Message: “How Social is our Media?”

After answering some questions from the Storyverse, we use Louis CK’s rant on cell phones to springboard into a discussion of social media. Is the price we pay for connectivity worth it? How social, exactly, is our media?

In this Episode:
01:30 – StoryMen Lightening Round
21:00 – Sabbath-Keeping Drug Dealers and Other Moral Villains
35:00 – Louis CK’s Anti-Cell Phone Rant
41:00 – Is our Social Media Anti-Social?

Story Men - November 8, 2013

Boxers and Saints and Gene Luen Yang

Boxers and Saints and Gene Luen Yang

The StoryMen welcome graphic novelist Gene Luen Yang. We discuss Gene's previous work, the award-winning American Born Chinese, and his newest work, Boxers & Saints. In This Episode: 0:00 – Clay and JR.'s real-life horror film 07:30 – Gene Luen Yang 12:30 – American Born Chinese 24:30 – Boxers & Saints 29:30 – It's More Complicated than That... 44:00 – Negotiating American Identity 50:00 – Favorite Saints

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