Podcasts about Chinglish

Slang for English that is influenced by the Chinese language

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一席英语·脱口秀:老外来了
手机先吃?Chinglish可爱?老外坦白局大公开!

一席英语·脱口秀:老外来了

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2025 7:44


主播:Selah (美国) + 梅莉 (法国) 音乐:Friends欢迎大家来到《老外来了》特辑“老外请回答!”第2期!Q1. “你觉得中式英语该被消灭还是被保护?”"Do you think Chinglish should be protected or gotten rid of?"Final answer 1: Instead of trying to 消灭 (get rid of) it, we just need to use it in the right context (在恰当的语境中使用)—like seasoning (调味品). A little bit in the right dish makes it even better.Final answer 2: 在正式场合我们要注意语言的准确性,但在日常交流中,Chinglish真的蛮可爱的!For people who've grown up in a 双语家庭 (bilingual household) —this kind of language mix (语言混用) can feel really natural.And sometimes Chinglish is super creative, like “add oil” — a direct translation of “加油”. It's like a linguistic inside joke (语言上的“圈内梗”). But in formal situations (正式场合)—like school essays or business emails—it's better to use standard English (标准英语).Q2. “你们国家有饭前先拍照的习惯吗?”“Does your country have a ‘take a picture before you eat' kind of habit?”Final answer 1: In the US, they call this “my phone eats first.” It's like... you don't dare touch your food until you've gotten the perfect angle (角度), lighting, everything. Especially if it's something super pretty—like latte art (咖啡拉花) or a fancy dessert (美味的甜点) or if it's your first time at a famous restaurant. 美美的食物,当然要先拍照啦~ Final answer 2: It's become part of modern food culture, not just in the US but globally now.不过有些人也会觉得这样有点烦。Some people even make rules—like, okay, ONE picture, then phones down. That's a good compromise (折中办法).But if it's something homemade (自制的) and you're really proud of it, post away, Maelle said. 梅莉觉得自己辛苦做的饭尤其值得在朋友圈或者小红书上晒一晒!Q3. “如果必须选一个,一年不喝奶茶,还是一年不吃炸鸡?”“Would you go a year without milk tea or a year without fried chicken?”Final answer 1: This one is easy for Maelle, “I would choose to give up fried chicken. I just love 奶茶 too much. It's like my emotional support drink.”Final answer 2: For Selah, she thinks she eats 炸鸡 more often and in more circumstances (在更多时候), so this would be harder to give up!Fried chicken is so versatile (百搭的)—it can be part of a meal, a snack, comfort food (疗愈系美食)… And there are so many styles too—美式南方炸鸡、韩式炸鸡、台式盐酥鸡......04. Meme Sentence Challenge 梗图造句挑战今天的趣味挑战是——用“泰酷辣”来夸一夸英国菜!To say something over-the-top about British food (用夸张的方式“赞美”英国菜). “This boiled potato with no salt? 泰酷辣! It's like… flavor went on vacation!” (这土豆也太原味了,味道去度假了吗?)“Baked beans on toast? 泰酷辣! Michelin stars could never.”(米其林都做不出来的“神级”早餐~)”“This cucumber sandwich with exactly one slice of cucumber? 泰~酷~辣!It's giving… invisible luxury (隐形的奢华).”(只放一片黄瓜,低调到极致)“A proper cup of British tea with milk? 泰酷辣! Smooth. Classic. Basically emotional support in a mug (柔顺、经典,一杯能抚慰灵魂的奶茶).”And jokes aside, British food does have its charm. 我们只是用“泰酷辣”的语气来玩个梗,其实还是很尊重英国文化的。British friends, we're just having fun—no hard feelings (别介意哈)! 我们今天从Chinglish聊到拍照文化,再聊到炸鸡奶茶,还有British food 的“泰酷辣”时刻。 If you had fun, don't forget to follow, leave a comment, and share the episode with your friends! 欢迎大家留言告诉我们你最喜欢的问题,或者你自己的回答。我们可能会在下一期节目读出你的答案哦!And if you have a spicy question (有趣的问题) you want us to answer…请在留言区告诉我们,我们下期再见!

Eat. Talk. Repeat.
12.7.24 Burgers, Sake Bombs, Caviar Bumps, and Brash Opinions

Eat. Talk. Repeat.

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 7, 2024 47:29


On Today's Menu: Sake bombs > caviar bumps 2024 Eater Las Vegas Award Winners just dropped… will they piss John off? John's a slut for fancy soap Burger throwdown: Peter Luger vs. Wally's Picking on The Hamburguesa Principessa in her absence When do you know a restaurant is f*cked? The minute they say they're getting a DJ The best burger in Las Vegas debate is coming soon… Vintner Grill: a controversial review Pet peeves right up there with the fingernail pizza – IYKYK Food News You Can Use: Major Awards 2024 on eatinglv.com Desert Companion Awards 2024 are out! DW Bistro bids farewell, over and out Chinglish team to open Hot Noods at the revamped El Cortez Venetian gets meatier… paperwork has been submitted for Fogo de Chao Bar & Yurt Concept… Viking Mike's… to come to the Arts District Le Cafe du Vegas is opening a third location Batch Hospitality looks to open a second location for Table 34 The Guest House at Town Square Taking over Tommy Bahama space at Town Square New Mexican Restaurant Amaya Modern Mexican, opening at the Cosmopolitan the first week of January Recent Ventures: Haochi by Chinamama Sushi Hiro Dark Moon Coffee Roasters The Legends Oyster Bar and Grill Le Thai 2 Peter Luger Steak House WALLY'S Pet Peeves: John: Lotus of Siam | Red Rock Restaurant… go at your own risk Sam: Vintner Grill Ash: Sam Spots Mentioned: Iwana Specialty Coffee Able Baker Brewing Stray Pirate Liquid Diet Nusr-Et Peter Luger Steak House Bavette's Steakhouse & Bar Nicco's Steakhouse Mae Daly's Don's Prime Vintner Grill Garagiste Jive Turkey Hard Hat Lounge Yukon Pizza Questions, comments, hate mail? Email us at cheers@eattalkrepeat.com! Thanks for tuning into today's episode! If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the show, & make sure you leave us a 5-star review. Visit us at⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Eating Las Vegas⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ &⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Eat. Talk. Repeat.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow us on social: Twitter:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@EatTalkRepeat⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠,⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@EatingLasVegas⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠,⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@WhatsRightSam⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, &⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@AshTheAttorney⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Instagram:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@EatTalkRepeatLV⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠,⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@JohnCurtas⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠,⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@WhatsRightSam⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, &⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@AshTheAttorney

Round Table China
'You swan, he frog' is Chinglish at its best

Round Table China

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 20, 2024 27:06


Grocery shopping for ingredients and getting them cooked for you on the spot - without spending a penny more! Shenzhen's fresh produce markets are redefining convenience and setting a new benchmark for food experiences. How do you think this trend will influence other markets and restaurants? / 'You swan, he frog' and other endearing Chinglish quirks (20:55). On the show: Heyang, Steve Hatherly & Yushan

SBS Hakha Chin - SBS Hakha Chin
Chin le Mirang Hla Komh II Lian2x Le SBS Hakha Chin Biaruahnak

SBS Hakha Chin - SBS Hakha Chin

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 22, 2024 19:09


Chin le English, mirang le lai holh komh in hla a phuah mi le a sa mi Lian Lian he biaruahnak kan ngei kho. Chan thar mino nih an uar phun, Chin le English an komh hla an phuah i a tawinak in Chinglish tiah min an bunh. Kan biaruahnak a dihdongh tiang rak ngai ve.

Food and Loathing
Culinary Hangover

Food and Loathing

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 14, 2024 74:35


It's Al and Rich in this week's episode, which starts off with a review of all the festivities surrounding The World's 50 Best Restaurants' time in Las Vegas. We kick off with a post-event rundown from Elizabeth Blau, who was instrumental in convincing the event to come here. She also organized Wynn Las Vegas' companion culinary festival, Revelry. Other interviews include Chinglish's Ken Heck, Suzuya Cafe's Misuzu Ebihara and Azzurra Wine Bar owner Windom Kimsey. And we have news on Dan Krohmer, Mariana Alvarado, Roy Ellamar, Crystina Ngyuen and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

半夜微醺Drunkirk
【#幹話神秘學】Ep.263|Johnny English與Johnny Chinglish:Mathew Trickett離奇死亡四個可能|HAARP似你的陰謀|半夜微醺 Drunkirk

半夜微醺Drunkirk

Play Episode Listen Later May 23, 2024 175:27


【#幹話神秘學】Ep.263|Johnny English與Johnny Chinglish:Mathew Trickett離奇死亡四個可能|HAARP似你的陰謀|半夜微醺 Drunkirk 影片連結:https://youtube.com/live/xTw7mvwVlxc #HAARP #MathewTrickett #陰謀 近日地球不少地方被極光籠罩,英美澳紐都可輕易觀賞到極光,不再是地球兩極頂端獨家的珍貴風光,閒人都可隨意張望。而且專家更表示,由於太陽風暴牛巿放題,極光無限未來盛況,誰都可以窺探。 天生渴望。 氣象專家表示極光密集閃耀,是因為太陽進入了為期十一年的太陽周期最活躍時期,太陽封了嘴也不會靜,綁了手也不會停,太陽風暴會一直影響地球,除了有絢爛的極光,還會隨之附送地磁暴、X射線脈衝和極紫外線輻射,可能會影響甚至損毁導航系統、電網和衛星等服務,連Space X的Starlink的服務質素都可能因而下降,隨時連Deadpool同Wolverine都好打啲。不過陰謀論者卻沒有認同專家的解釋,將氣候變化甚至天災都歸咎於美國的HAARP。 HAARP(High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program,高頻主動式極光研究項目)是一個美國學術研究計劃,但這個遠在阿拉斯加的計劃不似只是一般研究電離層和修補臭氧層那麼簡單,人所共知HAARP是有政府和軍方身影的計劃,陰謀論者認為HAARP是能夠製造極端天氣情況,成為氣象武器,有可能近年的地震、海嘯等災難,都並非天災咁單純。HAARP可以製造狂風猛風怒似狂龍,又能捲起巨浪亂撞亂動,雷電用疾勁暴力,劃破這世界震裂天空。若果天文台明明只是掛黃雨,但你嗰邊大雨到災難咁,咁你首先望下街上有無見馬浚偉喺度游水,然後可以指責係美帝的HARRP陰謀。尤其喺委內瑞拉前總統查維斯都公開指責過HAARP造成海地地震,這個HAARP陰謀更被加持。而且,亦有陰謀論者指出,HAARP發出的低頻可使人類情緒波動,即可操縱人類集體作出某一類行為。如陰謀屬實,HAARP便成了繼熱兵器和電腦攻擊後的重大軍事武器,不戰而HAARP人之兵,成個X Men暴風女咁,或Lorelei咁。 傾密計去Discord~:https://discord.gg/N24SpkP8m4 _ 加入天文學會,你唔會後悔。⬇️ Youtube會員:https://bit.ly/3u85q1L Podcast會員:https://apple.co/3AVfRqD 一週工作尾聲,讓我們微醺一點。 眾人皆醉我更醉,微醺中更清楚面對自己、看見世界。 逢星期三、五晚上,使我們在死前多一點品味。 節目類型:一個坦誠尖酸的社會觀察、文化研究過程 主持:陳四、VVN 支援小平台,敬希打賞,少少無拘:https://shorturl.at/cfyHZ 半夜微醺Drunkirk Youtube: https://bit.ly/3zzZ6PE ➤歡迎分享影片連結 ➤➤本頻道合作提案請洽:team@drunkirk.com 會有專人回覆你! _ Youtube視像版及各大Podcast : Apple Podcast • Google Podcast • KKBOX • Firstory • Spotify Linktree:https://linktr.ee/drunkirk #podcast #半夜微醺Drunkirk #Drunkirk #半夜微醺 #廣東話Podcast Powered by Firstory Hosting

Musical Theatre Radio presents
Be Our Guest with Van Dean (Center Stage Records)

Musical Theatre Radio presents "Be Our Guest"

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 10, 2024 24:43


Van Dean is a Tony® Award and Grammy® Award winning producer.  He co-founded Broadway Records which released nearly 300 albums during his leadership. Van earned his Grammy Award for helping to produce the Broadway Records' release of the 2015 Broadway revival of The Color Purple.  His Grammy nominations were earned for his work on Matilda the Musical, My Fair Lady and Caroline, or Change.  Van also executive produced well over 200 other albums including 9 that were Grammy Award nominated. His theatrical production credits include The Gershwin's Porgy and Bess (Tony® Award), Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella (Tony® Award nomination), Anastasia, Jagged Little Pill by Alanis Morissette and Diablo Cody  (Tony® Award nomination), How to Dance In Ohio, The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical, Matilda (Tony® Award nomination), Evita (Tony® Award nomination), Gore Vidal's The Best Man (Tony® Award nomination), Catch Me If You Can (Tony® Award nomination), The Velocity of Autumn, Big Fish, Bonnie & Clyde, Chinglish, the Off-Broadway production of You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown (2016) and ROOMS a rock romance and the national tours of Anastasia, Matilda, Cinderella, The Lightning Thief and more. He was also a producer of Master Class with Tyne Daly and the 2022 and 2023 productions of Bonnie & Clyde in London's West End.  Upcoming: Death Note, Wild, Goodbye New York, SMASH, Figaro, Little Dancer, Song of Bernadette.   He co-produced Broadway For Orlando's “What The World Needs Now Is Love” to raise funds for the GLBT Community Center of Central Florida. The charity single was featured on NBC's “Maya and Marty” and at the Democratic National Convention in 2016.  He co-conceived and co-Executive Produced the anti-bullying single “I Have A Voice” featuring 70 Broadway kids from Matilda, School of Rock and more and co-produced the new Broadway United music video of “We Are The World”. He also co-conceived and produced From Broadway With Love: A Benefit Concert For Sandy Hook featuring 100 Broadway stars, a 40 piece orchestra and 300+ children from Newtown and From Broadway With Love: A Benefit Concert for Parkland, USA at the BB&T Center Arena in Sunrise, FL and co-produced the Emmy® Award winning From Broadway With Love: A Benefit Concert For Orlando.  He is also a co-producer of the feature film documentary “Midsummer in Newtown” which premiered as a Spotlight selection at Tribeca Film Festival. Van has several major film and television musicals in pre-production.  Center Stage Records is a new label dedicated to the preservation of Broadway, London, Off-Broadway, new musicals in development and theater-related solo albums

早安英文-最调皮的英语电台
City walk竟然是Chinglish?

早安英文-最调皮的英语电台

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 9, 2023 7:45


笔记:citywalk 城市漫游 city 城市,加上walk行走,可以理解为“城市漫游”,这个词起源于“London Walks”伦敦的一种户外旅行风潮。其实在英文当中并没有这种说法。 Citywalk means "roaming around the city" on foot. It can be a special guided trip for a small group of people, or simply a leisurely stroll for one or two to explore new areas. Citywalk的意思是“在城市里漫步”。它可以是一小群人的特殊导游之旅,也可以是一两个人的悠闲漫步,探索新的地方。获取节目完整音频、笔记和片尾的歌曲名,请关注微信公众号「早安英文」,回复“笔记”即可。更多有意思的英语干货等着你!

When Lightning Strikes!
#64 - WHEN LIGHTNING STRIKES! WITH LEIGH SILVERMAN

When Lightning Strikes!

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 7, 2023 31:14


A prolific director on Broadway and off, some of Leigh Silverman's credits include Violet, Grand Horizons, The Lifespan of a Fact, Chinglish, Well, SUFFS, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, Soft Power, Sandra, Hurricane Diane,The Wild Party and Really Rosie. A Tony award nominee, Leigh has directed over 60 world premieres and musicals. Her latest show, Merry Me, is now playing at New York Theatre Workshop. Leigh will soon be reuniting with Billy Crudup directing him in the Berkeley Rep production of Harry Clarke. He performed the show at the Vineyard and Audible theaters.  This episode was recorded on October 26, 2023. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

潘吉Jenny告诉你|学英语聊美国|开言英语 · Podcast

获取节目完整文本,请关注微信公众号:开言英语OpenLanguage。更多精彩内容和福利等着你!你爱city walk吗?今年这个概念异常火爆。我们也收到不少听众留言,希望我们聊这个话题。Jenny和Adam今天就要告诉你,其实native speakers根本不会用city walk这个说法。

SBS Mandarin - SBS 普通话电台
EP6. Rethink Chinese English (澳洲人能听懂我的“中式英语”吗?) - EP6. 澳洲人能听懂我的“中式英语”吗?

SBS Mandarin - SBS 普通话电台

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 18, 2023 21:46


Mandarin speakers should feel proud of our Chinese English instead of being embarrassed. In this episode, we talk to a linguistic expert about how we can use our unique blend of Chinese and English, called Chinglish or Chinese English, to make learning English more enjoyable. - 普通话使用者应该为我们的中式英语感到自豪,而不是感到尴尬。在这一集中,我们与语言专家讨论了如何利用我们独特的中英混合语言,即中式英语或中式英语,使学习英语更加愉快。

早安英文
Episode 1217: “体检”秒变“尸检”?这个英文单词可不兴乱说。。。

早安英文

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 19, 2023 8:22


Sanya On-Air
CHINGY Talks New Music & Lasting 20+ Years in the Music Industry

Sanya On-Air

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2023 60:41


Chingy is known for his hit songs "Right Thurr," "Fly Like Me," and "Pulling Me Back" to name a few helped shape the magical musical era of the early 2000's.With 20+ years in the music industry, Chingy shares how he got his rap name, touring with Usher and Nelly, the pitfalls artists should avoid, Chinglish and so much more! #chingy #chinglish #usher #nelly #jodeci #ludacris #2000shiphop Sanya On-Air; unpacking celebrity pivotal moments and milestones.SUBSCRIBE! SUBSCRIBE! SUBSCRIBE! SUBSCRIBE! SUBSCRIBE!Visit Sanya On-Air Celebrity  Interviews:Site: https://www.sanyaonair.net/Follow: IG @Sanya_OnAir Shop:Sanya On-Air Apparel: https://sanya-on-air.creator-spring.comInstaCart: https://instacart.oloiyb.net/c/2932145/1447547/7412**This post contains affiliate links, and I will be compensated if you make a purchase after clicking on the InstaCart link.Support:Cash App: $SanyaHudsonAlso Streaming:YouTube: https://youtu.be/laIwRR0xirIiHeartRadio: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/256-sanya-on-air-31129825/Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2jknmuSeMzr75fJjoelowI?si=ukNu0eomQwicoNiHb4JZGQ&dl_branch=1Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5idXp6c3Byb3V0LmNvbS8yMjI4OTEucnNzAmazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/1452aeb2-4954-4793-96ad-3b9fc07f3b00/sanya-on-airPandora: https://www.pandora.com/podcast/sanya-on-air/PC:48820?part=PC:48820&corr=podcast_organic_external_site&TID=Brand:POC:PC48820:podcast_organic_external_siteApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sanya-on-air/id1440881892?uo=4Castbox: https://castbox.fm/channel/id1723035?utm_source=website&utm_medium=dlink&utm_campaign=ex_share_ch&utm_content=Sanya%20On-Air-CastBox_FMSUBSCRIBE! SUBSCRIBE! SUBSCRIBE! SUBSCRIBE!Want to promote your brand on a digital billboard across 41 U.S. cities? Email sanya@sanyaonair.net for more information.Production Credits:Theme Song: HeismanVideographer: S.H.EDigital Studio Design Team: Renaissance Management Services & Studio of DesignSegment Music: HeismanSupport the show

KPFA - Bookwaves/Artwaves
Bookwaves/Artwaves – June 8, 2023: Robert Anton Wilson – Fay Weldon

KPFA - Bookwaves/Artwaves

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 8, 2023 59:57


Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to assorted local theater & book venues   Bookwaves Robert Anton Wilson (1932-2007), interviewed by Richard Wolinsky in February 1983, recorded in a car in the Santa Cruz mountains during a rainstorm. Digitized, remastered and edited in May, 2023. Robert Anton Wilson had a remarkable career. Starting as a writer of comic science fiction based on historical stories of conspiracy, his work soon turned in the direction of physics, psychology, and futurism, and described himself as an agnostic mystic. In the religion or philosophy known as discordianism, he is considered both pope and saint. A journalist in his early career, he co-edited the Playboy Magazine forum, and covered the work of both Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert, later known as Ram Dass. Most of his best known works were written in the 1970s and 1980s, though he continued to write non-fiction into the 21st century. These include The Illuminati Trilogy, co-written with Robert Shea, The Schrodinger's Cat and Cosmic Trigger trilogies, and Prometheus Rising. His early works were published by large commercial presses; his later by small presses. Most, of not all, of his books still remain in print. The three books mentioned toward the end of the interview were all published and are all available. Complete 32-minute interview.   Bookwaves Fay Weldon (1931-2023) who died on January 4th, 2023 at the age of 91, published 31 novels during her lifetime, including The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, one of four novels which later became films. She was also a playwright, short story writer, television writer and non-fiction author. Richard A. Lupoff and Richard Wolinsky interviewed her twice in the KPFA studios. This second interview was recorded on January 21, 1992 while she was on tour for two novels, Darcy's Utopia and Life Force Fay Weldon's career continued for the next thirty years after the interview with several novels, including a sequel to She-Devil, more plays, more short stories and several works of non-fiction. This interview was digitized, remastered, and edited in June, 2023 by Richard Wolinsky. First time on the air in over thirty years. Complete 34-minute Interview. First Fay Weldon interview, recorded March 1990 while she was on tour for The Cloning of Joanna May.   Book Interview/Events and Theatre Links Note: Shows may unexpectedly close early or be postponed due to actors' positive COVID tests. Check the venue for closures, ticket refunds, and vaccination and mask requirements before arrival. Dates are in-theater performances unless otherwise noted. Some venues operate Tuesday – Sunday; others Wednesday or Thursday through Sunday. All times Pacific Time. Closing dates are sometimes extended. Book Stores Bay Area Book Festival  Lists of guests at the upcoming Book Festival, May 6-7, 2023, event calendar and links to previous events. Book Passage.  Monthly Calendar. Mix of on-line and in-store events. Books Inc.  Mix of on-line and in-store events. The Booksmith.   Monthly Calendar. On-line events only. Center for Literary Arts, San Jose. See website for Book Club guests in upcoming months. Green Apple Books. Events calendar. Kepler's Books  On-line Refresh the Page program listings. Live Theater Companies Actor's Reading Collective (ARC).  See website for past streams. Alter Theatre. See website for upcoming productions. American Conservatory Theatre  The Wizard of Oz  adapted by John Kane for the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, based on the classic motion picture, June 1 – June 25. Aurora Theatre  Hurricane Diane by Madeleine George, June 16 – July 16. Streaming July 12 -16. Awesome Theatre Company. Check website for upcoming live shows and streaming. Berkeley Rep Let The Right One In, a stage adaptation by Jack Thorne. Through June 25, 2023 at the Roda Theatre. Boxcar Theatre. See website for calendar listings. Brava Theatre Center: See website for events. BroadwaySF: The Book of Mormon, May 23 – June 13, Orpheum. Into the Woods, June 20–15, Curran. Les Miserables, July 6 – 23, Orpheum. Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, August 1-27, 2023, Golden Gate. Broadway San Jose: Beetlejuice, August 1 – 6. California Shakespeare Theatre (Cal Shakes). No 2023 season scheduled. See website for events calendar. Center Rep: In The Heights, May 27  – June 24. Central Works The Dignity Circle a new scheme by Lauren Smerkanich June 24 – July 23. Cinnabar Theatre. Tosca, June 9 – 25. Contra Costa Civic Theatre 2023-2024 season: Sondheim on Sondheim; Tintypes. Curran Theater: Into The Woods, direct from Broadway, June 20-25, 2023. Custom Made Theatre. Tiny Fires by Aimee Suzara, postponed to a later date in 2023. Cutting Ball Theatre. 2023/24 season announcement, June 11, 4 pm. 42nd Street Moon. She Loves Me, June 8 – June 24, Gateway Theatre. Golden Thread  See website for ongoing special events. Landmark Musical Theater.  My Unauthorized Hallmark Movie Musical, June 17, 4 pm, at the Landmark, 533 Sutter, SF. Lorraine Hansberry Theatre. In The Evening By The Moonlight by Traci Tolmaire, co-created and directed by Margo Hall, June 15 – July 2, Young Performers Theatre, Fort Mason, San Francisco. Magic Theatre. Josephine's Feast, August 2 – 20. See website for other events at the Magic. Marin Theatre Company Odyssey written and directed by Lisa Peterson, August 31 – September 24. Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts Upcoming Events Page. New Conservatory Theatre Center (NCTC)  The Confession of Lily Dare by Charles Busch, May 12 – June 11. Drag Queen Storytime Gone Wild starring the Kinsey Sicks, July 5 -16/ Oakland Theater Project.  Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee, May 26 – June 18. Pear Theater. Falsettos,  June 30 – July 23. PianoFight. Permanently closed as of March 18, 2023. Presidio Theatre. See website for upcoming productions Ray of Light: Spring Awakening, June 8-10, Victoria Theatre. Cruel Intentions: The '90s Musical, September 8 – October 1, Victoria Theatre. The Rocky Horror Show, Oasis Nightclub, October 6  – 31. See website for Spotlight Cabaret Series at Feinstein's at the Nikko. San Francisco Playhouse.  Chinglish by David Henry Hwang, May 4 – June 10, 2023. A Chorus Line starts June 22, 2023. SFBATCO See website for upcoming streaming and in- theater shows. San Jose Stage Company: 40th Anniversary Celebration, June 26, 2023. Shotgun Players. Yerma based on the play by Federico Garcia Lorca. Through June 18. South Bay Musical Theatre: Rent, September 30 – October 21. The Breath Project. Streaming archive. The Marsh: Calendar listings for Berkeley, San Francisco and Marshstream. Theatre Rhino  Gumiho, staged reading June 13. Streaming: Essential Services Project, conceived and performed by John Fisher, all weekly performances now available on demand, New performances most Wednesdays. TheatreWorks Silicon Valley. Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling, June 7 – July 2, 2023, Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts. Word for Word.  See schedule for  one-night readings and streaming performances. Misc. Listings: BAM/PFA: On View calendar for BAM/PFA. Berkeley Symphony: See website for listings. Chamber Music San Francisco: Calendar, 2023 Season. Dance Mission Theatre. On stage events calendar. Oregon Shakespeare Festival: Calendar listings and upcoming shows. San Francisco Opera. Calendar listings. San Francisco Symphony. Calendar listings. Filmed Live Musicals: Searchable database of all filmed live musicals, podcast, blog. If you'd like to add your bookstore or theater venue to this list, please write Richard@kpfa.org                   The post Bookwaves/Artwaves – June 8, 2023: Robert Anton Wilson – Fay Weldon appeared first on KPFA.

KPFA - Bay Area Theater
Interview: Bill English, San Francisco Playhouse

KPFA - Bay Area Theater

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 3, 2023 64:12


Susi Damilano and Bill English, co-founders of San Francisco Playhouse. Bill English, Artistic Director of San Francisco Playhouse, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky, recorded via Zencastr May 29, 2023. San Francisco Playhouse was founded in 2003 by Bill English and Susi Damilano and has grown into a major regional theatre, with several world premieres later moving on to future productions in New York and elsewhere. In this interview, Bill English discusses the current show at San Francisco Playhouse, Chinglish by David Henry Hwang, which runs through June 10, 2023, and the upcoming production of A Chorus Line, which starts previews on June 22, 2023. He also talks about the upcoming 2023-2024 season, as well as the state of the company three years after the pandemic shutdown. The post Interview: Bill English, San Francisco Playhouse appeared first on KPFA.

KPFA - Bookwaves/Artwaves
Bookwaves/Artwaves – June 1, 2023: Martin Amis – Bill English

KPFA - Bookwaves/Artwaves

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2023 59:58


Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to assorted local theater & book venues   Bookwaves Martin Amis in 2007. Martin Amis (1949-2023), in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky for the “Probabilities” program, recorded in the KPFA studios November 26, 1991 while on tour for the paperback edition of “London Fields.” First of five interviews conducted over a 23 year span. Martin Amis, who died of esophageal cancer on May 19th, 2023 at the age of 73, was a leading English novelist, essayist, memoirist and screenwriter. Known for such novels as London Fields, Money, Time's Arrow, The Information and The Zone of Interest, his memoir Experience won the Booker Prize, and his essay collection The War Against Cliché is now considered a classic. The son of novelist and essayist Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis was close friends with Christopher Hitchens, Saul Bellow and Philip Larkin, all of whom he wrote about in his final novel, which was actually a memoir, Inside Story, in 2020. This is the first of five interviews recorded with Martin Amis. and has not been heard in over a quarter century and was digitized, remastered and edited in May, 2023. Front photo by Richard Wolinsky in the KPFA studios in 2014. Page photo: Creative Commons.   Artwaves Susi Damilano and Bill English, co-founders of San Francisco Playhouse. Bill English, Artistic Director of San Francisco Playhouse, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky, recorded via Zencastr May 29, 2023. San Francisco Playhouse was founded in 2003 by Bill English and Susi Damilano and has grown into a major regional theatre, with several world premieres later moving on to future productions in New York and elsewhere. In this interview, Bill English discusses the current show at San Francisco Playhouse, Chinglish by David Henry Hwang, which runs through June 10, 2023, and the upcoming production of A Chorus Line, which starts previews on June 22, 2023. He also talks about the upcoming 2023-2024 season, as well as the state of the company three years after the pandemic shutdown.   Review of “Let The Right One In' at Berkeley Rep's Roda Theatre through June 25, 2023.   Book Interview/Events and Theatre Links Note: Shows may unexpectedly close early or be postponed due to actors' positive COVID tests. Check the venue for closures, ticket refunds, and vaccination and mask requirements before arrival. Dates are in-theater performances unless otherwise noted. Some venues operate Tuesday – Sunday; others Wednesday or Thursday through Sunday. All times Pacific Time. Closing dates are sometimes extended. Book Stores Bay Area Book Festival  Lists of guests at the upcoming Book Festival, May 6-7, 2023, event calendar and links to previous events. Book Passage.  Monthly Calendar. Mix of on-line and in-store events. Books Inc.  Mix of on-line and in-store events. The Booksmith.   Monthly Calendar. On-line events only. Center for Literary Arts, San Jose. See website for Book Club guests in upcoming months. Green Apple Books. Events calendar. Kepler's Books  On-line Refresh the Page program listings. Live Theater Companies Actor's Reading Collective (ARC).  See website for past streams. Alter Theatre. See website for upcoming productions. American Conservatory Theatre  The Wizard of Oz  adapted by John Kane for the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, based on the classic motion picture, June 1 – June 25. Aurora Theatre  Hurricane Diane by Madeleine George, June 16 – July 16. Streaming July 12 -16. Awesome Theatre Company. Check website for upcoming live shows and streaming. Berkeley Rep Let The Right One In, a stage adaptation by Jack Thorne. Through June 25, 2023 at the Roda Theatre. Boxcar Theatre. See website for calendar listings. Brava Theatre Center: See website for events. BroadwaySF: The Book of Mormon, May 23 – June 13, Orpheum. Into the Woods, June 20–15, Curran. Les Miserables, July 6 – 23, Orpheum. Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, August 1-27, 2023, Golden Gate. Broadway San Jose: Beetlejuice, August 1 – 6. California Shakespeare Theatre (Cal Shakes). No 2023 season scheduled. See website for events calendar. Center Rep: In The Heights, May 27  – June 24. Central Works The Dignity Circle a new scheme by Lauren Smerkanich June 24 – July 23. Cinnabar Theatre. Tosca, June 9 – 25. Contra Costa Civic Theatre 2023-2024 season: Sondheim on Sondheim; Tintypes. Curran Theater: Into The Woods, direct from Broadway, June 20-25, 2023. Custom Made Theatre. Tiny Fires by Aimee Suzara, postponed to a later date in 2023. Cutting Ball Theatre. Towards Opulence, The Opera. June 3-4. 42nd Street Moon. She Loves Me, June 8 – June 24, Gateway Theatre. Golden Thread  See website for ongoing special events. Landmark Musical Theater.  Hair, May 6 – June 4, at the Landmark, 533 Sutter, SF. Lorraine Hansberry Theatre. In The Evening By The Moonlight by Traci Tolmaire, co-created and directed by Margo Hall, June 15 – July 2, Young Performers Theatre, Fort Mason, San Francisco. Magic Theatre. Josephine's Feast, August 2 – 20. See website for other events at the Magic. Marin Theatre Company Odyssey written and directed by Lisa Peterson, August 31 – September 24. Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts Upcoming Events Page. New Conservatory Theatre Center (NCTC)  The Confession of Lily Dare by Charles Busch, May 12 – June 11. Oakland Theater Project.  Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee, May 26 – June 18. Pear Theater. Falsettos,  June 30 – July 23. PianoFight. Permanently closed as of March 18, 2023. Presidio Theatre. See website for upcoming productions Ray of Light: Spring Awakening In Concert, June 8-10, Victoria Theatre. Cruel Intentions: The '90s Musical, September 8 – October 1, Victoria Theatre. The Rocky Horror Show, Oasis Nightclub, October 6  – 31. See website for Spotlight Cabaret Series at Feinstein's at the Nikko. San Francisco Playhouse.  Chinglish by David Henry Hwang, May 4 – June 10, 2023. A Chorus Line starts June 22, 2023. SFBATCO See website for upcoming streaming and in- theater shows. San Jose Stage Company: 40th Anniversary Celebration, June 26, 2023. Shotgun Players. Yerma based on the play by Federico Garcia Lorca. Through June 18. South Bay Musical Theatre: Singin' In the Rain, May 13 – June 3. The Breath Project. Streaming archive. The Marsh: Calendar listings for Berkeley, San Francisco and Marshstream. Theatre Rhino  Gumiho, staged reading June 13. Streaming: Essential Services Project, conceived and performed by John Fisher, all weekly performances now available on demand, New performances most Wednesdays. TheatreWorks Silicon Valley. Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling, June 7 – July 2, 2023, Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts. Word for Word.  See schedule for  one-night readings and streaming performances. Misc. Listings: BAM/PFA: On View calendar for BAM/PFA. Berkeley Symphony: See website for listings. Chamber Music San Francisco: Calendar, 2023 Season, starting February. Dance Mission Theatre. On stage events calendar. Oregon Shakespeare Festival: Calendar listings and upcoming shows. San Francisco Opera. Calendar listings. San Francisco Symphony. Calendar listings. Filmed Live Musicals: Searchable database of all filmed live musicals, podcast, blog. If you'd like to add your bookstore or theater venue to this list, please write Richard@kpfa.org                 The post Bookwaves/Artwaves – June 1, 2023: Martin Amis – Bill English appeared first on KPFA.

One Broke Actress Podcast
11.13 - The Mother's Day Round Table with Actresses Linara Washington, Christine Lin, and Wendy Wynne

One Broke Actress Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2023 79:36


Happy Mother's Day! To the mothers out there, to those who have chosen not to have children, for those who can't, for those who have lost a mother, for those who may not be close with their mother, for those whose mother is their best friend. Being in this business is hard enough without having to worry about dependents, and families, and schedules, and pregnancy. For all the moms out there that are also actors, they have to juggle a million and one things all at once. Today I wanted to speak with some women who have made the choice to have children, and what that has looked like for them in their day-to-day life and in their career. We are joined by Christine Lin, a stage and screen actress born in Indiana with a biomedical and electrical engineering degree from Duke. She originated the role of Miss Zhao in "Chinglish" on Broadway. She is known for Surfside Girls, The Blacklist, and Abominable. Then we have the wonderful Linara Washington, who graduated from the University of Chicago, and who moved to Los Angeles after booking the role of Keisha in Barbershop 2. Since moving here, she has been on several of your favorite shows; Grey's Anatomy, NCIS, Madame Secretary, and more. She is the co-owner of Picture Palace Films and has produced two feature films. Last but not least, we have Wendy Wynne who you can see on Who is Killing the Cheerleaders and Jesus Revolution. Wendy is a wife, mother, actor, advocate, hope dealer, cheeleader/sister/friend on a mission to remind you of your greatness! Watch the Full Video Podcast Here! 00:12 — Intro 02:45 — Welcoming Christina, Wendy, and Linara 06:25 — Time Management with Dependents 11:47 — Staying Creative 21:39 — Deciding to Have Kids 40:35 — Women Supporting Women On Set 44:04 — Having Kids On Set 52:40 — The Financial Impact of Having Kids 1:09:54 — Social Media & Kids 1:13:17 — Showing Up 1:17:40 — Wrap-Up Resources Mentioned in This Episode: Follow Christine Lin on IG @Christine2Lin Follow Linara Washington on IG @LinaraWashington Follow Wendy Wynne on IG @wendywynne Christine's IMDb Linara's IMDb Wendy's IMDb -------- Want more? Check out Patreon for bonus episodes, IG Close Friends content, and so much more. And don't miss all the content on IG and as always at, OneBrokeActress.com And if you're needing some personalized help from Sam, you can schedule a chat with her right here. Don't forget to join the mailing list here!  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/one-broke-actress-podcast/message

Mandarin Monkey Podcast
#328 - The Kings Coronation | Mandarin & English | Chinglish Prowess

Mandarin Monkey Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2023 56:10


Join us in this exciting episode of the Mandarin Monkey Podcast as we combine language learning with a deep dive into recent events and cultural experiences! This episode is perfect for anyone looking to improve their Mandarin skills while exploring fascinating topics. In today's episode, we'll discuss: King Charles III's Coronation in the UK: Learn Mandarin vocabulary related to royalty, ceremonies, and British culture as we discuss the historic coronation of King Charles III. Understand the significance of this event and improve your conversational Mandarin. Survival Games: Get back into the thrilling world of survival games and learn Mandarin phrases and gaming terminology. We'll share our experiences, favorite games, and how playing can be a fun way to enhance your language skills. Having a Knees Up: Discover the meaning behind this British expression and learn Mandarin equivalents. We'll chat about British parties, celebrations, and how to talk about them in Mandarin Chinese. Improve your Mandarin listening skills, expand your vocabulary, and immerse yourself in engaging conversations with the Mandarin Monkey Podcast. Perfect for learners at any level, our podcast offers a fun and effective way to practice and enjoy the language. Subscribe now and never miss an episode!

KPFA - Bookwaves/Artwaves
Bookwaves/Artwaves – May 4, 2023 – Philip K. Dick – Alan Furst

KPFA - Bookwaves/Artwaves

Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2023 59:58


Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to assorted local theater & book venues   Bookwaves Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) Excerpts from various sources, including KPFA, of Philip K. Dick discussing his career, his books, and his life, originally created as a memorial program by Richard Wollnsky, Richard A. Lupoff and Lawrence Davidson in the spring of 1982. Hosted by Richard Wolinsky. When science fiction writer Philip K. Dick died of a stroke on March 2, 1982 at the age of 53, most of the literary world shrugged and the entertainment world barely took notice. The film Blade Runner, based on his novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, was still a few months from its release. Today, IMDb lists nearly fifty adaptations for film, TV and other media, which includes twelve feature films and a handful of television series, from Total Recall to A Scanner Darkly to Minority Report to The Man in the High Castle and Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams. The science fiction world, though, knew it had lost one of the all time greats. Between the time the KPFA show Probabilities started in the February of 1977 until Phil Dick's death five years later, Dick Lupoff, Lawrence Davidson, and Richard Wolinsky never did get a chance to fully interview him for the program, though over the years they'd collected several excerpts to use in a two-part memorial program  which was aired some time in the spring of 1982. The show consisted of commentary and explanations from all three of us interspersed with these excerpts. As is pointed out a couple of times in the program, the sound quality of the excerpts is very uneven, and even with digital tweaking, some of it may be unintelligible.  This is the two-part show that originally aired, minus a few musical segments along with an outro from part one, and intro and outro from part two. The program was never rebroadcast, and the cassette sat in a closet for the next forty years, until it was digitized, remastered and edited in 2023.   Bookwaves Alan Furst, historical spy novelist, discussing his career,  in a short excerpt from an interview recorded in 2014 while he was on tour for Midnight in Europe. Hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Alan Furst Wikipedia page.   Book Interview/Events and Theatre Links Note: Shows may unexpectedly close early or be postponed due to actors' positive COVID tests. Check the venue for closures, ticket refunds, and vaccination and mask requirements before arrival. Dates are in-theater performances unless otherwise noted. Some venues operate Tuesday – Sunday; others Wednesday or Thursday through Sunday. All times Pacific Time. Closing dates are sometimes extended. Book Stores Bay Area Book Festival  Lists of guests at the upcoming Book Festival, May 6-7, 2023, event calendar and links to previous events. Book Passage.  Monthly Calendar. Mix of on-line and in-store events. Books Inc.  Mix of on-line and in-store events. The Booksmith.   Monthly Calendar. On-line events only. Center for Literary Arts, San Jose. See website for Book Club guests in upcoming months. Green Apple Books. Events calendar. Kepler's Books  On-line Refresh the Page program listings. Live Theater Companies Actor's Reading Collective (ARC).  See website for past streams. Alter Theatre. See website for upcoming productions. American Conservatory Theatre  Poor Yella Rednecks: Vietgone 2 by Qui Nguyen, March 30 – May 7, Strand. Aurora Theatre  Cyrano by Edmond Rostand, adapted by Josh Costello, April 7 – May 7. Awesome Theatre Company. Check website for upcoming live shows and streaming. Berkeley Rep English by Sanazz Toosi, March 31 – May 7, Peets Theatre. Boxcar Theatre. See website for calendar listings. Brava Theatre Center: See website for events. BroadwaySF: The Book of Mormon, May 23 – June 13, Orpheum Broadway San Jose: Riverdance, 25th Anniversary Show, May 12-14. 1776, May 6-21. California Shakespeare Theatre (Cal Shakes). No 2023 season scheduled. See website for events calendar. Center Rep: In The Heights, May 27  – June 24. Central Works The Dignity Circle a new scheme by Lauren Smerkanich June 24 – July 23. Cinnabar Theatre. Tosca, June 9 – 25. Contra Costa Civic Theatre To Master the Art by William Brown and Doug Frew, April 21 – May 21, 2023. Curran Theater: Into The Woods, direct from Broadway, June 20-25, 2023. Custom Made Theatre. Tiny Fires by Aimee Suzara, postponed to a later date in 2023. Cutting Ball Theatre. Exhaustion Arroyo: Dancin' Trees in the Ravine by W. Fran Astorga. April 13 – May 21. 42nd Street Moon. The Scottsboro Boys, May 4 – May 21, Gateway Theatre. Golden Thread  See website for ongoing special events. Landmark Musical Theater.  Hair, May 6 – June 4, at the Landmark, 533 Sutter, SF. Lorraine Hansberry Theatre. In The Evening By The Moonlight by Traci Tolmaire, co-created and directed by Margo Hall, June 15 – July 2, Young Performers Theatre, Fort Mason, San Francisco. Magic Theatre. The Ni¿¿er Lovers by Mark Anthony Thompson, May 3 -21. See website for other events at the Magic. Marin Theatre Company Where Did We Sit On The Bus? by Brian Quijada, May 4 – 28, Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts Upcoming Events Page. New Conservatory Theatre Center (NCTC)  Locusts Have No King by C. Julian Jimenez, April 7 – May 14. The Confession of Lily Dare by Charles Busch, May 12 – June 11. Oakland Theater Project.  Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee, May 26 – June 18. Pear Theater. Pear Slices 2023,  Original short plays. April 20 – May 14. PianoFight. Permanently closed as of March 18, 2023. Presidio Theatre. See website for upcoming productions Ray of Light: Spring Awakening In Concert, June 8-10, Victoria Theatre. Cruel Intentions: The '90s Musical, September 8 – October 1, Victoria Theatre. The Rocky Horror Show, Oasis Nightclub, October 6  – 31. See website for Spotlight Cabaret Series at Feinstein's at the Nikko. San Francisco Playhouse.  Chinglish by David Henry Hwang, May 4 – June 10, 2023. SFBATCO See website for upcoming streaming and in- theater shows. San Jose Stage Company: 40th Anniversary Celebration, June 26, 2023. Shotgun Players. Triumph of Love by Pierre de Marivaux. Streaming on demand April 26 – May 7. South Bay Musical Theatre: Singin' In the Rain, May 13 – June 3. The Breath Project. Streaming archive. The Marsh: Calendar listings for Berkeley, San Francisco and Marshstream. Theatre Rhino   Pericles by William Shakespeare, adapted and directed by John Fisher, May 26 – 27. Streaming: Essential Services Project, conceived and performed by John Fisher, all weekly performances now available on demand, New performances most Wednesdays. TheatreWorks Silicon Valley. Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling, June 7 – July 2, 2023, Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts. Word for Word.  See schedule for  one-night readings and streaming performances. Misc. Listings: BAM/PFA: On View calendar for BAM/PFA. Berkeley Symphony: See website for listings. Chamber Music San Francisco: Calendar, 2023 Season, starting February. Dance Mission Theatre. On stage events calendar. Oregon Shakespeare Festival: Calendar listings and upcoming shows. San Francisco Opera. Calendar listings. San Francisco Symphony. Calendar listings. Playbill List of Streaming Theatre: Updated weekly, this is probably the best list you'll find of national and international streaming plays and musicals. Each week has its own webpage, so scroll down. National Theatrical Streaming: Upcoming plays from around the country. Filmed Live Musicals: Searchable database of all filmed live musicals, podcast, blog. If you'd like to add your bookstore or theater venue to this list, please write Richard@kpfa.org                 The post Bookwaves/Artwaves – May 4, 2023 – Philip K. Dick – Alan Furst appeared first on KPFA.

Food and Loathing
Stanton Prime, Ada's and Chinglish

Food and Loathing

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2023 71:42


Live (on tape (well, on digits)) from Ada's Food and Wine, Al and Gemini dive deep into the joint's new name with Executive Chef Jackson Stamper, Wine Goddess Kat Lilly and the shy and retiring owner James Trees (we kid because we love). Also: a new cocktail menu has debuted at Chinglish Cantonese Wine Bar, and Chef Chris Santos has revived his iconic New York City restaurant with a slightly new name: Stanton Prime, now open at Caesars Palace. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mandarin Monkey Podcast
#324 - MANDARIN MEMES | LEARN MANDARIN CHINESE | Mandarin Monkey podcast

Mandarin Monkey Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 20, 2023 41:34


Testing Ula's knowledge of Mandarin memes. Can you translate? Looking for a fun and educational podcast that explores the intersection of Mandarin Chinese and English? Look no further than The Mandarin Monkey Podcast! Hosted by Tom, a native English speaker, and Ula, a native Mandarin Chinese speaker from Taiwan, this edutainment podcast covers a wide range of topics, from science and movies to relationships and life in general. As parents of three multiracial children, Tom and Ula also delve into the challenges of raising bilingual kids and offer tips and tricks for learning Mandarin, English, and Taiwanese at home. But that's not all - The Mandarin Monkey Podcast is also a Chinglish podcast, incorporating both Chinese and English in every episode. Tune in for a Mandarin story and vocabulary review session that will help you brush up on your language skills. And as if that weren't enough, Tom and Ula regularly invite guests from a variety of backgrounds to join them on the show, from linguists and authors to creators and doctors. So if you're looking for a podcast that will both entertain and educate you, check out The Mandarin Monkey Podcast - you won't be disappointed!

Food and Loathing
Martin Yan Opens, Jolene Mannina Picnics & Paymon Serves It Up!

Food and Loathing

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 17, 2023 65:09


It's an action-packed episode featuring some serious chefs! The man who brought Asian cuisine to public TV, Martin Yan, has opened his new place at Horseshoe. St. Patrick's Day is going to be an all-weekend affair at Ri-Ra and many other Irish joints. "Picnic in the Alley" is returning to Downtown Las Vegas, thanks to our friend and badass superwoman in culinary, Jolene Mannina. Also: Al hits Marche Bacchus, Chinglish, the new Echo & Rig, Monzu, Nobu and Naxos Taverna. Gemini cooked steak from one our favorites, Featherblade. She also judged a student culinary competition, and had time to have breakfast, sushi and libations at Golden Tiki. And all this happened during a venture to Henderson and Paymon's French Kitchen and Lounge on Eastern Avenue. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mandarin Monkey Podcast
#323 - MANDARIN WORD ASSOCIATION 2 | Mandarin Monkey Podcast | Learn Chinese by association

Mandarin Monkey Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2023 58:50


Using Mandarin Chinese and English to association 20 new words and tell some stories. Can't beat that. Looking for a fun and educational podcast that explores the intersection of Mandarin Chinese and English? Look no further than The Mandarin Monkey Podcast! Hosted by Tom, a native English speaker, and Ula, a native Mandarin Chinese speaker from Taiwan, this edutainment podcast covers a wide range of topics, from science and movies to relationships and life in general. As parents of three multiracial children, Tom and Ula also delve into the challenges of raising bilingual kids and offer tips and tricks for learning Mandarin, English, and Taiwanese at home. But that's not all - The Mandarin Monkey Podcast is also a Chinglish podcast, incorporating both Chinese and English in every episode. Tune in for a Mandarin story and vocabulary review session that will help you brush up on your language skills. And as if that weren't enough, Tom and Ula regularly invite guests from a variety of backgrounds to join them on the show, from linguists and authors to creators and doctors. So if you're looking for a podcast that will both entertain and educate you, check out The Mandarin Monkey Podcast - you won't be disappointed!

Queer Movie Podcast
Everything Everywhere All At Once (Queer Oscars)

Queer Movie Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2023 66:32


Let's talk about (spoiler alert) Jazza's favourite movie of the year (and maybe of all time) - as we look at parallel universes, googly eyes, and lesbian supervillains! Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/thequeermoviepodcast for as little as $5 per month to gain access to perks like queer movie recommendations, Discord access, and watch-a-longs. Thank you for supporting us! We're a serious podcast and have a serious sponsor, Squarespace support us! Help make the podcast profitable by going to squarespace.com/queermovie, and by using the code 'queermovie' at checkout. This is a queer movie watch party for your ears, hosted by Rowan Ellis and Jazza John. Join us as we take a look at the queer film canon, one genre at a time. From rom-coms to slashers, contemporary arthouse cinema to comedy classics - Queer Movie Podcast is a celebration of all things queer on the silver screen! New episodes every other Thursday. Find Us on the Internet Super Highway - Twitter: https://twitter.com/QueerMoviePod  - Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thequeermoviepodcast - Website: http://www.queermoviepodcast.co.uk/  - Multitude: @MultitudeShows Production - Hosts: Rowan Ellis and Jazza John - Editor: Julia Schifini - Executive Producer: Multitude - Artwork: Jessica E. Boyd   TRANSCRIPT: JAZZA:  Hello, everyone. Just before we jump into the main episode today, I want to thank our two top-level patrons, Jennifer, and Toby, who are supporting us on the rainbow parent tier, which is absolutely bloody amazing. Do you want to join them, head over to Patreon and you don't have to donate as much as they do, but we'd really appreciate anything that you can give to us. More about Patreon coming a little bit later. On with the episode, my darlings.  [theme] JAZZA:  Welcome to the Queer Movie Podcast celebrating the best— ROWAN:  —And worst— JAZZA:  In LGBTQ plus cinema, one glorious genre at a time.  ROWAN:  I'm Rowan Ellis. JAZZA:  And I'm Jazza John. ROWAN:  Each episode we discuss a movie from a different genre of cinema.  JAZZA:  This episode's genre is— JAZZA AND ROWAN: Queer Oscars 2023. ROWAN:  So in sync, so coordinated. JAZZA:  Yeah, a 100%. The—the yearly tradition of us doing the Queer Oscar stuff. So today, we're going to be talking about the best bloody movie ever made by the Daniels, Kwan, and Scheinert. And starring the best actor in the history of humanity, Michelle Yeoh, and nominated for 11 Oscars, I think. Everything Everywhere All at Once. ROWAN:  Not to spoil what Jazza thought of the movie or anything. But before we start— JAZZA:  It's my favorite movie, it's my favorite movie. I'm so fucking excite— after like the last three movies that we've done, I'm so excited to speak about something that I actually genuinely adore. I love this film. Spoiler.  ROWAN:  But before we stuff Employee of the Month awards up our asses, so we can fight Michelle herself. Jazza, what's the gayest thing you've done since the last episode? JAZZA:  So um, hi everybody, I live in New York. And I— ROWAN:  Oh, here we go again. JAZZA:  Ran out of my NHS-prescribed prep at the end of last year. And so I have been having to live like it's the 90s, oh, my God. And I just—for the first time, like a true American, which I'm not. But like a true American resident picked up my first prescription of prep from CVS. ROWAN:  You— did you have to pay American money for it? Or do—do you have an insurance? JAZZA:  No, I get it on my health insurance. ROWAN:  Oooh, look at you! JAZZA:  I got a full fe—although, can I just show you the documentation that I have to read—  ROWAN:  Yeah. JAZZA:  —when I take this. ROWAN:  I'll do an audio [2:33] Okay, here's the audio description. What's basically happened is Jazza has just come onto the webcam that I can see. And they've essentially like, you know, one of those comedy scrolls that just keeps rolling all the way down the throne room in some kind of fantasy comedy movie, that's exactly what's just—just been displayed in front of me. That is like, a world map to scale, that is so big. Have you read any of it?  JAZZA:  Yeah, well, I had to try and because, like, I know that, like what you're meant to do to take for it. But I wanted to like double check, because this is American prep, and maybe it's different. So I found the instructions of dosage and how to take it, and it says, take dosage exactly as your prescriber told you. ROWAN:  Okay. JAZZA:  Fucking useless.  ROWAN:  What—oh, did your prescriber not tell you? JAZZA:  No. But I have texted him and said, is it like normal prep and we'll find out when he texts me back, so that'd be good.  ROWAN:  Wow. JAZZA:  What's the gayest thing you did? ROWAN:  Before we go into the gayest thing, I really feel like this podcast is educational. It's very vitally important, very serious, not at all. But in cases, anyone listening who doesn't know this, if you take two or more prescriptions monthly, and you're on the NHS, like through the NHS, get yourself a prepaid certificate, because it will be cheaper. And then every single prescription you get past, I think it's literally like you have to have one and a half prescriptions a month, it will be cheaper, and every single one, it won't cost you any more money. And then when you go in and they say do you pay for prescriptions, you get to be like, I already did baby, I pre-paid. Because I didn't know that until very recently. And I've been taking two prescriptions a month for many years and didn't realize I was paying too much for them. That wasn't the gayest thing I've done though. Um. JAZZA:  [laughs] ROWAN:  What? JAZZA:  Isn't it, making—making healthcare more easy to—easier to navigate and more accessible? [4:24] ROWAN:  [4:25] that's pretty gay. No, that I actually did my first in-person talk, and since the pandemic— JAZZA:  Oh yeah, this is cool. ROWAN:  I used to do a lot of them. And I've done some in person like hosting stuff and things like that, but mostly it's been online. But I went to essentially like a organization where a bunch of like solicitors and lawyers, and legal organizations kind of have joined forces so that, that LGBT group is—has some has—has actual members and it isn't just like one person at one law firm. And I did a little talk and I am very, very proud of it, it went very, very well. And I actually think that talk is very good. It's basically about the—the parallels of the moral panic from the 80s around gay people to the trans panic now. Yeah, a lot of people came to ask me about it afterward, I think including some people who hadn't necessarily been to abreast of the situation with like the trans panic. And who had some very thoughtful questions, and I think definitely was making them think, which is, you know, what we love to do. So, If anyone wants me to come and talk, basically be very depressing for an hour, I now apparently do that professionally. But that was my gay [5:34] JAZZA:  Don't sell yourself [5:35]. If anybody wants like a really informed and provocative discussion or talk to bring to your workplace, then please get in touch with Rowan Ellis because she's one of the [5:45] ROWAN:  [5:48] JAZZA:  Yeah. ROWAN:  Oh, don't think I won't do it, I'll do it. I'm sorry, that was a threat for some reason to you. Yeah. No, that's—that was, that's pretty gay, so that's me. JAZZA:  Well done. Proud of you.  ROWAN:  Thank you. [theme] JAZZA:  So anybody who is new here, here's how we're going to do it. So first, we're going to give a little bit of context around how gay the Oscars are this year in 2023. And I am just going to carve out a little bit of time to do some gushing around how I think Michelle Yeoh is the best person on the face of the planet, how she's my bitch, and that I die for her. I watched Star Trek Discovery for Michelle Yeoh. ROWAN:  That's dedication. We will be spoiling this movie, so we would encourage you to watch it before listening to the rest of the episode because it really is very excellent. And some of these movies that we review, were like, no, don't bother, just listen to us describe what happens during the plot. But for this one, do go away and watch it and then come back.  JAZZA:  Yeah. To be clear, I think this is the best film ever made. So without further ado, let's put everything on a bagel, despair, report cards, salt, and this review of the movie, Everything Everywhere All at Once. [theme] ROWAN:  So this year we had a few options actually when we were looking at what maybe we wanted to do for— JAZZA:  No we didn't, we were always going to do this— ROWAN:  Okay, well— JAZZA:  [7:12] ROWAN:   —hypotechnically.  JAZZA:  Yeah, yeah.  ROWAN:  There would [7:13] JAZZA:  If were gonna pretend. ROWAN:  So obviously Everything Everywhere All at Once, Tar, which was the film with Cate Blanchett that we didn't enjoy, that we have already reviewed. So if you did enjoy that or not, check out the podcast on that, already out. There's also The Whale, which has earned three nominations, I think, including for Brendan Frazier's performance of a gay man, spiraling out over grief after the death of his partner. And then technically Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, [7:44] JAZZA:  Oh sure. Yeah. ROWAN:  For Best Adapted Screenplay because allegedly Ben was gay. And we also have already done that. So realis—oh, I think like, again, technically like Lady Gaga got a nomination for the theme song to Top Gun Maverick, and you know. JAZZA:  Love the Top Gun Maverick, already one of the gayest fucking movies on the planet without actually being gay. Actually did get an Oscar nomination, we could have covered it. I love that because of Lady fucking Gaga of all people. ROWAN:  Yeah. Their only— JAZZA:  It would have been quite poetic actually. Should we go back and just do Top Gun? ROWAN:  I mean, yeah, maybe it's like hey, here's a little sneak little—little cheeky episode where it's just like gay, the gay subtext genre. That is technically a genre, I guess?  JAZZA:  Hey, watch this space.  ROWAN:  And then there's also some ones that are maybe lesser known. So one of the best international feature, Close, which is from Belgium,  follows two teenage boys who have this very close friendship and then it get there like a lot of drama happens after some of their schoolmates sort of notice how close they are. And there's like a rift forms between them, which I haven't seen. And it also haven't seen after [8:48] which seems to be ambiguously gay. Where some people are like, it's very obvious that the main character is gay. And some people are like, it's—it's not, no one picked up on it, blah, blah, blah. So it's like, that was also a possibility of [9:00] this movie that everyone is obsessed with. And that I do need to see, but I need to be emotionally ready for it because apparently, it's going to tear my heart out.  JAZZA:  Great.  ROWAN:  Absolutely decimated. And so yeah, I think that the only one that we haven't covered that we might do on the podcast seems to be The Whale. But I literally—I mentioned it not to say that we shouldn't do Everything Everywhere All at Once. I just mentioned it as like, oh, we could also do the work. Like I hadn't even finished typing to send the message. Before Jazza was like absolutely the fuck not, we're doing this movie. We're not doing any other movie ever again. Only this movie.  JAZZA:  I think I might have threatened to quit.  ROWAN:  Yeah. [9:35] Okay. Good luck [9:37] Rowan. So yeah, essentially, we didn't really have a choice and by we, I mean me. But I'm fine with that. I—I um have a confession though.  JAZZA:  Go on. ROWAN:  I started watching this movie a little while ago. And I just didn't finish. I just got like— I mean I've finished it now. To be clear, I'm coming into this podcast— JAZZA:  Oh my gosh! ROWAN:  —not having watched the movie. JAZZA:  Well, you did it with Rose, so. ROWAN:  I basically got to the fanny pack fight scene, but I just like wasn't in the frame of mind to— I don't know like the ADHD was really ADHD. And I was like, I can't concentrate on anything, let alone this long movie. JAZZA:  You didn't even get that far. ROWAN:  I know. JAZZA:  The fanny pack [10:18] ROWAN:  It's really near the beginning, but my brain was just like, I can't concentrate on anything longer than about two minutes long. And I wanted to do it justice. Like I knew that so many people love this film, and I wanted to give it a good go. So I was like, I'm not just going to try and push through it. I want to actually enjoy it. So I am very happy that you forced me to watch it, because it's a very good movie. JAZZA:  Wait, had you not finished it until we were going to do this episode? ROWAN:  Yeah. I literally watched it for the episode.  JAZZA:  Oh, my God. I'm—you're welcome. ROWAN:  Your—again. Again, Jazza the way you say welcome absolutely destroys me, but— JAZZA:  Welcome. ROWAN:  Absolutely not. So basically, but I'll show you because I don't know why I thought I would be able to watch this movie. I was like, maybe I need something different to my brain. So I was like, maybe I'll just paint while I'm doing it, just like a little cute painting. But then I forgot that I had to make notes for this podcast. So I was like, trying to write notes, and then also paint. So I got like, not far through the painting whatsoever. I just got the under-the-base thing done, which is like, this is— JAZZA:  Oh that's cute. ROWAN:  —the scene where she like cracks in three, and it's like any office building. JAZZA:  Oh yeah. ROWAN:  But like none of the actual features are in, so it just looks really like blobs. But I will try and finish it by the time this goes out, so we can put it on our social media because you know, we should probably upload there, you know. JAZZA:  Hey [11:39] ROWAN:  Put things on our socials. JAZZA:  Really great for engagement. ROWAN:  Yeah, everyone loves a good [11:44] So yeah, that is essentially my context, is that the queer movies we've done, like I've done like a—together, we did a whole video about the quick history of the Oscars on my channel before, we've talked about the kind of Oscars in general in other episodes of the podcast, so I wanted to keep it just to like what's going on specifically this year, which seems to be—I would say that from the movies that I've seen, that are nominated, this one it feels like— like Tar, for example, and Knives Out and things, the sexuality is not necessarily a key part of the plot. It could be that the character like isn't queer, and it would have been reasonably similar. Whereas I think that the queer element of this film is like important to the plot. Like the— the fact— JAZZA:  Yeah 100%. ROWAN:  — that she's queer is important to what's going on here. Which I think is very—it's going to be interesting to have a little chat about. Would you like to do your context, which is basically just you talking about your [12:40] JAZZA:  Michelle Yeoh? Yeah, my girl Michelle, I'm—every gay kind of has a that one female artist, that they will die for generally. Mine in the music sphere, Shakira, and in the action sphere, Michelle Yeoh. Michelle Yeoh could probably be credited with me deciding to learn Chinese and move to China. I'm not even joking. I first— I remember watching her—the first time I ever watched her was in the James Bond movie that she was in, which was I Think Tomorrow Never Dies?  And since then, have just like, completely been obsessed with her, obsessed with her career. She went from—well before then, she started off as like a beauty queen in Malaysia, then did an advert with Jackie Chan in the 1980s because, of course, every East Asian woman in the 1980s did an advert with the Jackie Chan, they were advertising watches. Then she from that ended up being an action star and a huge star in Hong Kong in her own— right Hong Kong being the center of the movie industry in Asia. So she was in movies like when [13:51] Yes, madam, and was already this huge, huge star. She was catapulted into international stardom through James Bond and then ended up doing the Ang Lee film, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was in stuff like Memoirs of a Geisha, went on to do have supporting roles in movies like Crazy Rich Asians. And just— has just kind of like grown into playing a lot of these matriarch roles. She has a dance background and so has traditionally done all of her own stunts and all of her fight scenes, which is the same for a lot of the stuff that is in this movie. And I just think she's really fucking badass. She's learned whole languages in order to play roles. Before the 2000s she couldn't speak any Mandarin, she learned it for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and now does this whole movie, this whole movie Everything Everywhere All at Once in Mandarin, just full interviews in Mandarin. She learnt Burmese when she played Aung San Suu Kyi in The Lady hasn't aged very well that movie, but that's crazy. And she didn't speak any Cantonese before she broke into Hong Kong cinema. Like this woman is a absolutely fucking phenomenal. And she was educated at least part of her life in London, so we can claim her, she's one of us. And that's all. I love her. ROWAN:  That's very adorable.  JAZZA:  Thank you. ROWAN:  Someone, someone, someone send this to Michelle. JAZZA:  Oh, I—you know that embarrassing interaction I had with Baldwin Yang, I feel like Michelle Yeoh is one of the only other people who I would like physically combust in front of. I would not be able to handle it. ROWAN:  I love that. Yeah, we'll keep you at a distance. I'll be— if I ever see her in the street and you're with me, I'm taking, I'm like gonna rugby tackle you to the floor. I'll be like, no, Jazza shield your eyes. Like— JAZZA:  Yeah. ROWAN:  —I feel like it would just have you'd be having some kind of like angelic experience, it would burn the very soul out of you, so don't worry, I've got your back.  JAZZA:  Thank you. And just to close on one final thing before we dive into the plot of this movie. She's the first East Asian woman to be nominated for an Oscar Best Actress. And Stephanie Hsu is the first East Asian woman to be nominated as a Best Supporting Actress. This movie is groundbreaking. And yeah, just again, before we go in and spoil the plot if you haven't watched it, you have to, it'll change your life. And you'll cry a lot. If you're anything like me, you'll probably cry a lot. ROWAN:  I think she feels like a shoo-in for Best Actress.  JAZZA:  Who's she against? ROWAN:  Cate Blanchett. JAZZA:  [16:26] ROWAN:  For Tar. JAZZA:  I rec— so I will be. I can see Cate Blanchett winning, and I will be furious.  ROWAN:  Yeah. I think that— I think that's the most likely thing if Michelle doesn't, because the other ones it's other Michelle, for the fave woman's Michelle Williams, which you know, whatever. It's a film, it's fine, but like I feel like there's been better. Movies about movies and stuff. I think it's only because it's Spielberg talking about himself that anyone cares.  JAZZA:  Yeah. ROWAN:  It's Andrea Riseborough for To Leslie, which is like the one everyone jokes about how no one actually knows. That everyone was like what the hell even is that film? When did it even come out? What is it, who cares? Ana De Armas for Blonde, where the hell did that nomination come from? Absolutely unhinged behavior from the Academy, and then Michelle. So I feel like she—she— if there's any justice in the world, will win it. JAZZA:  And also she's—she's like a has a long decorated career, everywhere else apart from the Oscars. And the Oscars generally likes taking these opportunities to award— rewards people who have been such items in the industry, but maybe have never had the— the role has kind of put them in the contention for an award like this.  ROWAN:  Yeah. JAZZA: I think she will win. I think the best picture win is less of a shoo-in. ROWAN:  Screenplay, I think is going to be the contest there is going to be with Banshees. And I think supporting actress—supporting actress Stephanie might be in. I feel like the only one that might—you know actually no because even though it is Angela Bassett, it's for Black Panther, which won't—It won't get it because it's a superhero movie. And the other two for The Whale and Banshees, like the— it's—they weren't big enough roles, I don't think. So it's Stephanie against Jamie Lee Curtis for the same movie, and Stephanie was simply better. So I'm really hoping that we have some— not just like first nominations, but first wins to go with it in the same year. JAZZA:  I'd love it if Mitski beat Lady Gaga as well. [18:30] ROWAN: I love that for you. Right. Should we get into the plot of this movie then? JAZZA:  Yeah, let's do it. [theme] ROWAN:  Okay, so the movie begins with our hero Evelyn doing her taxes, which apparently was the summary of the movie pre-trailers, and even when the trailers were going out because I didn't want to spoil the movie at all. What it was we're going to be before the trailer dropped. So it was just a woman does her taxes was the description on IMDb for a long time, which I think is hysterical. And we essentially get this extremely chaotic scene where we're introduced to a bunch of issues that are going on in her life and complications, including the fact that she's not doing her taxes very well essentially, is one thing that she is, and it kind of hurt her husband on this laundromat which might not be doing too well, business-wise. She has annoying customers, her father is there and— JAZZA:  He's just arrived from China.  ROWAN:  —just arrive from China. And her daughter is gay, has a girlfriend called Becky. The grandfather doesn't know about. And so the daughter has come to basically demand that hey, I just want to tell grand like I don't want to lie to him. I want to tell him what's going on and the fact that Becky is my actual girlfriend, not just like a friend. And she has a very sweet husband that she kind of does—they have this very practice dance where she will like bang the ceiling and he'll know that he needs to come down and but he—there's also slight difficulties in communication. So the husband has like moved a bunch of the clothes for the customers upstairs, so they're not where they should be. And so it's—it's both very like synchronized dance almost situation going on, but with utter chaos because there are things that aren't quite fitting together, which, you know, it's kind of the vibe metaphorically and literally throughout this movie with this— with her life and with the family. JAZZA:  This is the first scene so I don't want to spend too much time on it. But I adore it so much for a couple of reasons. One is the swirling chaos that you talk about, and that I love you [20:37]  describing it as a dance because I've never really thought of it like that. It's also one of the first times I can remember seeing the Chinglish kind of like flow of their language going with like dipping in and out of Mandarin and English, as the two of them are speaking depending on kind of like what they're talking about. When they're talking about external things, so things like their taxes, when Stephanie's girlfriend is coming, and all of those kinds of things, they'll often dip into English. And then when they're talking about their relationship, the fact that Gong Gong is there and all of that kind of stuff, a lot of it is in Mandarin. And they just kind of like that's a part of like bilingual families that I've never really seen before, maybe in kind of like some Spanish media, but definitely not with Chinese, and I love being able to see that. And secondly, I want to ask you, what do you think about the theory that Evelyn has ADHD? ROWAN:  I didn't see that theory. I've not seen that theory before. Until literally I was reading just like the Wikipedia page and stuff to make sure that I hadn't missed any of the plot points while I was like making notes. And it was like yeah, themes, including ADHD. And I was like, huh, interesting. JAZZA:  I think there's a couple of reads of it. One is, this is the modern world that we're in, where we are distracted and having to pay attention to and having to care about things that we don't actually care about. Stuff like taxes and laundry is like the line that goes through the movie. But you can also read it as the this is Evelyn trying to deal with all of the spinning plates, and a mind that is dealing with ADHD. And I love that reading of her, of kind of like, this is how she is trying to kind of like function through the world. And from my experience with ADHD anyway, it feels very—when I'm having like bad days, it feels like this opening scene. And I think that it's portrayed with the editing style and with her acting incredibly, incredibly well. And I'd like this as a reading for the character too. I don't think it's ever like explicitly mentioned, I think it's—I think it is just a theory unless one of the Daniels has mentioned it, ROWAN:  I can definitely see that either way to be honest. I like that. Also, something I think is interesting is I watch everything with subtitles on because otherwise I wouldn't—as someone who doesn't speak anything but English, I wouldn't have noticed the fact that it's both Cantonese and Mandarin, depending on which member the family she's speaking to. So her father speaks Cantonese, and then she speaks Mandarin to Waymond. And I think that's also really interesting these like specific differences, cultural differences, even within this family that I think from the outside people would see as like one distinct group, as like this is a specifically a Chinese-American story. And I like the fact that you've got these elements which are brought in by the people who worked on the film to ensure that it doesn't become something which is sort of the homogenized version of the Asian-American story that might be told by people outside of that group.  JAZZA:  Yeah. It feels so real. It felt so real and really kind of like, it like [23:42] I'm not Asian- American, but I have been around these spaces at all, and it felt incredibly real. Like even though—when Stephanie's character [23:52] ROWAN:  [23:53] Steph's character. JAZZA:  Yeah. When Joy—when Joy as a character is introduced and we see Gong Gong for the first time, hug her granddad for the first time. And she's trying to kind of like get out. She—she understands Chinese, but she's trying to get out like the introduction to Becky and the distain with which her granddad just goes, your Chinese is really getting worse and worse every time I see you. And I've heard—I've heard older members of kind of like, I'm older generations of families, like say that about the other younger generations and like the disdain, like all of those interactions just feel really, really real. ROWAN:  Also, the fact that Joy is— Joy is trying to—it is Evelyn's daughter it's trying to tell her grandfather that Becky has a girlfriend, and she suddenly realizes that she doesn't know the exact version of friend— JAZZA:  Doesn't know how to say it, yeah. ROWAN:  —girlfriend like which again just feels very real. That idea of like if you're someone who's got language for certain things in your life, and like you speak about certain things to your family. I think that's quite telling that that's not necessarily a word that she has at the tip of her tongue to be able to say in Cantonese. That, to me was like very interesting. And then we also have essentially, the end of this interaction is that Evelyn interrupts in Cantonese to describe Becky as a good friend rather than a girlfriend. So deliberately interrupting her daughter, to cover up her daughter's queerness for his grandfather. That she says, you know, he's old, we don't want him to, you know, this would— this would be too difficult for him to deal with. JAZZA:  They keep on talking about how it's going to kill him, [25:24] ROWAN:  [25:25] JAZZA:  [25:25] he's already flown from China for the Chinese New Year [25:27] ROWAN:  It's really difficult. And then essentially Joy leaves really upset. JAZZA:  Yeah. ROWAN:  And goes to get in the car to leave. And Evelyn has clearly got this parental love within her that she just cannot express in a way that her daughter understands.  JAZZA:  And so just says that she's fat.  ROWAN:  Yeah, she's like, you need to eat healthier, you're getting fat, which you can understand. And you can tell that it's—it's—she's not trying to say it to be awful. But obviously for Joy without the context of like, we've kind of been in Evelyn's point of view, and we get from the expression on— on her face that she can't just say, I love you so much, I'm sorry. So she has to just say—she's trying to say I care about you by being like, I've noticed something about you. I want you to take care of yourself like this is the way I show I care. But for Joy, she very much just hears, you're fat, you're doing things wrong, this is bad, you're bad. And so we see immediately this like real kind of disconnects between the two of them. This gap in generations, and language and culture, etc, etc. And we just essentially have this whole very chaotic first scene that leads into her meeting with internal revenue, where things are not going to get any easier for her, put it that way. JAZZA:  Yeah, where Jamie Lee Curtis is her IRS agent. So when they go up into the elevator, we see that Waymond has divorce papers with him. And it's kind of like looking at this other older couple who are very affectionate. And you can see him lamenting the fact that he doesn't have that with Evelyn. Going up in the elevator, the elevator is very slow. And then Waymond shuts down opens up again and all of a sudden is like hiding from the cameras and whatever. And he's been Raccacoonie, and he's being puppeted by Waymond from another universe, the Alpha Verse. ROWAN:  Alpha Waymond. JAZZA:  Alpha Waymond. ROWAN:  And it does the classic, I've taken over your body from another universe thing of being like, you're in grave danger. I don't have much time, here are some instructions. I can't say any more. Very, very classic call to adventure vibes, where it's like, I love a mysterious call to adventure like that. It all depends on you kind of energy to it, which is something that's really fun about this movie for me is it's a lot of like follows that process of the call to adventure. The refusal of the call, like all of this stuff that's very Monomyth is very Joseph Campbell, it's very much how Hollywood works. But then there is just such absurdism going on alongside it, and such bizarre stuff that—kind of by its nature, because we find out later that within this multiverse that's happening, that alpha Waymond is from part of the ways in which you're able to jump through the multiverse is by doing something that's statistically bizarre and unlikely. And so the absurdism sort of is written into these small moments of the script, as well as the overall story. But I just really like how it plays with the classic call to adventure, you know, this Alpha Waymond has said, not, this is your destiny, and she refuses it at first. And it's like, no, it's not me, I'm not the person to do this, and then gradually gets pulled into it. But it has these twists to it, which I really, really loved. JAZZA:  And I—I just want to ask, what—what was your favorite like anomaly that somebody had to do? Apart from having to sit on an employee of the month award and then fighting with a [28:50] ROWAN:  I'll tell you my least fucking favorite, Jazza. JAZZA:  Yeah, go on. ROWAN:  Giving yourself four paper cuts. [28:56] JAZZA:  Yeah. The paper-cut one is horrible. ROWAN:  I could not watch that. I could not watch her, it's literally the worst thing I can possibly think of, so I don't think I even now could name you a single one that— that—oh, do you know what else I hated, Waymond, eating chapstick. JAZZA: Yeah, it was sooo— ROWAN:  I hated it so much. JAZZA:  It looked so waxy, and— ROWAN:  But yes. Anyway, so basically all that to say, because I realized I've jumped ahead to like, by the way, there's a multiverse. Get with it people, you should have seen this movie so you should already know about—yes, we meet Jamie Lee Curtis as audit lady, Deirdre is the name? JAZZA:  Deirdre, yes, Deirdre.  ROWAN:  Who is I've just written in my notes, very mean and has butt plugs in the background question mark, question mark. Because I spotted them I was like— JAZZA:  Chekov's— ROWAN:  Are those relevant, like Chekov's butt plug? JAZZA:  Chekov's butt plug. ROWAN:  But essentially Evelyn, who has heard from Alpha Waymond these instructions that she needs to do during this meeting, gets completely overwhelmed. And just I think at the point of like, I have nothing to lose, looks at the end structions and carries them out, which essentially is to swap her shoes over to the other feet to really, really think about the janitor's closet that he wants her to go into. And basically, she finds herself there somehow. What—what in the science fiction? And the screen at this point cracks, and I think it's really interesting to know a little bit of con—a little bit of a behind the scenes info. Apparently, the effects for this movie, which are stunning, were done by like five people. JAZZA:  Yeah, they also had a shoot time of like, of only, I think it was less than a month? [30:36] ROWAN:  That is wild, that is truly wild. Because this one I feel like is where we start to get the sort of the Sci-Fi element the effects, special effects type element with a skink. The screen cracks, and we sort of realized that she is both in the closet now, but also still in front of Jamie Lee Curtis, who I guess from now on, I'm just going to refer to [30:54] as Jamie Lee Curtis. And we get this explanation that there is, you know, from Alpha Waymond, evil spreading throughout the multiverse, it's only you who can help us. While simultaneously getting the stakes of the normal everyday plot, which is that the laundromat could be repossessed, they could lose everything in that timeline. And it's a very stressful scene, because it's essentially, her potentially, like the whole universe is collapsing, but also her life is collapsing. And I think it's a really good example of how stakes that are just really big, like the whole universe is going to be destroyed are not actually necessarily that impactful, it's much more impactful to have something that's like very specific and personal to the character. And then they manage to marry those both together, by making the whole universe is going to be destroyed, personal for her as well, which to me was just like chef's kiss, my favorite version of this kind of storytelling. JAZZA:  So in the Alpha Universe, we find out that Alpha Evelyn was the person who developed this verse jumping technology, which allows you to not necessarily— to, like inhabit the bodies of like yourself in other—depending on all of the branching decisions that you've possibly made all the way through your life. But also allows you to use all of their skills as well. So if for example, oh, let's say you were Michelle Yeoh in another universe, you'd be able to do kung fu because you learned that when you were a film star. So we also found find out that the big bad in the across the multiverse is someone called Jobu Tupaki, who is going around murdering everybody trying to find Evelyn, to what end, we have no idea. ROWAN:  Dun, dun, dun. At this point, she's sort of slightly convinced, not really convinced this is real. She's very confused, and in a fit of confusion punches, Jamie Lee Curtis in the face, who has just offered to give her a little bit of an extension until the end of the day. And the classic, you'll know when it's time to fight, that happened from Alpha Waymond is completely misinterpreted, because she decides, I guess now's the time to fight and just punches this lady in the face. And it's at this point that we get our first like fight sequence of the movie. And I— JAZZA:  I love all of the action sequences here. It's like one big long homage to Jackie Chan movies. It's fucking brilliant. ROWAN:  It's beautiful. And essentially, it's just Waymond getting possessed by Alpha Waymond and using his fanny pack/bumbag, depending on which country you're in, to fight a load of people. And it's beautiful, it's— it's wonderful. It's actually exciting. I have a real big bone to pick with all the movies that do like CGI fight sequences against like, it's just what—two CGI things fighting each other, and I just get so bored. And these fights are consists— actually had like interesting choreography, was very legible as well, because I find that that's really tricky, which was helped by the fact that they film this movie at a very high frame rate, basically, so that they would have the freedom to use slow motion at any point, not just the ones that were scripted. Because if you've ever seen slow motion in older movies, and it looks really janky, it's basically because they put slow motion on something that was filmed at a normal frame rate, meaning that your eye is like used to seeing frames flick way faster, so it looks weirdly disjointed. And so this was this, I think really paid off for them. What I'm sure was very annoying having to film with that kind of high frame rate, I think has really worked because they utilize that so well. And before he does that, he does eat chapstick which again was extremely upsetting to watch. JAZZA:  Very disgusting. So it is revealed to us that Jobu is in fact, Joy. [34:36] ROWAN:  Plot twist. JAZZA:  Got twist plot, and she possesses the Joy in the universe where there—the IRS having a conversation with Jamie Lee Curtis punching Jamie Lee Curtis in the face. And she wanders off somewhere, maybe to come and find Evelyn in our universe, that seems to be what is happening. Evelyn and Waymond and like it's—it's like the IRS building is in lockdown, and so they're hiding. And Jamie Lee Curtis ends up doing her own verse jump, getting the skills of a high-pitch-screaming wrestler we think? And goes around and fights Waymond one on one. But then Waymond goes, because Evelyn is so nervous, doesn't seem to be able to master any verse jumping at all on her own. He goes, you're clearly not the Evelyn I've been looking for, I've gotta go now. Bye. Can you imagine? No. ROWAN:  No, I can't. JAZZA:  Sorry Michelle Yeoh, you're not good enough. And so then she starts herself just doing a load of random shit in order to be able to try and get the skills of her in another universe. ROWAN:  Yeah, she's like what is statistically unlikely just like give me— don't do random stuff to try and make that happen. JAZZA:  She is told before Waymond runs away that saying I love you yo Jamie Lee Curtis will allow her to jump to a universe where she has the abilities of kung fu. She ends up being able to do that when Jamie Lee Curtis's knee drop is literally centimeters away from her nose. ROWAN:  Millimeters, she's so close to getting a knee to the face. JAZZA:  So close to getting a knee to the face. And Evelyn's verse jumps to basically the life of Michelle Yeoh, the actual actress. So interestingly, did you know that Michelle Yeoh was originally asked to play basically herself? And this verse jump, I reckon was meant to actually be our universes, Michelle Yeoh. ROWAN:  I'll— well because they flashed through a bunch of footage, which is of her on various red carpets that she has done previously because it's all movie she's been in. So I was like, I didn't know whether that was meant to be literally jumping to our universe, or whether it was they just use it because it was footage. But either way, I like— I like both—both of those options to be honest. JAZZA:  So she turned it down because she wanted to be taken seriously. [36:59] want to like play herself. But I do like the reading of—and to be honest, that's how I've been interpreting it as well. She's Michelle Yeoh in the other universe, is totally fine. ROWAN:  Yeah. And we also get a little bit of a bunch of law here. So basically, every jump causes a crack, you can re—reseal the cracks, but only with training. You can't stay in a universe isn't your own that you've jumped to, because you could die, or worse. And essentially, we find out what the worst option is, is what happened to Jobu aka Joy, were in the Alpha Verse, that version of Joy's mind was splintered because Alpha Everlyn essentially pushed her too far. She made verse jump too many times. And now she's experiencing all of the universe, everywhere all at once.  JAZZA:  All at once. ROWAN:  Everything, It's the title. And so she can verse jump, but also sort of manipulate matter itself at will seemingly. And so no one knows what Jobu wants, they just know that she's looking for Evelyn. And we—this essentially is like a little dump, but it doesn't necessarily feel like a bad law dump or like just exposition because you're listening to it going. Okay, okay, this is all information that I do need because right now, I don't know what the hell is going on. Because I am Evelyn, and I'm just like, oh, God, I just want to go back and finish my taxes, I guess, and be Michelle on the red carpet. But that is not her fate, unfortunately. JAZZA:  So there's—out of this law dump come. I think two of the strongest themes of the movie that resonate with people the most, one is intergenerational, the differences between generations, and how relationships between generations are pressured from first-generation immigrants. So the fact that in the Alpha Universe,  Evelyn pushed Joy too hard, made her crack, made her resent. And kind of like reflecting those sometimes difficult relationships, that it's similar across other phenomena like working-class parents, but especially with immigrant parents, that experience being represented there. And then also, the whole idea of fracturing, and each choice that you make in your life, creating a completely new branch of reality and possibility, really reflects people who choose to or are forced to go to another country to uproot themselves and go to another country. Evelyn, when she becomes Michelle Yeoh, and gets the skills of Michelle Yeoh, gets to see the world that she would have had and the life she would have had if she had never left for the United States with Waymond. And there's always whenever you leave a place, you make one of those big decisions. There's always the thought of oh my god, what would my life be like if I never left? Would it be better if I never left? The life I have now it's a struggle. Would it have been better if I had just stayed? And that I love the way that that is pulled through to the whole idea of kind of like the alternate realities and splintering. Like this is I think Sci-Fi and I didn't even really think of this as Sci-Fi until I saw it classified as such on IMDb. But this is Sci-Fi as its—at its absolute best, as a reflection of the real-world phenomena that happen for so many people. ROWAN:  Yeah, I've been reading a bunch of like reviews and this is one that I think touches on that really nicely critic for The Washington Post. [40:22] says it's not only that the multiverse acts as a metaphor for the immigrant Asian-American experience, or a convenient parable for the dislocations and personality splits suffered by hyphenated that is Asian-American citizens. It also becomes a rather heavy vehicle for confronting and negotiating Asian pessimism, which I think is a really interesting idea of like, yeah, the— the literal hyphenation of you the— the ways in which your identity is split between and across, being something that's mirrored quite literally in this like cracking that's happening across these different multiverses. We also see at this point like the powers that Jobu has which includes like confetti cannoning a man's body apart. And various other very exciting, very exciting things which we lo—you know, I'm like, you know what I love to see, but also you are absolutely terrifying. JAZZA:  Also if no, I'm sorry, I'm turning giant dildos into a murder weapon.  ROWAN:  Yes, stunning. JAZZA:  This [41:18] and dildos, brilliant. ROWAN: Very into it. At this point, we also get Michelle jumping to a universe where everyone has hot dogs instead of fingers, I'm losing my mind. Just incredible work all around. And also, we get this moment where we're starting to see the big universal multiverse drama and the personal drama clash together, when Michelle basically is—is separating Jobu as a concept from her daughter Joy, because she says, you're the reason my daughter doesn't call anymore and dropped out of college and thinks that she's gay. So there's a sense of like, everything that's bad is not actually Joy, it's Jobu taking over her body or influencing her in some way, or being connected to her. And that she thinks that being gay is like one of these bad things like not caring and not having ambition. And being gay is like one of these things that she still doesn't support, which I think is— is very telling when we look at before where she—her excuse for not telling the granddad is like, oh, he's old, it's kind of like saying, oh, it's you know, he's old, he might be— it might like kill him all this kind of stuff, but never really admitting that she herself finds this difficult to deal with. And so we are like, this is going to be a journey for her as well in that way. And this is where we get to the bagel. JAZZA:  Before we get to the bagel. ROWAN:  Okay. JAZZA:  This is— this is where I'm like, this is an explicitly queer movie.  ROWAN:  Yeah. JAZZA:  It's not just kind of like a fact, this is about the queer experience. And something that I've only recently like clocked onto, I've watched this movie. I've watched the movie six times. In the—in the hot dog hand universe, I didn't even clock that the Ja— that Jamie Lee Curtis and Michelle Yeoh, in a queer relationship.  ROWAN:  How did you not clock that? JAZZA:  I just like, obviously, I knew that it existed, but I never like when—oh, like Evelyn is also potentially at least in one of these universes, is queer as well. And showing kind of like those—a lot of this movie is about being distracted and caring about things that don't actually in the grand scheme of things matter, and deciding what you actually care about. We see that when Jobu is busy kind of like massacring all of these bodyguards. And goes, wait, you're still hung up on the fact that I'm gay in this universe? As kind of like, I can't believe that this is something that this Evelyn has decided to actually still fixate on. And it's— I think that there is a possible reading here where Evelyn herself is maybe queer in some way, shape, or form. But because of the fact that she was born in particular culture, comes from a particular time, got married to somebody who's actually trying to divorce her, was never able, and never had the freedom to be able to actually experiment with herself and—and find out about herself in that way. And actually, one of the many reasons that many people choose to emigrate and find a new life in another country, is so that they— their children can have a better opportunities and be able to kind of like be whoever they want to be. But then there is sometimes this brush up against who your kid then, therefore, wants to be, you'll have critic— critiques of like, oh, you've become too American. I don't understand all of this queerness and things like that. And I I love that kind of like relationship between Evelyn and Joy—oh, Jobu being represented here. But yeah, they're showing the bagel. ROWAN:  Yeah, then there's a bagel. So basically Jo—okay, listen, stay with me here you guys. Jobu has created a bagel. And everything bagel with everything on it. That's quite literally everything in the world. All concepts, all matter, all things, which is all also kind of created a black hole that could destroy the entire multiverse. Classic. But Jobu is basically like nothing matters, so who cares? Let's all just get sucked into a bagel, that's a vibe for me.  JAZZA:  She's experienced Everything Everywhere All at Once. And therefore is like, well, everything matters, therefore nothing matters—matters. So what the fuck is the point anymore? ROWAN:  Yeah. JAZZA:  What is this world? ROWAN:  Yeah. JAZZA:  Essentially is Jobu's philosophy. ROWAN:  Just total nihilism, just total, just like screw everything. And this is the interesting thing, right? We've heard the idea that she's looking for Evelyn, but we don't know why. And what she basically wants is for Evelyn to come into the bagel with her and for them to be dead and gone, and not have to experience anything, and just be free of the like agonies of life, and living, and experience. And it's kind of like Jobu, where's your therapist, I beg of you. We need— we need to, we need to sit down and talk about the bagel babes. JAZZA:  So we—basically Jobu goes to Evelyn,  I wanted somebody else to experience this with me. Her and her mother is really the only one who is able to because she invented verse jumping. Evelyn doesn't want Joy—she doesn't want joy to feel like this. She doesn't want Joy to have this nihilism as like the basis of her existence. And so Evelyn decides to do the thing that Waymond earlier said was worse than death, and splinter her mind so that she is across as many different universes as possible so that she experiences the same thing as her daughter. And so that she can get there and then bring her back. Essentially, this is the way. So we end up with Evelyn jumping to get the powers of somebody in one of the universes as she falls over and blind herself and then becomes an opera singer. As we all know, in one universe, she is one of those pizza sign spinners and manages to use that in some fighting. ROWAN:  She is a chef who is friends with a man, who is being Ratatouilled by a raccoon. JAZZA:  By a raccoon, Raccacoonie. ROWAN:  Classic. JAZZA:  Which is a better movie, it would have been a better movie,  I think. [theme] JAZZA:  Hello, friends Jazza here from another space and another time. Just popping in to humbly ask you to consider supporting this podcast financially. It makes a huge difference, and it keeps us on the airwaves, frankly. If you like what we're doing and want to support queer media, then you can sign up for our Patreon for as little as $5 a month. For that fee, that low fee less than like a fancy Starbucks, you can become a [47:47] called Baby Gay. 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And then we go into act two, which is everywhere, but what I have also called the party and its aftermath. Because [51:54] ROWAN:  Because the New Year's party is happening. JAZZA:  Yeah, because as Evelyn's mind is cracking and she gets exposed to all of this and she becomes susceptible to all of the nihilism, by the way, that is in this just before this section, a fight scene with Michelle Yeoh and two people with butt plugs in them because that's the thing they had to do to get the martial arts skills.  ROWAN:  Classic. JAZZA:  Amazing. One of the greatest pieces of cinema—cinema ever fucking made. I'm just annoyed, the whole thing was pixelated. But we ended up with her suspecting to the nihilism. And then she also just kind of like gives up and it feels like Evelyn, well, she dies, she dies in this one universe and then get sucked into the universe where she's having the Chinese New Year's celebration, where the IRS are arriving, and they're going to possess everything. ROWAN:  I have my notes here was New Year's party is coming, there will be so much aftermath. Because I'm sure at this point, everyone has listened to the podcast already. But if you haven't, there is always an act in gay movies, that's the party in its aftermath. And they literally threw a party and they kept talking about this party. And I was like, we're gonna get so much fucking aftermath. We love to see it. So yeah, basically, we've reached—she's reached a point in this movie where she's basically like, yeah, you're right, everything is random and meaningless. Every single verse that I—that she's in, because she's in every universe all at once, all the time with her daughter. JAZZA:  It's the movie, it's the title of the movie. ROWAN:  It's the title of a movie. She's piñata in one universe, she's a rock in one universe, she's made of animation in one of the universe— JAZZA:  Ah, the rock universe. ROWAN:  —You've never—who would have thought that the rocks could make us feel so many fucking emotions. And there's a really, really sad bit where basically, Joy says to Evelyn, like, I was really hoping that someone else would have this experience, have themselves crack in this way. And then tell me that they had figured it out and everything was okay. And that I was just—I was just thinking about this wrong, and they would experience it and they will be able to tell me the meaning of life, and tell me what was actually happening and what I should be living for. And that hasn't happened because you essentially have turned just as chaotic and nihilistic and like, everything is meaningless as I have. And that was pretty— that's pretty rough. That's a pretty rough message for us to get at this point in the movie. So you know, spoiler alert, though, it gets better. JAZZA:  Yeah. So as Evelyn kind of gives up, and he's about to step into the bagel, Waymond steps up, normal Waymond, not Alpha Waymond, because he's dead now, he died at some point. This is when I begin sobbing because Waymond is just being like, I don't understand why everybody is fighting. Why can't everybody just be kinder to one another? So this is where we have the trifecta, and it is complete. So we have Joy, who is nihilism, we have Evelyn who is existentialism, and then we have Waymond, who is optimism and absurdism. So those three philosophies, kind of interacting as these three main characters and the different ways that they go to the world, nihilism obviously everything is obviously, you read Wikipedia. Nihilism, obviously being where nothing matters, so why should you care? Existentialism is we can find meaning in kind of like the choices that we make in our live, And absurdism is kind of like finding the—it realizing how ridiculous everything is, and so laughing along with it anyway. And that optimism that can potentially come with that. So these few characters represent that, Those like three philosophies for life. And this speech from Waymond is—is one of the most heartwarming wonderful things because I think it's—it's such an optimistic take on humanity. And sometimes we need that optimism and I— I fucking loved it. So Waymond ended up influencing Evelyn. Evelyn realizes that the thing that is going to get her through this, even though that she is seeing that nothing matters, the thing that matters to her is Joy, her daughter, and so she decides that she is now going to help everybody else who's trying to fight her, including Jamie Lee Curtis. She's going to fight everybody and find out what they're thi—the thing that brings them joy. So she faces off against all of these minions. Jamie Lee Curtis, what is Jamie Lee Curtis's joy? Isn't it—is it— Jamie Lee Curtis finds out that she's lovable. There's one character—oh, the Raccacoonie guy, realizes he really loves being controlled by raccoons. ROWAN:  He is played by Mike from Glee as well.  JAZZA:  Yeah. ROWAN:  Which I immediately clocked and was like, absolutely perfect. Love it, beautiful. That boy I was like if they don't make him dance at some point during this, it would have been a wasted movie. And he does have a little bit of like more fight choreography style stuff, but I'm like I can see your dance roots in there, Harry, I can see them. JAZZA:  And she makes two people dance and they become married in one universe. One of the Daniels, one of the directors, she takes him into another universe and exposes him to S&M and that's what brings him joy. ROWAN:  I—the fact— I didn't know that—that was one of the Daniels, [57:06]  JAZZA:  That's one of the Daniels. ROWAN:  I love that even more. JAZZA:  It's so fucking brilliant. And then she reaches—so Jobu has summoned the bagel that's going to destroy everything and she's about to step into it. And am I sobbing? Yes, I still am. Jobu goes to like start to fight Evelyn her mother, and then Evelyn also like does like some kung fu, goes to fight, and then opens her arms to try and hug her. And eventually, Evelyn like they started rustling in tussling, and Evelyn, let Jobu go into the despair of the bagel. And that's kind of like—that's kind of like the way that this thing— no it isn't. ROWAN:  Uh-huh tricks you— tricks you guys. So this I think is— okay, so again, what I found really interesting that I've just talked about before the idea of the big multiverse fight sequence finale, versus the very personal finale, and that the very personal is almost always going to be more interesting. And they tied it together so well because they have the really dramatic like, no don't go into the bagel, like trying to save her daughter she's being pulled in, which is like a very physically dramatic finale. But the actual moment is that it has that pathos and have that emotionality to it, is within our Evelyn's universe at this party where essentially Evelyn is like Joy is saying to Evelyn, like, we're just too different. You know, I'm tired, I just want to go, like us being together hurts the both of us, we need to go our separate ways. Let me go. And so her version of letting me go is very literal. Like I—we just need to be apart from each other. Like I get that we're mother and daughter but we just fucking make each other miserable. And it's this clear parallel to like the very dramatic Sci-Fi let me go into this bagel situation. And that that to me is just so perfect. And then in between we get the set— we get like the absurdist version of them as rocks and having this scene where— JAZZA:  With googly eyes like we haven't even mentioned the googly eyes. ROWAN:  Oh Joy's googly eye rock falling off a cliff. And then Evelyn's rock just falling after her. Oh, it's so beautiful. JAZZA:  Like literally laughing and crying at stationary rocks that have subtitles. Like how has this—how does the [59:26] do that? Oh, it's so fucking good. ROWAN:  It's essentially like we also get this again like very human ideas of like change and Evelyn being kind of taking up the call, so like breaking the cycle with her dad the idea of like, my daughter ended up being this like stubborn aimless mess just like her mother, and she's perfect that way. And that she gave someone— she says you gave her someone kind patient and forgiving to make up for all that she likes. Talking about her and Waymond, and her understanding of Waymond now, being so much clearer than it was at the beginning. That this is like helped her marriage, helped her relationship with her daughter. Just oh, she's—and also the idea of like, yeah, it doesn't make sense. You're saying the universe doesn't make sense. It doesn't make sense that I would be like, still love you even though you only visit when you need something. And like I— you know, I hate tattoos and your covered in them and like, I could be anywhere else in the entire world. In fact, at this point, she's like a good bit anywhere else in the multiverse, it doesn't make sense, but like, just want to be with you. And like, it doesn't matter if it doesn't make sense, essentially. And I weep and I cry, and so does Jazza. Jazza at this point is just simply 100% tear. JAZZA:  Can I say—so I watched it this morning at an AMC and I cried so much. Have you ever cried so much that you dehydrated and you don't have any more tears?  ROWAN:  Yeah, all the time. JAZZA:  That was me— I've met—that's never happened to me before, yeah. ROWAN:  [1:00:49] like a headache, a headache that just all come fucking zooming. And so that essentially, in every single universe, they reconcile, there's no universe that she wants to be where her daughter isn't. And that has always been her strength throughout this, right? So like, we have this bit at the beginning where she says, like, you're getting fat, you need to look after yourself, whatever. But like in her actions, she shows that she cares about her daughter. She's willing to go through the thing that will like split her consciousness and like destroy her mind and maybe make her go crazy, and potentially she'll be dead. But she's immediately like, as soon as she knows that, that's an option, that it might help her daughter she does it. And so in her actions, she's showing love from the very beginning, and it just feels like it's about being able to show it in a way that her daughter can appreciate and a language in which they both understand, both like, you know, metaphorically and literally, and vice versa, that they can both kind of start to understand each other. And know that meaning is the meaning that they make

Mandarin Monkey Podcast
#322 - WORD ASSOCIATION - Mandarin Monkey Podcast - Word List Chat

Mandarin Monkey Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2023 64:03


Todays episode we play a word association game after a quick chat. We list 20 Mandarin words and a bunch of associated ones. Get's deep sometimes. But doesn't it always. Looking for a fun and educational podcast that explores the intersection of Mandarin Chinese and English? Look no further than The Mandarin Monkey Podcast! Hosted by Tom, a native English speaker, and Ula, a native Mandarin Chinese speaker from Taiwan, this edutainment podcast covers a wide range of topics, from science and movies to relationships and life in general. As parents of three multiracial children, Tom and Ula also delve into the challenges of raising bilingual kids and offer tips and tricks for learning Mandarin, English, and Taiwanese at home. But that's not all - The Mandarin Monkey Podcast is also a Chinglish podcast, incorporating both Chinese and English in every episode. Tune in for a Mandarin story and vocabulary review session that will help you brush up on your language skills. And as if that weren't enough, Tom and Ula regularly invite guests from a variety of backgrounds to join them on the show, from linguists and authors to creators and doctors. So if you're looking for a podcast that will both entertain and educate you, check out The Mandarin Monkey Podcast - you won't be disappointed!

英语老师瑶瑶
【绝望的主妇】“好久不见!”

英语老师瑶瑶

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 28, 2022 6:18


【句子】Hello, John. Long time no see. 【Desperate Housewives S02E03】 【发音】/helˈəʊ/ /ˈdʒɒn/ /ˈdʒɑːn/ /lɒŋ/ /lɑːŋ/ /taɪm/ /nəʊ/ /siː/【发音技巧】暂无;【翻译】约翰,你好呀,好久不见。【适用场合】今天我们来学习一下这个“好久不见”Long time no see.之前网络上大家有争论说这个是不是Chinglish,查了一下相关资料,这个表达据说起源于19世纪晚期,那会儿中国人和西方人打交道做生意,这个表达其实来源于对汉语“好久不见”的字对字翻译,后来变成了洋泾浜语中常见的表达。现在其实完全大家都接受了这一说法,权威词典也收录了,所以大家大胆用。它其实就相当于:I haven't seen you for a long time.或者We haven't seen each other for a long time.或者It's been a long time since we met.再比如说:I haven't seen you for ages.所以这些说法大家放在一起积累学习。It is said when you meet someone who you haven't seen for a long period of time.eg: Well hello there! Long time no see!哈,你好呀,好久不见。eg: Hey, long time no see! How have you been?嘿,好久不见了,你怎么样啊?eg:Tom: Hi, Fred. Where have you been keeping yourself? Fred: Good to see you, Tom. Long time no see. 汤姆:嗨,弗莱德。你去哪了?弗莱德:见到你好高兴,汤姆,好久不见。今天视频中还有一个短语,先来听一下。Well, someone had to tend to the yard.有人得收拾一下院子。这里tend to sth. 是什么意思呢?可以理解成“照顾、照料、打理”这样的意思;to take care of someone or somethingeg: You really need to tend to the lawn--it's getting pretty overgrown!那草坪你真的得打理打理了,都已经杂草丛生了。eg: I'm taking some time off of work to tend to my daughter while she is sick.我请了一段时间的假,没上班,来照顾我女儿,因为她生病了。 【尝试翻译以下句子,并留言在文章留言区】I must tend to my chores before I can go outside.

Mandarin Monkey Podcast
#302 - Fluff Off | Learn Mandarin Chinese with Chinglish

Mandarin Monkey Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 12, 2022 53:35


Is Rings of Power any good? Does Marvel have a hero with red and white colors? What does it mean when an English person sticks two fingers up at you and what does that mean in Taiwan? Get The Podcast App mandarinmonkey.com/mandarin-monkey-podcast-app/ Mandaboo iOS tinyurl.com/iosMandaboo Android tinyurl.com/AndroidMandaboo @MandabooGame Website www.mandarinmonkey.com Business Course www.mandarinmonkey.com/product/inten…iness-course/ Intensive Course mandarinmonkey.com/intensive-course/ Awesome Blog mandarinmonkey.com/blog/ HIGH FIVE FRIDAYS MAILING LIST mandarinmonkey.com/high-5-fridays/ Get Amazing Mandarin tools www.patreon.com/mandarinmonkey Skritter - Learn to write Chinese skritter.com?ref=mandarinmonkey Use promoCode: MANDARINMONKEY for 10% off everything Discord discord.gg/KHjF7NNq8d The Mandarin Monkey Podcast is a Mandarin Chinese and English Edutainment podcast designed to entertain and educate. Tom (Native English speaker) and Ula (Native Mandarin Chinese speaker from Taiwan) discuss various topics from life to science, from movies to relationships. Also raising three multiracial children they discuss the challenges of raising bilingual children and with learning Mandarin, English and Taiwanese at home. The Mandarin Monkey podcast is a Chinglish (Chinese and English) podcast which also has a Mandarin story and vocabulary review session in every episode. Also, they have guests on the show from different backgrounds, linguists, authors, creators all the way to doctors. Hope you enjoy. #mandarinmonkey #chinese #Mandarin

Page To Stage
81 - A Beautiful Noise: Kathy Fabian, Props Supervisor

Page To Stage

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 12, 2022 41:41


Kathy Fabian shares the process of creating props, set dressing, and researching for A Beautiful Noise. If you are listening to this on Apple Podcast, we'd love it if you could share your love in a review! ABOUT KATHY FABIAN Fabian's Broadway credits include: The Rose Tattoo, American Son, All My Sons, Burn This, True West, Bernhardt/Hamlet, Pretty Woman, The Parisian Woman, Indecent, Sunday in the Park with George, Falsettos, Fiddler on the Roof, China Doll, On Your Feet, Living On Love, The King and I, An American In Paris, The Real Thing, The Realistic Joneses, If/Then, Rocky, The Bridges of Madison County, I'll Eat You Last, Kinky Boots, Lucky Guy, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Anarchist, Chaplin, Nice Work If You Can Get It, A Streetcar Named Desire, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, Stick Fly, Relatively Speaking, Chinglish, The Normal Heart, House of Blue Leaves, Anything Goes, Ghetto Klown, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, A Life in the Theatre, Fences, All About Me, A Behanding in Spokane, Race, Fela!, Bye Bye Birdie, A Steady Rain, Waiting for Godot, You're Welcome America, Pal Joey, American Buffalo, Speed the Plow, A Man For All Seasons, Les Liasons Dangereuses, South Pacific, Sunday in the Park with George, The Homecoming, Cyrano de Bergerac, Pygmalion, Old Acquaintance, 110 in the Shade, Talk Radio, Prelude to a Kiss, Spring Awakening, High Fidelity, Barefoot in the Park, Souvenir, Steel Magnolias, Sweet Charity, Match, Fiddler on the Roof, Bobby Boland, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, and Golda's Balcony. Recent Off Broadway: West Side Story, Stage Around, Tokyo, Mary Jane and Othello, (NYTW) and Turn Me Loose, (Westside Theatre). Recent TV projects include creations for Fosse Verdon, Samantha Bee, and Sesame Street. MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: A Beautiful Noise on Instagram: instagram.com/abeautifulnoisemusical A Beautiful Noise on Facebook: facebook.com/ABeautifulNoiseMusical Get Your Tickets: abeautifulnoisethemusical.com --- Come say hi to us! Facebook: @PageToStagePodcast @BroadwayPodcastNetwork Instagram: @PageToStagePodcast @TheMaryDina @BrianSedita @BroadwayPodcastNetwork Twitter: @TheMaryDina @BwayPodNetwork YouTube: @PageToStagePodcast @BroadwayPodcastNetwork #PageToStagePodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mandarin Monkey Podcast
#300 - 三百 | The 300th Episode of Chinese and English Chat

Mandarin Monkey Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 29, 2022 67:44


This is the 300th time we have sat down and talked Chinglish to everybody. It's been a wild ride, moving countries, having babies, changing jobs, creating communities, hiring teachers, tears, sickness, goodtimes and bad. We appreciate everyone who has been with us along the way.

Mandarin Monkey Podcast
#294 - Shǎizi 骰子 | Learn Mandarin Chinese with Chinglish

Mandarin Monkey Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 18, 2022 59:10


What's your reaction to a heatwave? Do you celebrate? go and grab your flip flops, your bathing suit and a bottle of Pimms? or do you retreat inside, close the curtains and wait for it to go away while complaining about the freak occurance? Eitherway we love you.

Rainbow Room
Everything Everywhere All at Once - Colin Rourke and Diana Chen (Part 1)

Rainbow Room

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2022 35:41


This episode we welcome our comedy hero, Colin Rourke, and Andrew's fellow queer engineering friend from UT, Diana Chen, into the Rainbow Room to discuss Everything Everywhere All at Once! In part 1 we discuss Second City, First Kill, New York vs. LA, making house repairs, Stonewall, Chinglish, the SNL audition process, and why Everything Everywhere All at Once made such an impression on us.Colin Rourke is a comedian writer/actor from Chicago, Illinois who now resides in Brooklyn, NY. He has been featured in Buzzfeed and The Gag. He is known for his online character work and viral sketches. You can find Colin on all the social platforms at @ballin_rourke.Diana Chen is a personal friend of Andrew's from undergrad in biomedical engineering at UT #hookem and they now both work in tech! (queer people in STEM let's gooooo)Both guests were so lovely to talk to, and we hope you enjoy part 1!Twitter: Rainbow Room Podcast (@rainbow_room_) / TwitterInstagram: Rainbow Room (@rainbowroompodcast) • Instagram photos and videosWebsite: https://linktr.ee/rainbowroompodcastMusic: Hyperfun by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3891-hyperfunLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Mandarin Monkey Podcast
#290 - Mr Tea | Learning Mandarin Chinese With Chinglish

Mandarin Monkey Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 20, 2022 63:46


We go through tea like a warm knife through butter in this one. We also touch on using comprehensible input and finding that input interesting. Get The Podcast App mandarinmonkey.com/mandarin-monkey-podcast-app/ Mandaboo iOS tinyurl.com/iosMandaboo Android tinyurl.com/AndroidMandaboo @MandabooGame Website www.mandarinmonkey.com Business Course www.mandarinmonkey.com/product/inten…iness-course/ Intensive Course mandarinmonkey.com/intensive-course/ Awesome Blog mandarinmonkey.com/blog/ HIGH FIVE FRIDAYS MAILING LIST mandarinmonkey.com/high-5-fridays/ Get Amazing Mandarin tools www.patreon.com/mandarinmonkey Skritter - Learn to write Chinese skritter.com?ref=mandarinmonkey Use promoCode: MANDARINMONKEY for 10% off everything Discord discord.gg/KHjF7NNq8d The Mandarin Monkey Podcast is a Mandarin Chinese and English Edutainment podcast designed to entertain and educate. Tom (Native English speaker) and Ula (Native Mandarin Chinese speaker from Taiwan) discuss various topics from life to science, from movies to relationships. Also raising three multiracial children they discuss the challenges of raising bilingual children and with learning Mandarin, English and Taiwanese at home. The Mandarin Monkey podcast is a Chinglish (Chinese and English) podcast which also has a Mandarin story and vocabulary review session in every episode. Also, they have guests on the show from different backgrounds, linguists, authors, creators all the way to doctors. Hope you enjoy. #mandarinmonkey #chinglish #Mandarinpodcast #Edutainment

Mandarin Monkey Podcast
#287 - Choose One Phrase | Mandarin Monkey Chinglish Experience

Mandarin Monkey Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 30, 2022 72:17


If you could pick only one phrase to say forever what would it be? In Mandarin or in English? Which movie character would you want by your side as a companion? Get The Podcast App mandarinmonkey.com/mandarin-monkey-podcast-app/ Mandaboo iOS tinyurl.com/iosMandaboo Android tinyurl.com/AndroidMandaboo @MandabooGame Website www.mandarinmonkey.com Business Course www.mandarinmonkey.com/product/inten…iness-course/ Intensive Course mandarinmonkey.com/intensive-course/ Awesome Blog mandarinmonkey.com/blog/ HIGH FIVE FRIDAYS MAILING LIST mandarinmonkey.com/high-5-fridays/ Get Amazing Mandarin tools www.patreon.com/mandarinmonkey Skritter - Learn to write Chinese skritter.com?ref=mandarinmonkey Use promoCode: MANDARINMONKEY for 10% off everything Discord discord.gg/KHjF7NNq8d The Mandarin Monkey Podcast is a Mandarin Chinese and English Edutainment podcast designed to entertain and educate. Tom (Native English speaker) and Ula (Native Mandarin Chinese speaker from Taiwan) discuss various topics from life to science, from movies to relationships. Also raising three multiracial children they discuss the challenges of raising bilingual children and with learning Mandarin, English and Taiwanese at home. The Mandarin Monkey podcast is a Chinglish (Chinese and English) podcast which also has a Mandarin story and vocabulary review session in every episode. Also, they have guests on the show from different backgrounds, linguists, authors, creators all the way to doctors. Hope you enjoy. #mandarinmonkey #chinglish #Mandarinpodcast #Edutainment

Mandarin Monkey Podcast
#286 - To Bidet Yourself - Learn Mandarin Chinese & English

Mandarin Monkey Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 23, 2022 67:16


Darian has gone back to Texas! We discuss bidets as per the title of the episode, we also fall into camping and the strange sounds you can hear at night. It's all very typical of the Mandarin Monkey podcast. Ula speaks 100% Taiwanese Mandarin and Tom speaks Chinglish. Follow along! Get The Podcast App mandarinmonkey.com/mandarin-monkey-podcast-app/ Mandaboo iOS tinyurl.com/iosMandaboo Android tinyurl.com/AndroidMandaboo @MandabooGame Website www.mandarinmonkey.com Business Course www.mandarinmonkey.com/product/inten…iness-course/ Intensive Course mandarinmonkey.com/intensive-course/ Awesome Blog mandarinmonkey.com/blog/ HIGH FIVE FRIDAYS MAILING LIST mandarinmonkey.com/high-5-fridays/ Get Amazing Mandarin tools www.patreon.com/mandarinmonkey Skritter - Learn to write Chinese skritter.com?ref=mandarinmonkey Use promoCode: MANDARINMONKEY for 10% off everything Discord discord.gg/KHjF7NNq8d The Mandarin Monkey Podcast is a Mandarin Chinese and English Edutainment podcast designed to entertain and educate. Tom (Native English speaker) and Ula (Native Mandarin Chinese speaker from Taiwan) discuss various topics from life to science, from movies to relationships. Also raising three multiracial children they discuss the challenges of raising bilingual children and with learning Mandarin, English and Taiwanese at home. The Mandarin Monkey podcast is a Chinglish (Chinese and English) podcast which also has a Mandarin story and vocabulary review session in every episode. Also, they have guests on the show from different backgrounds, linguists, authors, creators all the way to doctors. Hope you enjoy. #mandarinmonkey #chinglish #Mandarinpodcast #Edutainment

Mandarin Monkey Podcast
#285 - A Nice Ride | Mandarin & English Podcast | Learn Mandarin with Chinglish

Mandarin Monkey Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 16, 2022 67:11


We go into it about period clothing, bodybuilders and castles. The conversation darts around a bit, which is great for your Mandarin Chinese as Ula only speaks Mandarin and Tom only speaks English. You get a perfect belnd of entertaining conversation and light hearted chitter chatter to keep you entertained during that awful commute.

Mandarin Monkey Podcast
#284 - Commitment | Mandarin & English Podcast | Chinglish

Mandarin Monkey Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 9, 2022 60:48


We are back after a difficult week last week with Mason who had a tremendous stomach problem which has since resolved itself luckily. We are discussing immersion, working, next steps in language and commitment. All back on track now. Keep an eye on the app for the torrent of new episodes coming out soon! Get The Podcast App mandarinmonkey.com/mandarin-monkey-podcast-app/ Mandaboo iOS tinyurl.com/iosMandaboo Android tinyurl.com/AndroidMandaboo @MandabooGame Website www.mandarinmonkey.com Business Course www.mandarinmonkey.com/product/inten…iness-course/ Intensive Course mandarinmonkey.com/intensive-course/ Awesome Blog mandarinmonkey.com/blog/ HIGH FIVE FRIDAYS MAILING LIST mandarinmonkey.com/high-5-fridays/ Get Amazing Mandarin tools www.patreon.com/mandarinmonkey Skritter - Learn to write Chinese skritter.com?ref=mandarinmonkey Use promoCode: MANDARINMONKEY for 10% off everything Discord discord.gg/KHjF7NNq8d The Mandarin Monkey Podcast is a Mandarin Chinese and English Edutainment podcast designed to entertain and educate. Tom (Native English speaker) and Ula (Native Mandarin Chinese speaker from Taiwan) discuss various topics from life to science, from movies to relationships. Also raising three multiracial children they discuss the challenges of raising bilingual children and with learning Mandarin, English and Taiwanese at home. The Mandarin Monkey podcast is a Chinglish (Chinese and English) podcast which also has a Mandarin story and vocabulary review session in every episode. Also, they have guests on the show from different backgrounds, linguists, authors, creators all the way to doctors. Hope you enjoy. #mandarinmonkey #chinglish #Mandarinpodcast #Edutainment

No Script: The Podcast
S8.E11 | ”Chinglish” by David Henry Hwang

No Script: The Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2022 53:45


This week on No Script, Jackson and Jacob continue through the Season 8 themed month! In this third week of plays by David Henry Hwang, J&J discuss Hwang's play "Chinglish," a comic examination of the perils and pitfalls of cross-cultural communication. Listen in! ------------------------------ Please consider supporting us on Patreon. For as low as $1/month, you can help to ensure the No Script Podcast can continue.  https://www.patreon.com/noscriptpodcast  ----------------------------- We want to keep the conversation going! Have you read this play? Have you seen it? Comment and tell us your favorite themes, characters, plot points, etc. Did we get something wrong? Let us know. We'd love to hear from you. Find us on social media at:  Email: noscriptpodcast@gmail.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/No-Script-The-Podcast-1675491925872541/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/noscriptpodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/noscriptpodcast/ ------------------------------ Our theme song is “Upbeat Soda Pop” by Purple Planet Music. Credit as follows: Music: http://www.purple-planet.com ------------------------------ Thanks so much for listening! We'll see you next week.

Mandarin Monkey Podcast
#281 - UNEXPECTED PARTY | CHINGLISH | LEARN MANDARIN AND ENGLISH CONVERSATION

Mandarin Monkey Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2022 60:31


Get The Podcast App mandarinmonkey.com/mandarin-monkey-podcast-app/ Mandaboo iOS tinyurl.com/iosMandaboo Android tinyurl.com/AndroidMandaboo @MandabooGame Website www.mandarinmonkey.com Business Course www.mandarinmonkey.com/product/inten…iness-course/ Intensive Course mandarinmonkey.com/intensive-course/ Awesome Blog mandarinmonkey.com/blog/ HIGH FIVE FRIDAYS MAILING LIST mandarinmonkey.com/high-5-fridays/ Get Amazing Mandarin tools www.patreon.com/mandarinmonkey Skritter - Learn to write Chinese skritter.com?ref=mandarinmonkey Use promoCode: MANDARINMONKEY for 10% off everything Discord discord.gg/KHjF7NNq8d The Mandarin Monkey Podcast is a Mandarin Chinese and English Edutainment podcast designed to entertain and educate. Tom (Native English speaker) and Ula (Native Mandarin Chinese speaker from Taiwan) discuss various topics from life to science, from movies to relationships. Also raising three multiracial children they discuss the challenges of raising bilingual children and with learning Mandarin, English and Taiwanese at home. The Mandarin Monkey podcast is a Chinglish (Chinese and English) podcast which also has a Mandarin story and vocabulary review session in every episode. Also, they have guests on the show from different backgrounds, linguists, authors, creators all the way to doctors. Hope you enjoy. #mandarinmonkey #chinglish #Mandarinpodcast #Edutainment

Mandarin Monkey Podcast
#280 - GRATUITOUS NUDITY | MANDARIN & ENGLISH PODCAST | LEARN MANDARIN AND ENGLISH WITH CHINGLISH

Mandarin Monkey Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 4, 2022 62:59


Is gratuitous nudity in movies a good thing? Is Game of Thrones worth the time now? Does an invisble person get sunburn? Let's answer these questions right away in Mandarin and English. At the same time. Get The Podcast App https://mandarinmonkey.com/mandarin-monkey-podcast-app/ Mandaboo iOS tinyurl.com/iosMandaboo Android tinyurl.com/AndroidMandaboo @MandabooGame Website www.mandarinmonkey.com Business Course www.mandarinmonkey.com/product/inten…iness-course/ Intensive Course mandarinmonkey.com/intensive-course/ Awesome Blog mandarinmonkey.com/blog/ HIGH FIVE FRIDAYS MAILING LIST mandarinmonkey.com/high-5-fridays/ Get Amazing Mandarin tools www.patreon.com/mandarinmonkey Skritter - Learn to write Chinese skritter.com?ref=mandarinmonkey Use promoCode: MANDARINMONKEY for 10% off everything Discord discord.gg/KHjF7NNq8d The Mandarin Monkey Podcast is a Mandarin Chinese and English Edutainment podcast designed to entertain and educate. Tom (Native English speaker) and Ula (Native Mandarin Chinese speaker from Taiwan) discuss various topics from life to science, from movies to relationships. Also raising three multiracial children they discuss the challenges of raising bilingual children and with learning Mandarin, English and Taiwanese at home. The Mandarin Monkey podcast is a Chinglish (Chinese and English) podcast which also has a Mandarin story and vocabulary review session in every episode. Also, they have guests on the show from different backgrounds, linguists, authors, creators all the way to doctors. Hope you enjoy. #mandarinmonkey #chinglish #Mandarinpodcast #Edutainment

Mandarin Monkey Podcast
#279 - FLATHEAD | MANDARIN MONKEY PODCAST | CHINGLISH

Mandarin Monkey Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 28, 2022 62:24


Tom wrestles with memories caused by smell, Ula smells nothing. A new series is coming to the exclusive Mandarin Monkey . The Learner Journals are a collection of learner stories and techniques collated by Mandarin Monkey and presented by Tom. Tom interviews Mandarin learners from around the world to try and find simularities and differences in language learning techniques. Mandaboo iOS tinyurl.com/iosMandaboo Android tinyurl.com/AndroidMandaboo @MandabooGame Website www.mandarinmonkey.com Business Course www.mandarinmonkey.com/product/inten…iness-course/ Intensive Course mandarinmonkey.com/intensive-course/ Awesome Blog mandarinmonkey.com/blog/ HIGH FIVE FRIDAYS MAILING LIST mandarinmonkey.com/high-5-fridays/ Get Amazing Mandarin tools www.patreon.com/mandarinmonkey Skritter - Learn to write Chinese skritter.com?ref=mandarinmonkey Use promoCode: MANDARINMONKEY for 10% off everything Discord discord.gg/KHjF7NNq8d The Mandarin Monkey Podcast is a Mandarin Chinese and English Edutainment podcast designed to entertain and educate. Tom (Native English speaker) and Ula (Native Mandarin Chinese speaker from Taiwan) discuss various topics from life to science, from movies to relationships. Also raising three multiracial children they discuss the challenges of raising bilingual children and with learning Mandarin, English and Taiwanese at home. The Mandarin Monkey podcast is a Chinglish (Chinese and English) podcast which also has a Mandarin story and vocabulary review session in every episode. Also, they have guests on the show from different backgrounds, linguists, authors, creators all the way to doctors. Hope you enjoy. #mandarinmonkey #chinglish #Mandarinpodcast #Edutainment

Mandarin Monkey Podcast
#278 - WHEELS OR DOORS | MANDARIN MONKEY PODCAST | CHINGLISH

Mandarin Monkey Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 21, 2022 64:44


Tom asks an important question, something everyone needs to know. Also the podcast app has been updated AGAIN! bring ing you a better experience and making things more obvious. Gosh, doesnt life have its twists and turns hey! ALso prive hike warning for new hangout members and people who want lessons. It's coming soon as we have to reflect inflation (we have kinda ignored over the last few years). Grab it while its cheap. Mandaboo iOS tinyurl.com/iosMandaboo Android tinyurl.com/AndroidMandaboo @MandabooGame Website www.mandarinmonkey.com Business Course www.mandarinmonkey.com/product/inten…iness-course/ Intensive Course mandarinmonkey.com/intensive-course/ Awesome Blog mandarinmonkey.com/blog/ HIGH FIVE FRIDAYS MAILING LIST mandarinmonkey.com/high-5-fridays/ Get Amazing Mandarin tools www.patreon.com/mandarinmonkey Skritter - Learn to write Chinese skritter.com?ref=mandarinmonkey Use promoCode: MANDARINMONKEY for 10% off everything Discord discord.gg/KHjF7NNq8d The Mandarin Monkey Podcast is a Mandarin Chinese and English Edutainment podcast designed to entertain and educate. Tom (Native English speaker) and Ula (Native Mandarin Chinese speaker from Taiwan) discuss various topics from life to science, from movies to relationships. Also raising three multiracial children they discuss the challenges of raising bilingual children and with learning Mandarin, English and Taiwanese at home. The Mandarin Monkey podcast is a Chinglish (Chinese and English) podcast which also has a Mandarin story and vocabulary review session in every episode. Also, they have guests on the show from different backgrounds, linguists, authors, creators all the way to doctors. Hope you enjoy. #mandarinmonkey #chinglish #Mandarinpodcast #Edutainment

Mandarin Monkey Podcast
#277 - THE WAY IT IS | MANDARIN MONKEY PODCAST | CHINGLISH

Mandarin Monkey Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2022 63:33


Sometimes we listen to a podcast or show for company, sometimes just to have noise in the background when we are doing the laundry or having a bath. Sometimes we listen to a podcast because it's a familiar voice, or to get some perspective on our own lives or problems. This is the topic for todays podcast after we have addressed some things. Mandaboo iOS tinyurl.com/iosMandaboo Android tinyurl.com/AndroidMandaboo @MandabooGame Website www.mandarinmonkey.com Business Course www.mandarinmonkey.com/product/inten…iness-course/ Intensive Course mandarinmonkey.com/intensive-course/ Awesome Blog mandarinmonkey.com/blog/ HIGH FIVE FRIDAYS MAILING LIST mandarinmonkey.com/high-5-fridays/ Get Amazing Mandarin tools www.patreon.com/mandarinmonkey Skritter - Learn to write Chinese skritter.com?ref=mandarinmonkey Use promoCode: MANDARINMONKEY for 10% off everything Discord discord.gg/KHjF7NNq8d The Mandarin Monkey Podcast is a Mandarin Chinese and English Edutainment podcast designed to entertain and educate. Tom (Native English speaker) and Ula (Native Mandarin Chinese speaker from Taiwan) discuss various topics from life to science, from movies to relationships. Also raising three multiracial children they discuss the challenges of raising bilingual children and with learning Mandarin, English and Taiwanese at home. The Mandarin Monkey podcast is a Chinglish (Chinese and English) podcast which also has a Mandarin story and vocabulary review session in every episode. Also, they have guests on the show from different backgrounds, linguists, authors, creators all the way to doctors. Hope you enjoy. #mandarinmonkey #chinglish #Mandarinpodcast #Edutainment

Mandarin Monkey Podcast
The Mandarin Monkey App is Out!

Mandarin Monkey Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2022 6:13


The Mandarin Monkey Podcast App is out and available now. The Mandarin Monkey Podcast app brings you all the Chinglish tears, joy, family, love and learning of the weekly podcast show but with some amazing added extras. Improve your Mandarin Chinese listening comprehension and have fun with the Mandarin Monkey Podcast App! The Mandarin Monkey Podcast app brings you all the Chinglish tears, joy, family, love and learning of the weekly podcast show but with some amazing added extras. Exclusive Audio: - Mandarin Stories - Vocabulary Breakdowns & Discussions - Pure Mandarin Episodes (native Taiwanese hosts Irene and Ula) - Traditional & Simplified story breakdowns - Transcripts for the stories and vocabulary lists - Special Episodes (Including Slang, Swearing in mandarin etc)

But Where Are You From?
Jade bangle lube, Chinglish and TVB Dramas ft. Georgina Leung

But Where Are You From?

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2022 53:31


Amy and Karlie spoke to Georgina aka https://www.instagram.com/chop_stick_n_poke/ about her parents, working as a tattoo artist, then they started veering off into korean and Chinese TV dramas, Speaking Chinglish and Asian uncles lubing Georgie up. Georgina Leung is a British Chinese tattoo artist and illustrator. Spending her formative years in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, Georgina later went on to study Illustration at the Edinburgh College of Art, and is now based in London. Follow besean and slide into our DMs and keep the conversation going! https://www.instagram.com/besea.n/ https://twitter.com/besea_n Support the podcast by buying besean a coffee, 100% of the donations now go towards besean! http://bit.ly/Kofibesean Sign petitions: STAND WITH MYANMAR AND TAKE ACTION https://linktr.ee/meemalee ESEA HERITAGE MONTH: Sign the petition to support the launch of East & South East Asian Heritage Month in the UK https://www.change.org/ESEAHeritageMonth We've reached 30,000 signatures! Sign the petition for media outlets to stop depicting ESEA people in Coronavirus related media: https://www.change.org/p/bbc-stop-depicting-east-asians-in-coronavirus-related-media

早餐英语|实用英文口语
难倒谷爱凌!韭菜合子的英语该怎么说?

早餐英语|实用英文口语

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2022 3:20


WX: jessica66001,获得卡卡老师的英语学习干货分享更多卡卡老师福利公号:卡卡课堂“难倒谷爱凌!韭菜合子”英语该怎么说?2月14日,谷爱凌青蛙公主在比赛间隙吃韭菜合子的一幕走红网络。不过,赛后采访时,谷爱凌却被韭菜合子的英文翻译难倒。根据北京旅游网(Beijing Tourism)介绍,韭菜合子的正式英文名称是Fried Chinese Leek Dumplings,不过,网友似乎有“不同意见”,来看看评论区“翻译高手”咋说:有人建议用Jiucai Box,简单好记;还有网友简单粗暴直接音译jiucaihezi,毕竟Fried Chinese Leek Dumplings太“无趣”,这一译法也得到了大部分网友的支持;有网友认为用chive pocket更形象;但也有网友表示,没必要翻译,直接音译最简单明了,翻译成” Jiucaihezi”正如汉堡没有翻译成肉夹馍之类。其实随着中国国际地位的不断提升,很多我们以前认为的“Chinglish”,有很多已经被收录进权威的英语词典中。比如《牛津英语词典(Oxford English Dictionary,简称OED)》就收录了很多Chinglish。食物类的比如:dim sum(点心) 还有 “jiaozi”“jiaozi”(饺子):由薄面皮做成的新月形饺子,馅料通常是猪肉、卷心菜、韭菜等切成的细末,然后将其煎、炸、烤或煮。“hongbao”(红包):一种把钱放进红信封里的传统中式礼物。“guanxi”(关系):社交网络系统及有影响力的人际关系系统,有助于商业活动和其他交易。“wuxia”(武侠):一种专门描写中国古代流动勇士的中国小说或电影类型,角色通常具有超人的武功。“hukou”(户口):中国政府发布的官方文件,证明持有人是特定地区的合法居民。著名养生网红“goji Berry”(枸杞):一种鲜红色的可食用浆果,在中国广泛种植,某些维生素的含量很高。以及“feng shui”(风水)、“kowtow”(叩头)、“hutong”(胡同)等等等等……词组方面,自然少不了耳熟能详的“long time no see”(好久不见): “long time no see”(好久不见)“lose face”丢脸你还知道有哪些被收录进英语词典的Chinglish吗?也记得留言分享哦!

IPS On Diversity Podcast
S2E8: IPS On Diversity Podcast S2E8 What makes us Singaporean?

IPS On Diversity Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 8, 2022 44:03


As a young and multicultural country, Singapore's national identity has always been hard to define. With the world becoming more globalised, more Singaporeans are migrating overseas and more foreigners are moving to Singapore, our Singaporean identity is increasingly fluid and ever evolving. So is being Singaporean simply a matter of citizenship? Or is it about possessing uniquely Singaporean traits or values? If so, what exactly are these traits and values? On the eighth episode of the second season, host and Associate Director at the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) Liang Kaixin chats with Dr Mathew Mathews, Principal Research Fellow of IPS and Head of IPS Social Lab, as well as Oon Shu An, a Singaporean actress and host, to discuss about our national identity and multiculturalism. Find out more about what makes us Singaporean: The Straits Times (23 Nov 2021): Six views on identities and diversity The Straits Times (24 Sep 2021): S'porean identify strongly with both national and racial identities: IPS study CNA (23 Sep 2021): Singaporeans most proud of healthcare system, cleanliness; low scores for press freedom, treatment of migrant workers: Study TODAY (2 Apr 2021): Understanding the ire and intricacies of immigration in Singapore CNA (19 May 2019):Commentary: Singlish is not English. That's not a bad thing Oon Shu An's video (22 Jun 2016): “Here, I Am…” About our guests: Dr Mathew Mathews Principal Research Fellow of Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) and Head of IPS Social Lab Dr Mathew is a Principal Research Fellow at IPS and is the Head of the IPS Social Lab. He has been involved in over 50 research projects examining social policy issues including race, religion, immigrant relations, family and poverty. Dr Mathew has taught courses on social policy and has published in a range of academic and media outlets. He currently sits on the boards of OnePeople.sg and the National Volunteer and Philanthropy Centre (NVPC). He is a Research Advisor to the Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF) and serves on the VWOs-Charities Capability Fund Panel and the Families for Life Council.  Oon Shu An Actress and Host Oon Shu An is an actor who has been spreading her natural warmth and energy across theatre, TV, film and the internet. She's know for her roles like the ill-fated Song Dynasty courtesan Jing Fei in Netflix Original Marco Polo, Lawyer Stephanie Szeto in Code of Law, and she is currently hosting the newest season of Renovaid. She is an Associate Artist with Checkpoint Theatre. Her sell-out one woman show, the cross-media production '#UnicornMoment' with them was nominated for Best Original Script at the Life! Theatre Awards. She has also had Best Actress nominations for her roles in Pangdemonium's Chinglish and Esplanade's Mergers and Accusations. On Diversity is a podcast inspired by the Institute of Policy Studies Managing Diversities research programme. In each episode, we chat with guests to explore what diversity means to them, the changes they are making, and the changes they hope to see in an increasingly fragmented society. More from On Diversity Season 2 Episode 7: Homelessness, with Harry Tan, IPS Research Fellow, and June Chua, Co-founder of T Project Season 2 Episode 6: The Young vs The Old, with Kanwaljit Soin, Orthopaedic and Hand Surgeon, and Teo Kay Key, IPS Research Fellow Season 2 Episode 5: The New Civil Society, with Carol Soon, IPS Senior Research Fellow and Head of Society and Culture, and Woo Qiyun, Environmentalist and creator of The Weird and Wild Season 2 Episode 4: Diversity in Elite Schools, with Gillian Koh, IPS Deputy Director and Senior Research Fellow, and Paul Jerusalem, master's student at NUS Season 2 Episode 3: The Plight of Buskers, with Yeo Ying Hao, Co-chairman of Buskers Assocation, and Louis Ng, Nee Soon GRC MP See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Cantonese Diaspora
010 | Monterey with Brittany: How is it like to be an oversea Cantonese Youtuber

Cantonese Diaspora

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 29, 2021 55:31


In today's episode, Brittany, from her YouTube channel “Cantonese with Brittany,” discusses how she and Jade met, the type of content she posts, the understandable nature of “Chinglish,” how she progressed in Cantonese with her husband, her methods of learning Cantonese, and more! Listen along to Brittany's experiences and perspectives about Cantonese, and the journey she took to learn it. Brittany's channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/cantonesewithbrittany Check out our available Zoom classes: http://inspirlang.com/zoom Get our digital/paperback book at https://inspirlang.com/lovecanto

Food and Loathing
Ep. 26 - Keeping Kosher, Remembering Chris Herrin

Food and Loathing

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 3, 2021 71:51


It's a combination of celebration, remembrance and education this week – all wrapped up in a tasty package. We celebrate Hanukah with a primer on what it means to keep kosher, and a discussion of all things kosher in Las Vegas. And we found two men who know their stuff: Ken Heck, owner of Chinglish and Chinglish Kosher, and Rabbi Tzvi Bronchtain, who certifies that a restaurant or shop is, indeed, Kosher.  We also remember Chris Herrin, the pioneering Strip veteran who brought great bread and pastry to the neighborhoods of Las Vegas. Chris, who struggled with diabetes for decades, died suddenly just before Thanksgiving in St. George, Utah. He and business partner Chris Connors started Farmstead Bakery in downtown St. George less than a year ago. Connors joins us, along with Chris Decker of Metro Pizza and Chris Palmeri of Naked City Pizza, to share stories about their friend. We also have foodie news and tales, and a cannabis edibles review. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Anything is Possible with Patrick Tsang
Sue Pickford Cheung: Award-winning Author | Anything is Possible with Patrick Tsang

Anything is Possible with Patrick Tsang

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 5, 2021 51:55


Patrick Tsang interviews Sue Pickford Cheung, an award-winning author and illustrator of books for children and young adults, including her award-winning book “Chinglish.” In this interview, Sue shares lessons and insights learned from her childhood. Growing up in a Chinese family in Nottingham, England, Sue experienced bullying and Asian discrimination which reflected negativity on her life. From her parents emigrating over from Hong Kong in the 1960s and owning a Chinese takeout restaurant in Nottingham, Sue speaks about resentment for her culture as a child and how writing “Chinglish” years later as an adult became an outlet to grow and own her culture. Sue provides an overview of how her interest in writing is rooted in her love of art, and her perseverance to get her first published book. In her career, Sue has written many children's books, including Rob and Bob. When Angus met Alvin, and Far from Home. She speaks about her new children's book coming out soon, titled “Maddy Yip's Guide to Life” and potentially working on the Blue Peter program. With focussing on a young adult audience for “Chinglish” to tell a moving and honest story, Sue explains the writing process. Sue has won multiple awards for “Chinglish” including, The Guardian Best Book 2019, Winner Diverse Book Award 2020, and was nominated for the Carnegie Medal 2021. With today's current social climate, Sue shares her advice and opinions for young people regarding mental health and Asian hate. Additionally, Sue is a qualified meditation guide and advocate to bring mindfulness to children of all ages, as an EmpathyLab trained author. More about Sue Pickford Cheung: https://www.suepickford.com

Live at the Lortel: An Off-Broadway Podcast

Works include the plays M. Butterfly, Chinglish, Yellow Face, Golden Child, The Dance and the Railroad, and FOB, as well as the Broadway musicals Aida (co-author), Flower Drum Song (2002 revival) and Disney's Tarzan. Hwang is a Tony Award winner and three-time nominee, a three-time OBIE Award winner, and a three-time Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He is also the most produced living American opera librettist, whose works have been honored with two Grammy Awards.