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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The Mel Robbins Podcast · This Conversation Will Change How You Think About Your Entire Life · 26 Jan 2026 podcast

I feel even better now meeting everybody.

Okay.

You ready?

Abject... Objection.

Oh, my God.

I play in a queer basketball league with my brother.

I'm trying to imagine that, by the way.

And so you can look at your enemy one day.

And I'm not that great at it.

I think some of the monks... I was going to say, have you gotten there?

I'm like, oh, my God.

I've gotten little glimpses.

I think the monks are much better than us.

Thank you for that.

Thank you.

All right.

Fresh Air · Ocean Vuong Sees Himself More As A Teacher Than A Writer · 6 Jun 2025 podcast

It's a pleasure to be here.

I imagine every author is nervous because you put so much care and work into something, but I... I never expected to write on my own terms so soon in my life. Everything I did was for my family, and I got really comfortable with that. It was never a burden. But then when my mother passed, I inherited my brother. My brother moved in, so my family got bigger.

We moved, and I started writing this book January 18, 2020. And it was my way out of grief. I thought, okay, I'm fully an orphan now. You know, I said, goodbye, mom. I'm going to write this without you. It's my first book from start to finish without her.

Sure. It's a town where high school kids, having nowhere to go on Friday nights, park their stepfather's trucks in the unlit edges of the Walmart parking lot, drinking Smirnoff out of Poland Spring bottles and blasting Weezer and Lil Wayne until they look down one night to find a baby in their arms and realize they're 30-something and the Walmart hasn't changed except for its logo.

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