264: Why My Name is Robert
The Mortified Podcast
Mortified Media and Radiotopia
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
The rebellious, fury-filled journals of a Korean-American boy who was caught in the midst of a culture clash at school and at home.
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| 0:00.0 | Radio Topia from PRX. |
| 0:09.0 | As a fan of Mortify, we know you love hearing powerful personal stories and that's why I want to tell you about the new season from one of our colleagues here at |
| 0:17.4 | Radio Topia the Heart Podcast who just launched a bold new season filled with true life stories about a place that is on the minds of so many right now. |
| 0:28.0 | The Gaza monologues is a mini series from the Heart Podcast that tackles a challenging topic in surprising ways. |
| 0:36.2 | Comprised of monologues originally written by kids living in Gaza in 2010. |
| 0:41.6 | Each episode contains stories that are stirring, moving, and thought-provoking. |
| 0:47.0 | Subscribe to the heart in your favorite podcast app. Korea and when I was five my parents and I immigrated to Hawaii with about |
| 1:04.6 | $8,000 in my dad's pocket. We were poor so we moved into my grandmother's |
| 1:09.7 | one-bedroom apartment for a while. Growing up, Robert Wu dealt with a constant culture |
| 1:15.2 | clash. Because my parents were very old school Korean, they wanted to raise me that way, |
| 1:20.6 | but unfortunately I grew up in America and wanted to be a normal American |
| 1:25.2 | kid. As a result we had a lot of fights and I saw my parents as the bane of my existence, and I was pretty angry about it. |
| 1:35.7 | Here are my journals from elementary school. |
| 1:39.7 | From PRX and Radiotopia, I'm Neil, and this is mortified. |
| 1:43.5 | Today on the show, the story of an immigrant boy |
| 1:45.8 | who was so done with not fitting in |
| 1:48.3 | that he poured out all of his indignants |
| 1:50.4 | in his grade school journal. |
| 1:52.0 | Once again, Robert Wu. |
| 1:53.4 | Dear journal, my dad's mean. |
| 1:57.1 | He doesn't keep his promises, makes me play piano, |
| 2:01.0 | makes my friends leave early and doesn't let me watch TV he is also a pig. |
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