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Outside Viet

Outside Viet is a look at Vietnamese history, culture and food from the perspective of a Vietnamese person born out in the wider world. There"s all these things my parents never told me because they were busy working and living, now I found some time to catch up on it.This is a metamorphosis of the original Post Cerebral Infarction and Your Internet Uncle podcasts, where I tried to remember things to help me learn about my roots. Formerly name "Why an S and not a V?".

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36:28

Wookies of Vietnam (Người rùng)

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2025/10/13

Send us a text Stories of the Forest People (người rùng) were abound during the Vietnam (or American, depending on your perspective) War. Stories about these tall, powerful and hairy people stretched back to French colonial times. We hope Rolando Bautista found what he was looking for.

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23:20

Viets Going Fast to Heaven and on Earth

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2025/09/18

Send us a text Two Vietnamese have reached the highest heights, space. One under the USSR banner and under the Stars and Stripes. We have a chat about them, a failed back up pilot for the SRV cosmonaut and a failed attempt at having an F1 race in Vietnam. PS: Amanda Nguyễn, an American social entrepreneur and civil rights activist (EN Wiki) was able to achieve her dream of reaching space on the Blue Origin New Shepard flight on April 14, 2025. This was after a devastating rape during her coll...

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September 2

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2025/09/01

Send us a text September 2, 1945 (Hanoi). Hồ Chí Minh declares the independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (Tuyên ngôn độc lập Việt Nam Dân chủ Cộng hòa) at the Ba Đình square. This is a major milestone on Vietnam's journey to freeing itself from French colonization and ultimately becoming a free and independent country. The shape that Vietnam would take came from decades more strife and pain. PS: Chris Tran, a significant Việt creator on instagram, posted a celebration message for...

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25:56

Viets in the Cold on a Round Earth

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2025/08/22

Send us a text A question few have asked is, how many Vietnamese have ever gone to the coldest reaches our world, away from the typical hot and humid climate of Vietnam. Bear with us, as Dennis and I explore the questions while making our rounds to both ends of the Earth. Link to the news article about the Vietnamese living on the remote Alaskan islands: https://youtu.be/8oTmyQp-qAA?si=QcVaBdToW4-SlhCe

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32:18

Fish Sauce

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2025/07/07

Send us a text Smelly, salty, savory, the life blood of the Vietnamese, Thais and other southeast Asian peoples. Also a few folks from China, Korea and Japan. We touch upon this crucial condiment in this episode.

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34:41

Worst Foods of Vietnam

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2025/06/01

Send us a text Forget the other lists you ever seen (I looked at most of them), this is the real list of what I think are the worst food (or food categories). Don't think for a second these aren't foods! They are popular for different people. As a bonus, we included some whack foods from neighbouring countries. And Dennis has found out about century eggs (Trứng vịt bắc thảo) and their long partnership with congee. Now who wants to eat some live octupi (thanks Korea)!

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21:26

The Last Korean Episode about the Last Ly Prince

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2025/05/12

Send us a text Is Lý Long Tường (Yi Yong-sang) one of Vietnam's greatest exports to Korea? The Grand Tutor, a general who defeated Mongols invaders twice, showing that it was not just the Trần in Đại Việt who could get it done. The progenitor of the Hwasan Lee clan, his influence has stretched across the centuries.

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34:26

The Shadows of War

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2025/04/29

Send us a text Reunification. An innocuous word in general, a dirty word for many overseas Vietnamese. In light of the 50th anniversary of Vietnam being reunified on April 30, 1975 (whether some choose to accept it or not, the reality is that Vietnam is unified as a Socialist Republic), these are some stories from my parents, before and after this seminal event. Many of these memories are fragments that surfaced in the mind of my parents across the years. Often times, neither wants to remembe...

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36:58

Vietnam's Hatfields and McCoys: the Trịnh vs the...

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2025/03/10

Send us a text During this 161 year rivalry, the figurehead Lê emperor watches helplessly as two prominent families who helped reclaim the throne from the Mạc usurpers vie for power. A prelude to the later division of Vietnam in the 20th century, the two halves of Vietnam (at the time Đại Việt or Great Viet) would continue to march forward, or in the case of the Nguyễn, march south, into history until the Tây Sơn uprising. Who was the winner amongst these cousins? Let's hash it out.

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25:32

Vaped in Vietnam

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2025/02/15

Send us a text Vaping is banned in Vietnam and we couldn't be happier!

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25:45

Year of the Snake (2025)

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2025/01/28

Send us a textChúc mừng năm mới! We ring in the new year by denouncing nagas, learn about characteristics of people born in the year of the snake and rank a selection of those people. Remember, it's the Wood Snake this year.

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21:11

Vietnamese Cover (Song) Up

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2025/01/01

Send us a textHappy 2025! I learned many songs that I like in the Vietnamese repetoire are actually covers of Cantonese and Mandarin pop songs. In doing the research, I was surprised how some of these Chinese songs were in themselves covers or inspired by other songs (generally Japanese). I also learned how many famous bands started out as cover bands, including the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.

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6:46

The Future is now Old Man

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2025/01/01

Send us a textJust a summary of what's to come in the next little white.

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34:11

Avocados

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2024/11/24

Send us a textGreen gold with a black secret. Do you know where your food comes from? This episode we look at the similarities and differences in the avocado industry between Vietnam and Mexico.

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4:51

MLB 2: The Reranting

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2024/11/10

Send us a textI came across more "MLB" stores and had unpolite thoughts I would like to share.

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9:21

Shuttling Past the SCB

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2024/11/05

Send us a textOur airport shuttle driver had a lot to say about many things, including some tidbits about Capitalist Lan. Roads were a bit clogged up due to her second trial. SCB branches seemed to be open while I was there. Her trial to appeal her death sentence started at the time of this episode's publication.

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2:30

Cocks Suck

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2024/11/05

Send us a textRoosters are nature's alarm clock. The problem is, you can't tell them when to wake you.

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Sounds of Saigon: Daily Rain

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2024/10/30

Send us a textI thought the rainy season ended after August, but that might just be true for the part of Vietnam where my dad is from. Jen tells me big heavy thunderstorms are normal in October.Part of a series of what you can hear around Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City).2

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Sounds of Saigon: Tao Dan Park

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2024/10/30

Send us a textTao Dan park is one of the big green spaces in Saigon. It is mostly walled off from the huge flows of traffic that go around it. I found I quite like it, after using it for my daily old man walking circuit in 2023. In Tao Dan park there are:- child and adult playgrounds,- places where people put up nets to play badminton,- walkers, joggers and runners,- people meditating,- people doing tai chi chuan,- people filming movies while cooking the actors inside giant mascot suits alive...

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18:44

Sounds of Saigon: The Ride

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2024/10/30

Send us a textNothing exciting, just a typical moped ride from District 1 (Saigon) to a neighbouring district during regular traffic. What you miss from just listening is the constant game of chicken everyone plays with each other with 99% success rate of living for both players. I have read and been told Saigon moped riders are insane.Part of a series of what you can hear around Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City).

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