Kink & Conservatives: Netflix's The Hunting Wives, Who’s on your apocalypse team? - Sam Sanders, Nathan Ramos Park (S1E17)

Get Sam a lesbian with a clipboard, Nathan needs Kpop to deal with their anti-Blackness, and Jenny’s late dad finally visited her in a dream.

It is Friday, August 15th, 2025, and this is What Should We Talk About? With Jenny Yang! (jennyyang.substack.com) This is your weekly catchup time with smart and funny people to find joy in an unjust world. We discuss topics submitted by our guests and you, the listener. Any topic! Current, old! Big, small! Nerdy, petty! From pop culture to the personal and political. Catch shorter preview episodes wherever you pod. But if you want FULL episodes UNCUT and bonus episodes, become a Paid Subscriber at jennyyang.substack.com. So if this episode cuts out mid convo – don’t get mad - get subscribing.

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My first guest today is an award-winning reporter, radio host and podcaster. Created and hosted NPR's It’s Been a Minute and NPR Politics. Now co-hosting Vibe Check on SiriusXM (https://www.vibecheckpod.com/), and host of The Sam Sanders Show on KCRW Los Angeles (https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/the-sam-sanders-show). Hailing from San Antonio, he currently lives in Los Angeles with his two pitbulls named Zora and Wesley. SAM SANDERS!

And finally, he is a half-Filipino, half-Korean gaysian writer, performer, and former competitive jump roper from Ohio. As a TV/feature writer He has developed and staffed at a bunch of networks, and is a former actress and award-winning NYC bartender. He’s also gained 130k followers in the last 4 months on TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@nathanramospark) and Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/nathanramospark/) for his sociopolitical and cultural content @nathanramospark! NATHAN RAMOS-PARK!

And as always on the final mic, heard but not seen, my sweetie and co-producer of life, Corey Higgs (http://okletsbrand.com/).

On today’s agenda:

1. PODCAST UPDATES

2. Feds tried to takeover LA, now DC, and YOUR CITY next

3. Conservative-friendly TV is on the rise

4. K-Pop needs to pack it up and stop culture vulturing

5. That Hateful Ho Kim Davis trying to take down Gay Marriage but also what if you just need 5-7 ride-or-dies?

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6. Resisting this fascist takeover: the role of “violence”?

7. The existential pain of not knowing our ancestors

8. ACTION ITEMS

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