What in the Shibal Podcast

Ep 16 is an AITA episode where Susie and Ed read Asian entries in Reddit's Am I The AHole series.  Stories range from "AITA for pretending like I didn't know my son was Asian?" to "AITA for getting upset over my best friend introducing me her 'Asian friend'?" to "AITA for 'lying' about being Asian?"  Listen to the first in an upcoming series of...

As Susie talks about her injectables appointment later on that same day, a discussion ensues around beauty standards and its link to plastic surgery. Including the effects on women when told to "age gracefully" and the effects of others' judgment vs wanting to do it for yourself. What if people do it strictly for vanity reasons? Is the prevalence of plastic surgery in today's soc...

Mother's Day is different for every person; for many it is a great day of joy and celebration of motherhood, while for many other it is a day of sadness and pain. Episode 14 explores both sides of Mother's Day - celebrating motherhood by actually celebrating mothers for their enjoyment to a vastly different experience of being triggered by Mother's Day because of shaky relationships li...

Episode 13 of What in the Shibal brings a very special guest - The Korean Vegan, Joanne Molinaro - the very accomplished lawyer, James Beard winner, New York Times Bestselling Author, and content creator.  Joanne gives insight into why she started to make content and her drive to help eradicate racism through her work. Listen as Joanne reminisces about taking the bar exam to how she started her po...

As May is AANHPI Heritage Month, Episode 12 goes over all the anti-Asian events that happened over social media the week before AANHPI Heritage Month started. Including the incident with the 3 Italian girls laughing at the Chinese mother and son on the train in Italy after mocking them saying "ni hao" multiple times.  Or the Asian woman in the UK (itsgnochgnoch) who ranted about a ride-s...

Episode 11 is all about taking it easy... and about Susie and Ed. Get to know the hosts on a more personal level about who they are on this episode. Susie and Ed take turns asking each other questions.  Find out about what food they like the most to what defines success for them.  Susie and Ed end by asking each other questions from a couple's question game.  UPCOMING LISTENER WRITE-IN: Please...

This is our 10th episode! And we have a special guest - world renowned Chinese-American pop-artist Luke Chueh who is known for his iconic cute but macabre bear character. Luke has been a professional artist for 20 years and has even painted the cover of Fall Out Boy's 2008 album Folie à Deux. Join us for a conversation about his life growing up in Fresno, CA to his journey with addiction, and...

Episode 9 of What in the Shibal with Soogia and Ed is a listener write in episode all about dating. Including a story about an Asian woman being asked if she has a sideways private parts. This episode includes cringey stories like getting too drunk and calling their date racial slurs. Susie and Ed also share some of their horrible experiences and what it is like to be fetishized or emasculated. Th...

Ep 8 of What in the Shibal podcast with Soogia and Ed Choi brings our first guest, hairstylist and singer, Guy Tang of Netflix's Bling Empire fame.  Guy talks to us about his life, especially growing up Asian American in Oklahoma and his journey to find and accept himself - both as An Asian American and also as a gay man. Listen to the experiences and stories of the one and only Guy Tang and w...

Episode 7 of What in the Shibal with Soogia and Ed Choi dives into language and how your immigrant parents approach language in the home affects the children's identity. A conversation of language naturally includes a conversation around communication and the importance of communicate between parent and child to help the child develop into a well rounded person and the challenges that are face...

Episode 6 dives into Workplace Discrimination on the second call-in Episode (name still pending) where listeners write into the podcast for Soogia and Ed to share. In addition, Soogia recounts some of her employees' experiences... and Ed talks about his own experiences with corporate workplace discrimination. Thank you to all the people who wrote in! UPCOMING LISTENER WRITE-IN: Please write in...

Episode 5 of What in the Shibal with Soogia and Ed Choi dives into the 95th Academy Awards and the wins of Everything Everywhere All At Once and how every step forward comes with attempts by people to pull you backwards.  Case in point - Jennifer Murphy who wants to live by 1920s standards of yellowfaced entertainment in the year 2023 where Asian stereotypes are the butt of her jokes. UPCOMING LIS...

Ep 4 of What in the Shibal with Soogia and Ed Choi is a fun segment called Listening In (name pending) where Soogia and Ed ask the audience to join in the conversation by writing in and sharing their stories.  This week on Listening In, focuses on experiences with cultural foods.  We went through a lot of emails and chose some of our top favorites to share with you, in story... and by eating the d...

On the 3rd episode, Soogia and Ed talk about representation, or the lack thereof and how that affected them as Asian American children of immigrant parents growing up.  The conversation also includes Everything Everywhere All At Once and their award wins... as well as a conversation around Mark Wahlberg presenting to the whole cast of EEAAO (including the honoring of legendary James Hong) at the S...

In their new and permanent podcast space, in Episode 2: Listen Up, Kathi... Soogia and Ed discuss the incident at Roy High School involving the AAPI kids who were barked at in relation to a commenter who said that the racist kids deserved "grace"... and they reflect on their personal experiences with receiving bullying growing up. And the effect it has on the psyche of a impressionable c...

The first episode of What in the Shibal focuses on getting to know the two hosts - Soogia and Ed Choi who dive into what led to the creation of this podcast; the goal of the podcast, and just overall getting to know Soogia and Ed. What in the Shibal aims to focus on normalizing the Asian American experience in the pursuit to squash the "Perpetual Foreigner" trope. #asianrepresentation UP...