Ten Thousand Things with Shin Yu Pai
Episodes
Bonus: The Musical Castle
07 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The season one finale of Field Notes explores the life and legacy of Seattle music producer Gary Mula and the musical castle he built at The Dutchman ...
Bonus: They Call Us Gold Star Trophy
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hosts of They Call Us Bruce, Jeff and Phil, welcome back Shin Yu Pai to talk about the latest season of Ten Thousand Things, along with fellow podcast...
Archives
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Earlier this year, author Amy Tan sold her personal archives — 62 boxes worth — to the University of California, Berkeley. When Shin Yu heard the ...
A Diagnosis
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When award-winning journalist Stephanie Foo was diagnosed with Complex PTSD, the information she found felt cold and clinical. What she needed was som...
Ganges Water
03 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Ganges is a sacred river in India that supports one of the most fertile and densely populated regions on the planet and serves as a site of daily ...
The Perfect Dress
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We all have that one item of clothing hanging in our closet, the one that we keep around for the moment when we’ve shed that extra 15 pounds. For Su...
Gold Star Trophy
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Yowei Shaw was laid off from her job, it felt less like a career shift and more like a breakup — one that unraveled her sense of identity and p...
Coming Soon: Season 4 of Ten Thousand Things
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ten Thousand Things is back for another season, now with Wonder Media Network. This season is about the objects that help us move forward — like a t...
A Note from Shin Yu
06 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A lot is changing for Ten Thousand Things. After three years with KUOW Public Radio, the podcast is now being produced by Wonder Media Network. New ep...
Inheriting (Special Episode)
02 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is an episode from a podcast called Inheriting from our friends at LAist Studios and the NPR Network. Hosted by NPR's Emily Kwong. Inheriting is ...
East Kong Yick Building
18 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The E. Kong Yick building houses the only pan-Asian Pacific American community-based museum in the country, The Wing Luke Museum. And it’s an anchor...
Loquat Tree
11 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Some trees are just special. One tree in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District has reached legendary status. The loquat tree is an artifact of ...
Ube Cheesecake
04 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is the sweet story of a viral and photogenic ube cheesecake. To many Filipino-Americans, ube is not a trend. It’s a staple. Yet here in the Un...
Tatung Cooker
28 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When Tiffany Ran left for college, her mom gifted her a Tatung cooker. The Tatung is a unique kitchen appliance that would be familiar to anyone with ...
Settlement
21 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Janet Lee, a freshman at Bryn Mawr, was heading home for Christmas break when she was detained by the police for alleged drug smuggling. Janet wasn’...
Cage
14 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jenny Liou is good at many things. She is a poet, an English professor, and former MMA Cage Fighter. It would be easy to see the cage as a place of li...
Mask
07 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We might wear a mask to fit in, to fulfill someone else’s expectations, or to navigate a white-centric world. For Shin Yu, the mask was real. It was...
Teardrop Lip
30 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Leanna Keith knew the flute was her instrument. But she was discouraged from trying it in middle school by a white teacher who said her anatomy (a tea...
Season 3 Trailer
16 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This season on Ten Thousand Things: We're back with season three! This season features the stories of trailblazing Asian American women and the resili...
Live Show
09 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Before we return for our THIRD season of Ten Thousand Things on April 30th, we wanted to share a special recording. In September of 2022, we celebrate...
TTT Recommends: Books and Boba
10 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Fans of Ten Thousand Things might enjoy Books and Boba from the Potluck Podcast Collective. Books and Boba is a book club podcast all about books writ...
TTT Recommends: Shoes Off
26 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We want to introduce you to a new podcast you may like, "Shoes Off". Join hosts Susie An and Esther Yoon-Ji Kang as they hang out with badass Asians a...
Voice
19 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a story about the way we make a statement. Alice Wong, a Chinese-American disability activist, came into her own as a public personality ...
Bike
12 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Anti-Asian hate crimes spiked during the Covid-19 pandemic. And then the Atlanta spa shooting scarred a community already suffering.But Kae-Lin Wang t...
Book
05 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Shawn Wong discovered the first Japanese American novel, No-No Boy, at a used bookstore for 50 cents, after being told by his English professors that ...
Jizo Bodhisattva
29 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
During the mizu kuyo ritual for pregnancy loss, a small Jizo Bodhisattva statue enshrines ceremonial remains of a lost child.Following Shin Yu’s mis...
Steelhead
22 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dylan Tomine has a passion for steelhead trout. Or an obsession. Or an addiction. His steelhead passion has brought him close to beautiful places, dri...
Time Capsule
15 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On the eve of selling her family’s house, Donna Miscolta’s daughter had a special request: Go to the stairwell and pull back the loose board on th...
Resume
08 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Eason Yang was on an ambitious career trajectory, helping tech companies like Uber change the world. Until he got cancer. Eason spent two years active...
Name
01 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When we come into this world we are given a name. It is etched in ink on our birth certificate, pasted onto our cubbies in pre-school and signed onto ...
Trailer: Ten Thousand Things
17 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In many Chinese sayings, “ten thousand” is used in a poetic sense to convey something infinite, vast, and unfathomable. For Shin Yu Pai – award-...
The Blue Suit
29 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Congressman Andy Kim was photographed on Jan. 6 2021 picking up trash in the Capitol rotunda, in the aftermath of that day’s chaos. The indelible im...
Califone
22 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The vintage Califone record player allows sound artist Paul Kikuchi to access and share songs that he inherited from his great-grandfather and other 7...
Chinese-English Dictionary
15 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
After his father’s death, Byron Au Yong turned to paper folding. Chinese paper folding revolves around making objects for the dead. Byron...
Dakin Drooper Dog
08 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, our host, Shin Yu Pai, revisits an object from her own life. Shin Yu gave her toddler son a stuffed toy from her own childhood. ...
Vitrified Glass
01 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In a small clear box, Etsuko Ichikawa keeps a small piece of vitrified glass that was given to her on a tour of the Hanford nuclear site. This vitrifi...
Miso
25 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tomo Nakayama usually puts his creative energy into his harmonious music. But when the pandemic hit, he found a new outlet: cooking.Cooking his way th...
Night-Blooming Cereus
18 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we learn about how Jessica’s passion for plant collecting developed. Currently, there are more than 365 specimens in her collection...
Red Chador
11 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A chador garment worn by some Muslim women is usually black. Not Anida Yoeu Ali's. Her chador is red and sparkly. As a performance artist, Anida...
Trailer: The Blue Suit
30 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In a world full of stuff, what is worth keeping? What do we treasure? Explore modern-day heirlooms with The Blue Suit, a new KUOW podcast hosted and c...