About this episode
Erica, Carter, and returning guest Alex Yam, live from Canada, discuss Frank "literary Panda Express" Zhang. Parenting stereotypes, shapeshifting analysis, Frazel, and of course, jasmine-scented everything. More on Asian-American representation in tv/film: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/06/t-magazine/asian-american-actors-representation.html https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/10/28/358307426/a-timeline-of-51-family-sitcoms-with-people-of-color https://www.academia.edu/43772191/The_Bourgeois_Cinema_of_Boba_Liberalism Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother : https://www.npr.org/2011/01/11/132833376/tiger-mothers-raising-children-the-chinese-way An alternative Frazel timeline: https://flightfoot.tumblr.com/post/186863810212/so-i-was-thinking-about-the-age-gap-in-frazel-and Show Merch: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/seaweed-brain-podcast?ref_id=21682 Alex’s grandpa’s Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren_Yuandao