Race therapy, but make it a podcast. Also, news and pop culture from an Asian perspective.
Join Emmy-winning correspondent Dolly Li and recovering tech worker Joey Yang for therapy on Instagram Live Monday nights at 9pm ET at @listentoplumradio. Full podcast episodes out on Wednesdays wherever you find your podcasts.
Ep. 29: Asian America Post-2020 (Final episode of season 2)
Historian and professor, Dr. Ellen Wu, the author of one of Dolly & Joey's favorite books, The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority, joins us for this last episode of season 2, first Monday post-election. We discuss how Asian America moves forward from a year of tumultuous xenophobia, rising transpacific tensions, and to build greater solidarity with the movement for Black Lives.
Dolly & Joey also discuss their thoughts on the upcoming Biden/Harris presidency and what makes us hopeful/not so hopeful.
Thanks for joining us for a whole season 2 of Plum Radio! As always, DM us on IG or write to us on anytime at hi@plumradio.com
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3 Nov 2020
Ep. 28: Election Eve Hell
Dolly and Joey spend the last day before the November 2020 election discussing our anxieties and reading a selection of responses from our beloved listeners. On your minds this week: Poll intimidation, civil war, and...Vin Diesel's new music career. Salud, mi familia.
28 Oct 2020
Ep. 27: Colonizing Animal Crossing for Comedy, ft. Jenny Yang
Comedian, actor, and writer Jenny Yang joins us this week to talk Comedy Crossing, her new standup show inside the game Animal Crossing. Jenny started Comedy Crossing after the pandemic as a way to build community in our quarantined world, but in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, Comedy Crossing became a fundraising platform that has raised over $30,000 for Black Lives Matter related causes. But as journalists, we’re obligated to ask the hard questions: is playing Animal Crossing an act of colonization?? Do we accept tiny, cute capitalism? And do Animal Crossing players (like the Biden / Harris campaign) owe reparations?
We also get into Jenny’s past life as a labor organizer, how labor organizing and comedy can both deliver a political education, and why it’s so important for Asian Americans to embrace our messy, traumatic histories so we can take care of our mental health and reject the model minority myth at the same time.
Dolly and Joey also lament the “meritocracy” of mediocre rich white people, reacting in real-time to Amy Coney Barrett’s Monday night confirmation to the Supreme Court and unpacking the Atlantic’s recent article “The Mad, Mad World of Niche Sports Among Ivy League–Obsessed Parents.”
Read “The Mad, Mad World of Niche Sports Among Ivy League–Obsessed Parents”: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/11/squash-lacrosse-niche-sports-ivy-league-admissions/616474/
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