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Escape From Plan A is an ongoing discussion of life and politics in America from the perspective of Asian people living here.
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Fred joins Teen to discuss how to maintain adherence to a contemporary lifestyle (careerism, consumerism) when the foundational narrative upon which that lifestyle rests has been undermined by 'narrative rupture': real artificial intelligence, real global virus outbreak, real illimunati, and (post-recording) real war.Part 1 of 2For access to part 2 and all bonus episodes: patreon.com/planamag
Mike and Steve join Teen from LA and HK (respectively) to talk about America in the era of conspiracy, Epstein as the Merovingian, and what the future reboot of the American Matrix will be like in comparison to current release version.Part 1 of 2For access to Part 2 and all bonus episodes: patreon.com/planamag
Angelica joins Teen from Taipei to discuss America's image from abroad, what the Epstein Files have done to American legitimacy in the eyes of our Asian 'allies', and whether China is an alternative or a replacement for what America once was.Part 1 of 2For access to Part 2 and all bonus episodes: patreon.com/planamagAngelica's Taipology YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TaipologyAngelicaAngelica's Taipology Substack: https://taipology.substack.com/
Right in the middle of a work day, Mike joins Teen to talk about Claude Code, tech and finance jobs, and whether we need to start positioning for a market bubble pop.Part 1 of 2For access to Pt 2 and all Bonus Episodes: patreon.com/planamag
Jess and Teen discuss the dilemma of caring for older parents and what old people portend for what's coming for the middle-aged.Part 1 of 2For Pt. 2 and Bonus Episodes: patreon.com/planamag
Chris joins Teen to discuss whether the intra-racial gender and class tensions among Asian Americans as a group - much discussed on this podcast in the past - might shed light on the raging hostility and violence over the killing of Renee Good at the hands of federal agents.Part 1 of 2For access to bonus pods: patreon.com/planamag
Mike (@meow_meow_2020) joins Teen from Dalian to talk about moving to Northeastern China, whether China is liberalizing, is Xi Jinping the Chinese Ronald Reagan, and why China should be compared to the US as it exists today, but back at its Cold War peak in the mid-1980s.Part 1 of 2For access to pt. 2 and bonus episodes: patreon.com/planamag
Teen talks to Jess about getting canned from a job for the last and final time. Why economic dependency is not the full story about our dependency on careerism. Why status and identity are so intertwined.Pt. 1 of 2For access to bonus pods: patreon.com/planamag
Teen and Jess discuss changing diet and other fundamental aspects of life as a matter of choice rather than 'willpower' and how a Mortal Kombat dance demonstration was mistaken for a bake sale. And more observations about careerism at the mid-lifespan point.Part 1 of 2For access to bonus pods: patreon.com/planamag
Chris reunites with Plan A, along with resident professors Chong and Fred, to discuss Tony Thulathimutte's short story collection "Rejection", a tour of modern alienation, pathos, and terminal loneliness.Part 1 of 2For access to bonus episodes: patreon.com/planamagChris's review of 'Rejection' at his Substack: https://salieriredemption.substack.com/p/rejects-r-us(**link to private video of Chris's short story reading in the bonus**)
*Note, we have migrated off of SoundCloud, our new public webpage for EFPA episodes: https://rss.com/podcasts/escape-from-plan-a/Mike and Teen spend a Saturday evening looking back on our working decades, life after work, and the investment-over-work mindset.Part 1 of 2For part 2 and all bonus episodes: patreon.com/planamag
Teen continues his experiment with AI, to try and get a better understanding of what we're all actually talking to. This time, he talks about personal investment strategy, because it's involves both the empirical and subjective domain.Conclusion: You Got To Know When To Fold 'Em.Part 1 of 2For bonus episodes: patreon.com/planamag
Jess and Teen talk about why fancy, high-skilled hobbies become more Asian as you climb higher on the skill and investment level. In the bonus section, they discuss the corollary of the Asian immigrant insistence on suffering and not living well.Part 1 of 2For bonus episodes: patreon.com/planamag
In an experimental podcast episode, Teen talks with the large language model DeepSeek-V3.2 to talk about the transgression and the professional managerial class, and why our view of it may be completely inverted. What does transgression actually mean within the constraints of a culture at once obsessed with virtuous perfection, and unvarnished degeneracy? And what is the nature of the dissociated, eternally discontent PMC subject?Part 1 of 2For Part 2: patreon.com/planamag
Back from a 5 month world tour, Twitter moot Scott (@alreadydawn, born in Taipei, raised in SoCal) talks with Teen about his world city rankings. What makes a city great (Osaka) versus loathsome (ahem LA)? And what exactly constitutes a city even?See Scott's city rankings at: alreadydawn.substack.comPart 1 of 2For Part 2 and access to bonus pods: patreon.com/planamag
Steve joints Teen from Hong Kong to catch upon buying Chinese EVs, the surreal political landscape of the US, and using real cameras again.Part 1 of 2For access to bonus pods: patreon.com/planamag
Fred (@fredsoda on X) joins Teen to talk about starting out his career after just graduating from the famed HBS, and what life and work looks like at the beginning of the high arc track. What do these people actually want? What are they willing to do to get it?Part 1 of 2For access to part 2: patreon.com/planamag
Two humanities professors -- Fred (poli sci) and Chong (literature) -- join Teen to discuss C.S. Lewis's "The Abolition of Man", a short book from 1943 that has found renewed currency in America in the wokeness debate and 'trad' values.
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Angelica Oung (https://taipology.substack.com/) talks with Teen about recent changes in Taiwanese political consciousness and its attitudes towards China vs. America. Also, Angelica talks about going to fancy private schools, and the great Chinese real estate develeraging.]
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John Pang joins Teen from Kuala Lumpur to catch up on world affairs, especially the growing importance of Southeast Asia and the way ASEAN is becoming the hub of a new world order.
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show me a socialist as obsessed with IQ as a determination of success as right wing weirdos, rather than criticize the whole concept of how we measure IQ.
Holy fuck you let a race science mfer on....if Kenny believes IQ is real and racial, you don't gotta imagine what other racial things he believes especially about himself as an Asian man.
Kenny at least has some self awareness. he is an attack dog, a dog for white conservatives that have been gunning against affirmative action for a long time before we even were on the radar and threw us out in front of them to be a new face of anti-affirmative action and now we are getting flak instead of them. congrats.
so can you explain how removing Affirmative action is actually going to help Asian people and remove the bs personality tests? the schools wielded affirmative action as a tool to deny asian students in your own narrative of events, so their intentions change now? they won't just find another way, maybe an even more direct way to deny us?
your Singapore friend is a conservative isn't he? he thinks people shouldn't rebel against aspects of past culture? it was and is white Anglo culture to be a racist pos, I'm sure he'd appreciate that right? I don't think any of you have done enough study and analysis of American culture and how it's changed. It's also not that Americans can't understand Chinese culture, it's that they don't want to, because of an antagonistic world view. traditional.
Is there a place where there's more people commenting on these podcasts?