Escape From Plan A

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 prohibitions need to be overcome in order to reform our...

Part 1 of 2 On 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/planamag EFPA Theme:
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Part 1 of 2 John 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/planamag EFPA Theme:
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Pt. 1 of 2 Q. 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/NobleQAli That Viet Thanh Nguyen video: https://x.com/Mont_Jiang/status/171509606116796053...

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 American pro-Israel propaganda. Get access to bonus...

"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 pods and Discord chat by joining our patreon: pa...

Part 1 of 2 John 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 replaces it? Get access to bonus pods and Discor...

Part 1 of 2 Mike, 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 how the white collar clueless believe in market p...

Part 1 of 2 John 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: patreon.com/planamag THEME MUSIC: EFPA Theme:
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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-case scenarios need to be considered as realistic if...

Part 1 of 2 Mike, 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/planamag THEME MUSIC: EFPA Theme:
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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/planamag THEME MUSIC: EFPA Theme:
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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, but the more they talk about it, the more they unc...

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 actual ammunition. The answer, dear friends, is no....

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. THEME MUSIC: EFPA Theme:
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Part One of Two Jess 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/planamag TWITTER: Kenny (@kennymxu) THEME MUSIC: EFPA Theme:
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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. But is that really the whole story? Please join...

Part 1 of 2 Jess, 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/planamag REFERENCED RESOURCES "Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College" https...

Part 1 of 2 Mike, 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/planamag THEME MUSIC: EFPA Theme:
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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 ourselves. Please join us on Patreon: www.patreon.co...

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/planamag Check out the new Plan A merchandise shop: planamag.com/shop/ EFPA Theme:
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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 Intro 00:04:40 Prehistoric civilizations 00:11:08 Tic-Tac UFO 00:18:55 Phoenix Lights 00:28:00 Direct contact events 00:41:35 Panspermia origin of life 00:52:50 Prevalence of pyramids 01:21:48 Belief vs Proof 01:36:10 Appreciating kooks 01:39:35...

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/planamag Check out the new Plan A merchandise shop: planamag.com/shop/ EFPA Theme:
 "Escape From Plan A" by Ciel (@aerialist)

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, and get into a larger discussion about how and why...

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/planamag Check out the new Plan A merchandise shop: planamag.com/shop/ EFPA Theme:
 "Escape From Plan A" by Ciel (@aerialist)