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Odd One In

Stories of misfits making their own way. Hosted and produced by Creative Capital awardee Kristin Leong. Odd One In is a production of ROCK PAPER RADIO. Learn more and subscribe to our newsletter for unlikely optimists at RockPaperRadio.com. rockpaperradio.substack.com

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00:27:05

Hip Hop Redemption

Odd One In ·

2025/12/17

Odd One In debuts with host Kristin Leong sharing her own misfit journey through single motherhood, a Korean American musician’s bargain with God during a night in jail, and a rap battle tale of poetic justice triumphing over racism from Seattle’s original hip hop professor.

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00:28:32

Stanford Scientist at Work, DIY Queer Farmer at Home

Odd One In ·

2025/12/17

Balancing full-time work as an ecosystem services analyst with Stanford University and the University of Washington, Jess Silver is raising food, a family, and new questions about sustainability, community, and what it means to truly embrace hands-on values on a punk rock farm built by queers.This episode follows Jess’s lesbian separatist journey through DIY baby-making, climate change research, and queer farming, tracing her muddy path (flapping socks and all) to the off-the-grid community she and

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00:33:37

From Anime Conventions to the Supreme Court

Odd One In ·

2025/12/17

In 2017, Simon Tam walked away from a $4 million settlement and chose instead to take his band’s name — and a much larger question about free speech — all the way to the United States Supreme Court.As the frontman of The Slants, the first all-Asian American rock band to reclaim a racial slur as a badge of defiance, Simon and his bandmates found themselves sidelined on the very day their case was argued. Barred from speaking and seated in the back pews, they were the only Asian people in the

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00:13:01

The American Dream in a West African Grocery Store

Odd One In ·

2025/12/17

In 2016, Fatoumata “Fifi” Doumbouya lost her husband to cancer and suddenly found herself a single mother with three young children and a small West African grocery store to keep alive.What followed was an unexpected transformation. With resilience and remarkable business savvy, Fifi stepped into her role as an entrepreneur and community anchor, becoming “Mama Fifi,” the heart and center of the working class neighborhood of Hillman City. This episode takes listeners inside the West African

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00:20:21

The Miraculous Journey of Sylvia Jones

Odd One In ·

2025/10/28

On April 26, 1950, 23-year-old Sylvia Jones was given ten more years to live after she was permanently paralyzed when the boiler in her and her husband's Seattle apartment building exploded. After 75 years of depending on a wheelchair while raising a family and building a life abundant with humor, joy, and pragmatism; Sylvia passed peacefully at 98-years-old. With archival tape from their pandemic interview, host and producer Kristin Leong unravels her grandmother's extraordinary story and

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2:25

The irony of silence

Odd One In ·

2023/07/07

In 2017, Simon Tam won his years-long battle to own the right to call his Asian American dance-rock band The Slants. Simon’s Matal v. Tam victory only emboldened the path he was already on to reclaim the power that racist bullies had tried to take from him in his youth, while amplifying and organizing the voices of Asian American artists and activists. In this Odd One In teaser, Simon takes us into the courtroom at the Supreme Court on the historic day of his hearing where the Justices debated if

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2:04

Socks flapping

Odd One In ·

2023/06/29

In order to get to the yurt Jess Silver and her partner built as their first home together on the Queer Land Project they co-founded, strategy and pre-planning is essential. Forget to leave boots at the barn? Prepare for a muddy, sock-flapping adventure.In this Odd One In teaser, Jess gives us a glimpse into the literal path she forged to her off-the-grid life on Silverwell Farm. Jess is the co-founder of the farm, a 34-acre cooperative experiment just outside of Olympia, Washington. The Project is

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1:51

Beautiful 80's dyke mullet

Odd One In ·

2023/06/15

Lesbians’ hair game is unmatched, of course, and Jess Silver’s mullet is one of the best of the best. In this Odd One In teaser, Jess gives us a glimpse into what it’s like being the most stunningly coiffed scientist on campus. Jess is the co-founder of Silverwell Farm and a 34-acre Queer Land Project just outside of Olympia, Washington. The Project is home to about a dozen hardworking queers and a handful of children. Jess and her landmates are raising pigs, building yurts, and tapping trees for

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27:06

Ep. #1: Hip Hop Redemption

Odd One In ·

2022/08/26

ODD ONE IN is a podcast that shares stories of misfits making their own way. The show is hosted and produced by 2021 AIR New Voices Scholar Kristin Leong. This podcast is a production of ROCK PAPER RADIO. Listen and subscribe here. Odd One In debuts with host Kristin Leong sharing her own misfit journey through single motherhood, a Korean American musician’s bargain with God during a night in jail, and a rap battle tale of poetic justice triumphing over racism from Seattle’s original hip hop

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6:15

Recording in cars with girls

Odd One In ·

2022/08/23

ODD ONE IN is a podcast that shares stories of misfits making their own way. The show is hosted and produced by 2021 AIR New Voices Scholar Kristin Leong. This podcast is a production of ROCK PAPER RADIO. Listen and subscribe here, and then join us on Wednesday, August 24 for our podcast launch party in Seattle! For this final Odd One In teaser before our first episode drops(!), host and producer Kristin Leong joins her wife, ROCK PAPER RADIO mascot Keri Zierler, in the back of a hot Jetta to record

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2:14

Odd One In podcast trailer

Odd One In ·

2022/07/07

Second generation Korean American Phillip Lee thought he only had two options in life: work for his family’s food truck, or keep using drugs until he died. At 24-years-old, he found out there was a third option: music. In Odd One In’s debut podcast episode, follow Lee’s unexpected reinvention into Old Chingu as his life is saved through hip hop and faith. In this episode you’ll also meet author and professor Dr. Daudi Abe, Seattle first hip hop scholar, who will flip your understanding of what hip

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2:05

"Have you eaten yet?"

Odd One In ·

2022/03/10

For many of us in Asian families, food—and the question have you eaten yet in particular—is our love language. That was true for second generation Korean American musician Philip Lee, better known by his stage name Old Chingu. In this Odd One In teaser, Lee shares what it was like growing up feeling like a misfit living in a different world from his parents, whose affection he craved even if they always made sure he was well fed. This is a teaser of Old Chingu’s story, as well as one of the first

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1:59

From single mom to misfit producer

Odd One In ·

2022/02/24

ODD ONE IN is a podcast that shares stories of misfits making their own way. The show is hosted and produced by 2021 AIR New Voices Scholar Kristin Leong. This podcast is a production of ROCK PAPER RADIO. Listen and subscribe here.Today Kristin Leong is ODD ONE IN’s host and producer, but not too long ago she was in a much different place. In this teaser, hear how becoming a single mom when she still a nightclub bartender with a Sarah Lawrence degree and no clue what was next helped pave the way for

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1:37

"Hip hop itself is a misfit."

Odd One In ·

2022/02/18

ODD ONE IN is a podcast that shares stories of misfits making their own way. The show is hosted and produced by 2021 AIR New Voices Scholar Kristin Leong. This podcast is a production of ROCK PAPER RADIO. Listen and subscribe here.Dr. Daudi Abe is the northwest’s coolest scholar. He’s the author of Emerald Street: A History of Hip Hop in Seattle. Dr. Abe will be opening ODD ONE IN’s pilot episode featuring Old Chingu’s story of finding his way as a Korean American MC and first generation son. In

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1:47

Faith and hip hop saved his life

Odd One In ·

2022/02/10

ODD ONE IN is a podcast that shares stories of misfits making their own way. The show is hosted and produced by 2021 AIR New Voices Scholar Kristin Leong. This podcast is a production of ROCK PAPER RADIO. Listen and subscribe here. When Philip Lee was an 18-year-old community college student, he spent a night in jail high on Ecstasy and LSD. He thought he had died and was being punished for his troublemaking teenage ways. Lee made a bargain that night that changed his life. Today, Philip Lee is

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