Anti Anti-Asian Socialist Club

Doug and Felicia discuss post-Oscars thoughts, the current state of movies, the effects of getting the second vaccine injection, India’s rising Covid infection rate, post-pandemic life, and philosophical thoughts after a recent trip to the San Diego Zoo.  Recorded: 4/27/2021

Doug and Felicia welcome for the very first time in podcast history, special guest and friend of the podcast: Sabrina Skau, an LA-based director, editor, and ethnographer who is now also branching into political education for artists. She facilitates a program called Intro to Anticapitalism for Artists and is also forming a study and practice group called Post-Capitalist Visioning which will be an experiment in training our imagination to envision life beyond capitalism. Recorded: 4/13/21

In this episode Doug and Felicia talk post-pandemic predictions and the future of the world as things start returning to relative normalcy. Felicia frames the pandemic year with The Strokes, Doug discusses the Marvel military industrial complex, which leads to a conversation about art as political statement, the movement of quantifying content consumption through algorithmic means, the sanitization of pop culture— and topping it off— a discussion surrounding another of Felicia’s recent breakups. Recorded: 4/6/2021

Spring is in the air as Felicia discusses the experience and psychological repercussions of getting vaccinated and her hope for the future. Doug discusses having the exact opposite sentiment from the past week. Doug and Felicia discuss the idea of giving and receiving love as an Asian American, and the different experiences of dating between Asian men and Asian women in America. Recorded: 3/30/21

Doug and Felicia discuss the immediate aftermath in the week following the Atlanta shootings: personal reactions, anger, frustration, and hope for the future. On a more real level, we have to identify the problem before we can come up with a solution. Doug gives a rundown of the organizations and institutions that have normalized anti-Asian sentiment during the last pandemic year, and the role white supremacy continues to play in both right and left wing seats of governance, power, and capitalism.  Recorded: 3/23/2021

Felicia and Doug discuss the unfortunate and sadly all too familiar account of the latest instance of anti-Asian violence in Atlanta, happening concurrently with this week’s record. Doug discusses his theory on the increasing spate of anti-Asian violence in America, and Doug and Felicia talk this year’s historic number of Asian representation in Academy Award nominations. Recorded: 3/16/2021

After another week of brutal news, Doug and Felicia take a hard right and discuss MDMA, the global phenomenon of Asians at raves, breaking bad while watching Breaking Bad, and Doug’s existential break living within the four walls of NYC in the time of Covid and Anti-Asian violence. Recorded: 3/9/2021

Doug discusses moving back to NYC, raising the question of who gets to qualify anti-Asian violence as “hate crimes,” watching awards show contenders NOMADLAND and MINARI with our parents, and Felicia’s new gig. Recorded: 3/3/2021

Doug and Felicia talk UTIs and UBIs, New York protests, Jia Tolentino’s Trick Mirror (2019), Soon-Yi Previn, transracial adoption, and the problematic tendency to classify representation within a blanket Asian American umbrella term. Articles referenced in the pod: CURRENT AFFAIRS (https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/02/asian-america-and-the-politics-of-guilt?fbclid=IwAR3FkvI7kEvgfROQySspCvCXEQIF32yLD3bnR7NWytRLZXcfMgOuVWpdp1Q (https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/02/asian-america-and-the-politics-of-guilt)) TIN HOUSE (https://tinhouse.com/mothers-lock-up-your-daughters-because-they-are-terrifying/ (https://tinhouse.com/mothers-lock-up-your-daughters-because-they-are-terrifying/))  Recorded: 2/23/2021

Doug and Felicia discuss hitting even more walls with Covid, the unethical consumption of capitalism within consuming The Bling Empire, the Netflix Cecil Hotel docuseries, America’s obsession with dead Asian girls, and the hold Los Angeles has upon all of us. Recorded: 2/18/2021

Doug explains the history of contemporary anti-asian violence, which has risen to an alarming rate in the wake of Covid. Doug and Felicia discuss the role white supremacy has played in conceiving and attributing anti-Blackness to Asian American communities as a divide and conquer strategy, and the path forward after a string of escalating and violent attacks against Asians, specifically Asian elders, in American cities. Recorded: 2/11/21

Doug gets his results back from his Autism diagnostic test, Felicia discusses her journey into therapy, watching Bling Empire and House of Ho back to back, and the complicated reality of Asian American race relations and targeted violence. Recorded: 2/3/2021

Doug gives Felicia a crash course mansplain of the GameStop/Reddit/WallStreetBets controversy, the Asian Boss controversy, and anti-blackness in Asian American discourse, and Doug discusses his (potentially likely) Autism/Asperger’s diagnostic tests. Recorded: 1/27/21

Doug and Felicia discuss hitting the Covid lockdown wall, Doug rants about the inauguration of Czar Biden, the hot new app Clubhouse, Eddie Huang’s new film BOOGIE, and plans for the future. Recorded: 1/20/21

Talking Trump-peachment, canceling the President, the effects of the Information Revolution 20 years on, and a society built on social media. Recorded: 1/13/21

Doug and Felicia discuss Mahjong-Gate madness, the storming of the Capitol, binary cancelation, the inextricable connection between capitalism and racism, conspiracy theory, liberalism, the deepening of the country’s direction into authoritarianism, and lastly 2021 New Year Resolutions.  Recorded: 1/6/2021

Doug and Felicia discuss their anti-capitalist Christmases, Doug’s morality and puritanical values within poker playing, the makings of a billionaire, Simu Liu’s controversial movie attachment, and a recent re-watch of 2004’s seminal stoner representation comedy, Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle. Recorded: 12/26/2020

As Hollywood faces its annual end of year shut down discuss post-project blues, the FKA Twigs/Shia Labeouf story, cycles of abuse, and relationships/emotions coming under the pressure cooker of a pandemic. Recorded: 12/16/2020

Asians in America have been designated as "honorary whites" by mainstream media, especially by liberal media. But the reality is that Asians are only allowed to go so far in American society, while white liberal media misrepresents how we were able to succeed in the first place. Doug and Felicia discuss the self-consuming nature of capitalism, a recent racial incident at work masking itself as social justice, and the origins of why we think the way we do. Recorded: 12/9/2020

After gathering our podcast footing on this second outing, we introduce what the podcast is really about: Asian American identity in the context of Asian and American history, Marxist-Leninist exploration of socialist ideas and our experiences in the entertainment industry. Doug and Felicia rate each other’s hotness, discuss getting into leftist clout-chasing, immunity to cancelation, Asian reliance on the Hollywood gatekeeping studio system, and political post-woke awakenings. Recorded: 12/2/20

First episode of the pod! As America collectively process the insanity that was 2020, Felicia and Doug started weekly chats in an attempt to collect what was left of their remaining sanity. Felicia discusses her newest pandemic dating experience, the origin of egomaniacal tendencies, growing up emo, identification with The Great Gatsby, virtue-signaling, anti-intellectualism, and working within and without the Hollywood studio system. Recorded: 11/25/2020