Episode 10: SPAMFIGHT! with Jin Yoo-Kim & Margot Seeto

For this momentous 10th episode, we’re putting recipes aside to talk about the great Asian and Asian American uniter, SPAM! Our guests are writer Margot Seeto and filmmaker Jin Yoo-Kim, creators of SPAMFIGHT!, a short film inspired by a love of Spam. We talk about our childhood memories of Spam and the creative ways we’re eating it today. We also talk about the ways die hard Spam fans celebrate this icon, and make up a few of our own that we’d like to see and eat.

Plus we talk about the sometimes complicated role of Spam in shaping identity, and some of the artists centering SPAM in their work. Hilariously terrible bonus, Jin shares her worst Spam memory and we all hate it but man do we get it. 

 

Links to artists and organizations mentions in the show:

• A-Doc - Asian American Documentary Network
• Watch SPAMFIGHT! by Jin Yoo-Kim on YouTube
• Read "Shelter-in-Place Chronicles: Spam in the Time of Corona" by Margot Seeto
• Specially Processed American Me by Jaime Sunwoo
• Koreangry by Eunsoo Jung
• Dawn Wing - Title Designer

 

Links to support the ongoing recovery efforts caused by the devastating fires in Maui:

• Chef Hui & The Hawai‘i Community Foundation - Funds raised for Chef Hui Maui Hospitality Relief will go directly to support Maui restaurants, hospitality workers and their families who have been displaced due to the fires. Funds will be distributed directly to restaurants and their employees based on needs.
• Dr. Julia Colangelo - Venmo for friend of the show and Lahaina resident whose family lost their home in the fire.
• SPAM® Brand Loves Maui Shirt - 100% of the proceeds for these t-shirts will go directly to the Aloha United Way's Maui Fire Relief Fund.