Podcasts about Chinatown

There were anxious whispers behind the scenes ahead of the Bake Club July recipe reveal. Concerns floated around that it might have been a bit too esoteric. Sweet corn in a cake? And not just any cake but a delightfully bouncy butter mochi made with sweet rice flour. Senior Test Kitchen editors Shilpa Uskokovic and Jesse Szweczyk were bracing for the reactions in the comments section when Shilpa's Sweet Corn Butter Mochi With Coconut Crunch recipe finally dropped. “We were not slightly worried. I was like, "This is gonna flop." This is it for us,” recalls Jesse on the BA Bake Club Podcast. But, the Bake Club community once again proved themselves to be the confident, curious bakers we know and love. The cake is a hit! “I hope you guys know how much it means to us,” says Shilpa. “I'm very touched every month when you guys bake our recipes, and we see you in the Substack chat and you post these pictures. So, this is very heartwarming for me.” The love fest continues as we award Baker of the Month to one bake clubber who dared to pair his Sweet Corn Butter Mochi with dinner, not dessert.  Plus, we (virtually) jetted off to Hawaii to catch up with Katherine Yang, who ran the incredibly successful by-order cake bakery, Gigi Blue, and is currently executive pastry chef at Mille Fête in Honolulu's Chinatown. To learn about the dessert scene in Hawaii and pick up a few tips for the perfect butter mochi cake, give the episode a listen.  You can find Katherine Yang on social media at GigiBlueNYC and millefete. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The new documentary short “YU & ME” follows Lucy Yu, the owner of Yu & Me Books, as she rebuilds her Chinatown bookstore with the help of her community following a fire. Yu and filmmaker Esther Chan discuss the short, which makes its New York premiere at the Asian American International Film Festival this Friday. Photo by user Horizon206 (CC BY-SA 3.0) Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Sideya Sherman, director of the Department of City Planning and chair of the City Planning Commission, talks about the department's new report on the demographic makeup of New York City's immigrants, which found that China has caught up to the Dominican Republic as the two leading places where immigrants to the city come from. Photo: NEW YORK, NY - JULY 23: Tom Ellis films on set for the TV show "CIA" in the Chinatown neighborhood of Queens on July 23, 2026 in New York City. (Photo by Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images) Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Jeff and Phil welcome Alice Chu, President of the legendary Great Star Theater in San Francisco's Chinatown -- the oldest Chinese theater in North America -- and David Chiu, City Attorney of San Francisco, to talk about the rich history, legacy and future of the Great Star and Chinatown at large. They talk about the mission to preserve and revitalize the century-old performing arts venue to serve the community; the continuing resilience of Chinatown businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond; and the Great Star's interesting connection to this podcast's namesake, Bruce Lee. Also: The Good, The Bad, and The WTF of San Francisco Chinatown's historic legacy.

Another mind bending podcast. Just prior to going on the air, I happened upon a quote from John McCain's daughter that I thought was silly, hostile - misplaced anger. But as sometimes happens in my world, my reaction included feeling as if John McCain wanted to respond to my reaction - and I actually said "I don't want to talk about this." Which is pretty funny.  (And perhaps happens more than we know with folks stopping by?)   But Luana brought him in - Jennifer mentioned his named, literally minutes after I had this conversation (albeit a brief one.)  I couldn't make it up if I tried. He brought #AmeliaEarhart with him. For fans of the podcast they know she's a frequent visitor - and the book SHE WAS NEVER LOST: The Amelia Earhart Saga is filled with data, research and conversations we've had since I first met Jennifer (12 years ago.) Her story hasn't changed. The research hasn't changed.  Read the book, don't read the book - it's not an argument. Amelia's plane was found on June 18, 1944.  See this podcast (or search for "Electra" "Hacking the Afterlife" for some clips).  https://youtu.be/Idh35NFrZwc?si=9MKG2obiVuP0IIdY Then it gets interesting. My old boss, Oscar winning writer Robert Towne shows up with his dog Hira talking about the #ChristopherNolan film #TheOdyssey - I have seen it twice, I do recommend it, and we've heard before that our loved ones on the flipside can watch a movie alongside of us - (and their tickets are free!) So Robert talks about HIS FAVORITE SCENE IN THE MOVIE which Jennifer Shaffer has not seen. Let me say it again. Jennifer gives a review of The Odyssey from Robert Towne, Oscar winning writer of Chinatown, for a film SHE HAS NEVER SEEN and she talks specifically about the scene with the dog, and the scene when the son recognizes his father. For those who've seen the movie - they know what this refers to. For those who've read the book - they know what this refers to. For those who haven't seen the movie - when they see this scene they will know what Robert is referring to. Everyone is available. Life goes on. They're not gone; they're just not here. Something to wake up to the facts of. Happy to share the footage, data, research that shows consciousness continues, that we can access them, as demonstrated in my 14 books, including FLIPSIDE, ARCHITECTURE OF THE AFTERLIFE, DIVINE COUNCILS IN THE AFTERLIFE, the lates AI AND THE FLIPSIDE... and the documentaries on Amazon Prime or Gaia FLIPSIDE, TALKING TO BILL PAXTON and HACKING THE AFTERLIFE. Enjoy another mind bending podcast. Please subscribe, like, share!!!  (Not with Christopher Nolan, he doesn't own a smart phone.) But his pals do.

After more than three decades, San Francisco prosecutors have charged Ricky Dawson in the 1992 rape and strangulation of Nancy Hernandez, a 45-year-old woman found dead in a Chinatown alley. Dawson, already serving life for a 1996 Denver murder and previously convicted in a Florida killing, has now been linked by DNA to at least four deaths spanning California, Colorado, Florida, and possibly Washington. This episode examines how cold-case DNA technology connected the crimes, the pattern investigators see across state lines, and what the charges mean for a case that sat unsolved for 34 years.

A beloved dim sum restaurant in Seattle's Chinatown-International District is scaling back to weekend-only service after ten years — and owner Vince Zhao isn't mincing words: crime drove this. His restaurant sits blocks from 12th and South Jackson, the city's most notorious open-air drug corridor. Seattle scrubbed its downtown for the FIFA World Cup but never touched the International District, and the businesses that stayed through all of it are now paying the price.Sean walks through what Zhao documented firsthand: drug dealing in front of the restaurant while he was out with his son during the World Cup, a homeless complex nearby feeding the street market, and a neighborhood the city has quietly decided can absorb whatever gets pushed out of everywhere else. The contrast with Bellevue — where Sean works commercial appraisal and restaurants are thriving — is impossible to ignore.The pattern Sean keeps returning to: if this were happening in any other ethnic neighborhood, there would be outrage. Instead, Seattle's Chinatown gets a racism framing from city hall instead of a law enforcement response. Katie Wilson and the city council are passing the hot potato while a ten-year institution winds down and China Harbor sits empty up the street.CHAPTERS0:00 Popular dim sum spot in Chinatown…1:23 Chinatown Restaurant Curtails Hours…2:21 Crime at 12th and Jackson Closes…2:53 International District Crime Drives…4:13 Open-Air Drug Market Ruins Chinatown…5:16 Owner Vince Zhao Cuts Weekday…7:23 Filming Drug Dealing During the World…8:10 Crime Killed This Restaurant, Not the…9:05 Daniel Lurie Cleans Up San Francisco…10:05 Seattle Made Chinatown Its Crime…11:10 Empty Dining Rooms Force Weekday…13:17 Bellevue Restaurants Booming While…14:27 Katie Wilson Faces Seattle's Law…16:11 City Fines Businesses While Chinatown…18:36 Seattle's Neglect of Chinatown Is RacismSubscribe to @reasonablenews for daily Pacific Northwest coverage the local media won't touch — hit the notification bell so you don't miss an episode.#NFRP #SeattleChinatown #InternationalDistrictGO PREMIUM WITH REASONABLE+ FOR UNCENSORED ACCESS

Seattle's downtown is emptying out — and the bill is landing on homeowners. Office vacancy in the city has hit crisis levels, and as commercial property values crater, the tax base quietly shifts onto residential owners already stretched thin. It's a textbook doom loop: businesses leave, assessments fall, and the people who stayed get to pay more.Katie Wilson and the progressive coalition running Seattle have no credible answer. Their policy response has been more regulation, more spending, and more rhetoric about equity — none of which fills empty office towers or halts the death spiral of a city that can't get out of its own way. The tax shift is the inevitable consequence of chasing out the businesses that were supposed to fund it all.Sean breaks down the vacancy numbers, the political deflection, and what this means for homeowners trying to hold on in a city that keeps making it harder to stay.CHAPTERS0:00 Seattle office vacancy crisis shifts…1:30 Seattle Office Vacancy Shifts Tax Burden2:19 Seattle's Payroll Tax Shed 30,000 Jobs3:46 Half of Downtown Seattle Now Vacant5:22 Seattle Eyes Capital Gains Tax Hike6:51 John Scholes on Seattle's Tax Problem8:25 What Seattle Must Do to Recover9:18 Bellevue Up 7% While Seattle Plummets10:43 Oklahoma City Plans America's Tallest…11:57 Amazon and Starbucks Leaving Seattle13:31 Mayor Wilson's Policies Drive…15:55 Empty Offices Push Seattle Rent Higher19:22 Oklahoma City's Affordable American…22:26 Crime Overruns Seattle's Chinatown…25:35 Defund Police and the Rent ReckoningSubscribe to @reasonablenews for daily conservative and libertarian news commentary from the Pacific Northwest. New episodes every weekday.#NFRP #Seattle #KatieWilsonGO PREMIUM WITH REASONABLE+ FOR UNCENSORED ACCESS

In May 1992, the body of unhoused 45-year-old Nancy Hernandez was found beaten, sexually assaulted, and strangled in a utility corridor off Hang Ah Alley in San Francisco's Chinatown. More than three decades later, DNA evidence linked the crime to Ricky Dawson, a man already convicted or connected to similar sexual-assault murders in Florida, Colorado, and Washington. This episode examines the Hernandez case, the pattern of violence that stretched across four states, and how modern forensic work finally brought charges in the California cold case.

Informele handel in Namibië kan binnekort meer georganiseerd raak namate gemeenskapsaktiviste voorberei om die Street Vendors & Micro-Importers Association of Namibia te stig. Die stap volg op Stad Windhoek se besluit om planne om verkopers uit China Town te verwyder, om te keer. Terwyl handelaars vir eers daar kan werk, sê die munisipaliteit dat verkope langs besige paaie en kruisings 'n veiligheidsrisiko bly. Gemeenskapsaktivis Michael Amushelelo sê aan Kosmos 94.1 Nuus dat die vereniging informele handelaars 'n sterker stem sal gee in toekomstige onderhandelinge met owerhede.

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New York City is a food mecca, and the neighborhood of Flushing in Queens has become a hot spot for Asian cuisine. With the largest concentration of Chinese-born people in America, Flushing is home to hundreds of authentic and delicious Asian restaurants.This quick guide will cover:Where Flushing is located & how to get thereInteresting history in FlushingOur favorite restaurants in Flushing, QueensFlushing is a neighborhood in the borough of Queens and is most easily accessible via the furthest stop on the 7 train.Flushing's DemographicsToday, there are over 70,000 Chinese residents in Flushing, of whom more than 30,000 were born in China. New York City has the largest population of Chinese people outside of China, and Flushing is seen as the epicenter of NYC's Chinese culture.Flushing has the highest population of Chinese-born people outside of China in the entire world, and roughly 70% of Flushing's population is Asian.History & Museums in FlushingWhile we most often go to Flushing for the food experience, there are some unique historical homes and museums in the neighborhood.Lewis Latimer House MuseumLewis Latimer was an African American inventor who made improvements to the lightbulb, air conditioner, bathrooms on trains, and many other inventions and patents. His historical home has been turned into a museum, free for self-guided visits or guided tours for $15 (as of July 2026).Bowne MuseumBowne House is a family's historical home built in 1661 in Flushing. The Bowne family fought for religious freedom in early America, abolition, and participated in the Underground Railroad.The museum offers tours for $10 (as of July 2026).The Flushing Queens Food Scene, Top PicksBeyond the area's history lies a bustling food scene with hundreds of options covering numerous Asian cuisines. Many restaurants on our favorites list are cash only, so plan accordingly.While there are hundreds of food options, here are some of our favorite restaurants in Flushing:Nan Xian Soup DumplingsWhite Bear Peking Duck Sandwich StallHappy Lamb Hot Pot Xing Fu TangChung MooNew World MallYou can find all of these, with notes, in our handy Ramen, Sushi & Asian Food Google Maps list. Access this and dozens more curated lists for loads of cuisines and locations in NYC when you sign up for our newsletter.You'll Have to Check It Out - MalaparteHigh-quality dishes in a no-frills, non-pretentious setting in the West Village• Large selection of outdoor seating• Watermelon salad, great bread with high-quality olive oil, cappellacci were all deliciousCheck out Malaparte in the West Village.

This week on Friendless, I'm joined by two guests I've been genuinely honored to sit down with: Elder Larry Grant, Elder in Residence at the Justice Institute of BC and UBC's First Nations House of Learning, and an elder of both the Musqueam Indian Band and Vancouver's Chinese community — and his co-author Scott Steedman, writer, editor, and publishing professor at SFU. Together they wrote Reconciling, a book that maps Elder Larry's life not chronologically but geographically — Chinatown, Strathcona, Musqueam, the Fraser Valley — letting each place pull its own stories loose.We talk about growing up caught between two identities that were both, in different ways, denied to him. We talk about the specific, everyday mechanics of exclusion — the signs, the double standards, the small cruelties that build until they explode from somewhere inside you. We talk about his years of drinking and the two-beers-that-were-never-two-beers, and how getting sober became inseparable from learning to love and respect himself. And we talk about what reconciliation actually asks of a country that would rather it stayed on paper than stood as a monument you can't walk past.Reconciling is out now — grab a copy at Book Warehouse.Learn more about the Musqueam Indian Band• Email: friendlesspod@gmail.com• Substack: https://friendless.substack.com/• Instagram: @friendlesspod• TikTok: @friendlesspodCreate your podcast today! #madeonzencastr

We disappeared for a while, and when we finally hit record again we knew we had to come back with something that actually means something. This drop is that lost conversation we filmed with BC, a true Southeast skateboarding original with stories that stretch from Louisiana flatground to Pensacola indoor parks to the Jacksonville scene and Kona Skatepark energy.BC breaks down the early days in a place where you had to push forever, then the moment everything changes when you see an ollie and can't stop chasing it. We get into classic parking lot skate demos, building ramps way too big when you're way too young, and why the best skate sessions feel like you stepped out of real life for a minute. He also gives his own definition of “Search For Animal Chin” that hits harder than any trivia: it's the feeling of being fully locked in with your friends and your board, and spending the rest of your life trying to find that feeling again.From there we bounce through skate travel and skate history, including San Francisco routes, Chinatown, and skating the China Banks, plus the behind-the-scenes reality of keeping scenes alive before social media. BC talks SCU TV and South Coast Uprising, trading tapes, highlighting skaters with real stoke, and the way skateboarding can hand you friendships, work, purpose, and even your family. There are also some wild stunt stories, tour miles, and a few throwback gifts that'll make any skater nostalgic.If you care about skateboarding culture, DIY skateparks, Florida skate history, Gulf Coast scenes, and what keeps older skaters rolling, hit play. Subscribe, share this with a skate friend, and leave us a review with the most “Animal Chin” moment you've ever had.

Any time Trump or one of his supporters brings up the 2020 election, insisting he didn't lose it, we hear the usual chorus of groans: why can't he get over it? He lost. Move on. The thing is, I can't get over it either. 2020 was the year everything changed. My entire world was turned upside down because I could see, for the first time, that I was in a bubble, a feedback loop that had shaped my perception of reality. It's just that it wasn't actual reality. It was a curated, hysteria-inducing delusion. It wasn't just me. Go on YouTube, and you'll find hundreds, if not thousands, of people whose lives were fundamentally transformed that year in one way or another. COVID made them quit their job and move into a van. COVID made them decide to divorce. COVID made them learn how to bake sourdough. And a lot of us were red-pilled. It was as though someone pressed the pause button and all of us froze in place for a time. Like in the movie Weapons where the kids suddenly wake up one day…Isolated and shut in, we all turned to social media and the internet, which meant more people were connected than ever before at a time when there were more people alive than ever before. We've never really fully processed what happened to all of us that year.It was the year we stopped trusting the science, the schools, Hollywood, the legacy media, and the government. Children were locked down and staring at their screens, with many of the lost boys finding their way into the dark corners of the internet and would emerge years later fumbling their way toward a rifle and a rooftop.That isn't all of it, or even half of it. None of us would emerge from that year unscathed. We can't talk about it as a country or a people because we are still so divided. The big things divide us, like the vaccine, the masks, the lockdowns, and most especially, the 2020 election.We were stepping into something we did not understand and weren't prepared for. Things have changed enough now that it will be hard to remember just how bad things got after Trump won in 2016. I remember because I was on the inside. I lived it with the Democrats and what would become a Doomsday Cult.We called ourselves “the resistance” even though we had all of the power. Trump and MAGA, they were the real resistance, or at least the revolutionaries going up against the most powerful machine in American history, maybe ever.All I knew was that I had to fight for my side. I woke up every day like a good soldier for the cause and went to battle online, wasting precious time with my daughter, or doing anything else except sitting and staring at a screen and fighting with people I didn't even know over issues that didn't matter with arguments that had no end and went nowhere.Inside the Doomsday Cult, we were awash with mass hysteria because every single day, every time Trump tweeted, the legacy media sent out more waves of hysteria that pulsed through the hive mind and kept reinfecting anyone who scrolled Twitter or Facebook. It was a new emergency every day. We were stuck in an unending state of trauma.The legacy media desperately wants to forget what happened, how they lied and gaslit the public. The consequences for these moral crimes have been minimal. A slap on the wrist for ignoring Joe Biden's cognitive decline, but there has never been a reckoning for what they did to all of us, people who trusted them, in 2020.What Happened to MeMy daughter had to leave her senior year at college to have her graduation on my balcony, but we did it because we were doing our part to help save the country during this once-in-a-generation pandemic.Mobilizing for the cause meant sewing our own masks, displaying them proudly on Instagram. It meant mixing our own hand sanitizer because it was all out at the drug store. Some people were wearing face shields. We were living in fear. We were cowed into silence. Half the country fell into Mass Formation Psychosis. We weren't allowed to attend weddings, churches, or schools, but somehow on Memorial Day, the George Floyd protests became the most important thing in America for months.Systemic racism, they told us, was more urgent than COVID. Really? Bringing the whole country — the whole world — to its knees was less serious than George Floyd dying at the hands of a police officer in Minneapolis? Yes. That's what they were telling us, and everyone was mandated to go along with everything that came next.These were our idols, we were told. It was the new state religion, even if Trump was still the president. This is the ideology we're allowed to gather for. This is worth tear ing down statues, burning buildings, carving out “autonomous zones” and demanding everyone put a black square on Instagram, capitalize the word Black and raise their fists to Black Lives Matter. The madness unfolding on the streets meant Democrats could actually lose in November, I believed. So why wasn't anyone trying to stop them? Why were the Democrats encouraging them? I started wondering what the hell was going on. It felt like unseen hands were manipulating events behind the scenes, and we were all expected to just go along with it.As I began to speak out and ask questions, I was turned into an enemy. “You've changed,” wrote Neera Tanden on Twitter. She was right. I had. By the time Twitter pressured the New York Times to back off their Tom Cotton essay, Send in the Troops, I was done. Maybe I was naive. I didn't understand the assignment. I'd seen too many Frank Capra movies. I'd begun to believe politics was like an Aaron Sorkin screenplay. I thought we were the good guys. We are the side with ethics and decency and fairness.I was like Linda Hamilton in Terminator 2 when Arnold Schwarzenegger shows up, and she thinks he's a bad guy, but when he says, “Come with me if you want to live, she realizes that everything is backward. The people she thought were the good guys weren't. The guy she thought was there to kill her was actually there to save her. By the end of 2020, I was as black-pilled as Jack Nicholson in Chinatown, disillusioned and wide awake. Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.But what I saw them do - how we were all manipulated, how they rigged the election to be too big to fail - I could see for the first time that my side had too much power. So much power that American democracy was now beside the point.It didn't matter how the people voted, because we would decide who was allowed to win and who would become an existential threat to the world we were building, the utopia we were building online.When I left the party, I knew I couldn't be fully honest about what I believed happened, though I did say that the election had been rigged. I also couldn't be honest about what I knew about January 6th, at least not in the beginning. When I saw the riot break out, my first thought was, that's not MAGA. They don't do that.And anyway, even if they did, why couldn't the Democrats chalk it up to months of lockdowns and highly enraged, radicalized people on the Right just as there were on the Left that Summer. Why couldn't they? Because it was all still part of the long con, the mass delusion. These ideas were dangerous to hold for anyone in America but especially someone of the Left, and yet, I could not stop it. The truth began knocking. I ignored it as long as I could, but eventually, the knocking became a banging, and I had no choice but to open the door.How to Rig An ElectionOnce you start tugging on the question of why Twitter and Facebook censored the Hunter Biden laptop, you begin to unravel the bigger picture of just how deep the conspiracy went. But you don't need the whole story. You just need to know this: The FBI and the CIA worked against the sitting president to lie to the public that the laptop was “Russian Disinformation.” It was just a standard run-of-the-mill October surprise, timed to help ignite a scandal before the election. But it was also information the public had a right to know, as we would find out later. So anyone who shames Trump for calling the election rigged and denying it was legit will have to answer for this. But if you keep pulling on that string, you'll find the why of it. They were trying to fix all of the problems they believed caused Hillary Clinton's loss. This would be payback for the email scandal that hit her campaign, which she called “Russian Disinformation.” That would also turn out to be untrue.But there were other problems that needed correcting, like lazy voters who assumed Hillary would win because she was so far ahead in the polls and didn't bother turning out. They would fix this problem using COVID as the pretext to change everything about how people vote and how those votes are collected.They knew they had Pennsylvania won long before Election Day and it would only be a matter of convincing the public not to get too excited about a “red mirage.” To all of them, that's the right way to win an election.Trump won Iowa, Ohio and Florida, not to mention the bellwether counties that have decided our elections. The only other time anything like this happened was in 1960, when JFK won in a squeaker. Compare that to 2020, and you can see that something was very off about the numbers. Since the Democrats believed Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook had handed Trump the win in 2016 by using their marketing machine (the Clinton campaign refused their help), it was time for Zuckerberg to undo that damage, which came in the form of a $400 million slush fund used to “fortify” the election but mostly in the heavily blue districts. Had all of this been shared with the whole country as a way to improve our elections overall, that would have been one thing. But it was all done behind the scenes, in the shadows, far from the reach of anyone who might dissent. It was anything but ethical and anything but fair.It was all part of a grand scheme to stay one step ahead of Trump. If they already knew he would claim it was rigged, why not just rig it? Who would the people believe? Trump or the “bipartisan cabal” of unelected bureaucrats hiding in the shadows?The truth is that Trump was pulling ahead because the Left was losing its mind, and Trump picked up on it. He changed his campaign; no matter how many ways they tried to keep him from his rallies, he got the word out anyway. That would explain why he won those key states but lost so much in the popular vote. Our elections should not be decided months before Election Day. Candidates should have to make their case to the people, not hide in the basement and let the system do the work. It's the candidate's job to inspire the voters to vote for the kind of government they want, and it's the voters responsibility to be motivated enough to turn out to the polls and cast their vote. But with an easily manipulated hive mind like the Democrats had cultivated for ten years they didn't need any of it.The Year That Broke AmericaI've never been able to convince anyone of what I believed happened in 2020. If you were on the Left, chances are, you wouldn't be able to see it either. You would have trusted the same people I used to trust: CNN, New York Times, MSNBC, your social media feed.You would have come out of that year thinking Joe Biden won the 2020 election fair and square and that Donald Trump refused to lose, so he led a dangerous assault on the Capitol, putting our democracy under threat. Yet, after everything they did to Trump that year and for the four years prior, what else could he have done except protest? It was just a little too convenient that there happened to be a riot at the same time, a Reichstag Fire that handed absolute power to Team Blue.If you were still trapped inside the Doomsday Cult, you'd have been primed and ready to go to war on your fellow Americans because Vice President Kamala Harris would tell you January 6th was like 9/11 and Pearl Harbor. You would have thought Liz Cheney and the Prime Time Show Trial was legit. What an easy mark you'd be.If you never escaped, as I did, you'd still be trapped inside the Doomsday Cult and never have any idea that none of this is your fault. You were put into a kind of trance in 2020, even before, like the kids in the movie Weapons, frozen in place and used as an army to do the bidding of the Democratic Party.They made you believe, like they made me believe, that every day really was the end of the world as long as Donald Trump was in power. But it was never true, none of it. All the Democrats ever had to do was offer the people something better. If everything Molly Ball wrote about the election the “Secret Bi-Partisan Cabal” supposedly saved, how did Trump win again? In Weapons, the children are put under a spell and aimed at the enemies of the witch. Once the spell is broken, the children wake up and realize the person they should be mad at isn't the one she made them attack, but instead the witch herself for robbing them of their ability to think for themselves. And so it goes with the Democrats.// This is a public episode. 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It's a full house at Aroma Latin American Cocina. Al, Gemini, Bob Barnes and Andrew Morgan pay a visit to sample chef Steve Kestler's cuisine, and chat with him about his recent move from Henderson to just outside of Chinatown. We also check in with Ceselia Berumen and Chef Keris Kuwana at the new monthly Soiree event in Liam's Den at The Palazzo, get a beer report from Bob and a happy hour report from Andrew, and chat with Sam Facchini about the new Sliceteria by Metro Pizza.

The popcorn courtroom is back in session. Last week we proved Who Framed Roger Rabbit is the lost third film of the Chinatown trilogy. This week the defense calls its star witness: Gary K. Wolf, the man who wrote Who Censored Roger Rabbit and invented the very word Toon. He rules on our theory (denied!), endorses a few others (Doom shot Bambi's mother, confirmed), spills the secret history of the six-frame gags Disney hunted down and destroyed, promises justice for the Red Shoe, and tells the story of the blue cow Spielberg hid in Toontown just for him. Court is adjourned. The jury is you. Do you like what we do? You can support us at Patreon and get access to exclusive behind the scenes outtakes: https://www.patreon.com/thepopcornisntreal

In today's episode, Norris and I hit pause on the doomscroll and talk about simple joys and summer adventures around Detroit. We talk about everything from Belle Isle walks and Southwest soccer nights to Chinatown block parties, rooftop bars, and getting lost on the scenic route instead of the freeway. Follow the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get shows! If you've got feedback, including what you plan on doing this summer, let us know - dailydetroit@gmail.com or 313-789-3211

Send us Fan MailWell, as promised, we're fully in the era of neo – noir. And not just any neo – noir; this example will take some explaining. We chose it for specific reasons. Is it the greatest neo – noir ever? No --- its progenitor would likely take the prize there. But it's fun, fills the bill, and is a great watch. We saw it in a theater on original release and it stuck with us. As we will highlight in boring detail… We're going to untangle a true example of neo – noir --- in living color, set in the classic period of post – WWII LA, with a fantastic voice – over, femmes fatale to spare, a MacGuffin, twisted psychology, echoes of a tortured past, fate coming out of nowhere to step in and upset multiple carts. And a cast that's nearly unmatched. It's 1990's production of The Two Jakes, shot for Paramount Pictures, a long - time home for film noir. Those in the know will say --- hey, why highlight Jakes? What about its direct forerunner and possibly the greatest neo – noir ever, Chinatown? Huh? What film has a more killer final line than Chinatown? Huh? Well, in that lies a tale… Website and blog: www.thosewonderfulpeople.comBluesky: @wonderfulpeople.bsky.social

Forty years ago this summer, genre master John Carpenter (The Thing, Halloween, They Live) directed this big budget (for the time) extravaganza blending various genres including martial arts, fantasy, and crime drama.  Starring Kurt Russell in one of his more iconic roles as truckdriver Jack Burton, it was fast, funny, and phrenetically entertaining!  And yet no one really saw it in theaters. :( Fortunately this film did eventually find its audience on cable and video, becoming a cult classic and is now often looked upon as one of Carpenter's most believed movies.  It also features a STELLAR cast beyond Russell including Dennis Dun, Kim Cattrall, James Hong, and Victor Wong.  So let's hop on the Pork Chop Express and head to Chinatown!Host & Editor: Geoff GershonProducer: Marlene Gershon Send us Fan MailSupport the showhttps://livingforthecinema.com/Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/Living-for-the-Cinema-Podcast-101167838847578Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/livingforthecinema/Letterboxd:https://letterboxd.com/Living4Cinema/ 

Roman Polanski wrote Chinatown as a trilogy, then fled the country before he could finish it. Jack Nicholson salvaged The Two Jakes, but the third script, titled Cloverleaf after the land-grabbing company at its heart, supposedly vanished. Only it didn't. It hit theaters in 1988 wrapped in a toon costume. Same detective setup, same mid-case beatdown, same loyal femme fatale, same wrong-culprit twist, and a plot that secretly hinges on infrastructure, red trolley cars and a freeway land grab. Grab your magnifying glass as we prove Who Framed Roger Rabbit is the lost finale of the Chinatown trilogy. Do you like what we do? You can support us at Patreon and get access to exclusive behind the scenes outtakes: https://www.patreon.com/thepopcornisntreal

Jean Kwok ventured into writing fantasy after her own divorce, which we discuss, in addition to how she grew up working in sweatshops in Chinatown and ended up at Harvard. Jean, a Read with Jenna pick, is one of the most effusive, lovely authors who is constantly lifting others up. ** Want more? Become a part of my community! Sign up for Zibby's Highlights, which includes a free weekly newsletter, event livestreams, most anticipated book lists, personal essays, and a new essay platform with stories from all of you about what chapters you're in (inspired by my upcoming book Between Chapters: How I Started Over, Took Some Chances, and Found the Plot, 9/22/26). And follow me on Instagram @zibbyowens. But really, keep listening here. If you love my show, please tell a friend! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In what was supposed to be a quick episode, I talk about my third trip to New York City with my wife and a couple friends where we went to a Bon Jovi concert saw Hamilton and Wicked had the best food in Chinatown and Little Italy and toured some of Manhattan I end the show talking about the return of The Daily Rios podcast and what I thought of the Supergirl movie. Links: https://www.circleline.com/ https://ahoynewyorkfoodtours.com/ https://thedailyrios.com/ LBR Merch! Feedback! longboxreview@gmail.com 208-953-1841 Bluesky longboxreview.com Thanks for listening! episode 51

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's administration released and proudly promoted an official “New York City Immigrant Enclaves” map as part of a Neighborhood Passport tourism initiative. The colorful graphic highlights thirty neighborhoods representing the city's “thriving international communities,” proudly labeling places such as “Little Palestine” in Bay Ridge, “Little Egypt” in Astoria, “Little Pakistan,” and multiple Chinatowns. Yet it conspicuously erases iconic Jewish neighborhoods, omits Little Italy, skips Irish enclaves, and ignores other historic communities that helped build New York.This isn't just a tourism map, it's a clear warning of Mamdani's vision for the city. Critics rightly see it as a deliberate rewriting of New York's immigrant story, elevating certain groups while airbrushing Jews and others out. Mamdani isn't hiding anything. This reflects the path already seen in Paris, London, Malmö, and other European cities: parallel societies, no-go zones, Sharia patrols, and surging antisemitism.From France's banlieues plagued by crime and Islamist influence, to Sweden's troubled districts and London's Tower Hamlets with reported Sharia zones, the pattern is unmistakable. The red-green alliance, progressive leftism and jihadi Islam is advancing openly in America's greatest city.Jewish organizations that once prioritized universalist goodwill over Jewish survival are now facing the consequences. New York Jews and all freedom-loving New Yorkers must wake up before it's too late. Until Western nations summon the courage to deport jihadis and reject Sharia supremacy, these cities will continue to decline.The future for the Jewish people is bright, in Israel. Aliyah is not fleeing in fear, but returning home to build and live freely as Jews in our ancestral homeland.Mamdani's map is not destiny. It is a warning. The choice is ours.Join Our Whatsapp Channel: https://chat.whatsapp.com/GkavRznXy731nxxRyptCMvFollow us on Twitter: https://x.com/AviAbelowJoin our Telegram Channel: https://t.me/aviabelowpulseFollow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pulse_of_israel/?hl=enPulse of Israel on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IsraelVideoNetworkVisit Our Website - https://pulseofisrael.com/Donate to Pulse of Israel: https://pulseofisrael.com/boost-this-video/

The Blasters & Blades Podcast“Everybody relax, I'm here.” This week, we're hopping into the Pork-Chop Express and driving straight into the subterranean neon underworld of Chinatown. That's right… we are reviewing John Carpenter's absolute masterpiece of 80s cheese, Big Trouble in Little China! We're breaking down why Jack Burton is the greatest “action hero who is actually the sidekick” in cinematic history, the incredible practical effects, and how this wild mashup of kung fu, ancient sorcery, and American truck-driver swagger ever got greenlit. It's all in the reflexes! Seriously, lend us your eyes and ears, you won't be sorry!!Co-Hosts: JR & JanaWe work for free, so if you wanna throw a few pennies our way there is a linked Buy Me A Coffee site where you can do so. Just mention the podcast in the comments when you donate, and I'll keep the sacred bean water boiling!Support the Show: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/AuthorJRHandleyOur LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/blastersandbladespodcastToday's SponsorMy Luck by Mel Todd: https://a.co/d/02PivLTYCheck out the Movie!Movie Link: https://www.amazon.com/Trouble-Little-China-Kurt-Russell/dp/B000QUCQX8/Movie Link: https://tubitv.com/movies/714357/big-trouble-in-little-chinaMovie Trailer Link: https://youtu.be/AXsBBqPb5YE?si=N1UTPm1ng6jxKDFpFollow Aaron Big-Water Outdoors on social mediaMr Bigs Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61587334632868Mr Bigs YouTube: https://youtube.com/@bigwater_outdoorsMr Bigs TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@bigwaheh76cFollow Jana S Brown on social mediaJana's Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Jana-S.-Brown/author/B015VJV7JWJana's Website: www.opalkingdompress.comJana's LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/opalkingdompressFollow Jarret Keene on social mediaJarret's Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Jarret-Keene/author/B001JOTUPWJarret's Website: https://www.jarretkeene.net/Jarret's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AuthorJarretKeene/Follow Keith Hedger on social mediaKeith's Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Keith-Hedger/e/B01N2V9383/Keith's Website: https://www.keithhedger.com/Keith's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KeithHedgerAuthor/#scifishenanigans #scifishenaniganspodcast #bbp #blastersandblades #blastersandbladespodcast #podcast #scifipodcast #fantasypodcast #scifi #fantasy #books #rpg #comics #fandom #literature #comedy #veteran #army #armyranger #ranger #scififan #redshirts #scifiworld #sciencefiction #scifidaily #scificoncept #podcastersofinstagram #scificons #podcastlife #podcastsofinstagram #scifibooks #awardwinningscifi #newepisode #podcastersofinstagram #podcastaddict #podcast #scifigeek #scifibook #sfv #scifivisionaries #firesidechat #chat #panel #fireside #religionquestion #coffee #tea #coffeeortea #CoffeeBrandCoffee #JRHandley #NickGarber #MadamStabby #MovieReview #Review #RetroMovieReview #StabbyMovieReview #OpalKingdomPress #JenaRey #JanaSBrown #Aaron #BigWaterOutdoors #JarretKeene #KeithHedger #MelissaMcShane #warmistress #warmaster #warhamster #warmommy #BigTroubleInLittleChina #20thCenturyFox #KurtRussell #JackBurton #truckdriver #Chinatown #SanFrancisco #KimCattrall #GracieLaw #lawyer #DennisDun #WangChi #LoPan #JamesHong #LoPan #Chinese #sorcerer #curse #EmperorQinShiHuang #VictorWong #EggShen #KateBurton #MargoLitzenberger #reporter #MiaoYin #DonaldLi #EddieLee #CarterWong #Thunder #PeterKwong #Rain #JamesPax #Lightning #elementalmaster #SuzeePai #MiaoYin #Chao-LiChi #UncleChu #JeffImada #Needles #TheLordsOfDeath #AlLeong #GeraldOkamura #NathanJung #WingKong #LiaChang #Cary-HiroyukiTagawa #WingKong #FrankHo #ConanLee #JamesLew #ChangSing #warriors #JerryHardin #DrewStruzan #Beholder #DND #D&D #DandDCopyright @ 20th Century Fox LLC 1986. Any illegal reproduction of this content will result in immediate legal action by the rights holder. The clips used in this movie review were utilized under the Fair Use Doctrine and are transformative in nature.

We're taking a break from True Sunlight this week, but we hope you enjoy this episode of 'Wherever It Leads... Milan' Follow the show at staypes.ky/wherever Tourists sprint to Rome and Florence while one of Europe's most alive cities hums quietly in the north — and that's exactly what makes Milan extraordinary.  This week, writer, author, and Milanese insider Marta Mondelli pulls back the curtain on a city of hidden courtyards, wooden streetcars, world-class aperitivo, and jasmine-soaked springs.  She explains why cappuccino after 11am is a “crime”, why the Milanese party as hard as they work, and why spring open days unlock palaces most visitors never see.  Journalist Mandy Matney and producer David Moses share their own Milan memories — late-night dumplings in Chinatown, a train through the Alps, streets packed on a Tuesday like it was Saturday — while Marta weighs in on Lee Gilley's asylum claim in nearby Turin and Italy's growing conversation around feminicide.  Plus: Lake Como, Turin, and the art of spending your tourism money where it actually matters. Learn More about Marta Mondelli: @martamondelli Reset Stories Podcast @resetstoriespodcast Episode Resources: Festina Lente Milano — Marta's handcrafted candle shop in the Isola neighborhood

Seattle police move in to make arrests in Chinatown. Meanwhile, notorious drug market resurfaces days after World Cup. Income tax supporters are making their case with bots. What would you put in a time capsule to memorialize this moment in history? 

Whether it's the sensory joy of homemade gelato or the privacy risks baked into AI-powered apps, the conversation spotlights how technology is transforming even the simplest moments—and why it's not always for the better. OpenAI gets permission to roll out GPT-5.6 to the public on July 9 Beijing is looking at curbing overseas access to China's top AI models, sources say OpenAI floats giving Trump administration 5 percent cut of AI boom Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven't progressed as quickly as he'd hoped Meta money grab is a plea to investors: Stick with us Meta just launched a new AI generator, Muse Image, and users are already pushing back over use of their photos Meta tests 'super sensing' AI glasses that can capture every moment Google's AI buildout drove 37% increase in electricity use in 2025 Nvidia's Kyber AI rack slips to 2028, and one circuit board is to blame Cloudflare will filter out web crawlers that serve AI companies A Twist in This Year's Strangest Literary AI Scandal Midjourney wants Hollywood studios to reveal the details of their AI usage Brown Professor Suspects Majority of His Class Used AI to Cheat Reid Hoffman: Introducing Tokens to the Future: Token Grants to AI Builders Tilly Norwood to Lead New Movie 'Misaligned,' Marking Feature Debut for AI 'Actor' MaximeRivest/riddle: The diary of Tom Riddle for the reMarkable Paper Pro — write with your pen, the page drinks your ink and answers in a flowing hand lfnovo/open-notebook: An Open Source implementation of Notebook LM with more flexibility and features GuideAlong Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Ian Bogost Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: blackhat.com/us-26 and use code TWIT helixsleep.com/machines gusto.com/machines

Whether it's the sensory joy of homemade gelato or the privacy risks baked into AI-powered apps, the conversation spotlights how technology is transforming even the simplest moments—and why it's not always for the better. OpenAI gets permission to roll out GPT-5.6 to the public on July 9 Beijing is looking at curbing overseas access to China's top AI models, sources say OpenAI floats giving Trump administration 5 percent cut of AI boom Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven't progressed as quickly as he'd hoped Meta money grab is a plea to investors: Stick with us Meta just launched a new AI generator, Muse Image, and users are already pushing back over use of their photos Meta tests 'super sensing' AI glasses that can capture every moment Google's AI buildout drove 37% increase in electricity use in 2025 Nvidia's Kyber AI rack slips to 2028, and one circuit board is to blame Cloudflare will filter out web crawlers that serve AI companies A Twist in This Year's Strangest Literary AI Scandal Midjourney wants Hollywood studios to reveal the details of their AI usage Brown Professor Suspects Majority of His Class Used AI to Cheat Reid Hoffman: Introducing Tokens to the Future: Token Grants to AI Builders Tilly Norwood to Lead New Movie 'Misaligned,' Marking Feature Debut for AI 'Actor' MaximeRivest/riddle: The diary of Tom Riddle for the reMarkable Paper Pro — write with your pen, the page drinks your ink and answers in a flowing hand lfnovo/open-notebook: An Open Source implementation of Notebook LM with more flexibility and features GuideAlong Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Ian Bogost Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: blackhat.com/us-26 and use code TWIT helixsleep.com/machines gusto.com/machines

Whether it's the sensory joy of homemade gelato or the privacy risks baked into AI-powered apps, the conversation spotlights how technology is transforming even the simplest moments—and why it's not always for the better. OpenAI gets permission to roll out GPT-5.6 to the public on July 9 Beijing is looking at curbing overseas access to China's top AI models, sources say OpenAI floats giving Trump administration 5 percent cut of AI boom Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven't progressed as quickly as he'd hoped Meta money grab is a plea to investors: Stick with us Meta just launched a new AI generator, Muse Image, and users are already pushing back over use of their photos Meta tests 'super sensing' AI glasses that can capture every moment Google's AI buildout drove 37% increase in electricity use in 2025 Nvidia's Kyber AI rack slips to 2028, and one circuit board is to blame Cloudflare will filter out web crawlers that serve AI companies A Twist in This Year's Strangest Literary AI Scandal Midjourney wants Hollywood studios to reveal the details of their AI usage Brown Professor Suspects Majority of His Class Used AI to Cheat Reid Hoffman: Introducing Tokens to the Future: Token Grants to AI Builders Tilly Norwood to Lead New Movie 'Misaligned,' Marking Feature Debut for AI 'Actor' MaximeRivest/riddle: The diary of Tom Riddle for the reMarkable Paper Pro — write with your pen, the page drinks your ink and answers in a flowing hand lfnovo/open-notebook: An Open Source implementation of Notebook LM with more flexibility and features GuideAlong Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Ian Bogost Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: blackhat.com/us-26 and use code TWIT helixsleep.com/machines gusto.com/machines

Whether it's the sensory joy of homemade gelato or the privacy risks baked into AI-powered apps, the conversation spotlights how technology is transforming even the simplest moments—and why it's not always for the better. OpenAI gets permission to roll out GPT-5.6 to the public on July 9 Beijing is looking at curbing overseas access to China's top AI models, sources say OpenAI floats giving Trump administration 5 percent cut of AI boom Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven't progressed as quickly as he'd hoped Meta money grab is a plea to investors: Stick with us Meta just launched a new AI generator, Muse Image, and users are already pushing back over use of their photos Meta tests 'super sensing' AI glasses that can capture every moment Google's AI buildout drove 37% increase in electricity use in 2025 Nvidia's Kyber AI rack slips to 2028, and one circuit board is to blame Cloudflare will filter out web crawlers that serve AI companies A Twist in This Year's Strangest Literary AI Scandal Midjourney wants Hollywood studios to reveal the details of their AI usage Brown Professor Suspects Majority of His Class Used AI to Cheat Reid Hoffman: Introducing Tokens to the Future: Token Grants to AI Builders Tilly Norwood to Lead New Movie 'Misaligned,' Marking Feature Debut for AI 'Actor' MaximeRivest/riddle: The diary of Tom Riddle for the reMarkable Paper Pro — write with your pen, the page drinks your ink and answers in a flowing hand lfnovo/open-notebook: An Open Source implementation of Notebook LM with more flexibility and features GuideAlong Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Ian Bogost Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: blackhat.com/us-26 and use code TWIT helixsleep.com/machines gusto.com/machines

How We Seeez It! Episode 344: Big Trouble in Little China (1986) “When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, looks you crooked in the eye, and asks if you've paid your dues, you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye and remember what ol' Jack Burton always says at a time like that: ‘Have ya paid your dues, Jack?' ‘Yessir, the check is in the mail.'” — Jack Burton John Carpenter's urban fantasy action-adventure turns 40 this year. Starring Kurt Russell and set in San Francisco's Chinatown, Big Trouble in Little China was released in 1986 without the fanfare it deserved. It wasn't the hit it should have been, but it found a devoted audience during the home-video era and eventually became a cult classic. Not only is it incredibly rewatchable, but repeated viewings may be required to fully understand its greatness. Join us as we discuss the movie, its wonderfully strange world, and why Jack Burton may not be quite the hero he thinks he is. As always, mix a drink, have a listen, and let us know what you think. Tell us about something you've watched that we might enjoy or a can't-miss series we should check out. Also, please rate and review the show on all your favorite podcast apps. Drinks for the episode. "The Three Storms" 3 thin slices fresh ginger - muddled 1 small pineapple chunk - muddled 1 small lime wedge - muddled 1¼ oz reposado tequila ¼ oz mezcal ½ oz Green Chartreuse ¾ oz fresh lime juice ½ oz pineapple juice ¼ oz orgeat ¼ oz agave syrup Tiny pinch of salt “Six Demon Bag” 2 oz Midori 1.5 lime Vodka 1 oz Coconut Rum .5 oz lemon infused simple syrup 1 oz Pineapple Juice 1 egg white   Show links. https://hwsi.podbean.com/e/big-trouble-in-little-china-1986/  HWSI LinkTree HWSI Facebook Link HWSI Instagram Link HWSI Youtube link !! You can also email the Podcast at the.HWSI.podcast@gmail.com

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Whether it's the sensory joy of homemade gelato or the privacy risks baked into AI-powered apps, the conversation spotlights how technology is transforming even the simplest moments—and why it's not always for the better. OpenAI gets permission to roll out GPT-5.6 to the public on July 9 Beijing is looking at curbing overseas access to China's top AI models, sources say OpenAI floats giving Trump administration 5 percent cut of AI boom Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven't progressed as quickly as he'd hoped Meta money grab is a plea to investors: Stick with us Meta just launched a new AI generator, Muse Image, and users are already pushing back over use of their photos Meta tests 'super sensing' AI glasses that can capture every moment Google's AI buildout drove 37% increase in electricity use in 2025 Nvidia's Kyber AI rack slips to 2028, and one circuit board is to blame Cloudflare will filter out web crawlers that serve AI companies A Twist in This Year's Strangest Literary AI Scandal Midjourney wants Hollywood studios to reveal the details of their AI usage Brown Professor Suspects Majority of His Class Used AI to Cheat Reid Hoffman: Introducing Tokens to the Future: Token Grants to AI Builders Tilly Norwood to Lead New Movie 'Misaligned,' Marking Feature Debut for AI 'Actor' MaximeRivest/riddle: The diary of Tom Riddle for the reMarkable Paper Pro — write with your pen, the page drinks your ink and answers in a flowing hand lfnovo/open-notebook: An Open Source implementation of Notebook LM with more flexibility and features GuideAlong Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Ian Bogost Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: blackhat.com/us-26 and use code TWIT helixsleep.com/machines gusto.com/machines

Jello again. Jack and the gang talk about all the things they've done in San Francisco and then they go to Chinatown for some chop suey.Episode 279 of The Jack Benny Show. The program originally aired on on January 9, 1938.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/classic-comedy-of-old-time-radio--5818299/support.Please email questions and comments to host@classiccomedyotr.com.Like us on Facebook at facebook.com/classiccomedyotr. Please share this podcast with your friends and family.You can also subscribe to our podcast on Spreaker.com, Spotify, iTunes, Stitcher, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, and Google podcasts.This show is supported by Spreaker Prime.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/classic-comedy-of-old-time-radio--5818299/support.

“It's all in the reflexes.” Join Ian & Liam for our 338th episode as we descend into the neon-lit underworld beneath San Francisco's Chinatown for John Carpenter's gloriously bonkers cult classic Big Trouble in Little China (1986). Megs isn't with us this week — she accidentally accepted an invitation to Lo Pan's wedding and we're told she's currently trying to escape a floating wheelchair and several unfortunate centuries-old curses. Kev? He confidently followed Jack Burton into an alley "because it'll be quicker this way" and hasn't been seen since a glowing eyeball floated past. This week we discuss: Kurt Russell's Jack Burton — swaggering, endlessly quotable, and hilariously convinced he's the hero. Is Jack actually the greatest accidental sidekick in cinema history? Who did Kurt Russell actually base his performance of Jack Burton off of? Dennis Dun's Wang Chi — the film's true protagonist hiding in plain sight. How does Carpenter brilliantly disguise whose story this really is? What 1990s video game phenomenon was heavily inspired by this film? John Carpenter's genre mash-up — martial arts, fantasy, horror, comedy, and action. Why should this film never have worked... yet somehow works perfectly? Kim Cattrall's Gracie Law — fearless, funny, and game for absolutely anything the film throws at her. Ian breaks down the screenplay — how the film constantly subverts audience expectations by making its loudest character the least competent person in the room. Liam explores the film's mythology — ancient curses, Chinese folklore, and why the exposition somehow makes less sense the more attention you pay. Lo Pan — one of the most delightfully eccentric villains of the 1980s. Menacing, theatrical, and completely unforgettable. The action choreography — practical effects, flying warriors, and glorious 1980s excess. Does the film know exactly how ridiculous it is? The "show vs tell" balance — does the film overwhelm us with mythology, or does its sheer confidence carry us through the chaos? The ending — triumphant, absurd, and leaving just enough mystery for one final sting in the tail. And finally, whether Big Trouble in Little China is the Best Film Ever — or simply one of the greatest cult movies ever made. Become a Patron of this podcast and support the BFE at https://www.patreon.com/BFE We are very thankful to the following Patreon backers for their generous support: Juleen from It Goes Down In The PM Hermes Auslander James DeGuzman Synthia Shai Bergerfroind Ariannah Who Loves BFE The Most Paul Komoroski Duane Smith (Duane Smith!) Andy Dickson Aashrey Chris Pedersen Randal Silva Nate The Great Rev Bruce Richard Ryan Kuketz Dirk Diggler Stew from the Stew World Order podcast NorfolkDomus John Humphrey's Right Foot Timmy Tim Tim Youth Hosteling with Chris Eubank Buy some BFE merch at https://my-store-b4e4d4.creator-spring.com/. Massive thanks to Lex Van Den Berghe for the use of Mistake by Luckydog. Catch more from Lex's new band, The Maids of Honor, at https://soundcloud.com/themaidsofhonor Also, massive thanks to Moonlight Social for our age game theme song. You can catch more from them at https://www.moonlightsocialmusic.com/

Roxbury, Dorchester, and Jamaica Plain residents continue to be angry about the construction of White Stadium, and they let city officials know in a heated public meeting with a few choice expletives. New zoning rules for Chinatown will protect its historic buildings, while promoting small-business development. And how community TreeKeepers are trying to cool down one of the hottest cities in the Commonwealth. It's our local news roundtable!

It's been said that you can spot an American from a mile away. Travelers to Europe are advised to adjust their attire to blend in with locals and avoid looking so … casual. The French think Americans are loud and rude, and Europe has a long tradition of sneering at how classless we all are, even before Trump.I spent a month in Italy, and it's a beautiful place. The slow living, the long naps when all the stores shut down for hours during the day, the tiny cars, the laundry drying on the balconies, the fresh food at the Farmer's Market. I feel lucky that when I came back from Italy, I was pregnant and having my baby is the single greatest thing that has ever happened to me. But I'm also glad she grew up in America.I used to travel to France to cover the Cannes Film Festival, and again, I admired their way of life, the food especially. But every time I stayed too long, I began to miss my home in America. There is something thrilling about living in a free country that I've never felt anywhere else.It seems to me that if you are born here, you make up your life as it goes along. It is not planned out for you, necessarily, although in some cases, I guess it probably is. In my case, it wasn't. I knew I could invent myself any way I wanted. And if I didn't like that version, I could reinvent myself. We're like our country, a work in progress. It's always there for the taking, that promise of opportunity.Donald Trump is all of America's freedoms wrapped up in one imperfect man. He broke through the thick layer of oppressive thought and speech and showed the world that here, you really can say anything you want - as long as some crazed totalitarian doesn't try to shoot you. That's the country I want to live in. It isn't that the greatest writing or art has come from a place like America. Plenty of great works have come from places that don't center freedom as their main objective. But once you've tasted it, you can't give it up.In his speech last night, Trump said:The American founding represents the best ideas and traditions in history by the best people, like you. You can be loyal to Karl Marx or you can be loyal to America. You can be a communist or you can be a patriot. You cannot be both. As for those who peddle Marxist lies about our heritage, tell our children that we live on stolen land or that our heroes were oppressors, they're doing something much worse than slandering our past. They are slandering and attacking our future. Not going to let that happen.They're trying to tear down the great American character to destroy the people who declared independence, who crossed the Delaware, who settled the West and conquered the skies. You know who those people are. But we will never let that happen.In America now, two stories are competing to claim the right to rule the future. Trump is telling the better story, the one America was founded on and the one we've all believed, at least up until recently, when a new wave of progressives decided that the better story paints America as a corrupt, rotten, white supremacist empire that has to be torn down to the studs and rebuilt.They must be terrified about the 2030 Census because they've decided to die on the hill of illegal immigration, which is fast becoming their most important issue. That, alongside Democratic Socialism, is a recipe for disaster.This was Bill Clinton's bummer message on the Fourth:I always thought Bill Clinton was a good president, but reading that just now makes me think he wasn't. All he's ever been able to do is point the finger at the other side and never offer any real solutions. He's not the man in the arena. He's the man on the sidelines.What I love about Trump and his supporters is how much they love America. They love it so much that they plant flags all over their homes. They admire the Founding Fathers. They call themselves Patriots. We didn't have that kind of pride on the Left when I was growing up.And even now, so many see the American flag and the love of country as dangerous, racist, bigoted, fascist. Whoever told those people that is what MAGA is about lied. They're protective of America's laws and its border. That is out of love for the country. The Left has taken almost everything from them. They've locked them out of culture, forbidden them from participating in any of their major events, dehumanized, demonized, and disenfranchised them. But the one thing they couldn't take was their citizenship. They hit the jackpot just by being born in America. To think it would be so easy for people all over the world to come here illegally and claim that prize or to come here and attempt to remake America into something it was never meant to be devalues the one thing they treasure most of all. I've always been a proud American. I've always preferred this country over any other, but only in the last few years have I understood what it means to be a Patriot, to be ready to fight for the country I love. And that is because of the people I've gotten to know on the Right.This country is worth fighting for. I might not agree with all of the policies on the Right, or even Trump himself, all of the time, but I'd rather have the future of this country in the hands of people who love it the way Trump does than people who hate it, the way so many on the Left do, just because their candidates are weak and their policies are toxic. I wanted to write 250 things I love about America, but it got too long, so this will have to do. Here are just some of the things I love:I love the interstates as part of the great legacy of Dwight D. Eisenhower.I love the Pacific Ocean because it stretches along the state. I love Catalina Island off the California Coast, where I spent many a summer with my best friend.I love seeing our history in the many cultures that came here, like Chinatown, Little Italy, Mexican food in LA, soul food in the South, Irish bars and pubs in the middle of nowhere. And yes, you can appreciate a nation of immigrants while still policing our borders now. I love how nice people are in some places, like California, Ohio, and Iowa, where they smile at you on the street.I love the weather extremes, from the dusty plains to the snowy mountains to hurricanes by the sea.I love the historic monuments from the Civil War and the Revolutionary War.I love the town squares that you can still see if you drive through the middle of America. Even though many are abandoned, they still look like hope to me.I love how each town square has a church, a post office, and a school.I love the many farmlands that blanket the Midwest.I love the small mom-and-pop coffee drive-throughs, and even the convenience of a Starbucks in nearly every town.I love Route 66 and how people still drive it and visit the forgotten places.I love the absurdity of Las Vegas, how it sprouts up impossibly in the middle of the desert.I love the American writers who helped shape our country's sense of itself - Mark Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Flannery O'Connor, Richard Ford, Maya Angelou. I love the musical traditions that started here: Jazz and the Blues. And became Rock n' Roll. I love the Legend of Sleepy Hollow and the town that still remembers it.I love diners and dive bars.I love Gone with the Wind and how it's still the highest-grossing film of all time when adjusted for inflation. I love The Twilight Zone and find it timeless, as relevant today as it was in the 1950s.I love the footprints at the (Grauman's) Chinese Theater in Hollywood.I love the US military and its devotion to the country. I love the wildflowers that bloom in California every year.I love soft-serve ice cream at the DQ.I love Levi's.I love New York pizza.I love Solvang in California.I love driving up the Oregon coast. I love the songs of Bob Dylan.I love the tap dancing of Fred Astaire.I love how anyone can be a star on YouTube, no matter where they come from, but YouTube couldn't have been invented anywhere but America.I love how I could build a business as a single mom in a one-room guesthouse in Van Nuys, and that business would, five years later, become profitable because I worked hard and had a good idea. And then, when my career went up in flames in 2024 because I voted for Trump, I could build another career on Substack because that is what America is all about - inventing and reinventing yourself.I love the innovative spirit that built America in real life and online.I love reading about the early settlers, the Puritans, and the homesteaders, how much they sacrificed to help make America a home. And I love the history of the Native Americans, too, even if so much of it remains a tragedy now. I love high-speed internet and Wi-Fi that are available almost everywhere, and if they're not, I have a hotspot.I love the old American cars that were not just exceptional but beautiful.I love the tradition of baseball.I love that people faithfully watch football, even if I don't.I love the tradition of sourdough bread all over social media.I love that the best basketball players in the world are from here.I love that every state is different from one to the next.I love Harper's Ferry, how it's frozen in time.I love that we found a way to move on from the trauma of our past with slavery and how we fought a bloody Civil War to end it. I love that we were the good guys in World War II. We did the right thing in entering the war and helping the Allies win. I love that you can be anything here. The door is always open. It's up to you to walk through it.I love that America is a Christian nation, and you can see that if you drive across it. But it's also a country that stands for freedom of religion, too.I love the American comedians: Groucho Marx, George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Steve Martin, and Johnny Carson.I love that the best films from the 1970s were American movies, like The Godfather, The French Connection, Taxi Driver, and Network. But I also love more modern masterpieces by American filmmakers, like No Country for Old Men and Sideways.I love that people play the lottery, thinking one day they will hit the jackpot. They never will, but they can still dream.I love Thanksgiving and the way we celebrate it in America, which is to say, all together as one big dysfunctional family.I love the tradition of Halloween and how every October, the pumpkins and costumes come out. I love the way the weather changes. I love the Declaration of Independence and those who dared to build this wild, untamed, optimistic work in progress. I love that America is always looking to the future to find a better version of itself and its people. I love that so many Americans still believe in the American Dream.I love watching the movie Jaws on the 4th of July.I love that people watch fireworks, even if I never do, because they traumatize my dogs.I love that we have a holiday just to celebrate the day we became a country, a ragtag group of deplorable revolutionaries who set out to build a brand new country. Oh, the audacity of it. I love living here and would not want to live anywhere else. Happy 250th Birthday, my beloved country.Happy 4th to you, dear readers. Thanks for everything. I hope you are having a wonderful weekend. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.sashastone.com/subscribe

This week, on Tales - I'm still shaking off a cold, and was planning a Patreon pledge week episode in a month's time... So, apologies all, I've moved things around a little. I'll record part two of Kaspar Hauser, and the completed script for the episode following that as soon as my voice has returned.    So, this week we're headed to Bulgaria, Medieval France, and New York's Chinatown to meet a man and his wife, a smart horse and a mock duck.  Content Warnings: How I met your mother: slavery, inappropriate relationships, and brief talk of genocide. Marocco: Possible animal exploitation? Threats of execution, bodily functions. Mock Duck Meets His Match: Gang warfare, decapitation, domestic violence.   Sources Include: Fascinating Footnotes from History by Giles Milton Circus Life and Circus Celebrities by Thomas Frost The Gangs of New York by Herbert Asbury Support Tales on Patreon for $2 US a month and get access to exclusive content, or Try our 7 Day Free Trial.  Please leave Tales a like and a review wherever you listen. The best way you can support us is to share an episode with a friend - Creative works grow best by word of mouth. I post episodes fortnightly, Wednesdays. Tales of History and Imagination can be found on… | Facebook |TikTok | Threads | YouTube | Bluesky |  

Participants: John Steppling, Brecht Jonkers, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: the 2026 World Cup: the fix is in? Trump administration rejoices in the departure of the Iranian team, NATO leaders proud of their role in the war on Iran, the Western governance clown show, unqualified amateurs at the helm. Music track: “Chinatown” by The Mills Brothers (1932, public domain).

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Taking over a decades-old family restaurant is daunting enough. Turning it into a cocktail bar in Chicago's Chinatown — a neighborhood without a high-end cocktail destination — raises the stakes even more. But partners Lily Wang and Joe Briglio embraced the challenge, bringing Lily's family along for the ride. The result is Nine Bar, one of the most exciting new additions to Chicago's cocktail scene, drawing drinkers to a neighborhood many had never considered for cocktails. On this episode of The Buildout, Lily and Joe join Adam to share how it came together, from navigating family dynamics to honoring the culture of the neighborhood.Follow us: https://www.instagram.com/buildoutpodcastNine Bar: https://www.instagram.com/ninebarchicagoLily Wang: https://www.instagram.com/lw4ngJoe Briglio: https://www.instagram.com/joebrigsVinePair: https://www.instagram.com/vinepairHosted by VinePair Co-Founder: https://www.instagram.com/adamteeterProduced and edited by: https://www.instagram.com/dolldoctor Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

320. Tom Provost on Young Washington, Writing, and Servant Leadership In this episode of Creative Chats, Mike Brennan sits down with screenwriter, filmmaker, teacher, and creative storyteller Tom Provost for a conversation about his journey through film, writing, teaching, and the making of Young Washington. Tom shares the childhood experiences that sparked his love of stories, the long road of perseverance in Hollywood, and how his creative life has evolved in unexpected but deeply meaningful ways. 3 Key Takeaways for Creatives and Storytellers: Embrace Unexpected Paths: Tom Provost encouraged staying open to new and surprising opportunities. Sticking too rigidly to a plan may mean missing out on something even greater (11:02). Power Through the "Dark Nights": Long periods of uncertainty are common in any creative career. Perseverance, self-belief, and a little stubbornness can keep you moving forward—even if the journey takes years (09:13). Storytelling as a Force for Good: The stories that shaped Tom Provost, from "Chinatown" to "Close Encounters," drove home the value of art as a tool for empathy, justice, and communal reflection (07:00). His hope? That "Young Washington" inspires audiences of all ages, making history vibrant and relatable. Looking for creative inspiration or tips on turning setbacks into breakthroughs? Check out the full episode and dive into Tom Provost's fascinating journey! Tom Provost's websites Food & Film blog: foodandfilm.com Professional site: cinemalanguage.org Charity: bagsandgrace.com Final thoughts This conversation is a reminder that creative work is shaped by persistence, humility, and the willingness to follow unexpected doors when they open. Tom's story is especially encouraging for anyone navigating uncertainty while trying to make meaningful work that reaches others. Young Washington releases July 3rd, 2026. Check out Mike's AMerica 250 art series celebrating the 250th Anniversary of the United States: https://www.mikebrennan.me/art-prints

Screenwriter Will Tracy (BUGONIA, THE MENU, SUCCESSION) returns to walk Josh and Joe through movies that themselves have been cancelled or have been made with a cancelled person. Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode The Menu (2022) Bugonia (2025) Heathers (1988) Song of the South (1946) Jezebel (1938) The Little Foxes (1941) The Princess and the Frog (2009) Treasure Island (1950) The Devil and Max Devlin (1981) The Usual Suspects (1995) Get Him to the Greek (2010) Casablanca (1942) Clownhouse (1989) Powder (1995) Jeepers Creepers (2001) Boys Town (1938) Stand by Me (1985) Lord of the Flies (1960) Bound (1996) An Officer and a Spy (2019) Crimes and Misdemeanors  (1989) Match Point (2005) Manhattan (1979) The Two Jakes (1990) Chinatown (1974) The Godfather Part III (1990) Knife in the Water (1962) Rosemary's Baby (1968) Repulsion (1965) Predator (1987) Die Hard (1988) The Hunt for Red October (1990) The Thomas Crown Affair (1999) Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995) Rollerball (1975) Rollerball (2002) The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1969) The 13th Warrior (1999) I Love You, Daddy (2017) Blue Jasmine (2013) One Battle After Another (2025) Life is Beautiful (1997) Crash (2005) Green Book (2018) Driving Miss Daisy (1989) Other Notable Items Our revamped Patreon!  The Hollywood Food Coalition Succession TV series (2018-23) The Onion The Academy Awards Stavros Halkias Wikipedia Daniel Waters William Hurt Our Thomas Jane podcast episode Disney Dalton S. Reymond Maurice Rapf Morton Grant The Hays Code Splash Mountain at Disneyland in Anaheim, CA James Baskett  M*A*S*H* TV series (1972-83) Br'er Rabbit  Elliott Gould Bill Cosby “The Devil and Daniel Webster” short story by Stephen Vincent Benét (1936) Kevin Spacey Bryan Singer Russell Brand Diddy Jonah Hill Christopher McQuarrie Humphrey Bogart Richard Wagner  Woody Allen Roman Polanski Victor Salva  Francis Ford Coppola American Zoetrope The Wachowski sisters Colombo TV series (1971-78, 1989-2003) Johnny Cash Donald Pleasence Ruth Gordon The Sopranos TV series (1999-2007) Breaking Bad TV series (2007-13) Robert Towne Jack Nicholson The Dreyfus affair  Sofia Coppola Winona Ryder The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood book by Sam Wasson (2020) Peter Bogdanovich Polly Platt Andrew Hickey's The History of Rock in 500 Songs podcast “Waterloo Sunset” song by The Kinks (1967) Ray Davies The Beatles John Lennon Yoko Ono “I'm Not Angry” song by Elvis Costello (1977) John McTiernan Anthony Pellicano Chris Klein LL Cool J Sean Connery Sam Neill Stellan Skarsgard Alec Baldwin Antonio Banderas Louis C.K. Louie TV series (2010-15) The Late Show with Stephen Colbert TV series (2014-26) John Malkovich Apropos of Nothing memoir by Woody Allen (2020) Dane Cook Roberto Benigni Steven Spielberg Jerry Lewis Nick Vallelonga Al Franken Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, I talk with Kristin Lee about what happens when a faith begins to crack, and whether the breaking might be the start of something truer. We get into kintsugi, the art of mending broken pottery with gold, what it costs to ask the questions we've been warned against, and what the church on the margins can teach the rest of us about following a marginal Jesus. What emerges is a picture of faith that doesn't hide its fractures but lets them become the places where the light gets in.Kristin T. Lee is a writer whose work has appeared in Christianity Today and Sojourners, and a primary care physician serving Boston's Chinatown community. She writes about faith, culture, books, and solidarity at The Embers. Her passion all the best books you've never heard of (and some that you have) via book reviews and reading groups on Instagram @ktlee.writes. Lee's work is informed by her experiences as an adoptive mother, host to refugees, and friend to those affected by incarceration.Kristin's Book:We Mend With GoldKristin's Recommendation:The Nights Are Quiet in TehranConnect with Joshua: jjohnson@shiftingculturepodcast.comGo to www.shiftingculturepodcast.com to interact and donate. Every donation helps to produce more podcasts for you to enjoy.Follow on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Threads, Bluesky or YouTubeSupport the podcast and the ministry that my wife and I do around the world. Just click on the support the show link below Support the show

We're celebrating the 40th anniversary of Big Trouble in Little China with Lo Pan, Jack Burton wisdom, and a deep dive into why this cult classic still rules Chinatown after all these years. Jay and Shua explore this legendary movie through the Save the Cat beat sheet, trivia, and several hilariously weird "Hells" that test your knowledge of John Carpenter's supernatural action-comedy masterpiece.   News Super Mario Bros. auction - A sealed 1985 copy of Super Mario Bros. sold for a staggering $3 million, setting a new record for a video game auction.   Escape from New York remake - Jason Momoa says he wants no part of a rumored Zak Snyder remake of Escape from New York   Austin Powers 4 - Mike Myers has confirmed that Austin Powers 4 is officially in development.   Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 4 arrives July 23, and the series is has one final season remaining. Check out our TeePublic store for some enjoyable swag and all the latest fashion trends What we're Enjoying Jay has been checking out the legendary Rush through new concert footage from the band's Fifty-Something Tour on YouTube. He talks about how incredible the musicianship remains and why Rush continues to be one of the greatest live acts ever captured on video. Shua checked out Disclosure Day in theaters. Spielberg's lifelong obsession with alien stories takes a familiar but new turn  with an amazing performance by Emily Blunt. Get out there and see some movies! MCU Location Scout MCULocationScout.com is Jay's ongoing project documenting and exploring real-world filming locations used throughout the Marvel Cinematic Universe and related Marvel television productions. Through detailed research, photos, and travel guides, fans can discover where their favorite Marvel moments were filmed. Lately Jay has been adding locations from Spider-Noir, with some familiar locations that were used in other noir films. We also spotlight a memorable sequence from Spider-Man Homecoming featuring Vulture descending through the atrium of Atlanta's iconic Marriott Marquis Atlanta. And don't forget to check out all of Jay's Sci-Fi Saturdays on RetroZap. You can also tune in to SHIELD: Case Files where Jay and Shua breakdown Marvel properties and Superhero Suite for news on comics, movies, TV and more.   Enjoy Movies!  It's time to climb aboard the Pork-Chop Express as Jay and Shua celebrate the 40th anniversary of Big Trouble in Little China. The guys break down why John Carpenter's cult classic remains such a beloved blend of action, comedy, fantasy, and complete cinematic chaos.   Along the way they explore the movie through the Save the Cat story structure, debate whether Jack Burton is actually the hero, share behind-the-scenes trivia, and dive into a series of themed "Hells" featuring trucker sayings, Lo Pan curses, and Shakespeare quotes. It's weird, wonderful, and exactly the kind of trouble Enjoy Stuff was built for.   Did you see Big Trouble in Little China? Did you think Jack Burton was the hero? Let us know! First person that emails me with the subject line, "The check is in the mail" will get a special mention on the show.  Let us know. Come talk to us in the Discord channel or send us an email to EnjoyStuff@RetroZap.com 

Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow possesses one of the best mob nicknames out there. The San Francisco Chinatown gangster went from teenage immigrant hooligan from the streets of Hong Kong to one of the most infamous Asian organized crime figures in America. His story has everything: Chinatown tongs, Hong Kong triad influence, immigrant protection rackets, gambling dens, and the violent gang wars that turned San Francisco's streets into a battleground. Then comes Shrimp Boy's strange second act, when he reemerges from prison claiming to be a reformed community leader, even as the FBI is building a sprawling undercover case around him. It all ends in a wild corruption and organized crime scandal involving guns, money laundering, murder allegations, and a California state senator caught in the same net. Subscribe: www.patreon.com/theunderworldpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For much of our history, Chicago has called itself America's Second City. But ever since the early 80's LA has surpassed Chicago in population. And now, after decades of endless striving, LA appears to have become America's Second City of Corruption as well.

Top Chef Season 23 Finale Recap Top Chef season 23 comes to a close as Haley Strong, Curt Clark, and Chef Jim Smith break down the finale in the Carolinas. With the finalists tasked to create a four-course progressive meal, the hosts spotlight clever strategies, unique menu choices, and surprising emotional moments. They examine how chefs honor their roots and mentors, navigate vague theming, and tackle high-stakes technical challenges in the kitchen. The hosts analyze how the “toast to someone or something” requirement shapes each chef's menu, from Rhoda's California-inspired sweet potato and uni opener to Sherry's ambitious multi-component dishes. They dig into the logistics and fairness of judging four-course meals course-by-course versus as a whole, with Chef Jim Smith offering firsthand insights from his own Top Chef finale experience. Stories behind each dish come to life, such as Lawrence's Chinatown duck homage and the impact of family visits that bring everyone—including listeners—to tears. Rhoda's bold choice to skip dessert and serve a rich Filipino-inspired calderetta stirs debate on menu strategy and finale traditions. Sherry's complex, ingredient-heavy dishes spark discussion about balancing risk with execution and the pitfalls of over-plating. The infamous “knife draw” moment and its anticlimactic aftermath get dissected for its impact on the finale's flow. Technical kitchen challenges—like keeping kanji at the right temperature and navigating ice cream plating in the heat—give fresh perspective on behind-the-scenes pressures. A detour on phrenology, Tom Colicchio's earrings, and restaurant closings adds color and levity to the finale recap. As the season closes, the hosts ask: does the best approach win out in these finales—story, strategy, or execution? Where does season 23 land compared to past Top Chef years, and could new locations like Hawaii, Alaska, or the Southwest invigorate the next round? Follow the full discussion for sharp culinary insights, chef-centric analysis, and the definitive take on Top Chef's season 23 finale. Chapters: 00:00 Saying Goodbye to Carolinas 06:14 Tom Closes Flagship Restaurant 08:46 Finale Challenge Toasts Announced 13:13 Families Arrive, Emotions Run High 19:27 Judges Debate Grocery Store Choices 22:16 Course One: Sweet Potato Stuns 27:56 Course Two: Lawrence's Dim Sum 33:04 Duck Mishap Changes Competition 40:08 Rhoda's Game-Winning Calderetta 51:20 Rhoda Crowned New Top Chef 57:56 Season Reflections and Highlights Never miss a minute of Top Chef coverage! LISTEN: Subscribe to the We Know Top Chef feed WATCH:  Watch and subscribe to the podcast on YouTube SUPPORT:  Become a RHAP Patron for bonus content, access to Facebook and Discord groups plus more great perks!