Unverified Accounts, the place for unchecked Asian American opinions on arts and culture, with a smattering of politics! Every week, the trio of Eliza, Chris, and Filip will discuss movies (or sometimes, a book) that are connected to a pertinent cultural/political issue going on right now, usually from online cultures. Follow us on Twitter at: Chris: @JesuInToast Eliza: @aesthdistance1 Filip: @filipgwriting
Episodes
Sunday Oct 25, 2020
Sunday Oct 25, 2020
The Unverifieds review and analyze Aaron Sorkin's new Netflix movie, The Trial of the Chicago 7, which is an entertaining film that nevertheless can't help but advance Sorkin's agenda, even at the cost of historical accuracy. They also look at La Haine to see how a French filmmaker dealt with issues of popular protests against police violence in another time and place. Other topics of discussion include how Steven Yeun has managed to escape the dead-end of Asian American culture, the Jeffrey Toobin zoom dick incident, and the staggering revelation that Anna Wintour might be racist.
Follow us on Twitter at @unver1fiedaccts!
Intro Song: "Chairman Mao" by Bambu
TWITTER:
Chris: @JesuInToast
Eliza: @aesthdistance1
Filip: @filipgwriting
REFERENCED RESOURCES
Richard Schultz's Chicago Tribune interview
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Sunday Oct 18, 2020
Sunday Oct 18, 2020
With the election just around the corner, the Unverifieds discuss how much their political views have changed since 2016. They also analyze the movie Election and the Tracy Flick mindset that so aptly encapsulates elite Democrats, a New Yorker piece called "Should Millennials Get Over Bernie Sanders?" by Alexandra Schwartz that Chris admits to once having greatly related to, the movies that got them into politics, and an assortment of the week's developments such as the controversy over the Cleopatra casting and the social movement to apparently blame black men for a potential Biden/Harris loss.
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Intro Song: "Chairman Mao" by Bambu
TWITTER:
Chris: @JesuInToast
Eliza: @aesthdistance1
Filip: @filipgwriting
REFERENCED RESOURCES
The New Yorker: Should Millennials Get Over Bernie Sanders?
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Sunday Oct 11, 2020
Sunday Oct 11, 2020
The Unverifieds take a look at two excellent Asian American coming-of-age movies: the famous Better Luck Tomorrow and the criminally less well-known Seoul Searching. But before getting to that, they discuss why some Asian Americans are embarrassed about martial arts movies, the whole desperate attempt to claim Eddie Van Halen as an Asian icon, and Yelp's ill-advised racism badges.
Follow us on Twitter at @unver1fiedaccts!
Intro Song: "Chairman Mao" by Bambu
TWITTER:
Chris: @JesuInToast
Eliza: @aesthdistance1
Filip: @filipgwriting
REFERENCED RESOURCES
LA Times: The 20 Best Asian American Films of the Past 20 Years
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Monday Oct 05, 2020
Monday Oct 05, 2020
The Unverifieds talk about the self-serving hypocrisy in the Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma, as well as what the The Social Network got so right despite being factually incorrect in some key aspects (it's 10 years old now!). Then they talk about The Vow, the HBO docu-series about the MLM/cult NXIVM, and the common human needs that are targeted by cult leaders and social media engineers.
Intro Song: "Chairman Mao" by Bambu
TWITTER:
Chris: @JesuInToast
Eliza: @aesthdistance1
Filip: @filipgwriting
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Sunday Sep 27, 2020
Sunday Sep 27, 2020
The Unverifieds are joined by Trevor from Champagne Sharks to talk about how ridiculous art and entertainment can get when there's a heavy-handed ideological agenda behind it. They look at two recent examples, the Hulu original series Woke and the movie Antebellum, to properly examine what the movies want you to think they're saying vs. what they're actually saying, and which specific woke crowd they're catering to.
Intro Song: "Chairman Mao" by Bambu
Champagne Sharks podcast: https://soundcloud.com/champagnesharks/
Champagne Sharks Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu_kgnaXckBTwCdmQNyq2rw
TWITTER:
Trevor: @champagnesharks
Chris: @JesuInToast
Eliza: @aesthdistance1
Filip: @filipgwriting
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Monday Sep 21, 2020
Monday Sep 21, 2020
The Unverifieds discuss RBG's death, Filipino vs. Korean Tik Tok wars over the Japanese imperial flag, the Chris Evans dick pic "scandal," the unwanted Your Name remake, and proposed Trump-Biden Rogan debate. Then guests Rob Cheng and Sam Yang (of Southpaw Podcast) join Chris and Liza to talk about Cobra Kai and The Karate Kid.
Intro Song: "Chairman Mao" by Bambu
Visit Sam's podcast (Southpaw) website at: www.southpawpod.com
Eliza's article on the state of American journalism: https://aestheticdistance.com/blog/corporate-news
TWITTER:
Rob: @smoothposer
Sam: @stufffromsam
Chris: @JesuInToast
Eliza: @aesthdistance1
Filip: @filipgwriting
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Monday Sep 14, 2020
Monday Sep 14, 2020
The Unverifieds are joined by guest Jermarc Axinto (Tabletop For The End Of The World podcast) to discuss Peninsula, aka Train To Busan 2. Somewhere along the way, the discussion turns to the cultural zombie wasteland that was the first decade of the 2000s. Eliza also talks about what back-to-school is like when homeschooling, while Filip and Chris send their condolences to the incoming college first-years who'll miss out on their freshmen years.
Intro Song: "Chairman Mao" by Bambu
Listen to Jemarc's podcast, Tabletop For The End Of The World, described as an "actual-play comedy/horror podcast that fans have described as "the Post-Apocalyptic love child" of "The Adventure Zone" and "Welcome to Nightvale"!
Follow them on Twitter: @tfewcast
Follow them on FB: https://www.facebook.com/TFEWcast
TWITTER:
Chris: @JesuInToast
Eliza: @aesthdistance1
Filip: @filipgwriting
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Sunday Sep 06, 2020
Sunday Sep 06, 2020
The Unverifieds, minus Filip (who was away camping on the weekend of Mulan's release), review the new live-action Mulan and how it measures up to the classic animated original. They also dissect a review in the Chicago Tribune by an Asian American writer who claimed that the original was revolutionary and daring, while the new one was conformist and essentially Chinese propaganda.
Intro Song: "Chairman Mao" by Bambu
TWITTER:
Chris: @JesuInToast
Eliza: @aesthdistance1
Filip: @filipgwriting
REFERENCES:
Chicago Tribune Review of Mulan
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Sunday Sep 06, 2020
Sunday Sep 06, 2020
The Unverifieds, in discussing their love of the movie Lost In Translation, speculate whether such a movie would survive allegations of cultural appropriation in this day and age. They also look at Asian American movies with similar themes, such as Shanghai Kiss and Always Tomorrow In Hong Kong, and whether Asian Americans—or any minorities—have a right to claim a monopoly on cultures, especially when they can screw it up even worse than outsiders can.
Intro Song: "Chairman Mao" by Bambu
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TWITTER:
Chris: @JesuInToast
Eliza: @aesthdistance1
Filip: @filipgwriting
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Sunday Sep 06, 2020
Sunday Sep 06, 2020
In this pilot episode, the Unverifieds (Chris, Eliza, and Filip) talk about the reason they started this podcast and their love/hate relationship with social media, especially Twitter. The main topic is on whether media representation, a topic that often gets disproportionate attention among minorities, is still relevant in the, shall we say, eventful year that's been 2020.
Intro Song: "Chairman Mao" by Bambu
TWITTER:
TWITTER:
Chris: @JesuInToast
Eliza: @aesthdistance1
Filip: @filipgwriting
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