Moving Oolong

We mention him often on our weekly recaps, but now he’s finally a full guest! Tune in to this week’s episode as Carlos joins us for a discussion about our dads 👨‍👧‍👦 Our fathers play an equally important role in our lives, but we’ve mostly shared about our mother-daughter relationships. Now, it’s time to share what it was like growing up with our dads and how our father-daughter (and father-son...

We’ve had some busy days of traveling, so we catch up with each other and record a stream of consciousness (SOC) style discussion in this week’s episode. 🪰 Pretend you’re a fly on the wall and listen in as we also ramble about the benefits of having separate friend groups and our current work relationships.

We’ve been a trio since high school, but that doesn’t mean we know everything about each other 👀 On today’s episode we deepen our relationships with one another by playing the internet famous, We’re Not Really Strangers. Listen along as Sally leads us through 3 rounds of increasingly intimate questions.

This week we’re joined by our special guest, Heather Kim! Heather shares her career insights as a photo editor at National Geographic, from how she got her photography start with a flip phone to receiving a job offer after filming a documentary. Besides her career, we also go on a tangent about Instagram, film photography, and why it’s nice to be anonymous on TikTok 😎

Join us this week as we dive into attachment theory with a little help from Dr. Huberman’s podcast, “Huberman Lab Podcast.” We try to understand the neuroscience behind our own attachment styles and eventually discuss our own theory that groups of three are superior (not that we’re biased or anything). You know we love a good personality test, and this time we have some peer-reviewed studies to ad...

A himbo and a pimp walk into a bar… As promised, this week is our first installment of our ~casual~ talks. Like a never ending weekly update, we recap Sally’s birthday rager, discuss the definition of himbos, and contemplate our future career paths.

Do you work to live or live to work? This week’s episode starts out with us interviewing Alex on his career pivot from software engineering to medicine, but eventually turns into a much deeper conversation about our Purpose™️ in life. 💭 Put your philosopher cap on and tune into our first guest episode of the season featuring our good friend Content warning: This is a more serious episode and ther...

Just like the popular TikTok sound says, sometimes you gotta put yourself first. Especially when it comes to breaking up and ending a romantic relationship 💔 We mentioned it in our previous ep, but now’s the time to fully talk through our break up experiences including when we knew it was over, how we got over them, and if we’d ever get back with an ex.

Heyyy there…did you miss us?? We’re back and ready to kick off our 5th season! We took a longer break this time, so of course we had to have a good catch up talk in this season premiere. From our latest relationship statuses, to new year intentions, to changing friendship dynamics - we’re already getting sentimental this szn 😚 You can catch up on all 82 episodes - link in our bio!

Tune in for our last episode of the season - it’s all about our apartments! 🏠 Ming finally moved out so now we can talk about the moving out process, including how we searched for the places & people. If you enjoyed this season, share your favorite episode with others so they can catch up while we go on our holiday hiatus 👋🏼

Last season, y’all enjoyed our small-business owner episode with Jessica from Lost As Jess so much that we decided to bring on another small-business owner to discuss his passion for… pottery! Join us this week as we interview Sally’s pottery instructor and small-business owner, Tim Sherman! Tim shares how he went from high school lacrosse jock 🥍 to pottery enthusiast (à la Troy Bolton) and why t...

In today’s episode, we’re talking about traveling! From our dream destinations to transportation horror stories, we reminisce on our journeys around the country and world 🌍

Somehow after 3 seasons, we still haven’t recorded a Halloween episode… It’s about time we talked all things spooky, creepy, and generally goosebumpy plus we have our good friend, Nick Stacker to join us! Tune in for a holiday-appropriate ep where we share our spookiest urban legends and close ghost encounters. But beware - you may need a light palette cleanser after the show (Ming did!) 👻

It’s that time of the year againnnn! We don’t mean PSL szn, we’re talking about our seasonal episode on favorite media 🍁🍂 From tv shows to books to games, these cultural consumption episodes are truly the epitome of our “time capsule” podcast.

If you’ve listened to at least 15 minutes of one episode this season, you know that climbing has become our new ~thing~ 😎 In today’s episode we bring on Kevin Feng, a relatively new friend who has become a central member of the climbing squad. We talk all things climbing with Kevin from stereotypes to insecurities to gym etiquette! Listening? Listen on!

Every weekly recap we fill you in on our work updates, but since it’s been over a year at our jobs we decided to dedicate an entire episode to a worklife check-in. In a year, we’ve gained more responsibilities, seen our coworker dynamics change, and asked for raises! Tune into for a classic MO career chat ☕️

In this week’s episode, we brought back a favorite guest to talk all things “ick” and what it means when you get that undeniable feeling about your SO…but somehow we ended up on a winding conversation talking all things romantic relationships! Tune in for a ride of an episode and learn why Jethro Punzalan is just built different 💁🏻‍♀️

Do you drink ice cold water in the morning like Ming? We discuss why warm water is traditionally preferred to cold, what foods are considered yeet hay, and other TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) guidelines in this week’s episode. Keep listening to the end for a nuanced conversation on how people practice TCM in Western countries and why the US healthcare system doesn’t quite align with TCM ideas...

Are we [22F, 22F, 22F] the assholes for giving unsolicited opinions on r/AmItheAsshole?? You tell us! We’ve mentioned our interest in Reddit before, but this week we decided to dive into one of our favorite subreddits and read a few interpersonal dilemmas. Listen along, and let us know if you agree with our profound judgements 👩🏻‍⚖️

For the three of us, marriage still seems like a far off concept that may or may not happen someday. For Diwen and Brent, it happened last year thanks to one fortunate encounter on Coffee Meets Bagel. From dating app messaging to engaged and married in under a year, the Bians join us for a special episode where they share what it’s like to be newlyweds and how their Christian faith shapes their jo...

Now that two of us have officially flown from the nest, we’re sharing all the pains and joys of cooking solo. Tune into this chill discussion on our shared fear of talking to the grocery fishmonger, our favorite vegetables, and quick tips on cooking for 1.

Ok we admit it, we’re NOT experts in every topic discussed on the pod 😅 That’s why we decided to revisit the topic of ✨ astrology ✨ (something we first discussed all the way back in episode 10), but this time with a guide: Hana Huie! Join us as Hana schools us in all this astrology, from why the Co-Star app can be misleading to what it really means when Mercury is in retrograde 💫 Grab a snack...

💬 “A girl has no name”… more like a girl has many names! Especially over the course of our lifetimes, we could expect to be called by many different names- from our legal names to our Chinese names to our spouses’ names (or maybe not 🤔). Join us for an episode all about names, current and future!

The last time Sebastian on the pod we discussed electoral politics and the limitations of voting, but this season we decided to bring him back for a more intimate discussion. Tune in to hear Seb share his perspective on how dating has changed for him over time- from high school to college and in-person to virtual. And how it might not have changed as much as he first thought ❤️‍🔥

Happy August and happy season 4️⃣! Did you miss our Monday chats? In today’s episode we reveal our biggest fights 💥 and how our conflict management styles play a big role depending on the situation. We’ve always heard that the compromising style is best…turns out we we heard wrong— tune in to this ep to learn why!