Pass the Poutine Nina

Gavin is back on the pod and we discuss the current affairs of the $GME in the last month. Has the squeeze been squozed? Only time will tell but we are still diamond handing (or.. bag holding?) until then. Later we try to figure out and understand a new avenue in the DeFi sphere, NFTs or, non-fungible tokens. We talk about the value and ownership of things, the digitalization of our reality and assets and the future of monies. Timestamps: Reddit bots and shills (5:10), $GME $40 (11:00), $GME price rises (12:00), 100K is not a meme (17:00), when do we sell? (24:00), NFTs (33:54), LeBron’s dunk nft for 200k (36:15), clubhouse (37:35), how to make money off nfts (42:30), how do you transfer the same value of a physical piece of art into an nft? (45:20), first band to sell an album as an nft (48:14), turning our podcast into an nft (50:55), Fake art (52:45), why do we buy art? (57:55), social media is more important than reality (1:05:00), cryptocurrency (1:10:30), Michelle Phan (1:13:00) and more.

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Gavin and Aaron are back on the podcast this week to continue the discussion of the non-stop gamestop saga. Admittedly, it has been a dark week for us diamond hands but we will hold until we sip molotov cocktails on a yacht when my 10 shares of GME take us to the moon... or live off food stamps until I can get back on my feet. Timestamps: $GME closing at $63 this Friday (1:20), finance guy looks at GME charts (6:22), market manipulation with GME and AMC (10:00), Feb 9th short data (11:25), investigation (13:45), you are the product (18:10), some retail investors regretting getting on the bandwagon (21:50), loss porn (22:55), what will happen when short data is out? (32:30), who is going to be casted in the $GME movie (37:10), Netflix production of $GME (40:40) and more.

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Can't stop. Won't stop. GameStop. $GME

Aaron of First Generations Podcast and Gavin of DIU pod join me to discuss the recent events of the Gamestop saga. We talk stock market shorting and manipulation, wallstreetbets and the impact of this momentous event in history. Timestamps: EB Games (4:40), Gamestop saga (8:14), toxic relationships (8:33), u/deepfuckingvalue (13:10), celebrities coming out to support wsb (19:40), brokerage apps stop trading for retail investors (17:11), what happens to society after gamestop? (32:10), 2008 financial crisis (39:10), when do retail investors get out? (43:28), $GME: a giant trust exercise (44:50), stock market crash (48:20) and more. I LIKE THE STOCK.

Find Aaron here: https://open.spotify.com/show/4CzrfAJ7GcRKjewFPOlAp9

Gavin here: https://open.spotify.com/show/2RGxmZsrvuZXSqcCzB39Lj


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Dorothy is on the pod today and she imparts some modern elder wisdom upon my podcast. She shares stories of her life starting in the middle, finding her partner into her late 30s and adopting a girl from China as an Asian American woman who grew up in Brooklyn, New York. We talk Asian representation in American media, dissecting parental trauma, and the ever changing notion of what it means to be human. Timestamps: Deciding to adopt a child (3:00), biological versus logical families (3:30), divorces (11:00), what makes a marriage work (12:20), John Gottman (14:18), humans are dynamic (19:50), the wisdom of modern elders (21:20), growing up in the 1980s (22:45), what makes a lifetime (30:30), social life during the pandemic and introversion (33:10), choosing adoption (37:25), telling your child she is adopted (42:45), Joy Luck Club and Asian representation (48:40), Crazy Rich Asians (49:55), getting called a “Jap” (56:45), throwing out the old school playbook (59:45), parental trauma (1:08:58), and more. Dorothy is looking to talk to 100 Asianx womxn who burn their playbook and play by their own rules. If you are interested, you can reach her at hello@resonant-strategies.com. Thank you everyone for listening, and as always, I’ll see you on the next episode.


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Kyle, a Chinese Canadian from Toronto, is on the show and we talk: Torontorians know more about Vancouver than Vancouverites talk about Toronto (1:35), Alberta (3:30), Calgary Chinatown (7:20), Canada’s worst Chinatown (7:45), Growing up Asian-Canadian in Markham Toronto (16:05), Parents not wanting you to speak your mother tongue at home (19:08), Asians representation in media (22:00), Asian men moving up the sexy ladder (32:50), Kpop dudes (38:30), What Kind of Asian Are You? (41:40), podcasts we listen to (52:35) and more. Check out Kyle’s podcast What kind of Asian Are You?


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Sandy the globetrotter, writer and life coach is on the podcast today! We talk mushroom capital of the world (1:20), growing up half Korean half Japanese (5:43), questions asked to size someone up (15:00), Korean in Mongolia (19:05), moving to the UK (25:40), I love your accent (29:30), starting a travel blog (30:50), life coach (38:48) and more. Contact Sandy and check out her blog at http://goingknowhere.today/ and read my article here.


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