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.

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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.

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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.

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Jess and Teen discuss the dilemma of caring for older parents and what old people portend for what's coming for the middle-aged.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Chris's review of 'Rejection' at his Substack: https://salieriredemption.substack.com/p/rejects-r-us

(**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.

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