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Yo, Is This Racist?

Sub-Optimal Presents: Big Trouble in Little China (with Jessica Gao)

Yo, Is This Racist?

Andrew Ti, Tawny Newsome

Comedy

4.42.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Enjoy this un-paywalled Sub-Optimal episode about Big Trouble in Little China (with Jessica Gao)!

Tawny and Andrew answer Enemy of the Show Jessica Gao's question: is Big Trouble in Little China racist? They discuss the pros and cons of this 1986 John Carpenter movie before Judge Tawny makes her verdict!

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0:00.0

What's up everyone?

0:01.2

To Andrew obviously, I guess we're bringing you another episode from the suboptimal vaults.

0:07.5

This is something that we talked about recently in the suboptimal bundle and it occurred to us that

0:13.1

this is I guess this is a thing that technically is a yozus racist thing. So we're going to take you

0:21.8

to judge Tony's courtroom with a deep, of course, enemy of the show Jessica Gow as we talk about

0:30.9

big trouble in little China. And just to tease the suboptists for later on, we are figuring out

0:38.6

scheduling, but we will be doing a watch along of the same movie with Jessica and hopefully

0:45.4

another special guest. We're trying to try to lock this down. Look, we don't know yet. We're on strike

0:50.8

thanks for listening. We'll be back with a studio episode next week 3 2 3 3 3 9 7 2 2 3 to leave

0:59.0

your voicemail questions. And yes, peace.

1:08.9

So we don't even know what kind of theme music you're listening to right now,

1:13.5

but this is at the behest of Jessica Gow who is returning off schedule. I believe we typically

1:24.1

would like to build it at least another year or two between Jessica Gow appearances.

1:28.4

Three to five years three to five years and please use my proper title enemy of the podcast.

1:33.6

Whichever one this is. You don't even know which part it is and you're already an enemy of it.

1:39.6

But I know for sure I'm an enemy. You're you're not an enemy of the podcast. You're an enemy of

1:45.6

podcasting. Both can be true. Andrew. I'm an enemy of all of it. The broad and the specific. Yeah.

1:52.2

And I am an enemy plus of this show. An enemy plus.

1:57.8

Enemy Max. Jessica Gow had a request for a bespoke. Yo is this racist question that again,

2:08.9

as we record this, it's genuinely not super clear exactly where this is going to go. Yes.

2:13.3

No, all we know is that we were ordered to be here by the emperor and now we're here and we're

2:19.8

we're here to dance for you. There's basically like every person who comes up to us and is like,

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