Just a few miles off the Thailand coast, the island of Kothau looks like a postcard.

I'd underneath the surface lies something sinister.

In the last 20 years dozens of tourists have died mysteriously on the island.

A dark cloud who's come over the island, death, mystery and danger.

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Welcome to Knappen here, the podcast that I and Mia Wong occasionally hijack talk about Asian American stuff.

And you know some some some some some pretty interesting.

I Asian American stuff happened, which is that I yeah, there was a sort of massive sweeping cultural victory question mark for the Asian American community TM when everything I for all at once did.

Okay, I'm getting conflicting sources about exactly the record that I said at the Oscars, but it won seven Oscars did very well everyone is very happy.

Yeah, so I decided that I was going to use this to talk about some other stuff that is related to it.

And with me to talk about many things, including sort of the family in patriarchy and Asian American.

Culture and media is Tiffany Yang, a filmmaker from New York, Tiffany, welcome to the show.

Hi Mia, thanks for having me on.

Thanks for being on.

So we were trying to figure out how precisely we want to sort of start this because.

You know, there's a lot of sort of angles you can take.

I think the thing that I want to start with is like, hey, okay, everything ever all at once is a very good movie.

In a lot of ways and I think it's sort of it is kind of the apotheosis of a structure of Asian American media that I've talked about before on this show.

That I'm going to run through a brief explanation of what this is.

So something that I yeah, I talked a bit before that that I think about a lot is the way in which Asian American media has been.

And it has a basically a structural form.

It has there's a very specific story or set of story structures into which anything you're trying to tell has to be fit.

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