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Feeling Asian

Racist Because He’s Asian, Proud Because He’s White (feat. Noah Cho, Writer)

Feeling Asian

Youngmi Mayer & Brian Park

Society & Culture

4.9941 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

This week on Feeling Asian we have food writer Noah Cho (Catapult, The Atlantic)! You may know him from his widely-circulated article defending the sanctity of cheese ramen. We discuss “authenticity” in Asian cuisine, teaching in the time of Corona and the longing to be more Asian as a biracial person. Brian reminisces about old exes and Youngmi talks about her decision to dye her hair blue. Please rate and review us on iTunes!

Transcript

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0:00.0

How are you feeling?

0:04.0

I'm feeling Asia. Welcome to Feeling Asian

0:15.0

to Feeling Asian, a podcast where two Asians talk about their feelings.

0:19.0

I'm your host, Young Me Mayor.

0:21.0

And I'm your other host Brian Park. and today we have an extremely special guest with us and I'm excited because this is the first time we've had a guest while we've been in quarantine and we're doing it over the phone and I hope everything will turn out good and the sound will be good.

0:37.0

Recording a podcast remotely is like,

0:40.0

yeah. It's like those old cartoons where you're holding a bunch of spinning plates all at once and something could go wrong at any moment. So yeah, that was a little tangent that I had to let go.

0:53.0

Young me, please do us the honor of introducing our guest.

0:56.0

We're spinning the plates and some of them are falling.

1:00.0

That's okay.

1:01.0

Our guest today is an amazing writer. He's also a teacher, which is exciting and probably very interesting right now because he's teaching over Zoom.

1:12.0

Also, he's teaching over Zoom.

1:13.0

Also, he's very well known on Twitter

1:17.0

for being the person that's pushing, putting cheese on top of your Shenramian,

1:22.0

which is amazing, that's what he's mostly known for.

1:25.8

Everyone, right now, clap your hands.

1:28.8

I know you're by yourself in your car, clap your hands for Noah Cho.

1:38.0

And this like lack of actual applause is still the most applause I've ever gotten in my life. So this is really special to me right now.

1:40.0

I'm just imagining pretending that I'm getting applause which is like how I can get through the day every day now. I'm just imagining pretending that I'm getting applause which is like how I can get

1:43.7

through the day every day now so.

1:44.7

Oh you are you're getting thousands of applause. I'm just going to pretend everybody listening to this is clapping furiously and

1:51.8

that's how I'm going to make myself feel better right now.

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