My Father, The YouTube Star

Proof

America's Test Kitchen

Society & Culture, Food, Arts

4.4 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

One day in 2012, Proof host Kevin Pang received an email from his father, urging Kevin to watch a video on YouTube that he'd just sent. Reluctantly, Kevin opened it to discover that somehow, his retired father had created a YouTube cooking channel that had nearly a million views. This would kick off a series of events that would forever change Kevin's relationship with his father. This week's episode is a story about family, what happens when immigrants move to a new country, and how Kevin's dad became an unlikely YouTube star. (This story is based on Kevin Pang's article in the New York Times Magazine.) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Alright Proof listeners, Kevin Pang here.
0:05.1	This week for a change, it's story time from yours truly.
0:10.4	It's June of 2012, and my dad sent me an email that would change our family.
0:17.0	The subject line read, forward, Jeffrey Pang sent you a video.
0:22.0	You know what happens when relatives forward you emails, right?
0:25.4	You ignore it.
0:26.4	Well, I did too.
0:28.5	Let's forward a few weeks.
0:30.0	My mother called.
0:31.0	Kevin, have you seen this YouTube video yet?
0:35.4	Well, I hadn't.
0:37.6	Work was busy, I was newly married, and there were more important things than watching
0:42.1	some YouTube video my dad shared.
0:44.9	But eventually I did watch it.
0:47.2	And what happened next knocked me back.
0:50.7	I'll bring you back to that moment when I clicked play.
0:55.8	Okay, elevator music, kind of cheesy.
1:00.6	Produced by a company called Creative Productions.
1:03.8	Oh, the EAT and Creative was highlighted.
1:06.4	Okay, it's pretty clever.
1:08.1	Alright, let's see, title screen.
1:10.7	Catherine's mom, Shanghaini's screen, onion pancakes.
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