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AP News Radio
Entertainment Update for 4-9
"With an entertainment update. Three new Star Wars films are in development, Daisy Ridley will return as ray as she builds a new Jedi order, another film will be about the dawn of the Jedi. The third will tie together stories from The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett and other Disney+ series. Whatever those things are. The Super Mario Brothers movie has set a record for the biggest international opening for an animated film. It earned $377 million worldwide beating out frozen two, which had $358 million. Here. We go. And speaking of the Super Mario Brothers movie, the voice of princess peach, Anya Taylor-Joy, says she did not play the games as a kid. Her brother wouldn't let her, playing the games was part of her research, but she's hit a snag. I'm currently stuck on the rainbow road and attempting to not fall off it. A marchesa a letter
The Crypto Conversation
"boba" Discussed on The Crypto Conversation
"And we mentioned that R and G famously was based out of Asia. Do you find that we're a boba's users predominantly based? Is that still the case or are they more just distributed across the world? Yeah, boba network has a really strong presence in Asia, particularly Korea the foundation is focused on expanding further into Japan, India, boba network also has a growing presence in the Mena region as well. So the communities out of Asia are very staunch and strong supporters of the boba network as a result of its sort of DNA coming from OMG network. Very good. And I see that the uniswap down has just approved boba network deployment. So all those boba network traders can now utilize uniswap, right? Well, not at the moment. So we did the uniswap community did vote where we had to be 50 million votes in favor of deploying to the boba Ethan instance. So over the course of the next few weeks, boba foundation engineers will be working to deploy uniswap and we're anticipating that uniswap will be usable for the community and that developers and anybody who is interacting on the boba Ethan's sometime in April. Awesome. Okay, well that's only a few months away, isn't it? Okay, well, as we finish off this part of the podcast, Curtis, do you want to just make the case for why developers or traders or users should come and take a look at what you guys are building on the boba network? Yeah, as I mentioned before, hybrid compute is our big advantage here. And not many people know about it. And also, there are still a world of use cases to discover on how to utilize hybrid compute in allowing blockchain developers to connect off chain data to on chain experiences. And really that's just going to be able to enhance if you're building adapt on any boba instance. However to compute is going to allow you to provide in a more enriched user experience for your community or your users. And we already have several use cases in play already, particularly to gaming. We allow for atomic random number generation, which requires a large amount of computational processing and hybrid compute allows any game developer to provide that random number generation were in talks with several universities in providing and connecting validation for, say, if you went to Stanford, your digital identity could be instantly verified, utilizing hybrid compute, bringing that data on chain sort of a KYC process that validates you actually went to that university, you can utilize it with any tweet, Twitter activity, based token fountain, you can build a DeFi protocol and based off chain assets. Or utilize the opportunities assets such as real estate, any of that data, and create on chain rewards based on off chain activities such as retweets. And outside of that, of course, as I mentioned, we're the only multi layer L two. So if you're interested in expanding your community outside of the theory of network and looking to build on B and B, moonbeam or phantom as well, because there's a whole bigger world out there outside of Ethereum, even though Ethereum is the largest, but certainly other layer ones have and provide different user experiences and advantages over a third. Is data really hybrid compute is a seamless solution to help bridge the gap between, I suppose, centralized web two businesses who might be looking to play around and different blockchain or web three ecosystems, DeFi gaming, NFTs, whatever it is. Yeah, you know, simply put, it allows any web three depth to connect a web two and then it allows any web two companies to bring their solutions into a web three context. So it's a bridge between both worlds. And if you're looking out into that kind of web three context at the moment, Curtis, yeah, what's on the horizon or what's exciting you, where does the next big adoption wave come from anything like that? What are you looking forward to? Right now, the biggest opportunity and I think we've seen a large use case for it over the past year, specific to gaming. There's been a huge growth in that sector, particularly with other L twos making solutions specific to gaming, because the nature of a blockchain, and it's focused on decentralization and security, gaming requires sometimes faster computation and fast transaction speeds. So you'll have less secure blockchains out there that are focused on gaming. However, if we overcome that with hybrid compute, and then we're looking at enterprise solutions as well. I think right now, enterprise companies and the web two world are really sort of exploring avenues and options to integrate blockchain into their business models. Or their business offerings to their customers or users. And sometimes you'll see companies just throwing money at blockchain companies to try and figure out a solution and explore different avenues to do that. And we haven't really developed a lot of sticky use cases at the moment, but I do believe we'll get there. You see in the news every day a different enterprise company using some of their treasury to figure out ways to implement blockchain and eventually I think will be able to bridge that gap and we'll see more and more enterprise companies utilizing blockchain providing decentralized services to their user bases, sort of cutting out the middleman, making things cheaper and more efficient. And at the same time, more user friendly rather than having to wait several hours or even several days to weeks. For middlemen to solve and make transactions go through. Awesome. All right, well, just before we go to a break, Curtis, you know, tell people where they can go into learn more about in your labs, and of course the boba network. Yeah, any labs are domain as any AI, and then boba network, boba dot network, follow boba on Twitter at boba network, also you'll be able to find the rest of our social channels or the rest of bogus social channels on boba dot network
The Crypto Conversation
"boba" Discussed on The Crypto Conversation
"With practical solutions and trying to pathfinder way into making blockchain and all of its benefits more accessible to the masses. When you say the OMG network is that like do you mean the OMG blockchain from a few years back? Yes, it is. So originally, GBV, which brought in any labs acquired the OMG network. We took or boba took over the OMG foundation, then iterated that community into boba network and boba foundation. So the origins of boba network and boba foundation are directly tied to the OMG network, which is now inactive at the moment. Because there was originally based out of it was like an Ethereum clone, but based in Asia somewhere, right? Correct. Yeah. Very cool. Okay, so the boba network then I must admit critic I do not wasn't really super familiar with the boba network, but so that kind of makes sense that OMG has kind of an roundabout way morphed into the boba network. Yeah, so boba network is essentially trying to be a smart contract platform, but scalable, right? Correct. I mean, I'm sure as you're aware that blockchain has scalability issues in general. And that is the purpose of layer twos. And then we're specifically an optimistic rollup. And what makes us unique is our hybrid compute technology. So I think the easiest way to sort of give hybrid compute context is to compare it against an oracle where an oracle will pull data from the blockchain and then send it back to a blockchain. Hybrid compute can pull data onto a blockchain instantaneously. So it's atomic. And it happens right then and there. Enabling the computational ability or opening up that ability for the blockchain to scale and use more complex data and pull it on chain. Or any or any web two APIs. Yeah, very good. And so you're main knit live since September 2021. And you did a funding round in 2021 as well. So you're well underway reasonably well capitalized, got a good team behind you. Yeah. Funny story. Like, because I was I was sort of job searching over the summer and putting fillers out for where I was going to go next. I was specifically focused on more so trying to find a fit with an infrastructure company because that, of course, if a circuit company are absolutely needed for the advancement of the industry and I had already met some of the leadership team ironically at crypto Bahamas that was put on by FTX back in April so it ended up being pretty fruitful for me despite all of the irony and the downfall of FTX there and you know like the team at any labs, I always look for when I'm in a career great culture and putting people first, the rest of the team I can't say enough about their character, their vision for not only the company itself, but blockchain and bringing it to the masses and really the belief and value of decentralization in many ways being an equalizer to underserved populations, particularly when it comes to DeFi and promoting that. But I guess that was just kind of a unique find for me in that way. And of course, we'll capitalize over the next couple of years. And which allows us and gives us the freedom and flexibility to really find and develop additional solutions that will help solve some of the problems that blockchain faces in integrating with the rest of the world and solving some of those web two problems. That may hold some people back. In many ways and finding maybe some enterprise partners to work with and just make really heat blockchain more user friendly and accessible. Very good. And Curtis says the head of marketing, I'm sure this is something you think about a lot, but how do you think about the boba network in the context of the various different layer two solutions and it's kind of like a crowded segment if you like. What do you do to stand out? Yeah, this is also pretty new to me working in this corner of the market. Previously, I was with a regulated company that offered Bitcoin with theorem on regulating exchanges throughout Europe. So over the past few months, since I've joined in your labs, I've really had an eye opening experience with the way sort of the infrastructure and L one L two operate and how those communities are ran and what their value systems are and what really attracts and builds communities around L two's currently. And of course, user experience and user interfaces are always going to win out. But there is also certainly a lot of incentives out there with other L twos having large treasuries, rewarding daps and app developers to build in their ecosystems, which, you know, it's not a slight or anything, but coming from a web two perspective, it's sort of a backwards business model because if you think about it, it's like if I were to go and build a website on using Amazon Web Services, AWS. And then having them pitch me on why I should build on AWS and also asking them for money to do so. Where in reality, I am paying AWS to build a domain on the site. So right now, you have other L twos that have those large treasuries, giving out grants for builders to build on their layer twos. And each of them, there are different types of roll ups, and it's really up to the developer to look at what's the advantages advantages are of using particular ones. And for us, what we think will make boba or what we think will make boba network stand out is our hybrid compute technology. We see the future as a hybrid connector between web two and web three. Not everything will be decentralized. And also if you're going to overcome blockchain scalability issues, you have to account for a complex computational models. And the hybrid compute overcomes that drawback. And we are also the only or boba network is the only multi layer layer two. Boba network is on avalanche B and B moon being in phantom. Currently all the other L twos are focused on Ethereum. You see some data
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Can the Good Guys Take Control of the GOP? Lauren Boebert Explains
"I have to ask you, congresswoman, the question I always ask you when you come on the show and please follow this lady right now at rep boebert that's rep bobert and boba house dot com dot com. What is the power relationship? Can the good guys can the freedom caucus patriotic congressmen and women like yourself take control of the party so that the rhino faction is now no longer relevant? You know, I sure hope so. I do believe that we are going to take the take back the house in the next Congress and I'm really looking forward to that. We don't know about the Senate and we'll still have a commander in chief who's in command of nothing being told what to do on a daily basis in between his naps and applesauce. But I think the number one thing that we are going to be able to do as the freedom caucus as principled conservative is investigate the Biden crime family and the Democrat party investigate the 2020 elections investigate what is going on at the border. Hopefully we'll see you in or impeachment from Mallorca and others who have failed our country, the safety and security of our nation by allowing 2 million illegal aliens to invade our country over the past year and allow fentanyl into our country and then of course I want to look further into Afghanistan, what left 13 of our heroic soldiers dead. You know, this is stuff that I want to look into, and this is why I'm looking forward to taking back the House in 2022. And doctor gorka, I would appreciate it if your listeners could help me out with that. Lauren for freedom dot
Cinemavino
"boba" Discussed on Cinemavino
"I don't know who gives a shit about Cobb vanth. Yeah. But it's not me. Yeah, that's fair. Not even Cobb Vance, again. Refrigeration. He may play a bigger role and be bigger in the future, but yeah, you of course knew that grogu was going to show back up and choose mando because otherwise, Mandarin doesn't have anybody to talk to. It's not the show's not in cub. And he fits in that little pod in the back of the water. And maybe he'll give him a tiny little darksaber. Yeah. I keep thinking that mando, they're going to find out mando has like, hey, you had some force capabilities, but nobody ever found out because you were snatched up. But it could be little grogu is a Mandalorian foundling. And he'll get his own version of a lightsaber or something. I a 100% think they're going to 86. The little pod that he rides along and that he's just going to be cracked out in the force and just floating everywhere he goes. Which I'm all right with. Yeah, I'm okay with this. Where is he going to get that force training now? On the job. Best way to do it on the job. He's going to keep lifting heavy stuff and then going to sleep. That's how you get big. That's how I got big. Lift in the dozen off. Brush my teeth, milkshakes. Todd what do you think? I enjoyed it. I think that the entire series, it fits the entire series in this institute. It's good but not great. It's fun. I mean, it's not supposed to be Macbeth. It's not supposed to be some grand Shakespearean work of drama. It's fun Star Wars movie. I mean, it's popcorn. Pretty disposable entertainment. It does kind of satisfy the mysteries around boba Fett, some of them. You know, it does give you some of that. As a series, this leans way too hard into The Mandalorian. I think even the finale. You know, it's like they spent too much time like, oh, we gotta do some Mandalorian season three, 'cause it's gonna be a while or whatever it's like, they spent too much time worrying with that. When this didn't really completely flip the book of boba Fett. No. And this felt more like a general finale for mando and grogu. I think I read somewhere that Pedro Pascal didn't even spend any time on set. He just did a voice voice-over and then it was all stunt double. Interesting. Yeah. That could be completely wrong. Don't fact check me because I'm probably wrong. Yeah. But I mean, yeah, you never see his helmet off, so. Yeah. And he even gets chastised for supposedly taking his helmet off in the past. You know, he has to leave. I know he's got his hands up, he's not going to do it again. Does that guarantee he's like, oh, we can just use his thought double because he ain't damn sure taking it off now. Yeah. Part of me wonders if this show was purely to justify the bringing back of boba in The Mandalorian season two. And justifying because you can't just bring back boba and not do anything with it, right? So to bring them back in Mandarin season two, you would have all the nerds clamoring for where's the story of boba. And now we got it, close that chapter, this book is locked like let's walk away. And we can bring those characters back. We can see fennec shand, we can see boba Fett again. Mandalorian season three, or in whatever next chapter of.
Cinemavino
"boba" Discussed on Cinemavino
"You never know. Yeah, I've enjoyed it. I think it's 7 seasons. Yeah. So I've got one more season of that to watch. I'll just have another one. Yeah, I think after Disney acquired it, they were like, yep, fuck it, we'll do one more season. We'll close it up. Good stuff. It's very good. But we're going to see a lot more tie ins with that with the Obi-Wan series that comes out later this year. But interesting to know that he's still alive. 30 years later. Because cad bane is fairly old. And we don't know how aliens age. So actually I watched a YouTube video about this today that guest mate that most of his race like old old age is like about 69 years of age and he's like somewhere around 72, 75, something like that. So it's the equivalent of him being almost like a hundred year old. So he is. Yeah, he's clean ish would an unforgiven. He's just like, he's getting too old for this. How racist is a few. Slurs from his porch. I don't think he's Gran Torino Eastwood. He's unforgiven. Anyway but loose. He could use an orangutan that punches people out of a pickup truck. Get him an ape. But more realistically. Do you think he's more based on Clint Eastwood or the man in black? I think he's Eastwood. That's the vibe I got was the Sergio Leone. It's straight up easy. Yeah, he looks more Eastwood, but yeah, I think he is more Men in Black from the bad for good bad and the ugly. Yeah. Angela. Who is that? Yeah, who played Angela? The bad was Lee van Cleef. Yeah. He's a 1000% you've been cleaved but they used all the duster and Manhattan everything from Eastwood. Eastwood had like a poncho. But yeah, but another thing you have to do is kind of depends on where you hail right. I need to revisit the western where he is in Italy while they're filming. It's a little bit cooler he probably needs that poncho. I just think he always saw the episode where they get a duster and they keep trying to share it. Look how cool I look. Had been always had little rocket boots. He didn't have the rocket pack, he just had them on. Can you imagine the core strength through that? Yeah. That's got to be ridiculous. I mean, look at Iron Man. It's true. He had to have the hand propulsor propulsions, hand rockets, hand propulsions. That's what I had on prom night. But yeah, cat Bain, super cool character. Not the last we've seen of them. Hopefully. But he is clearly on the side of evil again. Like he always is. We get R two D two. We get ahsoka tano. Yep, we get Luke Skywalker. We get, well, Cobb vanth. Sorry, Tim all the fun. But we got cad, motherfucking bane. And at some point we'll get Sabine ran in the ahsoka tano series and I'm sure we're gonna get admiral thrawn as well. Like Star Wars is killing it right now. I mean, other than Dave filoni is going. Yes, Dave filoni is coming. Jon Favreau. Favreau's first few episodes of boba Fett your suspect a little bit. Yeah. Honestly, if we didn't have that, we would have no boba Fett at this point. So I'm fine with that. Yeah. We would be boba Fett less. We would boba Fett boba fettered. It had a lot to cover in the next episode. They do. If there's only one more episode left..
Books and Boba
"boba" Discussed on Books and Boba
"How performative of you to celebrate Asians just on this one holiday? We got the lunar new year and we got the month of May, I guess. I guess those are the only two times Asians matter, apparently. Yeah. Before we get started, I also wanted to quickly apologize to everybody who tried to buy a book symbol, but tote bag over the last month. We use a platform called bonfire that creates order windows called campaigns, and sometimes if not enough people order our merchandise, the entire purchase order doesn't go through. And that's what happened to our talk by quarters over the last month I received the email saying that all the orders have been canceled due to not hitting the order threshold. So if you try to buy a total by last month and receive that email, sorry about that. I have changed the tote bag settings to on demand, which means your order for a 12 pack will go through the moment you submit the order. This means on our end we're not receiving the benefits of the economies of scale, but I'd much rather you have your tilt back to go represent a book club than penny pinch on not making an extra 20 cents on the bank. So if you did get your order canceled, you should be able to get your order through if you go to our books in boba bonfire store now. The apparel orders went through fine so if you ordered a bookseller with T-shirt or sweatshirt, you should be getting those soon, but so yeah, hopefully now those of you who want 8 book symbols pack will be able to get one. I like to rock mines. When I go to buy boba, just to be smug about it. I use my tote bag as my main purse because I'm always just carrying a shit ton of stuff. It's surprisingly fits a lot of things. So I've been using that as my main grocery bag and my main takeaway bag. Pretty much anything you can stuff in it. I've been using it. Yeah. And your support has helped us pay for about I want to say half a year of hosting for this show. So thank you for that support as well. And with that said, rira, can you start us off with the book jacket summary for she who became the son? All right. In 1345, China lies under harsh Mongol rule for the starving peasants of the central plains greatness is something found only in stories. But when Jew families 8th born son Zhu zhongba is given a fate of greatness, everyone is mystified as to how it will come to pass. The fate of nothingness received by the family's clever and capable second daughter on the other hand is only as expected. When a bandit attack orphans the two children, though it is Zhu chongba who succumbs to despair and dies. Desperate to escape her own faded death, the girl uses her brother's identity to enter a monastery as a young male novice. They're propelled by her burning desire to survive, Jew learns she is capable of doing whatever it takes no matter how callous to stay hidden from her fate. After her sanctuary is destroyed for supporting the rebellion against Mongol rule, Jew takes the chance to claim another future altogether. Her brother's abandoned greatness. And that is a very good place to start our discussion because that is part one of the book. Yeah. I guess we're off the bat. What are your general impressions after finishing the book? So we've read a couple of Chinese inspired military fantasies Marvin has read the poppy war. We've read the grace of kings for this podcast as well as Empress of salted fortune. So we kind of know how these types of stories go..
Cinemavino
"boba" Discussed on Cinemavino
"And welcome back. Another many episode talking about the book of boba Fett episodes four and 5. The book, cinema, cinema. In my view. It's all of our veno. We record episode four and we have the technical difficulties with that. I'll probably have my part to hit record. Todd was pulling his pants up out of the bathroom and the SD card fell into the toilet. Yeah, I clicked on one of those spam emails about how to get four inches. I'm telling you, man, it worked for Taylor. Yeah. Yeah. You've got the wrong email. P has to be upside down. That's right. That's when you know it's real. That's right. Click on that one. Is that actually the P or is that the P and the email? Exactly. Yeah. It's actually at peanut. So episode four, I figured we could tidy that up real quick. I remember that being kind of a placeholder episode moving on to more action. Full circle. Absolutely. Yes. Brings us up into the more now of him meeting chand in the desert whenever she's wounded. Patching her up and bringing her back and then the tattoo artist. Yes. Yeah. Well, and the big reveal at the end of the episode, now is not as much of like cheese, right? Yeah. It's like the episode ended with The Mandalorian music and we were just like, oh my God, it's The Mandalorian coming back. Well, now we know. Yeah. Great. Basically we get a free episode of The Mandalorian after that. She's 2.5. Yeah, which is nice. I'll take that. But I enjoyed it in a general way. It wasn't anything specifically great about the episode. I just enjoy Star Trek, and it was more Star Trek. So worse, of course, Star Wars, Star Wars. Yeah. I think if we're watching here, just gonna say Star Trek. We'll leave that. That's gonna be worth no. That's never gonna hate mail. What color would Picard's nerds are coming for us? Picard? Yeah, what color lightsaber here? Green. Red. Hot take young Picard, yes. Young, hot headed Picard would be red. Picard loves too much to be a Jedi. That's true. That man loves some ladies. He does. Riker will be blue..
Pop Culture Happy Hour
"boba" Discussed on Pop Culture Happy Hour
"Yeah, and then I also want to add, I really appreciate that Star Wars is bringing some cultural aspects to their universe with the Tuscan readers and I appreciate them adding layers to them and their characters and culture, regarding indigenous tribes that belong on tatooine. It brings so much political aspect to it that you never realized it, because you think of Tuscan readers when you first see them as desert people like, oh, they're scary. They're attacking us. You only know what Luke Skywalker's interactions with them. And that was like one dimension. But now you see like it's been their lands for years and it's reflective of the indigenous population and what they're going through and they've gone through. And I think Tamara Martin was like, yeah, this is important to me. And you know, because he's Molly. And I feel like it just adds so much heart to these characters and teasing universe. Can we also talk about, I really like LucasFilm group being like, you know what? We are an organization really built by artists and guys who are doing miniatures and getting into digital stuff, and then for them to constantly bring makeup artists and combat training people into actual roles. Black her sand that is played by a makeup artist. And of course, that's why we're getting this incredible facial performance. He understands how the makeup works and it is so good, literally one of my new favorite characters, I'm absolutely obsessed. Yeah, this character we're talking about is a hulking wookie with the zappy breast knuckles, which I just love. I just think being able to bring the artist into the screen and really dig into what they're capable of. It just brings such a fun loving layer to all of their work and I'm glad to see it continue here. And there's so much practical effects in this thing, right? The is mouth and tongue, practical effects. That's a puppet, and I just love that. I love seeing that again. In 2022. I really appreciate the animatronics. They actually made me care about rancor. That's my new baby Yoda for me. They have done used a lot of practical effects with the banta. The banta was amazing. It actually makes you care more about the mantas as well. When boba Fett was saying goodbye to the banter, it just felt more authentic to me. Because I go make baby banters, go be free, and I felt like it was more authentic than if it was a digital like, goodbye, and they just go. It's just like a digital thing walking away. I really love that added more authenticity to it. I agree. You guys are, you guys are winning me over on this show, I think. I'm more favorably inclined toward it than I was at the beginning of this conversation. We want to know what you.
Pop Culture Happy Hour
"boba" Discussed on Pop Culture Happy Hour
"But I'm going to tell you, I am still in. And why, because of the casting, it is actors I love in space western drag on pew pew pew pew pew pew, and it's the Laura Dern and last Jedi effect. I didn't see that. I can't fight that. I can't find it. I mean, sure. Morrison Ming no win, but you could Stephen root. You got Danny Trejo. Jennifer Beals shows up. I mean, what a feeling. Killing her role. Yes. Killing her all, right? And you got this one actor who was buried under makeup, but whose face and delivery is so expressive. Yeah. I want to show you guys around him. Give me the book of David pasqua. And yes, of course. They are using Matt berry, but man they're using a paper thin slice of what that guy can do. But he's there. But let me ask you this. This is not the boba Fett that seized fanboy imaginations back in the day, right? He's not ruthless efficient laconic, mysterious. He's not even really a badass. They kind of taken that all away. He's kind of a softy here. He doesn't have a rule through fear. He wants to be loved. He forgives slights, and you show him a big animal. And he's just a big old cuddle bug, which is kind of my favorite thing. And I think what the show is trying to say there is that this interlude he had with the Tuscan raiders his very Lawrence Arabia slash dune slash dances with wolves interlude among the Tuscan raiders that made him grow as a person. He's not alone wolf anymore. He wants to be part of a pack, but it is a big disconnect between the boba Fett we knew. How is that landing on you guys, Joel? I'm really enjoying it and for multiple reasons. Like one, yes, there's this idea of the dances with wolves of it all. But the difference is like tomorrow Morrison is Maori and he's bringing a lot of indigenous culture and inflection into the storyline. And the culture of Star Wars is no longer just sand people. Their tusken raiders, right? And now we have an entire cultural background for that. And for boba Fett to sort of come out of the costume, you couldn't do the face and shield after Mandalorian. It doesn't make sense to do it back to back like, oh, here we are in another costume, avoiding our feelings. So I really like the fact that here's this older bounty hunter who's sort of at the end of his rope. He doesn't want to be a soldier anymore, particularly a foot soldier he mentions like, you know, these things can be resolved. So we're smarter than them. We understand how these transactions actually work because we're always in the middle. I think that's a fascinating approach to a character that has been I mean, let's face it very one note for the entire duration of his existence. I know that it has upset a lot of fanboys. I've talked to you several of the guys in my life who are like, where is the badass bounty hunter? I fell in love with. What is the point of this? And I was like, well, the point is to grow. I truly feel you would be bored if you just saw the same thing again, because certainly couldn't do it in an extended television series. You would have to be like his last ride, and then he dies at the end. You're like, oh, he's so epic. Which is cool and fun. And I think this is for Star Wars fans who are getting older to sort of have this space like contemplate. What do we want to do with our twilight years and how are we going to spend them?.
Pop Culture Happy Hour
"boba" Discussed on Pop Culture Happy Hour
"Are streaming now, only on peacock, go to peacock TV dot com to sign up. Say the name boba Fett and most folks will recall the mysterious badass bounty hunter from the original Star Wars films. They might also remember that he got thrown into the sarlacc pit in return of the Jedi where we assumed he'd get slowly digested over a thousand years. He got out. We learned that much at least in the Disney+ series of The Mandalorian, exactly how he escaped that grizzly fate and what became of him later is the subject of the spin off series the book of boba Fett, which stars him wear a Morrison and Ming-Na Wen. I'm Glenn Weldon and today we're talking about the book of boba Fett on pop culture happy hour from NPR. Joining me today is iHeartRadio producer Joel Monique, well. Hi Glenn. Also back with us returning to the show is Laura Siri cool. She's a freelance writer and movie critic. Welcome back. Laura. Hi, thank you for having me. Of course. Boba Fett. Oh he has had a convoluted history of both on and off the screen. He was introduced in an animated sequence in the cheese tastic Star Wars holiday special in 1978. Two years later, he'd make his first big screen appearance in The Empire Strikes Back as a bounty hunter hired to retrieve Han Solo. We didn't learn much about him in that original trilogy as he didn't say much. George Lucas conceived of him as Clint Eastwood's man with no name if he had a jetpack. Violent, yes, but with a personal code. Boba Fett was available as an action figure through the mail before he appeared in the movies, and that turns out to be important because not knowing much about the guy, plus having his action figure be so hard to get, combined to make fans go nuts about the mysterious boba Fett. All of his essential mystery would pretty much vanish with the Star Wars prequels where we learn that under that cool ass helmet. Boba Fett is the sun sort of long story of Django. The man who became the basis of the clone army. In the book of boba Fett, temp where Morrison plays the title character, the series vacillates between flashbacks to what happened to him after he escaped the sarlacc pit, and the present day as he takes over Jabba the hut criminal empire on tatooine. His lieutenant fennec chand is played by Ming-Na Wen, and they are jockeying for position among just really a lot of competing interests. We'll talk about it. We've seen only the first four episodes of the Disney+ series and we will be talking about what's happened in all of those, so be warned. Joelle, what are your thoughts on the book of boba Fett? Oh, okay. So it's not a home run, and we're just going to be okay with that. Is truly doing for me as a fan is expanding this universe? Are we learning about the history of tattooing? Are we going to get into how it went from an ocean planet to a desert planet and solidify some of these details and actual canon? That's good stuff. That's spicy. It's also giving us a lot of dope secondary characters, which let's be honest is sort of been the Disney+ like go do. It's like this character, okay? We could maybe do a movie with them, great people are playing these folks..
Cinemavino
"boba" Discussed on Cinemavino
"And welcome back to saint lavino. It's going to be a little mini episode. Sean and Jordan and I are talking about. Boba Fett, episode three. Boba. There's going to be some spoilers. So if you only seen it, you all need to go see it pronto, Disney+. So it debuted today. So this is the third of 7 episodes. And I believe this is going to be a limited run. I haven't heard anything but season two yet. I don't know. I think this is going to be a self contained story. Yeah. Well, it kind of seems like they're really relying on telling the story of how boba got out of the sarlacc pit and then how he came to be. I'm wondering if they build him up as a character that can kind of exist in the Star Wars universe now? Yeah. Definitely. You know, kind of like a metaverse, but like an MCU building a cinematic universe. Definitely I could pop up in later films, Mandalorian pop up there again. They could run into the mando again. So which I like that. Man, the MCU's a good template. Well, and it's all Disney. So what were your thoughts on this episode? I thought it was good. I thought the speeder race was shoehorned in for no reason. But it kind of felt like they were writing a script and they're like, how do we get a speeder chase in in the middle of the process? It didn't make sense. Yeah, we need an action beat..
Cinemavino
"boba" Discussed on Cinemavino
"Yada yada. We know the event's been learned. But this now he has the armor back, goes back to tatooine post the events of Mandalorian sits on the throne, and then we pretty much pick up right there, right? So timeline wise, we're completely deviating from a Mandalorian. Yeah. Yeah. And The Mandalorian takes place. As far as we know, 5 years after, return of the Jedi, okay. Yeah, battle, you have not battle the oven. Yeah. Because that's the marker for how they mark time is, right? Yeah. Yavin is your zero. Okay. And I think this, I think return of the Jedi was four years after yavan. So we're now 9 years post heaven. I believe that's right. We'll have to. So we're nerds can correct us on that, but I believe that. Don't fucking correct us. No, no, no, please. I want to read them. So final thoughts on first episodes. Are you excited? I was excited with the beginning. It better get good. And I enjoyed episode one. But I also didn't like seeing smacked around. I was like, no. My last skate resident bad. Yes. So I want to see him get all healed up. I like seeing him get to orc big bad bodyguard daddies. Good morning. Good morning. Yeah, good morning. Those are great. I want to see if he's daddy's rank word to feed. And if they're like, Jesus, this thing is expensive. Well, the rank score is dead. We know that much. Maybe there's a baby. But there are other rank wars out there. That one the only obviously there's more rancor is out there. I'm not saying rank wars were extinct. But the rank were that was under job as palace is no longer there. Also, I wanted to crush that was the saddest. I want to see some more sweet blue elephants that loved play jazz piano. Yeah. All right, two, three, four. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, and some aliens that look like giant vagina heads. And that is what boba Fett is missing in his palace is boba's palace does not have a cantina band. Also, I want him to wear his helmet more often. I don't know. I love Morrison. But I want he doesn't have the same code as the Mandela. Yeah, The Mandalorian mando. It's kind of the Spider-Man problem of its hard to act with the helmet on. How do you have to do a lot of gesticulation? You got a lot of rapid body movements, and that doesn't really fit with boba Fett's character. If you want to develop it, yeah. He always looks cool at all. Yes, he does. Yes, he does. I need a lot of acting out of my boba Fett. I guess this is what I'm saying. He's a very stoic character. Yeah. No, I thought it was good..
Cinemavino
"boba" Discussed on Cinemavino
"Welcome back. We're going to do a quick many part about the new release of the book of boba Fett. Spoilers out the yin Yang. Yeah, we don't have time to do a synopsis. Go and watch and then come back and listen to what we got to say. We're going to do quick quick little burst and share our thoughts on it. I'm a big Star Wars fan. I know you guys are too, so we're going to have strong opinions. Both it. Boba Fett. I'll start with myself. Because I watched him in pretty quick succession to each other. I enjoyed him a lot. To me, it's very similar aesthetic to Mandalorian. Everything's dusty. Everything's sandy, dusty. His dirty sci-fi. Yeah. Yeah. Great. Yeah, the very beginning has been my favorite part with him stuck in the sarlacc bit. You get to see how he escapes. Exactly. That's the biggest existential question of boba Fett. And at times perfectly with, I don't know if you guys have seen the video yet of Patton Oswalt and, of course, and rec. Sync them up together. Open the twin.
Books and Boba
"boba" Discussed on Books and Boba
"Well, hopefully this podcast has brought a little joy into your lives. I'm listening to you and I try to be smart and discussing books and I look forward to discussing more of those with you next year. Another rebro is more free. We're going to hopefully try to do more stuff to engage with our book club members. I'm putting out there right now so that now we have to do it. But yeah, keep your eyes open for that. And before we go, please remind us of our book club pick for December and January. Like I mentioned before, we are reading she who became the son by Shelley Parker Chan for the month of December and January, it is a fantasy book based on the Ming dynasty. It is around 400 pages, so that is why we are giving people two months to read it. Yeah, this book has been winning a lot of end of your awards. Yeah, yeah, and it reached The New York Times Best Seller's list. It was on my TBR pile when it was first announced as it was coming out. So I'm really excited to read it. It's nice to read new books so that we're currently on quote unquote trend. You know, we've never been one to follow the trends. We want to read all sorts of stuff that we want. Listen, I read whatever I want. So you guys just have to deal with it. Yeah. Well, we were thank you for accompanying me during this most difficult year. Wishing you a safe and tolerable holiday season. Yeah, maybe in 2022 will actually record in our studio because we have not actually recorded in person since February 2020. It's been a while. It's been a while. I'm actually seeing Marvin in person this weekend, which is, which is exciting. Yeah, it's been a while. I think the last time I saw you was when I was dropping something off at your front door. Yeah, it was literally for like two minutes. Well, thanks everyone for listening to books and boba. If you do need to get in your last minute Christmas shopping, don't forget that you can support our podcast as well as your local bookstores by ordering a book on the books and boba book shop dot org page where you can find lists of books that are covered on this show as well as keyword lists made by a variety of genres and styles. So check that out, just go to books and book with dot com and click on the bookshop for link. But yeah, until next year, have a great holiday season and have happy new year. Thanks for new year, everyone. Bye. Thanks for listening to books and boa this podcast was hosted by Marvin and rere you and edit it and produced from Marvin Europe. Followed the book club on Twitter and Instagram by going to add books and boba and engage with us on goodreads on our goodreads group. You can also check out past episodes of the podcast by going to book symbol for dot com and by subscribing to us on your favorite podcast app. Don't forget you can support books on boba and Asian American authors by purchasing books at our bookshop dot org account. Check out the link in our show notes and also applicable dot com. Books and boba is a proud member of the potluck podcast collective, a collective of Asian American hosted podcasts featuring unique voices and stories from the Asian Diaspora. Learn more about the collective and check out our fellow potluck shows by visiting the.
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"boba" Discussed on Books and Boba
"Future endeavors. Thank you, thanks. Thanks for having me. This is so fun. Yeah. And that was June seal tan the author of Jake by our gold, which is available at bookstores everywhere, including our book symbol with online bookshop if you go to books and boba dot com and check out our bookshop link, you can check out a ton of curated lists that reader has put together, including every book that we've covered for this book club as well as all the books of the author interviews that we've done. Once again, thank you for maintaining our book shop dot org lists. I will try to do my best to add more lists. I know some of those lists can be very long. I know some of those lists are like 40 or more books and if you have any suggestions for what you want to read or see, just let us know on Twitter and I will try to curate a list for you. Yeah. And as a reminder, every book you buy on our book shop. Thus help support the podcast so we really appreciate your support. And for the month of November, we're almost at the end of 2021. Can you believe it? I can't. Time has no meaning. But our second to last book of 2021 is going to be on earth, we're briefly gorgeous by ocean vuong. This book, you've probably heard of it. It's a bestseller and we've heard wonderful things about it, so I'm excited to dive into it. It's also pretty short, it's only like 250 pages. So you'll get through it pretty quickly. Yeah. If you've already finished the book, we'd love to hear your thoughts on our cookies forums. But otherwise we're otherwise we're going to discuss the but otherwise we're going to be discussing this book at the end of the month till you have until then to read along with us. And yeah, that'll do it for this episode of books and boba or CR next time, bye everyone. Bye. Thanks for listening to books and boba this podcast was hosted by Marvin and reread and edit it and produced from Marvin yuen. Follow the book club on Twitter and Instagram by going to act books and boba and engage with us on goodreads on our goodreads group. You can also check out past episodes of the podcast by going to book symbol dot com and by subscribing to us on your favorite podcast app. Don't forget you can support books on boba and Asian American authors by purchasing books at our bookshop dot org to count. Check out the link in our show notes and also a book symbol dot com. Books and boba is a proud member of the potluck podcast collective, a collective of Asian American hosted podcasts featuring unique voices and stories from the Asian Diaspora. Learn more about the collective and check out our fellow potluck shows by visiting the website podcast potluck.
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"boba" Discussed on Books and Boba
"At the internet. Took them the task. Or it's i wanna share one of my favorite parodies of this. There's like hundreds of them on twitter. Just go search for them but this one is by rebecca. Thanks for why a one. Someone dramatically holds a knife to someone's throat main character has a name starting with a. You have definitely already muted the author on twitter. No one is making st on a journey. Oh my god author definitely has a secret watt paddock count. Why a to. There's a cat trees horses. Wow this author must cry a lot. Plot makes no goddamn sons but we're here for a good time not a smart time why a-3 there are two cats. Someone could possibly right shrek fan fiction about this. You can have a little human sacrifice as a treat. There's a mentor character. With daddy vibes because i mean the reader can emotionally project themselves into them and then the final thing Wi fi seen that the author one hundred percent wrote. When they were hungry boats minor character is just a mouthpiece for what the author learned in therapy. Is this book. Cry for help or assign. I need to seek it so yeah authors went out to town where we need to come up with our bbc reading books blurry bb one tiger mom expectations of he. It'd be like descriptions of food makes me hungry. Bb theory romance interest. Is daniel henney or godfrey. Cowan disguise for being earthier. Gotta be but yeah. There's a lot of fun. wins definitely. Go check them out on twitter. Because you know i was so angry reading about this. B s like. How dare they think they can do this to young readers young young readers re whatever they want. I mean if there's one thing these sorts of people up doing is telling people what they shouldn't shouldn't read the do you know how if this is catching the industry there. Is there any danger of becoming an actual thing or is it just. Something rarely participates out. It's a conversation that's been happening for years because like i said about that third grade teacher who got fired because of her reading recommendations it's been happening in a lot of small communities where a lot of conservative parents usually white conservative parents have been like very strict on what they want their kids to read and i think that's like a response to a lot of what is happening with diversity in publishing so because publishing has been getting a little bit better about including more diverse stories and representing more than just immigrant pain and black pain and painting these characters of marginalized backgrounds as actual humans with emotions and experiences. Parents aren't they just. Don't want their kids to empathize with these non white characters. They're really coming out with their with their pitchforks. Two parent teacher meetings and yeah. I think it's it's a lot of of reactionary thing goes back to the whole backlash against critical race theory right and schools. I would say it is. It is on that same playing field. Well what a time to be a parent. Let me just say oh well. Hopefully this'll be the last week here of this rating system and hope the internet backlash will teach them how to try this shit again. Although i'm sure. I don't think it'll happen again at some point. Well anyway. this has been our shade corner of books in boba for joining us for this mid-month check in for september twenty twenty one Re-re reminds what we're reading for our september. Twenty twenty one book club. Pick okay so. We are reading chemistry by wicky wang. it is a very short novels. So you'll probably be able to read it in one sitting. I would say marvin have you started. I haven't yet but yeah i'm looking forward to it. I've heard great things about it. I'm looking forward to it. Triggering some deep-sea trauma as a former overachiever. It's really funny because Publishers weekly they have a roundup of the club picks by various book clubs and they put our book club pick in in their article and they said chemistry was the perfect book for asian burnouts and as someone who has read this book in their in their mid-twenties yes. I totally agree. It is it. Is that book with a lot of millennial dread and Yeah it might be triggering for some so proceed with caution. Yeah if you've finished the book if you've finished chemistry at wants to show your thoughts that has no honored degrees forums Otherwise we'll see you next time on books and boba by everyone by things. Were listening to books. And this podcast was hosted by marvin. And you connected it. Produced for marvin gaye followed the book club on twitter and instagram. By going to ac books and below and engage with us on good reads on our school you can also check a past episode of the podcast by going to symbol dot com and by subscribing to on your favorite podcast app. Don't forget you can support books. Boba an asian american actors by purchasing books bookshop about or account. Check out the link in our show notes and also epoch symbol but dot com cookson. Boba is a proud member of the potluck. Podcast collective a collective asian american of podcasts featuring unique voices and stories from the asian diaspora learn more about the collected and check out our fellow potluck shows by visiting the.
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"boba" Discussed on Books and Boba
"Books because we talked to so many authors. This is like the most retreive summer in terms of reading. I didn't include it in the in the news but there was the survey by publishers. Weekly about the uptick in reading among among people in the second half of twenty twenty so more people have been reading during the which is very interesting. Awesome always great to see but on that note. Thank you so much for joining us for this episode of books. 'em boba and we'll see you next time. Bye bye things. Were listening to books and boba. This podcast was hosted by marvin and edited and produced. Marvin you followed the book club on twitter and instagram by going to act looks as boba and engage with us on good reads on our good you can also check a past episode of the podcast took symbol dot com and by subscribing to us on your favorite podcast app. Don't forget you can support books and boba. An asian american authors purchasing books tighter bookshop dot org account. Check out the link in our show notes and also epic simple dot com books in. Bob is a proud member of a potluck. Podcast flooded collected. The asian american poulsen podcasts featuring unique voices and stories from the asian gaspard learn more about the collective and check out our fellow potluck shows by visiting the website. Podcast potluck dot com..
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An Ocean of Minutes by Thea Lim
"All right so let's get started re-re. Can you read into in minutes in this novel. America is in the grip of deadly flu. Pandemic when frank catches the virus. His girlfriend polly will do whatever it takes to save him. Even if it means risking everything when she finds out there's a company that has invent a time travel she agrees to a radical contract if she signs up for a one way trip into the future to work as a bonded laborer. The company will pay for the life saving treatment. Frank needs polly promises to meet frank again in galveston texas where she will arrive in twelve years but when polly is rerouted an extra five years into the future. Frank is nowhere to be found alone transformed and divided america with no status. No money paulie must navigate a new life and find a way to locate frank determine if he is alive and if they're love has endured so i was pretty surprised for a time travel novel. It was said in the past because a when you travel into the future. It's like a time period that we haven't Experience in in real life but the future in this book is two thousand two. Yeah it was actually took me a while to wrap my head around the fact that this takes place in an alternate timeline. It's a u Of our timeline were a mutated flu. Pandemic sweeps nation slashed the world and Nothing like her times. Nothing nothing like what's happening right now. The united states. That was the thing i was like. This book came out in twenty eighteen. And you know when people were reading it it was like oh this is what life would be like if a pandemic hit. You know. it's like an all but but now that we are living through a pandemic and we have been living through on for the past like year and like whatever buns almost two years at this point. we're just like yeah like a lot of similarities and a lot of
Books and Boba
Author Chat with Emiko Jean
"And we are here with emiko gene. The author of will never be apart impressive. All seasons and most recently tokyo ever after emiko so nice to have you on the podcast. Thank you for taking the time to speak with us. Thank you for having me today. Yeah congratulations on your recent book. Launch of my girlfriend has already re-regular. She read your book before. I even had a chance to receive your book. I think she's very excited. I'm talking to you right now. So we usually like to ask our authors like if they were always a writer if it's a passion that came later in life. I know that like i was looking at your bio earlier and it seems like you've juggled a lot of things in your past in your past life. You were an entomologist. You were a candle maker. You were a teacher. So how did you become a writer. Yeah so my road to writing and publication was really windy and long always been a really voracious reader. Remember getting stacks and stacks of books from the library on my mama. Take me there like every weekend. And i would get you back then. I think libraries have limited to now. But back then you. It was as much as you could carry over like rain. Myself down with books But i never really saw myself in any of the books that i read. I looking back now as i am. Kind of examining my adolescents. I i had never read a book. By japanese american author or even an asian american author. Add never read a book as a young person that featured in asian american protagonist And so i think that was really formative The clothes that pathway. So although i loved reading i never thought that i could be a writer
Books and Boba
"boba" Discussed on Books and Boba
"Everyone will come to another episode of books and a book club and podcast retrieve books. He's an easily author mining urban. You and i'm rewrite. You and i'm all sources right before this. I tried to do in for with a sexy voice and it's not worth. It was funny. Though i it into the last Last cut we're here today to talk about our june twenty twenty one book club. Pick happy endings by kim lamb. Which is our our second romance novel for this book club. And because last time. I was woefully inadequate for the discussion. We brought into romance novel. Experts to the podcast they are also my co host for the pop culture club which is a pop culture podcast. I also host welcome to the show hung win. And just do what the crossover no one wanted are asked for but we wait. I thought we were going to use our sexy voices. I roll up in the bedroom. Let's take off our clue. it works though. I mean you can't argue with the results i mean. I feel every episode of pop veers into romance novel territory anyway so it just seemed like a good like hey if i if i pick another romance novel can get haunted just on yeah probably are so honored or so honored that you thought of like who are the horn easiest nerds you can think of. Hana jess just reading reading. Sex books a lived experience but we read a lot of them. I'm really happy that you guys are on the show. Because i don't read a lot of sex novels so it's good to have people who have more frame of reference than than i do so thank you so much for coming all right. Let's we're going to try something new with our guest just to just to get to know you better so justin han if you want to let us know. What is your favorite genre slash trope in literature and also your current favorite bull border so hi. I'm jess ju- if you haven't already figured from the very obnoxious yelling just at the top of this episode i am a professional asian. My side hustle is romance novels of various sorts. My favorite like literary trope. I think has to be like like secret parentage. Like it's big and fantasy right. You're like you know they're you know they're special and then kind of revealed that there's some like secret lineage that ties them to a greater world a greater cause a different a different world We get like harry potter. Even though you know she's a fucking turf but it. I can't how influential that was to me Yes i love that. And my current boba order is the long cheese foam t from sun. Studio it's delightful. I actually just had one yesterday and yet don't look at how much i spend on boba orders every week so are also a fan of the race secret parentage. From star wars shut the fuck up was why are you. Bring the shit. No no good secret parentage. Good secret parentage. Okay like you know. In game of thrones. We have not gone to that point in the books. But i do think the show pulled that off beautifully before it just committed ally quasi was. Oh my god. I mean it was very obvious but it's still very like delightful executed until you know. They drove that last season off a cliff. I also have a lot of favorite troves enemies to lovers of forced forced to being some kind of situation like okay. And i'm going to sell i'm gonna i'm gonna. I'm search so exposing myself. But i think we need to be like very vulnerably honest to have a great discussion on this topic. So you know. I read a law fan fiction and fan fiction like you're forced to share a bed in like a some cabin for some reason that would never happen in real life and they're like oh it should his bed now ohno like each other and okay like chemistry and like now. We're love kind of thing. I'm so exposing myself. But yes we appreciate the honesty and han. I am han win. I am the senior culture editor at pslon. Which means i have read many books in my life. I guess and i don't. I'm glad you didn't ask like when was the earliest. You read a sexy because that was way early. My dad had a lot of books. So let's see favorite literary trope. Well i don't know how literary it is but it is also from fantasy. And i think marvin you know about this. I specifically like when a protagonist has to grow up in some sort of military academy and not just that but like i like to see them learning all sorts of like military skills But i also like when they are bullied at first and then they come some some sra martyr and then they have to overcome all of that stuff so Yeah i love that shit. I hate the actual you know actual military stuff but those books i love. I want say that's really specific but that's like half of fantasy right there fan true. I looked that and then when it comes to favorite rom com trope while i do enjoy an enemies to lovers and a marriage of convenience. I also very much like if they do it right. The fake relationship because some people are really good at it. And it's fun to make things up. I've even thought about this myself. I would be awesome at doing a fake relationship. Because i like no details about people. And i'd be able to play it up right But then some people are awful and that of course brings some humor and then there's always the sort of like surprise. I need to kiss you or hold your hand right situation. Oh talking specifically rahm khan troops. Because i got a list of those. Two jolted jolted before but how the glow up and now now for revenge ballons gray as far as my mobile order. It's very similar to dresses because she actually introduced me to that place so for me. I just realized that it has to be a very dark tea. Darker the better but with the cheese foam because that makes it nice and salty. Kind of like a carmo. Yeah and that's a welcome to book symbol or so glad to have you to hear especially because as you mentioned before you two are my go-to resident romance wrong com experts and so excited for our conversation So yeah let's get to it. This is your standard spoiler warning. We're going to be spoiling plot points and themes of happy endings. Although.
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Author Chat With David Yoon
"Hey we're hearing with david author and guess now publisher dvd. I'll stick thanks for joining us on books and boba. Thanks for hopping looking forward to this. Yeah we are here to talk about what we're talking to david about all his great accomplishments but also about his newest book version zero But before he gets that we always like to start because this is a book club about asian american authors. We always like to hear how did you. How did you end up becoming an author like what was your journey as a writer was always something that was part of your life or something that you discovered later on. It's definitely it's. I mean i love this question. 'cause for me. It's definitely been something i've always wanted to do Ever since i was in third grade. I wrote a story in the class and they loved it. They're cracking up. And i was feeling and then a another story interested in it was crickets. Okay okay good feedback gonna try them better. And since then. My favorite classes have been english. I major was in english. I went to grad school for fiction. That's where i met Nikola wife Yeah and yeah and we learned about writing but we didn't learn about the publishing industry so we spent a lot of years just working our day jobs because they paid really well and writing in the mornings or at night and Really the are grad school contacts for members in college was the way we got to be agents and people like that was that was mainly networking. And the the more you write the more you can make your own luck. So when the agent when you friendly do need an agent now i will assume your stuff budgets to sean
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Interview With Author, Jesse Q. Sutanto
"And we're here with jesse. Qc who tanto the author of dial a for aunties as well as the obsession. Welcome jesse were so excited to have you here on the show. I thank you so much for having me your full disclosure. We've been trying to make this interview happen for months. I feel like to who calling in from. Are you in singapore. No or carter. Indonesia jakarta so time zones are thing. Yeah well So just starting off. Jesse can you tell us a little bit about when you wanted to become a writer like was writing always something that was part of your life. i heard that it took you like eight manuscripts to get published like it was very long journey for you so if you could expand a little bit on that on my never ending saga yeah i mean i i. I've always loved and bucks. And i think it was around like ten years ago now actually longer than that I was like okay. I'm gonna get a master's in creative righty and my parents were like. Oh you should go to business school and outright ending yet right But they supported me anyway that they're wonderful and and so i did that and then it's a heck of a long time After graduating to even get like one book published so that was that was a really long and twist the during with lots and lots of rejections and for the longest time. I was kinda trying to find my voice. And i think around At that time we didn't really have like that diverse You know push for more diverse city. And so i was writing. I didn't think that you know publishing. Would once stories from people like me. And so for the longest time i was just kinda writing occasion characters and stuff like that. So i'm very grateful for all the authors who you-know-who kind of paved. The way for us
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The Silence of Bones by June Hur
"Eighteen hundred chosen korea homesick and sixteen year olds. Whole is living out the ancient curse. May you live in interesting times indentured to the police bureau. She's been tasked with assisting a well. Respected young inspector with the investigation into the politically charged. Murder of a noblewoman. As they delve deeper into the dead woman's secrets whole forms an unlikely bond of friendship with the inspector but her loyalty is tested when he becomes the prime suspect in may be the only one capable of discovering. What truly happened on the night of the murder. I will say before we get started. I'm going to do my best with the korean pronunciations. I i do not have native tongue rear this so i apologize in advance totally fine. 'cause like The thing. I don't know if you have the same trouble marvin but when you use the correct pronunciation with like an english sentence sometimes your tongue. Kind of does like gymnast. Ix and it's very hard to be consistent with the pronunciation because stiffer and it's also just proof of how globalization and colonization has like screwed with our mind. I know when i meet someone. Who's last name's lou. That lame extra khalil. But i still say lou because it's easier in my mind and it's just where we're we are living interesting times like I was thinking about this In terms of the legacy of colonization and howard like mess the world up and like we're all just dealing with the repercussions figuring how to how to best move forward right before we were recording. We were talking about romanisation complaining to marvin. Saying romanisation makes absolutely no sense when it comes to Phonetically spelling korean into english because english is best up and the pronunciation guide is. It's just ridiculous like half the time. I'm like this yawn or is this yoon when it's spelled. Y u n
Books and Boba
Interview With Author, Payal Doshi
"And we are here with pile. Doshi the author of ria and the blood of the nectar. We are so excited to have her on the show. Her her book is a middle grade fantasy adventure. And i'm pretty sure are indian american readers out. There are going to be very excited for this book. It's coming out on june fifteenth pale than so much for being with us today. Hi thank you so much for having me. I'm super excited to be here. Yeah congratulations on the launch of your book. How's it been like i. I saw on instagram stories. Your first unboxing of your the first like print feeling. Oh my gosh So surreal feel like this mixture of relief. Happiness disbelief I've lived with this book or about danielle's took me daniels to write this book. And then to me about two years to sell this book and then this whole last year has been you know a lot of everything just the general situation in the world and then at the same time it was all of these you know highs of book news like your cover coming out and seeing that for the first time and then you know get in your arc out people to read and then getting those are so many of those like insanely surreal moments but i nothing beats holding it in your hands. I feel like that's a before and after before bio and like the oft the book is it my hand. It was incredible. I was so nervous. You have all these imaginations and expectations. About what your would be like and then you hold it. I smell that we all do that. It's like the new book and like i. That's the quality of the paper and had a lovely like oh creamy yellow color. And like i was like all of those Bangle my own book so it was. It was awesome and even more excited for the launch in june. Because i know that it's you know it's a really good-looking book as well. That rita's will have and hold and hopefully love the story as well so it's very exciting. Very very exciting.
Books and Boba
A Chat With Sarah Suk, Author of Made in Korea
"We're here. Sarah suk the author of made in korea. I'm so excited to have her on. Ever since i heard about her book deal back in two thousand nineteen. I've just had made in. Korea put on my good reads list so i'm so excited to have her on the show tyra for taking the time to speak with us today. Thank you so much for having me very excited to be here you. I'm super excited. This is our second asian canadian in their role as a kind of asian canadian myself. I am very excited for the asian canadian presentation on this podcast. What do you mean. Kind of asian. So i i am cleanest. Now's born in toronto. Blue states when i was one so culturally i am american whereas doha makdissi nationality and passport. So i still claim canada. Although rewrote says that's not allowed. I mean if the passport says it you know. I had a korean passport until i was twenty one. I understand but i just like to tease marvin about it. Everyone who tell the story to well. You know what. I accept accept. You're welcome in canada whenever you cross the border. Whenever you're able to got validation from national okay so made in korea is your debut novel right yes yes my debut first ever novel so how did how did that happen where you were. You always a writer and what was your road to publication like. I think i read that you studied creative writing in college. That ring yet la a little bit. I actually got rejected from the creative writing major in school so i did not major in creative writing. I majored in english literature. And then i minored in creative writing instead. The miners just kind of like open to all
Books and Boba
How to Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa
"Stories that make up how to pronounce focus on character struggling to find their bearings in unfamiliar territory or shuttling between idioms cultures and values a failed boxer discovers what it truly means to be a champion when he starts painting nails at his sister salon. A young woman tries to discern the invisible immutable. Social hierarchies at a chicken processing plant. A mother coaches her daughter in the challenging art of worm harvesting in todd. Visceral pro style. That establishes her as one of the most striking and assured voices of her generation. Tonka interrogates what it means to make a living to work and to create meaning so at the top like this is a story. A collection of stories about the lao refugee diaspora and laos is a country is adjacent to vietnam. But it's southeast asian like block. That wasn't solved the the vietnam war and because of that were the source of a lot of refugees along with vietnam. Cambodia that came from that area in the seventy s sixty seventies. Yeah it was like The sixties and seventies laos is the only landlocked country in southeast asia. Like you said it. Borders vietnam also borders thailand and is also the most heavily bombed country in all of history in terms of country size and population and most of that is from americans and a lot of the bombs that were dropped. Not all of them have detonated so every year. There is a lot of casualties from these from these bombs. So yeah western colonization and meddling has definitely you. I don't know what else to say.
Books and Boba
Interview With Mia P. Manansala, Author
"And we are here with author. Mia p monot sala the author of arsenic adobo. She is also the winner of the twenty eighteen. Hugh colton award and the two thousand eighteen. Eleanor taylor bland. Crime fiction writers of color award. Welcome thanks for having me. It's always great to bring award winning for unpublished. But yes good. I mean it still counts. Still mary impressive award winning author. I mean like those awards are for my now soon to debut novel. So i guess you're right accounts it can cam nine like in publishing. You need to celebrate every little thing. So you're right you're right so how are you doing. How's how's covert publishing life going for you. What my book cut like as of this recording my book comes out in three weeks. So it's that weird thing of like. I've been waiting over a year for this to happen and now that it's starting to happen. I'm like oh no what like like people are going to be reading my words and and having opinions and oh you know. It's a weird super exciting and super scary time right now. Your your book is a book of the month choice. And that's like that's a pretty big deal too so congratulations. i think. I think that's also was kind of adding to this weird like inbetween feeling because i see my book like on instagram. People are tagging me and photos but it hasn't officially released. So i'm like is this real like. Is this actually happening. It's called marking. It's called marketing. Not a lot of authors. Get it but you're very lucky. Your book definitely deserves it. Because i had so much fun reading it.
All Things Considered
Shortage Leaves Many Wondering When Tapioca Will Return
"There is a national shortage of Boba. The dark, chewy pearls of tapioca typically found in bubble TV, which Is a milk tea or a fruit tea. Then you have these beautiful toppings, and they range from your typical pearls and red bean to really funky stuff like chia seeds and fruit that is Denise Giraldo Gordon in Brooklyn. As soon as she found out about the shortage, she ran to her closest tea shop to preview Bob Ellis future I got my first Boba tea without pearls. For the first time in my life. I never even considered not getting pearls and had a moment of like, Let me just see what this feels like. Bubble tea originated in Taiwan in the 19 eighties. It first came to the US through Asian American communities. But now tea shops and Boba fans are everywhere. But a lover Yoon is a vice president for the distributor Boba direct, He says The current scarcity is due to logistics issues affecting many industries. Too many shipments from Asia Not enough processing capacity in the U. S. What I hear from fray four orders and The trucking industry is we all need help. We need additional workers in the past month. Every week. We have to worry about Hey, where we're running out of this flavor. This tap Yoko, where one out of These items, even down to the straw that's abdomen, Sharif and owner of the Chai Tea Shop in a Chicago suburb. His store opened on Lee eight months ago. Every week. We have to take a flavor off of our menu because we just don't have it, and we're not gonna have it. For 23 weeks now going without Boba might not be everyone's cup of tea, but you can add in other toppings. There's Coconut jellies. There's popping Boba as Crystal ball was different Talk is deck and some of it For the time being. And for Denise Giraldo Gordon, No. Bobo was ultimately no problem and it was great. I didn't miss it at all. I just needed to prepare mentally. She may have to prepare mentally for awhile. Oliver use best guest is the Boba backlog will clear around midsummer.
Books and Boba
Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan
"This is also your standard spoiler warning We are going to talk about. The entirety of girls have paper and wire including plot points and revelations about the climax and twists. So if you have not read the book and you do plan to. This is where you should pause our podcast and comeback after you finish the book and with that said. Let's get to it rewrite. Can you start off with the book. Jacket description each year. Eight beautiful girls chosen as paper girls to serve the king. It's the highest honor. They could hope for and the most demeaning this year. There's a ninth and instead of paper. She's made a fire in this richly. Developed fantasy lay is a member of the paper cast the lowest and most persecuted class of people in kara. She lives in a remote village with her father where the decade old trauma of watching her mother snatched by royal guards for an unknown fate. Still haunt sir. Now the guards are back and this time it's lay thereafter. The girl with the golden is rumored. Beauty has peaked. The kings interest over weeks of training in the opulent but oppressive palace. Lay an eight other. Girls learned the skills and charms that befit kings concert there. She does the unthinkable. she falls in love. Her forbidden romance becomes enmeshed with an explosive plot that threatens her world entire way of life lay still the wide eyed country girl at heart must decide how far she's willing to go for justice and revenge. So this book is an asian themed fantasy a more specifically southeast asian and chinese fantasy. It's an imperial court
Books and Boba
The Magical Language Of Others By E.J. Koh
"And welcome to books and boba a podcast between pittsburgh asian and asian american authors. My name is yet. And i'm re-re you and welcome to our first book club. Discussion of twenty twenty one. We're discussing your january twenty twenty one book club pick the magical language of others by ej co but before we get to the book rear. How has your twenty twenty one going. I mean we talk about this a lot. How time is just like a flat circle and it just feels like january has flown by. It has even though i mean wasn't there a coup. Wasn't there a lot of things happened politically. Obviously but i don't know like everything kind of feels like a fever dream and with the vaccine situation. The it's it's just been constant change degeneracy that antibac- sir shutdown vaccination site now. I did not hear about that. But i did hear about was how we have a how how we have like a vaccine shortage for like more than half of the country and not there's like a new variant of the covid nineteen screen. Yeah it's gotten really bad and it's like a question of of like wilda vaccine be able to stop the symptoms of the new strains and i am trying to stay as calm as possible. I've been staying at home as much as i can. Considering that like now like covid has been happening on the outskirts of inner circle. So it's just like. I'm just i'm just like people. Please stay home because now now it's like right outside my door stop and you're kind of terrified at this point. Well we're here today to talk about our january twenty twenty one book club pick so let's get to it As always as always we're gonna talk all about the book the magical language others so if you haven't read it yet read it i if you don't wanna get spoiled But if you want to listen to us first and then read it. And that's fine to do you. And i would like to give out the trigger warnings of of eating eating disorder suicidal thoughts. I guess like child neglect This there's a lot of sensitive topics in this book. So i would proceed with caution if if you are sensitive to those topics art. So let's get started. A rewrite won't start off with the book jacket description. All right the magical language of others is a powerful and aching love story and letters from mother to daughter after living in america for over a decade g. Cho's parents return to south korea for work leaving fifteen year old and her brother behind in california overnight. G finds herself abandoned and adrift in a world. Made strange by her mother's her mother writes letters in korean over the years seeking forgiveness and love. Letters engy cannot fully understand until she finds them years later hidden in a box as nj. Translate the letters. She looks to history her grandmother. June's ears as a love sick wife and tej on the horrors her grandmother. Kumiko witnessed during the island massacre and to poetry as well as her own lived experience to answer questions inside all of us. So right off the bat. I figure i mean i really enjoyed reading this book I'm not like literally trained person but Ej's pros is really beautiful very descriptive. Very there's a lot of stuff going on and a lot of really like beautiful descriptions. But i know that because i am a son of immigrants and not a daughter especially not a daughter of a korean immigrant. I know that your relation to this story might be a little more deeper than than mine. But what did you. How did you feel about this book. Man i how do i even answer that question. Is i knew that i knew going in that memoir was going to be very difficult for me to read. I'm a very emotional reader for those of you. Who haven't been listening to our podcast for for a while. But when i memoirs are supposed to be personal and it's supposed to tell the story of the author but for me when i was reading. Ej hose book. It seemed like she was holding up a mirror. I guess instead of her instead of just like listening and consuming her story. It felt like i was seeing kind of like this distorted reflection of my own childhood and my own adulthood and like you said like her prose is really gorgeous. I think that has a lot to do with the fact that she is a poet and she knows how to use each word to its maximum effect. Just like an example of her poetic prose. I highlighted a quote from her. I watched the sun come up like an egg cracked open underwater. It's yoke rising with listlessness.
Books and Boba
2021 Book News
"Pain. Sukuk symbol of the club and podcast featuring books by asian and asian american authors in. My name is mervin. And i'm rewrite you and welcome to our first books in boba bid month news review For the year. Twenty twenty one rira. How's your new year been It's been going okay. I've been avoiding social media which has been reporting a lot of garbage. That's been happening as of late to this country so it's been pretty mellow on my side. How about you. That's probably a good call. I've been am. I a on social media. I noticed you know how on instagram people do your top nine for the year. Your top narayan images In twenty twenty. I only had nine xers total. Yeah i'm not. I'm not a big instagram user. Either which is probably why books boba. Our instagram is. Pretty bare and i apologize for that. We do have content. It's just we upload as my thoughts who i've been. I've been being a little lax in creating audio grams of our episodes but I'm working on those where we're going to have some highlights from someone are best author interviews over the last year up soon. I promise But just this whole lockdown quarantine pandemic situation. I think i mentioned this on the podcast before. But i feel like i'm becoming more and more with sudden like i know i'm being forced to be a shut in but finding that actually like it. It's gonna it's not. It's not a bad life being a being a shot in well. We're here today to talk about the latest book news in asian american literature We always start with the latest publishing deals And it's a pretty light month. January is typically just not a big month for deals said it's a it's a debt month mainly because the holiday season has passed but there are a saw. Let's get to them. What's i deal. I deal is amulet acquired. My sister's big fat indian wedding by patel. The why romcom follows an aspiring violinist. Who must secretly juggle the obligations of her sisters extravagant wedding week with auditions for a prominent music contest. On top of all this. She must dodge her nosy families matchmaking. Schemes publication is scheduled for spring. Twenty twenty two awesome title. The way i feel like we've been seeing more and more of these asian wedding stories. You know what bring it. I love wedding stories. I love movies. That take place during weddings. And it's just. I don't know i just like big party. Seems yeah annoy mentioned that. I've never been to indian wedding. But i hear they're per t nuts Chinese weddings would just eat a lot. korean wedding. I don't think i've twinned with those neither well. Korean weddings have definitely transformed a lot from the traditional crean weddings Sort of like for the korean traditional weddings like you wear like humble and there's like specific rituals you drink alcohol and you catch dates with your skirt and whatnot and a lot of a lot of couples. Don't do that anymore. It's become very streamlined and westernized so Actually have a pretty funny story about about korean wedding so last time i went to korea I went for my cousin's wedding and it was my first korean wedding that it was going to and it took place at a wedding hall. There's there's a bunch of wedding halls in this district and seoul and pretty much like what they do is like the bride usually doesn't buy address. They can rent it from the wedding hall. And they have like makeup artists and hairstylists. It's all part of the package. So it's much cheaper and the bride usually sits like in a sitting room where people come up and say congratulations and then they take pictures. So it's literally a place for people to just take pictures with the bride and once the wedding starts for my cousin's wedding. There was like a runway like it wasn't like an eye on it was like a platform runway show. Yeah it's kind of like a modeling runway and every everything in the wedding hall was like super. It seemed more kind of like Like a press conference in way. It didn't it was definitely like not like the romantic decorations that you see in american weddings. But they don't have bridesmaids they don't have groomsmen but what they do have our wedding singers. So what happens during the wedding is that they have like a performer. Sometimes it's a friend who can sing really well or professional wedding singer and they serenade the couple but the thing is it's very awkward because the couple is just standing there watching the wedding singer like saturday to them. And it's like it's just like okay. Well like no one is. Dancing is just like them standing there and watching the strangers sing to them and you have an option of having like a dinner and show pretty much so people will be like eating while they watched the wedding hap. It happened sometimes. it's a buffet style so for the buffet style. Which was what happened with my cousin's wedding. Everyone who is invited to wedding. They have to like pay because that is like the wedding tradition. You pay money to help. Cover the cost of housing for them. Or whatever. if you go to like an asian wedding attorneys wedding everyone brings. There's no wedding gifts. Everyone just brings down belowps. Yeah bring envelopes. And there's like a set amount depending on how close you are to the bride and groom so. If you're just like a coworker it might just be like like twenty five dollars or whatever and the closer you are you pay more
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US cybersecurity agency warns suspected Russian hacking campaign broader than previously believed
"Definitely stick around for the mandalorian post credits scene. After the season. Two finale by eliana document warning spoilers. For the mandalorian season two finale below disney announced a slew of new star wars shows during an investor. Call earlier this month. Including to directly tied to the mandalorian and asakusa series and a drama called rangers of the new republic. But the studio wasn't done plumbing the depths of the mandalorian ip at the season. Two finale of the hit disney plus show previewed yet another spin off series set for december. Twenty twenty one. The book of boba. The episode itself was jam packed with action. Mando gathered together a crew to save baby. Yoda now technically called grow goo but baby. Yoda sounds cuter from the villainous. Mov gideon boba fett created a diversion for the rest of the gang and then flew off into space. Mando then secured baby. Yoda and the dark. Saber by defeating moth gideon in battle but faced a dire challenge in the form of the dark troopers legal imperial droids then none other than luke skywalker arrived to save. Mando's posse and take on the child as his apprentice for story reasons. It's rather convenient. That boba fett wasn't around for luke's cameo considering that bobo once hunted down and tried to kill luke in his friends that would have made for an awkward reunion. But that's not the last we see of fat in a post credits scene. He and finnick infiltrate the lay job of the huts palace on tattoo wayne. New occupied by some of bogus old sycophants including bib fortuna. They kill nearly. Everyone led a slave escape and make themselves comfortable on. Job is thrown then book of boba flashes across the screen along with the december. Twenty twenty one premier date. The announcement comes just one day after original boba. Fett actor jeremy bullock died at the age of seventy five book of boba. Is the ninth star wars show now in the works at disney plus along with a third season of the mandalorian the rogue one prequel door a mandalorian spinoff titled rangers of the new republic. And obi wan show set between episodes three and four soka centered on jed eye us. Oh catano animated series the bad batch a show called the acolyte from the creator of netflix's russian doll and landau starring the cape loving crusader himself.
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Jeremy Bulloch, Boba Fett in first 'Star Wars' trilogy, dies
"A key figure in the Star Wars movies franchise has died Jeremy Bulloch has passed away his agency the actor who first played Boba Fett in the original Star Wars trilogy is died he was seventy five and his reps say he had been living with Parkinson's disease for years when he died at a London hospital well looks role as the infamous Mandalorian bounty hunter is well known to Star Wars fans he swiped the frozen in carbonite Han solo in nineteen eighties the empire strikes back in nineteen eighty three eastern of the jet I Star Wars co stars mark Hamill and Billy Dee Williams are among those paying tribute hello says bullock was a fine actor and fine man while Williams is mourning the loss what he calls the best bounty hunter in the galaxy I'm a squirrel's Gabriel
Books and Boba
Confesions by Kanae Minato
"You're listening to books and bobo. Oppo club podcasts. Between books by easing american doctors are marvin gaye and angrier. And we're here today to talk about our october. Twenty twenty book club. Pick confessions by name and knoxville translated by steven snyder. Who re-re you picked. You picked a doozy for spooky twenty twenty. It really was the perfect read for for spooky month. In my opinion yeah. This episode should be released on election. Day twenty twenty. How are you feeling as we enter this potentially new era. I've just been trying not to think about it. I submitted my ballot a couple of days ago. And i'm like well. It's i don't know it feels kind of hopeless but you know you're i don't now i don't know i feel i don't wanna i don't wanna think about it. I like when the results come out. I'm still skeptical on. How much can change. How much damage control do yeah. Oh at least we can still escape to our books as a resident alien from canada. I'm counting on all you people to To us that's right. You can't vote. I voted for the first time when a moved to california. Because i didn't become naturalized until i was like twenty one twenty. Which very like my this is only like my second election because because the last election the first very first one i voted for was trump versus clinton and wow. I was appointed by the results of it my first election. I vote and i was like. Wow i feel like my vote. Didn't cout of but that's democracy for you right. I mean did count. it just didn't count enough. Yeah i know because of the electoral college or some bullshit like our international listeners are going to just be so continue. No i think they understand. Also what's at stake here. I mean everyone knows the situation that our country is an and yeah so Those of us in the future. How's it over there. I hope i hope it's I hope it's not as bleak but yeah Quick reminder that we're gonna be talking about the whole of confessions by claiming not so so that includes spoilers and since this book is kind of like a crime thriller. You definitely don't want to get spoiled before you get into it so make sure you read the book before coming back listening to our discussion. Yeah i would put this in the same category as never let me go. I'll just go into it as cold as possible and then come back and listen to us and it's a pretty quick read only about two hundred and thirty five pages for a novel. It's relatively short so you can probably knock it out in a day or two and back. Okay so we're we're gonna move on tear discussion. Yeah marvin what have you heard about this book before. Because it you know it was an international bestseller. It was extremely popular in japan. It sold millions of copies. And there's a movie based on this book as well. So have you heard about this book before. Going in actually haven't so this is my first time exposed to this I guess you can call source material. actually didn't know there was a film Yeah it's directed by tetsuya kashima. Who is a pretty well known director and it debuted at the toronto international film festival back in twenty ten and it got a lot of critical acclaim so i have not watched a movie and interested in how they adapted it. Yeah i mean it is a form of story that is somewhat familiar in asian media tropes which is like the revenge story right like we've seen this before in like the korean cinema. A lot of japanese films anime manga light novels also feature stories that like kind of focused on revenge right like the wrong party. Getting their justice is probably one of the darker ones of these that i've read