Tag: post-war Vietnam
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Season 1 Finale: You Never Leave Vietnam, nor America
Episode 12, the season finale, of the Crossing Ideas Podcast is now available for streaming or downloads on any podcast service including Spotify, Apple, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Apple, Google, and more. In this episode, I dive deeply into the things which make me miss Vietnam the most. In doing so, I come to realize that no…
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Episode 11: My Kids Sang Communist Songs (and Other Great Ways to Grow Up)
Episode 11 of the Crossing Ideas Podcast is now available for streaming or downloads on any podcast service including Spotify, Apple, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Apple, Google, and more. In this episode, I recall how my eldest child needed other kids to play with after we moved to Vietnam in 1994. This led to a series of…
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Final 2 Episodes Scheduled
Well, I kind of knew this was going to happen. I’ll be taking a one-week hiatus from my podcast schedule to accommodate my final drama show in Saudi Arabia later this week. We’ve been doing technical rehearsals, and there was just no way I was going to finish my writing of episode 11. So I’ve…
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Episode 9: I Hated Everything so I Learned How to Cook
Episode 9 of the Crossing Ideas Podcast is now available for streaming or downloads on any podcast service including Spotify, Apple, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Apple, Google, and more. In this episode, I recall how learning to navigate shopping for food in my early days of Vietnam began to instill within me a love for cooking. Then…
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Episode 8: A Charlie Brown Christmas in Vietnam. Listen for free!
Episode 8 of the Crossing Ideas Podcast is now available for streaming or downloads on any podcast service including Spotify, Apple, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Apple, Google, and more. In this episode, I recall the hilarious story of me trying to find a live Christmas tree in Thai Nguyen Vietnam in 1999. In remembering this story, I…
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Episode 7: Language Learning – AKA The Day I Ordered Food Successfully. Now Available. Listen for free!
Episode 7 of the Crossing Ideas Podcast is now available for streaming or downloads on any podcast service including Spotify, Apple, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Apple, Google, and more. In this episode, I talk about the year I spend learning the Vietnamese language in the late 1990s. As I think through that time and its ramifications of…
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Episode 5: Chi Lien, Tea, & Patience – Now Available. Listen for free!
Episode 5 of the Crossing Ideas Podcast is now available for streaming or downloads on any podcast service including Spotify, Apple, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Apple, Google, and more. In this episode, I talk about the lessons of patience I needed to learn to adapt into the Vietnamese culture after moving there in the 1990s. My interactions…
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Episode 4: My Life as a Spy – Even Though I Wasn’t One
Episode 4 of the Crossing Ideas Podcast is now available for streaming or downloads on any podcast service including Spotify, Apple, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Apple, Google, and more. In this episode, I recall the day I was told that some local official in Thai Nguyen, Vietnam had been following me. It then leds me into many…
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Episode 3: Vietnam BC – Before Coca-Cola. How Capitalism Saved Vietnam
Episode 3 of the Crossing Ideas Podcast is now available for streaming or downloads on any podcast service including Spotify, Apple, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Apple, Google, and more. This episode means a lot to me. I’ve always been a staunch proponent of free markets, and living in Vietnam and hearing the stories of life under a…
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