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TheyCallUsBruce podcast w/AngryAsianMan: http://bit.ly/listen2TCUB; Guardian US & NPR PCHH; Threads/IG: @originalspin Books: RISE—A Pop History of Asian America from the 90s to Now; The Golden Screen—The Movies That Made Asian America Pic: thx @gregpak!

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Bazz is the real deal, he’s going to be a monster in the bigs and the Aussies could surprise folks. Chinese Taipei is my second team sadly 😮‍💨

07.03.2026 04:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Team America led by Captain Judge, our Yankees giant man

07.03.2026 04:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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HEY LOSER, IF YOU’VE ACTUALLY EVER READ THE BIBLE YOU’D KNOW THAT GOD IS ACTUALLY TRINARY

06.03.2026 19:05 👍 36 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0

And listen to our talk with HOPPERS director and writer Daniel Chong, our longtime friend, as he breaks it down for us in this terrific episode!

06.03.2026 18:54 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

It's a dangerous movie in the way that anything that enlightens, elevates and inspires is dangerous to those who want to keep us—and especially the next generation—from thinking or asking questions.

See it. Talk about it. Tell others to see it. You won't regret it. But if you don't—you might.

06.03.2026 18:53 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

And you can draw another direct line to WE BARE BEARS, Daniel Chong's incredible animated TV series: Its centering and normalization of diverse identities and experience. Its deep engagement with loss, exclusion, mental health and politics.

All beneath the cute veneer of a show about fuzzy animals.

06.03.2026 18:51 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1

On top of all that: It is a movie that is unafraid of being shocking (without doing so only for the sake of shock). Though it's a very different type of movie, you can draw a direct line between BAMBI and this movie, skipping over decades of anodyne Disney efforts in between.

06.03.2026 18:50 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1

And:

Where can we find common ground in a polarized world without betraying our principles, while demanding that past misdeeds are redressed, not just forgiven?

What can one individual do to make change—and what happens when that change goes beyond individual control?

06.03.2026 18:49 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1

Like:

What happens when you pursue ideals, but in a way that ignores harm to those around you?

How does technology make us more remote from the consequences of our actions?

How can it both increase and reduce empathy as a result?

06.03.2026 18:49 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1

The voice-acting is incredible and the animation is brilliant, of course. But I also don't think I've seen a movie that speaks and appeals simultaneously so well to kids and adults while forcing them both so effectively to confront things that they might otherwise resist considering.

06.03.2026 18:48 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
THEY CALL US HOPPERS with Daniel Chong, director and writer of Pixar's HOPPERS!

THEY CALL US HOPPERS with Daniel Chong, director and writer of Pixar's HOPPERS!

Been holding off on HOPPERS until this episode, but I want to start by saying GO SEE THIS MOVIE—the funniest, sharpest, weirdest, most mind-bending yet also heartwarming original in years, with ideas and imagery that stretch even Pixar's far-ranging bounds:
theycallusbruce.libsyn.com/they-call-us...

06.03.2026 18:46 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 2

And listen to our talk with HOPPERS director and writer Daniel Chong, our longtime friend, as he breaks it down for us in this terrific episode!

06.03.2026 18:54 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

It's a dangerous movie in the way that anything that enlightens, elevates and inspires is dangerous to those who want to keep us—and especially the next generation—from thinking or asking questions.

See it. Talk about it. Tell others to see it. You won't regret it. But if you don't—you might.

06.03.2026 18:53 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

And you can draw another direct line to WE BARE BEARS, Daniel Chong's incredible animated TV series: Its centering and normalization of diverse identities and experience. Its deep engagement with loss, exclusion, mental health and politics.

All beneath the cute veneer of a show about fuzzy animals.

06.03.2026 18:51 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1

On top of all that: It is a movie that is unafraid of being shocking (without doing so only for the sake of shock). Though it's a very different type of movie, you can draw a direct line between BAMBI and this movie, skipping over decades of anodyne Disney efforts in between.

06.03.2026 18:50 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1

And:

Where can we find common ground in a polarized world without betraying our principles, while demanding that past misdeeds are redressed, not just forgiven?

What can one individual do to make change—and what happens when that change goes beyond individual control?

06.03.2026 18:49 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1

Like:

What happens when you pursue ideals, but in a way that ignores harm to those around you?

How does technology make us more remote from the consequences of our actions?

How can it both increase and reduce empathy as a result?

06.03.2026 18:49 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1

The voice-acting is incredible and the animation is brilliant, of course. But I also don't think I've seen a movie that speaks and appeals simultaneously so well to kids and adults while forcing them both so effectively to confront things that they might otherwise resist considering.

06.03.2026 18:48 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
THEY CALL US HOPPERS with Daniel Chong, director and writer of Pixar's HOPPERS!

THEY CALL US HOPPERS with Daniel Chong, director and writer of Pixar's HOPPERS!

Been holding off on HOPPERS until this episode, but I want to start by saying GO SEE THIS MOVIE—the funniest, sharpest, weirdest, most mind-bending yet also heartwarming original in years, with ideas and imagery that stretch even Pixar's far-ranging bounds:
theycallusbruce.libsyn.com/they-call-us...

06.03.2026 18:46 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 2

Guess immigrants aren’t the ones sucking up all the gigs after all

06.03.2026 15:34 👍 18 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

I’m just saying that he should acknowledge that Mullin is terrible and an idiot man

06.03.2026 04:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

But also, Mullin is terrible and an idiot, Chuck

06.03.2026 00:34 👍 215 🔁 35 💬 14 📌 1

Checked that one off right out of the gate

06.03.2026 00:34 👍 18 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Real time Hegseth interview transcript

05.03.2026 23:46 👍 26 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 2

Whew. I feel like most grandparent grandchild interaction at that age is nonverbal?

05.03.2026 21:00 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Trump: How do we find someone as evil and dumb as Noem for this job but even more willing to lick the cheese off my toes in public

<watches Mullin on Fox News>

Done

05.03.2026 19:13 👍 32 🔁 6 💬 3 📌 0

Almost as satisfying as if a dog somehow fired Kristi Noem

05.03.2026 19:09 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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IT IS TIME

DECLARING TAKEOUT CONTAINER BANKRUPTCY

EVERYTHING MUST GO

05.03.2026 01:16 👍 29 🔁 0 💬 5 📌 0

My “We couldn’t evacuate Americans because we were too busy dropping the bombs that put them in danger” T-shirt has people asking questions that are already answered by my T-shirt

04.03.2026 00:56 👍 29 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0

Like all the others, this latest Game of Thrones adaptation is about how flaxen-haired incestuous rapist usurpers seize power and then descend into madness and tyranny

Usually the world doesn’t start burning in the first episode of season two though

03.03.2026 17:59 👍 14 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0