Jess and Teen record a long pod about nostalgia for retro tech, only to hang up, continue the conversation, and realize the after-talk was actually the better pod. Here is the after-talk , about the virtualization of all technologies into software, the corruption of software as trojan horses into our lives, and the suspect loyalty of the technology…

Part 1 of 2Jess and Teen talk about how time and experience allows a more mercenary and disillusioned relationship with work and jobs, and how the cultish mythology around work and passion (esp in tech) was the cause and not the cure to the anxiety and pressure of careerism. Get access to bonus pods and Discord chat by joining our patreon: patreon.…

Jess and Teen discuss Wim Wenders' 2023 film 'Perfect Days' and what it says about aging and internal monologue.Get access to bonus pods and Discord chat by joining our patreon: patreon.com/planamagEFPA Theme: "Escape From Plan A" by Ciel (Twitter: @aerialist)저자 Escape From Plan A Podcast by Plan A Magazine

Jess is back after a long hiatus to catch up with Teen on important life matters: the importance of spring in New York, the exquisite quality of computer manuals in the 1970s, and what the hell 'internal monologue' means.Get access to bonus pods and Discord chat by joining our patreon: patreon.com/planamagEFPA Theme: "Escape From Plan A" by Ciel (T…

Part 1 of 2Mike, Steve and Teen find a timezone compromise between LA, NYC, and HK to talk about managing our money in what seems like mad world of overpriced investment assets and unprecedented risk to the US dollar system.Get access to bonus pods and Discord chat by joining our patreon: patreon.com/planamagEFPA Theme: "Escape From Plan A" by Ciel…

Part 1 of 2John Pang joins Teen to talk about the meaning and the reality behind Aaron Bushnell's act of suicide by fire, the cultural context in which that took place, and then a wider discussion about the joys of getting older even surrounded by a culture which fears death and loathes aging.Get access to bonus pods and Discord chat by joining our…

Mike and Teen shoot the bull on generative AI, whether Sora + Vision Pro = Holodeck, and general musings about technology of no particular consequence.Get access to bonus pods and Discord chat by joining our patreon: patreon.com/planamagEFPA Theme: "Escape From Plan A" by Ciel (Twitter: @aerialist)저자 Escape From Plan A Podcast by Plan A Magazine

Peter and Teen talk about Peter's newborn baby, the encroachment of the state into the private domain of the family, how zombie apocalypse films are really a pro-family fantasy genre, and home schooling as an option.Get access to bonus pods and Discord chat by joining our patreon: patreon.com/planamagEFPA Theme: "Escape From Plan A" by Ciel (Twitte…

Shan and Teen talk about middle age, how American culture does not prepare people for getting older, and how getting older is severely underrated. It often feels like being a kid again.Get access to bonus pods and Discord chat by joining our patreon: patreon.com/planamagEFPA Theme: "Escape From Plan A" by Ciel (Twitter: @aerialist)…

Shan and Teen talk about a very minor episode of losing one's temper at the Costco, why it's important to get mad when you're mad, practice getting mad, and to think obsessively about when you get mad after the fact.Get access to bonus pods and Discord chat by joining our patreon: patreon.com/planamagEFPA Theme: "Escape From Plan A" by Ciel (Twitte…

Part 1 of 2Steve talks with Mike and Teen about the experience so far of emigrating from the West - in his case, Toronto - and starting an entirely new permanent existence in Hong Kong and China.Get access to bonus pods and Discord chat by joining our patreon: patreon.com/planamagEFPA Theme: "Escape From Plan A" by Ciel (Twitter: @aerialist)…

Part 1 of 3John and Mike join Teen for a marathon weekend shitshoot about the likely trajectory of life in America in 2024. Something has clearly gone off the rails, that's without question, but it's hard to tell where this is headed. We try to get off the strictly political/geopolitical frameworks, and talk more subjectively about the mood in the …

Part 1 of 2Back home in Bali after an extended trip back to the United States, Carl Zha joins Teen to talk about the view of America from abroad. In part two (available to our Patreon supporters), John Pang jumps on from Hangzhou to offer his take after permanently moving out of the US.Get access to bonus pods and Discord chat by joining our patreo…

Teen is joined by Chris as they reminiscence about the early motivations they'd had for starting Plan A (e.g. Asian American online gender wars, Asian American political awareness) and what does and doesn't matter to them about those topics anymore.Subscribe to Chris' Substack, Salieri Redemption, at: https://salieriredemption.substack.com/Get acce…

After a long interlude, Escape From Plan A is back in production! Teen and Shan recount their first trip abroad (to Spain) in almost 4 years -- since right before COVID was discovered -- and the return of novelty to foreign travel. They talk at length about the Prado and the revelatory experience they had without the pressure of worshiping European…

Filip joins Teen to talk about the last half year of raising a baby girl, finding closure on one stage of life only to open a bigger door filled with newer, bigger kinds of anxieties. And yet, life has never been better.Get access to bonus pods and Discord chat by joining our patreon: patreon.com/planamagEFPA Theme: "Escape From Plan A" by Ciel (@a…

Part 1 of 2Friend of the pod Alice joins Teen to talk about the peculiar soullessness of Washington D.C.'s bureaucratic legion, and how modern therapy culture has a rotten core.Get access to bonus pods and Discord chat by joining our patreon: patreon.com/planamagEFPA Theme: "Escape From Plan A" by Ciel (@aerialist)…

Shan and Teen talk about one of their favorite topics as a couple: money and finances. The American financial environment is shifting into asset deflation mode, so a lot of 'common sense' about household finances -- buying a house is always good, renting is throwing away money, and 'cash is trash' -- need to be re-examined. And what cultural prohib…

Part 1 of 2On the eve of Steve leaving for HK and Mike turning 40, the degenerate threesome pour some drinks and have a good 'ol shit talk about growing up in Can-Merica, how to make work work, and when it's time to fold 'em and leave for good.Get access to bonus pods and Discord chat by joining our patreon: patreon.com/planamagEFPA Theme: "Escape …

Part 1 of 2John Pang returns to talk about Teen's dark visions of the world, why our juvenile capitalist culture's embargo on such dark visions is itself maddening, and how recent events are lifting the shroud off of realities we would rather not see.Get access to bonus pods and Discord chat by joining our patreon: patreon.com/planamagEFPA Theme: "…

Pt. 1 of 2Q. Anthony Ali joins Teen to talk about diaspora media people who habitually engage in gratuitous racism against their own people, the double-consciousness of diaspora and how to avoid it, and what the future of assimilation might be in a post-liberal world.LINKS:Q's Twitter: https://twitter.com/NobleQAliThat Viet Thanh Nguyen video: http…

Mike (@Meow_Meow_2020) and Samlang (@SClemmt) joins Teen in a long form podcast discussion about the proposed razing of Gaza (and the mass killing of Palestinian civilians). This could be one of the major genocides in modern world history, and the three of us counsel that Asian people should take an independent perspective that is not colored by Am…

"I'm just dating casually," "I'm not sure what I want," "I'm looking for my needs to be met." Teen and his wife Shan record a podcast about relationships, marriage, and moving past the perpetual adolescence of 'modernity.' Seeking to give love, not to receive. Fear as a sign of unreadiness. And the joys of recording while in bed.Get access to bonus…

Part 1 of 2John Pang returns to talk to Jess and Teen (on the eve of his 45th bday) to talk about how so many people based their lives around what amounts to a religion-like faith in financial markets, interpreting price signals as if they were the commands of a Higher Being. What happens when we discover this and lose faith in the Market God? What…

Part 1 of 2Mike, Steve and Teen chat on a Saturday evening about the state of AmeriCanada, and how national prosperity could be limited to the third generation out from the one that built it. There is the generation that built everything, the one that inherited it, and then the one that squanders it. They also talk about hyper-financialization and …

Part 1 of 2John Pang returns to talk with Jess and Teen about the buzzy term "liminal space" and the popular diaspora narrative of being "caught between cultures", "neither Asian enough or American enough", and the deep internal fallacies of this thinking about culture and identity.Get access to bonus pods and Discord chat by joining our patreon: p…

Jess and Teen originally intend to talk about bilculturalism but their shared worry over the state of affairs in America takes up the episode instead. From the inside of a country that is turning by the day more insular, self-righteous, divorced from reality, and violent both inside and out, Jess and Teen lay out a reasonable argument that worst-ca…

Part 1 of 2Mike, Steve and Teen reconvene to continue their discussion about the economic outlook, the bigger big picture, deep policy, and the whether Malaysia is a magical sweet spot for Chinese American expats.Get access to bonus pods and Discord chat by joining our patreon: patreon.com/planamagTHEME MUSIC:EFPA Theme: "Escape From Plan A" by Cie…

Mike, Steve, and Teen record a more laid-back pod that's all economics talk. We talk about rising mortgage rates, slumping home sales, stubbornly high prices, and predictions on next year.Get access to bonus pods and Discord chat by joining our patreon: https://patreon.com/planamagTHEME MUSIC:EFPA Theme: "Escape From Plan A" by Ciel (@aerialist)…

Chong and Teen spend a Thursday evening discussing a disturbing phenomenon both have run into online: self-described leftists who gleefully advocate for violence against Asian small business owners, on account of them being "petit bourgeois" and thus deserving to be wiped out in the fantasy revolution of these Basement Lenins.What a fucking joke, b…

Teen joins Chong, Katrina and Hen to give our final answers on self-flagellating Asian people who blame Asians for anything and everything - a phenomenon the four of us have spent way too much of life pondering - just so that you the listener don't have to waste a minute more of your life wondering if these political fartguns are loaded with any ac…

On the night before the premiere of their short documentary I'm Not An Activist, which follows Dragon Combat Club—a grassroots self-defense organization in NYC, director Dan Chen and producer/editor Ien Chi joined Teen and Chris for an in-person podcast to discuss their reasons for making the documentary and what they hope to accomplish with it.THE…

Part One of TwoJess and Teen sit down with returning guest Kenny Xu ("An Inconvenient Minority") to talk about SFFA's victory in the Supreme Court against Harvard, the state of education in America, and being an Asian American Republican.Please join us on Patreon to access Part 2: www.patreon.com/planamagTWITTER:Kenny (@kennymxu)THEME MUSIC:EFPA Th…

Jess and Teen talk with guest John Pang about the Western tendency to devalue Asian labor -- not just the laborer, but also Asian labor itself and its presumed lack of human qualities -- through the lens of Shein. Shein has pushed selection to a maximum, and price to a new rock bottom, inviting criticisms of labor exploitation in the name of profit…

Part 1 of 2Jess, Chris and Teen discuss the Supreme Court opinions on the SFFA lawsuits over race-conscious admissions systems, and provide commentary on the reactions from the Professional Asian Person industrial complex.Please join us on Patreon to access Part 2: www.patreon.com/planamagREFERENCED RESOURCES"Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. P…

Part 1 of 2Mike, Steve and Teen unwind after a busy-ish summer Wednesday to talk about rich guys stuck in an ocean capsule, real estate prices, and the mindsets people have around money, status and privilege.Please join us on Patreon to access Part 2: www.patreon.com/planamagTHEME MUSIC:EFPA Theme: "Escape From Plan A" by Ciel (@aerialist)…

Jess and Chris are joined by Trevor Beaulieu (from Champagne Sharks) to talk about all the drama surrounding The Little Mermaid's box office, including blaming Asians as racists for not seeing the movie enough, the "woke" power struggle going on in Hollywood, and why corporations make us believe we need to support their movies to feel good about ou…

Jess and Teen talk about the growing phenomenon of Asian Americans saying goodbye to America and expatriating to Asia due to a number of factors in America all pointing to general social decline. How serious is this decline and is leaving America a good idea at this point?Join us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/planamagCheck out the new Plan A merchand…

Adam, Mike and Teen spend the Friday before the Memorial Day long weekend talking about their fringe beliefs and why it's important to have some.00:00:00 Intro00:04:40 Prehistoric civilizations00:11:08 Tic-Tac UFO00:18:55 Phoenix Lights00:28:00 Direct contact events00:41:35 Panspermia origin of life00:52:50 Prevalence of pyramids01:21:48 Belief vs …

In this episode, Filip talks about being a dad to a newborn baby, and Adam and Teen shoot the shit and ask him questions. It's a good time. Join us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/planamagCheck out the new Plan A merchandise shop: planamag.com/shop/EFPA Theme: "Escape From Plan A" by Ciel (@aerialist)저자 Escape From Plan A Podcast by Plan A Magazine

As much as we like to rag on Twitter, it's a fact that Plan A was largely built off of it. So with Twitter on a decline (even pre-Musk takeover), what's an alternative way to share our writings and meet like-minded people? Returning guest Yasmin Nair (writer, activist, academic,) joins Chris to discuss her piece, Twitter Is Not Your Writing Life, a…

Jess and Teen go deep on the latest public massacre in Texas. What the fuck even is this? What. The. Fuck. Is. Happening?Join us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/planamagCheck out the new Plan A merchandise shop: planamag.com/shop/EFPA Theme: "Escape From Plan A" by Ciel (@aerialist)저자 Escape From Plan A Podcast by Plan A Magazine

(Part 2 of this podcast is available on our Patreon feed for supporters)This weeks delayed episode (sorry folks) is a recording of a live Twitter Space conversation between Teen, John Pang, and Carl Zha, in which the discourse around US-China conflict is flipped and instead of analyzing Chinese society and politics, we point the camera directly int…

Adam and Teen discuss the controversy around 'Beef' co-star David Choe, Asian American dirtbag culture, and how someone as obscenely misogynistic as Choe could become a social and creative hub for Asian American Hollywood.Join us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/planamagCheck out the new Plan A merchandise shop: planamag.com/shop/EFPA Theme: "Escape Fro…

Liza and Chris share their thoughts on Beef, which they think is the first truly exciting Asian American creative work to come in a long time, breaking the typical Asian American mold of weepy and timid narratives.Join us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/planamagTWITTER:Liza: @aesthdistance1Chris: @JesuInToastCheck out the new Plan A merchandise shop: p…

Mike and Teen talk briefly about de-dollarization and whether it's an existential threat or a bit overhyped; then, Mike takes a deep dive into large language model AI and they spend a Friday evening pondering what kind of crazy self-replication anybody can now do with a mid-range laptop.REFERENCED RESOURCE:"ChatGPT is a Blurry JPEG of the Web" by T…

Mike, Steve and Teen spend a Friday evening discussing whether Peak Sinophobia has arrived. Can Congress get any frothier, any more insane, after Ted Cruz said China is waging a "thousand year war" on America? Will Tim Apple and the other money men have to sit Congress down and give them the shekels speech?Join us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/planam…

Mike and Steve return to drink some hard liquor and talk about getting jobs, whether one can fully relax upon retirement, Credit Suisse and the slow-motion banking meltdown, and the shambolic TikTok hearings.Join us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/planamagCheck out the new Plan A merchandise shop: planamag.com/shop/EFPA Theme: "Escape From Plan A" by C…

Chris, Adam and Teen talk about the recent explosion of Asian visibility in Hollywood at the Oscars, and whether the optics of white Hollywood "finally seeing" Asian people is real, or whether in fact Asians have strived and embedded ourselves into the entertainment business no different than any other professional industry, and are in fact insider…

Mike and Steve are back to talk with Teen about whether the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank is a bellwether for another financial collapse. The news, we believe, is not good.Join us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/planamagCheck out the new Plan A merchandise shop: planamag.com/shop/EFPA Theme: "Escape From Plan A" by Ciel (@aerialist)…