East Meets West – Podcast

Tom’s weird Uber Eats order experience. Roger’s odd used hard drive experience.

The fallout from Covid. The bad times aren’t permanent. Forming communities. Why things seemed simpler then.

Eating and other habits, finding your niche, evolution of creativity.

How did you find East Meets West? Going through probate. Saving money. Star Trek and Star Wars. Werewolves, vampires and zombies. Genre cycles.

Better halves, House of the Dragon vs. Rings of Power, the similarity between TV and burgers, TV is like books. (Jeann Robertson is who Roger mentioned)

Roger has a brand new fence! Cooling the Earth. Maybe moving forests? Fallen civilizations.

How to refresh thinking, critical viewing, video games vs. TV and movies, working with stress and anxiety, distance and information.

Are things crazy? Roger says no. Also Roger’s perspective on education and health.

People who don’t watch the news, news diets, news points of view, curating your own news.

Maintaining a house, car repair, DIY.

Roger’s crush on Firewire, aging, dress codes, is the hoodie a staple now? department store electronics, books of the past.

Happy anniversary East Meets West, early jobs, Roger the world traveler, summer vacation, jobs.

German election, elections in general, “the good old days”, people as symbols, arguing to win.

Tom is invulnerable, Roger is excited for Dune, Have we reached peak comic book movie? Thoughts on the Green Knight and Arthurian legend. The drift of history. Fictionalized future.

Roger hasn’t been watching the Olympics.

Roger and Tom celebrate the vaunted episode 404. MP3

Evaluating product reviews and leaving reviews. Good business practices. MP3

Pronunciations, world TV shows, moving, school lunches, moving around. MP3

Tom and Roger talk about what they think about the election. MP3

This year was too in focus, shifting meanings, looking back keeps Roger young, the impact of 2020, free will?, being outside of time, time crystals. MP3

We missed a month! But we’re back with talk of mail, what happened to the word “enlarge?” the Simpson’s and Groundhog Day’s effect on language, thumbs up, origins of gung-ho, picking up language, the English language, Pangolins. MP3

Tom gives Roger a broken phone, how the pandemic affects business, Roger goes to Korea town and gets berries, smiling in a mask, wash your hands before you eat, overmarketing hygiene, why people smell the way they do. MP3

Dealing with notoriety, fame vs. celebrity, unknown vs. anonymous, also Banksy, Does the octomom go to cons? MP3

Almost 15 years, delivering groceries, moving out, Portland, traveling when non-white, subtle signs of racism. MP3

Tom is old. Skepticism, cynicism, and nihilism. Overcoming hardships. Dealing with world events. Sociability. MP3

Podcasting is an essential service, will we have CES, or any large gatherings, predicting what happens next, seeing the cracks in society. MP3

Production in the time of social distancing, how people behave outside, checking your PO box, taxes in the time of pandemic, living through history. MP3

Tom finished Crash Landing on You, interruptions while watching TV, outside voice, social norms. MP3

Roger and Tom are in person! Using a navigation app. Home Depot hot dogs. Taco stands. Is sliced up fruit a risk? Fish for food. Fowl-smelling things. Food inspections. MP3

Grocery shopping, how tastes change, there’s not monolithic good taste, what makes us like things. Link

Are we stuck with the Hero’s Journey? Maybe, maybe, not. Where reality shows fit with documentaries and “based on a true story” fiction. MP3

We look back at some East Meets West history, how to boil water, gas company issues, insurance issues, cost of living, quality if life. MP3

The effect of heat, zoos, snow parks in the summer, crowds grew because of the internet, effects of travel. MP3

Our report card issues, student loans, Roger wants to home school for college, health care schemes, health care woes. MP3

Tom and Roger talk Godzilla. Did they like it? SPOILERS AHEAD MP3