The OG YOLK Podcast GenerAsian Next

Unsinkable Shannon Lee: How to handle being Bruce Lee’s Daughter? Set up your own legacy! Podcaster/Producer of Warrior

Welcome to our soft relaunch of YOLK magazine via podcast!  Introducing successful Producer, Martial Artist, American Actor with amazing audio voice Performer with her Bruce Lee podcast - Flowing with Shannon Lee, thriving Writer and businesswoman. She is the daughter of late martial arts film star, Bruce Lee and retired martial arts teacher, Linda Lee Cadwell, the granddaughter of Cantonese opera singer, Lee Hoi-Chuen, and the younger sister of the late Brandon Lee.  We were fortunate to have her with us since she was on the cover of YOLK vol. 5. no.1, the Yolk GenerAsian Next Podcast!
Note: Sommer (me) was too excited to talk to her, and Larry fanboyed her, so please support our enthusiasm, her soothing voice and demeanor couldn't quell it. READING HER BOOK ASAP. Thank you to the following fantastic supporters of this show:  Walter Nishinaka of Little Tokyo Talks pod and Brian Kito for providing the space, CJ Bautista- Editor of audio and video @undersiege360, Paris Wang - Videographer @ParisWangOfficial, @OGyolkmagazine, @ltgoto, @sommertimecasting and @ogyolkpodcast.  Thank for listening and welcome to our first episode!

How does Arnold Chun use his education to make his characters more believable?

We were entertained with his many theatrical accents and educated by Arnold Chun, an American Actor/Director. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and graduated from the Humanities Magnet Program at Grover Cleveland High School in Reseda, CA. He holds a B.A. in East Asian/European History from UC Irvine. Arnold has appeared in many hit shows like, "Kidding, The Big bang Theory, Hawaii 5-0, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The Last Ship. Arnold also plays "Kotomichi" on the Emmy-winning Amazon series "The Man in The High Castle". Arnold is also a filmmaker. Winning the award for Best Short Film at the Harlem Int. Film Fest in 2008 for "Eli's Liquor Store".  Arnold is also passionate about community and has helped expand a senior center in Koreatown for the mentally ill, in addition to addressing Mental Health issues in the Asian American Community. One of his most memorable experiences in humanitarian work was a month long trip to India as a short term missionary.  Thank you to Mobotory for allowing us to do our interview there, to Arnold  Chun @arnoldhchun and Editor CJ Bautista @undersiege360 and the OG YOLK team.

Ms Kieu Chinh- How Does One Survive 2 wars & A Lifetime Of Trauma?

DAME KIEU CHINH NGUYEN We are grateful to have our guest, Dame Kieu Chinh on this YOLK podcast and I had the immense pleasure to interview her. In her career spanning over sixty years from 1957 to the present, Ms. Nguyen has received many accolades including an Emmy Award in 1996. On of her most renown roles is in The Joy Luck Club as Suyuan Woo, mother to Ming-Na Wen's character (1993).  In the 1960s, in addition to Vietnamese films, she also appeared in several American productions including A Yank in Vietnam (1964) and Operation C.I.A. (1965), the latter opposite Burt Reynolds.  Ms. Nguyen also produced a war epic Faceless Lover (or Warrior, Who Are You) (1971), which later would be remastered and shown in the U.S. at the 2003 Vietnamese National Film Festival.  Also the famous episodes in MASH where she played a Korean love interest for Alan Alda's Hawkeye character.  In 2005, Ms. Nguyen starred in Journey From the Fall, a film tracing a Vietnamese family through the aftermath of the fall of Saigon, the re-education camp, the boat people tragedy, and the initial difficulties of settling in the U.S.
In 2016, she returned to Vietnam to inaugurate the 50th school which was built in Hanoi under the Vietnam Children's Fund where she is President and Co-Chair. She is an avid advocate for the Vietnamese American active duties and our Veterans.  In 2021, she released her memoir Kieu Chinh An Artist in Exile.  
Currently you can watch her on MAX, The Sympathizer series co-starring Robert Downey Jr., Sandra Oh, and Hoa Xuande.  I recommend you all read her book or google her, this bio is too abbreviated and does not represent her intriguing life and work fully. 
Thank you to @OGyolkmagazine, @undersiege360 CJ Bautista for editing, @pariswangofficial for video (to be released later), @TimChang, Mandla Daley, Emerson College LA, Thao Sofo (my sis), @ltogo, and team YOLK! -  - @sommertimecasting  

What can 1 person do to bring the Arts to a diverse genre? Tim Chang made it happen!

Tim Chang, Associate Dean of Student Life and Administration, from Loyola Marymount University School of Education, where he was the Associate Dean for Business Services in the School of Education. He accomplished a B.A. from Bradley University in Psychology and an M.A. in Higher Education Administration from Teachers College, Columbia University. This person goes above and beyond when it comes to educated human being! Thank u to @OGyolkmagazine CJ Bautista for edit @undersiege360, Emerson College LA, @teamchang, Mandla Daley & YOLK crew! 🤗🤓

Sommer meets Summer about Summer's Specials sustainable skincare - Say that 3x!

Giving Larry Tazuma the day off, we welcome an intelligent and spiritual entrepreneur who worked under Deepak Chopra, then started her own company of mental and physical wellness. Summer Rathswohl brokers skincare and supplements for total health wellness and maintenance.  Her website summersspecials.com (under construction) and her IG is @summersspecials.  We also share a mutual BFF hairstylist @hairbyramon, thank you to @pariswangofficial for adding the intro/outro to this episode. CJ usually does it, but we got backups! @OGyolkmagazine @ltgoto @sommertimecasting note: in my intro to Summer, I mention Yolk magazine but actually Yolk Generasian Next Podcast. . . . <3
 

What It Takes To focus On Showbiz- Our honorary Asian friend, Actor Carl Bressler!

Carl Bressler recently hit the halfway mark of 25+ for the goal of performing fifty characters named "Berg".  He enjoys acting, guesting as an older actor in acting classes, advises senior executive challenges in the entertainment business and involved in all kinds of entrepreneurial ventures, particularly if charitable and/or for social good. Single, and has one handsome champion Rower son, and Carl traveled through 45 countries "just to see them" and still counting.  Faux commercial by @pariswangofficial ; Thank you to @carlbressler @ogyolkpodcast @ltgoto @OGyolkmagazine @sommertimecasting and editor @undersiege360

George Lee: from baseball to King of Indie Film Cinema

Mr. Lee is a Co-Founder and CEO of Venture 3D and Storyoscopic Films. Mr. Lee’s experience in the motion picture business include co-production, financing, foreign distribution and licensing of major Hollywood studio films in Asia and currently in the U.S. In January 2016, Mr Lee became partners with one of Hollywood’s biggest directors, Michael Bay, in a new company, called 451 Media Group. Thank you to Paris Wang for editing this episode. @itsyoboigeorge @pariswangofficial @ltgoto @sommertimecasting @UnderSiege360 @OGyolkmagazine

When Should You Drop Your Day Job? DJ/Actor/MRI Specialist Paris Wang Responds

Larry Tazuma and Sommer Nguyen welcomes PARIS WANG, and Actor and DJ/Producer of Electronic music tracks. He ventured in event planning in his 20s and decided music was his first love. Paris' discovered his other passion was acting after entertaining people on the stage.  He talks here about his never-ending desire to entertain audiences even when the industry itself is challenging, as life as well.  Fun fact: Paris did our intro/outro, please follow him at @pariswangofficial, @OGyolkmagazine, @ltgoto, @sommertimecasting 

Alexandra Chun, badass Dog Activist & Working Actor

Alexandra Chun pursued a medical career, but then after a   relationship with a musician enlightened her to a career in Performing Arts. She was cast in NYC Another World and then she returned to Los Angeles to work in numerous film and television shows in recurring and guest-starring roles in dozens of shows, including but not limited to Mrs. Davis (2023), the first Saw film and NBC's The Event. In 2013, she starred in Innocent Blood, an indie suspense thriller, playing a mother hell-bent on retrieving her kidnapped son, for which she earned an Acting Award at the Monaco Film Festival. Among so many Theater credits, her most recent had her playing alongside other international award-winning actresses in Carry the World at the Los Angeles Museum of Tolerance.  @alexandrajindo, CJ Bautista- Editor of audio and video @undersiege360, intro/outro by @ParisWangOfficial, @OGyolkmagazine, @ltgoto, @sommertimecasting.

Chatting with former Editor of Yolk Magazine turned Actor, Alex Luu

Happy to have a former Yolk Writer/Editor be our guest today, Alex Luu, a solo performance/theater artist, Teaching Artist, and writer. He is with the Los Angeles County Arts Ed Collective and a previous Teaching Artist with the Ford Theater and East West Players. Alex also created a workshop called My Own Story to teach underrepresented & underserved youth/people of color to bring their own stories to life. Credit: episode edited by CJ Bautista @undersiege360 and commercial parody written by Sommer @sommertimecasting, and VO by Paris Wang @pariswangofficial and @OGyolkmagazine @ltgoto - Host.