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This is Love

Eight Thousand Miles

This is Love

Vox Media Podcast Network

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.79.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2018

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

This episode was released in March of 2018. In June of 2020, Van Nolintha stepped down from his roles at Bida Manda and Brewery Bhavana, following allegations of inappropriate behavior toward staff, and negligence in addressing staff allegations of abuse against Bida Manda and Brewery Bhavana management. An investigation is pending. A story about finding your way home. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2BmMZr5 We also make Criminal and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop.  Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Support for this show comes from Krakan.

0:03.0

Krypto is like the financial system, but different.

0:07.0

It doesn't care where you come from, what you look like, your credit score,

0:11.0

or your outrageous food delivery habits.

0:13.7

crypto is finance for everyone everywhere all the time.

0:18.4

Krakhan, see what crypto can be.

0:21.3

Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:25.0

This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong. What did you know about America before you came here?

0:35.0

It was around the time that Titanic was really big.

0:41.0

So we had one theater in Laos and there was just like posters everywhere

0:45.9

about Titanic's. I knew that. I knew a little bit about America through posters of

0:52.4

Titanic. But we also had this

0:56.3

poster at the house of the Golden Gate Bridge and we also have a plastic tabletop in the house that had this graphic on the table.

1:09.5

It's a plastic printed table.

1:11.7

And it was the skyscape of the Statue of Liberty in New York.

1:16.0

It was a very romantic, I think, perception of America.

1:27.0

My name's Van Nolinta. Let me introduce with my full name.

1:29.0

My name is Van Zana Nolinta.

1:32.0

In 1998, when he was 12 years old,

1:35.0

Van Nolinta got on an airplane

1:38.0

headed for the United States.

1:40.0

I was born in a tiny little town by the Mekong River called Long Probang in Laos.

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