Randall Park

Blocks w/ Neal Brennan

Neal Brennan interviews Randall Park (Always Be My Maybe, Fresh Off the Boat, WandaVision, Shortcomings) about the things that make him feel lonely, isolated, and like something's wrong - and how he is persevering despite these blocks.

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00:00 Intro

1:30 Ali Wong

3:00 UCLA & Asian-American representation

5:20 Parents & Upbringing

6:24 How the Immigrant Experience Influenced Him

8:48 Randall’s dad passing away

12:27 Anxiety

16:43 How to undo existential dread 

20:47 Wanting to Be Liked

21:14 The Interview controversy  

24:17 Wanting to be Liked

28:43 Sponsor: Tushy

30:30 Sponsor: Uncommon Goods

32:05 Fear of Success

36:12 Racism in Hollywood

45:35 Fear of Dead Animals

50:23 Mourning

1:00:50 Eulogy for his Father

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Theme music by Electric Guest (unreleased).

Edited by Will Hagle (wthagle@gmail.com) 

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Sponsor Blocks: https://public.liveread.io/media-kit/blocks

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