Culturally Relevant with David Chen

By David Chen

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Subscribers: 213
Reviews: 4
Episodes: 117

Myrna
 Jan 16, 2020
David Chen has been one of the voices in my head for almost a decade and I wouldn't have it any other way. Thank you for the great content and laughs. Really enjoying Culturally Relevant.


 Jan 16, 2020

Reed
 Nov 20, 2019
Dave Chensky has been podcasting for over a decade now and it shows: he knows exactly which questions to ask and how to articulate his points in funny and easy to understand ways. Great in-depth interviews about storytelling and culture.


 Sep 21, 2019

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A culture podcast featuring TV/film reviews and in-depth conversations with writers, artists, and filmmakers.

Episode Date
A Brief Update on the Podcast (Plus: An Office Hours Q&A)
Aug 15, 2022
Searching for the Truth in 'Sandy Hook' (with Elizabeth Williamson)
Jun 24, 2022
Diving Back Into 'Everything Everywhere All At Once' (with Walter Chaw)
Jun 10, 2022
Writing the (Stand-Up) Comedy of 'Hacks' (with Andrew Law)
Jun 03, 2022
The Layoffs at Netflix and Tudum (with Elaine Low)
May 01, 2022
Experiencing 'Everything Everywhere All At Once' (with Daniels)
Apr 08, 2022
The Oscars: The Controversy Over 'Licorice Pizza' (with Jen Yamato)
Mar 31, 2022
The Oscars: The Slap (with Tirhakah Love)
Mar 30, 2022
Chronicling the Contradictions of Marriage in 'Foreverland' (with Heather Havrilesky)
Mar 16, 2022
Re-Living the Trials of Boarding School in 'Admissions' (with Kendra James)
Feb 24, 2022
The Death of Entertainment Weekly Magazine (with Piya Sinha-Roy)
Feb 10, 2022
The Joe Rogan Situation (with Ryan Broderick)
Feb 08, 2022
Breaking Down the Films of Sundance 2022 (with Caroline Siede)
Jan 27, 2022
Diary: Five Lessons From 2021
Dec 31, 2021
Entering the World of 'Halo Infinite' (with Jeff Grubb)
Dec 09, 2021
Burning Out and Burning It Down (with Nick Quah)
Nov 18, 2021
Getting COVID-19 after watching 'Dune' (with Jesse)
Nov 12, 2021
The Perils of Nostalgia in 'Last Night in Soho' (with Edgar Wright)
Oct 29, 2021
How We Talk About 'The Loneliest Americans' (with Jay Caspian Kang)
Oct 22, 2021
Channeling Joy and Grief in 'Lamb' (with Noomi Rapace)
Oct 07, 2021
Keeping the Flame of Film Criticism Alive with 'The Reveal' (with Keith Phipps)
Oct 04, 2021
Taking a Journey Through American Loneliness in 'Seek You' (with Kristen Radtke)
Sep 16, 2021
Weighing the Merits of 'Shang-Chi And The Legend of the Ten Rings' (with Walter Chaw)
Sep 10, 2021
Dave on Dave: Going on Vacation, External Validation, TikTok Status Update (with David Cho)
Aug 19, 2021
Navigating Race and Friendship in 'Sure, I'll Be Your Black Friend' (with Ben Philippe)
Aug 13, 2021
Practicing Radical Honesty in 'The Show About The Show' (with Caveh Zahedi)
Jul 30, 2021
Diary: Pandemic status update, burnout, and random acts of violence
Jul 12, 2021
Dave on Dave: Setting personal goals, the mystery of Brett Kavanaugh, the meaning of July 4th (with David Cho)
Jul 04, 2021
A third of all API leads are Dwayne Johnson, and other sad statistics (with Nancy Wang Yuen)
Jun 18, 2021
Diary: The Weird, Surreal Phase of the Pandemic
Jun 11, 2021
The Martial Arts Comedy of 'The Paper Tigers' (with Bao Tran)
May 28, 2021
Diary: The CDC's Updated Guidance on Mask-Wearing
May 15, 2021
Going Viral on IKEA TikTok (with Scott Seiss)
May 07, 2021
One Year in the Seattle Pandemic: TV and Film (with Megan Griffiths)
Apr 25, 2021
One Year in the Seattle Pandemic: Live Shows (with Adam Zacks)
Apr 15, 2021
One Year in the Seattle Pandemic: Restaurants (with Deming Maclise)
Apr 07, 2021
One Year in the Seattle Pandemic: Firefighting (with Stephen McCauley)
Mar 30, 2021
Diary: The Murders in Georgia
Mar 19, 2021
Diary: Vaccine Feelings
Mar 07, 2021
The Controversy at 'Reply All' (with Piya Sinha-Roy)
Feb 28, 2021
What's Happening in Texas (With Scott Wampler)
Feb 18, 2021
On the Rising Tide of Anti-Asian Violence (with May-lee Chai)
Feb 14, 2021
Examining WallStreetBets and Other Internet Oddities in 'Garbage Day' (with Ryan Broderick)
Feb 04, 2021
Exploring the World of Sound in 'Twenty Thousand Hertz' (with Dallas Taylor)
Jan 31, 2021
Diary: The Inauguration of Joseph R. Biden, Jr.
Jan 22, 2021
Diary: Assault on the Capitol, Trump's Second Impeachment, The Biden Administration
Jan 15, 2021
Diary: New Year's Eve Update
Jan 05, 2021
The Top 5 TV Shows of 2020 (with Willa Paskin)
Dec 30, 2020
Diary: America's callousness, why the pandemic reminds me of Force Majeure, watching Tenet (finally)
Dec 18, 2020
Breaking out with 'Searching' and 'Run' (with Aneesh Chaganty)
Dec 11, 2020
Remembering the "Faces of COVID" (with Alex Goldstein)
Dec 04, 2020
Re-Assessing The World of 'Game of Thrones' (with Myles McNutt)
Nov 23, 2020
'Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales' Review (with Dan Gvozden)
Nov 19, 2020
Diary: Reacting to the 2020 U.S. Election
Nov 09, 2020
Helping People Remember (Pandemic) Life for 1 Second Everyday (with Cesar Kuriyama)
Oct 30, 2020
The End of The Modern Hollywood Era (with Richard Rushfield)
Oct 16, 2020
Diary: The President's COVID Diagnosis, The Evangelical Crisis, Inspirational COVID Bubbles, American Unexceptionalism
Oct 12, 2020
Serializing The Life of an Actor in "The Tobolowsky Files" (with Stephen Tobolowsky)
Oct 03, 2020
Diary: Forming a COVID Bubble, Christopher Nolan's 'Following,' Albert Brooks's 'Lost In America', The Return of The Tobolowsky Files
Sep 25, 2020
The Thrills and the Tragedies of 'Class Action Park' (with Seth Porges)
Sep 17, 2020
'Mulan' (2020) Review
Sep 06, 2020
Diary: The decision to see 'Tenet,' what they don't tell you about COVID-19, epistemic closure
Sep 04, 2020
Immersing Audiences in the World of 'Boys State' (with Jesse Moss)
Aug 27, 2020
The Future of This Podcast (with me)
Aug 19, 2020
Exposing Conspiracy Theories in the Era of COVID-19 (with David Farrier)
Aug 13, 2020
Finding Success In Indie Games and Storytelling (with Mike Bithell)
Jul 31, 2020
Diary: Reflecting on One Year of Culturally Relevant and Indie DIY Podcasting in COVID Times
Jul 24, 2020
Looking back at 'Inception' 10 years later
Jul 17, 2020
Living with COVID-19 for over 100 days (with Hannah Davis)
Jul 09, 2020
'The Last of Us Part II' Review (feat. Dan Trachtenberg, Jeff Cannata, Christian Spicer)
Jun 27, 2020
Diary: Dispatches from the CHOP; the First Wave of Coronavirus
Jun 21, 2020
The Man Behind the Myth in 'Be Water' (with Bao Nguyen)
Jun 10, 2020
Diary: The Police Brutality Protests
Jun 05, 2020
Confronting White Privilege in 'A Map Is Only One Story' (with Cinelle Barnes)
May 29, 2020
'The Last Dance' Review
May 26, 2020
Grappling with 'The Skywalker Legacy'
May 13, 2020
Coronavirus Diary (May 7, 2020)
May 07, 2020
Capturing life in Taiwan in 'Tigertail' (with Alan Yang)
Apr 23, 2020
Coronavirus Diary (April 16, 2020)
Apr 17, 2020
Coronavirus Diary (April 10, 2020)
Apr 11, 2020
Coronavirus Diary (April 2, 2020)
Apr 03, 2020
Coronavirus Diary (March 26, 2020)
Mar 27, 2020
Coronavirus Diary (March 18, 2020)
Mar 19, 2020
How 'Freaks' went from indie film to Netflix sensation (with Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein)
Mar 11, 2020
'The Invisible Man' Review
Mar 05, 2020
Living in Shanghai under a Coronavirus Lockdown (with Frankie Huang)
Feb 26, 2020
'Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey' review (with Melissa Tamminga)
Feb 20, 2020
Telling Your Mom's Life Story in 'Little America' (with Tze Chun)
Feb 12, 2020
'The Rhythm Section' Review (with Melissa Tamminga)
Feb 05, 2020
The hopes and dreams of Generic Asian Man in 'Interior Chinatown' (with Charles Yu)
Jan 29, 2020
The State of the Podcast Industry (with Nicholas Quah)
Jan 16, 2020
The Top 10 TV Episodes of the Decade (with Tara Ariano)
Dec 30, 2019
The Top 10 Films of the Decade (with Tasha Robinson)
Dec 23, 2019
When Your Grandmother Gets Scammed (with Frankie Huang)
Dec 19, 2019
Inside the Life of the "Peloton Husband" (with Sean Hunter)
Dec 10, 2019
Creating the Music of 'Knives Out' (with Nathan Johnson)
Nov 25, 2019
Exploring the History of Spider-Man (with Matt Singer)
Nov 20, 2019
Writing About the Unthinkable in 'Once More We Saw Stars' (with Jayson Greene)
Nov 13, 2019
An analysis of Martin Scorsese's New York Times Op-Ed on Marvel Films and Cinema
Nov 07, 2019
Director's Commentary: ‘In the Tall Grass‘ (with Vincenzo Natali)
Oct 30, 2019
Toxic Masculinity and 'The Art of Self-Defense' (with Riley Stearns)
Oct 23, 2019
The Journey of Transracial Adoption (with Nicole Chung)
Oct 17, 2019
The Art of Getting Rejected (with Jia Jiang)
Oct 08, 2019
"I Love You, Now Die" and The Key Elements of a Great True Crime Documentary (with Erin Lee Carr)
Oct 01, 2019
Being a Nice Guy in a Mean World (with Josh Gondelman)
Sep 25, 2019
The Battle Rap of 'Bodied' and the Polarization of Speech (with Joseph Kahn)
Sep 17, 2019
Losing Faith and Finding a Life in Writing (with R.O. Kwon)
Sep 10, 2019
The Promise and the Perils of 'The Matrix 4' (with Patrick H. Willems)
Aug 27, 2019
How 'Blinded By the Light' captures the South Asian Experience (with Siddhant Adlakha)
Aug 21, 2019
Why 1999 Was The Best Movie Year Ever (with Brian Raftery)
Aug 13, 2019
Uncovering The Last Days of John Allen Chau (with Alex Perry)
Aug 09, 2019
Being Queer in Red America (with Samantha Allen)
Aug 06, 2019
Zen and the Art of Videogame Character Maintenance (with Dan Trachtenberg)
Jul 30, 2019
Big Little Lies Season 2 Review (with Tara Ariano)
Jul 26, 2019
'The Farewell' and the Loneliness of the Immigrant Experience (with Lulu Wang)
Jul 23, 2019
The Case For And Against Watching Movie Trailers (with Jeff Cannata and Peter Sciretta)
Jul 16, 2019
Culturally Relevant: The Trailer
May 17, 2019