Pushkin.

Like it was never framed to me that way for me it was framed like oh if you be a lawyer you'll be safe if you be a doctor it'll be safe and that's a good path. And it was not until recently that I realized like, oh, these are fields that like Asian people

have sort of been allowed to be successful at

or have sort of been predefined when I grew up, like I knew Asian people who were doctors and I knew lawyers who were Asian people and like it's sort of like, oh, like there's a way to do that. I didn't really know any writers who were

Asian or like I didn't know that many. There weren't a lot of Asian people on

screen like that was always a thing that I just did not think was a path for me because there were there were not enough people for it to become like a thing that you thought you could do.

That was Johnny son. I'm San Vergozo and this is talk easy.

Welcome to the show. Hey everyone. This week on the show is a writer named Johnny Sun. He is most

known for his very clever and life-irming words on Twitter.com and he hates, absolutely

hates the idea of being an online celebrity. But he is kind of an online celebrity whose very

real and beautiful words translates to the page in his book everyone's an alien

when you're an alien too.

There are some typos and misspellings in that title of the book.

I don't really know how to pronounce those, so I'm not going to try.

The point is Johnny's work which initially started through Twitter has garnered all kinds of attention.

Most recently, he illustrated a book for Lynn Manuel Miranda,

the former star of Hamilton.

It's called Good Morning, Good Night.

Oh, I guess I should have also mentioned It's called Good Morning, Good Night.

Oh, I guess I should have also mentioned.

He's an illustrator.

But he's also a designer, an engineer,

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