梳化同學會 | The Podcasting Couch

Hosts: Jay; Ming; Pong; JChow

Topics:

I. Gaming IS a Social Event

II. Pong-Pong's Bizarre Adventure

III. Wall E - Will humans reach the state of complete laziness with round bodies?

IV. We judge Tiktok and Challenge Culture

This Episode's Hosts: Jay

Topics:

00:00:00 I. Updates and looking forward

This marks the beginning of "Home Theater", a series where we sit down and watch a movie together, then give our thorough review. Kicking off the series, we have Wall-E, a Pixar classic that merges a robot romance story with a grand story of humanity revival in a post-apocalyptic future.

This Episode's Hosts: Jay; Ming; Gtai; Pong

Topics:

00:00:00 I. Gtai's Self-study Extravaganza

00:30:00 II. Wall E: The Story of Robot True Love & Humanity's Second Wind

Gtai and Jay goes on a rant about 520, then attempts to understand the hardships of being in a relationship. The boys then move on to talking about loneliness and its sources. After a slightly philosophical discussion on the fable of The Frog in the Well, this episode ends with the Pixar robot-romance classic, Wall-E.

This Episode's Hosts: Jay; Gtai

Topics:

00:00:00 I. Being Single looking at Relationship Hardships

00:40:00 II. Loneliness & Futility

01:13:00 III. Perks of being the Frog in the Well

Returning to the 2-man formula, Jay and Gtai discusses the future of the show, as well as venting about their distaste of fake accents. In his now weekly work experience stories, Jay delivers a quite motivating TED talk on "Being Ready and Confidence". With Jay's Uni best friend, Benis joining the episode, the couch takes an unexpected turn and fell into a construction industry rabbit hole.

This Episode's Hosts: Jay; Gtai

Guest: Benis

Topics:

00:00:00 I. Looking forward to Season 3

00:23:00 II. "You'll Never Be Ready" - Jay's Ted Talk

00:55:00 III. The Construction Site Experience

Episode 71 Coming soon! Continuing from last week's episode, this week, we walk through our D&D experience, where we reminisce our favourite/key moments from this campaign, with both the player's and dungeon master's perspectives. We then end this saga with a rarely wholesome moment, where we give our final thoughts and appreciations.

This Episode's Hosts: Jay; Gtai

Guest: Rose (Franklin-san); Lukas (Prof. Physics)

Topics:

00:00:00 I. Looking back at our Campaign Key Moments!

00:55:00 II. Final thoughts

Welcome to the 1st of a two parts episode, where we breakdown our one-shot D&D campaign. After Jay shares his (now weekly) work stories, the hosts introduces the role playing board game, Dungeons and Dragons. Rose shares her campaign inspirations and the briefly goes through the story plot. We then dive deeper into our individual character's perks and discuss the development process, ending this episode on a cliff hanger.

This Episode's Hosts: Jay; Gtai

Guest: Rose (Franklin-san); Lukas (Prof. Physics)

Topics:

00:00:00 I. Jay's weekly work crisis stories

00:30:00 II. What is Dungeons & Dragons

00:46:00 III. Campaign Inspiration and Plot lines

01:00:00 IV. Introducing Our Campaign Characters 

A new generation idol group, 四隻白虎+杯奶 (MILK & TIGERS) debuts today! But before that, we revisit Jay's memory of a recent meeting crisis, where 生蠔san saves him again. The couch then attempts to understand the magic and system behind pop idol groups, leading to our very own debut announcement.

This Episode's Hosts: Jay; Ming; Gtai; Nic

Topics:

00:00:00 I. Site Meeting Crisis!!! 生蠔san, Jay's Savior

00:24:00 II. Let's talk about Korean, Japanese and HK Idol groups

01:08:00 III. We Debut: [四隻白虎+杯奶] Our Vision as Idols

The smoke finally clears out, as Jay is temporarily relieved from the stress of work and departures. As celebration, this guy went to a new hair salon and made a discovery that turned his world upside-down. Pong shares his (graphically gross) ear accident from staycation, PSA: keep your ears safe. With the full couch present, the hosts discusses and expresses our appreciation for each other's efforts to keeping the group intact. Take away from this episode: "Long-distance friendships and relationships are, with no doubt, extremely difficult, but definitely not impossible". 

This Episode's Hosts: Jay; Ming; Gtai; Pong; Nic

Topics:

00:00:00 I. Jay Discovers the Beauty of Hair Salons (and Follow up on Mr. K's departure)

00:30:00 II. Pong had a (GROSS) Ear "Accident"

00:45:00 III. Friendship Appreciation Day: Our Efforts to Staying Connected as Long-Distance Best Friends

The Couch returns from break, where Jay reveals his personal emotional journey from the past weeks, as well as other reasons that has put the show on hold. This episode acts as an update of our past weeks and as a preview to the upcoming episodes.

This Episode's Hosts: Jay; Ming; Nic

Topics:

00:00:00 I. What happened in the past 2 weeks?