STORYBOUND: Sopan Deb

The Process with Jude Brewer

Jude Brewer

Science, Technology, Society & Culture

4.8 • 763 Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Sopan Deb reads an excerpt from "Missed Translations," with sound design by Jude Brewer and music composition from Jordan Holloman. Sopan Deb is a basketball writer and a contributor to the culture section for The New York Times. Before joining The Times, he covered Donald J. Trump's presidential campaign for CBS News. He is also a New York-city based comedian. He is the author of the memoir "Missed Translations: Meeting The Immigrant Parents Who Raised Me." Jordan Holloman, musician and independent producer, hails from Salt Lake City, UT, where he lives with his wife, dogs, and child-to-be. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Being a marketer is no sweat.
0:02.1	You just have to manage dozens of channels, launch hundreds of campaigns, score thousands of leads and...
0:06.0	Okay, fine.
0:06.8	It's a lot of sweat.
0:08.1	Unless you have HubSpot's AI-powered marketing tools to help you do all that and more.
0:12.4	Get started at HubSpot.com slash marketers.
0:15.3	Hi, I'm So Pandep, and this is Storybound.
0:23.0	Welcome to Storybound. Welcome to Storybound,
0:25.5	presented by Lit Hub Radio and the pod agglomerate.
0:29.7	I'm your host, Jude Brewer.
0:44.6	In just one minute, you'll hear Sopan Deb read an excerpt from his book, Missed Translations, with an original score by Jordan Holloman.
0:49.1	He recorded Sopan right before the quarantine set in and we're excited to finally share his story.
0:54.6	Make sure you stick around until after the credits to hear something special.
0:58.0	In 2007, my freshman year of college, Shemal came to visit me in Boston at the beginning
1:15.3	of my spring semester.
1:17.3	I don't remember much of the visit, other than that he bought me lunch at my favorite Thai
1:21.3	restaurant on campus, Noodle Street, before taking me to a local grocery store for some
1:25.4	supplies.
1:27.0	I didn't realize at the time that this would be the last time I would see him for 11 years.
1:30.3	I might have given him a better goodbye if I had.
1:34.3	The next month, I noticed that I had not heard from him for at least a couple of weeks.
1:39.3	My father used to call every Sunday like clockwork, so I called him.
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