SEASON 1, EPISODE 4!
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It is THURSDAY, MAY 15TH, 2025 and it is a gorgeous day here in San Francisco. And how am I this week? Like the TV channel MAX calling itself HBO MAX again, I’ve been…a messy bitch.
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Next week’s guests are the youths from the TODO CHIDO podcast, a fun Los Angeles-based podcast.
Bon Appetit 2021 Reckoning and Where Are We Now in Food Media?
Alicia Kennedy’s incredible Substack about food, media, culture and politics.
Jenny’s 2018 satirical video “PB&J is the New Grilled Cheese” that connected her with Soleil and many other food writers:
The death of alt weeklies and “weird” news
The politically very confounding Cybertruck in the Bay Area that sports a custom keffiyeh wrap
White South Africans accepted in America as refugees
East LA College Asian American / Ethnic Studies Professor Aki Maehara believes he was targeted in a possible hate crime (Professor Maehara’s GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/Victim-of-Hate-Attack-Aki-Maehara-Needs-Our-Help)
Medicaid funding cut for Tax Cuts for the Wealthy
Ben and Jerry’s co-founder Ben Cohen among protesters at RFK Jr. Senate hearing
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Out in the wild we have, SOLEIL HO! Soleil Ho is a writer and former restaurant critic for the San Francisco Chronicle. Subscribe to their NEW media platform COYOTE MEDIA when they launch later this week! https://www.coyotemedia.org
Our next guest is a retired garment and factory worker and mother of three. She loves filling in adult coloring books with fancy colored pencils, the bright colors of fuschia pink and red for her flowers, and I’ve known her since I was born. Please welcome MAMA YANG! She’s got nothing to promote. Just staying healthy and tasting things her daughter buys her while managing her blood sugar.
ME? I was prepping for a one-hour keynote speech about comedy and mental health for the Mental Health Association of San Francisco!
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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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