MY FIRST OFFICIAL PODCAST EPISODE IS THIS ONE! AHHHHH!
SEASON 1, EPISODE 1!!!! And it’s a BIG SINNERS MOVIE EPISODE!
This shorter 53-minute PREVIEW for my FREE SUBSCRIBERS! This free version is available on all podcast platforms AND on YouTube! But I will always save the FULL, extended cut only for Paid Subscribers here on Substack.
Producing note: Ugh. I was so busy that day I barely had time to do my hair and makeup AND left the curtain open behind me during the shoot! Like you can SEE MY LIVING ROOM hahahahahah. Does it even matter to you?
It is THURSDAY, April 24th, 2025 on another weirdly chilly day here in Los Angeles, and like a Freaky Friday Michael B Jordan in Sinners, I AM BESIDES MYSELF.
This is What Should We Talk About? With Jenny Yang, your weekly catchup time with smart and funny people who give a fck - probably too many fcks. We discuss topics submitted by our guests and you, the listener. Any topic! Current, old! Big, small! Nerdy, petty! Join in on the chat and suggest your burning topics. Leave a voicemail or text at my number: +1-323-250-3589.
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On today’s agenda we have:
PODCAST UPDATES
Sinners! (SPOILERS AHEAD)
Can we get a hot pope?
Lack of Critical Thinking
The Studio on Apple TV
$5000 for women to have babies 🙄
ACTION ITEMS
SHOW ME SOME LOVE
In the studio we have DOLLY LI! Documentary filmmaker & journalist. Now we can add cultural consultant on Sinners to that list! Host & producer of "Untold Story of the Mississippi Delta Chinese" on AJ+ (inspo for Sinners Chinese characters), Director of "Ghosts of Chinatown" on Hulu, Brooklyn native in LA; lived in Texas, Hong Kong, Oakland.
We also have BLAKELY THORNTON! (TikTok) Pop Culture Anthropologist and Podcast Host, Yestergayswith Justin Sylvester debuting May 27th with Podcast One. They’ll be discussing the queer pop culture moments that happened PRE-internet! There’s not even a website to link yet!
AGENDA TOPICS + TIMESTAMPS
PODCAST UPDATES (4:36)
This is the first episode of the widely release HARD LAUNCHED PODCAST! Finally! After some tinkering and behind-the-scenes production workflow planning here we are! YOUR WEEKLY COMEDY HANG WITH FUN AND SMART FRIENDS!
Next week’s guests will be Drag Race icon KIMCHI and pop culture expert H. Alan Scott (Newsweek’s Pop Culture Maven)! Let us know what we should talk about but FOR SURE we will be discussing our mutual love of Costco. (continued below…)
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Jenny Yang is a standup comedian, actor, and tv writer who was named one of Variety's Top Ten Comics to Watch and has been featured at Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal, the San Francisco Sketch Festival, and Netflix is a Joke Festival.
Jenny is a former labor organizer who was born in Taiwan and raised in Los Angeles, and stars opposite Michelle Yeoh as an assassin in the Netflix action comedy-drama series, The Brothers Sun.
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