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This is a bit of rambler about the quality of Vietnamese food in Edmonton and Winnipeg.

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We have the super softest bachelor party ever in Panorama, BC. This was back in 2012. No strippers, plenty of beer and Krusty's dignity was forfeit. Great times.

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You don't get to be my size without eaten a Saskatchewan portion's worth of animals.

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The first in a series on notable Vietnamese persons. In this episode, we briefly go over (based on what Wikipedia made available):

• The Trưng Sisters
• Phùng Thị Chính 
• Lady Triệu 
• Lê Lợi
• Trần Hưng Đạo
• Bùi Thị Xuân
• Hồ Chí Minh and
• Võ Nguyên Giáp.

We also discuss what the French brought to the table after their conquest of Vietnam while reminiscing on the great bánh mì Dennis got from a Vietnamese food place in a Saskatoon gas station.

PS: Apparently this is our 100th episode (including our old PCP and Your Internet Uncle episodes). Huge Danke to our listener in Frankfurt Am Main, Hesse, Deustchland. There might be a semi-regular listener in Ashburn, Virginia. We're grateful if you keep listening too. Off to record the next 100. 

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Not sure why I keep getting asked to cook for others. I've never poisoned anyone, but I have started fires in places where they shouldn't be. Fresh off the heels our Panorama shenanigans, here's more times where I burned food till it was edible.

PS: This is a redux of Season 1, Episode 44 "Jon is a cooking hazard".

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Not the paying kind, but the saving kind. Recognizing the folks who brought my (and a bunch of other) Viet families out of the Malaysian refugee camp to Canada.

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I am no longer allowed to write the things we use to say about Beardsley anymore. Not without a stern talking to from HR.

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I'm not dangerous in vehicles, just to them. I'm pretty sure the old man was happy when I started buying more own cars and paying for my own screw ups. And that little car preview photo? It's a car I'll never be able to afford or fix once I'm done with it.

PS: This is a redux of Season 1, Episode 27 "Jon's Vehicle Mayhem".

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Welcome to "Why an S and not a V?" - a podcast about Vietnam, from the perspective of a foreign born Vietnamese trying to learn about his homeland.

This episode focuses on the foundation of Vietnam, a story wrapped in the mists of time and legend. I briefly talk about Lac Long Quan (the Dragon Prince) and Au Co (the Snow Fairy), called the Father and Mother of Vietnam. Au Co birthed an egg from which 100 children sprang forth, continuing the  Hong Bang dynasty of the Hung Kings founded by Lac Long Quan's father. This dynasty lasted 2,319 years until the fall of the nation of Van Lang.

The Vietnamese government made the Hùng Kings' Temple Festival (Vietnamese: Giỗ Tổ Hùng Vương or Lễ hội đền Hùng) an official national holiday in 2007. In 2023, it was on 29 April.

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Born to run.