Hello and welcome back to another episode of the miss Amanda Chen show podcast. If you’ve been following this show, you know I have been relentlessly interviewing random men from all over the world, mostly virtually, about gender and social norms that affect how we identify ourselves and ultimately, our self worth, based on our interactions with others.

Most of you know that I have been living in sunny Tulum for a couple months now, the place where all digital nomads escape their hometown lockdown buzz kills to thrive, fuck, and join what we call here the Tuluminati.

Its taken me a while to get comfortable living here, without masks, with tourists coming in and out every day, without getting overcharged for tacos, without getting robbed. And one of my most privileged issues to date is finding decent wifi to conduct my podcast interviews. So I thought, why not find someone in town and interview them live, in person? Whoa, what a trip! Listen to the play-by-play on this podcast episode.

I’m sharing this story because I don’t owe this guy shit and I am not going to publish his interview, I am not going to promote his app, I am not going to ever speak to him again and I won’t try to convince myself to publish the content just because I made it. I’m not going to allow myself to validate the entitlement of others anymore. I almost slipped again, and this is why todays episode is so important. We never talk about these things. And the joke is this the Miss Amanda Chen Show and I’m still struggling to keep it mine.