This season on Ten Thousand Things: We're back with season three! This season features the stories of trailblazing Asian American women and the resilience of Asian American communities, even in the face of endangerment. Three of this season’s stories take place in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District Neighborhood, with help from the Wing Luke Museum. Featured guests include poet and former MMA cage fighter Jenny Liou; Seattle chef Tiffany Ran; and flutist Leanna Keith; among others.  New episodes drop on Tuesdays.
Ten Thousand Things:
In many Chinese sayings, “ten thousand” is used in a poetic sense to convey something infinite, vast, and unfathomable. For <a href="https://shinyupai.com/">Shin Yu Pai</a> – award-winning poet and museologist – the story of Asians in America is just that. <a href="https://www.kuow.org/podcasts/bluesuit">Ten Thousand Things</a> is a podcast about modern-day artifacts of Asian American life and the stories they reveal, created and hosted by Shin Yu Pai and produced by KUOW (Seattle’s NPR station). Ten Thousand Things is a vibrant, diverse, and bittersweet celebration of Asian America ... and a challenge for us all to reimagine stories of the past and future.
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<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This season on &lt;em&gt;Ten Thousand Things&lt;/em&gt;: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;We're back with season three! This season &lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;features the stories of trailblazing Asian American women and the resilience of Asian American communities, even in the face of endangerment. Three of this season’s stories take place in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District Neighborhood, with help from the Wing Luke Museum. Featured guests include poet and former MMA cage fighter &lt;strong&gt;Jenny Liou&lt;/strong&gt;; Seattle chef &lt;strong&gt;Tiffany Ran&lt;/strong&gt;; and flutist &lt;strong&gt;Leanna Keith; &lt;/strong&gt;among others. &lt;br&gt;New episodes drop on Tuesdays.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ten Thousand Things&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In many Chinese sayings, “ten thousand” is used in a poetic sense to convey something infinite, vast, and unfathomable. For &lt;a href="https://shinyupai.com/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Shin Yu Pai&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; – award-winning poet and museologist – the story of Asians in America is just that. &lt;a href="https://www.kuow.org/podcasts/bluesuit"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ten Thousand Things&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is a podcast about modern-day artifacts of Asian American life and the stories they reveal, created and hosted by Shin Yu Pai and produced by &lt;strong&gt;KUOW (Seattle’s NPR station)&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;em&gt;Ten Thousand Things&lt;/em&gt; is a vibrant, diverse, and bittersweet celebration of Asian America ... and a challenge for us all to reimagine stories of the past and future.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener"&gt;omnystudio.com/listener&lt;/a&gt; for privacy information.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Season 3 Trailer

Before we return for our THIRD season of Ten Thousand Things on April 30th, we wanted to share a special recording. In September of 2022, we celebrated the first season of our podcast with a live event at McCaw Hall at the Seattle Center. Back then, our podcast was called The Blue Suit (as you’ll hear). We evolved to become Ten Thousand Things. But we had the same goal of telling compelling stories behind modern-day artifacts of Asian American life. Our live show includes interviews with some of our previous guests on the podcast as well as some new stories. And musician Tomo Nakayama joins us to share a story about an object that is dear to his heart and to play a few songs. 
 
We can only make Ten Thousand Things because listeners support us. Make the show happen by<a href="https://www.kuow.org/donate/tenthousandthings"> making a gift to KUOW</a>.
And we want to hear from you!<a href="https://www.kuow.org/feedback"> Leave us feedback online</a>.
<a href="https://www.kuow.org/podcasts/bluesuit">Ten Thousand Things</a> is produced by KUOW in Seattle. Our host, writer, and creator is<a href="https://shinyupai.com/"> Shin Yu Pai</a>.<a href="https://kuow.org/authors/whitney-henry-lester"> </a><a href="https://www.kuow.org/authors/jim-gates">Jim Gates</a> produced this episode with help from <a href="https://www.kuow.org/authors/hans-twite">Hans Twite</a> and Tom Stiles. <a href="https://www.kuow.org/authors/charlotte-duren">Charlotte Duren</a> produced the event.<a href="https://www.tomonakayama.com/"> Tomo Nakayama</a> wrote our theme music. See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

<description>&lt;p&gt;Before we return for our THIRD season of &lt;em&gt;Ten Thousand Things&lt;/em&gt; on April 30th, we wanted to share a special recording. In September of 2022, we celebrated the first season of our podcast with a live event at McCaw Hall at the Seattle Center. Back then, our podcast was called &lt;em&gt;The Blue Suit (&lt;/em&gt;as you’ll hear&lt;em&gt;)&lt;/em&gt;. We evolved to become &lt;em&gt;Ten Thousand Things&lt;/em&gt;. But we had the same goal of telling compelling stories behind modern-day artifacts of Asian American life. Our live show includes interviews with some of our previous guests on the podcast as well as some new stories. And musician Tomo Nakayama joins us to share a story about an object that is dear to his heart and to play a few songs. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We can only make &lt;em&gt;Ten Thousand Things&lt;/em&gt; because listeners support us. Make the show happen by&lt;a href="https://www.kuow.org/donate/tenthousandthings"&gt; making a gift to KUOW&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And we want to hear from you!&lt;a href="https://www.kuow.org/feedback"&gt; Leave us feedback online&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.kuow.org/podcasts/bluesuit"&gt;Ten Thousand Things&lt;/a&gt; is produced by KUOW in Seattle. Our host, writer, and creator is&lt;a href="https://shinyupai.com/"&gt; Shin Yu Pai&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;a href="https://kuow.org/authors/whitney-henry-lester"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.kuow.org/authors/jim-gates"&gt;Jim Gates&lt;/a&gt; produced this episode with help from &lt;a href="https://www.kuow.org/authors/hans-twite"&gt;Hans Twite&lt;/a&gt; and Tom Stiles. &lt;a href="https://www.kuow.org/authors/charlotte-duren"&gt;Charlotte Duren&lt;/a&gt; produced the event.&lt;a href="https://www.tomonakayama.com/"&gt; Tomo Nakayama&lt;/a&gt; wrote our theme music. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener"&gt;omnystudio.com/listener&lt;/a&gt; for privacy information.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Live Show

Fans of Ten Thousand Things might enjoy Books and Boba from the Potluck Podcast Collective. Books and Boba is a book club podcast all about books written by Asian and Asian diaspora authors.Today we are sharing one of Books and Boba’s interview episodes, featuring writer and translator Anton Hur who was recently revealed to be the lead translator for K-Pop megastars BTS’ upcoming memoir. In the episode, Anton discusses his work as a Korean-to-English translator in the publishing industry and his work on the book "I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki" by Baek Sehee.See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

<description>&lt;p&gt;Fans of Ten Thousand Things might enjoy Books and Boba from the Potluck Podcast Collective. Books and Boba is a book club podcast all about books written by Asian and Asian diaspora authors.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Today we are sharing one of Books and Boba’s interview episodes, featuring writer and translator Anton Hur who was recently revealed to be the lead translator for K-Pop megastars BTS’ upcoming memoir. In the episode, Anton discusses his work as a Korean-to-English translator in the publishing industry and his work on the book "I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki" by Baek Sehee.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener"&gt;omnystudio.com/listener&lt;/a&gt; for privacy information.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

'Ten Thousand Things' Recommends: 'Books and Boba'

TTT Recommends: Books and Boba

We want to introduce you to a new podcast you may like, "Shoes Off". Join hosts Susie An and Esther Yoon-Ji Kang as they hang out with badass Asians and ask them to redefine “sexy” on their own terms."Shoes Off" is a podcast celebrating badass Asians who are making a mark on pop culture and entertainment.In this episode stand-up comic, Atsuko Okatsuka, is taking the world by storm with her first HBO special, "The Intruder", and her viral Drop Challenge on TikTok. She talks about how she learned English by watching Scooby-Doo, what it means to be named Margaret Cho’s comedy heir, and how she took her mom and grandma everywhere — including to her honeymoon.See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

<description>&lt;p&gt;We want to introduce you to a new podcast you may like, "Shoes Off". Join hosts Susie An and Esther Yoon-Ji Kang as they hang out with badass Asians and ask them to redefine “sexy” on their own terms.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;"Shoes Off" is a podcast celebrating badass Asians who are making a mark on pop culture and entertainment.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In this episode stand-up comic, Atsuko Okatsuka, is taking the world by storm with her first HBO special, "The Intruder", and her viral Drop Challenge on TikTok. She talks about how she learned English by watching Scooby-Doo, what it means to be named Margaret Cho’s comedy heir, and how she took her mom and grandma everywhere — including to her honeymoon.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener"&gt;omnystudio.com/listener&lt;/a&gt; for privacy information.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

'Ten Thousand Things' recommends 'Shoes Off'

TTT Recommends: Shoes Off

This is a story about the way we make a statement.&nbsp;Alice Wong, a Chinese-American disability activist, came into her own as a public personality through creating and hosting a podcast on disabled voices. Her status as a person with a disability in an ableist world gave her access to a world of perspectives and voices that we don’t usually hear on public radio. And she prioritized putting disabled voices on the air. But losing her own voice and replacing it with an app forced her to reckon with a new relationship to voice.&nbsp;Related links:<ul><li><a href="https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Disability Visibility Project</a></li><li><a href="https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/podcast-2/" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Disability Visibility Podcast</a></li><li><a href="https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/book/tiger/" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Year of the Tiger</a> by Alice Wong</li><li><a href="https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/resist/" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Resistance and Hope:</a> Crip Wisdom for the People, edited by Alice Wong</li></ul> We can only make Ten Thousand Things because listeners support us. Make the show happen by <a href="https://www.kuow.org/donate/tenthousandthings" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(29, 28, 29);">making a gift to KUOW</a>.And we want to hear from you!<a href=" Leave us feedback online" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(29, 28, 29);"> Leave us feedback online</a>.<a href="https://www.kuow.org/podcasts/bluesuit" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a href="https://www.kuow.org/podcasts/bluesuit" target="_blank">Ten Thousand Things</a></a> is produced by KUOW in Seattle. Our host, writer, and creator is<a href="https://shinyupai.com/" target="_blank"> </a><a href="https://shinyupai.com/" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a href="https://shinyupai.com/" target="_blank">Shin Yu Pai</a></a>.<a href="https://kuow.org/authors/whitney-henry-lester" target="_blank"> </a><a href="https://kuow.org/authors/whitney-henry-lester" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a href="https://kuow.org/authors/whitney-henry-lester" target="_blank">Whitney Henry-Lester</a></a> produced this episode.<a href="https://www.kuow.org/authors/jim-gates" target="_blank"> </a><a href="https://www.kuow.org/authors/jim-gates" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a href="https://www.kuow.org/authors/jim-gates" target="_blank">Jim Gates</a></a> is our editor.<a href="https://www.tomonakayama.com/" target="_blank"> </a><a href="Tomo Nakayama" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a href="https://www.tomonakayama.com/" target="_blank">Tomo Nakayama</a></a> wrote our theme music. Additional music in this episode by Jaylon Ashaun and Stan Forebee.<a href="https://link.chtbl.com/WhiP9eul?sid=KUOWweb%20" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ten-thousand-things-with-shin-yu-pai/id1632530945" target="_blank">Search for </a><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ten-thousand-things-with-shin-yu-pai/id1632530945" target="_blank">Ten Thousand Things </a><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ten-thousand-things-with-shin-yu-pai/id1632530945" target="_blank">in your podcast app</a></a><a href="https://link.chtbl.com/WhiP9eul?sid=KUOWweb%20" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">!</a>Partial funding of Ten Thousand Things was made possible by the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture Hope Corps Grant, a recovery funded program of the National Endowment for the Arts, plus support from The Windrose Fund.See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;This is a story about the way we make a statement.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Alice Wong, a Chinese-American disability activist, came into her own as a public personality through creating and hosting a podcast on disabled voices. Her status as a person with a disability in an ableist world gave her access to a world of perspectives and voices that we don’t usually hear on public radio. And she prioritized putting disabled voices on the air. But losing her own voice and replacing it with an app forced her to reckon with a new relationship to voice.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Related links:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Disability Visibility Project&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/podcast-2/" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Disability Visibility Podcast&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/book/tiger/" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Year of the Tiger&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt; by Alice Wong&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/resist/" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Resistance and Hope:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt; Crip Wisdom for the People, edited by Alice Wong&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(29, 28, 29);"&gt;We can only make &lt;/span&gt;&lt;em style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(29, 28, 29);"&gt;Ten Thousand Things&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(29, 28, 29);"&gt; because listeners support us. Make the show happen by &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.kuow.org/donate/tenthousandthings" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(29, 28, 29);"&gt;making a gift to KUOW&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(29, 28, 29);"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(29, 28, 29);"&gt;And we want to hear from you!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=" Leave us feedback online" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(29, 28, 29);"&gt; Leave us feedback online&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(29, 28, 29);"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.kuow.org/podcasts/bluesuit" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.kuow.org/podcasts/bluesuit" target="_blank"&gt;Ten Thousand Things&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt; is produced by KUOW in Seattle. Our host, writer, and creator is&lt;a href="https://shinyupai.com/" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="https://shinyupai.com/" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="https://shinyupai.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Shin Yu Pai&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;.&lt;a href="https://kuow.org/authors/whitney-henry-lester" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="https://kuow.org/authors/whitney-henry-lester" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="https://kuow.org/authors/whitney-henry-lester" target="_blank"&gt;Whitney Henry-Lester&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt; produced this episode.&lt;a href="https://www.kuow.org/authors/jim-gates" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.kuow.org/authors/jim-gates" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.kuow.org/authors/jim-gates" target="_blank"&gt;Jim Gates&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt; is our editor.&lt;a href="https://www.tomonakayama.com/" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="Tomo Nakayama" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.tomonakayama.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Tomo Nakayama&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt; wrote our theme music. Additional music in this episode by Jaylon Ashaun and Stan Forebee.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://link.chtbl.com/WhiP9eul?sid=KUOWweb%20" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ten-thousand-things-with-shin-yu-pai/id1632530945" target="_blank"&gt;Search for &lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ten-thousand-things-with-shin-yu-pai/id1632530945" target="_blank"&gt;Ten Thousand Things &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ten-thousand-things-with-shin-yu-pai/id1632530945" target="_blank"&gt;in your podcast app&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="https://link.chtbl.com/WhiP9eul?sid=KUOWweb%20" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(29, 28, 29);"&gt;Partial funding of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;em style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(29, 28, 29);"&gt;Ten Thousand Things&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(29, 28, 29);"&gt; was made possible by the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture Hope Corps Grant, a recovery funded program of the National Endowment for the Arts, plus support from The Windrose Fund.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener"&gt;omnystudio.com/listener&lt;/a&gt; for privacy information.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

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