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Ep. 188 Crazy Rich Asians (The Movie) with Alonso Duralde & Andrew Ti

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4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

We did the book, now we're doing the movie! Goddess Guy Branum and dyke-about-town Karen Tongson are joined by fellow MaxFun host Alonso Duralde of the movie podcast Who Shot Ya? and returning favorite Andrew Ti, host of the podcast Yo, Is This Racist? to talk Crazy Rich Asians.

Listen in to find out who the gang thought had the breakout performances? Did the food porn in the book match up with the food porn on screen? Who would be the leading man in the sequel? Was the movie "Asian enough"? In lieu of our regular segment That's My Jam, Andrew shares one of his favorite Chinese language covers of a Western hit and how he really felt about all the Asian language covers in the movie. Also, the gang offers up some real talk about the movie's celebration of #AsianJoy, the uncomfortable ways that class played out in the film, and colorism among Asian ethnicities.

All Abouts

Andrew is all about Season 3 of the Syfy TV series The Expanse. Alonso is all about the new comedy Support the Girls starring Regina Hall. Karen is all about the social media eruption over the prominent queer-identified theorist Avital Ronell and her alleged sexual harassment of a male graduate student. Guy is all about the other Asian American centered movie you should be paying attention to Netflix's To All The Boys I've Loved Before.

With Guy Branum, Karen Tongson, Andrew Ti, and Alonso Duralde.

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Produced by Laura Swisher for MaximumFun.org. Edited by Shana Daloria.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Oh, hey there and welcome to Pop Rocket, a weekly show picking over all the pop culture we love to love.

0:12.4

We've made a talk TV, film, music,

0:14.1

and anything else entertaining. Our pop culture scholar in Dyke about town, Karen Toxen.

0:19.1

Hey guy, I'm Hi Rocketeers.

0:21.5

Karen, how's school?

0:24.0

It's school.

0:26.2

It started and, you know, it's always disorienting to come back

0:31.1

because in the times that I've gone during the summer to

0:34.6

campus it's just like empty and idyllic and now there's just a lot of you know

0:39.8

ug boots with short shorts and people texting while riding bicycles.

0:43.0

Is it hard to have to look at fresh 18 year olds every year?

0:46.8

I think that it's the thing that's the hardest is that I keep getting older and everyone

0:51.6

stays the same age and now at this point my graduate students also are a lot younger so

0:57.0

You and Matthew McConnell and the fact that I went directly to Karen Toxin means we have some absences in the house.

1:05.8

We have two special guests, but they're not just special guests.

1:09.9

They are former temporary panelists.

1:12.8

It is seventh and eighth Beatles.

1:17.4

Well, first, Alonso Duralday,

1:20.2

of who shot you and knowing things about movies.

1:24.0

Hi guy.

1:25.0

Hey, how's it going?

1:27.0

It's great.

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