The Mash-Up Americans
The Mash-Up Americans
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The Mash-Up Americans is your guide to the hyphen-America world we all live in. Amy S. Choi and Rebecca Lehrer talk culture, identity, race and what makes us who we are. Get to know yourself, America. This season we're talking about grief in a special series called Grief, Collected.
At The Mash-Up Americans we are celebrating and challenging the raucous, colorful, complicated country we live in by asking all the important, awkward questions: What does it mean to be an immigrant in America? What cultural baggage do we bring to sex and relationships? Why is Korean skincare so popular? When does something get upgraded from the ethnic aisle?
Get more at mashupamericans.com and griefcollected.com
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Mash-Up Live: Food Makes Us Happy (& Other Stories)
The Mash-Up Americans
05/29/19 • 36 min
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To Margaret Cho We Go
The Mash-Up Americans
11/24/15 • 32 min
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Ai-Jen Poo on How We Make It All Work
The Mash-Up Americans
05/01/19 • 39 min
“I really believe that care and caregiving can save the soul of the country. Everybody has people that they care about. It totally connects us in this very deep, emotional way.” We agree with Ai-Jen! We had SO MUCH FUN in this conversation.
The paid work of caregiving - which is mostly done by mashy women - makes our economy and world move. Ai-Jen Poo is the head of the National Domestic Workers Alliance and one of the organizers of Supermajority. She’s so mashy she even has a hyphen in her name!
Ai-Jen tells us what it was like growing up between Taiwan and the US, and how her relationship with her grandparents meant that she never was ashamed of her mashiness. There is a direct line between her mash-up origin story and how she ended up working with domestic workers.
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Aline Brosh McKenna on Leading Ladies
The Mash-Up Americans
04/03/19 • 29 min
Aline Brosh McKenna is a Hollywood triple threat; she’s a showrunner, director, and writer and she does them all really really well. She has worked in this business for more than two decades but her mission has remained the same: to center women’s stories around something other than a man. We talk about Cher, body hair, bacterial vaginosis, and so much more. Get ready!
She’s the writer of your favorite rom coms, from 27 Dresses to The Devil Wears Prada to I Don’t Know How She Does It. Most recently she has been busy showrunning and writing Crazy Ex-Girlfriend which is now in its fourth and final season.
Aline tells us what it was like growing up in the 70’s in very white suburban New Jersey with Jewish immigrant parents, and why she relates more to people with immigrant parents than other Jewish people. She tells us about the differences between being a boss in her 20’s and being a boss in her 40’s, and why she wants to write more roles for women over 50.
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Wendy De La Rosa on How We Really Spend Money
The Mash-Up Americans
03/20/19 • 31 min
This episode is all about money. How we make it, spend it, save it, and value it. Wendy De La Rosa is our guest and she has a lot to say about all of this. Not how we are supposed to manage our money, but how we actually do it. Wendy is a Dominican-born and Bronx-raised Mash-Up who studies consumer behavior and is a founder of the Common Cents Lab, which aims to teach fintech companies how real people use money.
Wendy talks to us about her life before becoming an academic, living as a brown person in Silicon Valley, and her relationship to her Afro-Latinx identity in the US versus the Dominican Republic. She also gives us some really good advice on how to save more money.*
*Hint: It includes deleting that food ordering app from your phone*
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Dr. Leana Wen on Taking Care of Each Other
The Mash-Up Americans
03/06/19 • 35 min
New Season! We’re kicking off Mash Ups to Know with the President and CEO of Planned Parenthood, Dr. Leana Wen! A long time leader and advocate in public health, Dr. Wen’s mission to depoliticize healthcare at the forefront of everything she does.
We talk with her about what it was like to immigrate here from Shanghai at such a young age, how becoming a mother changed the way that she approaches healthcare, and why her mother's bout with cancer led to her passion for patient advocacy.
The Mash-Up Americans is produced by The Mash-Up Americans Creative Studio. Producer is Kara Hart and Executive Producers Amy S. Choi and Rebecca Lehrer
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Lily Percy Is A Boss Bitch
The Mash-Up Americans
11/07/18 • 32 min
It's the final week of Mash-Ups to Know—for now!—and we are thrilled to bring you our beloved boss bitch, Lily Percy. Also known as Liliana Maria Percy Ruiz, and that's a whole thing that we get into. First though, she is the Executive Producer of On Being Studios—home of the wisest woman we know, Krista Tippett—and the host of the new and totally amazing podcast, This Movie Changed Me. We talk growing up a religious immigrant, the importance of language, and why Sleepless in Seattle is the movie that changed Lily. Stick around!
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Coming Soon! Mash-Ups To Know - Changing the World
The Mash-Up Americans
03/01/19 • 3 min
New season! We're making the culture, ya heard? On each episode, we’ll bring you a conversation with one incredible Mash-Up who is making waves at the cutting edge of their field. We're talking health, money, death, work, pop culture, and so much more.
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Rachna Fruchbom Is Our Sitcom Hero
The Mash-Up Americans
10/24/18 • 26 min
For our fourth installment of Mash-Ups to Know, we bring you comedy writer and producer Rachna Fruchbom. She knows that her mashiness is her superpower—and she is not afraid to use it. From her badass career change after the birth of her first kid and writing for Parks & Rec and Fresh Off the Boat, to her dream of creating America's new favorite sitcom—starring an Indian American woman!—she brings her full self to her work. Amy and Rebecca talk with Rachna about work, motherhood, and following your "aliveness" to unchartered and exciting new places.
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Alua Arthur On Demystifying Death
The Mash-Up Americans
04/17/19 • 37 min
“Talking about sex won’t make you pregnant, talking about death won’t make you dead.”
We are talking about death on this episode and it is a party! We are going to explore life, love, and family through the lens of death with our incredible guest Alua Arthur. Alua is a Ghanifornian Mash-Up and a death doula, which means that she works with individuals and families to help them through the process of death.
We chat with Alua about everything from what to do with your loved one’s magazine subscription after they are gone to what an advanced care directive is and why we need one. She tells us about the cultural differences surrounding death and about her personal journey from being a child missionary to working as a lawyer to now working within the death industry.
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FAQ
How many episodes does The Mash-Up Americans have?
The Mash-Up Americans currently has 91 episodes available.
What topics does The Mash-Up Americans cover?
The podcast is about Pop Culture, Culture, Society & Culture, Grief, Conversations, Podcasts and Diversity.
What is the most popular episode on The Mash-Up Americans?
The episode title 'Mash-Up Live: Food Makes Us Happy (& Other Stories)' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on The Mash-Up Americans?
The average episode length on The Mash-Up Americans is 28 minutes.
How often are episodes of The Mash-Up Americans released?
Episodes of The Mash-Up Americans are typically released every 13 days, 22 hours.
When was the first episode of The Mash-Up Americans?
The first episode of The Mash-Up Americans was released on Nov 5, 2015.
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