Magnificent Jerk

Ms. Sugarman has woven the many factions of movie making together into a compelling podcast. Her talent in telling the backstory of two unknown movies in this season gives me hope she'll turn her talent and attention to telling the story of other films, big and small.

I loved this podcast so much!! I’m not Asian, however I felt a great deal of empathy and it actually helped me heal a bit more in my own grief. Parts of your uncle’s story were parallel to my own and I found it profoundly moving. There are several different versions of me throughout my life that no knows about. I’m now the version that I always wanted to be and plan to be until the day I die, hopefully. I am now going to search for more podcasts that you have been involved with. If this is the only one I hope you do more in the future!! You’re both brilliant.

I enjoyed all episodes, really heartfelt and full of some mystery and suspense. Lots about Asians in the mainstream. I feel like the podcast is really the incarnation of all the best of Galen’s work, a touching tribute.

The pod itself is creative and a pleasure to listen to. The narrator’s attempt to rehabilitate her relative — an admitted pimp, extortionist, thief, bully and likely murderer — using ‘90s Hollywood racial bias as the bad guy without truly addressing the harms of his past, feels willfully revisionist but unfortunately very current. Many of us have a mysterious black sheep in the family that no one talks about, and sometimes they really are just jerks.