Welcome to our October 2024 edition of "Do We Want This?" our monthly roundup of the latest Asian American entertainment news. Join us as we discuss the latest casting announcements, adaptation news, and the return of The Princess Diaries (with an Asian American twist)! We also talk a little about next week's elections and share Jess' descent into become a baseball girl!

What's Popping? - 2024 Election, The World Series

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• Marvin Yueh - @marvinyueh
• Jess Ju - @jessjutweets
• Hanh Nguyen - @hanhonymous

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Listen to Inheriting from LAist & NPR

"Inheriting" is a show about Asian American and Pacific Islander families, which explores how one event in history can ripple through generations. In doing so, the show seeks to break apart the AAPI monolith and tell a fuller story of these communities. In each episode, NPR’s Emily Kwong sits down with one family and facilitates deeply emotional conversations between their loved ones, exploring how their most personal, private moments are an integral part of history. Through these stories, we show how the past is personal and how to live with the legacies we’re constantly inheriting.

Listen to Inheriting now!

In honor of spooky month, we're checking out the new MCU Disney+ series Agatha All Along, the follow up to the original MCU series WandaVision, which follows the return of Kathryn Hanh's Agatha Harkness as she leads a team of outcast witches down a series of trials on "The Witches Road" in order to get her powers back. We've been hot and mostly cold on the MCU recently, will this audacious entry be enough to make the grade as good pop?

What's Popping? - G Dragon, Metaphor: Refantazio

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• Marvin Yueh - @marvinyueh
• Jess Ju - @jessjutweets
• Hanh Nguyen - @hanhonymous

Follow the show and engage with us at @goodpopclub

Part of the Potluck Podcast Collective

Produced by HappyEcstatic Media

Mentioned in this episode:

Listen to Inheriting from LAist & NPR

"Inheriting" is a show about Asian American and Pacific Islander families, which explores how one event in history can ripple through generations. In doing so, the show seeks to break apart the AAPI monolith and tell a fuller story of these communities. In each episode, NPR’s Emily Kwong sits down with one family and facilitates deeply emotional conversations between their loved ones, exploring how their most personal, private moments are an integral part of history. Through these stories, we show how the past is personal and how to live with the legacies we’re constantly inheriting.

Listen to Inheriting now!

On this episode, the Good Pop crew checks in on comedian Ali Wong's life with her newest Netflix comedy special "Single Lady," as she reflects on her experiences as a recently divorced single mom, getting back into the dating game, and how men just need to try harder.

What's Popping? - The Pradeeps of Pittsburgh, Nobody Wants This, Culinary Class Wars

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• Marvin Yueh - @marvinyueh
• Jess Ju - @jessjutweets
• Hanh Nguyen - @hanhonymous

Follow the show and engage with us at @goodpopclub

Part of the Potluck Podcast Collective

Produced by HappyEcstatic Media

Mentioned in this episode:

Listen to Inheriting from LAist & NPR

"Inheriting" is a show about Asian American and Pacific Islander families, which explores how one event in history can ripple through generations. In doing so, the show seeks to break apart the AAPI monolith and tell a fuller story of these communities. In each episode, NPR’s Emily Kwong sits down with one family and facilitates deeply emotional conversations between their loved ones, exploring how their most personal, private moments are an integral part of history. Through these stories, we show how the past is personal and how to live with the legacies we’re constantly inheriting.

Listen to Inheriting now!

On this episode, we check out the new Dreamworks animated feature The Wild Robot, about a robot who finds herself stranded in an uninhabited island and learns to survive be learning to live with the local wildlife and becoming a mom to an orphaned baby goose, and really dive into whether it was necessary for a robot to be so mom-coded. Will this charming science fiction kids film make the grade as good pop?

What's Popping? - Lessons in Chemistry, Transformers One, Culinary Class Wars

Follow our hosts:

• Marvin Yueh - @marvinyueh
• Jess Ju - @jessjutweets
• Hanh Nguyen - @hanhonymous

Follow the show and engage with us at @goodpopclub

Part of the Potluck Podcast Collective

Produced by HappyEcstatic Media

Mentioned in this episode:

Listen to Inheriting from LAist & NPR

"Inheriting" is a show about Asian American and Pacific Islander families, which explores how one event in history can ripple through generations. In doing so, the show seeks to break apart the AAPI monolith and tell a fuller story of these communities. In each episode, NPR’s Emily Kwong sits down with one family and facilitates deeply emotional conversations between their loved ones, exploring how their most personal, private moments are an integral part of history. Through these stories, we show how the past is personal and how to live with the legacies we’re constantly inheriting.

Listen to Inheriting now!

On our September 2024 edition of "Do We Want This?" The crew reviews some of most exciting recent Asian American entertainment news including the Bridgerton updates we deserve, upcoming projects from our favorite directors, and even some K-content announcements!

What's Popping? - K-drama School: A Pop Culture Inquiry Into Why We Love Korean Television, Culinary Class Wars, Great British Bake Off

Follow our hosts:

• Marvin Yueh - @marvinyueh
• Jess Ju - @jessjutweets
• Hanh Nguyen - @hanhonymous

Follow the show and engage with us at @goodpopclub

Part of the Potluck Podcast Collective

Produced by HappyEcstatic Media

Mentioned in this episode:

Listen to Inheriting from LAist & NPR

"Inheriting" is a show about Asian American and Pacific Islander families, which explores how one event in history can ripple through generations. In doing so, the show seeks to break apart the AAPI monolith and tell a fuller story of these communities. In each episode, NPR’s Emily Kwong sits down with one family and facilitates deeply emotional conversations between their loved ones, exploring how their most personal, private moments are an integral part of history. Through these stories, we show how the past is personal and how to live with the legacies we’re constantly inheriting.

Listen to Inheriting now!

On this episode we check out the latest film from John Woo, The Killer, the 2024 remake of his 1989 classic action film, moving the action from Hong Kong to Paris with Nathalie Emmanuel taking the Chow Yun Fat role of a hitman with a heart of gold. Does the film do enough to justify a remake? And does a John Woo film automatically equal good pop in today's pop culture landscape?

What's Popping? - Vietnam, Culinary Class Wars, Football

Follow our hosts:

• Marvin Yueh - @marvinyueh
• Jess Ju - @jessjutweets
• Hanh Nguyen - @hanhonymous

Follow the show and engage with us at @goodpopclub

Part of the Potluck Podcast Collective

Produced by HappyEcstatic Media

Mentioned in this episode:

Listen to Inheriting from LAist & NPR

"Inheriting" is a show about Asian American and Pacific Islander families, which explores how one event in history can ripple through generations. In doing so, the show seeks to break apart the AAPI monolith and tell a fuller story of these communities. In each episode, NPR’s Emily Kwong sits down with one family and facilitates deeply emotional conversations between their loved ones, exploring how their most personal, private moments are an integral part of history. Through these stories, we show how the past is personal and how to live with the legacies we’re constantly inheriting.

Listen to Inheriting now!

On this episode, the summer of Asian American coming-of-age films taking place in 2008 continue as Marvin and Hanh discuss So Young Shelly Yo's debut feature film SMOKING TIGERS, which premiered at Tribeca last year and just dropped onto MAX a few weeks ago for streaming. Listen in as we take in the vibes of this story about a girl from a working class Korean-American family as she tries to fit in with the rich friends she meets at her cram school while trying to hide her family problems and dreaming of a better life.

What's Popping? - How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies, Chef RPG

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• Marvin Yueh - @marvinyueh
• Jess Ju - @jessjutweets
• Hanh Nguyen - @hanhonymous

Follow the show and engage with us at @goodpopclub

Part of the Potluck Podcast Collective

Produced by HappyEcstatic Media

Mentioned in this episode:

Listen to Inheriting from LAist & NPR

"Inheriting" is a show about Asian American and Pacific Islander families, which explores how one event in history can ripple through generations. In doing so, the show seeks to break apart the AAPI monolith and tell a fuller story of these communities. In each episode, NPR’s Emily Kwong sits down with one family and facilitates deeply emotional conversations between their loved ones, exploring how their most personal, private moments are an integral part of history. Through these stories, we show how the past is personal and how to live with the legacies we’re constantly inheriting.

Listen to Inheriting now!

Good Pop is taking a break this week as our hosts are out on official Professional Asian American business, so we're dropping in the latest episode from our fellow Potluck Podcast Saturday School, a podcast about Asian American film history hosted by journalist Ada Tseng (from our Bachelorette recaps), and film professor Brian Hu.

If you like what you hear, make sure to follow and check out their other episodes at https://podcastpotluck.com/saturday-school

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Episode 2 of our "Stars of Asian American Cinema" season goes back to the beginning with 1980's "Hito Hata: Raise the Banner," considered the first feature-length film made by and about Asian Americans. It was recently restored in 4K by the National Film Preservation Foundation. The film traces Japanese American history from the issei generation's arrival to the U.S., to incarceration during WWII, to their fight against gentrification in Little Tokyo in the '70s. 

"Hito Hata" stars Mako (an Oscar-nominated actor who was one of the founders of the Asian American theater company East West Players) and Pat Morita (who got famous from "Happy Days" and would later become Mr. Miyagi in "The Karate Kid"). The film was directed by Robert A. Nakamura and Duane Kubo, founders of Visual Communications, the organization behind the L.A. Asian Pacific Film Festival, and it symbolized an investment in Little Tokyo as a cultural hub for Asian America. 

For this generation, stardom wasn't just about fame or celebrity. It was about dignity. "Hito Hata" showed that a cast of Asian American actors who were usually limited to bit parts in Hollywood could be stars. It also used stardom to teach a history that wasn't taught in schools.

Mentioned in this episode:

Listen to Inheriting from LAist & NPR

"Inheriting" is a show about Asian American and Pacific Islander families, which explores how one event in history can ripple through generations. In doing so, the show seeks to break apart the AAPI monolith and tell a fuller story of these communities. In each episode, NPR’s Emily Kwong sits down with one family and facilitates deeply emotional conversations between their loved ones, exploring how their most personal, private moments are an integral part of history. Through these stories, we show how the past is personal and how to live with the legacies we’re constantly inheriting.

Listen to Inheriting now!

On this episode of Good Pop, we check out this year's Asian American Sundance indie darling DIDI, a coming of age story written and directed by Sean Wang about a kid from Fremont in the summer of 2008 as he struggles with changes in his life, family, and friends during his last summer before entering high school. We dive into all the cringe of 13 year old boys, reminisce about 2008 technology, and share our thoughts on this new Asian American classic.

What's Popping? - Short N Sweet, Alligator Bites Never Heal, Wise Guy David Chase & the Sopranos, Linkin Park

Follow our hosts:

• Marvin Yueh - @marvinyueh
• Jess Ju - @jessjutweets
• Hanh Nguyen - @hanhonymous

Follow the show and engage with us at @goodpopclub

Part of the Potluck Podcast Collective

Produced by HappyEcstatic Media

Mentioned in this episode:

Listen to Inheriting from LAist & NPR

"Inheriting" is a show about Asian American and Pacific Islander families, which explores how one event in history can ripple through generations. In doing so, the show seeks to break apart the AAPI monolith and tell a fuller story of these communities. In each episode, NPR’s Emily Kwong sits down with one family and facilitates deeply emotional conversations between their loved ones, exploring how their most personal, private moments are an integral part of history. Through these stories, we show how the past is personal and how to live with the legacies we’re constantly inheriting.

Listen to Inheriting now!

We've finally made it to the end of our Go Asian coverage of The Bachelorette season 21, and are left with one burning question, was it worth it? Join our full Go Asian crew as we recap a very dramatic and stressful finale for our first ever Asian American Bachelorette and find out who gets our final red flag!

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• Marvin Yueh - @marvinyueh
• Jess Ju - @jessjutweets
• Hanh Nguyen - @hanhonymous
• Teresa Tran - @teresatran__
• Ada Tseng - @adatseng

Follow the show and engage with us at @goodpopclub

Part of the Potluck Podcast Collective

Produced by HappyEcstatic Media

Mentioned in this episode:

Listen to Inheriting from LAist & NPR

"Inheriting" is a show about Asian American and Pacific Islander families, which explores how one event in history can ripple through generations. In doing so, the show seeks to break apart the AAPI monolith and tell a fuller story of these communities. In each episode, NPR’s Emily Kwong sits down with one family and facilitates deeply emotional conversations between their loved ones, exploring how their most personal, private moments are an integral part of history. Through these stories, we show how the past is personal and how to live with the legacies we’re constantly inheriting.

Listen to Inheriting now!