Jaq and Andy’s Thoughts On Stuff
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Episode 22: Thoughts on Being Kind to Your Community and Yourself, and on Idiots.
This episode Jaq and Andy take a walk in their community and look for opportunities to be kind and understanding to one and other, even the idiots. They consider the merit of little experiments to…
Episode 21: Thoughts on near, far and stupid enemies
In order to know yourself properly you need to know your guiding principles and the enemies that oppose them. In this weeks episode, Jaq and Andy consider the far enemies that you can see clearly and…
Episode 20: Thoughts on the Progress of Humanity and Cartoons
Has humanity truly progressed? Is it possible for humans to make meaningful improvements to themselves? Is there any point in trying? Should Rumi and Jinu have gotten a happy ending at the end of…
Episode 19: Thoughts on Sleeping, Being Woke and Things That Wake You in The Night
This episode Jaq and Andy wander the despairing wastelands of insomnia, cautiously investigate the terrors of the Australian political landscape and bound enthusiastically into the exciting land of…
Episode 18: Thoughts On Art, Culture and The Australian Way...s of Communicating
This episode we start off attempting to clearly communicate the importance of clear communication before jumping head first into Tokyo culture, intentionally talking about Japan for, possibly, the…
Episode 17: Thoughts on Robots, Toxic Diets and Games
This episode of ToS sees our intrepid crew of two voyaging into the disappointing depths of modern house robots and AI misuse before turning left into toxic diet culture and the labels we place on…
Episode 16: Thoughts on Edutaining the Woke Masses, Snow and Stray Kids
Chuffed as we were with the focus we displayed in our last episode we have decided to continue with this style. Starting off with our education systems complete inability to be entertaining and…
Episode 15: Thoughts *Specifically* on Halloween, Thai BL and The Degredation of Respect in Society
This was a new week, a new approach, a new solution to our tendency to incessantly meander away from any semblance of a cohesive topic of conversation. And we are happy to report that our new…
Episode 14: Thoughts on Bears, Celebrities and Living in Your Own World
This episode we wander into the murky depths of delulu fans, threat perception and poorly aged media. It's not all doom and gloom and slight concern however! We also talk about drink…
Episode 12 The First: Thoughts on Rebellion Against Society, Expectations and Numerical Order
In a shocking turn of events we barely discuss Japan and don't even mention anime!.. I think, don't quote me... We do however talk about K-Pop stars and Korea.... baby steps people, baby steps. This…
Episode 12: Thoughts on Single Stories, Fighting Randos and Slothing
Trigger Warning: mentions of suicide and domestic violence. Come with us on a journey through Japan, grocery stores, work places and Space (Jam) to fight c*nts who are, in fact, not bigger than us.…
Episode 11: Thoughts on Underrated Anime, Fashion Choices and... Woody Allen?
This episode Jaq and Andy finally stick to a topic for longer than 2 minutes but only because that topic is Skip Beat, an under-appreciated manga that spans so many volumes that you can wildly jump…
Episode 10: Thoughts on Shoujo, Work-life and Hannah Barbera
Not to be outdone by our previous meandering, this week we get completely lost in tedious minutiae. Luckily for you we cut out the worst of it. You're welcome. However if you have a soft spot for 80s…
Episode 9: Thoughts on Salad and Things That Aren’t Salad
In this episode Jaq and Andy do not talk about salad the entire time, but the topic is definitely given more time than it really deserves. Jaq and Andy sincerely apologise for this. Otherwise the…
Episode 8: Thoughts On Things That We Like and Things That We Don’t... Remember
In an unsurprising turn of events, when allowing ourselves to talk about what we usually divert to... we diverted immediately away from it. Not all went to the not-plan however, because we kept…
Episode 7: Thoughts on Travel in Times of Covid, Work Culture and Series That Just Won’t Die
This episode Jack and Andy travel.... not very far due to unforeseen divergences. In our attempt to discuss travel, because we frequently divert to it, we have, naturally, diverted almost immediately…
Episode 6: Thoughts on manga, anime, looking like anime and acting like manga
This week we're dropping the pre-tense and just talking about Japanese 2D media (watch this space for an episode entirely dedicated to travelling in Japan). We do of course deviate away from anime…
Episode 5: Thoughts on K-Pop! K-Drama Other Overseas Interests of Ours
We were into K-Pop before it was cool,... of course a lot of people still don't think it is but those people are wrong. Join us in our hazy recollections of 10yr old but strident assertion that K-Pop…
Episode 4: Thoughts on Science, Schooling, Sugar and Spacemas
Our journey continues as we dive head first into science literacy only to discover that Jaq can't spell LGBTQI+ and Andy assumes Jaq must know these things and says nuthin'. But not before we've…
Episode 3: Thoughts on Anime, Romance and Relating to Others
Our journey this day begins with the dangerous topic of anime before diverging quickly into an assortment of delectable diatribes and then coming back round to the concerning content of "Beastars",…
