{"podcast":{"title":"They Call Us Bruce","slug":"they-call-us-bruce-894635","podcast_index_feed_id":894635,"rss_url":"https://theycallusbruce.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://theycallusbruce.libsyn.com/website","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/0/2/0/3/020363b0e95415a9/theycallusbruce_revised_square.jpg","author":"Jeff Yang & Phil Yu","episode_count":331,"summary":"Hosts Jeff Yang and Phil Yu present They Call Us Bruce, an unfiltered conversation about what's happening in Asian America.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-26T04:19:45.074287+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/they-call-us-bruce-894635"},"episode":{"title":"They Call Us Flower Drum Song","slug":"they-call-us-flower-drum-song","published_at":"2026-05-21T20:13:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/they-call-us-bruce-894635/they-call-us-flower-drum-song","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/they-call-us-bruce-894635","url":"https://theycallusbruce.libsyn.com/they-call-us-flower-drum-song","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/theycallusbruce/theycallusbruce_episode315.mp3?dest-id=493999","summary":"Jeff and Phil welcome back acclaimed legendary playwright David Henry Hwang , who talks about his new take on the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Flower Drum Song , now playing at East West Players in Los Angeles. He talks about rewriting and re-contextualizing the book for this beloved show (still only one of the few Broadway musicals to center Asian Americans); refreshing some of the more outdated and regressive elements of the story -- including a few of the cringe-inducing lines from David's own 2002 revisal -- for contemporary times; and how this staging of Flower Drum Song represents a full-circle moment for David's life and career.","meta_description":"Jeff and Phil welcome back acclaimed legendary playwright David Henry Hwang , who talks about his new take on the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2308,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/they-call-us-bruce-894635/episodes/they-call-us-flower-drum-song/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/they-call-us-bruce-894635/they-call-us-flower-drum-song.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}