Hoppers

About this episode

The Good Pop Crew discusses the Pixar film Hoppers and highlights an AAPI production of HENRY VI.

On this episode, the Good Pop Crew checks out Hoppers, the newest Pixar film from We Bare Bears creator Daniel Chong, following a young (and angry Asian American) girl named Mabel Tanaka, who uses an experimental technology to transfer her mind into a mechanical beaver in order to infiltrate beaver society and save the glade behind her grandmother's house. What's Popping? - Teach You a Lesson, NBA Playoffs, Top Chef Follow our hosts: Marvin Yueh - @marvinyueh Jess Ju - @jessjutweets Hanh Nguyen - @hanhonymous Follow the show and engage with us at @goodpopclub Part of the Potluck Podcast Collective Produced by HappyEcstatic Media Mentioned in this episode: Don't miss an all AAPI production of HENRY VI: A Trilogy in Two Parts at The Public in NYC The National Asian American Theatre Company’s acclaimed production of HENRY VI: A TRILOGY IN TWO PARTS brings an all-AANHPI cast to The Public Theater for a decades-spanning saga of Joan of Arc, warring dukes, and the bloody birth of the War of the Roses. Adapted by Stephen Brown-Fried, this is Shakespeare like you've never experienced it. Part 1: Foreign Wars opens with a king dead, an infant on the throne, and a country already coming…

People in this episode

Hosts: Marvin Yueh, Jess Ju, Hanh Nguyen

Topics covered

• Pixar film
• Asian American representation
• animation
• theater
• NBA Playoffs
• Top Chef

Keywords

• Hoppers
• Pixar
• Daniel Chong
• AAPI
• HENRY VI
• animation
• theater
• NBA Playoffs
• Top Chef

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The National Asian American Theatre Company, The Public Theater

Books & works: Hoppers, HENRY VI: A Trilogy in Two Parts

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