Episode 1
Season 1, Ep. 1: Randall Park Shorts
This is the official launch of our new podcast Saturday School, where we teach your unwilling children about Asian American pop culture history. First season will be about Asian American film comedies, and starting today, 10 episodes will be released every Saturday at 8am, which is when we were forced to go to Chinese school as kids.
There are so many cultural classics worth bringing out of the vault, but for our very first episode, we thought it was important to start with a selection of Randall Park comedy shorts circa 2006-2009. AKA rich narratives about dragons of love, cooking with cocaine, magical semen, getting kicked out of IKEA, and what happens if you wake up conjoined to your father. So clearly, you can trust us with the next generation. (No promises on whether you can trust Randall Park circa 2006-2009 with your kids though.)
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