(Ep.8) The best immigrant story I’ve ever heard

The Dennis Michael Lynch Podcast

Politics, News Commentary, News

4.8 • 957 Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2025

⏱️ 110 minutes

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For this week’s Life After 50, DML interviews Patrick Asare, the Ghanaian author of the award-winning and bestselling memoir The Boy from Boadua: One African’s Journey of Hunger and Sacrifice in Pursuit of a Dream. At 63, Asare is a proud immigrant who deeply appreciates America and brings a wealth of knowledge on sociocultural, political, and geopolitical issues. A passionate speaker, he inspires audiences by sharing his remarkable journey and perspectives that have earned him widespread global recognition.

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0:00.0	This week on Life After 50, you're going to meet Patrick. He is an immigrant from Ghana. He has the most impressive immigration story I've ever heard, and I've been listening to these sort of things for 20 years. Sit back and get ready. This is a long interview and one of the best I've ever done. Here is Patrick a star.
0:24.5	All right, Patrick.
0:25.4	So I have interviewed a lot of people in my day.
0:29.4	And I got to tell you, you have taken the cake in terms of I said, what?
0:34.8	What is it like being one of 18 siblings?
0:41.3	And your mom was busy.
0:43.3	A little correction, they're 14.
0:45.3	Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
0:48.3	14.
0:49.3	18 has come up actually in some place. I don't know how that number.
0:53.3	Somebody said 18, but it doesn't matter. 14, 18. At that point, it's an anomaly. Nobody ever hears
0:58.5	that. Where were you in 14? Number 12. Number 12. Yes. Which I think even makes it maybe a little
1:05.1	harder because like Ryan, my son is number three and he didn't get as many baby pictures as number one.
1:10.8	So, I mean, number 12. How didn't get as many baby pictures as number one. So I mean number 12.
1:12.6	Yeah. How many boys? How many girls? Five boys, seven girls. Really? Yeah. Do you stay,
1:22.3	are they still all alive? Two of my siblings passed away. One passed away about six years ago, and the other one passed away
1:32.0	about four years ago. I'm sorry for your loss. The second part of the incredible part of the
1:39.5	14 is that you grew up in Ghana. Yes.
1:47.0	You know, a lot of times, unfortunately,
1:51.1	Americans get so caught up in who's winning,
1:52.5	dancing with the stars,
1:55.2	and who's going to be the MVP of the Super Bowl,
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