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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485 episodis
Ep. 686: China and Iran Update (ft. Dalian Mike)
Mike (in Daliian) joins Teen to discuss his first year back in China, the Iran War, and why it's the best and worst of times in America.
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Ep. 384: Look at What the Raccoon Dragged In (ft. Mike and RVC)
Mike and RVC join Teen on a rainy weekend to talk AI, Iran War, the Death of Hollywood, and JP Morgan "Cannons".
Part 1 of 2
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Ep. 382: The Chinamaxxing World (ft. John Pang)
John Pang returns to join Teen to talk about geopolitics: Trump's humiliating trip to China, AI over-investment, whether the Iran War is a much more t...
Ep. 380: Stories of our Lives (ft. Jess)
Jess and Teen talk about the need to live within the confines of a story, how influencers and marketers co-opt our lives by co-opting the stories of o...
Ep. 378: Biography of a Business From Start to PE Exit (ft. Mike)
Mike joins Teen to talk in detail about the realities of starting your own business, growing into 8-digit revenues, hitting the wall of success, and l...
Ep. 376: Maybe the End of Corporate Careerism is Good (ft. Jess)
The podcast takes a turn towards tech as Teen continues down his vibe-coding project to hardware, and Jess wonders about how to bridge the gap between...
Ep. 374: The Vibecoding Life (ft. Steve) Pt. 1
Steve joins Teen from HK to talk about life after careerism and what fills the vacuum left by leaving your job. Also, why vibecoding is great for the...
Ep. 672: Is 'Slanted' a Great Asian American Film (ft. Chris Jesu Lee)
Chris is back to host Escape From Plan A! Teen joins Chris to talk in-person about Amy Wang's film 'Slanted', about how racial insecurity can become a...
Ep. 670: Is America a Low Desire Society? (ft. Jess)
Jess and Teen discuss Kenichi Ohmae's theory of a 'low desire society' and whether America fits that description. Are younger generations depressed an...
Ep. 669: The Alysa Liu Moment (ft. Chong and Chris) (unlocked)
Chong and Chris join Teen to talk about the overwhelmingly positive vibes surrounding Alysa Liu, and of course (it wouldn't be Plan A otherwise) disse...
Ep. 667: How To Thrive In Dystopia (ft, Fred Lee)
Fred joins Teen to discuss how to maintain adherence to a contemporary lifestyle (careerism, consumerism) when the foundational narrative upon which t...
Ep. 665: The Era of American Conspiracy (ft. the Degens)
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...
Ep. 663: Epstein and the Fall of America (ft. Angelica Oung)
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 Asi...
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...