The Mash-Up Americans

American Public Media

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...

Location:

United States

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Arts & Culture Podcasts

Networks:

American Public Media

Description:

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? Get more at mashupamericans.com

Twitter:

@mashupamerican

Language:

English

Contact:

"KPCC, Southern California Public Radio 474 South Raymond Avenue Pasadena, CA 91109" (626) 583-5104

Website:

https://www.mashupamericans.com/

Email:

mail@kpcc.org

Episodes

Day 30: Begin At The Beginning

3/18/2026

And 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 Lunar New Year. We hope you have an incredible Year of the Fire Horse! https://bookshop.org/lists/mash-up-lunar-new-year-daily-podcast-book-list See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Duration:00:00:53

Day 29: Our Stupid Hearts

3/17/2026

Our 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 we’re trying something different - 30 days of short daily episodes with art, poetry, and words of wisdom and humor. Happy Year of the Fire Horse everyone! https://bookshop.org/lists/mash-up-lunar-new-year-daily-podcast-book-list See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Duration:00:01:25

Day 28: Kind Hands

3/16/2026

What is there but kindness? I Am Not Alone Here, by Jacqueline Suskin from The Verse for Now, published by Flower Press in 2025 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 Year of the Fire Horse everyone! https://bookshop.org/lists/mash-up-lunar-new-year-daily-podcast-book-list See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Duration:00:00:56

Day 27: Life Goes On

3/15/2026

Despite 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 View With A Grain of Sand by Harcourt Brace in 1995. 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 Year of the Fire Horse everyone! https://bookshop.org/lists/mash-up-lunar-new-year-daily-podcast-book-list See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Duration:00:02:35

Day 26: Maya Angelou and Dolly Parton Are Rooting For You

3/14/2026

Be 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, and words of wisdom and humor. Happy Year of the Fire Horse everyone! https://bookshop.org/lists/mash-up-lunar-new-year-daily-podcast-book-list See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Duration:00:01:00

Day 25: Courage Is A Muscle

3/13/2026

Summoning 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 episodes with art, poetry, and words of wisdom and humor. Happy Year of the Fire Horse everyone! https://bookshop.org/lists/mash-up-lunar-new-year-daily-podcast-book-list See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Duration:00:00:55

Day 24: Expanding Our Minds

3/12/2026

Let 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 Year of the Fire Horse everyone! https://bookshop.org/lists/mash-up-lunar-new-year-daily-podcast-book-list See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Duration:00:00:44

Day 23: Art

3/11/2026

What 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 days of short daily episodes with art, poetry, and words of wisdom and humor. Happy Year of the Fire Horse everyone! https://bookshop.org/lists/mash-up-lunar-new-year-daily-podcast-book-list See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Duration:00:01:26

Day 22: Supplicants

3/10/2026

How 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 we’re trying something different - 30 days of short daily episodes with art, poetry, and words of wisdom and humor. Happy Year of the Fire Horse everyone! https://bookshop.org/lists/mash-up-lunar-new-year-daily-podcast-book-list See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Duration:00:02:31

Day 21: We Already Have Everything Good

3/9/2026

A 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 humor. Happy Year of the Fire Horse everyone! https://bookshop.org/lists/mash-up-lunar-new-year-daily-podcast-book-list See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Duration:00:01:17

Day 20: Our kids

3/8/2026

James 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 short daily episodes with art, poetry, and words of wisdom and humor. Happy Year of the Fire Horse everyone! https://bookshop.org/lists/mash-up-lunar-new-year-daily-podcast-book-list See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Duration:00:01:01

Day 19: Franz Kafka and Eddie Murphy Walk Into A Room …

3/7/2026

More 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 short daily episodes with art, poetry, and words of wisdom and humor. Happy Year of the Fire Horse everyone! https://bookshop.org/lists/mash-up-lunar-new-year-daily-podcast-book-list See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Duration:00:00:53

Day 18: Being a Choi (Proud)

3/6/2026

Remembering 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 trying something different - 30 days of short daily episodes with art, poetry, and words of wisdom and humor. Happy Year of the Fire Horse everyone! https://bookshop.org/lists/mash-up-lunar-new-year-daily-podcast-book-list See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Duration:00:03:01

Day 17: Juggling

3/5/2026

We 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 we’re trying something different - 30 days of short daily episodes with art, poetry, and words of wisdom and humor. Happy Year of the Fire Horse everyone! https://bookshop.org/lists/mash-up-lunar-new-year-daily-podcast-book-list See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Duration:00:01:09

Day 16: Mosquitos And Kindness

3/4/2026

A 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, poetry, and words of wisdom and humor. Happy Year of the Fire Horse everyone! https://bookshop.org/lists/mash-up-lunar-new-year-daily-podcast-book-list See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Duration:00:00:50

Day 15: Waiting

3/3/2026

Sometimes 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 Year we’re trying something different - 30 days of short daily episodes with art, poetry, and words of wisdom and humor. Happy Year of the Fire Horse everyone! https://bookshop.org/lists/mash-up-lunar-new-year-daily-podcast-book-list See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Duration:00:00:56

Day 14: We Have Enough Time, Actually

3/2/2026

If 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 days of short daily episodes with art, poetry, and words of wisdom and humor. Happy Year of the Fire Horse everyone! https://bookshop.org/lists/mash-up-lunar-new-year-daily-podcast-book-list See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Duration:00:01:06

Day 13: Peopling The Space

3/1/2026

Can 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 trying something different - 30 days of short daily episodes with art, poetry, and words of wisdom and humor. Happy Year of the Fire Horse everyone! https://bookshop.org/lists/mash-up-lunar-new-year-daily-podcast-book-list See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Duration:00:01:02

Day 12: Taking It All

2/28/2026

Instructions 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 short daily episodes with art, poetry, and words of wisdom and humor. Happy Year of the Fire Horse everyone! https://bookshop.org/lists/mash-up-lunar-new-year-daily-podcast-book-list See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Duration:00:01:23

Day 11: Being Rich

2/27/2026

William 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 days of short daily episodes with art, poetry, and words of wisdom and humor. Happy Year of the Fire Horse everyone! https://bookshop.org/lists/mash-up-lunar-new-year-daily-podcast-book-list See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Duration:00:01:26