Perfect Son

Code Switch

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4.6 • 14.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Jason Kim and his father were once very close, but drifted apart after the family came to the United States from Korea. They drifted even further after Jason came out to his parents as gay. But after a health crisis, Jason and his father try to reckon with the silence between them. This week, a story about a family's hopes, dreams, and obligations, brought to us by the dope folks at WNYC's Nancy podcast.

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0:00.0	Don't you feel like the news like all this speeding up all the time?
0:04.6	Just this week, Steve King, Congressman from Iowa, got rebuked by his fellow Republicans
0:09.2	for making racist statements.
0:11.0	In another story, a federal judge ruled that the Trump administration cannot put a question
0:15.2	about citizenship status on the 2020 census.
0:18.2	That's just this week, right?
0:19.2	So if you want to stay up on all this news that's happening all the time, on race and identity,
0:24.8	you should subscribe to the Code Switch newsletter.
0:26.9	You can do that by going to mpr.org slash newsletter slash code switch.
0:33.2	What's good, Joel?
0:34.2	You're listening to Code Switch.
0:35.2	I'm Gene W. Sharine.
0:36.2	It's back next week.
0:38.0	This week, though, we're turning the episode over to the very dope folks at Nancy.
0:42.2	And if y'all don't know Nancy, first of all, get your life fixed that immediately.
0:46.3	Nancy is a podcast from WNYC that focuses on the stories of queer people and it's about
0:50.6	how people define themselves and how they arrive at those definitions.
0:54.4	So obviously, like a lot of overlap between what they do and what we do with Code Switch.
0:58.1	Anyway, it's hosted by the wonderful Kathy, too, and Tobin Lowe.
1:02.0	In this episode, you're about to hear Tobin tells a story that ran on Nancy back in the
1:05.4	fall.
1:06.4	It's about his friend Jason and Jason's family.
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