KollabCast

On this week's KollabCast, we welcome Alton Wang, the new Assistant Director of AAPI Data, back to the KollabCast (and back to Southern California)! We chat with Alton about his new gig, digging into the data and uncovering the hidden stories of the AAPI community. For the roundtable, we discuss bad restaurant names, crazy rich expectations, and dream batman casts!

This week’s intro & outro music is “Uzuhan” from Kollaboration STAR 2017 winner Uzuhan

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Alton Wang @AltonWangAAPI Data

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The KollabCast is a podcast about pop culture and the creative life from an Asian American perspective

A proud member of the Potluck Podcast Collective

EMPOWER Weekend 2017 has wrapped and the 2017 Kollaboration season is in the books! We celebrate on this week's KollabCast by bringing in Atlanta based comedian Joon Lee, who also helped us MC throughout the weekend, to recap our marathon 3-day event. For this week's roundtable, we chat about the evolution of "Asian American" comedy and take a look at the latest #AsianEnough blowup coming from the Asian American literary world. (Oh, and we're moving our KollabCast release day back to Thursday going forward!)

This week’s intro & outro music is “Uzuhan” from Kollaboration STAR 2017 winner Uzuhan

As always, send us your listener emails at [email protected]

Learn more about the KollabCast and listen to past episodes here

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Joon Lee IG: @JoonLeeComedy

Follow our hosts at: @minjeeeezy @marvinyueh

The KollabCast is a podcast about pop culture and the creative life from an Asian American perspective

A proud member of the Potluck Podcast Collective

Asian Canadian actor and star of the hit CBC sitcom Kim's Convenience, Simu Liu joins us for this week's extra spooooooky episode of the KollabCast! Simu shares his experiences coming up as an actor in Canada before getting his big break, and how it's been acting on one of Canada's top shows! In the roundtable we discuss racist gestures in the World Series, the latest Hollywood scandals, and our childhood Halloween experiences.

Don’t forget! KollabCast listeners can attend Kollaboration’s EMPOWER Weekend at a discount by using our offer code “KOLLABCAST!"

This week’s intro & outro music is “Rose Red” from Kollaboration alum CLARA

As always, send us your listener emails at [email protected]

Learn more about the KollabCast and listen to past episodes here

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Simu Liu @SimuLiu

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The KollabCast is a podcast about pop culture and the creative life from an Asian American perspective

A proud member of the Potluck Podcast Collective

As we enter the last week before Kollaboration's EMPOWER Weekend, we sit down in our office in the middle of the night with Kollab LA Director Manpreet Kaur to talk about our upcoming events, recent travels, and career advice. Don't forget! KollabCast listeners can attend all EMPOWER events at a discount by using our offer code "KOLLABCAST" Learn more and get tickets at empower.kollaboration.org!

This week’s intro & outro music is “Rose Red” from Kollaboration alum CLARA

As always, send us your listener emails at [email protected]

Learn more about the KollabCast and listen to past episodes here

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Manpreet Kaur Instagram

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The KollabCast is a podcast about pop culture and the creative life from an Asian American perspective

A proud member of the Potluck Podcast Collective

The KollabCast is coming in a little late this week as we've been hard at work on Kollaboration's EMPOWER Weekend 2017. While Minji is tied up with event prep, Marvin invites "friend of the KollabCast" and fellow Potluck Podcast host Ada Tseng (and her baby daughter) to fill in and chat about the latest stories in Asian America. We chat Asian American music videos, movie focus groups, and Charlyne Yi calling out David Cross, all while trying to keep Ada's daughter distracted.

This week’s intro & outro music is “Rose Red” from Kollaboration alum CLARA

As always, send us your listener emails at [email protected]

Learn more about the KollabCast and listen to past episodes here

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Leonardo Nam @BTEK_BenChung Kinjaz

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The KollabCast is a podcast about pop culture and the creative life from an Asian American perspective

A proud member of the Potluck Podcast Collective

It's just our hosts this week as they catch up on the events of the past few weeks. We chat a wide variety of serious topics like policy issues, Asian American voter turnout, and sexual harassment (and how it's bad). Our hosts also reminiscence about their experiences with AIM (given the news that the service will be discontinued in a few weeks) including azn culture, screen names, away messages, and those feelings you get when that special someone logs in. 

This week’s intro & outro music is “Rose Red” from Kollaboration alum CLARA

As always, send us your listener emails at [email protected]

Learn more about the KollabCast and listen to past episodes here

Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Google Play Music, Stitcher, Spotify, Radio Public or via our RSS feed (http://kollaboration.libsyn.com/rss)

Follow our hosts at: @minjeeeezy @marvinyueh

The KollabCast is a podcast about pop culture and the creative life from an Asian American perspective

A proud member of the Potluck Podcast Collective

Ben Chung, also known as BTEK, joins us for this week's KollabCast. A current member of the Kinjaz dance team, Ben is also a former member of the ABDC season 1 winning Jabbawockeez, UCI's Kaba Modern, and one of the original Kollaboration team members! Ben joins the podcast to catch up with our hosts and chat about making a living as a professional dancer. In this week's roundtable we talk some more about about Gook, share some North Korea anxieties, and listen to Marvin's latest X'mas rant.

It’s not too late to submit for HBO’s APA Visionaries 2018 – Visit the website for more info

This week’s intro & outro music is “Dive” from Kollaboration SF (& the Voice) alum Tim Atlas

As always, send us your listener emails at [email protected]

Learn more about the KollabCast and listen to past episodes here

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Ben Chung @BTEK_BenChung Kinjaz

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The KollabCast is a podcast about pop culture and the creative life from an Asian American perspective

A proud member of the Potluck Podcast Collective

This week we're joined by the charming Korean-Aussie-Argentinian actor Leonardo Nam, best known for his current role as Felix in HBO's Westworld as well as the spokesperson for HBO's 2018 APA Visionaries Short Film Competition. In addition to talking about APA Visionaries, we also chat with Leonardo about his early days as an actor and the importance of developing one's craft. For this week's roundtable, we chat DDK (Daniel Dae Kim), the prmiere of The Tiger Hunter, and the Emmy's.

It's not too late to submit for HBO's APA Visionaries 2018 - Visit the website for more info

This week’s intro & outro music is “Dive” from Kollaboration SF (& the Voice) alum Tim Atlas

As always, send us your listener emails at [email protected]

Learn more about the KollabCast and listen to past episodes here

Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Google Play Music, Stitcher, Spotify, Radio Public or via our RSS feed (http://kollaboration.libsyn.com/rss)

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Leonardo Nam @Leonardo_Nam HBO APA Visionaries

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The KollabCast is a podcast about pop culture and the creative life from an Asian American perspective

A proud member of the Potluck Podcast Collective

It's been a busy week for us at Kollaboration Global HQ preparing for the upcoming EMPOWER Weekend 2017 so we thought we'd take a week off and play some of our favorite moments over the past year. Please enjoy this 2nd collection of clips from past KollabCast episodes, featuring talks about Asian American representation, overcoming creative challenges, the joys of improv, and why cargo shorts aren't all that bad. 

This week’s intro & outro music is “Dive” from Kollaboration SF (& the Voice) alum Tim Atlas

As always, send us your listener emails at [email protected]

Learn more about the KollabCast and listen to past episodes here

Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Google Play Music, Stitcher, Spotify, Radio Public or via our RSS feed (http://kollaboration.libsyn.com/rss)

Follow our hosts at: @minjeeeezy @marvinyueh

The KollabCast is a podcast about pop culture and the creative life from an Asian American perspective

A proud member of the Potluck Podcast Collective

On this week's KollabCast we welcome Traci Lee, the editor of NBC Asian America, one of the few Asian American newsdesks among the mainstream media outlets. Traci chats with us about covering Asian Americans in the news, and finding representation in stories beyond entertainment and casting. For this week's roundtable, we talk about unnecessary casting in movies (specifically Aladdin), speaking out, and books!

This week’s intro & outro music is “Dive” from Kollaboration SF (& the Voice) alum Tim Atlas

As always, send us your listener emails at [email protected]

Learn more about the KollabCast and listen to past episodes here

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Traci Lee @traciglee NBC Asian America

Follow our hosts at: @minjeeeezy @marvinyueh

The KollabCast is a podcast about pop culture and the creative life from an Asian American perspective

A proud member of the Potluck Podcast Collective