Racism is touched on in this episode via The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah’s geopat lens AND English teachers in Taiwan experience circa 2004. We also cover slow fast food, inspiringly fluent Chinese language speakers, Chinese New Years boyfriends for hire and more expat and geopat goodness for everyone.

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 1:02   Announcements: podcast email list AND Shanghai moving over

Podcast Brunch Club

10:18 Language segment (NEW)

Lena’s video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChSQkHuHoI0

29:03 Taiwan blog reading, "Me in Taiwan", June 9, 2004

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38:30 Current day Shanghai, China geopat reaction to blog reading

Needing different before deciding if I liked the present location

48:09 China segment: an ode to Chinese New Year / Spring Festival

https://chinesenewyear2018.com/21-things-you-didnt-know-about-chinese-ne

w-year/

Al Jazeera fake boyfriend video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqRt5boELkQ

1:20:45  OVER THEREness SEGMENT: Trevor Noah; A Geopat in his own land?

The Daily Show

Born a Crime book

Grey’s Anatomy “the talk” segment

Stand up shows:

In the U.S. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3XCxV_pSBA&t=796s

In South Africa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFJHRUgPUeE

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