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WABE 90.1 FM
"john cho" Discussed on WABE 90.1 FM
"Wanted to show the nudity and not avoid it because I wanted the audience and WALL-E to feel the shock that would actually happen. Hannah Marx is the director of don't make me go. She's 29 with a history as a child actor herself. This is a movie where the father learns from his daughter as much as the other way around. So I asked Hannah marks why she wanted to make this road trip movie, pardon the pun. A two way street. I haven't heard that pun yet. Wait, really? Yeah, I love that. That's great I loved that aspect of this movie that it's not just a father teaching his daughter about life, but a daughter teaching her father and that to me is the more empowering take on this story that it's a true two hander. And I think that's true to life. I think parents can learn from their kids, but I don't know yet, as I don't have children, I just have dogs so far. Can we talk about the casting? I don't know if you've seen the hashtag starring John Cho. I have not. But I've heard he's like, he's Internet boyfriend or Internet daddy. Totally. So this is a meme where people Photoshop John Cho into roles where we haven't often seen Asian American men to make a point about representation in Hollywood. And I thought about that as I was watching this movie in which John Cho is kind of like carrying 50% of the weight of this father, daughter film, where we haven't often seen people who look like John Cho. So tell us about the casting here. So the movie was originally written with white characters in mind, but to me there was nothing about the movie that signified that they had to be a certain race. And to me, John Cho was just perfect for the role. And at the end of the day, race didn't matter. He was the right man for the role, and that led us to meet Isaac because we did a big casting search and she was just so special. We kind of deny it and that obviously took on like a mixed race and biracial component to the story. So were there any changes at all that you made once you knew that those were the two actors who would be playing these characters who had been written in a race blind way? We had a lot of conversations about how we wanted to handle it and we realized that it's not realistic that they would never bring up their race so we found areas to just infuse that realism
Mac OS Ken
"john cho" Discussed on Mac OS Ken
"Still more kids stuff coming for Apple TV plus. After the slate of children shows about which I told you yesterday, news of yet another. Apple TV plus issued a press release Monday announcing the kids and family animated series Eva the outlet based on the children's book series owl diaries, the release says even the outlet stars Eva, a creative, cheeky outlet who lives next door to her best friend Lucy, and the Woodland world of tree topping. With big ideas and even bigger personality, Eva goes on high flying adventures, expressing herself in her journal along the way. Billed by Apple as part of its change makers initiative meant to create inspiring and enriching kids original series, no word in the release on when the series will debut. A highly anticipated Apple TV plus film has gotten a bit of a tease. According to a piece from the Mac observer, the Cupertino streamer released a teaser trailer for the skydance animation film luck, late last week. A past description of the film satellite centers around the unluckiest girl in the world who, after stumbling upon the never before seen world of good and bad luck, must join together with magical creatures to uncover a force more powerful than even luck itself. While the teaser only sets the premise, as it does give viewers their first real look at the movie's animation style, it also hints at the film's sense of humor. Voice talent to include Eva noble zada will be Goldberg, Jane Fonda and Simon Pegg. Luck hits Apple TV plus on Friday, the 5th of August, you can catch the teaser now on YouTube. There's another big name headed to the after party, deadline says John Cho is joining the show's second season. A sort of off kilter whodunit. The after party features a detective, played by Tiffany Haddish, taking statements from suspects in the murder with each of their tellings presented in styles of various film genres. Season one was set after a high school reunion, season two will be set after a wedding. Show you may know from the Herald and Kumar movies, the Netflix live action adaptation of cowboy bebop and the most recent Star Trek films. Regarding his apple gig deadline says Cho who has been tapped as a series regular, joins fellow new cast members, Elizabeth Perkins, Zach Woods, Paul Walter Hauser, poppy Liu, and a concrete Jack Whitehall Ken Jeong and Vivian Wu, as well as returning stars, Tiffany Haddish, Sam Richardson, and Zoe chow. We know nothing about Cho's character, except that his name is Ulysses. The rest is a mystery, which works great for a mystery. No word on when season two will hit Apple TV plus. And finally today, Apple TV plus is released a trailer for all men kind season three. Set in an alternate history where the Soviet Union won the space race tech crunch says the show's third season takes viewers to the early 1990s as Russia and the U.S. target manned missions to Mars. Apple TV plus viewers can see the season three premiere on Friday the 10th of June between now and then. You can catch the trailer.
WABE 90.1 FM
"john cho" Discussed on WABE 90.1 FM
"Harold and Kumar go to white castle But now he's turned his creative talents to fiction Show has a debut novel it's a book for middle grade readers and it's called troublemaker It tells the story of Jordan a 12 year old Korean American boy living in 1992 Los Angeles His family owns a store in the koreatown section of LA and Jordan becomes caught up in the violence the night following the acquittal of the police officers who are videotaped beating Rodney King Again John Cho's book is called troublemaker and he joins me now via Skype to talk about it Welcome to here and now Thank you so much for having me You said in your afterward that troublemaker was not the novel you intended to write and so I'm curious about what novel you intended to write Well it started out I was going to write a mystery novel I loved mysteries as a kid and I thought maybe that was the book I was going to write And it was the events of 2020 that caused me to change course It was the murder of George Floyd and the pandemic and the anti Asian violence that caused me to reflect on the 92 riots and wondered how it would have seemed to my children You know the Rodney King riots and then the violence that spread into koreatown in Los Angeles that's tough stuff Those are things that people still debate What do they mean what caused them why would one disadvantaged group black Americans rise up and attack another disadvantaged group which was Asian Americans and there's events that you refer to in your book that help to explain them But it occurred to me that for a debut novel writing for young adults You didn't make it very easy on yourself Like you chose you chose some really nuanced material Did you ever at any point go in white mom maybe I should write about dragons Yes I did Bet I will say that I knew that it was going to be fraud especially for a young adult audience and it was why I asked my editor I think I need to work with a co writer Principally because I needed to talk through all these issues How it would be presented to a young audience and I needed a steady hand to work with And so Sarah soup is my co writer and we wanted to be honest and playing spoken about all these events but also I didn't want them to be in a consequence free atmosphere and I want and I didn't want a kid to read the novel and feel unsafe So it was a balance I hope we got it right I mean I think you did but we'll have to let the listeners read the book for themselves I did really enjoy the way that you played with that word troublemaker because it's unclear who is the troublemaker There's the main character Jordan who has done something wrong That's how the book begins He has hanging out with a guy Mike that his parents think is a bad influence Then it's unclear as you go forward who the bad influence is that idea of who makes trouble is a concept that you seem to really dig into and then draw parallels between what's happening in this kid's school and in his family life to what's happening in broader society What was your intent for kids to take away from this Well for kids I was thinking at that age those middle grade years as early teen years there are period of identity formation and your individuating yourself from your parents And I found that age to be very confusing and you try on a lot of identities And I suppose if there was a lesson in the title for kids it's that no label has to stick And no identity is set And you can become whatever you desire to be I suppose I was thinking about that Also in the Asian American context and the larger racial context which is you're not necessarily what people see specifically for Asian Americans there's the model minority myth and I think Jordan is dealing with that and falling short of the expectations that society puts on him because of the way he looks On a personal note me and all my Friends when we were younger we would curse at this hypothetical Peter Kim who lived in cerritos We've got a 1600 on his SAT and our parents would all tell us about him and we cursed this boy And so yeah I guess it's just a kind of meditation on labels in general Well if Peter Kim is listening you were the boogeyman to so many of your friends Oral surgeon in the valley Oh so a real underachiever There is the question also of Jordan's parents And the story that they have And the fact that they have already endured some failures as they've come to the United States And have so much wrapped up in the store You have a kid about the right age for this book right Yes I have a 13 year old boy and a 9 year old girl And so I was kind of thinking this novel in some ways is sort of demonstrating to kids a more nuanced portrait of their parents Yes I suppose it is I hadn't thought about that.
On Shuffle
"john cho" Discussed on On Shuffle
"About Netflix's live action adaptation of the acclaimed anime series cowboy bebop. There you go. That was a limp version of tank. That's how I feel about this live action. Yo, I think we're going to disagree about this. This is good. And by the way, I want to remind listens like one of the things I like about me and Mike is dynamic and really anybody like Kim and I had this too where it's like, we disagree about shit. This is the podcast where we disagree. I disagree with Micah about this show. I also want to listen. But on a very fundamental level we both appreciate that even bad things. Take a lot of effort and care to make. Yeah. Yeah, that's that critic. Thank you for adding that. That's not critical insights. The difference between. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Anyway, continue. We got to talk about golf too young golf rest in peace. On the back end of this, just the news out of Memphis. But, you know, we promised to talk about bebop. We're here to talk about bebop bebop is our bread and butter. You know, OG listeners sound only know that we started on the ringer podcast network as a podcast series, recapping neon genesis saving galleon. We originally thought to pitch a sort of second season covering cowboy bebop in a similar fashion. We instead are doing the show that we are doing today that you all know and love. But of course we're going to talk about bebop. Live action be bob. Let's start with summary judgments. Micah, you have the negative take. Just give me your sort of loose thoughts before. Okay. All right. There I think that this show, this adaptation on the whole. Suffers from ballooning from its original 25 or so minute deft quick in and out, you know, they had a thing that they wanted to do. They came. They did it and they left type of runtime to the you know the quintessential 57 minute Netflix runtime where it's just like we got to meet everybody and they gotta have affectations. And we need to have to have they each character has their one minder distracting detail and everything is loud and nothing is important. It's just busy. Overall. And I mean, it's like if you appraise it on the terms of maybe this show trying to do like the Luke based on thing from the mid 90s. If I review it, I specifically compare it to that. The 5th element. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, you know, there's also very loud and busy. It makes sense. That would be one direction you could go with trying to port the visual grammar of cowboy bebop into the physical world. And I mean like another thing I thought about was Nash bridges or late ABs early 90s. Police procedurals. Where it's like, those that's also something that, you know, yeah, sure. I could see that the show was trying to do those things. But on the whole for me, it suffers because of the core performances, which I know that you enjoy more than I do. Yeah, for sure. You brought Nas, bridges into this boy, I know it. I know it's your TV was like growing up now. I feel like there's also there's some there's some angel in there and some like, you know, firefly, like all the stuff that is sort of a bit of this particular pocket of culture like eating its own tail. Because it was cowboy bebop to firefly to, you know, star, whatever you want to call it. All the way back here. And we have it doesn't feel like a full circle. It doesn't feel like a celebratory full circle moment. Where it's just like we're doing all of these we're celebrating this pocket of culture. It just feels in the first couple of episodes, very cash gravity and slow to get off the ground. Specifically, the casino sequence? Oh man, I found my goodness. I did not like it. And I mean like also just and I know you feel me on this. Okay. So, one of the benefits of being a writer's guild member is that you get award season, you get the you get the award DVDs, right? So I was watching Spencer with the this goes for divide recently. And there's a lot of buzz around this movie for Kristen Stewart's performance, this process, Diana and the soundtrack and the framing and it's beautiful. But there's like this wide shot of Kristen Stewart. And I've been like, it's noticeable, Kristen Stewart and not Princess Diana. Heal it like sticking your heels across this, this row of, I don't know, whatever the hell it is, they grow in English countryside towards the scarecrow to grab a jacket off of it. But it's just kind of like at that exact moment I turned the first recipe with I was just like, she's too short. She's too short to be playing this role. And I don't mean that. And I don't mean it like pejoratively, I meet it as a fact. Because of yes because of stature and the way that the way that our body moves is not the same. It's like it's noticeable that it's Kristen Stewart playing Princess Diana. You know what I'm saying? So in the beginning, despite John Cho being hot and John Cho,.
The Fantasmagorium Show
"john cho" Discussed on The Fantasmagorium Show
"Flicks is live action. Adaptation of the iconic anime cowboy. Bebop arrives this november with john showing the lead role as of spike spiegel. And the actor knew from the start that he's casting would be somewhat controversial. Spike is a twenty-seven-year-old bounty hunter in the cowboy bebop anime cho- turned forty nine years old this summer. The actor was asked by vulture about the cowboy fans upset that the series did not cast a younger actor in the role to which show admitted the biggest fear. That i had was i was too old. I knew people were going to have issues with my age. And i had to get over it. I'm not a person who says age is just a number or whatever it was gonna be harder physically. And i was going to look different than a twenty five year. Old guy show continued at some point. The opportunity is yes or no. Do you wanna do it. And i did want to do it so i wasn't going to stop myself from doing it for anyone. Who believes show is too old to lead cowboy bebop. The actor maintained the series benefits from him. Being an older actor. First of all. I couldn't have done it when i was cast when i was twenty. Seven chou said. I mean maybe i would have been better suited aesthetically or athletically but in terms of my discipline. I am strangely better suited at this age. I don't think i would have done justice. To the emotional depth. We tried to give spike. There's always a trade-off what young men are typically best at as actors is rage and that might have been more pronounced element of the character when i'm better at being older it's showing weakness and vulnerability and love. Those things are more accessible to me. Personally i'd prefer the version. I'm able to show. That's my
Asian Enough
"john cho" Discussed on Asian Enough
"Don't wanna be the subject of a story acute story in korea town. I don't want any part of it if they want to invite me to go to korean barbecue with them. We're going to dinner. That's different but i will not take anyone down. The mississippi in a canoe feels like performing a bit. Yeah i'm not going to do it. I'm not gonna speak korean. Speak english so they're going to be disappointed. I don't want to tell everyone what they're reading. These are all stuff that i saw. My parents do. And i hated it. I didn't i hate it when they said that's we koreans eat a dish called. That's actually octopus in their hope. You like it. i don't want that. I guess i have another values confessions. I've taken a lot of white people themselves up taking very much every white person i know that. Can i just say this contract. I'm not into dimsum. Maybe that's my commitment. I like the food. I don't want it at eleven. Am i did what they wanted on the pushcart. We'll put her should be. There should be half. The restaurant should be dim sum and the other half should be caught. It's too much eleven. Those i'm saying any eleven. Do you have a bad as in confession. You want to share with us. Call us at two one three nine eight six five six five. That's two one three nine eight six five six five two. Maybe we'll even play it on the show. And that's a wrap for this episode of asian enough this episode was hosted by me genu- motto and my co creator. frank shung. Our producer is assault asana. Poor and our executive producer is abby swanson. Our engineer is mike heflin. Our original music was composed by andrew. Even special thanks to read. Johnson clinch chef shelby grad shawnee hilton and geoff berkshire. This podcast is dedicated to the memory of our founding producer lineup anwar who produced the original version of this episode with rena palta. And hey if you love our podcast. Please leave us a review on apple podcasts and follow us on instagram and sent in your confessions. We love hearing from you. We'll be back next week with a delicious new episode of asian. Enough my co-host tracy brown and johanna bwah will be talking to the oso. Charming celebrity chef sola l. Ueli i white chefs. Have this freedom that they can. Just you know become an expert in whatever they want in their accepted as an expert in whatever cuisine. they're like passionate about whatever they're drawn to. And i feel like when you're a person of color it's just like well you must. You must write about shots. You must know all about chat. And it's like yeah. I really like shot but you know. I'm also really into chili rellenos. 'cause i'm from la so I just wish we could be more our whole cells and remember if you ever see john show out on the street. Do not call him. Lee mill scott. Maybe try this line. Nobelpeaceprize guy twenty seventeen when a trans woman disappears from the village alarm bells. Go off growth. Go missing rose end up dead so her friends. Decide enough is enough. This is the story of what happens when sex workers and trans people stand up to fight the system that failed them. I'm justin laying. And this is the village season two available now on the listen app and everywhere. You get your podcasts..
Asian Enough
"john cho" Discussed on Asian Enough
"For me. I have a theory a little bit of a theory. Oh it's it's in sociology and You know there's a recent book by mark peng pod who who talks about how you know. A lot of americans. First experience of tie was through thai food and so because they their first experience of thai culture was through thai food they are conditioned to want things like authenticity and so they understand tie. Americans through that lens of authenticity and so many of the ways in which americans are exposed to asian cultures are through this lens of authenticity. Any any culture right right right immigrant cultures specifically and so like. That's why they expect high americans to know all of these different flavors because you know food is one reason you know. Food is a big way that asian immigrants have kind of navigated and like you know create an existence in america and is like one of the only places in which you know if you're white. You're not familiar with immigrant cultures. That's the place where you touch it. You know there is a kind of. I think there's Part of it is It shows kind of courage to go to the deepest darkest africa you know into the heart of darkness in income. Back alive kind of a thing. Although i will say the flip side of that is i've always felt like as much as maligned as white americans are in in this in this respect They can't be extraordinarily open. In a way that i look back in the country of my birth and i go are koreans. Korean seemed to be comparatively. You know a much more closed off and much less accepting of difference. You know what. I'm saying so that there's the good and the bad here. I should know that. I mean we would not be here all of us me and my family without the kindnesses of specifically white churchgoers you know what i mean. And they're even. I'm not sure what they thought about us. I can't say. And i'm i'm sure there were lots of things they didn't understand. I'm sure there were things that there were suspicious about. But still you know. I owe them some of my sweetest memories. Are you know i would them. Yeah even in the modern day to you mean. We can't waste anyone's goodwill you know. My my my editors white you know the people who hired me at the la times white so so yeah definitely. I mean it's just. It's all a part of like this. Is i guess for for anyone listening from. Is this disclaimer from my for myself. This is all sort of thought exercises for me trying to figure things out as i move forward all right. We got to wrap up this conversation. Unfortunately we need to get to these bad as and confessions that we talked about at the top of the show. Basically we're gonna share a timer thing that's made us feel like we're not asian enough with the idea of critiquing. Why my bad. He didn't confession. Why have so many but This past weekend. I went to Ken king food court to do my corona virus panic buying because they have this A freezer there with a bunch of dumplings and bows and montas. I bought six packs of dumplings a feeling like a king. You know driving back home with all these dumplings in my cooler in my trunk. I get home. I get distracted by something. I leave them in the car. A couple of days later. Discover the melted frozen dumplings in my car. Just so wasteful. You know. I thought about what my mom would say. You know. i thought about what my dad would say. I guess i just felt like a bad asian. Because asians are supposed to be frugal. You know my mom and dad raised me that way and my my parents. When they were kids they still remember being hungry. I only really lost like forty six dollars or something like nine cents based on the the pricing they have at gang gang led like you know it's still hurt to lose that amount of money and yeah. I just felt like such a terrible terrible. My bad asian confession is that. When i was a kid for about ten years i actually played. The japanese. traditional instrument called the koto. The koto is this long wooden stringed zither that you play with ivory picks when you're a kid your grandmother's dress you up in kimonos and you're told to basically channel like a perfect dull as you sit there and perform eye sight read japanese music. I even like sang along phonetically in japanese when i performed and this is something that was a part of my life for a long time growing up but around high school. I chose to stop taking these lessons in order to spend my spare time doing things like playing soccer and those things i also loved does are very much a part of who i am as well but now that i'm older. I kind of regret stopping the koto lessons. I regret losing that part of my life. I still do have my koto at home here with me. And i break it out once a year just to see what i remember if i can still play the songs in read the music and sometimes i think about maybe taking up lessons again But that is one thing that i look back and i. I can see that. When i was that age very specific age specific time in my formative experience i chose to say i want to do something different. I want to explore different part of myself. So that is my fat asian confession. Okay give it to us john. What is your bad. Asian confession I tell why people that. I will take them to koreatown and i and that is a lie i i've never have and i never will why that i don't wanna be anyone sherpa. I don't want to take. I don't wanna participate in this anthropological study. That they're doing. I don't wanna make anyone feel down. They are down or they're not. They can get korean if they want. I don't know why i need to be there. I don't wanna show open any doors for them if no one's opening for them i don't want to force open any door for them. I.
Asian Enough
"john cho" Discussed on Asian Enough
"And i'm married to an asian woman and have We have asian children shockingly and Really yeah so this is the culture is going to be there. Just trust it like it's going to come out and people really People were even interpreting things as asian things. That weren't that we didn't know interesting. We didn't put in there or think about. I felt like it was very asian. American family right. It was yeah is a set in the bay area. Set felt very authentic right. Yeah yeah So i think you know there's a way to get a culture without getting it culture and there's a way to get it race without getting it race. Maybe that's an asian american thing. Maybe that's not an african american thing That maybe that's our journey as a as a culture As a people to you know but That's what works for me. Has worked for me as i move forward and i'm trying to look for things to do. I found that you know. When white writers are tasked with writing for asians even the the the The best ones the most well intentioned ones have difficulty and it really bumps them and the writing becomes very much even if it's not on the even if it's not textual You really get the feeling that the thing that they're pushing most is the race and You know. I think recently made a decision that whatever character i play will be asian because it's me and a really have to step back from it and So i think. I'm trying to avoid things that are written asian because then they'll be false because we don't walk around with that i don't know i mean putting the asian i yeah i don't i mean i mean that makes total sense to me. I mean i used to write about the san gabriel valley monterey park and when i would describe the area like editors would want me to say like. Oh yeah tell say that. There's neon in chinese chinese on the signs and stuff and give them a little of that. Asian flavor the flavor. Yeah yeah and it's just like that's not how they define themselves you know when you when you take that away when a movie like searching kind of just lets you define it yourself. Yeah exactly. it's it's more or the other. The other big picture is the you know. Last component of my most recent component as we said earlier you know. It's a lifelong journey. Sort of unpacking your race and your culture and your parents and all that i think i'm in this phase now especially since two thousand sixteen Of unpacking the other side. Which is what is white you know. And that's i think equally important to understanding to to ourselves understanding. Yeah like what that is because we think that that's normal and were east of normal. Were oriental you know what i'm saying and And so we there's one thing to take pride in being east of normal and now we actually part of the job is to go. There's no center you know. And understanding what that is what normal is defined as like the default defined it how it defined and and i think that's important for asian americans as well. I'm japanese american fourth generation. I don't speak japanese. Although many people have who are not asian have expected that of me in my life. I for sure do not speak korean But love i love movies. I cover movies here of all kinds at the la times. And i've gladly covered bong jun ho's career and parasite but i too had to learn you know the names improper naming conventions of all of the stars and makers of parasite which is something that a lot of people in the media. Don't seem to bother to today. Listen i i'm completely with you. Like it is completely acceptable not to know you guys are american like we know like it's completely acceptable not to know it's Not acceptable to not do. The work of course drives me nuts. I watch a lot of Basketball and these guys on you know on a slovenian name will just butcher the name. And i'm like you know it's your job to announce these players names there's only ten on the court at a time And there's maybe two of them from slovenia you know that's you find out there's probably a guide in the program that you got and just look it up. I don't understand why people don't do that. It's it's insulting. Yeah and you you. You're going to say antetokounmpo you've got to learn how to say no janas entity kupa like you know is not that hard actually. Once when it's really weird and revealing what types of pronunciations people are willing to learn like i can say pro. Shoot though i can say your schedule. I can sit pepperoni timothy. Shell ronin. i do have a beef with restaurants that just say our menus in french. Fuck you italian like that. What if what if a chinese russian chinese out bitch. Oh you put a chinese menu at first people like oh worst. The english menu is something. Must've gone around. Like come on like like italian major like so you may and then like i don't even know ossie. I'm googling i'll let me do. The thought exercise. What is the thing going back to the you know. What's the most authentic sushi place you know. What's the hard most hardcore career. what is authenticity. What is that about i. I mean that's a really big question.
Asian Enough
"john cho" Discussed on Asian Enough
"Welcome back to asian enough. Here's the rest of our conversation with john show. I am curious though when In two thousand sixteen a screenwriter. Name william you created a hashtag in that. Hashtag was starring john and it was basically envisioning in all of these huge. Hollywood marquee films in blockbusters to to ask. Why aren't there more asian american stars getting these sorts of chances. In what was it like for you to till they realize that this was happening strangers. Were were advocating using your face and in championing uis weird A minute was the idea was really cool and what he was saying. I was one hundred percent behind the wheel. You shadow to will you. And he's a really smart smart guy And i thank him for getting that discussion started. It wasn't really about me obviously was As an artist. I don't know whether i was thinking. Or i need to be in the shin or whatever you know what i'm saying i don't have a That's important i guess to some people to In the bigger picture. We need an asian superhero I don't really care about superhero movies personally So that that part of it the political part of it. I'm disconnected from emotionally. And so but that's what he was talking about the political part he wasn't saying john chose should be in a great performance. You know he should work with scorsese or soderbergh. He was saying he should be in the avengers or whatever. And that's an interesting argument. I'm not emotionally connected to that argument. But i get it and i support it. You know what i'm saying. Yeah i mean. I also think the arguments just like john show is like incredibly underrated and i wish that i had seen him on all these movies. Do i i for me. That was like one of the things that spoke to me about that. I thought you were really good as the romantic lead in harold and kumar for example. Right i know like it probably feels weird to get so many props for just getting the girl or whatever like but you know i was definitely one of those guys who kind of giving you the props you like. Yeah kind of made people feel like they could get the girl. I grow growing. I'm in tennessee. Where you know. It wasn't a lot of dating opportunities raisin guys so yeah yeah but how does that make you feel to get like props for that to hear that. Yeah well that's really really cool bums me out. Which is the other side of being being really cool like a bums me out that that that it's informed by that makes me think of you know i always wanted to do a movie as a valentine for asian american men that was Killing people like kill bill action hero. No just a murderous rampage. And because i do feel like asian american men. No one knows this. Except asian. American men At least for portion of our lives we walk around with in our pocket is a clenched fist. And we're ready. We're ready to fight because people have been shitting on our heads all our lives. And like i just feel like that. There is an ultra violent streak in so many asian american men because of that anger because of that emasculation. I mean the ing. I got chills when he said that because like yeah i think angers and natural state for asian american men but also asian american woman. Like you know like it's a different type of anger based on the genders. But you you know you just spend all your life being told that you're something that you're not you're spend your life trying to be bigger than the stereotypes applied. I look around. And i think i see and this is different from our father's our fathers did not grow up with that they they they come here and the experience racism when nobody's changing their minds about who they are you know. My dad is korean. He's a man he's proud of who he is. He knows who he is. And you can ching chung him to death. He doesn't give shit but us his his sons were different. We when we were soft and malleable. We got told we weren't worth anything and then we believe them you know and so it's so then. We grow up with that anger. My dad doesn't have any of that. We wanted to be treated better than you know. Like i think. I want more than to be able to like earn a living and send money home to my family i want. I want citizenship. Like everyone else. Has you know i want. I want identity and person hood you know. That's always complicated too. I mean all these cinematic victories. Also have a kind of you know. I'm not sure what it means for. Asian americans for you and me. Well okay when you took on for example your upcoming big upcoming lead errol in cowboy bebop had he described people who don't know cowboy bebop. What this project is. i don't bother describing it. It's based on a japanese anime. If you know it you'll know it's the best. It's the best because it's hard to say what it is You know you don't know it's a pipe until you look at it and then you got people who don't know what it is at was really weird metaphor people who don't know cowboy. Obviously it's it's it takes place You know in post-apocalyptic galaxy we're bounty hunters And going from job to job And the series is afraid not afraid to To rome you know and and do things that are narrative strange and And the music is incredibly important. Part of it you know which is set him up as a cowboy and A new are figure a detective Yes and so. It's sort of almost Like all my dream roles into one or like all these genres into one role. Why is it important to you to take roles like that. That aren't you. Know in your face about the asian as they aren't identifiably like that you know i don't consider myself. Asian i and the world does or americans do because we're obsessed with that. But i consider myself. I don't know maybe. I mail you know and then husband father son artists in know like seventh or eighth does asian probably in terms of how how i think about myself you know and so i. I suspect that most people are like me and so for you know from a character point of view it seems false for people to be talking about being asian. Or you only do that when you're doing a podcast so narrative i think it doesn't really work well on that's really it and then You know ironically like searching was a movie that didn't can wear it's asianise on enslave and on the other hand. It was incredibly specific. You know we work hard. And i Some mrs but for me. We i was trying to bring a lot of stuff in my personal life into it.
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"john cho" Discussed on Asian Enough
"Like the new. These questions never go away. Yeah it's sometimes like it's it's encouraging in the sense that a multiple generations have dealt with in. Sometimes it's depressing. I think from a perspective as an artist. It's hard to see you. Know what the impact of representation in art is. you know. I know that your roles have all like meant a lot to me personally. Like seeing you and heralding moving. No i mean you're the only guy out there man like there's no one else you know. I grew up in tennessee. Anytime i would see someone asian in popular culture. It's been a long time googling and searching about them and you know as my That experience i had the same experience Minus google but it was so positive to see like george decay on star trek so exciting on the flip side. It was so depressing. To see people. Speaking japanese on mash you know or and all that stuff so scarring it has been a bit of my guy just like imagining myself as twelve years old and going would win that guy appreciate this role. Or would he be bummed out. So i consult my twelve year old self a lot earlier on. There were a lot of things that were borderline. I'd always turned down the the explicitly racist stuff right right off the bat but there were a lot of things that were borderline and So there were. There is like an asian guy network that i would call in and be like okay. So the part is network Guys that went to high school with and then after a while herald from harold and kumar actual herald actual herald. Were were very close. Friends and I like his angle because he's also wants me to succeed. He wants me to make money. So he's a great sounding board. Who's an actual harold. I'm sorry i'm yes. There's an actual gerald My god you should see free baseball. It's amazing i love. Say this is I told him. I was coming here. And i talked. I talked to him about this by him around a by him. What did he say he likes it. But you're saying like even back earlier in your career you would sort of be like. Hey guys what do you think about this. Where's where's the line. Yes you know. We get into the weeds about stereotypes. But like there's there's an anti stereotype that references the stereotype like you could be asian Playboy and if that's played for laughs you go what what are we laughing at our we laughing at the stereotype is just. I'm not playing a stereotype. So it's like what are we doing really here. That's a lot of asian representation. Today is is is sort of the popular culture. That's how they get around it is trying to subvert subvert references stereotype very directly. I think there's a whole process like the stereotypes are applied to you. They hurt you and then you define yourself in relation to the stereotypes and you figure out who you are after all this crap. Is you know off your chest you know. And i think we're we're starting to move into that phase where we're no longer defined by what hurt us. Yeah i'm thinking back to the shane gillis thing mean right like before she was fired from snl his comments may bothered me. I i don't. I didn't even i didn't do much research into it or anything but i read about it in the los angeles times. Oh the record of not thank you let What bothers me about it. And i think what we have to think about is why does he and many comedians. As a matter of fact feel that they can do racist jokes about asians and they get to say. Don't you have a sense of humor. And it makes me think that what they really want to do is do were jokes. But they think. I'm gonna take heat for that. I'll go take it to the wissies. You know the people who won't complain and and we have to. We have to bite you know when that happens and why how come when we say it's not funny. They just tell us we don't have a sense of humor. I mean in a way. I think there's like a weird connection to rape culture to which is like kind of bullying a woman into sex or do you would you What are you frigid. What are you would he uptight you know. Can't you take a joke you know. It's a bullying disguised in this in humor. And i hate it. D- feel like i mean you talk. You talked about your reluctance to use social media to sort of make those kinds of commentaries. But i feel like a lot of your roles are in themselves radical choices. Yeah i mean listen the the experience of watching somebody Watching a story. You can get two people. I frankly am suspicious of the medium The ability of the medium of this electronic medium to change anybody's mind about anything. I could be wrong. It's just that's my observation. Is that no one seems to be changing anyone's mind And then there's just spending time in a place that's not this world and you're leaving your family. You're you're going. you're. I'm leaving this room in going up there and Is that good. I don't know I'm guessing not you know. And i noticed an improvement in my mood when i was doing less of it and alternately you know an increasing anxiety when i was on it thinking about what others thought about me. Total which is a terrible place to be. Especially if.
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"john cho" Discussed on Asian Enough
"Under a rock. Both of those things can be true. Would strange's in this sort of Loops back to our conversation. Earlier about parents chaim. You know i. I noticed i had noticed when i had my son who is first that he was very comfortable among adults. And maybe that's genetic or whatever. But i was trying to figure it out. Why is he so Unafraid of adults. I was so scared of adults as a kid. Maybe it was time to adults particularly friendly. When i was a kid to children but i came up with this other theory which may or may not be true. Which was that. My parents were also afraid of the outside world. They had relationship of fear. These people more powerful. They could take something from us. They could hurt us and so when we went exited our front door went into the world. It was tighten up your apps. Get ready to get punched. Do you think that is because of the journey that they had in life. I'm sure those from real data real life real life experience that showed them. Yes you they got punch in the gut a few times and then they learned to tighten up. I was thinking. I wonder if my son has different relationship to the outside world because strangers come up to his dad and shake his dad's hand and so he may maybe his perception of the world is completely different that the world is a very friendly place. Will your parents told you that are. Are you telling your your children version of that to be afraid. People are gonna take something from you know. I'm i'm trying not to do that. Also your kids see their dads face in movie which is a huge thing. I think for any. We've sheltered our children from my face. They do they not know their dad's a movie star They know that. I'm an actor but we don't take them to premieres or any place. Where anyone's photographing me or they'll visit set sometimes. But that's just a curiosity thing. We love going looking at the props and you know they love my trailer as there's a fridge in their stuff like that but we've been very active very active in trying to prevent them from. What's the reason for that. I'm selfish. I want my relationship. I want them to know me. The first experience and not with the world thinks of me their dad has got to be their dad. There's got to be one way to know me which is as their dead right. You want to have the relationship on your own terms as right. Yeah that must be something that is hard to get when you're so famous and everyone has all of these ideas famous gassing of for like biggest movies well it's it's really interesting i wish. Actually this is a secondary thing like i. We need to have discussions about fame because it is consuming our society. It is our currency people. It's like money now. And people are saving up likes and saving up followers and banking them. It investments you. Know what i'm saying in what i don't know remains to be seen. But people are crewing followers accruing likes accruing thumbs ups and hearts. And they're saving the they'd save Birthday checks and i don't know what it's all about fame is. Everyone has a broadcasting device in their pockets. Everyone is a broadcaster. everyone has access to be famous. All you have to do is have someone punch you in the nuts with on video as long as threes move to los angeles and get an agent or something but nobody knows exactly what fame does because people who are famous. Don't like to talk about being famous as you can tell you know and i'm trying to think more explicitly about it because it is a a driver in our world more than ever ever before and as a platform. Yeah i don't know i mean you know. I have a complicated relationship with that word platform. It's like what i. I've kind of went dark on twitter and instagram for awhile. Part of it was. Everyone wanted me to comment on something. And i'm like. I'm not a politician I don't wanna platform even to some extent. I don't want one And i guess once you build the platform people expect you to come out and say something about everything and in even interpret the absence of of comment as a commentary. But they look to you for answers right. It's not appropriate. You know what i mean like. I'm a guy who puts on makeup. You know you're an actor. I'm an actor. So i i get it and i don't get it you know what i mean But my point is that all of this stuff. We're not talking enough about. It is a beverage that's available to everybody. We have to say what is doing to us. Is that also sort of a strange place to find yourself in. As somebody who came up among this generation of asian american actors and artists and filmmakers at a time when you know like there weren't crazier occasions you know there wasn't parasite winning multiple historic oscars and Like better luck tomorrow. For example had to scrap its way to an independent film release. You know driving audiences Through like community outreach. That kind of thing. You know like you've had that end of the experience and then juxtaposed with the the sort of hollywood side of it. Does that also make it a little bit more complicated. You know in some ways it. It doesn't seem like a lot of progress. It seems like a lot of purpose. But then it doesn't and i don't know what the success of anything what what one thing means for us collectively i mean i guess it gets down to also this the real basic question of asian american identity. Which is that. We're not all asia. Asian is a made up term. You know is a made up group. We did it for political reasons because they all say ching chong where like. We should lock arms. They think we're all the same anyway. Let's lock arms and be a group be a political group and then it's also like an adolescent thing. I think for me. I was as a kid identified as korean. I was told i was korean. And then and then as i became an adult became a teenager was trying to individual it myself from my family i was like i'm going to be asian. Which is sounds more american. I guess or different. But it's less specific it's much more nebulous. So i mean i think that that's the framework for understanding. All this is like does better luck tomorrow. Lead to something else for asians. I don't know yeah. We've seen so many different eras of representation. Like when i saw the movie like chan is missing and so yes. It was made in one thousand nine hundred and china's missing. Is this really interesting when weighing film about It's a mystery story set. Nsf chinatown the questions. They were exploring in china's missing like is being asian giving up all the asian part of yourself and adopting american culture or is it going back to asia or is it this thing you know the questions that were still being raised in nineteen eighty two or still being raised today. And that's the thing that floored me is like oh.
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"john cho" Discussed on Asian Enough
"Give a replicate and some things that i'm not. That component is something that i'm taking off the table another thing. I'm taking off the table a shame. I mean i feel like that's the cornerstone of my personality and a lot of ways. Shame and i look back and now. I'm trying to remove that cornerstone and what's trying to complete the metaphor. Replace it with a fc kansan styrofoam peanuts that yeah so interesting because we are fed this narrative and then when you grow up you start to interrogate it and you discover that. There's all these holes in your family story the jemma villain yourself like for me. I thought my dad you know. He told me the same thing. We came to america for you. You know and then only like two years ago. I learned that he Was instructed to come to america by his father And that was during the time of the taiwan strait crisis bloomer from taiwan and that was when everyone was afraid that taiwan was gonna get bombed by china and so he came to kind of start a new branch of the family and the us and then essentially failed to bring the rest of the family over because taiwan turned out. Okay you know so that my whole reason for being in this country just like changed at the age of thirty. Now you know I recently Had a visit. My last visit to korea was promote searching in and ended up spending some time with family. My parents by coincidence happened to be visiting. We went out to my grandmother's gravesite with the rest of the family. And which is a korean tradition and learned so many things. I could sense that my father life was driven by the guilt of leaving his mother. You know where is she She was inquiry. She's she never left korea. Yeah the guilt of the strange son immigrant son like that. My my parents feel that. So until if you're leaving your mother you're not going to say to your kids. I came here you know. I wanted to get rich. The things become real. You know And you're kid and use for even for my dad. I feel like the. I'm just list for convenience. They call it a lie but the lie becomes real. Psychologically real for him and we're the reason he can't it's a story you tell yourself every tells themselves story well. Your dad was a minister. That's right yeah. How did that impact. How do you. How do you feel like that shaped you. I mean i. Don't i very curious how your parents reacted when he became an artist. For example you know. I was young enough to where they didn't take it seriously. I think that they're like okay. He's trying something out I didn't think i could be an actor. I didn't think about that. At all. But i was always reader and i was always drawing. So maybe it wasn't that surprising to them. There is something like Also the actual about preaching and you know being sort of immersed in other people's emotional lives and yeah. Did you ever tell him you wanted to be a rockstar. I don't know what they i don't. I'm trying to remember what they know. I don't know to right i did. Yeah no no no no but a lot of your songs. Which are on spotify mina add. They're they're beautiful. This sort of. I don't know how you describe it. But it's like this really melodic pop. Indie rock very introspective. A lot of the songs that i have heard no. It's interesting that i always. I think there's two kinds of music music that you listen to with other people and that's the fun stuff Listen to music. My wife likes. And then i always thought of music is his personal experience like with the headphones in and my favorite songs of the ones. I enjoy the car alone driving. And it's like it's either personal or social. And i guess i was always into the personal stuff and maybe that comes from a religious background too. Because you know i mean. Most of these songs are christian. Songs are look inside you you suck right. You should probably chain shit and in that grand tradition. He started writing songs. Have you ever like has your parents. Do you think your parents like. Watch your movies and your tv shows. Like i ask because like. I don't think my mom's ever read anything. I've written so Yeah i mean they. They go out. They like it I think at the beginning. I always tell the story like when i was doing plays. They were like let we're going to. We're not leaving the house at six thirty and then going to downtown but You know when the korea times ran a small story on me that's when i was legit. That's true validation. Being in the ethnic newspaper. I still get like My in laws japanese. My my wife's grandma used to give me rough shimpo clipping clippings. All the time. I've been trying to make it to the world journal myself in terms of though your career When you you did start out Doing theater with east west players for example which is an institution here in la institution of asian american theatre. And some of your earlier films. Your earliest films are considered. Now i think asian american indie film classic like shopping for fangs or yellow. Or better luck tomorrow but then your big break was in an american pie movie and then movies right. He wants to sequels. And that really seemed to launch your career. Yeah i mean that movie was so widely seen. It's hard to imagine a comedy doing something like that. And two thousand twenty and i'm still recognized for still after all the other things that yeah. Yeah i mean it depends on the countries to you know It depends on whether they've released recently on their cable. Or whatever but yes a lot and it's extraordinary and it it also you know it started off my career in comedy. Which was a place that i didn't i didn't have any particular attraction to. I enjoyed comedies. A lot. I just didn't think of myself as a comedic actor in any way but so i was there for a while doing comedies and it also introduced fame into my life and it was a weird way to start that relationship because of the part because i didn't feel that a match my personality even like it didn't seem of me and not enough guy you don't see him like milk guy number two so I'm really kind of coming to grips now with being unknown person. I mean it's it was such a strange thing. And i don't carry myself particularly well in public as a result i think that why do you. What do you mean by that. You know. I think if i had written if i had Gotten the nobel peace prize and people were on the street nobel peace prize guy high five. I'd be high fiving back. Yeah that's right.
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"john cho" Discussed on Asian Enough
"How's it going. thanks for. thanks for coming down. Thanks for doing this. Yeah john we were thrilled when you said yes. What was it about our podcast that made you wanna come on l. a. times. It's my hometown paper. Secondly i listened a lot of podcasts. I just become really interested in the medium. And then thirdly i was Few months ago. I was listening to divvy chang's podcast and he had I can't remember the guests now. But he's had a few asian americans on and when they got into culture was so unique. Or i realized it was very foreign to hear asian speaking to one another in media and i realized also called a buddy of mine and we who had the same reaction he was so excited to hear it and it wasn't anything explicit. It was just like the tone was different. I realized also at that moment. I've been talking about being asian my whole career to white people and i thought oh i have to make a concerted effort to talk about these things that come up To asian americans. And i i would like asian americans to hear that conversation. Well we're going to start out by talking about. I guess your childhood your life. Well so your family came to the us in the seventies you grew up in a bunch of places including like monterey park and went to school in glendale what was that. Like which component of that Growing up in monterey park. I did i was there very briefly as born in seoul was there till i was six years old and then came to houston texas went to elementary school in houston then the roaming started we went to. I think seattle daly city san jose monterey park We settled in glendale so the year. You kinda went off to college was was nineteen. Ninety-two right. ninety nine thousand nine okay. Yeah because i was wondering you. I was wondering if the riots happening in a. With your family here. If yeah i was i was in college when the riots happened at berkeley yes and i remember ago bears. I remember being very distressed at seeing while i mean the whole situation and then when i saw the men going up on the roof In create town. And koreatown their guns. I mean some people i think. Experience it as pride like you know these men standing up for what's theirs and i experienced panic like they're gonna die. This is going to cause more bloodshed. And i was freaked out on. These are like the images. You're seeing in media because you're like all over northern california. Yeah these are images of korean business. Owners defending their their businesses. Essentially though they're all veterans do the military service is mandatory career. So these these are men you know they're not hunters they're like they were trained in the military they can take apart the rifle and put it back together So i don't know. I was a different crowd up there. You know what i'm saying. Yeah exactly. I just ask. People grow up in la. During that time periods they talk about like a koreans of racial awakening at the time. I remember seeing this documentary. And there was a korean guy holding a sign and it was like a rally the day after the riots and i had never seen it before but the signs said responsible our government and white and it was just like interesting to see them recognizing the racial context during that time or whatever it was i always felt like it was also the moment we collectively became that we got our american membership card that day april twenty nine th nineteen ninety two it was when when koreans became american we took up arms fought for our property. You know and we're victimized. I mean that's pretty american. Let's rewind actually your your family came to the states In obviously grew up around. La but your upbringing was very different from your father's for example yes Tell us a little bit about that. In how and when did you really come to understand his experiences. Well that's an ongoing question. I'd say you know. I mean if there's anything that's really caused me to have empathy with my father. Think it's becoming a father myself. You know the process of having children is you know you relive your own childhood so it's almost like you're living for the second time and remembering those things and it's also then living the life your parents lived while they were raising you so then you're in both you each day. You're imagining yourself in both positions each day that your child is alive and So i think that that's in the process. One of the one of the things about having children i think is examining. My parents lives in our relationship and Seeing you know for as a child. I'll use these straight road but as an adult looking back you see all the junctures in in see where they turned and made choices choices. You know yeah sorry. How'd you describe it. You know the. I was told as a child that they came for our benefit which i think is true. Her that too but as i think is also not true. I think asian americans tend to believe it. You know it's probably a bit of a manners thing that the that they're reluctant to say listen. We wanted a better life. We'll we wanted to get out of dodge and shame prevents them from saying that so they have to say we came for you. I always felt that That was too much to put on a kid and that we grow up we meaning you and me a we grow up feeling like we owe our parents something. They made the choice to have us. Yes and we don't owe our parents our lives. You know what i'm saying. We we should live our own lives but you start that narrative when you're three hard to shake. There's some things that i would do that. I am doing differently. Consciously that's one of them is. There are a lot of things about my childhood that i'm trying to.
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"john cho" Discussed on Asian Enough
"How's it going. thanks for. thanks for coming down. Thanks for doing this. Yeah john we were thrilled when you said yes. What was it about our podcast that made you wanna come on l. a. times. It's my hometown paper. Secondly i listened a lot of podcasts. I just become really interested in the medium. And then thirdly i was Few months ago. I was listening to divvy chang's podcast and he had I can't remember the guests now. But he's had a few asian americans on and when they got into culture was so unique. Or i realized it was very foreign to hear asian speaking to one another in media and i realized also called a buddy of mine and we who had the same reaction he was so excited to hear it and it wasn't anything explicit. It was just like the tone was different. I realized also at that moment. I've been talking about being asian my whole career to white people and i thought oh i have to make a concerted effort to talk about these things that come up To asian americans. And i i would like asian americans to hear that conversation. Well we're going to start out by talking about. I guess your childhood your life. Well so your family came to the us in the seventies you grew up in a bunch of places including like monterey park and went to school in glendale what was that. Like which component of that Growing up in monterey park. I did i was there very briefly as born in seoul was there till i was six years old and then came to houston texas went to elementary school in houston then the roaming started we went to. I think seattle daly city san jose monterey park We settled in glendale so the year. You kinda went off to college was was nineteen. Ninety-two right. ninety
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Interview With Actor, John Cho
"How's it going. thanks for. thanks for coming down. Thanks for doing this. Yeah john we were thrilled when you said yes. What was it about our podcast that made you wanna come on l. a. times. It's my hometown paper. Secondly i listened a lot of podcasts. I just become really interested in the medium. And then thirdly i was Few months ago. I was listening to divvy chang's podcast and he had I can't remember the guests now. But he's had a few asian americans on and when they got into culture was so unique. Or i realized it was very foreign to hear asian speaking to one another in media and i realized also called a buddy of mine and we who had the same reaction he was so excited to hear it and it wasn't anything explicit. It was just like the tone was different. I realized also at that moment. I've been talking about being asian my whole career to white people and i thought oh i have to make a concerted effort to talk about these things that come up To asian americans. And i i would like asian americans to hear that conversation. Well we're going to start out by talking about. I guess your childhood your life. Well so your family came to the us in the seventies you grew up in a bunch of places including like monterey park and went to school in glendale what was that. Like which component of that Growing up in monterey park. I did i was there very briefly as born in seoul was there till i was six years old and then came to houston texas went to elementary school in houston then the roaming started we went to. I think seattle daly city san jose monterey park We settled in glendale so the year. You kinda went off to college was was nineteen. Ninety-two right. ninety
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"john cho" Discussed on Asian Enough
"From the los angeles times. This is asian enough each week on this podcast. We talked to one. Asian-american gust about the joys the complications and everything else that comes along with being asian american. I'm genuine motto this week. We're revisiting our very first episode. The conversation that kicked off season one with the actor. Jon show you might know him as harold lee of harold and kumar or as sulu in the star trek movies or even as milk guy number two from american pie. His films also include. The acclaimed indies columbus and searching and the highly anticipated cowboy. Bebop movie coming this fall in this episode asian. Enough co-creator frank sean. And i debuted the podcast with a revealing conversation with john who opened up about how becoming a father helped him understand his own parents how he wrestles with the complexities of fame and the emotional scars that racism often on asian americans growing up. I look around. And i think i see and this is different from our father's our fathers did not grow up with that they they they come here and the experience racism. Nobody's changing their minds about who they are. you know. My dad is korean. He's a man he's proud of. Who is in. He knows who he is. And you can ching chung him to death. He doesn't give a shit but us his his sons were different. We when we were soft and malleable. We got told we weren't worth anything. And then we believe them when we first aired this episode. The corona virus pandemic had recently exploded and as cova numbers skyrocketed so did reports of anti asian racism and violence a month after this episode came out..
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"john cho" Discussed on KFI AM 640
"Welcome. Everybody should have a instantly annoyed John Cho belt on a day like this every year, this particular day. Why Let's spend the segment discussing the Super Bowl commercial. Shut up. I didn't watch any of them. Every time I looked up, it looked like something woke was being sold to me side. They still have this obsession over commercials. I don't get it. I'll get it. I'll get the halftime show. I'll get the commercials. Just watch the game. I blocked everything else. Anyway. The game stunk something blows. We had some pretty big news this afternoon. We'll talk about it. Four o'clock, the L. A County Association of Deputy District attorneys. When, after George Gascogne and those terrible directives he issued particularly the one that would end sentencing enhancements, which sounds like a boring term, but it adds significant prison time for some very dangerous people. Rapists, even murderers. He talked. It's how you get killers into jail for life. It's the enhancements that end up giving him a life sentence. Yeah, why Some of them could be out in 20 years with this elder parole or some other such nonsense, right? This. This is what will override all those strange parole rules that have been enacted the last few years. And judge slapped a preliminary injunction on part of this. It's a complicated decision, but It does help in the battle against George Gascon and his directors. It was a big loss for Gascogne, and the judge made it clear that he thought Gascogne was acting illegally. Was forcing his deputy D A. Is to commit illegal acts in the courtroom. Can you imagine? We've got this for a D A. It touched the Tennessee Yeah, he took over white. I think. December 7th. Two months, two months for a judge to say that this guy's committing illegal acts and forcing his deputies to commit illegal acts. Nice lawsuit. Yeah, we told you to vote for Jackie Lacey. But people don't listen. I think that's the same judge that knocked out at least temporarily. L A county's outdoor dining ban. Yes, ast Judge of the year. Yeah, well, all right, so we'll have Michelle Hennessy. Next hour from the L. A County Association of Deputy D A s from or on that we got an email from a woman named Cheryl Poindexter, which we thought it was quite a story. And she's looking for coverage on it from TV stations. And, of course, the Johnny can show she lost her entire Levin acre ranch, her home or Barnes or guesthouse, everything she ever owned the bobcat fire on September 18th. It was under not remarked in that sentence is particularly sad. It was a nonprofit animal sanctuary. She lost her cat and a horse. And Cheryl herself were severely injured during evacuation and Edison likely caused the fire. Yeah, I just looked up the stories, supposedly some vegetation hitting Edison power line or something like that, And that's what they were looking into last October. Here's the final kick in the face. Edison keeps sending Cheryl Power bills for electricity that doesn't even exist. Even even the meters were burned in the fire, so there's no house. There's no electrical system. There are no meters and she's getting billed continuously. Some of her neighbors owe thousands of dollars and they can't find anybody. Edison TOC X This. Let's get Cheryl on Cheryl Point X there. Welcome to the Johnny Kensho. I'm glad to be here. I love you guys. Thanks for all the help you give us amazing anything I was so sorry. What happened to you? It's terrible, Terrible story. I thought you'd get a kick out of this one. Yeah. Listen, First of all, how are you? He said you wrote in the letter that you were severely injured. What happened to you? Drilling blew my back out. I blew my back out lifting animals into the God. Trucks and, you know, trying to save whatever I could. And I get back spasms. Real bad. But you call Debra. She would've run out there to help you. Look at him. You probably didn't know what you want A great help. Probably gonna lift it up a couple of turtles for her I would have done that would have been Happy to do. That s O. What's the status Right now? It's just everything is burned to the ground. You haven't had a chance, I guess to start rebuilding it. We, um That's another story. Public works. Um, still hasn't cleared our property and we have high winds up here, and it's blowing all the toxic stuff. But I passed on the public works. I opted out and I went with a contractor. And he's great running Wilson and he Already has my property cleared and we're ins Planchet getting permits to rebuild, Okay, but you have nothing resembling a house or an electrical system or electric. Peter's nothing. Total ash. There's nothing there and I keep getting these bills and I I started the next door site here, and I asked the neighbors. Anybody else having problems with Addison? Billing, you know, because we lost there was about 80 houses that burned and and they say, Yeah, we got the same problem. What's going on? So I thought it was so crappy because it's like, you know, rubbing salt in the wound. I mean, they burned my house down, and now they're they're you know? Okay, fine If they made a mistake, fine. I've called him 14 times. 14 Yeah, well, what's the worst they could do? Shut off your power. Well, no, I told them I said, Well, I paid all these already. And I said, What am I paying for? So I went online to see what I was paying for. And they wouldn't let me see what I was paying for because they said the count is in knowledgeable because you must have an active service accounts of signed up for paper was filling. I could feel We weren't sending the paper billing..
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"john cho" Discussed on KOA 850 AM
"News radio time is 12 31 Our top story this week. Four Eagle County Back country skiers were killed in the Avalanche is the latest death happened yesterday in the East. Vale shoots 41 year old John Cho from Vail Village, died on Monday. Three back country skiers from Eagle County died outside Silverton. There are avalanche warnings up throughout the high country currently have high avalanche danger at multiple elevation bands in the steamboat, flat Top stone and then the veil and come in Summit County Zone. Um And so we have the Avalanche warnings up and those two zones. My Cooper, staying with the Colorado Avalanche Information Center, says the recent heavy snow on top of a thin snowpack is to blame, he says Back country, skiers should avoid slopes steeper than 30 degrees. Denver man's in big trouble for allegedly pointing a laser at the Denver police helicopter. Logan double was arrested after a November 4th incident, a Cheesman Park If convicted, he could get five years in federal prison. The nation's unemployment rate falling slightly in January. The economy, adding 49,000 jobs, slightly fewer than economists expected. The Dow industrials right now up 99 points, the S and P 500 gaining 18 the NASDAQ It's up 74 Our next news updates at one o'clock, I'm Susan Within. On Ko E News radio, a 50 A M and 94 1 hour found there's a check on traffic with Brit Morgan. The bedspreads course Traffic center or crashed me cleared out of the way on south on I 25 approaching the turnpike backups back toward Thorton Parkway. Rest of the highway Drive in decent shape will slow the usual spots there. Stop bound to 25 25 westbound. 70 head across Commerce City getting bogged down there. Vasquez once again off the highway in the West Side crash being cleared it.
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