No NBA Team Picked Up Jeremy Lin Because He's Asian? (Jeremy Lin's Latest Documentary 38 at The Garden, a pair of Levi's with anti-Chinese slogan sells for $87k and best-selling book "Interior Chinatown" gets TV adaptation) | BARBERSHOP TALK

The AM Podcast - A Podcast for Asian American Men

English - November 10, 2022 00:00 - 35 minutes - 24.7 MB
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In this Barbershop Talk episode, Mike and Leo share their thoughts on Jeremy Lin's latest documentary "38 at The Garden, a pair of Levi's from the 1800s with an anti-Chinese slogan that sells for 87K, and the best-selling novel "Interior Chinatown" get TV series adaptation.

0:45 - Topic #1 - 1880's Levi's Jeans Fetches 76,000
2:45 - Leo was unaware that the jeans had a racist slogan on it
5:00 - The world was much more openly racist than they are today
7:27 - Topic #2 - Jimmy O Yang cast to star in Interior Chinatown
14:01 - Topic #3 - 38 At The Garden, New Linsanity Doc
18:00 - Lin made it a point that he didn't want the documentary to focus on him
20:36 - For the first time, we had an Asian person to refer to when you were playing basketball well
23:15 - Did the NBA deny Jeremy Lin because he's Asian?

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