Kimmy Yam shares her experience building and sustaining NBC Asian America—a rare, deeply reported outlet that centered working-class Asian American voices, especially Fujianese communities, with rigor and care. Its abrupt shutdown symbolizes a broader crisis: the erosion of sustained, race-informed hard news coverage outside DEI framing, compounded by industry-wide instability, declining trust, and algorithm-driven misinformation. The conversation confronts flawed notions of journalistic 'neutrality,' arguing instead for principled, perspective-grounded objectivity. Amid personal reckonings—including Kimmy’s identity crisis post-layoff and Phil’s health-driven transformation—the hosts affirm journalism as both vocation and identity. They spotlight urgent needs: safer communal spaces, sustainable media models, and renewed commitment to truth-telling that honors complexity over convenience. The Year of the Horse becomes a metaphor—not just for speed or energy, but for endurance, partnership, and purposeful movement forward.