Escape From Plan A

Steve joins Teen from HK to talk about life after careerism and what fills the vacuum left by leaving your job. Also, why vibecoding is great for the unemployed and bored. Pt. 1 of 2 For bonus eps: patreon.com/planamag

Chris is back to host Escape From Plan A! Teen joins Chris to talk in-person about Amy Wang's film 'Slanted', about how racial insecurity can become a kind of body dysmorphia. Is this the Asian American 'Get Out'? Is it in fact a better film that that? Pt. 1 of 2 Chris's piece 'Start Asian Hate': https://salieriredemption.substack.com/p/start-asian-hate For access to the part 2: patreon.com/planamag

Jess and Teen discuss Kenichi Ohmae's theory of a 'low desire society' and whether America fits that description. Are younger generations depressed and giving up on life, or is there a better (and more optimistic) interpretation of "the falling fertility rate", waning interest careerism, less promiscuity, less drinking... Louis Zhao's video: https://youtu.be/Koow0Q6EiXU Part 1 of 2 For bonus pods: patreon.com/planamag

Chong and Chris join Teen to talk about the overwhelmingly positive vibes surrounding Alysa Liu, and of course (it wouldn't be Plan A otherwise) dissecting the chud response around the good Wasian girl vs the traitorous Eileen Gu. Fully unlocked this week b/c everyone needs some good vibes. For access to bonus eps and the Plan A Discord: patreon.com/planamag

Fred joins Teen to discuss how to maintain adherence to a contemporary lifestyle (careerism, consumerism) when the foundational narrative upon which that lifestyle rests has been undermined by 'narrative rupture': real artificial intelligence, real global virus outbreak, real illimunati, and (post-recording) real war. Part 1 of 2 For access to part 2 and all bonus episodes: patreon.com/planamag

Mike and Steve join Teen from LA and HK (respectively) to talk about America in the era of conspiracy, Epstein as the Merovingian, and what the future reboot of the American Matrix will be like in comparison to current release version. Part 1 of 2 For access to Part 2 and all bonus episodes: patreon.com/planamag

Angelica joins Teen from Taipei to discuss America's image from abroad, what the Epstein Files have done to American legitimacy in the eyes of our Asian 'allies', and whether China is an alternative or a replacement for what America once was. Part 1 of 2 For access to Part 2 and all bonus episodes: patreon.com/planamag Angelica's Taipology YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TaipologyAngelica Angelica's Taipology Substack: https://taipology.substack.com/

Right in the middle of a work day, Mike joins Teen to talk about Claude Code, tech and finance jobs, and whether we need to start positioning for a market bubble pop. Part 1 of 2 For access to Pt 2 and all Bonus Episodes: patreon.com/planamag

Jess and Teen discuss the dilemma of caring for older parents and what old people portend for what's coming for the middle-aged. Part 1 of 2 For Pt. 2 and Bonus Episodes: patreon.com/planamag

Chris joins Teen to discuss whether the intra-racial gender and class tensions among Asian Americans as a group - much discussed on this podcast in the past - might shed light on the raging hostility and violence over the killing of Renee Good at the hands of federal agents. Part 1 of 2 For access to bonus pods: patreon.com/planamag

Mike (@meow_meow_2020) joins Teen from Dalian to talk about moving to Northeastern China, whether China is liberalizing, is Xi Jinping the Chinese Ronald Reagan, and why China should be compared to the US as it exists today, but back at its Cold War peak in the mid-1980s. Part 1 of 2 For access to pt. 2 and bonus episodes: patreon.com/planamag

Teen talks to Jess about getting canned from a job for the last and final time. Why economic dependency is not the full story about our dependency on careerism. Why status and identity are so intertwined. Pt. 1 of 2 For access to bonus pods: patreon.com/planamag

Teen and Jess discuss changing diet and other fundamental aspects of life as a matter of choice rather than 'willpower' and how a Mortal Kombat dance demonstration was mistaken for a bake sale. And more observations about careerism at the mid-lifespan point. Part 1 of 2 For access to bonus pods: patreon.com/planamag

Chris reunites with Plan A, along with resident professors Chong and Fred, to discuss Tony Thulathimutte's short story collection "Rejection", a tour of modern alienation, pathos, and terminal loneliness. Part 1 of 2 For access to bonus episodes: patreon.com/planamag (**link to private video of Chris's short story reading in the bonus**)

*Note, we have migrated off of SoundCloud, our new public webpage for EFPA episodes: https://rss.com/podcasts/escape-from-plan-a/ Mike and Teen spend a Saturday evening looking back on our working decades, life after work, and the investment-over-work mindset. Part 1 of 2 For part 2 and all bonus episodes: patreon.com/planamag

Teen continues his experiment with AI, to try and get a better understanding of what we're all actually talking to. This time, he talks about personal investment strategy, because it's involves both the empirical and subjective domain. Conclusion: You Got To Know When To Fold 'Em. Part 1 of 2 For bonus episodes: patreon.com/planamag

Jess and Teen talk about why fancy, high-skilled hobbies become more Asian as you climb higher on the skill and investment level. In the bonus section, they discuss the corollary of the Asian immigrant insistence on suffering and not living well. Part 1 of 2 For bonus episodes: patreon.com/planamag

In an experimental podcast episode, Teen talks with the large language model DeepSeek-V3.2 to talk about the transgression and the professional managerial class, and why our view of it may be completely inverted. What does transgression actually mean within the constraints of a culture at once obsessed with virtuous perfection, and unvarnished degeneracy? And what is the nature of the dissociated, eternally discontent PMC subject? Part 1 of 2 For Part 2: patreon.com/planamag

Back from a 5 month world tour, Twitter moot Scott (@alreadydawn, born in Taipei, raised in SoCal) talks with Teen about his world city rankings. What makes a city great (Osaka) versus loathsome (ahem LA)? And what exactly constitutes a city even? See Scott's city rankings at: alreadydawn.substack.com Part 1 of 2 For Part 2 and access to bonus pods: patreon.com/planamag

Steve joints Teen from Hong Kong to catch upon buying Chinese EVs, the surreal political landscape of the US, and using real cameras again. Part 1 of 2 For access to bonus pods: patreon.com/planamag