Culturally Relevant with David Chen

David provides a brief update on the state of the podcast. Plus: Some Office Hours Q&A for your enlightenment and enjoyment.  Stay tuned to this feed for more soon! 

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• Listen to the entire uncut Office Hours on Twitter
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David chats with reporter Elizabeth Williamson about her new book, Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Search for Truth.

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• Buy Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Search for Truth
• Read an excerpt from Elizabeth's book
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David chats with Walter Chaw about 'Everything Everywhere All At Once,' which is now available on VOD.

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Links:

• Listen to my conversation with the Daniels
• Watch this conversation on YouTube 
• Follow Walter on Twitter
• Read Walter's review of Everything Everywhere All At Once
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David chats with writer/producer Andrew Law about finding his voice as a comedy writer and working on the HBO Max original series 'Hacks.'

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Links:

• Watch Hacks on HBO Max
• Weekly Recommendations
  • The bleak spectacle of the Amber Heard-Johnny Depp Trial
  • Everything Everywhere All At Once
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David talks with entertainment journalist Elaine Low about the layoffs at Netflix this past week and what they might foretell for the future of entertainment media. 

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• Follow Elaine Low on Twitter
• Business Insider's story about the creation of Tudum
• Business Insider's story about the layoffs at Tudum
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David chats with Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (AKA Daniels) about their newest film, 'Everything Everywhere All At Once.'

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• Learn more about Everything Everywhere All At Once
• Learn more about The Daniels
• Weekly Recommendations
  • Power On documentary
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David chats with Jen Yamato about the controversy over the scenes of anti-Asian racism in Paul Thomas Anderson's Licorice Pizza.

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Links:

• Read Jen's article about Licorice Pizza at the LA Times.
• The Hollywood Reporter covers the controversy
• PTA's comments in the New York Times in November 2021
• PTA's comments in Indiewire in February 2022
• Culturally Relevant episode about the slap
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David chats with Tirhakah Love about "The Slap Heard Around The World." 

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• Read Tirhakah Love's piece on The Slap
• David Dennis Jr.'s piece about Chris Rock
• Follow Tirhakah on Twitter
• YouGov's survey about the slap 
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David chats with Heather Havrilesky about her new book, 'Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage.'

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• Follow Heather Havrilesky on Twitter
• Buy Foreverland
• Read a book excerpt in the New York Times
• Read the book review in The New York Times
• Kate Harding's article about reading critically
• Heather's Twitter thread about the reaction to her book
• Weekly Recommendations
  • All of Us Are Dead (Netflix)
  • Torres and Hopalong 
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David chats with writer Kendra James about her new book Admissions: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School.

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• Follow Kendra James on Twitter
• Buy Admissions
• Weekly Recommendations
  • The Gilded Age (HBO Max)
  • Severance (Apple TV+)
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David talks with Piya Sinha-Roy about the legacy of Entertainment Weekly as DotDash Meredith halts the print publication of magazines such as Entertainment Weekly, InStyle, Health, EatingWell and Parents.

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• Follow Piya Sinha-roy on Twitter
• Entertainment Weekly to halt print publication
• Netflix is hiring top Conde Nast editors
• An appreciation of Entertainment Weekly
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David chats with Ryan Broderick about what's happening at Spotify with Joe Rogan.

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Links:

• Ryan's post about the end of Facebook
• Ryan's post about Spotify/Rogan
• Follow Ryan on Twitter
• Subscribe to Ryan's podcast The Content Mines
• Subscribe to Ryan's newsletter Garbage Day
• Open Letter to Spotify
• Casey Newton's "Spotify Hits a Stalemate" 
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David and film critic Caroline Siede discuss what it was like to "attend" the Sundance Film Festival this year. 

David's films:

• Piggy
• After Yang
• Dual
• God's Country
• Phoenix Rising
• My Old School
• Watcher

Caroline's films:

• Tantura
• Honk for Jesus, Save Your Soul
• Cha Cha Real Smooth
• When You Finish Saving the World
• 892
• Call Jane
• Dual
• Tiktok Boom
• Fresh
• Emergency
• After Yang
• Speak No Evil
• Living

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• Follow Caroline on Twitter
• Read Caroline's work at AV Club
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David shares five lessons he's learned from 2021. Thanks for all of your support this year!

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Links:

• The NYTimes Coronavirus tracker
• America is not ready for Omicron
• COVID deaths in the US support 800K
• Omicron is the beginning of the end
• I'll never trust people again
• Where I live, no one cares about COVID
• 10 Lessons I've learned from the pandemic
• Why Ed Yong cancelled his birthday party
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David chats with Jeff Grubb about the latest console generation, the history of the 'Halo' franchise, and the ups and downs of 'Halo Infinite'.

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• Follow Jeff Grubb on Twitter
• Subscribe to Gamesbeat Decides
• Watch GrubSnax on GiantBomb
• Listen to Last of the Nintendogs
• Bloomberg article about Halo Infinite
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David chats with Nick Quah about creating his podcast newsletter Hot Pod, making it into a sustainable business, burning out from running it, potentially walking away, and then how/why he sold it to Vox Media. 

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Links:

• Vanity Fair: A Good Newsletter Exit Strategy is Hard to Find
• Follow Nick Quah on Twitter
• Sign up for 1.5 Speed, Nick's newsletter
• Read Nick Quah's work at Vulture
• Read/subscribe to Hot Pod
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David chats with a listener, Jesse, who contracted COVID-19 after an IMAX screening of 'Dune.' As always, for the latest and most accurate information about COVID-19 case counts, I'd recommend sources such as:

• The CDC
• The NYTimes Coronavirus tracker

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• Getting back to normal is only possible until you test positive
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David talks with writer/director Edgar Wright about his new horror thriller, 'Last Night in Soho,' which is out in theaters right now. 

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• Buy tickets for Last Night in Soho 
• Follow Edgar Wright on Twitter
• Weekly Recommendations
  • Cello Unlimited album 
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David talks with author Jay Caspian Kang about his new book, 'The Loneliest Americans,' a book that explores and reimagines Asian American identity.

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Links:

• Buy The Loneliest Americans
• Follow Jay Caspian Kang on Twitter
• Weekly Recommendations
  • Dave Chappelle The Comedy Relic
  • Concepcion by Albert Samaha 
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David chats with actress Noomi Rapace about her newest film, Lamb, which is out in theaters this weekend.

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Links:

• Learn more about Lamb
• Buy tickets for Lamb
• Follow David on YouTube for video excerpts of this conversation
• Follow David on Tiktok for video excerpts of this conversation
• Weekly Recommendations
  • Who is the Bad Art Friend
  • Learn more about Dead Women Walking
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