Eat Your Crust

Calling all travel lovers, budding teachers, and weaboos!Our guest today is a friend who is currently teaching English in Japan to high school students. He set off on this journey with images of playful school life and dreams of peaceful landscapes often depicted in anime, but does his 2-year adventure meet his expectations?! Today we chat about the JET program (Japanese Exchange and Teaching), the relationship between students and teachers in America vs. in Japan, and dealing with homesickness and culture shock! Follow us on insta! @eatyourcrustpodSupport the showFollow us on social media @eatyourcrustpod

Disclaimer: This episode focuses on Bay Area cost of living and average salaries. We recognize that location is a huge factor in the variance of salaries/pay rates. Parents often tell their kids not to talk about money because it’s rude, without explaining why they think it’s rude. But growing up, it’s not difficult to realize why having conversations about money are so awkward. In a capitalistic society where money = merit and money = power, we start to evaluate our own self-worth and happiness on money. Today we wanted to have an open, vulnerable conversation about our salaries and how we manage our money as 24 year olds in the San Francisco Bay Area. While we don’t believe this episode should be a “guide” to managing money (we are noobs, please do your own research), we hope our honesty about our anxiety around salaries, saving, and investing ring true with many of you :) Follow us on insta! @eatyourcrustpod Support the showFollow us on social media @eatyourcrustpod

Exploring the evolution of online friendships and the changing perception of interacting with strangers online. Discussing the association between voice and ethnicity in online gaming. Navigating flaming and building trust in gaming environments. The impact of online gaming on relationships and behavior. Making long-lasting friendships through online video games. The stigma and evolution of online friendships.

When we think about Healthcare, we often think of doctors and surgeons running around (a la House or Grey’s). What’s often overlooked is the hard work put in by nurses, who play a vital role in protecting patients’ lives. Today we bring on two active RNs (registered nurses) working in the Emergency Department and the Medical Surgery Unit. As if being a nurse isn’t crazy enough, these two have experienced everything from PPE shortages, COVID-19 deniers, and dishonest patients in the past few months. Join us today to get an inside look on how COVID-19 has changed the lives of healthcare workers. (Especially insightful for people like us, who have been comfortably WFH this whole time!) Follow us on insta! @eatyourcrustpodSupport the showFollow us on social media @eatyourcrustpod

Before some of us are even 18 years old, we pick a major at college that determines our course load for the next 4 years. The classes we take and our halfway-complete degree lands us some internships that we accept to “gain experience” (aka slap some big names on our resume). Our internship experience kick-starts our professional adult career, often in the same path that we’ve been on since we were a teenager.For many of us, our 18-year old selves had a good enough guess of our skills and passions. For many of us, our 18-year old selves had no idea what we were doing.Today, Tiffany (@skin_unfiltered) shares how she, a risk-averse accountant, quit her job at a Big 4 company to pursue her dreams of becoming an esthetician. Catch our episode to hear some skincare tips, our rant about Silicon Valley “clout”, and behind-the-scenes tea of being a SKINfluencer!Support the showFollow us on social media @eatyourcrustpod

The hosts talk about finding joy in small things, work-from-home challenges, building a gaming PC, moving to new places, reluctance towards buying expensive pants, improving cooking habits, and their experiences with cooking during quarantine. They also discuss the rising popularity of webtoons and explore the world of Twitch.

CW: We discuss heavy topics such as sexual harassment, sexual assault, and r*pe culture in this episode.If you live in California, or are a big fan of video games, you may have seen the resurgence of the Me Too movement where many brave women are coming forward to share their story of sexual assault. Many of these women were assaulted by famous video game content creators, but many were made victims by their own friends and peers.While it is painful to hear accounts of sexual assault, we believe it’s imperative to examine what perpetuates this behavior. In American media, we often see misogynstic values or gender stereotypes that normalize predatory behavior towards women. And as consumers of American media, it can often be difficult not to internalize these thoughts in ourselves as well.Today we tackle what we call “rape culture”, or societal attitudes towards gender and sexuality that increases the prevalence of rape.Support the showFollow us on social media @eatyourcrustpod

If you’ve ever stumbled upon Cat & Cat comics on Instagram, you’ve probably spent half an afternoon reading the stories of cute cats with BIG personalities. But don’t let the furry little things fool you - behind the round, wholesome art style belies life lessons and emotional healing that you didn’t even know you needed!Today we are super excited to feature the mastermind behind the beloved Cat & Cat comics - illustrator Susie Yi channels her passions for social justice and mental health awareness through her art, featuring her own pets and incorporating whimsical elements as well. As a self-taught illustrator with over 280k fans on Instagram, Susie shares with us her journey from pre-med @Harvard to CS @UChicago to the world of freelance art. Tune in to catch our discussion on the obligation to social justice for an artist and whether you can celebrate someone’s art if they’re a shitty person.Check out Susie's comics:@catandcatcomics @peacefulpanelsSupport the showFollow us on social media @eatyourcrustpod

As a young, fresh new grad straight out of college, starting your first adult job can feel like a strange experience. When the unfamiliarity and self-doubt persists, it can manifest in Impostor Syndrome, which is the thought that you are undeserving or incompetent, and thus a “fraud” or “impostor”. Whether these feelings come from something you can’t control, something that comes with time, or something that should be changed, we walk through our personal experiences with Impostor Syndrome and how we fight it (or at least, try to).Support the showFollow us on social media @eatyourcrustpod

The Asian-American community has often been criticized for staying quiet. Not only is this visible in our low political engagement or silence in the face of flagrant social problems, our complicity (inadvertent or not) is also quite strikingly symbolized in Officer Tou Thao’s complicity in the murder of George Floyd. While this movement has motivated a lot of Asian-Americans to take action, the various methods of support have received some criticism, including call-outs of performative allyship and stealing the spotlight from the black community. Today we discuss the different forms of support we’ve seen in our community, share thoughts on what it takes to become a better ally, and navigate how to turn our support into long-term, sustainable allyship. Here are some resources that we found helpful: A masterlist of petitions, funds, political info, and educational material: https://tinyurl.com/y9pd7mrp(Credit: @minstantramen)Compilation of translations for letters on anti-blackness: https://lettersforblacklives.com/Documentaries on black history available on Netflix: https://www.instagram.com/p/CA3aXaDlnmk/Just Mercy film is free for June: https://www.justmercyfilm.com/Support the showFollow us on social media @eatyourcrustpod