You Are What You Read (Lucy Yu, Yu and Me Books)
Feeling Asian
Youngmi Mayer & Brian Park
4.9 • 941 Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2022
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
We are so honored to have Lucy Yu of Yu and Me Books on the pod this week! Yu and Me Books is the first female Asian American owned bookstore in NYC and we were so eager to have the founder on after Youngmi heard her speak at an event last month. Tune in to learn about how Lucy, a lifelong career changer, began as a chemical engineer but then followed her dream of opening a bookstore and eventually created a grounding community space in Chinatown. Also in this episode: tears, hot takes, and trauma bonding over college. Follow Yu and Me Books at @yuandmebooks and psst – Patreon subscribers also get summer book recs!
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| 0:00.0 | How are you feeling? |
| 0:04.0 | I'm feeling Asian. Welcome to Feeling Asia in a podcast where two Asians talk about their feelings. |
| 0:18.8 | I'm Young Me Mayor. |
| 0:20.3 | And I'm Brian Park and here we are young me |
| 0:25.3 | Wow, we've made it to the end. Well, I guess this will come out in June so |
| 0:30.0 | Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month is over so you can go back to not giving a shit. |
| 0:36.5 | You can finally rest and catch up on the sopranos and go back to just living your normal life everybody. |
| 0:45.0 | In fact, turn this episode off. I'm just kidding. |
| 0:48.0 | No, don't because our guess this week is so exciting. |
| 0:52.0 | But you know, me I think after a |
| 0:55.6 | API Heritage Month it's instilled me with a lot of confidence because every month |
| 1:00.6 | we're surprised how amazing all of our guests are every week and we're like, |
| 1:05.2 | this week it's the best ever. You know what? We fucking rule. Our podcast is the shit and yes all of our guests are the |
| 1:12.1 | shit because yes we deserve it and it's |
| 1:16.7 | there's so much good shit out there so we rule yes this feels yucky, but yes. |
| 1:25.0 | I'm proud of us. |
| 1:27.0 | That was my, uh, that basically was my audition to be a coach for a straight to streamer Disney movie. |
| 1:36.7 | So if any of you felt... |
| 1:40.3 | If you're a casting director is listening and you felt somewhat inspired, |
| 1:44.0 | contact me at Feeling Asian Podcast at gmail.com, thank you very much. |
| 1:48.0 | You definitely lost that role to Stephen Yun. |
| 1:51.0 | You're not, it's not going to happen for you. I thought that yeah right. I thought that that sounded like exposure therapy I was like I know Brian's therapist made him do that. I am proud of myself and... And let's be real we are |
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