joins Feeling Asian to talk about mending a broken heart and why it’s especially difficult during quarantine. Moss also opens up about his biracial, Indian and Italian, identity and discovering the importance of representation in the least likely places. Follow him @mossperricone! Follow us @itsbrianpark, @ymmayer and @feelingasianpodcast! Like, subscribe and donate to our Patreon :)
1 hr 3 min - Asian. Boss. Bitch. (feat. Anne Ishii, Asian Arts Initiative)
Anne Ishii is the Executive Director of the Asian Arts Initiative, Pornographer and the ring-leader of the Asian Illuminati. She joins Feeling Asian to talk about the challenges of being an Asian woman in a leadership position. Anne also describes how she created Massive Goods, a publisher and agent for queer manga and fashion by artists from Japan. Follow her @ill_iterate and follow us @feelingasianpodcast, @itsbrianpark and @ymmayer. Like, subscribe and donate to our Patreon!
1 hr 4 min - New Haircut, Same Old Mistakes
This week it’s just Youngmi and Brian! We originally had an amazing guest episode planned for you all, but encountered some technical difficulties which led to a discussion on how mistakes are interpreted. Brian also talks about experiencing survivor’s guilt and what it’s like to have a haircut everyone hates. Youngmi discusses her run-in with toxic femininity and the bullshit it encompasses. Please like, subscribe and contribute to our patreon: patreon.com/feelingasian
56 min - You Can't Be A Fake-Ass Bitch (feat. Kimmy Yam, NBC News)
Kimmy Yam is a reporter for NBC News and drops so many insightful gems on this episode of Feeling Asian. She describes what it was like growing up in a Chinese restaurant family and walks us through the importance of being real and no-bullshit in her journalism work. We get deep when Kimmy implores us to show compassion to our parents and why it's important to check the burden we throw back on them to be perfect people. Follow Kimmy on social media @kimmythepooh and follow us @itsbrianpark, @ymmayer and @feelingasianpodcast!
1 hr 17 min - Pacific Islander, Not Asian (feat. Mona Jones, Comedian)
Mona Jones is the world's only female Chamorro comedian. She describes the distinction between being Pacific Islander and being Asian, and America's tendency to clump the two together. She also gives us a crash course on island culture and the racism that existed in its school systems. Follower her @kirida and follow us @itsbrianpark, @ymmayer and @feelingasianpodcast!
55 min - Searching For Control (feat. Jared Goldstein, Comedian)
Jared Goldstein is a hilarious comedian and star of Nikki Fre$h on Quibi. He describes what it was like being biracial in suburban Long Island. Jared also opens up about the challenges of being a child actor, coming to terms with your homosexuality and eating disorders as a means of control. Follow him @heyjaredhey and follow us @feelingasianpodcast, @itsbrianpark and @ymmayer. Like, subscribe, review!!! We love you!!!
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About Feeling Asian
From the publisher's feed
Feeling Asian is a weekly podcast hosted by Youngmi Mayer and Brian Park, two Asian Americans with plenty of feelings about sex, dating, survival, self-worth, and everything in between. Meet our fun, interesting friends along the way; past guests include Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast, Stephanie Hsu, Bowen Yang, Yaeji, and more! Named a top podcast of 2021 by CNN and featured on Apple and Spotify’s homepages, Feeling Asian offers a healthy and compassionate space for Asians, Asian Americans, and Asians in America to be themselves without feeling as if their time is a fleeting moment. Check out Feeling Asian for a catharsis that is, well, pretty Asian! New episodes out every Wednesday!
Follow us on IG @itsbrianpark and @ymmayer and @feelingasianpodcast. For all inquiries please visit feelingasian.com!
[EDITOR'S NOTE]
“There was this space for a podcast like this and I was like, ‘Let’s just try it out, I think there's going to be other Asian Americans out there that feel like we do,’” says Brian Park, co-host and co-creator of Feeling Asian. “As long as we stay irreverent and stay authentic to ourselves and lead with empathy and vulnerability, I think that this is something that could resonate with other people.” What started as an idea between two fellow stand-up comedians, Park and Youngmi Mayer, Apple Podcasts’ Spotlight show for May 2022, Feeling Asian, has made its mark amplifying Asian American voices and illuminating all facets of the Asian American diasporic experience.
After meeting at an open mic in New York City, Park and Mayer decided that podcasting was the ideal way to go in-depth about their shared experiences, and to go beyond their comfort zones as comics to speak freely and vulnerably. It’s with that very vulnerability that they’ve been able to build a devoted community of listeners and continue to grow each week. “I remember last May during AAPI [Asian American & Pacific Islander] Heritage Month, the Stop Asian Hate movement got going and I was just inundated with hundreds of DMs from people about all the racist acts that they were living through,” says Mayer. “That's when I really realized that it’s much bigger than just a podcast. It’s like we’re giving back to this community that maybe all they really need is to hear someone that's like-minded.”
With new episodes airing Wednesday, the weekly show focuses on their feelings (as evidenced in its title), but goes beyond the surface with a sense of openness and honesty that makes you feel like you’re in same room laughing (or crying) alongside them with guests, ranging from fellow entertainers to mental health professionals, and even their family members, Youngmi’s mom and Brian’s sister. “We're not claiming ourselves to be experts, we're not claiming ourselves to be journalists,” says Park. “We're comedians by trade. We like to make people laugh and we like to inject levity. And I think it's created this nice flavor to our podcast where we can go really deep with our guests and provide a very comfortable space for them and for ourselves and for everyone listening.”
For Mayer, the loyal and diverse following that Feeling Asian has cultivated gives a glimpse of the potential for what a successful podcast can do. “I don't want to sound too grandiose, but a lot of people really use our podcast as something to help themselves process,” she says. “I just want to grow a community and make people feel less alone.”