Podcast Episodes

The Fight to End Single Family Zoning and the YIMBY/NIMBY/PHIMBY War with Darrell Owens

Hello!

Today’s episode is about housing, the fight to end single-family zoning, YIMBYs, NIMBYs and PHIMBYs. Our guest today was Darrell Owens, a hous…

4 years, 6 months ago

Click, buy, suffer? Plus listener questions

Hello from Tammy’s 104-degree podcast studio!

This week, we talk about the nightmare of piled-up container ships on the West coast, why Covid has trig…

4 years, 6 months ago

Recasting history and sports workers at SCOTUS

Hello from I-5!

Today: another round in our long-simmering, passive-aggressive professional feud (journalists vs. historians), occasioned by two new p…

4 years, 6 months ago

[Unlocked] Iyko Day: on Asians as capital

Note: The following is an unlocked episode originally released on May 7 for our Patreon and Substack subscribers. Enjoy!

Hi everyone,

Today, a more sch…

4 years, 6 months ago

Lab leak theory and "Who Killed Vincent Chin?"

Hello from Tammy’s fantasy vacation house! It’s just the three of us today, with two important topics.

First, the renewed media and political interes…

4 years, 6 months ago

Chelsea Schieder on Comfort Women denialism, the Japanese Right, the Asia-Pacific, and Coed Revolution

Hi all:

Today’s episode is a conversation with Andy’s friend and classmate Chelsea Szendi Schieder, historian of Japan at Aoyama Gakuin University (To…

4 years, 7 months ago

6/4 no more? And CRT McCarthyism

Hello!

It’s just us three this week, talking recent news (and some hot goss).

First, we discuss the suppressed vigil for the 32nd anniversary of the T…

4 years, 7 months ago

Buddhism, writing, and mixed martial arts with Ocean Vuong

Hello!

Special guest this week. Ocean Vuong, a poet, novelist, essayist, and the author of On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous. Ocean has won the Whiting…

4 years, 7 months ago

"Mare of Easttown" special impromptu episode!

Andy talks with Vinson Cunningham (New Yorker) and Jane Hu (UC-Berkeley English and Film) about the HBO show Mare of Easttown -- a.k.a. “Murder Durdu…

4 years, 7 months ago

Vinson Cunningham on the NBA, Yang, and IRL theatre

Hey, sports fans!

A break from the news cycle with our friend, Vinson Cunningham, a theatre critic at The New Yorker, playwright, novelist, and all-…

4 years, 7 months ago