To welcome Q2 2025 in this hellscape and a new world order, I opened the time capsule and bring you this conversation with my friend Philbert from 2022. When I started this little project of mine, I knew I wanted to talk to someone extensively about growing up in Hong Kong and moving to Canada as a young adult, and Philbert was the perfect guest to dig deep into these feelings with. We also spent a good chunk talking about our mutual love for music and Linkin Park. That brings us to our first content warning: we never actually said it outright, but there are mentions of depression and suicide. On the lighter side of things, we share our experiences in language learning and Philbert brought us otter facts! Don’t forget to check the website https://iamthinkingaboutyou.com/ for photos, including the ones I took of Linkin Park when I was 18 (?!!?!!???????)

Links

5 REALLY Hard Languages for English Speakers

Cantonese lesson: more numbers 100, 1000, 10000 How to say "HOW MANY" in Cantonese

A sea otter reel for your algorithm

Credits

Music: Mayday by Jar of Flies

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Annnd we are back(ish). Taking you all back to March 2022 when I recorded this episode with longtime friend Betty Xie. Betty is a career coach for creatives, a fundraising consultant and a filmmaker. Throughout the years, I’ve often benefited from Betty’s advice and counsel and I’m glad she has professionalized it! In this conversation, we take you back to 2012 when we first met and talked through the various film projects we worked on (and how I inspired a character in one of her projects). For the ~full experience~ you could check out the films in the links below and the photos ON THE WEBSITE (which I forgot to plug at the end of the episode).

Guest Links - Betty Xie

Website: https://www.xiebetty.com/

Instagram: @bettyxcoach

Everyday Talent Podcast: https://www.xiebetty.com/podcast

Listen to me interviewing Betty on her podcast here

Watch Uprooted: The Plantemic on CBC Gem (Canada only)

Watch The Home Promised (2015)

Watch the Stand Up Man (2017) trailer

Credits

Music: Mayday by Jar of Flies

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This was an episode recorded in the earlier days of the conception of this podcast in March 2022... In the episode, I caught up with singer-songwriter Gavin Sutton aka Tennyson Wolf, who introduced me to podcasts and without whom this podcast might not exist (sounds dramatic but true). We talked about how our lives intersected, the photos I’ve taken of him, friendships, making music as an independent musician and what we’ve been watching & listening. We covered quite a bit!!! There’s also a special follow-up with first guest Ammar at the end.

All the photos we talked about are on the website.

Guest Links - Gavin

• Gavin's Music: The Heights, Tennyson Wolf
• Listen to Gavin on producer Adam Newcomb podcast The Recording Story where they talk about the songs Lonely Walks and Yesterday’s Me

Mentions

• Jack’s Mannequin - I’m Ready
• Monet Van Gogh (@professional_artist_official)
• Lee Pace talking about Pushing Daisies on Vulture
• Podcast: You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes, Reply All, Aunty Donna, Dead Eyes, Mystery Show (Ep 4 Source Code), S-Town, Serial
• TV Shows: Pushing Daisies (starring Lee Pace and created by Bryan Fuller, who made Hannibal after!!!!), Halt and Catch Fire (AMC), Sex & the City And Just Like That (HBO), Veronica Mars, Schitt’s Creek, Ted Lasso (HBO), Mozart in the Jungle (Amazon, created by Jason Schwartzman & Roman Coppola whose name I completely forgot), Sherlock (BBC), What We Do In the Shadows (FX), Pieces of Her (Netflix, 2022)
• Movies: Scream (2022), The Power of the Dog (Netflix, 2022), CODA (Apple, 2022 - An Academy Best Picture!)

Credits

Music: Mayday by Jar of Flies & Tennyson Wolf “This Side of Midnight”

Special Thanks: Ammar Keshodia

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