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House of R

Exploring 'Cowboy Bebop' With John Cho

House of R

The Ringer

Tv & Film

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Joanna and Mal take to space for a dive into the Netflix adaptation of anime 'Cowboy Bebop.' They discuss the difficulties of adapting the beloved property as well as the slight tweaks to the canon they enjoyed (01:33). Later, Joanna is joined by actor John Cho to dive into his role playing the lead, Spike, and to discuss staying loyal to the fans of the original anime and even the cultural impact of Harold and Kumar (40:12). Hosts: Mallory Rubin and Joanna Robinson Guest: John Cho Producers: Steve Ahlman Social: Jomi Adeniran Additional Production: TD St. Matthew-Daniel and Arjuna Ramgopal Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Join Justin Cherity and Micapeters in Sound Only as they discuss their deepest, darkest thoughts

0:05.2

about the millennial lifestyle, rap music, video games, anime, YouTube, social media, and their

0:11.0

underlying themes. Check out Sound Only on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:30.0

They try to kill me, Anna. If you need to find me, I go by spike speed all these days.

0:53.5

Hello and welcome into The Ringer Verse. The Ringer's Nexus podcast for all things.

1:00.1

Geek and fandom. I'm Joanna Robinson. Joining me, my co-pilot, for this episode on the bebop.

1:08.5

The great Mallory Rubin. Hello Mallory. Where is our data dog?

1:14.7

We don't have a data dog on this episode, but we do a very special guest with pretty incredible

1:19.8

hair joining us for the end of the episode. It is Spike's Beagle himself. John Cho is here.

1:27.2

I'll pause for cheers.

1:31.1

Not from you, from the audience at home. I hope you guys are all woothing. I'm so excited to have

1:35.4

John Cho here. I'm a big John Cho fan. So excited to talk about Cowboy bebop, the Netflix adaptation

1:43.8

of the classic anime series. Before we get into any and all of that, I just want to throw in a

1:50.8

quick programming note. You're listening to us on Monday of a holiday week. Thanksgiving week.

1:55.9

Are we taking this week off? The rest of the week off? No, we're not. No, we're not. No.

2:01.7

If you are maybe home and you want to break from the fam, oh man, we got stuff for you.

2:08.3

Because we're about to kick off a new season of a Disney plus Marvel show. It's Hawkeye Time.

2:14.2

Hawkeye is here from data dogs to pizza dogs to chase your turkey with a little target practice

2:21.2

with the Hawkeye. So the midnight boys, Pupu, will be here on Wednesday. Things giving Eve

2:29.2

to break down their instant reactions to the first two episodes of Hawkeye, which are dropping

2:33.7

together Tuesday, midnight on Disney plus. And then Malania will be back on Friday to do our

2:41.2

thing, which is the deep dive on on Friday, House of Our Working Title. And we will be joined by

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