Ethan, Casey, and Alison return to the Zoom booth and catch up after a post-Season 1 break to ring in the Year of the Ox in this Lunar New Year special!  Join the Thank You / Enjoy team as they discuss their favorite Lunar New Year memories and explore how their relationships with the holiday have changed over the years, and what they enjoy doing now to preserve their culture and traditions! Join the TYE community on Discord: https://discord.gg/H2GncxVEQv Works/people mentioned/inspired: Corky Lee (photographer) Kamala Harris The Queen's Gambit (2020) Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen After Dark by Haruki Murakami The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami Crash Landing On You (2019) San Francisco Chinese New Year Parade Produced by Casey Lee Edited/mixed by Ethan Lee Graphic Logo Design by Chris Kim (@chuffimation) Music by Ethan Lee (G-Kahn)

In Thank You/Enjoy's season finale, Ethan, Alison, and Casey jump in the Zoom and wrap up the entire season with the topic that started it all: boba liberalism.  Join in as they share their own personal experiences with understanding the term and encountering communities that perpetuate this particularly controversial sense of being Asian American in the political and economic space!  From high school club anecdotes and "Jeremy" from high school to theater try-outs and Mandarin classes at UCLA, you'll hear it all wrapped nicely together to conclude the very first season of Thank You/Enjoy! Thank you to all the listeners and guests who joined us this Season 1!  We'll see you very soon and can't wait to talk with y'all again. Show notes: -  Boba liberalism tweet by @diaspora_is_red - "The Rise (and Stall) of the Boba Generation" by Jenny G. Zhang - "COVID-19 and the End of Boba Liberalism Media" by Karen Shibuya - “The Bourgeois Cinema of Biba Liberalism” by Prof. Melissa Phruksachart Produced by Casey Lee Audio Edited/Mixed by Ethan Lee Graphic/Logo Design by Chris Kim (@chuffimation) Music by Ethan Lee (G-Kahn)

Ethan and Alison discuss the Asian YouTubers they grew up watching, high school Asian American clubs, and Asian YouTuber festivals.  Join Ethan and Alison as they reminisce on Asian YouTube's renaissance circa 2009-2011 and attempt to break down what made these videos so "Asian" (apart from the cast). Works Mentioned/Inspired:  WongFu Productions NigaHiga KevJumba The Community Channel Happy Slip Freddie Wong YourChonny Mike Song Produced by Casey Lee Audio Edited/Mixed by Ethan Lee Graphic/Logo Design by Chris Kim (Instagram @chuffimation) Music by Ethan Lee (G-Kahn)

Ethan and Alison are joined by special guest and friend of the show Jennifer Liaw for Thank You/Enjoy's Thanksgiving special episode!  Join them as they discuss dim sum, share their experiences in various "upscale" Taiwanese/Chinese restaurants in Los Angeles and New York City, and explore the politics of food authenticity! Restaurants mentioned/inspired from this episode:  Atlantic Dim Sum (San Gabriel Valley, Los Angeles, CA) Feast (UCLA, Los Angeles, CA) Dragon Beaux (San Francisco, CA) Joy (Pasadena, Los Angeles, CA) Win Son (New York, NY) 886 (New York, NY) Yang's Kitchen (Los Angeles, CA) Woon (Los Angeles, CA) Produced by Casey Lee Audio Mixed/Edited by Ethan Lee Graphic/Logo Design by Chris Kim (Instagram @chuffimation) Intro/Outro Music by Ethan Lee (soundcloud.com/leegato)

With Parasite, BTS, and Crash Landing On You being among South Korea's hottest imports to the West this year, it's impossible for Ethan and Alison to ignore the increased popularity of Korean media in the United States.  Join Ethan and Alison on this hilarious and fun discussion on the phenomenon they like to refer to as, "The Koreawave."    From Super Junior to BTS, and Boys Over Flowers to It's Okay To Not Be Okay, Alison and Ethan  compare the Korean music and shows they watched 10 years ago to the Korean music and shows of today, and how their increased popularity in the West correlates with the changes in their quality and Western sensibilities.  What makes Korean media so much more appealing in America, and why are we seeing it become popular now?  Why is it that Japanese and Korean culture seem so close in proximity to the West, despite the fact that Chinese and Filipino Americans are the two largest Asian populations in the United States?  Alison and Ethan pose these questions and many more to each other as they joke and discuss! Works Referenced/Inspired From: Boys Over Flowers (2009) Crash Landing On You (2019-2020) It's Okay To Not Be Okay (2020) BTS - "Ma City" "Dynamite" Super Junior Girls Generation BIGBANG Produced by Casey Lee Audio Mixed and Edited by Ethan Lee Graphic and Logo Design by Chris. Kim (Instagram @chuffimation) Intro/Outro Music by Ethan Lee (soundcloud.com/leegato)

Casey, Ethan, and Alison catch up after a two-week break, talking about their personal experiences during the 2020 US election and discussing the Asian American film of the decade, Crazy Rich Asians.  Join in as they discuss the plethora of both positive and negative thoughts they have on the blockbuster! Alison's Taiwan Mix: https://www.mixcloud.com/alisonchi/taiwan-then-and-now-1968-2020/ Works/Articles Mentioned and Inspired By:  Crazy Rich Asians is a win for Asian Americans.  But it gets Singapore wrong. (Vox) (https://www.vox.com/first-person/2018/8/17/17715124/crazy-rich-asians-movie-singapore) One Way That Crazy Rich Asians is a Step Backward (The Atlantic) (https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/08/asian-americas-great-gatsby-moment/568213/) Crazy Rich Identities (The Atlantic) (https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/08/singapore/568567/) Produced by Casey Lee Audio Mixed/Edited by Ethan Lee Graphic/Logo Design by Chris Kim (@chuffimation) Intro/Outro Music by Ethan Chong (https://soundcloud.com/ampersand97)

For this bonus episode, Casey sits down with fellow former campaign staffers Tony Choi (Twitter: @tonykchoi) and Hunter Blas to discuss their respective journeys to working in politics as AAPIs, as well as their thoughts on how campaigns can engage meaningfully with AAPIs ahead of the 2020 U.S. Election. Follow us on Instagram @thankyouenjoypod and Twitter @tyenjoypod. Works mentioned during this episode: "One Korean American's Reckoning" from NPR's Code Switch (https://www.npr.org/2020/07/20/892974604/one-korean-americans-reckoning); "America Is in the Heart" by Carlos Bulosan; "Don't Ignore The Asian Vote In 2020" from Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwFr6RX2Y40) Credits: Produced & Edited by Casey Lee Logo design by Chris Kim (Instagram: @chuffimation) Intro music by Metal Lettuce (https://soundcloud.com/metal-lettuce) Outro music by Ethan Lee (https://soundcloud.com/leegato)

Ethan sits down with data journalist Aida Ylanan (Instagram @a1da) and media developer Oshin Tudayan (Instagram @ohoshin) to discuss the perplexing phenomenon of  Trump-supporting Filipino Americans, and how 400 years of colonization in the Philippines has helped spawn this unlikely political party of Asian Americans. Works Mentioned and Inspired From This Episode: Raya and the Last Dragon (2021) "I Went To A 'Filipinos For Trump' Rally.  Here's What I Found" by Anthony C. Ocampo "'Minor Feelings' and the Possibilities of Asian American Identity" by Jia Tolentino Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong America Is In The Heart by Carlos Bulosan Produced by Casey Lee Audio Mixed and Edited by Ethan Lee Graphic and Logo Design by Chris Kim (Instagram @chuffimation) Intro music by Metal Lettuce (soundcloud.com/metal-lettuce) Outro music by Ethan Lee (soundcloud.com/leegato)

Ethan and Alison their thoughts on the romantic comedy Always Be My Maybe, starring Ali Wong and Randall Park, which evolves into a personal conversation about San Francisco, gentrification, Keanu Reeves, and food politics. Produced by Casey Lee Audio mixed by Ethan Lee Graphic/Logo Design by Chris Kim Instagram: @chuffimation Music by Ethan Chong (soundcloud.com/ampersandbeats)

In commemoration of Filipino American History Month, the Thank You/Enjoy team will be dedicating their October Thank You To-Go episodes to uplifting Filipino voices, stories, and topics.    In this very first Filipino American History special, Ethan invites friend and media preservationist Chris Castro to discuss the invisibility of Filipinos in American media, and how history and media portrayal have contributed to the erasure of Filipino Americans in the greater Asian American diaspora.  Dive in as Chris shares his own personal heritage and stories growing up, reflecting on how the media he has consumed affected his perception of Filipino Americans in the media. Produced by Casey Lee Audio mixed by Ethan Lee Graphic/Logo Design by Chris Kim (Instagram @chuffimation) Intro music by Metal Lettuce (https://soundcloud.com/metal-lettuce) Outro music by Ethan Lee (https://soundcloud.com/leegato) Dedicated to Breanna Nery. EPISODE SPOILERS BELOW Mentioned: Center for Asian American Media (https://caamedia.org/) TFC - The Filipino Channel Media Mentioned: Wayne's World (1992) Twilight Zone S3E15 "A Quality of Mercy" (1961) Casablanca (1942) Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) Citizen Kane (1941) Singing in the Rain (1952) Friends S5E6 "The One With The Yeti"  (1998) Friends S5E8 "The One With All The Thanksgivings" (1998) Family Guy S4E25 "You May Now Kiss the...Uh...Guy Who Receives" (2006) Celebrities Mentioned: Jacob Batalon Lea Salonga Hailee Steinfeld Bruno Mars Vanessa Hudgens Darren Criss H.E.R.  apl.de.ap Tia Carrere Pilar Seurat