We're baaccccckkkkk!!!! We have so much good stuff coming to you this year - about life and grief and joy. To start - The Mash-Up Americans has produced it's first fiction show Love & Noraebang! It's the most happy, joyful, fun Mash-Up love story starring Randall Park, Justin H. Min and Francia Raisa. 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.Episode 1 is right here in the feed, and the the whole show is available now wherever you listen to podcasts. Episode 1: Gonna Sing You My Love SongJaesun 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. *Click here to listen to all of Love & Noraebang.*About Love & NoraebangAna, a Mexican American entrepreneur, and Jaesun, an heir to a Korean chaebol, unexpectedly fall in love in modern day LA. After months of innocent flirting and one passionate karaoke session later, Ana finds out that Jaesun must return to Korea for his two-year military service. As their time together is running out, they try to make the best out of it. Rooted for by their families, thwarted by mysterious threats to their businesses, separated by a whole ocean and a 16 hour time difference, they’re figuring out if they can make it work. Will their love survive the long wait — and everything else?Credits:Los Angeles / Randall ParkAna / Francia RaisaFederica / Ana Gonzalez BelloMark / Rafael TorresChloe / Julia ChoKunwoo / Steve LimJaesun / Justin H MinSookmin / June Yoon*Click here to listen to all of Love & Noraebang.*See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Poet and screenwriter Fatimah Asghar is talking to us about why "orphan" is the identifier she relates to the most, and why her idea of home isn't a physical place. Fatimah is having a moment right now….within the past year, the web series that she co-created Brown Girls got picked up by HBO, she released a collection of poetry, and she was chosen as one of Forbes 30 under 30 on their Hollywood and Entertainment list.She also shares her 3 rules of success and has really got us thinking about how we define success. If you don't know Fatimah, now you now, and you will definitely be hearing more from her in the future.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

“I really believe that care and caregiving can save the soul of the country. Everybody has people that they care about. It totally connects us in this very deep, emotional way.” We agree with Ai-Jen! We had SO MUCH FUN in this conversation.The paid work of caregiving - which is mostly done by mashy women - makes our economy and world move. Ai-Jen Poo is the head of the National Domestic Workers Alliance and one of the organizers of Supermajority. She’s so mashy she even has a hyphen in her name!Ai-Jen tells us what it was like growing up between Taiwan and the US, and how her relationship with her grandparents meant that she never was ashamed of her mashiness. There is a direct line between her mash-up origin story and how she ended up working with domestic workers.For more details and super practical info visit domesticworkers.org and domesticemployers.orgSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

“Talking about sex won’t make you pregnant, talking about death won’t make you dead.”We are talking about death on this episode and it is a party! We are going to explore life, love, and family through the lens of death with our incredible guest Alua Arthur. Alua is a Ghanifornian Mash-Up and a death doula, which means that she works with individuals and families to help them through the process of death.We chat with Alua about everything from what to do with your loved one’s magazine subscription after they are gone to what an advanced care directive is and why we need one. She tells us about the cultural differences surrounding death and about her personal journey from being a child missionary to working as a lawyer to now working within the death industry. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Aline Brosh McKenna is a Hollywood triple threat; she’s a showrunner, director, and writer and she does them all really really well. She has worked in this business for more than two decades but her mission has remained the same: to center women’s stories around something other than a man. We talk about Cher, body hair, bacterial vaginosis, and so much more. Get ready!She’s the writer of your favorite rom coms, from 27 Dresses to The Devil Wears Prada to I Don’t Know How She Does It. Most recently she has been busy showrunning and writing Crazy Ex-Girlfriend which is now in its fourth and final season. Aline tells us what it was like growing up in the 70’s in very white suburban New Jersey with Jewish immigrant parents, and why she relates more to people with immigrant parents than other Jewish people. She tells us about the differences between being a boss in her 20’s and being a boss in her 40’s, and why she wants to write more roles for women over 50. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.