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Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Tyler and Steven partner up to answer the follow up discussion points from last week's episode.   As a reminder, last week's topic was about how to deal with the realities of our generation while in conflict with the expectations that parents expected of us.  This week's question is as follows:  When it comes to our professional lives and our living...

Send us Fan Mail Growing up in the millennial generation (and more specifically, in an Asian household), there were many strict rules including the expectations bestowed upon us from our parents.  We were expected to find success, which is most obvious,  but sometimes the greater disconnect from their intentions was what appeared to be a lack of trust from them.  In this episode, we took a questio...

Send us Fan Mail How would you know what to do with 1 million dollars, if you were given it and had ONLY 24-hours to spend it?  Furthermore, what if the only limiting rule is that you could NOT spend it on yourself for financial gain?  Most of us don't have a plan if 1 million dollars was to magically appear in our account.  Even if we had dreams of what we would do with it, it seems that wit...

Send us Fan Mail Valentine's Day in the U.S of A.  For some, it can be an eventful day that people look forward to every year, or for others, it can be just another day to avoid the fanatics in public.  However we look at it, it can hold a special place in our hearts, or we can be cynical about it.  Overall, we have to acknowledge its history, and how it came to be, and then make our own deci...

Send us Fan Mail Death is an inevitable part of life.  No matter where we turn, it's part of human nature that we see, hear, or experience some form of death in our lives.  Death can impact us both directly and indirectly.  The way we deal with it is an experience that we are all too familiar with, yet, we don't generally talk openly about.  How do we comprehend it? In this episode, Tyle...

Send us Fan Mail During this pandemic, there are many stories about how this period had allowed us to discover new hobbies, or pursue hobbies we had previously neglected.  If anything is for sure, this pandemic has threw all of our lives into a loop, and most of us come of out of it looking for new meaning to our day to day lives.  But with all this soul searching, there is a lot of time spent at...

Send us Fan Mail At the end of any Championship in Sports during the 2020 season, is there going to be an asterisk?  As we approach the end of the NFL season, many of us kind of consider any 2020 sports season as “not real” in a sense.  There were so many restrictions, less games, and parts of the game that were just… missing.  Did those parts play a big part in the outcome of some games?  Probabl...

Send us Fan Mail Legacies are a huge part of our conversations.  Whether we are actively aware of it or not, every action we make is another notch in the story we leave at the end of our journey.  To the average person, we may not always have a book or film made in our honor, but through our daily impacts, we hope that it leaves imprints long after we are gone.  As mentioned in our episode, legaci...

Send us Fan Mail How would we know there is life after death?  Some spend hours, maybe even years contemplating the afterlife.  To do so takes a lot of energy--brain power--and it can be all for nothing, or can we will it into existence from our very thoughts?  In other words, it all depends  on our personal beliefs.  For instance, depending on what religion you believe in, you could believe in he...

Send us Fan Mail Some believe love can be unconditional.  Love can be kind, and always supportive.  All of the cliches--you can name them.  But it appears with any type of emotion (or, action), there are limitations.  How far can we go before we reach the thresholds of our love for someone else?  What are our boundaries where we draw the line, and cut off our love for someone?  Easier said than do...

Send us Fan Mail Times are hard during the covid-19 pandemic.  Some find themselves lucky to remain able to keep a steady job, even more so to work remotely from their offices, and others find themselves temporarily out of work, or still reeling from the negative effects of the economy during this time.  As government assistance is requested for at an all time high, we await another round of stimu...

Send us Fan Mail Does every choice we make somehow impact the greater good?  How do we even define who is part of the greater good, and why are these sacrifices for them come down to who is more powerful?  We debate if we believe in the philosophy of sacrificing for the greater good.  There are many levels to it, and it seems that no matter how we decide, it comes down to either our animalistic ur...

Send us Fan Mail The pandemic doesn't appear to be slowing down anytime soon.  However, the stigma of the year 2020 is coming to a close--or, is it all just really beginning?  This is the month of December 2020.  Generally, the holiday season brings a sense of peace and joy in the atmosphere.  For some, this is the time of year they thrive the most, and for some others, this can be a dump bec...

Send us Fan Mail The month of November can be the start of feeling many emotions and experiencing various causes of stress.  Maybe it’s the cold weather coming that is signaling the start of fall and winter time.  Or it’s the bittersweet and cultural stress of the upcoming holidays.  You know the type of stress that it carries:  what gifts I should get, who to get it for, when to start shopping, w...

Send us Fan Mail The month of November can be the start of feeling many emotions and experiencing various causes of stress.  Maybe it’s the cold weather coming that is signaling the start of fall and winter time.  Or it’s the bittersweet and cultural stress of the upcoming holidays.  You know the type of stress that it carries:  what gifts I should get, who to get it for, when to start shopping, w...

Send us Fan Mail Are professional sport teams above the law?  If we treat pro sports as a business entity at the end of the day, are they not above the same governmental guidelines that govern local businesses in the community during the covid-19 pandemic?  Though we enjoy the entertainment--it brings back a sense of something common we can all cheer for and lay aside politics in all of its form f...

Send us Fan Mail The month of November can be the start of feeling many emotions and experiencing various causes of stress.  Maybe it’s the cold weather coming that is signaling the start of fall and winter time.  Or it’s the bittersweet and cultural stress of the upcoming holidays.  You know the type of stress that it carries:  what gifts I should get, who to get it for, when to start shopping, w...

Send us Fan Mail Every one person is going through a journey and a battle that no other can speak for, or sympathize with.  As every person is unique, it’s believed that so is the way we view mental health.  I can say one thing about how I deal with it, but it shouldn’t be generalized to speak for how someone else is dealing with theirs.  Especially for men, it’s a society that generalizes us into...

Send us Fan Mail The pandemic seems to take away our sense of community; at least in the physical sense. But we start to realize that with lockdowns and social restrictions, communities find creative ways to connect or re-connect. For instance, we are seeing more businesses working from home and meeting virtually, to online and live streaming churches, to live streaming concerts, and even to doing...

Send us Fan Mail Before we begin, please note that all sorts of SPOILERS are ahead!   In this episode, we join our special guest, Niko, and we then take turns answering questions about the Haunting of Bly Manor on Netflix.  This episode features the usuals, alongside our special guest:  Steven and Tyler.  Each of them ran with the questions and provided thoughtful (and sometimes off-tangent) respo...

Send us Fan Mail From a speculative perspective, we talk about what the youth may be going through while stuck at home or learning remotely during this pandemic.  We are all now adults in our careers and with all some form of secondary level education.  So, thinking back to when we were kids, it seems that we all agree that remote learning from home may be fairly detrimental to our growth as youth...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we catch up with Andrew, and we then take turn to answer 9 random questions in a fire round that gives us all about a minute only to answer.  This episode features the usuals:  Steven, Tyler, and Zvon, and the return of teammate Andrew.  Each of them ran with the questions and provided a quick and thoughtful response to them.  These 9 questions are: Do you eat too...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we answer 3 questions about our sense of community during the COVID-19 pandemic.  This episode features the usual crew of Steven, Tyler, and Zvon.  Additionally, we welcome our special guest Niko to the table.  Each of them took turns to provide quick and thoughtful responses to each question.  These 3 questions are: Do you feel that there are ways to still have a...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we recap the first 6 months of the year 2020, specifically citing the details of when Covid-19 struck the world.  From there, we answer 2 questions that discusses our current state of emotions and how it impacts how we feel towards what we hope may happen in the next 6 months.  This episode features the usuals:  Steven, Tyler, and Zvon.  Each of them ran with the...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we answer 12 random questions (that includes that college related question above) in a fire round that gives us all about a minute only to answer.  This episode features the usuals:  Steven, Tyler, and Zvon.  Each of them ran with the questions and provided a quick and thoughtful response to them.  These 12 questions are: Do you want to write a book? Do you shop a...