Children of Dave

大卫之子

This American Life

2025-05-19

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Boen Wang has a theory that a lot of the misery in his life can be traced to a single moment that happened years before he was born. So he makes a pilgrimage to see if he’s right. Visit thisamericanlife.org/lifepartners to sign up for our premium subscription. Prologue: Ira talks about what it’s like to go back to 1119 Bayard Street in Baltimore. (6 minutes)Part One: Boen visits Norman, Oklahoma, where he was born, to meet the man he thinks changed his parents’ lives—and his life, too. (31 minutes)Part Two: Boen’s friend, Andrew, and his parents take what he learned in Part One, throw it into a blender, and push puree. (20 minutes)Transcripts are available at thisamericanlife.org This American Life privacy policy. Learn more about sponsor message choices.
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  • Hey there, podcast listeners.

  • Ira here to announce that I am helping kick off the Tribeca Festival with a live event in New York City on June 10th.

  • That's Tuesday night, June 10th.

  • I'm going to be on stage with Ira Madison III, the host of the podcast, Keep It.

  • What we're going to do is we're going to take a little era's tour through 30 years of this American life,

  • visit different periods of the show with clips and stories.

  • Tickets are on sale now at tribecafilm.com.

  • slash thisamericanlife.

  • Again, that is tribecafilm.com slash thisamericanlife.

  • If you're in New York, I hope you can come out.

  • I think it's going to be fun.

  • A quick warning.

  • There are curse words that are unbeaped in today's episode of the show.

  • If you prefer a beeped version, you can find that at our website, thisamericanlife.org.

  • My dad's ATM password was 1119 till the day he died.

  • 1119 was also in the password for his home Wi-Fi network.

  • 1119 was shorthand for 1119 Bayard Street, which is where his grandfather, my great-grandfather,

  • owned a tiny grocery store on the ground floor of a house in downtown Baltimore in the 1920s,

  • 30s, 40s, 50s.

  • Picture a neighborhood bodega, and you've got the general size of this thing.