We talk with special guest Jonald Reyes, director of the documentary film That Asian Thing (www.thatasianthing.com)!
In this episode:
- the documentary film That Asian Thing by Jonald Reyes (www.thatasianthing.com),
- Asian-American celebrities (George Takei, Tiger Woods, Lucy Liu, Bobby Lee, Dat Phan, Rex Navarrete, James Iha, etc.),
- Margaret Cho’s TV show All-American Girl,
- Celebrity Boxing,
- Pat Smear,
- the Nirvana: Unplugged In New York DVD,
- Super Bowl XLI,
- William Hung,
- Fisher Stevens playing an Indian character in Short Circuit (1986),
- the upcoming movie Rambo (2008) starring Sylvester Stallone,
- Timecode (2000) starring Salma Hayek,
- the Independent Film Channel’s version of Pulp Fiction (1994) starring John Travolta,
- Second City and Keegan Michael Key,
- Jonald’s parents,
- the Filipino delicacy balut,
- professional boxing,
- Belleville, NJ,
- My Chemical Romance,
- Belleville High School,
- Ronald McDonald,
- old typewriters,
- the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China,
- celebrity sightings (John Cusack and Amy Poehler),
- the New Monkees,
- and the purpose of joining the Boy Scouts of America.
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One correction: The Thrilla in Manila was Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier on October 1, 1975, whereas the Rumble in the Jungle was Muhammad Ali vs. George Forman on October 30, 1974 in Zaire.
The video of the final two rounds (13 and 14) of the Thrilla in Manila was removed from YouTube. D’oh! Anyway, Muhammad Ali defeated Joe Frazier (October 1, 1975).
I don’t know if they still do this but around 12 years ago when I joined the Air Force kids that made it to eagle scout got a stripe immediately after graduating Air Force basic training. So instead of starting their enlisted career as an Airman basic with no stripes, eagle scouts got to sew some threads on their arm right off the bat.
I guess Boy Scouts counted as a sort of pre-military military training. If they told people this in the first place maybe all that survival crap they make boy scouts do would make a lot of sense. It’s funny because Boy Scouts is essentially the same thing other countries do when they recruit kids into the military, but we’re just more subtle about it.
I always thought of the Boy Scouts as harmless, although I agree they were likely intended as more paramilitary. 30-40-50 years ago, there was a much closer relationship with the environment. In northern NJ, which today is a mess of highways and malls and townhouse developments, 40 or 50 years ago, you really only had to travel 30 minutes away from the city of Newark and you were in the woods. Now people move out to western NJ and live right in the middle of bear country and bitch and whine when a bear bothers them. They have no relationship with nature at all, in fact shun it. Hardly anyone does any camping anymore. I certainly don’t because I refuse to use any sort of public toilet.
I know I am a bit late on this. But the Boy Scouts are good for kids, I just think you need to keep religion out of it, keep it focused on environment and the life skills for these young adults.
this was actually the episode i thought had the least amount of cynicism – as it was three friends sitting and indulging in banter. along with jonald and yourselves, your old school has produced a lot of talent. except for my chemical romance.