A podcast about Asian Americans in Kentucky.
Latest episodes
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1 h 02
'My immigrant mom's pride and disappointment' | A conversation about parents and children
The children of immigrants often have a complicated relationship with their parents. It’s not unusual for first-, one-and-a-half and second-generation immigrants to translate both…
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32 min
'They come to me when they're hungry' | A conversation about food and love
The holiday season is upon us, and so many of our celebrations are centered around a table full of delicious food. In AAPI families, cooking food is practically its own love langua…
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48 min
Joyce and Xiao-Yin Chen | 'I'm from here now'
On this episode, Dan Wu introduces us to mother-and-daughter duo Joyce Chen and Xiao-Yin Chen. Joyce reflects on her early life in China and how she ended up in Harlan, Kentucky (w…
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28 min
Nancy Ngo | 'A bridge between America and Vietnam'
It's not unusual for young people to keep things secret from their parents. Having to repeat a college course, letting the apartment get too messy... but Nancy Ngo's secret was a l…
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54 min
Angela Singla | 'If she can do this, I can do this too'
When Dr. Angela Singla was a little girl, she got sick during a trip to India. While hospitalized there, she had an eye-opening experience. "I saw a female physician come in," she…
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30 min
Nima, Charlene and Dan | 'Can we reclaim our names?'
Your name is usually the first thing you share when you meet new people. And if you're an immigrant, your name can either make you blend in, or mark you as a perpetual other. Some…
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37 min
Kaili Moss | 'People can hold multiple truths'
It’s a phenomenon uncomfortably familiar to many biracial people. Not enough to belong to one group, too much to belong to another. In this episode, Charlene Buckles sits down with…
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25 min
Language and Identity | 'You speak English so well!'
Every immigrant family has to decide what their relationship will be with their first language. Some parents insist their kids speak it, some turn away from it entirely, and some l…
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43 min
Teja Sudhakar | 'Things that I loved too much to ignore'
In this episode, Dan Wu introduces us to Teja Sudhakar, a poet and University of Kentucky graduate, originally from Chennai, India. Teja talks about her chapbook, "Looking for Smok…
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29 min
Chef Edward Lee | 'Things change because we plant seeds'
We’re back with an all-new season, and our first guest is Chef Edward Lee. When he was around 11, he told his parents he wanted to be a chef. “They were like, sure, and Bobby’s gon…
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30 min
A conversation about the Lunar New Year shootings
Hi friends, it's been a while. And tragically, we find ourselves in a situation similar to the one that inspired us to start this show in the first place. Violence has affected our…
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16 min
Surprise Bonus Episode!
Sure, our season's over... but we miss you already! So in this bonus mini episode, our hosts Dan Wu and Charlene Buckles reflect on season one, which ran the gamut from interperson…
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43 min
Lee Kiefer and Gerek Meinhardt | 'Just loving the sport is enough'
We're closing our season with an interview of Olympian proportions. Fencers Gerek Meinhardt and Lee Kiefer are... pretty accomplished. Gerek is a four-time Olympian who took home t…
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28 min
Angelika Weaver | 'We can be one voice'
Living in Williamsburg, Kentucky, a town in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains with a population of 5,000, is a mixed bag for a Pacific Islander. Angelika Weaver's mom is f…
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34 min
Dr. Joann Lianekhammy | 'You are who you are'
The children of first-generation immigrants often have a complicated relationship with language.Some immigrant parents refuse to speak their native language around the kids, becaus…
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35 min
Ie Meh | 'A place to call home'
Note: this episode contains descriptions of violence in the context of a military coup, around the 9-minute mark until the 11-minute mark. Culture shock doesn't even begin to descr…
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30 min
Donna Lee Kwon and Jon Silpayamanant | 'Music as a window to understanding'
"If Beethoven had grown up in the Bay Area in the early 1980s, he would have started a thrash band, probably." Irresponsibly wild conjecture, or another great conversation from "Wh…
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29 min
Melanie Parker | 'We just have to do the work'
Being othered, or outright discriminated against, puts you on the spot. You don't know how to react, and you make a million instant mental calculations about the other person, thei…
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32 min
Naveen Chaubal | 'I do hear you'
Filmmaker Naveen Chaubal grew up making movies. "For school projects, I would always try and sneak and maybe doing a video instead of writing a paper," he says.But it wasn't until…
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35 min
Uyen Nguyen | 'You keep things within your family'
Uyen Nguyen is a social worker and therapist. She's also Vietnamese American. And those things can feel at odds with each other."The mentality is that you keep things within your f…