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Because we love a year-end spectacular, we're extending ours by doing an audit on this year so we don't miss anything in our best of lists!! We're starting out with Q1 (Jan - Mar) and listing and listening to notable releases, with a few once sentence news items thrown into the timeline. For the history!!
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AMAK Book Club 'Shine' edition comes to an end today in a grand Hollywood spectacular! We are joined by Kpop journos Alexis Hodoyán and Natalie Morin to get out our Shine feelings one last time and make a couple of rewrite suggestions. Then it's time to pull up a power point presentation (follow along here: https://bit.ly/33ftNME ) of the headshots for all of the listener submitted candidates for casting. We took this exercise extremely seriously which is obvious because we did amazing. Netflix, Jessica, please hire all of us.
Thank you again to everyone who participated in our first podcast book club! We had so much fun and look forward to the next one!
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Welcome to the 3rd installment of Shine bookclub! And it's the ep you've been waiting for, where we try to get to the bottom of what is based in truth in this darn book! And we were joined by delightful Jessie from Certified Noonas to talk all about it! Hear all the theories we've collected about who Jason and other characters are based on, and the truth contained in Rachel's struggles as a trainee. Then it's time for some fun as we take a clunky paragraph or two from Shine and punch it up with random words!
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Just cause we felt we needed it, here's an extra episode!! As a treat! We've been drinking wine and now we're gonna rundown everything in October since the last comeback episode. Listen to us lose our minds over Seventeen in ugly glasses, get a toothache from our sweet TXT soft babies, worship the ground that Twice dances on, get into the whole Loey situation, and be rendered absolutely speechless by Changkyun's request in Monsta X's newest song, plus much more screaming and TMI. Thank you Kpop for being our shield from the real world!!
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Welcome to our 2nd Shine Book Club episode! We start off the ep with a few clarifications from last week about Jason and that whole 'trading' business. Then we were joined by Roxy & Jay from Kraze magazine to dive into examples from Shine and from real life Kpop of double standards and misogyny both behind the scenes and from fans. We had a really good discussion despite a sometimes heavy and frustrating topics, but please be advised of a general content warning for subject matter and specific mentions of physical abuse and suicide. Thanks to Roxy & Jay for joining and to everyone who is participating in book club! Please send in your tea predictions and clunkiest paragraphs for games next week!
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Welcome to the very first book club episode of Ask Me About Kpop! It's time to dig into the new YA novel 'Shine', written by former snsd member Jessica Jung. Follow along as we give you the 'too long didn't read;' recap of Shine. So, if you didn't read it, we're gonna describe it to you! Once you're all caught up, join us for a little chat with DJ Peter Lo from the Kpopcast about the very specific Kpop universe that this book takes place in and how it differs from our own. Stay tuned for 3 more Shine episodes and send us in your reviews, theories, head canons and dream casts!
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Hi Friends!! Sorry for being absent last week, but we're back and ready to try and make sense of all the comeback glory of this month! We've got new friends, old faves, cute hair colors and gorgeous tan chests!! What has been your fave so far, and what are you looking forward to next?
Get ready for Shine bookclub starting next week! Read the whole thing before next week! You can do it! :D
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Who doesn't love a game of name that tune? Apparently our brains don't today! Listen along as we pull up some youtube guessing games and flow between impressive knowledge, near misses, and some of the most embarrassing brain farts we've ever had on air. Stick around to have your ears truly *b l e s s e d* by the random game group!
Videos watched in this ep:
Can You Guess 50 Kpop Songs In 10 Minutes - https://youtu.be/0E_Cv5Cim_w
Guess Kpop Song By English Phrase - https://youtu.be/MI9cbFNM_yM
Guess Kpop Song By Iconic Line - https://youtu.be/fvnpgxgVMuk
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It's been a minute since we've done a deep dive that wasn't for a solo artist, so let's return to groups with the longest lasting girl group ever, Brown Eyed Girls! Learn all about the creation of this singing group who debuted well past 'standard' kpop age and went on to cement themselves as an important chapter in the second gen story! There's great vocals, self-composition, iconic dance moves, a couple of wigs, queer mv storylines, and of course the cutest song about vaginas in Kpop history! Thanks for 14 years of magic B.E.G.!!
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Today's episode of AMAK is brought to you by the listeners!! That's right. We got our listeners from the 'seasoned-fan' tier of our Patreon (sign up now patreon.com/amakpoppod) to send us a video of whatever they wanted! A fave mv or choreo, a fanmade meme video, variety clip, whatever they wanted. And we watched them all. Tune in for some fun (and loud) surprises, a few old favorites and even some brand new stuff. Thanks to those who sent something in, and to all of our Patrons regardless of tier for supporting the show!
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