Escape From Plan A

Part 1 of 2 Back home in Bali after an extended trip back to the United States, Carl Zha joins Teen to talk about the view of America from abroad. In part two (available to our Patreon supporters), John Pang jumps on from Hangzhou to offer his take after permanently moving out of the US. Get access to bonus pods and Discord chat by joining our patreon: patreon.com/planamag

Teen is joined by Chris as they reminiscence about the early motivations they'd had for starting Plan A (e.g. Asian American online gender wars, Asian American political awareness) and what does and doesn't matter to them about those topics anymore. Subscribe to Chris' Substack, Salieri Redemption, at: https://salieriredemption.substack.com/ Get access to bonus pods and Discord chat by joining our patreon: patreon.com/planamag EFPA Theme:
 "Fuck Out My Face" by Ayekay

After a long interlude, Escape From Plan A is back in production! Teen and Shan recount their first trip abroad (to Spain) in almost 4 years -- since right before COVID was discovered -- and the return of novelty to foreign travel. They talk at length about the Prado and the revelatory experience they had without the pressure of worshiping European art and being able to take it in as it as was intended: pure schlock entertainment, no different than Hollywood. Get access to bonus pods and Discord chat by joining our patreon: patreon.com/planamag EFPA Theme:
 "Escape From Plan A" by Ciel (@aerialist)

Filip joins Teen to talk about the last half year of raising a baby girl, finding closure on one stage of life only to open a bigger door filled with newer, bigger kinds of anxieties. And yet, life has never been better. Get access to bonus pods and Discord chat by joining our patreon: patreon.com/planamag EFPA Theme:
 "Escape From Plan A" by Ciel (@aerialist)

Part 1 of 2 Friend of the pod Alice joins Teen to talk about the peculiar soullessness of Washington D.C.'s bureaucratic legion, and how modern therapy culture has a rotten core. Get access to bonus pods and Discord chat by joining our patreon: patreon.com/planamag EFPA Theme:
 "Escape From Plan A" by Ciel (@aerialist)

Shan and Teen talk about one of their favorite topics as a couple: money and finances. The American financial environment is shifting into asset deflation mode, so a lot of 'common sense' about household finances -- buying a house is always good, renting is throwing away money, and 'cash is trash' -- need to be re-examined. And what cultural prohibitions need to be overcome in order to reform our thinking about money. Get access to bonus pods and Discord chat by joining our patreon: patreon.com/planamag This week's bonus pod: audio from a live Twitter Space hosted by John Pang and Teen talking about how the Gaza crisis is tearing American society apart by killing the decades'-long liberal consensus. EFPA Theme:
 "Escape From Plan A" by Ciel (@aerialist)

Part 1 of 2 On the eve of Steve leaving for HK and Mike turning 40, the degenerate threesome pour some drinks and have a good 'ol shit talk about growing up in Can-Merica, how to make work work, and when it's time to fold 'em and leave for good. Get access to bonus pods and Discord chat by joining our patreon: patreon.com/planamag EFPA Theme:
 "Escape From Plan A" by Ciel (@aerialist)

Part 1 of 2 John Pang returns to talk about Teen's dark visions of the world, why our juvenile capitalist culture's embargo on such dark visions is itself maddening, and how recent events are lifting the shroud off of realities we would rather not see. Get access to bonus pods and Discord chat by joining our patreon: patreon.com/planamag EFPA Theme:
 "Escape From Plan A" by Ciel (@aerialist)

Pt. 1 of 2 Q. Anthony Ali joins Teen to talk about diaspora media people who habitually engage in gratuitous racism against their own people, the double-consciousness of diaspora and how to avoid it, and what the future of assimilation might be in a post-liberal world. LINKS: Q's Twitter: https://twitter.com/NobleQAli That Viet Thanh Nguyen video: https://x.com/Mont_Jiang/status/1715096061167960537?s=20 Get access to bonus pods and Discord chat by joining our patreon: patreon.com/planamag EFPA Theme:
 "Escape From Plan A" by Ciel (@aerialist)

Mike (@Meow_Meow_2020) and Samlang (@SClemmt) joins Teen in a long form podcast discussion about the proposed razing of Gaza (and the mass killing of Palestinian civilians). This could be one of the major genocides in modern world history, and the three of us counsel that Asian people should take an independent perspective that is not colored by American pro-Israel propaganda. Get access to bonus pods and Discord chat by joining our patreon: patreon.com/planamag THEME MUSIC: EFPA Theme:
 "Escape From Plan A" by Ciel (@aerialist)