After recently exploring what certain words and phrases say about culture, we thought it time to re-explore what other certain phrases - idioms - say about - yes - culture! With that, enjoy this speci

Were back for Part 2 and for our 60TH EPISODE! In this even more culture-lit-laden episode, Dean, Tom, and Torin resume poring over Christopher Moores book The Untranslatables, about terms represe

Dear listeners: As youve enjoyed nearly sixty episodes of Deans stories, tales, and lessons learned from working in a hundred cultures around the world (and if not, why are you here? this is what we

Listen to this juicy rumor: In this episode, would you believe that Dean and Tom spill the tea on the value and function of gossip and secrecy across cultures? From investigating the use of tsismis

While we're sorry to possibly offend, we're not at all sorry about reissuing our apologies-across-cultures episode, "Sorry?", from June 2019. We hope that you enjoy it, and if you don't, what else can

Last month, Dean entereda ryokanin Japan, so this month he - and we - are re-entering the Japanese bathroom in the FIRST-EVER episode of the "Oops, Your Culture's Showing!" podcast. Enjoy this speci

Happy spring! With cherry blossoms blooming all around, Dean and Tom float into an exploration of ikigai, a concept for finding happiness and purpose in everyday life, in Japanese culture. Along the r

Clink clink! Dean and Tom would just like to take a moment (actually, several moments across this episode) to toast toasting and public speaking across cultures. After toasting all night long with a t

O Canada! With all the recent talk of Canada being the 51st U.S. state - its not, and wont be! - Dean and Tom venture into the vast expanse of cultural differences between Canadians and U.S. America

Hoping a magic carpet ride whisks you away to a magical "far far away" place this week? Well, you're in *luck*, because we're reissuing our August 2019 episode, "Do You Believe In Magic?", for that ve