Summary
Evan Kail is a wise-cracking antique dealer and TikToker. Last September, his world turned upside down when one of his videos ignited an international media frenzy. In his words, the TikTok created a "perfect storm." The subject of the video? A photo album from WWII which Evan believed contained photographs of the Nanjing Massacre — a horrific episode during Japan's invasion of China in 1937.
This episode is about historical memory, why the Nanjing Massacre is still an incredibly sensitive topic in China and Japan, social media virality, and the true contents of that WWII photo album.
Credits: This episode was written and produced by Megan Cattel. Mixing and sound design by Emily Jankowski. Amory Sivertson and Ben Brock Johnson are the co-hosts.
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| 0:00.0 | WBUR Podcast Boston. |
| 0:12.5 | Ben. |
| 0:13.8 | Shimmery. How you doing? |
| 0:17.4 | I'm doing okay. How about you? |
| 0:20.4 | I'm okay. It's nice to be with you. |
| 0:23.0 | I know. Same. I was thinking that we would take a little trip back in time together today. |
| 0:27.9 | Is that okay? |
| 0:29.0 | Take a little trip. |
| 0:30.4 | Take a little trip with me. |
| 0:33.8 | Take a little trip. |
| 0:34.8 | Anybody want it, that's the way. |
| 0:36.8 | That's what it sounds like. |
| 0:37.8 | Take a little trip with Amory. |
| 0:40.8 | That's beautiful. |
| 0:42.8 | Okay, so we're going to go back to about six months ago when I was on a little road trip without you. |
| 0:50.3 | What? |
| 0:51.6 | For fun or for work? |
| 0:53.3 | For fun, turned work, but still fun. |
| 0:56.4 | Okay. |
| 0:57.3 | So I was in Minneapolis back in early September. |
| 1:01.3 | Okay, I just started a little voice them up here. |
| 1:04.8 | We're on the minute on the boulevard in Minnesota. |
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