The Mash-Up Americans

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You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me - Ep. 5 - Love & Noraebang Jul 29, 2023

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Ana finally faces up to the devastating news that Don D**o’s is closing down and breaks the news to her restaurant family. Later, Chloe sees Ana and Mark … in a kiss.

This is Episode 5 of Love and Noraebang from The Mash-Up Americans, the Kdrama RomCom of your California Dreams.

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Cast:

Los Angeles / Randall Park
Ana / Francia Raisa
Federica / Ana Gonzalez Bello
Mark / Rafael Torres
Chloe / Julia Cho
Kunwoo / Steve Lim
Jaesun / Justin H. Min
Sookmin / June Yoon

Credits:

Produced by Sonoro and The Mash-Up Americans.
Executive Produced by Camila Victoriano, Joshua Weinstein, Amy S. Choi and Rebecca Lehrer.
Directed by Amy S. Choi and Rebecca Lehrer.
Written by Quincy Cho and Anthony Aguilar.
Producers are Sofía de Antuñano and Shelby Sandlin.
Sound design and foley by Meni Bulnes.
Music editor, orchestration and score by Laura Cruz.
Original song by Laura Cruz, with vocals by Jen Kwok and additional production by Jen Kwok and Jody Shelton
Composed by Jen Kwok and Jody Shelton.

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We Belong Together - Ep. 4 - Love & Noraebang Jul 28, 2023

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Jaesun struggles to escape his rich kid reputation in the military. Ana struggles with business debts piling up at home. Neither of them communicate, and the tension threatens to unravel their long distance romance.

This is Episode 4 of Love and Noraebang from The Mash-Up Americans, the Kdrama RomCom of your California Dreams,

Link to Script

Cast:

Los Angeles / Randall Park
Ana / Francia Raisa
Federica / Ana Gonzalez Bello
Mark / Rafael Torres
Chloe / Julia Cho
Kunwoo / Steve Lim
Jaesun / Justin H. Min
Sookmin / June Yoon

Credits:

Produced by Sonoro and The Mash-Up Americans.
Executive Produced by Camila Victoriano, Joshua Weinstein, Amy S. Choi and Rebecca Lehrer.
Directed by Amy S. Choi and Rebecca Lehrer.
Written by Quincy Cho and Anthony Aguilar.
Producers are Sofía de Antuñano and Shelby Sandlin.
Sound design and foley by Meni Bulnes.
Music editor, orchestration and score by Laura Cruz.
Original song by Laura Cruz, with vocals by Jen Kwok and additional production by Jen Kwok and Jody Shelton
Composed by Jen Kwok and Jody Shelton.

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You Can’t Always Get What You Want - Ep. 3 - Love & Noraebang Jul 27, 2023

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Jaesun reunites with his billionaire business magnate father, Sookmin, who reminds him that their enemies are always watching, especially after his big victory in LA. Meanwhile, Ana gets some confusing and disturbing news about her own business, but she, Valentina and Mark resolve to figure it out together, as they always have.

This is Episode 3 of Love and Noraebang from The Mash-Up Americans, the Kdrama RomCom of your California Dreams.

Link to Script

Cast:

Los Angeles / Randall Park
Ana / Francia Raisa
Federica / Ana Gonzalez Bello
Mark / Rafael Torres
Chloe / Julia Cho
Kunwoo / Steve Lim
Jaesun / Justin H. Min
Sookmin / June Yoon

Credits:

Produced by Sonoro and The Mash-Up Americans.
Executive Produced by Camila Victoriano, Joshua Weinstein, Amy S. Choi and Rebecca Lehrer.
Directed by Amy S. Choi and Rebecca Lehrer.
Written by Quincy Cho and Anthony Aguilar.
Producers are Sofía de Antuñano and Shelby Sandlin.
Sound design and foley by Meni Bulnes.
Music editor, orchestration and score by Laura Cruz.
Original song by Laura Cruz, with vocals by Jen Kwok and additional production by Jen Kwok and Jody Shelton
Composed by Jen Kwok and Jody Shelton.

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Fabulous Places - Ep. 2 - Love & Noraebang Jul 26, 2023

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Jaesun and Ana’s whirlwind romance takes them across all the most delicious spots in LA and Mexico City, and Ana finds herself, despite her best efforts, falling in love. Unfortunately, Jaesun’s time in LA is up, and it’s time for him to return to Korea for his military service. Ana leans on her sister, Valentina, and her bestie, Mark, for comfort.

This is Episode 2 of Love and Noraebang from The Mash-Up Americans, the Kdrama RomCom of your California Dreams,

Link to Script

Cast:

Los Angeles / Randall Park
Ana / Francia Raisa
Federica / Ana Gonzalez Bello
Mark / Rafael Torres
Chloe / Julia Cho
Kunwoo / Steve Lim
Jaesun / Justin H. Min
Sookmin / June Yoon

Credits:

Produced by Sonoro and The Mash-Up Americans.
Executive Produced by Camila Victoriano, Joshua Weinstein, Amy S. Choi and Rebecca Lehrer.
Directed by Amy S. Choi and Rebecca Lehrer.
Written by Quincy Cho and Anthony Aguilar.
Producers are Sofía de Antuñano and Shelby Sandlin.
Sound design and foley by Meni Bulnes.
Music editor, orchestration and score by Laura Cruz.
Original song by Laura Cruz, with vocals by Jen Kwok and additional production by Jen Kwok and Jody Shelton
Composed by Jen Kwok and Jody Shelton.

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Gonna Sing You My Love Song - Ep. 1 - Love & Noraebang Jul 25, 2023

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You are listening to the first episode of Love and Noraebang from The Mash-Up Americans, the Kdrama RomCom of your California Dreams,

Jaesun Choi, heir to a Korean chaebol, celebrates a huge work win with his cousin Chloe and his besties at Don Dago’s, his favorite Mexican restaurant in LA, where he fancies the cocktails, the mole, AND the owner, the gorgeous and brilliant Ana Campos. Jaesun finally gets the guts to ask Ana out to noraebang — an invitation she’s been waiting months for — and the music and the mics are just the thing to kickstart their romance. But, not everybody is happy about it.

Link to Script

Cast:

Los Angeles / Randall Park
Ana / Francia Raisa
Federica / Ana Gonzalez Bello
Mark / Rafael Torres
Chloe / Julia Cho
Kunwoo / Steve Lim
Jaesun / Justin H. Min
Sookmin / June Yoon

Credits:

Produced by Sonoro and The Mash-Up Americans.
Executive Produced by Camila Victoriano, Joshua Weinstein, Amy S. Choi and Rebecca Lehrer.
Directed by Amy S. Choi and Rebecca Lehrer.
Written by Quincy Cho and Anthony Aguilar.
Producers are Sofía de Antuñano and Shelby Sandlin.
Sound design and foley by Meni Bulnes.
Music editor, orchestration and score by Laura Cruz.
Original song by Laura Cruz, with vocals by Jen Kwok and additional production by Jen Kwok and Jody Shelton
Composed by Jen Kwok and Jody Shelton.

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Romance For Your Ears - The KDrama Telenovela of Your California Dreams Jul 24, 2023

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It's summer and we're listening to reggaeton and going to the noraebang to sing Alanis Morissette. And we're watching romcoms! The Mash-Up Americans turns 10 this fall, and so we are doing all sorts of celebrating.

In honor of bringing some joy to our Mash-Ups, over the next 10 days we're sharing our chart topping podcast Love & Noraebang! It's the most happy, joyful, fun Mash-Up love story starring Randall Park, Justin H. Min and Francia Raisa. Starting Tuesday, July 25 each day you will get a new episode in this feed.

Our tagline: The only thing better than karaoke is finding The One

Produced by The Mash-Up Americans and Sonoro, Love & Noraebang is the first romcom, k-drama, telenovela podcast series that has it all: business enemies thwarting love, long distance drama, unrequited love, a match-making best friend, and last but not least, a surprisingly talkative City of Dreams. In 2022, it reached the top of the charts in the US, Korea and Mexico, was a nominee for Podcast of the Year and was one of Apple's favorite podcasts.

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The Future with adrienne maree brown - Grief, Collected Dec 13, 2022

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In the last episode of the season, we are focused on building the future with one of the wisest people of our time, adrienne maree brown. If grief is transformative, what are we creating in its wake? This conversation is about emerging from our collective grief and about creating our future together. It’s about our interconnectedness and what it means to live a good life in community with each other, knowing grief is woven into our lives just as joy is. We love adrienne’s vision and clarity and hopefulness and honesty. We love adrienne, our memelord, and invite you to take in the wisdom, abundance, and lessons with us.

More about adrienne maree brown:

adrienne maree brown grows healing ideas in public through her multi-genre writing, her music and her podcasts. Informed by 25 years of movement facilitation, somatics, Octavia E Butler scholarship and her work as a doula, adrienne has nurtured Emergent Strategy, Pleasure Activism, Radical Imagination and Transformative Justice as ideas and practices for transformation. She is the author/editor of seven published texts and the founder of the Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute, where she is now the writer-in-residence.

More about adrienne maree brown and her work here and find her on Twitter at @adriennemaree and on Instagram at @adriennemareebrown.

You can find more info and resources at GriefCollected.com

Credits

Grief, Collected is a production of The Mash-Up Americans. Executive produced by Amy S. Choi and Rebecca Lehrer. Senior editor and producer is Sara Pellegrini. Development Producer is Dupe Oyebolu. Production manager Shelby Sandlin. Original music composed by The Brothers Tang. Sound design support by Pedro Rafael Rosado. Website design by Rebecca Parks Fernandez. Grief, Collected was supported in part by a grant from The Pop Culture Collaborative.

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Meditation: A Reading On Grief from Alexander Chee Dec 09, 2022

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Welcome to the fourth meditation of our Grief, Collected series, which come out every Friday.

Today is a literary meditation with the esteemed author Alexander Chee. Alexander is the bestselling author of Edinburgh and The Queen of the Night, and a beautiful essayist making meaning of the world around us and helping us imagine new ones. In today’s episode he is reading his 2018 essay, “Why Grieve Is The Word Of The Year,” which walks us through all of our many griefs, and how we can find ourselves in them.

More about Alexander Chee and his work here and find him on Twitter at @alexanderchee and on Instagram at @cheemobile.

You can find more info and resources at GriefCollected.com

More about Alexander Chee -

Alexander Chee is the bestselling author of the novels Edinburgh and The Queen of the Night, and the essay collection How To Write An Autobiographical Novel, all from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. A contributing editor at The New Republic, and an editor at large at VQR, his essays and stories have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, T Magazine, The Sewaneee Review, and the 2016 and 2019 Best American Essays.

He is a 2021 United States Artists Fellow, a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow in Nonfiction, and the recipient of a Whiting Award, a NEA Fellowship, an MCCA Fellowship, the Randy Shilts Prize in gay nonfiction, the Paul Engle Prize, the Lambda Editor’s Choice Prize, and residency fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the VCCA, Leidig House, Civitella Ranieri and Amtrak.

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How Do We Grieve Collectively? - Grief, Collected Dec 06, 2022

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Collective grief! What does it mean to grieve as a community? As a country? We’re thinking about what it means to face our losses and our grief head on — together — in order to repair our society. What does it mean to lose a future that we might have imagined? Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg joins us to talk about some of the roots of our grief culture here in America, and with that knowledge, what collective grief and healing can look like in our communities. Part of that work includes looking at how societies globally have done this - and what we can learn from them.

You can find more info and resources at GriefCollected.com

You can find Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg on Twitter @TheRaDR and on Instagram @RabbiDanyaRuttenberg or at DanyaRuttenberg.net

More About Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg is an award-winning author and writer who serves as Scholar in Residence at the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW). She was named by Newsweek as a “rabbi to watch,” as a “faith leader to watch” by the Center for American Progress, has been a Washington Post Sunday crossword clue (83 Down). Her newest book, On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World has been hailed by Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley as ““A must read for anyone navigating the work of justice and healing.” and by the author Rebecca Solnit as “brilliant.” She has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Time, and many other publications. Her seven other books include Nurture the Wow: Finding Spirituality in the Frustration, Boredom, Tears, Poop, Desperation, Wonder, and Radical Amazement of Parenting, which was a National Jewish Book Award finalist, and Surprised By God: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Religion, nominated for the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish literature; The Passionate Torah: Sex and Judaism; Yentl’s Revenge: The Next Wave of Jewish Feminism, and, with Rabbi Elliot Dorff, three books on Jewish ethics.

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Meditation: Drawing with Wendy MacNaughton Dec 02, 2022

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For today’s meditation: grab a pencil and paper! The bestselling illustrator and graphic journalist Wendy MacNaughton is the founder and host of Draw Together. She will lead us through a drawing exercise “Chill Out Drawing for Stressed Out Times.” Draw Together is a participatory drawing podcast and interactive art class focused on imagination and community. Although Wendy’s show is ostensibly for kids, we have found it touches the inner kid in all of us.

You can find more info and resources at GriefCollected.com

More about Wendy MacNaughton:

Wendy MacNaughton is an illustrator and graphic journalist with a background in social work (MSW). She combines the practice of deep looking, listening and drawing to create stories of often overlooked people, places and things.

As a visual columnist for The New York Times and California Sunday Magazine, Wendy MacNaughton drew stories everywhere from high school cafeterias to Guantanamo Bay. She has illustrated, authored and edited eleven books, including the #1 New York Times bestseller Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat by Samin Nosrat, The Gutsy Girl by Caroline Paul and her own book, Meanwhile in San Francisco: The City in Its Own Word.

She is the creator and host of DrawTogether, an participatory drawing show for kids that uses art to bolster social-emotional skills, self-confidence and connection. She is also the co-founder of the Women Who Draw with Julia Rothman, an advocacy database launched in 2016 to increase visibility and opportunities for underrepresented artists, illustrators and cartoonists. She lives with her wife in San Francisco, but you can often find her on the road in her mobile drawing studio built inside the back of a Honda Element. You can find Wendy MacNaughton @wendymac and Draw Together DrawTogether.Studio

Credits for the Draw Together Podcast:

Editor: Amy Standen, Drawing music: Chris Colin, Theme song: Thao Nguyen

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