The Mash-Up Americans
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Day 30: Begin At The Beginning
Day 30: Begin At The Beginning
About this podcast
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, what makes us who we are. Get to know yourself, America.
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?
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Episodes
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- Day 30: Begin At The Beginning · 1 min · Season 12 Episode 30And end when it’s time. Wisdom from Lewis Carroll, from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, published by MacMillan in 1865. Thank you for joining us on this 30-day celebration of…
- Day 29: Our Stupid Hearts · 1 min · Season 12 Episode 29Our hearts are broken and we’re so grateful for it. Meditations in an Emergency, by Cameron Awkward-Rich, from Dispatch, published by Persea Books in 2019.This Lunar New Year…
- Day 28: Kind Hands · 1 min · Season 12 Episode 28What is there but kindness? I Am Not Alone Here, by Jacqueline Suskin from The Verse for Now, published by Flower Press in 2025This Lunar New Year we’re trying something…
- Day 27: Life Goes On · 3 min · Season 12 Episode 27Despite reality, reality also demands joy. Life goes on. Thank you to Wislawa Szymborka for Reality Demands, translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh, published in…
- Day 26: Maya Angelou and Dolly Parton Are Rooting For You · 1 min · Season 12 Episode 26Be you, and do it on purpose! Thanks to Maya Angelou and Dolly Parton. This Lunar New Year we’re trying something different - 30 days of short daily episodes with art, poetry…
- Day 25: Courage Is A Muscle · 1 min · Season 12 Episode 25Summoning our strength of heart with Rabbi Susan Goldberg of our beloved Nefesh in Los Angeles. This Lunar New Year we’re trying something different - 30 days of short daily…
- Day 24: Expanding Our Minds · 1 min · Season 12 Episode 24Let Bong Joon Ho show us the way. This Lunar New Year we’re trying something different - 30 days of short daily episodes with art, poetry, and words of wisdom and humor. Happy…
- Day 23: Art · 1 min · Season 12 Episode 23What is art? Thank you to Shaun Usher of the Letters of Note Newsletter, one of our very favorite joys of the internet.This Lunar New Year we’re trying something different - 30…
- Day 22: Supplicants · 3 min · Season 12 Episode 22How do we ask for what we need? Different Ways to Pray by Naomi Shihab Nye, from Words Under the Words: Selected Poems, published by Far Corner Books in 1995. This Lunar New Year…
- Day 21: We Already Have Everything Good · 1 min · Season 12 Episode 21A poem (a prayer?) from Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi. This Lunar New Year we’re trying something different - 30 days of short daily episodes with art, poetry, and words of wisdom and…
- Day 20: Our kids · 1 min · Season 12 Episode 20James Baldwin has something to say about it. From Notes on the House of Bondage, published in The Nation in 1980.This Lunar New Year we’re trying something different - 30 days of…
- Day 19: Franz Kafka and Eddie Murphy Walk Into A Room … · 1 min · Season 12 Episode 19More advice from some of the greats. Wisdom from across the 20th century from Franz Kafka and Eddie Murphy. This Lunar New Year we’re trying something different - 30 days of…
- Day 18: Being a Choi (Proud) · 3 min · Season 12 Episode 18Remembering everything that comes in our name is essential. Be proud! Be Choi. Choi Jeong Min by Franny Choi, published in Poetry Magazine in 2016.This Lunar New Year we’re…
- Day 17: Juggling · 1 min · Season 12 Episode 17We can let it fall, sometimes. A Poem for Someone Who Is Juggling Her Life, by Rose Cook, from Notes From a Bright Field, published by Cultured Llama in 2013.This Lunar New Year…
- Day 16: Mosquitos And Kindness · 1 min · Season 12 Episode 16A few proverbs from across the continents, tied together by the Dalai Lama. This Lunar New Year we’re trying something different - 30 days of short daily episodes with art…
- Day 15: Waiting · 1 min · Season 12 Episode 15Sometimes democracy requires patience. Don’t we know it! Democracy Poem #1 by June Jordan, from The Essential June Jordan, published by Copper Canyon Press in 2020.This Lunar New…
- Day 14: We Have Enough Time, Actually · 1 min · Season 12 Episode 14If we use our time well, we have plenty of it. A reminder from the philosopher Seneca, from On The Shortness of Life. This Lunar New Year we’re trying something different - 30…
- Day 13: Peopling The Space · 1 min · Season 12 Episode 13Can you draw your own face? Some notes by Jorge Luis Borges from Horse, Stars, Men, published in Aleph and Other Stories by Penguin Classics in 2004. This Lunar New Year we’re…
- Day 12: Taking It All · 1 min · Season 12 Episode 12Instructions on Not Giving Up by Ada Limón from Poem-a-Day, published by the Academy of American Poets in 2017.This Lunar New Year we’re trying something different - 30 days of…
- Day 11: Being Rich · 1 min · Season 12 Episode 11William Shakespeare says our riches on the inside is better than anything we could find on the outside, and we agree.This Lunar New Year we’re trying something different - 30…
