Escape From Plan A

Eliza and Teen drop all the uppity talk as best they can to overanalyze "The Last Jedi" and what it is about this installment that seems to be dividing audiences. Intro music: Bill Murray. Outro music: Albert and Tiffany Chang (http://www.youtube.com/rainbowpig2).

Mark and Oxford team up to start off this sub-series of talking about what it's like to be Asian, male, and out there dating. No douchey advice. Just thoughts and stories from the older Asian brothers you maybe never had. Twitter: Oxford (@oxford_kondo) Mark (@snbatman)

What would happen if Gina Choe, Tila Tequila, and Esther Ku made a TV show? Probably something like BBC's Chinese Burn. Oxford, Jess, and Mark have some fun tearing into this one. Intro Voice Track: Chinese Burn Ep. 1

What American decline? The iPhone X is here to save the day! Teen, Mark, and Oxford talk about the strong nationalistic religiosity behind the Apple brand.

The revelation of Weinstein's crimes again women have not only changed the future of Hollywood, but forces us to reinterpret its past. Jess, Teen, and Mark discuss the fallout of the Weinstein Bomb.

Fact: There are some real nasty trolls on the internet. Eliza and Oxford discuss the online harassment she and many others have to go through as an Asian woman blogger.

Eliza enlists her cadre of Casanovas--Filip, Oxford, Jon, and Mark--to answer some of her Aesthetic Distance followers' dating questions addressed for the guys. Warning, poop-related dilemmas included.

Asian guys are increasingly refusing the assimilationist liberalism that often excludes them, so is the Alt Right a natural landing spot for those who fall out of the collapsing center? Teen, Oxford, and Jess talk about the need for a new progressive Asian political identity. TWITTER: Teen (@mont_jiang) Jess (@whatsupjess) Oxford (@oxford_kondo) REFERENCED RESOURCES: What If Asian American Men Fall to the Alt-Right? by Oxford Kondo: https://planamag.com/what-if-asian-american-men-fall-to-the-alt-right-3b392495786 AALDEF - The Asian American Vote 2016: http://aaldef.org/TheAsianAmericanVote2016-AALDEF.pdf Neo-Nazi to Troll Army: 'We Have to Be Sexy' at the Big Alt-Right Rally by Allie Conti: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/599zmx/neo-nazi-to-troll-army-we-have-to-be-sexy-at-the-big-alt-right-rally John Cho... Bastard Extraordinaire? by Ben Efsaneyim: http://benefsanem.blogspot.com/2016/08/john-cho.html Men of Color and Masculinity by Sudip Bhattacharya (Reappropriate): http://reappropriate.co/2017/06/men-of-color-and-masculinity/ In All The White Spaces by Jessica Xiao: https://thehumanist.com/magazine/may-june-2016/features/in-all-the-white-spaces The Yellow Man's Masculinity by Christina M. Qiu: https://www.thecrimson.com/column/new-romantix/article/2016/3/7/Yellow-American-feminism-emasculation/ Norway Shooter Anders Breivik’s Zionism in Line With Pro-Israel European Right by Michelle Goldberg: https://www.thedailybeast.com/norway-shooter-anders-breiviks-zionism-in-line-with-pro-israel-european-right Far Away From Me by Jenny Zhang: http://www.rookiemag.com/2015/04/far-away-from-me/

Here's a radical idea: what if Asian Americans stopped trying to be either white or black or whatever, and instead, Asian? Almost the whole Plan A gang—Eliza, Oxford, Filip, Mark, Jon, Teen, and Jess—kicks off the podcast by talking about how we got started and where we go from here.