Plum Radio

Congrats on surviving another week! We’re joined by rapper Bohan Phoenix and his friend and collaborator, Jachary, a Black American singer who has toured China with Bohan. We talk about what Asian rappers owe Black Americans, compare anti-blackness and police in China vs. the U.S. and play a game of “Cultural Appropriation or Not?” with Dolly. Top of the show: Dolly and Joey discuss rewatching Spike Lee’s “Do The Right Thing”, the role of the Korean grocery store owner in the movie, and NYC’s Asians for Black Lives protest.

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We’re 10 episodes old, send Pokémon cards! Dolly and Joey discuss #BlackOutTuesday, the power of K-Pop fans, and our experiences of attending protests from East to West Coast. Later, journalist Sana Saeed joins us to talk about her AJ+ show, Pop Americana, and why American media covers movements like the Arab Spring and Hong Kong’s protests so differently from movements like #BlackLivesMatter at home. Also: more on talking to our families, defunding the police, Aladdin, bots, Dolly Parton, and which governments get called “regimes.”

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We pride ourselves on being an independent media at Plum Radio. Follow us on IG (@listentoplumradio), and support us on Patreon (patreon.com/plumradio) if you’re here for the culture and want to be part of the vision.

This week, we demand an end to police violence towards all Black Americans. We were blessed to have two incredible guests on this episode: first, Dr. Kim Tran, who spoke to us about confronting anti-Blackness in our families and effective ways to speak to our immigrant communities about #BlackLivesMatter, protests, and looting. Later, actor and director Lynn Chen joins us to talk about her journey from starring in the 2004 film Saving Face to her directorial debut film, I Will Make You Mine.

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We pride ourselves on being an independent media at Plum Radio. Follow us on IG (@listentoplumradio), and support us on Patreon (patreon.com/plumradio) if you’re here for the culture and want to be part of the vision.

Lucky episode #8! Come hoedown at the farm with us and Scott Chang-Fleeman, farmer and owner of Shao Shan Farm in Bolinas, CA. Scott talks about how Asian farmers were stripped of their land after they dug the fields that became Northern California’s agricultural engine, the pros and cons of growing organic Asian produce, and how COVID-19 is affecting his farm and upending our food systems. And then we got face-deep in some dank greens. (To see the greens for yourself, head to our IG at https://www.instagram.com/tv/CAlbYyXndfX/ 🌿😉)

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We pride ourselves on being an independent media at Plum Radio. Follow us on IG (@listentoplumradio), and support us on Patreon (patreon.com/plumradio) if you’re here for the culture and want to be part of the vision.

From the star of Silicon Valley to abolishing Silicon Valley--this week, Dolly and Joey welcome Wendy Liu, the author of the new memoir “Abolish Silicon Valley.” Wendy, a software engineer, ex-Googler, and startup founder, takes us through her journey of discovering the dark side of Silicon Valley and where all its tech money comes from. Dolly and Wendy discussed building a startup that sells personal data to marketers, making Amazon a public utility, and the tech workers who are organizing to fight for better pay and rights.

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We pride ourselves on being an independent media at Plum Radio. Follow us on IG (instagram.com/listentoplumradio), and support us on Patreon (patreon.com/plumradio) if you’re here for the culture and want to be part of the vision.

Happy mother’s day! This episode, we send blessings to all the mothers out there, including Ahmaud Arbery’s, who is spending this mother’s day grieving the loss of her son.

Our special guest this week is the star of HBO’s Silicon Valley, Jimmy O. Yang. We talked about “Good Deal,” his new comedy special on Amazon, his upcoming Netflix show with Steve Carrell, “Space Force”, and what it means to play Jian Yang take and ownership of a character that has an immigrant accent.

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Happy May Day and AAPI month! Dolly and Joey kick off Asian Pacific American Heritage Month with Alice Wu, the writer and director the new Netflix film “The Half Of It,” and also the 2004 Asian and queer cult classic, “Saving Face”. Alice and Dolly discuss how immigrant parents express their love, the power of non-romantic love, and how we’re all trapped in hell, including her characters in “The Half Of It.”

We’ve officially launched our Patreon! If you love Plum Radio and want to support Asian-made media (it IS *Asian month* y’all), you can become a monthly supporter for just $5/month and receive all types of goodies like bonus episodes and invites to virtual screening parties, like the one we just hosted for “The Half Of It”. Our supporters also get a shoutout on the show so make sure to tune in live this weekend 🤠

We’ve been building Plum Radio for the culture and want to be listener-funded to remain independent and cover topics you won’t see anywhere else. To everyone who’s already supported us: we see you, we love you, and we hope you’ll hold us accountable and share your thoughts and feedback 💜

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Ramadan mubarak! Mei Lum, owner of Wing On Wo, the oldest shop in Chinatown in New York City (around since 1890!), joins us to talk about the future of Chinatowns in NYC and across North America.

Dolly and Mei chat about the shop’s COVID-19 art project “Love Letters to Chinatown”, creating a third space for women and non-binary voices, and honoring Chinatown’s legacy by opening her storefront as a gathering space to have tough conversations on cultural preservation, gentrification, and growing Chinatown for future generations.

Dolly and Joey curse the “Hole of the Week” and celebrate the blessings of new music from Yaeji and Rina Sawayama.

Our special guest this week, Annie Tan, is a NYC public school teacher and Chinatown native who was inspired to become an activist after learning about her kinship to Vincent Chin. Vincent was a Chinese-American man who was brutally murdered by two white auto-workers in 1982 Detroit when he was mistaken for being Japanese. His murder inspired a wave of Asian-American activism and united communities to identify with the term “Asian-American.”

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On episode 2 of Plum Radio, we discussed the new Netflix movie, Tigertail, with Ty Tran, the creator of the meme page @AsiansNeverDie, how we’re virtually celebrating holidays like Easter, Passover, and Qing Ming, and the history of why the U.S. has so many nurses from the Philippines. 

Our special guest this episode is Adrian De Leon, a Filipino-Canadian Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at USC. Adrian drops some knowledge on Plum Radio, teaching us about the U.S. colonization of the Philippines in 1898, how the English language and Americanized education systems were imposed on the Pacific Islands, and how these forces created today’s pipeline of labor to America for Filipino nurses and migrant workers. 

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