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Feeling Asian

Coronavirus Edition

Feeling Asian

Youngmi Mayer & Brian Park

Society & Culture

4.9941 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

This week's episode is dedicated to the Coronavirus! One of the most frightening side-effects of this pandemic is the rise in anti-Asian sentiment. We wanted to share our experiences with this and try to make sense of these crazy times.

Transcript

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0:00.0

How are you feeling?

0:04.0

I'm feeling Asia. Welcome to Feeling Asian,

0:15.0

to Feeling Asian, a podcast where two Asians talk about their feelings.

0:19.0

I'm your co-host, Young Me Mayor.

0:22.0

And I'm your other co-host Brian Park and we're living in the midst of

0:25.8

Corona the great shutdown of the world what should we call this what's good do you what do you think they'll call it? The great? I will first don't use the adjective great because it's not great.

0:37.6

Great as in big not amazing. That's not kind of no idea what is happening.

0:44.0

Me neither. All of our comedy shows got canceled.

0:47.0

My, you know, as everyone knows, I partly own a restaurant group and might close.

0:55.0

Yeah.

0:55.8

And not a good time to own a Chinese restaurant.

0:58.1

Literally my clothes I was sobbing violently last night.

1:01.1

Oh my God.

1:01.7

I'm gonna be in debt for the rest of my life. I think I'm already

1:04.0

in debt who cares so more of that forever. Jesus. Brian how are you feeling? I honestly there is so much uncertainty surrounding what is even going on even in the short term and how this virus is being contained.

1:21.7

Yeah.

1:23.0

But you know I've been glued to my computer screen reading updates from who and CDC and trying

1:30.7

to see how the spread is manifesting in New York City and I'm just really I don't know I'm so

1:40.0

conflicted on many levels because I just don't know how I feel. I'm very, there's just so much

1:46.2

uncertainty and so many loose ends and obviously my acting program is on hiatus

1:52.1

I will be surprised if I even get to return so yeah I mean you

1:57.2

don't think it's gonna start again and like possibly likely not really well. We have no idea we have no idea what's happening

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