HeyJaredYada Yada Gold with Schee Moua
What makes up the modern human experience today? Combine the currency of diminishing attention + human nature's "principle of least effort"-- and what we're left with is a hyper-reductive version of culture, entertainment and society; a hyper-reduced humanity, so to speak.
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Betting Your Life On a Calling, Even When "It Sucks"-- On Criticism, Comedy, and the Creative Life (opens the original)
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Why you have to make bad art to get good, how to survive criticism from your own family, and the terrifying thing about betting your life on a creative dream. Schee and Seng sit down with their youngest brother Roger — a working standup comic — for a freewheeling, funny, and surprisingly tender conversation about the creative life. It starts with an on-the-fly improv game and Roger's latest TikTok sketch getting roasted, then turns into something bigger: why you have to make a lot of bad work be
Crying During Movies Now: Best Movie Endings and the Childhood Icons We're Losing | EP. 026 (opens the original)
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Kill Bill, Toy Story, Mrs. Doubtfire — the movie endings that wreck you now that you're older, and the childhood icons we're suddenly losing. Schee and Kong get nostalgic and a little vulnerable in this one: why movies make you cry more as you get older, the endings that stay with you for life, and the strange grief of watching your childhood icons start to pass. It runs from Tarantino's Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair — which Kong argues is one of the most underrated endings ever filmed — to
The Most Important Insight Behind the George Floyd Case & Tou Thao Conversation | EP. 025 (opens the original)
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The 2006 police killing of Fong Lee, a 19-year-old Hmong teen, set against the George Floyd cases — and what really decides how they end: political cost. Schee, Kong, and Seng follow their episode featuring Tou Thao with a case almost no one outside Minneapolis remembers: the 2006 police killing of Fong Lee, a 19-year-old Hmong teenager, and the civil trial that came three years later. Set against the George Floyd prosecutions — and the very different settlements paid to the families of Jamar Cl
When All You Are Is a Consumer: How Creature-comfort-culture Killed Our Most Human Drives | EP. 024 (opens the original)
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Schee, Kong, and Seng coin a term in the first minute — "the basement ghoul" — and spend the next hour testing just how much it describes themselves and the rest of society. Central question: Does a full-service, post-AI world of solved problems produce a golden age of passion projects or a species of contented consumers, a la "Basement Ghouls"? They discuss how automated, modern comforts have removed every reason to leave the house, while addressing the broader societal issue of the collapse of
If We Die, Then the Truth Dies: Former MPD Officer Tou Thao Talks the George Floyd Case, Family, and Life after Prison (opens the original)
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Tou Thao — one of the former Minneapolis police officers convicted in George Floyd's death — conducts his first long-form conversation since prison. Schee sits down with Tou Thao, one of four former MPD officers behind one of the most scrutinized cases in modern American history, for a challenging but sincere conversation. Out of federal prison since last November and reunited with his family after three years, Thao speaks at length for the first time about his trials, his refusal to take a plea
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