Latest Asiansociety Podcast Episodes
That's All Folks!
Feeling Asian - November 16, 2022 05:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 906 ratingsCannot thank you enough for all of your support! Follow us on our socials @itsbrianpark and @ymmayer! Don't be a stranger and come see us perform at a live show.
Major Feelings (feat. Cathy Park Hong, Poet)
Feeling Asian - November 09, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 906 ratingsIt’s the penultimate episode, ahh! There’s no better guest to go through all the feelings that come from it than poet, writer, and author of the widely acclaimed book Minor Feelings, Cathy Park Hong! We talk to her about life after writing the most essential book of our generation on Asian Ameri...
Looking Back
Feeling Asian - November 02, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 906 ratingsTake a trip down memory lane with us. We look back on our first episode of this podcast and reflect on how far we've come :') Follow us at @itsbrianpark, @ymmayer and @feelingasianpodcast. Thank you!
They Want Our Money, But Not Us (Vanessa Hong, Influencer)
Feeling Asian - October 26, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 906 ratingsHaute Pod Episode! We have fashion influencer and creative director Vanessa Hong on this week to tell it like it is about the world of fashion. We unpack "influencer" and what it really means today; how the fashion industry responds to a new generation of eco-friendly, socially conscious consume...
An Important Announcement
Feeling Asian - October 19, 2022 04:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 906 ratingsHi everyone, it's a solo episode because we have an important announcement. Please listen!
Bend It Like Jeremy Lin (feat. Frank Chi, 38 at The Garden)
Feeling Asian - October 12, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 906 ratingsWe know…it’s about time we did a sports episode!! This week we are honored to have director Frank Chi on the pod to discuss his latest documentary, 38 at the Garden, out now on HBO! We talk about the new film, Linsanity, and the impact of Jeremy Lin’s history-making NBA run on us and New York. W...
Trying To Be Badasses For No Reason (feat. Kim Chi, Drag Queen)
Feeling Asian - October 05, 2022 04:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 906 ratingsYou’ll be absolutely gagged to hear that Kim Chi is our special guest this week! You may know her from her incredible run on RuPaul’s Drag Race or her beauty line, but her story behind the performance is so intricate, relatable, and delightful. We talk to Kim Chi about her experience on the show...
Receiving As An Act Of Service
Feeling Asian - September 28, 2022 04:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 906 ratingsThis week we discuss our shifting roles as creatives and how we're adapting our inner and outer selves to the subsequent public perception. All that to say, we're leaning in and hope you'll join us! Also we dive deep into our childhood crushes. Have fun listening to this one, and be sure to fol...
Corner Office Scam (feat. Delia Cai, Vanity Fair)
Feeling Asian - September 21, 2022 04:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 906 ratingsDid you know there’s such a thing as the Internet whisperer? We have her on the pod this week! Delia Cai is a senior correspondent at Vanity Fair, covering culture and celebrity with a knack for understanding Gen Z trends. We talk to her about NYFW, corporate try-hards, and her forthcoming novel...
Metaphor Alert (feat. Frankie Gaw, Food Blogger)
Feeling Asian - September 15, 2022 06:04 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 906 ratingsWe hope you’re hungry for this week’s episode! Frankie Gaw is a Taiwanese American cook, writer, and designer whose debut book First Generation comes out in a month! If you don’t know his work yet, please go drool over his food photography at @littlefatboyfrankie before diving into this convo! W...
Asian-American Studies 201 (feat. Dr. Russell Jeung and Anuradha Vikram)
Feeling Asian - September 07, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 906 ratingsFeeling Asian goes back to school this week with Dr. Russell Jeung (Professor at San Francisco State University, Founder of Stop AAPI Hate) and Anuradha Vikram (Curator and Faculty at UCLA, Co-Founder of Stop DiscriminAsian)! We asked each of our guests to come into the episode with an event or ...
Make Scarlett Johansson Asian Again
Feeling Asian - August 31, 2022 04:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 906 ratingsWe're back this week Feeling Asian classique style aka just us two! We've had a string of amazing guests and felt it was time to check-in with each other. Give it a listen and leave us a review. And as always, we appreciate your support via Patreon: patreon.com/feelingasian
Who Gets Fed (feat. Andrew Thomas Huang, Film Director)
Feeling Asian - August 24, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 906 ratingsAndrew Thomas Huang is a visual artist and film director known for his music videos for FKA twigs, Björk, Atoms for Peace, and more. We loooove his video for FKA twigs’ “Cellophane,” which resurfaced last year amid the hype over Lil Nas X’s video for “MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name),” much of whi...
Cities Are For Fools (feat. Bohan Phoenix, Musical Artist)
Feeling Asian - August 17, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 906 ratingsA guest so nice, we bring ‘em on twice! Bohan Phoenix is back on the pod with us this week in the afterglow of his debut album release! The last time we spoke was in the thick of COVID-19 (weird vibes!); this time around we talk about feeling more uncertain than ever about your career after drop...
Ducks In A Pond (feat. Kulap Vilaysack, Add to Cart Pod)
Feeling Asian - August 10, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 906 ratingsThis week we have an OG in the podcasting world! Kulay Vilaysack is a comedian, writer, director, show runner, former co-host of the Who Charted? podcast and most recently a co-host of Add To Cart podcast! We talk to her about what our consumption patterns reveal about our psyches, letting thing...
Renaissance Woman (feat. JY Choi, Sex Educator)
Feeling Asian - August 03, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 906 ratings(TW: SA) This week we talk to JY Choi, a sex educator and sex toy shop owner based in Korea (insert audible gasps here). In a country that is still working hard to bring sex positivity and sexual wellness into the mainstream, Choi is a pioneer in her field. We talk to her about working as a free...
More Than Just Pressing Play (feat. Jai Wolf, DJ)
Feeling Asian - July 27, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 906 ratingsThis episode belongs on the summer festival main stage: we have electronic music producer and artist Sajeeb Saha aka Jai Wolf with us this week! We talk about EDM (you know, the genre that everyone has an opinion about) and all of the misconceptions and changes that it has endured over the last ...
Not Just Sneakers (feat. Jeff Staple, Creative Director)
Feeling Asian - July 20, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 906 ratingsFrom sneaking into Parsons’ silk screen lab to making sneaker history: we have hometown legend Jeff Staple in the house today! You may know this creative visionary for his DIY roots and shaking up streetwear with his Nike Dunk Low SB collab “NYC Pigeon.” We talk to Jeff about his come up in stre...
We Are Nothing More Than A Grain Of Sand (feat. Kaitlin Chan, Cartoonist)
Feeling Asian - July 13, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 906 ratingsLook out, Feeling Asian has gone international (from our bedrooms)! Our guest this week is cartoonist and cultural worker Kaitlin Chan, whose work has appeared on The New Yorker, Popular, and The Margins! We talk to her about living in Hong Kong, creating cartoons about your feelings, the idea t...
Cartoon Parties (feat. Elizabeth Ito, City of Ghosts)
Feeling Asian - July 06, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 906 ratingsElizabeth Ito is a director, writer, storyboard artist, and recent Peabody Award recipient for her show City of Ghosts! We discussed what the writers rooms look like for our favorite animated series (like Adventure Time!), having your own award-winning Netflix show (but also not having it renewe...
We're All In Drag (feat. ALOK, Artist)
Feeling Asian - June 29, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 906 ratingsALOK is a comedian, poet, author, and this week’s amazing guest who many of you have asked us to have on the show! We talk to them about using comedy as an instrument for social good, embracing our sense of play as adults, and the hypocrisy of gender constructs in society. Thank you Alok for the...
Tired Of Waiting (feat. Yumi Nu, Model)
Feeling Asian - June 22, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 906 ratingsYumi Nu is a model and singer-songwriter who recently graced the cover of Sports Illustrated’s Swimsuit Issue, becoming the first plus-size model of Asian descent to do so!! Our hearts swell when we think about all the self-love and kindness she shows herself. We talk to Yumi about what helped h...
Duality (feat. Luna Li, Musical Artist)
Feeling Asian - June 15, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 906 ratingsLuna Li is a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer…basically there’s nothing she can’t do!! Based in Toronto, the artist first took off at the height of the pandemic with her at-home jam sessions which led to her blissful debut album Duality. We talk to her about coming up as an ou...
You Are What You Read (Lucy Yu, Yu and Me Books)
Feeling Asian - June 08, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 906 ratingsWe are so honored to have Lucy Yu of Yu and Me Books on the pod this week! Yu and Me Books is the first female Asian American owned bookstore in NYC and we were so eager to have the founder on after Youngmi heard her speak at an event last month. Tune in to learn about how Lucy, a lifelong caree...
Punching Up (feat. Zoe Si, Cartoonist)
Feeling Asian - June 01, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 906 ratingsZoe Si is a Pulitzer Prize-nominated cartoonist, illustrator, and a firm believer that when words fail, a cartoon can succeed. Too often, her comics and autobiographical doodles make us go “wow I feel seen.” Zoe and we talk about the craziness of being named a Pulitzer Prize finalist for your ca...
Let The Universe Take You There (feat. Sheena Melwani, Content Creator)
Feeling Asian - May 25, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 906 ratingsSheena Melwani is a content creator with the most infectious laugh known to TikTok. You may know her from her wholesome videos with her family, who love to put the biggest smile on her face (goals). We talk about letting the universe guide you and following its signs, and how it is never too lat...
I Was Here The Whole Time (feat. Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All at Once)
Feeling Asian - May 18, 2022 04:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 906 ratingsKe Huy Quan is an actor who most recently played leading man Waymond in Everything Everywhere All At Once. We consider this his celebratory return to the big screen given our earliest memories at the movies are of watching him in The Goonies and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom! We talked ab...
Funny, Awesome And Weird And Sad (feat. Stephanie Hsu, Everything Everywhere All at Once)
Feeling Asian - May 11, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 906 ratingsStephanie Hsu plays Joy/Jobu Tupaki in Everything Everywhere All At Once. With a breakthrough performance where she stars opposite Michelle Yeoh and Jonathan Ke Huy Kuan, the actress joins us to talk about the rock scene (*sniffles*), being kind and sweet in a cutthroat industry (*whimpers*), an...
Moms (feat. Ippun Mayer and Jessica Park)
Feeling Asian - May 04, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 906 ratingsPhew. It was only a matter of time until we did this episode, and we’re pretty sure you are excited for this one as well. To celebrate Mother’s Day, we invite Youngmi’s umma Ippun and Brian’s noona Jessica to the pod and quickly learn that we are fated to become our mothers!! We also unpack some...
Ghost Out Of The Shell (feat. Alex Sujong Laughlin, Normal Gossip)
Feeling Asian - April 27, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 906 ratingsAlex Sujong Laughlin is a writer and audio producer who has created podcasts for the New York Times, Buzzfeed, and The Washington Post. You might know her recent work on Normal Gossip (a must-listen for nosy lovers of banal gossip)! We talk about biases in newsrooms, knowing your worth, and ghos...
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