The Vietnamese with Kenneth Nguyen

Cung Le is an actor, retired mixed martial artist, Sanshou fighter and kickboxer. He competed as a middleweight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), holding a record of 2–2 with the organization.In kickboxing and sanshou, he is a former International Kickboxing Federation Light Heavyweight World Champion, having a professional kickboxing record of 17–0 before moving to mixed martial arts. He defeated Frank Shamrock to become the second Strikeforce Middleweight Champion before vacating the title to further pursue his acting career.Le is perhaps best known in mixed martial arts for competing in Strikeforce, holding a record of 7–1 with the organization before its demise.========================Welcome to The Vietnamese Podcast! I'm your host, Kenneth Nguyen. Join me on an exploration of Vietnamese experiences from all over the world.I served in the U.S. Marines in the 90's and graduated from the University of Southern California in 2000. Today, I work as an LA based producer and entrepreneur and am currently a founding partner at EAST Films.========================Please SUBSCRIBE and COMMENT to support the podcast!Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thevietname...Page: https://www.facebook.com/thevietnames...TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thevietnamese...Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nguyenkennethSHOW LESSAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Thi Bui was born in Vietnam and came to the United States in 1978 as part of the “boat people” wave of refugees fleeing Southeast Asia at the end of the Vietnam War. Her debut graphic memoir, The Best We Could Do (Abrams ComicArts, 2017) has been selected for an American Book Award, a Common Book for UCLA and other colleges and universities, an all-city read by Seattle and San Francisco public libraries, a National Book Critics Circle finalist in autobiography, and an Eisner Award finalist in reality-based comics.It made over thirty best of 2017 book lists, including Bill Gates’ top five picks. She illustrated the picture book, A Different Pond, written by the poet Bao Phi (Capstone, 2017), for which she won a Caldecott Honor.With her son, Hien, she co-illustrated the children’s book, Chicken of the Sea (McSweeney’s, 2019), written by Pulitzer winner Viet Thanh Nguyen and his son, Ellison. Her short comics can be found online at The Nib, PEN America, and BOOM California.She is currently researching and drawing a work of graphic nonfiction about immigrant detention and deportation, to be published by One World, Random House.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Thi Bui was born in Vietnam and came to the United States in 1978 as part of the “boat people” wave of refugees fleeing Southeast Asia at the end of the Vietnam War. Her debut graphic memoir, The Best We Could Do (Abrams ComicArts, 2017) has been selected for an American Book Award, a Common Book for UCLA and other colleges and universities, an all-city read by Seattle and San Francisco public libraries, a National Book Critics Circle finalist in autobiography, and an Eisner Award finalist in reality-based comics.It made over thirty best of 2017 book lists, including Bill Gates’ top five picks. She illustrated the picture book, A Different Pond, written by the poet Bao Phi (Capstone, 2017), for which she won a Caldecott Honor.With her son, Hien, she co-illustrated the children’s book, Chicken of the Sea (McSweeney’s, 2019), written by Pulitzer winner Viet Thanh Nguyen and his son, Ellison. Her short comics can be found online at The Nib, PEN America, and BOOM California.She is currently researching and drawing a work of graphic nonfiction about immigrant detention and deportation, to be published by One World, Random House.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Together, Andy and Brian Le, and their friend, Daniel Mah, formed the independent action group 'Martial Club'. In 10 years of independent filmmaking, Martial Club has garnered tens of millions of views and opportunities to work with Kung Fu superstars such as Jackie Chan and Michelle Yeoh.Andy and Brian Le are known for their work on 'Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings', 'Everything Everywhere All At Once', 'The Paper Tigers', and 'Wu Tang: An American Saga'. Andy and Brian grew up in Orange County, California. With very little formal training, the majority of their martial arts abilities are self- taught.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Together, Andy and Brian Le, and their friend, Daniel Mah, formed the independent action group 'Martial Club'. In 10 years of independent filmmaking, Martial Club has garnered tens of millions of views and opportunities to work with Kung Fu superstars such as Jackie Chan and Michelle Yeoh.Andy and Brian Le are known for their work on 'Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings', 'Everything Everywhere All At Once', 'The Paper Tigers', and 'Wu Tang: An American Saga'. Andy and Brian grew up in Orange County, California. With very little formal training, the majority of their martial arts abilities are self- taught.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Poreotics dance crew competed on the fifth season of America's Best Dance Crew. The crew danced to several songs including those of Taylor Swift and Beyonce. Through their creative ideas and synchronized choreography, they managed to utilize the stage to its fullest and become extremely popular with the audience.They brought comedy mixed with popping to America's Best Dance Crew. The live season finale aired on April 8, 2010, and Poreotics was crowned the champions of season 5 and also perform in the finale of season 7 alongside season 7 champions Elektrolytes.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Poreotics dance crew competed on the fifth season of America's Best Dance Crew. The crew danced to several songs including those of Taylor Swift and Beyonce. Through their creative ideas and synchronized choreography, they managed to utilize the stage to its fullest and become extremely popular with the audience.They brought comedy mixed with popping to America's Best Dance Crew. The live season finale aired on April 8, 2010, and Poreotics was crowned the champions of season 5 and also perform in the finale of season 7 alongside season 7 champions Elektrolytes.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Tracey Nguyen Mang is the creator and host of the Vietnamese Boat People (VBP) podcast and nonprofit. She fled Vietnam with her family at the age of three and grew up ashamed by the stigma of being a refugee and struggled with navigating her own Asian American identity. In 2018, she began to document her family's story and along the way, discovered that there are many others like her, trying to piece together the history. Tracey started VBP by publishing her family’s story in Season 1 of the podcast, and today, the organization shares stories from other families and individuals through its podcast, events and programs. Prior to starting VBP, Tracey has over 20+ years of working in strategy and management consulting, social impact and corporate responsibility. She is a frequent speaker on the topics of storytelling and design thinking principles, CSR and employee engagement, and Asian American narratives. She has a bachelor’s from Johnson & Wales University and an MBA from Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University. Tracey currently resides in Montclair New Jersey with her husband, two kids, a big dog and a goldfish.www.vietnameseboatpeople.org tracey@vietnameseboatpeople.org LinkedIn profileAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Viet Nguyen is the young founder and executive chef of Kei Concepts, a restaurant concept creation and management group that develops and manages proprietary brands and incubates emerging concepts.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Ben Tran’s research examines the politics and aesthetics of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Southeast Asian, Asian American, and Anglophone literatures. As the repercussions of colonialism and decolonization, modern warfare, climate change, and globalization continue to unfold in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Rim, he examines how literary and cultural works depict and resist modernity’s vertiginous transformations.His first book, Post-Mandarin: Masculinity and Aesthetic Modernity in Colonial Vietnam (Fordham UP 2017), examines how the radical 1919 displacement of the 1000-year-old Chinese-influenced mandarinal system by a French baccalaureate curriculum created the conditions for modern Vietnamese literature. The book illuminates how European-educated natives assumed the intellectual authority of the mandarin by embracing European fields of knowledge, a new romanized alphabet, print media, and an audience of women readers.Ben Tran’s current scholarship has two trajectories. The first traces how the biological necessity of breathing has become a universal right to breath—a universal right that we must now fight for. He does so by studying the weaponization and engineering of the atmosphere, transnational police tactics, and the history of air conditioning.The second, Foreign Mother Tongues: Literary Dubbing and Modern Literature, examines the shifting politics behind post-World War II representations of Southeast Asia through what he calls “literary dubbing.” A form of translation, “literary dubbing” occurs when the language that the reader encounters on the page is not the same language in which characters think and speak. Literary dubbing is a ubiquitous practice and topic in postcolonial and diasporic literature, from the language debate in African literature to Sinophone writing, and from ethnic modernism to Asian American literature. Yet it has been an under-theorized and understudied phenomenon, in part because it operates as a kind of invisible translation that occurs during the author’s writing process. The project foregrounds Southeast Asian anticolonial literatures and diasporic literature’s Cold War context, examining how these literatures’ Cold War political stakes and complexities are obscured by contemporary globalization.Recently, his course offerings include racialization and capitalism (graduate), land and (dis)possession (graduate), blackness and the Asian Century, the history and culture of the Third World movement, and cultural representations of the Vietnam War.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy