Growing Up Gifted

Deon and Phia make an episode about grade 12 and university just before high school starts again (for the last time). But as usual, we go down many unexpected rabbit holes, such as stress about stress, grade 9 personalities, what it means to be a billionaire, middle school #depression, "haha same" culture, tween fandoms, Taylor Swift, and Oscar Wilde.

After some times of inactivity, Deon and Phia make crêpes and talk about traveling to France, Brexit??, the not-so-recent abortion bill, the definition of a human, euthanasia, and James Charles. Definitely our most chaotic episode yet with the fire alarm going off at the end, but hey, at least there’s some “ASMR” cooking sounds. If you think this was a mess, you’re only complaining about the 15% that survived editing.

Deon and Phia begins by fooling around with French Siri, and then tangent off from talking about snow days to the definition of productivity, capitalization of self-care, finances, hypersensitivity to mental illnesses, and Mao Ze Dong knick knacks at the Tiananmen Square.

In which Deon and Phia rant about course selection, the restricted paths of university (yikes), arts vs. sciences, and the influence of siblings on career choices. It’s a scary future out there fellas and honestly, if you got advice send it our way.

In which Deon and Phia FINALLY review the Gifted movie, Captain America, the age limit on Fields Medals, Andrew Wiles, giftedness vs. bright, and Rami Malek (Phia does the talking on that last one).

Merry Holidays! In this episode, Deon and Phia discuss the ethicality of Santa Claus, commercialization of Christmas culture, and teenage annoyances of gift giving/receiving. We wish you all a relaxing winter!

In which Deon and Phia deviates from the Gifted movie trailer to moral opportunity and moral duty, cannibalistic cow allegories, and wise nugs about giftedness. What is a wise nug? A wisdom nugget, of course.

In this episode, Deon and Phia launch an investigation on giftedness, which is probably a good idea for a podcast called Growing Up Gifted. As students in the gifted program, we seriously question it sometimes. I mean, was Da Vinci gifted? Are YOU gifted? Is your toilet-licking cat gifted? How do you know?

Deon and Phia intending to talk about origin stories but ended up discussing the meaning of friendship, the importance of physics, and legalization of weed in Canada. In summary, this is a podcast where two humans talk humanity.

In this episode, Deon and Phia discuss getting out of a “gifted” program, judgement, a John Green tattoo, the value of humanity in the universe, and typewriters.

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