Asian America: The Ken Fong Podcast

06/10/2025

If you haven't had the chance to listen to this episode yet, I highly commend that you do!

As the last of my short Honeymoon Reprise series I'm sharing what originally aired in June 2018 with medical doctors Allie and Joyce Taur. It's truly one of the most remarkable stories that I've ever shared on my platform in the entire eleven-plus years that I've been recording weekly stories. You'l...

06/10/2025

Now that we're back from our honeymoon, I'm finally able to post the Honeymoon Reprise Series' episodes to my social media feeds. Dr. Bandy X. Lee also has a Masters of Divinity degree.

Today, in 2025, there are numerous mental health professionals on television and streaming podcasts who talk openly about the state of President Trump's mental health. They don't pull any punches, given the ample evidence from his public appearances and his frequent online diatribes. They say he has...

06/10/2025

After posting EP 556 (Dr. Joseph Lee), I realized that I still needed to post the previous week's episode with Kaila Yu. I'm blaming this on jetlag.

Fetishized is a memoir-in-essays by Kaila Yu--a former pin-up model and lead singer of the all-Asian American female rock band Nylon Pink. The book delves into her personal journey as she confronts--and unpacks--the complexities of being both the object and agent of fetishization in a media landscap...

06/10/2025

We're back and so I was able to insert that correct audio track in this first installment of my brief Honeymoon Reprise series. Dr. Joseph Lee is such a needed breath of fresh air when it comes to raising healthy, happy children.

First aired in 2018, this episode still ranks in the Top 5 of most popular ones. I'm sharing it here as part of my short Honeymoon Reprise series.Dr. Joseph Lee shares about effective parenting skills for raising children to be secure, mature, and fulfilled people. Joseph also discusses why authorit...

22/09/2025

Aiyah! I just sampled this week’s Honey Reprise episode and I realized that I inserted Dr Bandy X Lee’s episode instead of Dr Joseph Lee’s. If you’d really like to listen to the latter’s sage advice on nonauthoritarian parenting, please go to Ep 157. I won’t be able to make the correction till early Oct when we get back.

20/09/2025

Hey, ardent listeners! Just to fill you in, Doreen and I are a little more than a week into our honeymoon in Italy and Spain! Which is why I haven’t posted recent episodes on social media and why starting 9/21 for the first time ever I’m posting three fantastic episodes from several years ago. If you remember listening to them when they first dropped, I think they’re worth listening to again. And if you’ve never heard them before, you’re in for a treat till we get back in early Oct.
And there’ll be a 2Kens episode re the assignation and then beatification of Charlie Kirk.

07/09/2025

It is an incredible honor to be the first podcaster to interview Dr. Jeff Chang about his latest book, "Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America," which drops on 9/23/25.

Water Mirror Echo is Dr. Jeff Chang's ambitous and deeply empathetic cultural biography of Bruce Lee that goes beyond myth, revealing the man behind the legend while tracing how Lee's life helped shape the emergence of Asian America. Chang's storytelling deftly intertwines Lee's personal narrative w...

31/08/2025

Here's your chance to learn more about the making of "The Hunting Wives," including the creating of the role of an Asian American female that wasn't in the book.

Jackie Dallas was only a year from finishing her residency in pathology when she decided to leave medicine, move to California, and pursue acting. Through hardworking and perverance, she has appeared on many hit shows, including playing "Jen Woo" (science teacher Mr. Clarke's girlfriend) in Season 1...

28/08/2025

Of course we had to do a postmortem on Focus on the Family in the aftermath of Dr. James Dobson's death last week.

For nearly 50 years conservative Christian psychologist Dr. James Dobson influenced countless couples, families, and churches through his globally ubiquitous Focus on the Family broadcasts, books, videos, and lectures. In the immediate aftermath of his death last week at the age of 89, podcasters Fo...

24/08/2025

One of the youngest people ever to appear on my podcast is also one of the most thoughtful and well-spoken. Teenaged Sabrina Wang was one of the first girls to crossover when the organization formerly known as Boy Scouts of America opened their doors to girls. She recently attained the lofty rank of Eagle Scout, becoming one of the first girls to accomplish this daunting feat.

eenaged Sabrina Wang has the distinction of being one of the first girls--Asian American or otherwise--to earn the coveted rank of Eagle Scout in what is now known as Scouting America. Formerly known as the Boy Scouts of America, the organization recently fully embraced a significant rebranding, ope...

18/08/2025

If you love spy thrillers, listen to my conversation with "Butterfly" cast member Sean Dulake, and then tune in to Amazon Prime's 6 episode series starring Daniel Dae Kim!

Actor Sean Dulake is part of the stellar cast of Amazon Prime's new Butterfly series, an espionage thriller set in Seoul, ROK, starring and executive produced by Daniel Dae Kim. What's unique about this spy show is that it revolves around the dynamics between a father and daughter, and a mother and....

13/08/2025

Guess what? Another "Two Kens" just dropped!

In this latest installment of the collaboration between podcasters Fong and Kemp, they describe America's state of "disaggregation" and implications for this country's future, given that it's only going to keep increasing. They also explain the mounting threat to the separation of church and state p...