Ocean Vuong

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1,158 appearances 4 recordings 4 series first heard May 2025 last heard 26 Jan

Ocean Vuong’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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I could have went home to my mom and said, Mom, I tried.

I can't do it.

I'm not cut out to go to chase J.P.

Morgan like all my colleagues are with their suits.

I don't have a suit.

We have one suit.

It's called a funeral suit.

That's all I had.

I didn't even bring it.

I was optimistic going to New York.

I was like, I'm not going to bring my funeral suit.

I went to enough funerals.

So that's all I had, you know?

And I didn't even conceive that you had to wear a suit for an internship.

So I was so out of place that I just, I felt like a fool.

And I didn't have the wisdom I had now.

I couldn't show up to that place and just see how much of an outsider I was.

So I dropped out and I roamed the streets, couch surfing, doing open mics.

And

Someone would say, why don't you just go home?

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