Season 1, Episode 9
Aisha Willis
Our Guest this week is Content and Communications Strategist, Speaker and Poet Aisha Willis. She has degrees in both Journalism and Public Relations, and she is the founder of The Write Solution.
In her spare time, she advocates for social justice, writes fan fiction, enjoys anime, obsesses over K-Pop and is a pretty big soccer fan.
Hosts & Guests
Jesse McDonald
Keith Goode
Aisha Willis
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About This Episode
Timeline
0:19 – Intro and Banter
2:13 – Introducing Aisha Willis
4:09 – Tell us about yourself, Aisha
11:49 – High School in Anime – Specialized Schools
17:25 – Favorite Animes
23:32 – Tell Me Something Good(e)
32:51 – K-Pop
42:30 – Non-Koreans in K-pop and Anti-black and Anti-Japanese sentiment
1:01:41 – The Lightning Round
1:07:17 – The Wrap
Shout-outs in this Episode
If you missed anything in this episode, we’ve captured most of the topics covered in this interview below. No links provided. Google it if you want to learn more.
- Brian Greene
- Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Kill la Kill
- Yu Yu Hakusho
- Food Wars! (Shokugeki no Soma)
- Read or Die
- Full Metal Panic!
- John Candy in “Delirious”
- Tell Me Something Good(e)
- Aisha: Twice (K-Pop Group), “More and More”
- Jesse: The Amory Wars, by Claudio Sanches of Coheed and Cambria
- Keith: Gate (Gate: Jieitai Kano Chi nite, Kaku Tatakaeri)
- Daft Punk – Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem
- The Vision of Escaflowne
- Yoko Kanno
- Alex Reid
- BP Rania
- Stray Kids
- BTS
- GOT7
- Dir-en-Grey
- Babymetal
- Blackpink
- Paula Abdul
- Janet Jackson
- Crystal Kay
- Momo
- AKB48
- EXO
- RWBY
- Gail Simone’s “Clean Room: Waiting for the Stars to Fall”
Not a Sponsor (Yet) Mentions
- Crunchyroll
- Drugs
- VRV
Lightning Round
- Hobbies make you excel at research
- Yang Xiao Long from RWBY
- Music / Piano
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