Station 13

It's great to listen in on a friendly conversation that can broaden one's cultural sensibilities and provide fun thoughts on how we live in the world. Fantastic stuff, keep it up!

A Brit and Aussie who met while living in Japan, now catch up with bi-weekly chats from their new homes in California and Sweden. Delightful conversations between two interesting people with contrasting personalities and life experiences. Recommended.

As noted by another reviewer, these gents really nail the “Two Dudes Talking” format. However, I think what makes this show so interesting is not just down to their cultural backgrounds (UK/Australia/Japan/Sweden/USA). When their interests do overlap, they will of course geek out, and I always find it entertaining to listen to enthusiasts on any topic. However, I think the most interesting discussions occur when the Venn diagram of their personalities *doesn’t* overlap, because almost always, I learn something new in the process. It helps that these guys are both quite insightful, but in differing ways: where one is erudite the other is worldly-wise, which provides many opportunities for analyzing a topic from multiple interesting angles. (I’ll let them decide which of them is which.) It is these perspectives on various topics — but also how they map to their real lives — that make the show shine. Unlike a lot of other podcasts, these two gentlemen have lived around the world, so the show is at its best when they are discussing not just their own perspectives on a topic, but how it maps to their varied experiences. More, please.

Like Hello Internet, Dani and Alex really seem to double down on all of the things I love about "Two Dudes Talking" style podcasts. They use their different experiences living in different countries and cultures to make even the most mundane topics engaging and super interesting. How does Japanese pedestrian culture compare to the UK? Or Austrailian driving tests to the US? Combined with their passions (music, language, video game development, table tennis 😆) and you've got an entertaining show that leaves you knowing a bit more about the world after each episode.