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Ep 55 - Sportball - Playoffs Continued

Sun, 09 Jul 2023 22:12:25 GMT

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Ep 54 - Sportball - Making a Successful Team

Sun, 02 Jul 2023 22:11:56 GMT

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Ep 53 - Sportball - Bad Playoff Bet

Sun, 25 Jun 2023 22:11:09 GMT

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Ep 52 - Sportball - KAT & Missing Culture

Sun, 18 Jun 2023 22:10:15 GMT

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Ep 51 - Sportball - Playoffs & KAT

Sun, 11 Jun 2023 22:09:19 GMT

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Ep 50 - Sportball - Hypothetical Teams

Sun, 04 Jun 2023 22:08:25 GMT

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Ep 49 - Sportball - Factor of Race

Sun, 28 May 2023 22:07:31 GMT

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Ep 48 - Sportball - Ja Continued

Sun, 21 May 2023 22:06:35 GMT

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Ep 47 - Sportball - Ja

Sun, 14 May 2023 22:06:00 GMT

Recordings from March 2023

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Ep 46 - Esther - Men Suck

Sun, 16 Apr 2023 14:41:28 GMT

Part 3 of 3, only fitting that we end with how men are in the world after talking about death, fear and family.

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Ep 45 - Esther - Family Living with Fear

Sun, 09 Apr 2023 14:40:35 GMT

Part 2 of 3 with Esther, we talk about how fear affects the people in our family.

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Ep 44 - Esther - Does Religion Make Death Scarier?

Sun, 02 Apr 2023 14:39:31 GMT

Part 1 of 3 with Esther, we start with the notion of religion makes death scarier than for people who didn't grow up with one.

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Ep 43 - Sportball - Media Consumption and Fandom

Mon, 20 Mar 2023 03:37:39 GMT

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Ep 42 - Sportball - Our Favorite Storylines and KAT

Mon, 13 Mar 2023 03:36:00 GMT

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Ep 41 - Sportball - NBA Trade Deadline

Mon, 06 Mar 2023 04:29:02 GMT

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Ep 40 - Nisse - Organizing Your Creative Life

Sun, 26 Feb 2023 21:44:20 GMT

Nisse and I chat about organizing our creative lives while he's in Bulgaria.

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Ep 39 - Sportball - World Cup

Mon, 16 Jan 2023 01:45:35 GMT

A little World Cup for ya

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Ep 38 - Sportball - Public Speaking & Fun Fake Trades

Mon, 09 Jan 2023 01:37:54 GMT

Another ep of sportball about speaking in public and fake trades

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Ep 37 - Esther - NJ & Viruses

Mon, 02 Jan 2023 01:02:20 GMT

Esther is back for a quick one with NJ, losing cameras and Phong getting sick.

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Ep 36 - Arthur - AI & Art & Dimes Square

Mon, 26 Dec 2022 01:09:40 GMT

Arthur's here asking about AI image generation and social constructs around living physically somewhere

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Ep 35 - Sportball - Orlando, Fantasy Draft, Kyrie

Wed, 02 Nov 2022 01:14:36 GMT

We cover Paolo of the Magic, Nisse's auction draft and Kyrie's post-game press conference.

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Ep 34 - Esther - Vietnam & Novels

Tue, 25 Oct 2022 02:15:07 GMT

We straddle travel talk and creative talk in this episode with Esther.

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Ep 33 - Sportball - Draymond Punch

Mon, 17 Oct 2022 02:46:29 GMT

Late-late thoughts on the Celtics head coach suspension and Draymond punching Poole.

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Ep 32 - Alison - NYC vs LA vs SF

Mon, 05 Sep 2022 01:53:03 GMT

A quickie with new penpal Alison, we go over NYC vs SF vs LA as she does a lay-over in NYC before flying to Europe.

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Ep 31 - Sportsball - Big Brain Trading

Mon, 29 Aug 2022 02:45:13 GMT

A shortie for a light sports season, big brain trading collusion in the NBA and trades in baseball are weird.

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Ep 30 - 2nd Gen - Hmong Wedding

Mon, 22 Aug 2022 02:54:02 GMT

We explore Tim's recent experience with a Hmong wedding

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Ep 29 - Nisse - What Earlier Civ Do You Wanna Live in?

Mon, 15 Aug 2022 00:56:53 GMT

Nisse and I think about what prior societies we would want to live in, and then switch to given the known flaws of our society-- do we still participate, or dismantle, or something in-between?

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Ep 28 - Solo Travelers' Collective - Cori -

Mon, 08 Aug 2022 00:27:18 GMT

High reunions has Cori and me thinking about our hometowns and why we ultimately left them.

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Ep 27 - Solo Travelers' Collective - Alicia - Hawaii & Restarting

Sun, 31 Jul 2022 18:14:31 GMT

We catch Alicia in Hawaii. Restarting and rediscovering herself after years of pandemic and anxiety. I relate in the sense that I haven't really even done that yet. I'm just recognizing that I've been nervous about it.

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Ep 26 - Sportball - Superstars & Team Building

Sun, 24 Jul 2022 22:26:46 GMT

The main thrust of this show is thinking about the intersection of superstar trading and the time it takes for a team to gel together. Are the two at odds?

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Ep 25 - Sportball - Gambling and The Effect of Media Coverage

Sun, 24 Jul 2022 22:25:31 GMT

Starting off with how weird gambling has gotte, the sub-communities of sport fans, and eventually the relationship between fans, media, and athletes. How does that affect the athletes internal narrative? And a just a bit a on the Gobert trade.

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Ep 24 - Solo Travelers' Collective - Esther - Food & Korea & Happiness

Sun, 17 Jul 2022 18:54:56 GMT

Esther returns to talk about food, conformity, and are our parents happy? The thoughts you get when you're in the land of your heritage country.

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Ep 23 - Solo Travelers' Collective - Cori - Paperwork

Sun, 10 Jul 2022 18:06:09 GMT

New voicemail penpal, Cori, joins the podcast. She's been traveling, house sitting, dog sitting, moving countries of residencies for years now. I never know where she is, so I catch her with voicemails in this episodes.

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Ep 22 - Sportball - This Year's Draft Class

Mon, 04 Jul 2022 02:03:54 GMT

Arthur and Nisse deep dive on their favorite draft prospects.

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Ep 21 - Sportball - How to Interpret Stats?

Mon, 04 Jul 2022 02:02:00 GMT

With all the advanced stats these days, how should we be interpreting them?

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Ep 20 - Sportball - NBA Ideas for Change, Uniforms, Sports Media

Mon, 04 Jul 2022 02:01:59 GMT

A medley of topics as Sportball returns with me, Arthur and Nisse. We give some ideas to change the NBA, what's up uniform colors for home and away, and what are some sports podcasts we enjoy.

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Ep 19 - 2nd Gen - Extended Family & Lack of Language

Mon, 27 Jun 2022 01:01:02 GMT

Today we have Arthur and Tim talking with me about our relationships to extended family. And then we cover how the lack of our heritage languages affected our psyches and lives over the years.

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Ep 18 - Arthur - Too Many Books?

Mon, 20 Jun 2022 00:38:54 GMT

Do we as a human race have too many books? What much information do we need to live a good life?

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Ep 17 - Arthur - What is Sacred & Why do we have Stereotypes?

Mon, 13 Jun 2022 00:37:53 GMT

I lob two big questions at Arthur this week. What do you hold sacred? Anything? Or nothing? Then we transition into why do we have stereotypes? Are they useful?

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Ep 16 - Nisse - What is Self Relative to Society?

Tue, 24 May 2022 03:00:34 GMT

We start talking about. Perceptions of ourselves to other people. Kind of get into like the performative nature of it. Kind of gets into, into society and expected norms. Along the whiteness. It gets COVID. So that's, that's fine.

And we kind of end with. You know, Is is what is the illusion of society? How fragile. Is it in the sense that we have these expected norms together? But have we ever actually, like all said, yeah, we agree to all this. I don't think we do. The conversation is going to continue in another part.

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Ep 15 - Solo Travelers' Collective - Alicia - Traveling While Black

Mon, 09 May 2022 01:38:00 GMT

In part two with my conversation with Alicia, we cover what it feels to like travel while being Black. This will be ongoing, I just wanted to post this as soon as I had it edited.

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Ep 14 - Solo Travelers' Collective - Alicia - The First Trip & Pandemic Travel

Mon, 09 May 2022 01:35:54 GMT

New guest, Alicia, joining me in a conversation about solo travel.

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Ep 13 - 2nd Gen - Seeking Asian Communities as an Asian American

Sun, 01 May 2022 15:22:38 GMT

We introduce a new guest, Tim, a college buddy of mine. I merge together him with returning guest, Arthur, and we all chat about our experiences growing up Asian American. And our experiences in seeking Asian communities or lack thereof.

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Ep 12 - Sportball - What's a Sport?

Sat, 23 Apr 2022 20:26:08 GMT

Arthur, Nisse, and I ask ourselves: what's a sport? And somehow this journey takes us to trading cards, e-sports, Tetris, everything.

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Ep 11 - Esther - Picking a Restaurant

Sat, 16 Apr 2022 20:04:24 GMT

Picking up from the yacht stuff, we go into that gut instinct to find a good restaurant and how it can go oh so wrong when it's off.

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Ep 10 - Nisse - Candy, Generations, and Modern Mythology

Tue, 12 Apr 2022 19:33:51 GMT

I woke up one day realizing I don't know Nisse that well, and that led us down the rabbit hole of the modern mythology.

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Ep 9 - Sportball with Arthur & Nisse - NBA Broadcasters

Sat, 09 Apr 2022 02:40:03 GMT

We're diving into the NBA tv broadcasters that can draw you deeper into the game with their ability to tell a story and paint a fuller picture of what's going on the court.

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Ep 8 - Sportball with Arthur & Nisse - NCAA

Tue, 05 Apr 2022 01:56:47 GMT

We explore why we like or don't like the NCAA and our entry points into any sports

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Ep 7 - Sportball with Arthur & Nisse - Courtside

Fri, 01 Apr 2022 02:48:02 GMT

If you could go to any NBA game in the past and be court side: which one would you choose?

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Ep 6 - Esther - Korea & Safety

Mon, 28 Mar 2022 00:36:20 GMT

We continue with Esther on South Korea, family match-making, and safety while traveling.

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Ep 5 - Sportball with Arthur & Nisse - Sportsmanship

Fri, 25 Mar 2022 02:19:36 GMT

There are some monologues in this one, but we explore as a group the idea of sportsmanship in the game of sportball.

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Ep 4 - Esther - Travel Nomad & Feeling Homesick

Mon, 21 Mar 2022 00:15:08 GMT

Welcoming our new pal, Esther, and following her travels where she left NYC a year ago and hasn't looked back.

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Ep 3 - Arthur - Wristwatch Repair Videos

Wed, 16 Mar 2022 14:26:38 GMT

Our new pal, Arthur, joins us to talk about wristwatch repair videos and we end up trying to figure out how society finds meaning.

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Ep 2 - Nisse - Why We Create

Sun, 13 Mar 2022 22:52:01 GMT

For the record, we only mean to drag late stage capitalism, NPR listeners and Japanese craftsmen, but nothing more than that.

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Ep 1 - Nisse - NBA Expansion & Relegation

Mon, 07 Mar 2022 17:22:43 GMT

From Feb 28 to March 4, Nisse and Phong talk about various concepts about the NBA expansion, relegation, and narrative.

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