Dec 26, 2018

EPISODE 95 // Enough about Christmas, Enough about Hanukkah, I Want to Know More about BOXING DAY. What is Boxing Day? And what might an unboxing day look like? We find out on this episode! In addition we talk about the nature of servitude (and blogging); in addition addition, some special carolers drop by during the...

Dec 19, 2018

EPISODE 94 ("I think that's dystopia, a little") // We devote this episode to a popular mantra – I have enough, I do enough, I am enough. First taught to Kate and Hao in a yoga class, we now dissect this sentence together. We talk nihilism vs. pseudonihlism; we explore the process of breaking hard news to close...

Dec 12, 2018

EPISODE 93 ("HE MADE IT SQUARE") // A lot of updates in Update Corner, and then we round out the 45 minutes with a discussion of learning and false learning. Specifically, Duolingo and how feeling like you're acquiring a language is so far from actual fluency; specifically also, how much we miss learning as an adult....

Dec 5, 2018

EPISODE 92 // We have a special DECEMBER HOLIDAYS episode. Christmas and Hanukkah are on the docket. We talk Christmas traditions, how to deal with the crass commercialism of the winter holidays, and whether or not we are as a society shoehorning Hanukkah into a box it doesn’t really fit. All that… and...

Nov 28, 2018

EPISODE 91 // Should Kate have a child just so the child can hold our Hong Kong studio equipment at mouth level? This and other questions this week in a SPECIAL construction NOISE episode. But our main topic is BOXES WE LIVE IN: boxes we put ourselves into by accident or on purpose, and the sadness therein. The word...