Escape From Plan A
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Escape From Plan A
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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Ep. 661: AI Singularity, Bubble Pop, or Both? (ft. Mike)
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 ma...
Ep. 659: Old Parents Are Not Fine Wines (ft. Jess)
Jess and Teen discuss the dilemma of caring for older parents and what old people portend for what's coming for the middle-aged.
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Ep. 657: Asian American Perspective on the Killing of Renee Good (ft. Chris Jesu Lee)
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 th...
Ep. 655: China Is 1980s America Redux (ft. Dalian Mike)
Mike (@meow_meow_2020) joins Teen from Dalian to talk about moving to Northeastern China, whether China is liberalizing, is Xi Jinping the Chinese Ron...
Ep. 651: Canned For Christmas (ft. Jess)
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...
Ep. 647: Mortal Muffin (ft. Jess)
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...
Ep. 644: Rejection (ft. Chris Jesu Lee and The Professors)
Chris reunites with Plan A, along with resident professors Chong and Fred, to discuss Tony Thulathimutte's short story collection "Rejection", a tour...
Ep. 642: Post Work (ft. Mike)
*Note, we have migrated off of SoundCloud, our new public webpage for EFPA episodes: https://rss.com/podcasts/escape-from-plan-a/
Mike an...
Ep. 640: Talking to an AI About Investing (ft. DeepSeek v3.2)
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...
Ep. 638: The Fancy Hobbies of Asian People (ft. Jess)
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...
Ep. 636: The Risk of Ruin (ft. DeepSeek)
In an experimental podcast episode, Teen talks with the large language model DeepSeek-V3.2 to talk about the transgression and the professional manage...
Ep. 634: American vs Asian vs European Cities (ft. Scott)
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...
Ep. 632: NYC-HK Express (ft. Steve)
Steve joints Teen from Hong Kong to catch upon buying Chinese EVs, the surreal political landscape of the US, and using real cameras again.
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Ep. 630: Careerism after Harvard Business School (ft. @fredsoda)
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...
Ep. 628: Book Discussion of "The Abolition of Man" (ft. Chong and Fred)
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 194...
Ep. 626: Taiwan Inc. vs America (ft. Angelica Oung)
Angelica Oung (https://taipology.substack.com/) talks with Teen about recent changes in Taiwanese political consciousness and its attitudes towards Ch...
Ep. 624: A Southeast Asian Centered World (ft. John Pang)
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...
Ep. 621: Meet the Parents (ft. Kyle)
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...
Ep. 619: The Utter Hypocrisy of the West's Human Rights Project (ft. Q. Anthony Ali)
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...
Ep. 617: The Anti-Modernity of the Young and the Old (ft. Jess)
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...
Ep. 615:The Human Zoo (ft. Jess)
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....
Ep. 613: Set the World on FIRE (ft. Jess)
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,...
Ep. 611: Why This Is Not Iraq Redux
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...
Ep. 609: What If We Just Fade Away? (ft. Steve)
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...
Ep. 606: Asia's Utopian Tech Futurism (ft. John Pang)
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 tec...
Ep. 604: Taiwan's Rootless Cosmopolitans (ft. Angelica Oung)
Angelica Oung joins Teen from Taipei to talk about perfect bilingualism, wayward Taiwanese politics, and Noah Smith's weaboo fixations.
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Ep. 602: Father-Mothers (ft. Shan)
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...
Ep. 600: So How Did Moving To China Go? (ft Q Anthony Ali)
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...
Ep. 597: The Dog-Eat-Dog World (ft. CS Taniguchi)
CS Taniguchi joins Teen to talk about trying to live your best life in an objectively bad era.
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Ep. 595: The Asian American-ness of Jewish Movies (ft. Trevor Beaulieu)
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. 593: L-Day Has Cometh (ft. Mike)
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 w...
Ep. 591: People Are Just Bugging Out (ft. Mike)
Mike joins Teen to talk about figuring out an alternative to the career-family path, people just cracking under the pressure, and The White Lotus.
Ep. 590: Is China Switching to Offense? (ft. John Pang)
John Pang joins Teen to talk about Trump's escalating trade war with China, and why we in America may have grown complacent with China only playing de...
Ep. 588: Privatization and the Collapse of Higher Education (ft. Chong and Prof Fred)
Prof Fred Lee and Chong join Teen to talk about the state of higher education, why universities are bloated with administrators but short on full time...
Ep. 586: 90s Media Culture and the Jewish POV (ft. Treavor Beaulieu)
Trevor from Champagne Sharks joins after a long hiatus to talk with Jess and Teen about 90s media culture, the context-lite stochastic New York City o...
Ep. 584: Degen Saturday Morning Global Catchup
Mike, Steve, and Teen find the Lagrange Point of LA, HK, and NYC to catch up on all things degenerate: California, stocks, economy, and the first 30 d...
Ep. 582: Stop Attacking Asian Diaspora Women FFS (ft. Lei Gong)
Lei Gong joins Teen to talk about the continuing attacks online against Asian diaspora women as a group, and whether the use of politics is a just a d...
Ep. 580: Trumpachev and the Last Days of Empire (ft. MeowMeow Mike)
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Mike (@Meow_Meow_2020) joins Teen to talk about Trump being a Gorbachev figure in American history. The Final Leader, the Emp...
Ep. 578: Tell Me About DeepSeek In the Style of 3 Asian Dudes Bullshitting (ft. Mike and Filip)
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Filip joins after a long dad-duty break to chat with Mike and Teen about the DeepSeek drop, their experiences and opinions of...
Ep. 576: Trump II: The Reign of Errors (ft. Q. Anthony Ali)
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Q. Anthony Ali (@NobleQAli on Twitter) joins Teen to talk about Trump's second term, what the new political alignments will l...