By Albert Hur and Teen Franklin, Adam, and Teen talk about the shitshow of Iron Fist, the rapacious nature of show business, and why subject/object confusion plagues the Asian critique of Hollywood.
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TMFL Episode 69: Get Out, James Baldwin, and the Potency of Black Art
By Albert Hur and Teen Adam and Teen talk about Jordan Peele's premier film 'Get Out,' Raoul Peck's 'I Am Not Your Negro,' and the importance and explanatory power of African American arts.
TMFL Episode 68: The Ideology Of Matt Damon
By Albert Hur and Teen Adam and Teen dissect the movie The Great Wall, why it's absolutely a white savior, white male with Asian female romance of the simplest sort, and yet why it's worth watching to see this mediocre action movie. Also, long live Fast and Furious, an ideologically American film we can get…
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TMFL Episode 66: White Friends
By Albert Hur and Teen Teen describes hanging out with white friends and talking to a white woman who wonders why a friend is bordering on dating Asian exclusively.
TMFL Episode 63: 4:20 AM In The Back Of The House
By Albert Hur and Teen A baked back-of-the-house conversation about white power bot armies, shout-outs to the /r/blackpeopletwitter mods, and why human rights are dangerous tricky things. And, Al finally finds some calm.
TMFL Episode 60: Racist Love
By Albert Hur and Teen Jong, Tang, Al, and Teen debate Frank Chin and Jeffrey Paul Chan's seminal essay, "Racist Love," and its relevance in Trump's America. The essay can be found here: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~hist32/Hist33/chin%20Racist%20Love.pdf. We also plug Frank Chin's "lost novel," edited for publication by Calvin McMillin and available here: http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-9342-9780824838928.aspx. This was one of…
TMFL Episode 58: Man Enough
By Albert Hur and Teen Al, Teen, and Adam follow up on the last podcast about whether Asian Americans should serve a bridging role in the new America. Teen talks about the America he saw in Florida of private gun clubs and Bass Pro Shops. Al knocks down the concept of reconciliation and champions open…
TMFL Episode 57: All The Things To All The People
By Albert Hur and Teen Matt Goodman, a law and philosophy student at Washington University in St. Louis, joins his brother Adam to discuss the potential for Asian Americans to play a bridging role between the social chasm that has opened up across racial and class lines in the United States. Teen worries. Matt and…
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TMFL Episode 56: Motormouth
By Albert Hur and Teen Al and Teen catch up after Thanksgiving to talk about increasingly probing questions from white people, bottle service in Vegas, why Asian guys have to drop the TRP/PUA tip, and dad stories.
TMFL Episode 55 – Office Hours: Racial Identity and Psychological Well-Being
By Albert Hur and Teen Tang and Jong explain to Teen an academic study of the impact of the level of racial and ethnic identification among Asian Americans and their psychological well being. The study done was done by Derek Iwamoto and William Liu, and can be found at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2854415/
