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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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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.
Pt. 1 of 2
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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.]
Part 1 of 2
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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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Kyle returns to talk with Teen about getting ready to have the first child, and traveling to Korea to meet his birth parents and siblings for the very first time.
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Q joins Teen from Tianjin, China to catch up briefly about the first few months of living in China, the hypocrisy of the West's human rights rhetoric for China vs Israel -- including the recent genocide denialism of Bret Stephens -- and an extended talk in the bonus about the potential dangers for Jewish people in the West presented by Israel's atrocities.
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Jess and Teen rail against modernity, a tendency it seems of the young and the old, but not of those stuck in the fat middle slog of life. The retreat of culture from physical real estate, the Hobbesian all-against-all ethic of the social media era, and how none of this is new, it's just getting worse. And an extended discussion in the bonus around pro-/anti-natalism against the backdrop of a society spiraling out.
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Jess joins Teen to reflect on 8 years of friendship through working on Plan A, the endless treadmill of careerism, and how we all live in a Human Zoo. Made by and for humans.
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Jess and Teen talk about a long running theme on this podcast: the trap of professional managerial class careerism, the cognitive traps built into it, and potential ways to get out of playing the squid game.
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Shorter pod today where Teen gives his thoughts on why we aren't facing Iraq War Redux, and why liberals are engaging in mass self-deception as a form of covert therapy rather than an assertion of their (completely discredited) world view.
Bonus pod this week is a discussion with Carl Zha about initial impressions of the US bombing of Iran, as well as how life is going on 6 years after abandoning life in the United States.
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Links:
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-858546
https://youtu.be/zsRvCiXOXCs
Steve joins Teen from HK to talk about soft retirement plans. What if instead of working your ass off like a chimp until you earn the brass ring (FAKE), we just hit a target number and fade into 'maintenance' mode?
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John Pang joins Teen to discuss the contrast between America's dark vision of tech leading us into a dystopain near-future, while Asia dreams of a tech utopia. And theories on why China is building data centers in space.
Part 1 of 2.
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Angelica Oung joins Teen from Taipei to talk about perfect bilingualism, wayward Taiwanese politics, and Noah Smith's weaboo fixations.
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Shan and Teen talk about Evgenia Kovda's epic multi-day Twitter rant against stunted American adults who refuse to grow up, have children, and become 'tethered to life'. Do only parents experience the primal source of love? Can only parents be trusted to save the world? Why is the Pope an unmarried, childless bachelor?
A married couple tackles these question.
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Q Anthony Ali joins Teen from Tianjin to talk about leaving Toronto, starting a new chapter in life in China, and the small things about adjusting to life in China.
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CS Taniguchi joins Teen to talk about trying to live your best life in an objectively bad era.
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Trevor joins Jess and Teen to follow up on the discussion of Jewish American culture and its under-appreciated impact on American culture overall (see ep. 586). This time with a focus on the films 'Annie Hall' and 'Quiz Show' and how the Asian American experience echoes these earlier works, but in ways that don't often get expressed in Asian American culture.
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Mike joins Teen to break down last week's "Liberation Day" against the whole world, the stock market meltdown, and what kind of sense can be made of what seems to be economic seppuku by the United States. What does any of this shit mean?
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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?
Yikes, I don't agree with a lot of things said in this episode about Adam Crapser. There were some insensitive comments made. I would encourage folks at the podcast or the listeners to do more research about this. The Divided Families podcast did an episode with Adam Crapser and gives a chance to hear more details. The Feeling Asian podcast also did an episode on the Blue Bayou controversy.