Feminist Popcorn is a celebration and growing archive of the greatest films about women. Every two weeks, podcast hosts and movie-loving best friends, Samantha Rehr and Elisabeth Frankel, lead a conversation analyzing three films that share a specific narrative theme. At the end of each episode, the three films covered in the next episode are announced, along with links to their streaming destinations, so that listeners can be a part of the conversation. Listeners are also invited to send in ...
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Real reviews by friends that love movies. Straight from the valley, with some humor sprinkled on top to keep it nice and buttery.
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The Little Red Podcast: interviews and chat celebrating China beyond the Beijing beltway. Hosted by Graeme Smith, China studies academic at the Australian National University's Department of Pacific Affairs and Louisa Lim, former China correspondent for the BBC and NPR, now with the Centre for Advancing Journalism at Melbourne University. We are the 2018 winners of podcast of the year in the News & Current Affairs category of the Australian Podcast Awards. Follow us @limlouisa and @GraemeKSm ...
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The Pig Butcher’s Payroll: Inside a Romance Scam
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After our last episode on an online romance scam operating out of Palau we were contacted by Neo Lu, who was trafficked to work in an online scam camp on the Myanmar-Thailand border, the victim of a $US3 trillion global criminal industry. He joins Louisa and Graeme to offer jaw-dropping detail on life inside a scam centre, the mechanics of pig butc…
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Join Nestor and Dre in the dark side and listen to them talk about love.' Editor Note: Due to not having a computer, there's no time stampsBy Nestor Garcia
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Fraud Factories and Pig Butchery: Chinese Triads go Pacific
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Chinese triads have been making a Pacific play, notably in the tiny nation of Palau. There a notorious triad boss - nicknamed Broken Tooth - reinvented himself as a CCP-linked businessman trying to set up a 'gangster-themed' casino, while police busted a Chinese 'fraud factory'. In Palau, this scam scheme was linked to businessmen touting United Fr…
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For our hundredth episode, there was only one choice in the Year of the Dragon. We tackle the scaly mythical beast, which now finds itself central to the Party’s image. We look at the political efficacy of the dragon for the CCP, which has recently launched a nationalistic rebranding campaign for the ‘loong’ to distinguish it from evil Western drag…
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Hold my popcorn: Diplomatic war in the Pacific Theatre
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China’s largesse in the Pacific is nothing if not visible. From mobile phone towers to gleaming stadiums and government buildings, Beijing’s splashing out on those it sees as choosing “the right side of history.” In this episode, we explore Taiwan’s future in the Pacific as it is deserted by its former diplomatic allies, lured by Beijing’s goodies.…
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The Musical Episode has finally arrived. Chisme (Jaylo) Mean Girls Wonka Game (Significant Other Questions)By Nestor Garcia
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00:00 Kelly Osborn Drug Quote 5:41 Madam Web Review 30:44 GameBy Nestor Garcia
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The Feminists have Stood Up: Gender and Comedy in China
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Stand-up comedy looked set to be the next big thing on China’s entertainment scene, with shows like Roast Convention drawing billions of views and comics scoring lucrative commercial endorsements. But comedy now finds itself in retreat. A new wave of feminist comics is struggling with attacks from online trolls and a disapproving state. To ask whet…
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Full time children or half dead: China’s Gen Z goes to ground
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Every generation in modern China has been richer and more ambitious than the one before—until Gen Z. With youth unemployment so high that the government has simply stopped reporting the figures, many are opting to lie flat, slump down dead, or even become full-time children. The Party frets that despite the best efforts of the propaganda organs to …
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Another day, another marvel failure. Is there any positives this time?By Nestor Garcia
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Bombard the Past: Exhuming the Cultural Revolution
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The exponential trauma produced by the Cultural Revolution is barely mentioned in China, yet has been foundational to a generation. Now the Communist Party is using the experience of its leader Xi Jinping as one of the 17 million young people sent down to the countryside to reframe the movement as showcasing personal sacrifice in the interests of n…
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The Battle for the Future: The Mission of China's Underground Historians
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Writing history in China has never been easy; China’s first historian, Sima Qian, was forced to choose between execution and castration and imprisonment. He chose the latter in order to finish his life’s work, Records of the Grand Historian. Now China’s keepers of inconvenient truths are put under immense pressure by Xi Jinping’s war on historical …
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Cat Years in Cat Country: Sci-Fi in China
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Just as satirical writers struggled in Trump's America, China's sci-fi writers are facing a challenge: how do you write in a world where reality is more like science fiction than science fiction itself? Added to that are the perils of popularity, with everyone from Netflix to the Communist Party embracing Chinese science fiction. To explore China's…
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Gone to ground: China’s rare earths strategy
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Beijing's recent ban on the export of two rare metals represents the latest front in the global battle to control chipmaking technology. Now there are fears China could block the export of rare earths, over which it has a stranglehold. How close are we to that nuclear option? To find out, Louisa and Graeme are joined by Martijn Rasser, a former sen…
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So it happened. Nestor finally saw a movie that made him lose his mind and then he saw a show that eased it. Dre is on as a guest and health checker. 2:00 Barbie (Positives) 9:10 Barbie (Negatives) 32:44 Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2 46:22 Game (What Barbie Are We?)By Nestor Garcia
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China’s Best Mate: New Zealand’s Muddled China Ties
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New Zealand is in Beijing's good books, attracting state media praise as setting 'a good example' for other countries in its ties, as Prime Minister Chris Hipkins jets into China. He's said his message is crystal clear: New Zealand is open for business. But critics say the country's policy is muddled and ambiguous, despite Chinese encroachment. Two…
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China Beyond the Ends of the Earth: Welcome to the Internet
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In the final episode exploring China's Strategic New Frontiers, we are investigating China's growing cyberpower ambitions. On the National Cyber Power index, Beijing is already the world's number two cyberpower, behind only the US. Its cyberdoctrine includes promoting cybersovereignty, constructing internet standards and infrastructure, and playing…
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Can Nestor and Dre get into a spin off from a fan favorite film? Is the Lorcana tcg going to save Disney? And why does Dre hate Guardians Of The Galaxy? 00:28 Intro (Vanderpump Drama, Lorcana TCG) 22:47 (XO, Kitty review) 52:52 Game (Love Questions) 01:11 Outro (thanking you all, Old School Labs)By Nestor Garcia
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Nestor and Dre finally get sponsored! Nestor finally loves a marvel movie! And Dre finally gets to talk about Vanderpump Rules! 2:21 SPONSOR 6:29 GUARDIANS 3 (NO SPOILERS) 25:51 VANDERPUMP RULES 38:11 GAME (WEIRD QUESTIONS) 59:00 OUTROBy Nestor Garcia
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China Beyond the Ends of the Earth: The Polar Express
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China appears to have restarted construction on its fifth Antarctic station for the first time since 2018. It’s just one sign that Beijing is trying to increase its footprint in the world’s coldest regions. It already calls itself a near-Arctic state and is planning for an ice-free shipping route across the top of the world. This month, to discuss …
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China Beyond the Ends of the Earth: Rolling in the Deep
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China's reaching not just for the stars, but also for the deepest ocean depths. It's even parked its deepwater submersible in the Mariana Trench, the deepest point in the world's oceans, and planted flags on the ocean bed. This month, Graeme and Louisa are joined by China Ocean Institute CEO Tabitha Mallory and Tiffany Ma, the senior director of Bo…
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China Beyond the Ends of the Earth: Space
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In a new series of episodes, we’re examining how China is pushing the boundaries of science and territory. First up, China’s space program, the envy of space scientists worldwide for seemingly bottomless pots of funding from government, and increasingly, venture capital. China's space programme, with a space telescope that is constantly being upgra…
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In a few short months, Chinese officials have gone from COVID cover-up to competing over who has the highest number of infections. After urbanites flocked back to the countryside for lunar New Year, the Party that ran the world’s strictest prevention regime now presides over the world’s largest and most ambitious experiment in herd immunity. To exp…
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00:00 OPENING (Jenna Ortega drama & can Dre do the dance) 6:19 WEDNESDAY (non spoiler) 21:09 WEDNESDAY (spoilers) 40:55 AFTER EVER HAPPY (no spoilers) 51:19 GAME (Relationship Questions)By Nestor Garcia
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Finally, China’s sloughing off the Zero Covid policy it’s embraced for three years. This followed a spasm of discontent, with people taking to the streets to demonstrate against Zero Covid, in protests that quickly spilled over to demand democracy and Xi Jinping's resignation. Beijing’s adaptive authoritarianism is in full sight, as the state eases…
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Controlling the future: Inside China’s surveillance state
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“Controlling data means controlling the future.” Those are not George Orwell's words, but instead were uttered in 2015 by Jack Ma, founder of tech company Alibaba. Though Ma has since been brought to heel by the Chinese state, the CCP is constantly expanding the way it harnesses data to bolster its techno-authoritarian rule. Chinese companies now l…
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00:18 Intro/Tik Tok controversy 05:02 Wakanda Forever (non spoilers) 29:08 Wakanda Forever (spoilers) 46:22 Game 59:03 OutroBy Nestor Garcia
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China's political event of the decade - its 20th Party Congress - will confirm Xi Jinping's third term as leader of the CCP and could even bestow on him the title of ‘chairman’. With an economy crippled by zero-COVID and global public opinion about China turning precipitously negative, it seems an age since China’s leaders promised a ‘peaceful rise…
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Nestor and Dre come back with a lovey dove movie starring our favorite girl from Big Bang Theory and our disliked boy that gets any girl he wants. Will opposites attract? Or make for a good movie? 00:00 Intro 5:30 Meet Cute review (non spoiler) 21:09 Meet Cute review (spoilers) 27:56 Meet Cute Scenario Game 44:28 Outro (new things coming up talk)…
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The Southeast Asian nation has historically been seen as China's first client state, with the Khmer Rouge's hardline interpretation of Maoism leading to the horror of the Killing Fields. Four decades on, Cambodia still enjoys the best and the worst of what the People’s Republic can offer. While aid from Beijing has built world-class infrastructure …
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Herbal Gold: Chinese medicine, COVID and the CCP
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Chinese households under lockdown have lacked food, company, and access to medical care. But they’ve had an almost endless supply of a traditional Chinese medicine treatment called Lianhua Qingwen, made by Yiling Pharmaceuticals. Chinese students abroad even have this drug delivered to their doorsteps in healthcare packages, and demand for it among…
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Cheongsams and Coppers: Beijing's Stealth Infiltration of Hong Kong
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It’s now been twenty-five years since Hong Kong returned to Chinese sovereignty with a pledge not to change Hong Kong’s way of life for fifty years. In actual fact, Beijing's stealth infiltration of Hong Kong began long before the territory's return, with United Front work targeting certain sectors of the population. In this episode, we delve deep …
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87: Obi Wan (spoilers) & Bob's Burgers
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00:00 Coffee Bean and Obi Wan 24:48 Bob's Burgers (no spoilers) 40:22 Game (Pitch it)By Nestor Garcia
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After two long months, Shanghai's brutal lockdown is over in name, but Xi Jinping is telling officials to ‘unswervingly adhere’ to Zero COVID, despite the costs. Shanghai’s lockdown brought chaos to global supply chains and torpedoed China’s once-sacred economic growth targets. It’s also taken a toll on the city’s residents; once the nation’s most …
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Gimme, gimme, gimme a Han after midnight: China’s masculinity crisis
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For the past year, China has been in the grip of a crackdown on niangpao, or ‘sissy men’, with the People’s Daily warning that effeminate men are ‘corrupting a generation.’ It’s a movement that is having a chilling effect well beyond influencers having their social media accounts closed, with the Ministry of Education even issuing guidelines on how…
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Kevin Rudd: Is War With China Inevitable?
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As Australia’s Defence Minister warns his nation to ‘prepare for war’ with China, there’s a growing feeling of inevitability about a future conflict between China and the United States. Against this rather bleak backdrop, we hear from one global figure who has had unusual access to China's leaders: Australia's former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. The …
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86: Morbius, Sonic 2, Fantastic Beats 3, The Bad Guys
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00:00 Intro and Morbius (spoilers) Fantastic Beasts 3 (13:13) Sonic 2 (30:47) Bad Guys (42:24)By Nestor Garcia
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How is Putin’s brutal invasion of Ukraine redrawing the geopolitical landscape? In this episode, we examine China’s interests in the conflict and explore the limits of their ‘no limits’ agreement with Russia. To ask whether the geopolitical balance is shifting in favour of an ‘axis of autocracies’, Louisa and Graeme are joined by Alexander Gabuev, …
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00:00 Intro (Will Smith Slapping) 8:03 Halo (non-spoiler review) 17:40 Turning Red (non-spoiler review) 42:00 Game (Fan Questions)By Nestor Garcia
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Elite Capture: A CCP Primer in Making Friends and Influencing People
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America's elites love to talk about China's '5000 years of civilization', but such language - which could come straight from the pages of the China Daily - serves to amplify Beijing's talking points. In this way and due to their own business dealings with China, some American elites are helping Beijing grow more powerful. In his book, America Secon…
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THE BATMAN IS HERE!!!!!!!By Nestor Garcia
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The audio this week was getting crazy due to technical difficulties but I'm trying to figure it out.By Nestor Garcia
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Caste Aside: The Future for China's Peasants
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By any metric, China's rural residents face massive disadvantages compared to their urban counterparts. More than half of rural teenagers are cognitively delayed, and longstanding policies restrict their mobility and access to vital services. China's peasants were one of Chairman Mao's favoured classes and the backbone of his Revolution, but what p…
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Nestor And Dre review the newest Matrix. Does it live up to the hype?By Nestor Garcia
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Shakeup or Shakedown? China's New Red Economy
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As China's economy slows down, Xi Jinping's charting a new economic course that will redefine the country's future. From reining in tech giants to redistributing wealth in the name of “common prosperity”, the Party's economic policy is moving away from the Deng reform era. Economic analysts are sharply divided on what it portends for China and the …
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81: Spiderman: No Way Home (Non-Spoiler & Spoilers)
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Nestor and Dre give their thoughts on the film and also speculate on what makes Tom Holland's Spiderman so enjoyable and disliked. 00:00 (Non-Spoiler Review) 15:36 (SPOILERS)By Nestor Garcia
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80: Spiderman No Way Home (Please Be Good)
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Nestor and Dre speculate on what they hope for and what they fear for Spiderman No Way HomeBy Nestor Garcia
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00:00 Intro 11:40 Last Night In Soho (non-spoiler review) 31:17 Night Teeth (non-spoiler review) 42:14 OutroBy Nestor Garcia
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The Great Reconciler and the End of Chinese History
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Become an instant expert on the new historical resolution issued by China's Communist Party for all your cocktail season smalltalk needs. It's only the third such move in the party's century-long history, and the first in forty years. This resolution introduces a new slogan: Xi Jinping's Two Establishments, signalling the Chairman of Everything's e…
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Nestor and Dre review Marvel's newest controversial film, Eternals. Is it really the flop that critics claim it to be? And of course, enjoy the game segment that has Dre talking about animal crossing. 00:00 Intro (Travis Scott concert) 05:17 Eternals review (non-spoiler) 24:25 Fan Questions (Game)By Nestor Garcia
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