By now you've probably heard about Burning Man, the festival that in recent years attracts over 80,000 participants to the deserts of Nevada. But did you know that there's an equivalent event in China

I don't often talk about my career before podcasting. But in today's special bonus episode, I had the excuse to do just that with Francis Kremer from the China Flexpat podcast. In our chat, recorded b

We've reached the halfway point of Season 03. And following in the tradition from previous seasons, we're marking the occasion with a special bonus episode, and an extra special bonus guest. This part

Yes, today's episode is all about what it's like to live in China with Tourette syndrome (). But what it's really about is neurodiversity. Some people still have a defensive attitude towards those

The environment is one of those topics that we all know we need to talk about, but at the same timedesperately want to avoid. None of us want to be lectured on all the things we're doing wrong, and n

There are two themes of todays show: the first is location, and the second is queer identity. There exist derogatory stereotypes about both, which could be described as either xenophobic or homophobi

Is there anything more pathetically banal than talking about sleep? We all do it, so who cares? Until recent years, that's what many of us would have said. But these days there's a growing recognitio

There are some people who view video gaming at best as a time-wasting distraction, and at worst as a vice. But in listening to today's episode with the game designer Simon Chapuis, even detractors wil

The country of Mongolia is sandwiched between Russia and China, and there are ethnic Mongolian areas in all three countries. So when talking about Mongolian people in China, it's not always clear whet

Sometimes big themes can be tackled through the guise of performance art. In previous episodes of the podcast, we have explored how drag performers can teach us to embrace our own weirdness, and how c