China Chat

Chris and Jiajia enjoy a leisurely walk through the park, looking ancient pictographs and tiny water fowl.

Chris and Jiajia talk about Labor Day in China, Golden Weeks and debate whether Pluto is a planet.

Jiajia and Chris are charging their car, talking about lounging in the park, cars with toilets and turkeys.

We speculate about where we’re going, AI and humanity as frenemies, the advance of technology’s impact on human brains, and Chris badgers Jiajia about sunscreen again. 

Yes, we’re different but what does that really mean? It means Jiajia won’t wear sunscreen and Chris will continue to pester him about it. In the end, we’re not really that different after all. 

Chris continues to bust JiaJia’s chops but he doesn’t care, they discuss the origin story of the idiom, “busting your chops”, goats, sheep, Starburns, Abraham Lincoln’s facial hair, and interesting tattoos.

Jiajia and Chris talk about Karl Fazer chocolate from Finland,  Chinese word order, what does “normal” even mean, busting your chops and meat pies. 

Jiajia and Chris discuss soft mattresses and stealing the covers, reminisce about Heilongjiang and sleeping on heated tile beds.

Chris can’t wait to finish recording so she can get back to playing Gummydrop, they talk about Daily Heiqiao chocolate, lotus root as a perfect soup vegetable and Chris reminds Jiajia that sea cucumbers are not vegetables. 

Chris and Jiajia go on a meandering journey of topics from life as a simulation, popular movies, childhood memories and whether snakes have scales or not.