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From Taiwan to Canada: Pete Young's Journey of Creativity and Innovation (Part 1)

• Paula Mohammed • Episode 17

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Ever wondered what it takes to navigate the complexities of identity and culture,  as a young immigrant? 

In this two-part episode, Taiwanese-Canadian artist and educator Pete (Shouh) Young takes us on a journey through his life, sharing how his experience of moving from Taiwan to Vancouver at the age of nine shaped his art, his studies, and his sense of self. From the challenges of adapting to a new language and culture, to the founding of Young Guns Studio to mentor young artists, Pete's story is one of resilience, creativity, and a deep connection to his roots. Pete shares how his parents, a meaningful Chinese name, and food traditions, continue to influence who he is today.


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This episode has so many gems in it. From daikon soup to cultivating innovation in our teens. Pete is a Taiwanese Canadian artist and educator. And in our chats, he talks about his journey from Taiwan to Vancouver. What that was like as an immigrant at the age of nine, navigating the school system, cultural shifts, language barriers. I discover. What amazing parents he had and how they recognized. Pete's strengths at a very young age and made it a mission to cultivate those strengths, meaning that they were going to uproot their lives and move to a different country. Get ready for conversation brimming with energy, curiosity, and heartwarming stories about embracing your roots. And chasing your dreams. Hi, I'm Paula Mohamed and welcome to In My Kitchen with Paula. This podcast is a gathering place for culinary adventures who love to travel. Every week, we'll come together with chefs, cookbook authors, talented home cooks, and everyone in between to talk about their story and their unique dish. Using food as the vehicle, we'll take a ride into the ins and outs of their culture and country. Come on, let's get this party started. Pete Shouh Young. Really excited to have this conversation with you.

Pete:

Thank you, Paula. I'm super excited.

Paula:

Pete Shouh Young is a Taiwanese Canadian artist and educator who founded Young Guns Studio in 2008 to create the supportive, inspiring environment he wished he'd had as a young artist. A graduate of OCAD's industrial design program, Pete combines his own journey of challenging expectations and embracing creativity with a mission to nurture young talent with agency. Through Young Guns, he has guided students to secure more than, get this, this is one, one person here and a young, a young gun himself. He has secured more than 900 acceptance letters and over 8. 5 million in scholarships for his students, fostering a community where mentorship, curiosity, and dreams take root and flourish. Pete, my first thought when I read your bio there is, there's two stories here. And one is your, the founder's story of Young Guns, your Young Guns studio and your mission for nurturing innovation. And then the second story is your story of you immigrating to Canada from Taiwan and being raised in Vancouver. But then I wondered, prepping for our interview is, perhaps one caused the other and this is just one story because I can't help but compare your drive and passion for innovation for exactly what's happening in Taiwan where it feels like, you know, what I've read is the country strategically moving in a direction of being very innovative. I want to chat a little bit about that later, but first of all, How about sharing with our listeners a little bit about your story? When did you come to Vancouver? What was that like for you?

Pete:

Yes, I grew up in Taiwan, and spent a good part of my formative years of my childhood there, till when I was nine. And it was a very abrupt transition because I feel like, life the way I had known it all the way till eight or nine years of age. Was, this is home, and I would never move away from this place. My friends, my family, they're all there. My parents told me one day that, Hey son, we're, we're gonna move to Vancouver, we're gonna move to Canada. As a kid, like, we went to, uh, the States. I forgot, like, they brought us to different places. We would travel, but I'd never been to Canada. Actually, I'd been to Toronto, but it was like, I forgot everything about Toronto. And so I'm just like, Oh, okay. Like why? You know? And, my parents really didn't explain that much back then, but, in, in hindsight, what they were telling, because I would ask them questions, like, as I grew up, it's like, oh, um, we're now in Vancouver, we're now in Canada, at first I hated it here,, cause I was like, I didn't speak a word of English, and, when I sat down in my first class, I felt so alienated

Paula:

Oh,

Pete:

and I was really desperately, I remember that day so vividly, I was like looking around and everyone's Caucasian, i, I was searching for an Asian face and I tried to speak Mandarin to this Asian kid but he doesn't know how to speak any Mandarin. So it was very difficult because the language part of, you know, my expression, right? It's like, I understood how to communicate. I love the language. I love Mandarin. I would be able to, I actually wrote a lot of poetry when I was a little kid in Mandarin. It went from, that was my like natural way of thinking and expressing myself to all of a sudden, my relationship with English. It forced me to think about language as a very structured way of like learning, that there's all of a sudden, there's no creativity to it, at least the way I understood it. There has to be rules. I have to learn vocab, I have to learn grammar, and it was just all very, very difficult. So, I would continuously ask my parents, like, why? Like, why did we move here? And my dad was still working in Taiwan, so he would fly back and forth. So it was really just my sis, my older sister, and my mom and I. In these conversations, you know, as we grew up, I began to really understand why, um, and I'm really grateful for this move. I think in hindsight, it's really literally the best thing that could have happened for us. yes, on one hand, I feel like I'm always in this limbo state we used to joke that like Asian kids like me, we're bananas

Paula:

We're what?

Pete:

Bananas. We're banana. Like, we're yellow on the outside, but really white on the inside. And it's, I, I used to think about this as a negative, like going back to my name, Peter's Son, right? Knew myself as Young Jia Shouh, which is my Mandarin name, but all of a sudden I was given This new English name, and this new English name, Peterson, Peter's son, is so foreign to me. I'm like, don't call me that, like, what, who is that? I don't even know who that is. But I think in hindsight, like, this is the best thing that could have happened to us, like my sister and I, because we're very, we probably hear this word very, very common nowadays, it's interdisciplinary. I saw it as an neg, but now I actually see it as a strength, um, as a positive, because I can be this bridge between the two cultures.

Paula:

Right? Mm-hmm

Pete:

I was really exposed to this, and it's fascinating to think even just like from, when I was baby to nine years old, I received this type of education, thinking, where the cultural identity is about, like, you respect your elderlies, and, you do your chores, you contribute, you're supposed to be very studious, and I think that mindset has helped me, gain a lot of agency. address my own life. And but would be that it's in school or in my own like personal studio practice now. But it also takes me through this process of knowing that, oh, I think that, that education The academia in Taiwan of like how, and same thing with China, Japan, Korea, right? It's all the same thing. You have to be very, very, very studious. You have to be a very smart, intellectually book smart student, because in order for you to have any kind of future, you have to score very, very high. And that brings us back to why my parents brought us abroad at such an early age, because they knew that, my sister and I, I think they saw a lot of creative potential in me when I was a very, very young kid. And so they're like, well, no, a kid like Pete will not be able to thrive and foster this kind of educational framework of this idea of rote learning. So that's why we got pulled out. So, to summarize my experience, I literally felt like my life was unrooted and I got like thrown into this entirely new environment and I had to learn to, instead of sinking, I had to learn to frantically learn how to swim on my own. And I did that. And I think that is what was, like, that's the best gift that my parents had given me. So, these trials and tribulations, they, I think, they helped me develop a lot of mental fortitude. In high school, it's not easy, right? In elementary, it's not easy. In high school, it's also not easy because, I still felt like I was this weird, You know, alienated kid who's, who has friends,

Paula:

Mm-hmm

Pete:

but I still have a deep sense of insecurity that, oh, that's still with me today. Right? It's a lot better now, but I had this extreme sense of insecurity that like, Why am I not as good looking and attractive, as popular, as my friends, right? And it's like, when I think about those things, it's so interesting because it's rooted in this stigma, like, we would watch Disney movies when we were little. I actually just re watched Sleeping Beauty and then Little Mermaid. Those were like, my favorite movies when I was a little kid. And then when I watch those movies, I'm like, ah, okay, I can see where those, like, thoughts of insecurity came from. It's because the prince was always this very handsome young white man. And I'm like, wait, I don't have hair like that. I don't have facial features like that. Yeah. So anyway,

Paula:

First of all, the insight that you have, the reflection that you have looking back on it, is, um, very thoughtful. And also I just, I would love to meet your parents because my goodness, just without giving away your age, but let's say what decade were you, did you move to Vancouver? Are we talking the nine nineties, 96. Okay. So, your parents, instead of having you, develop, strengths that you may not be so strong at, they, they put you in a situation where you could flourish by having the opportunity to really let your strengths that you are strong at, develop and grow. I'm a parent of teenage boys and, I'm not sure if I have that kind of foresight and, and insight and, the, the thoughtfulness of what they did amazes me.

Pete:

I always think back to that and I'm, you know, when I was, when I was a kid, I didn't understand, but I think now as an adult and also as a parent, I, I get very emotional when I think about what my parents had to do for me,

Paula:

Mm hmm.

Pete:

That it's the, the amount that they're willing to give up, like just between my dad and, and my mom, like, you know, separating, living in like completely different sides of the world. And also my mom coming here and not being able to see her family. She didn't know she was literally on her own. And the amount that they had to give up in order to give us a chance. And that they saw a

Paula:

Ah. It's beautiful. It's so lovely to see that you recognize it and how grateful you are. And probably being a young dad yourself now, it probably hits home even more, right?

Pete:

hundred percent. You know, it, it takes so much courage for them to, cause you know, the family values, it's definitely there, right? Like we would visit our grandparents like every weekend. And so it must've been incredibly difficult for my parents to, especially for my mom to move away to a complete like foreign land that she's literally never stepped foot in. And, and it's like, she must've felt so like alone.

Paula:

Mm hmm.

Pete:

But it's, it's like the, the mental fortitude that she must have had is incredible, knowing that she was to leave all these things behind, but, I'm starting to understand that now, right? When, when parents used to say, hey, I would do anything for my kid, like, I would literally give my life, that's, now that I have a baby boy, a toddler, that's literally what I would do, my meaning of life has shifted. it's gone completely in a different direction where I feel like everything I do is actually for my son, you know, um, yeah. In speaking a little bit to that, I don't think I've kind of fully talked about that story of what I was able to receive in this, um, this Western education. I think the first couple of years. And to me, it's all fate. The first couple of years in the arts, I was literally, had no word of English. And so my way of communicating my thoughts, my ideas, I had to like, find some measure to do so. It was not just like trying to observe people's like body language, right? And really trying to comprehend what they were saying to me, what they're gesturing to me. But I quickly realized drawing became my identity because as the teachers are talking, I'm just like, okay, I'm going to listen. But I'm looking at all this English gibberish, so I'm just gonna start drawing on there, right? So I became, that, in a strange way, that gave me so much, like, so much freedom to be able to draw the things that I want to draw. And, uh, that became my identity in the way that I am. others, my peers, my friends,, they started to notice my talents. And it's like, oh, Pete can draw like, oh, Pete can draw like Goku, from Dragon Ball Z. And then Pete can draw Leonardo DiCaprio. I remember doing a portrait of him, like in pointillism, because like we had that, that was the chapter, that was a lesson that was given. And just people were mesmerized, my friends were mesmerized, This one girl came up to me and was like, Hey Pete, can I please have that drawing? Would want to put it, up on my wall. And I went, you like my drawing that much that you want to have it on your wall? That became really fascinating to me that, you know, art, for the first time, I was like, oh, it's not just fun for me, but it has the power to move others.

Paula:

Right.

Pete:

That became my, my destiny almost. Like, it's my destiny. In a strange way, I was looking for who I, what my new identity is, and I found it through arts. And that's been, fortified, in all these years in high school, I became known as the artist. And actually then, in selecting majors, career paths, I knew it had to be related to the arts somehow.

Paula:

When you talked about, moving here, and you talked about almost like you lost your identity of who you were, before you moved. Looking back now, who you are now versus if you had stayed in Taiwan, very different people, what are your thoughts on that?

Pete:

The two different Petes would have been very, very different. I've, I've always appreciated this, perspective where I feel like we need to be well traveled. I feel like we need to be very worldly, and it's not because traveling is fun, it is, I absolutely love it, but I think it's more this notion that when we travel, we are encountering people are very different than our bubble, than what we're used to, and I think it's engaging with these people. Either just quietly observing or directly talking to them of different identities, backgrounds, that we are then like exposing ourselves to new ideas. But even beyond that, I think is developing that empathy, that it's not just me and my culture. It's that empathy to understand, to develop that compassion, to understand that there are people of all walks of life, all races, all ethnicities, and In developing that empathy and hearing their stories, you really start to open yourself up to going, Oh, there's more than one way to do anything and everything. And I think that's the biggest change, like the Pete who would have probably traveled a little bit, but it would have been traveling to You know, places like Tokyo, Thailand, that's like really close to Taiwan,

Paula:

Mm hmm.

Pete:

That's what my, my family and very few friends that are in Taiwan, that's what they do. That's like in, their normality. I think in comparing, contrasting to my lifestyle now, or, my friends that are, have moved abroad. I think that like idea of the globalized citizen. It's so much better to develop like a young mind to be able to help every individual and including me to kind of go, Oh, cool. Maybe down the line today we'll talk about innovation and creativity. I think that's absolutely, like, that's imperative, and to be able to turn into the person I am today, I really don't think that I would have been the person I am today if it's not for this exposure.

Paula:

Do you go back to Taiwan very often?

Pete:

No not as much as I like, you know, pre COVID, uh, my sister and my brother in law, my niece, they're there. So pre COVID we'll go back like once every summer, but post COVID I haven't been back since 2019. So I'm going back, uh, uh, next February. That's very exciting.

Paula:

And you'll take your little boy.

Pete:

Yes. Yes.

Paula:

Say for people who want to explore Taiwan, any advice, suggestions, must dos, for going to Taiwan? I know I've heard that the food is phenomenal in the, food markets out of this world.

Pete:

So Taiwan, you can see it as like, it's split into three parts. There's the North Taipei, and then there's the middle part of Taiwan. Then there's a South, that's called Kenting. I've literally, which is so sad. I've never been to Kenting. But Kenting is like, maybe it's more seen as the, it has these like the Hawaii of Taiwan, I guess it has these like beaches and so on and so forth. But it's like this contrast between when I think about this contrast, it would be this contrast between a very metropolitan like city to then, the countryside. And there's like quite a stark difference. and it's, it's quite lovely to be able to experience Taiwan like that. My usual stops. This is my recommendation. I would, stay in Taipei. And then there is, uh, south, I think it's southeast of Taipei. There's this place that's not too far, provided if you're avoiding rush hour traffic. About 45 minute drive south of Taipei. It's called Yilan, Y I L A N. And that's the countryside.

Paula:

Okay.

Pete:

Uh, and it's beautiful. I've been there once back in 2017 and it's just, it's beautiful. It's calm, quaint, and it's nothing like the Taiwan that I've ever experienced in Taipei because I literally, like, just grew up in Taipei. I've never really gone to other places. And then there's, north of Taipei, there is a, a little town called Jiufen. Uh, J I U F E N. Yeah, Jiufen, the movie Spirited Away. It's the art is inspired by Jiufen itself. so it's this little town that's like hitched into the, uh, not the countryside but in the mountains. And it's just has such like, culture, like rich in Taiwanese culture, the buildings and the way that the, these little streets are like nestled next to each other, these Shop, and you got market, you, oh, of course you have really great food. Yeah, so those places I would definitely recommend. And then the other thing is, uh, hot springs. Hot springs are awesome. So you could definitely live, very, very I wouldn't say I, when I, in my mind, I go like, when I go back to Taiwan and live like a king, but it's not necessarily the king in terms of like opulence, right? It's more, oh man, like the food is so good. And what you ate for, you know, when you're converting like Canadian, US to like Taiwanese dollars, it's like, oh my God, like an amazing meal is 2.

Paula:

Wow. Okay. Yeah.

Pete:

It's just mind boggling and literally you could go to like the, you know, a corner street vendor and it would be like the best food ever, right? It's just, it's amazing. Like the street food there, the markets there, it's to die for. Like those are the things that I really like, you know, look forward to. And the other thing is their, 7 Elevens. It's not like the 7 Elevens that we know. Like, the 7 Elevens here suck. But the 7 Elevens, the Family Marts in Taiwan, just like Japan. Oh my god. It's, I literally, I kid you not, I have dreams. I still have dreams about it where, I'd wake up in a cold sweat because I'd be like in the mart, the family mart or a 7 Eleven saying to my wife, babe, like, oh my God, like this is my last moment before I get to hop on the plane. I need to buy everything I can here and eat all the food that I can here.

Paula:

You've sparked a real interest in me to go, go there. I love the sound of, I'm going to pronounce it wrong, Yalin and Jiufen. Jiufen?

Pete:

yes, yes. Eli and Angel. Yes. And just lastly, the people, the people there, they're so nice. They're so friendly. Um, and they're so helpful. So it's a lovely place to visit.

Paula:

So, solo female traveler um, safe? Yeah,

Pete:

A hundred percent. Yes. Yes.

Paula:

Food, did it play a big role in your upbringing?

Pete:

Oh, a hundred percent. Huge, massive. Every weekend on Saturdays, it was visiting my, paternal grandparents. Or sorry, maternal, and then every Sunday it's the paternal grandparents. And it's, it's that was the ritual. weekends we'll go, and what do we do? We hang out, we watch TV, we'd always have food, like, You know, it's always lunch, and and then like after lunch, we would have like snacks, like fruits, and just have such a great time with family. But everything evolved around food. That's what I miss about it the most, which is these big family gatherings. I don't have that anymore, it's my, we have a very small family compared to, you know, my parents generation. My parents, uh, both sides, they have, three to four siblings. Especially if we're talking about like, Chinese New Year, like they would do. So my, my uncle, like literally the best cook. So my mom's brother, the best cook. he actually owned a restaurant, uh, and, every year, for Chinese New Year, like he would do these dishes and it was not like five dishes. It was like 25

Paula:

Oh my gosh.

Pete:

You know, and I miss that so much because, it's just that's so deeply rooted in my core memory

Paula:

Yeah.

Pete:

what it is about and to be able to taste these foods. And in particular, there's one dish, and know, in preparation for the podcast, I was thinking back to like all these different dishes that we had. There's this one dish, Daikon Soup.

Paula:

and we'll have, we have the recipe for this one, right? That's the one that you shared. So I'll put that in the Show notes. Yeah.

Pete:

I got the recipe for this one. Daikon Soup. Daikon is a, I'm pretty sure that's a Japanese word, but if you were to translate that, the Taiwanese version of Daikon Soup is Taiwanese Soup from Pork Bones. And if I were to use Mandarin, it's called Pai Gu. Pai Gu is Pork Bones. is daikon. is soup. So it's Or in short, we just say So like pork bone soup. But it's not the Korean version of pork bone soup. This is the Taiwanese version of it. And it's very, very simple. I don't really cook myself, uh, because my mom and my wife, they're both amazing cooks. So.

Paula:

Very lucky.

Pete:

I'm very, very lucky in that sense, absolutely. A very simple dish, but I remember the way that my grandma would make it. Literally, only she can make it in that way. I have yet to taste from anyone else the same flavor and the same richness to flavor, I would say. I can still, like, remember the taste of it, like, so vividly. It's like, that again is a part of that core memory of my childhood. When I think back to, like, what's the most magical, whatever the best moments, it's a lot of it, it comes back to food. It's the perfect like combination and blend of all of your senses. It's not just the visual, of course visual is a part of it, it's not really just a taste, it's the smell, it's even the sound, when I think back to these memories of me as a little six, seven year old, like sitting on the dinner table with surrounded by the big family and tasting the soup, it's just like, oh, okay, that's grandma. You know, so, uh, yeah. So that dish is very special. Um, my mom still makes it, but again, with her flavor and then my wife makes it, it's with her flavor, actually my in law, my, in law mom, like she also makes it in her way, she does their Cantonese. So they have like their way of making it. But it's just really interesting to me. I think about my, maybe, genealogy a lot, like my ancestors, right? I always try to think about oh, it would be so wonderful to hear about their stories. I'm not just talking about my, let's say, great grandparent, but it would be like great great great great, like thinking that and just thinking about how these dishes, they must have been passed down through the generations, that I'm essentially tasting legacy,

Paula:

I just love that you have, you've recognized that you have that. Perspective. What a great way to say it. Yeah. It's like a common thread, Through the generations. And I think each generation should feel that they're allowed the creativity to put their own thumbprint on it. It doesn't have to be the exact same. And I think that's the story of our heritage and how it evolves.

Pete:

100%.

Paula:

It's almost like if we all had a piece of art that gets passed down through the generations that everyone gets to put a paint stroke on

Pete:

I don't think that's a stretch at all, because in a way, it's like every painting, it's an embodiment of who you are. And, it's these, every painting is, it requires you to make all these choices, every stroke is a decision. And I feel like, why is art so important to, to me, and that's why I want to continuously giving, be giving this gift to others, is we're increasingly living in this world that's Becoming more and more inhuman, with the advent of artificial intelligence. Think about how we perceive the world nowadays. So much of that, let's say 80 years ago, our primary sensors, our primary sources. That's, that makes up for maybe what, 70, 80 percent of how we understand the world. We hear stories, we talk to people, we write things down, we draw things. If we want to see architecture, go see the Pantheon. Yeah, maybe we can see it through a picture book, a history book, but we most likely will want to travel to the Pantheon to see it in person. But nowadays, because information is so prevalent, it's so easy to attain that Everything becomes about this secondary source.

Paula:

hmm,

Pete:

90%, 95 percent becomes about secondary source. if I were to like paint something, I want to paint, let's say, the Great Pyramid. It's probably not because I've been there. So it's probably then through an image that I found on the internet. Maybe it's even generated by AI. Right? That's why I think when it comes to, like, sketching on paper, you don't have to be a great artist, right? Quote unquote. Sketching something on paper, jotting down some idea on paper, um, moving a brush, it doesn't have to look like anything. It, it's just this process of you really trying to connect back with your own humanity. And that humanity, I think, again, like the humanity of me, of every individual is passed down through the generations of your heritage. So in a way, like everything that I do, everything that I draw, everything that I make, it's through my heritage.

Paula:

Pete, were your parents, either of your parents, had the creative background or an artistic streak in them?

Pete:

Definitely my mom, not my dad. My dad, he always, I try to teach my dad how to draw and he's like, son, don't even try. Uh, he's like, I can't, that's what people say, right? He's like, I can't draw a stick figure if you have forced me to. But my mom, and my grandma, both very, very creative.

Paula:

Mm.

Pete:

And, my grandma, she used to, she used to make clothes, like handmade clothes and would, uh, sell these clothes. And then she would also make these little, flowers, like artifacts and again, to like, to sell. And, my mom, I know she's always been, you know, I got that side of the genes from my mom and my grandma's side. So there's this really, Interesting part of my story growing up, when I was nine, so my dad used to work for this company called A Gun, they're an insurance company, global insurance company, and they held this Christmas card drawing contest. I believe it was open to all ages. And then my dad was like, Hey, why don't you try to enter, into this Christmas card drawing contest? And I was like, okay, sure, why not? So I did up this drawing, and it was, like, very abstract. Think of, like, a bit of, a Picasso, right? It was very abstract. It was of this, I don't know, man, I was so creative back then. It's wonderful. I remember vividly what I drew. But it was like a Picasso esque, but this idea of like these two beings, identities, and they're like melted into one. They're amalgamated into one. I don't even know what I was thinking back then. But it's so interesting because now, in our conversation today, that's, it aligns exactly what we're talking about, you know, different identities. I'm trying to resolve that. Back to how my mom came in. So I didn't even know this. I was done. I used my markers, colorized it, and I was like, okay, this is great. I signed off on the project. I thought it was just like, okay, I'm not going to win anything. There are probably like so many contestants. I didn't think much of it. and then my mom Shouhwed me in the mail. She was hey, son, come here and check this out. And she opened up the mail and it was, uh, this certificate. And it was like that I won first place. And they actually sent us a bunch of the cards and I looked at the cards. I'm like, Mom, I didn't really add that background. I don't remember adding that background.

Paula:

They embellish it?

Pete:

And it was not them, it was actually my mom because so what she did was she just wrote like Merry Christmas, in as a pattern, like diagonally across in the background. And what she told me was like, son, it's a Christmas card drawing, you know, and your theme was not that obvious in terms of the relation to Christmas, festivities of it. It's like things like that, when, I, when I think about like my mom, and, her creativity, and how she uses her creativity or how she uses that to nurture my creativity, is really interesting. Yeah.

Paula:

Wow. I love this episode. Part one, off to a great start. It was so interesting sitting down with Pete and hearing him talk and recognizing the sacrifices of this parents made and seeing this, the resiliency that he showed at the age of nine. I mean, talk about turning lemons into lemonade and creating his identity around his art. This continues. in part two, we get more into innovation and creativity. If you have a young person in your world, That is into art and maybe interested in industrial design part two. Pete shares more about how to navigate that system as well. So, what are the interesting way to explore culture through art and seeing these different influences on Pete from a young boy to where he is today. So thanks for listening and catch you in part two.

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