In this episode, the trio wraps up the tumultuous year of 2025 by discussing major events of the year, Trump 2.0, 青鳥, the rise of right-wing parties, wars and conflicts, the failure of multiculturalism, and food delivery services.
In this episode, the trio concludes their discussion of entertainment by talking about what qualifies as 'leisure', the pros and cons of most video games, and board games.
Relive the moment a big earthquake strikes during the recording...
In this episode, the trio continue their discussion by talking about how the consumption patterns of films and television have changed throughout the past few decades.
Join Roddy and Adrian as they talk about wanting to move on from the school club they are each involved in, the eternal drive to seek the next sensation peak, and how this self-realisation drive might be associated with the role of religion and meaning.
*Note: This is NOT a regular EAA episode but a backup plan if the hosts' schedules get overwhelmed. The pre-recorded session is thus not always in chronological order in relation to regular episodes.
In this episode, the trio kicks off the new topic - Leisure and Entertainment - by talking about reading. They discuss their reading habits, preferences, and the challenges of finding time for reading. They also touched on the deterioration of linguistic sophistication.
Join Roddy and Adrian as they talk about irritating assignments and "frogs at the bottom of wells."
*Note: This is NOT a regular EAA episode but a backup plan if the hosts' schedules get overwhelmed. The pre-recorded session is thus not always in chronological order in relation to regular episodes.
Join Roddy and Adrian as they talk about Lego, jigsaw puzzles, museums, travelling, and the revisitability of cities.
*Note: This is NOT a regular EAA episode but a backup plan if the hosts' schedules get overwhelmed. The pre-recorded session is thus not always in chronological order in relation to regular episodes.
In this episode, the trio wraps up their conversation about democracy and free society by doing a freedoms and liberties tier list comparison. They discuss in detail the reasoning behind their ranking and reveal many deep-lying worldview differences when it comes to the premise of what a free society is.
Join Roddy and Adrian as they talk about the recent controversy about school hours and the holiday-ridden October. They also discuss the difficulty of changing the existing compulsory education system and what schools are not teaching but should be teaching.
*Note: This is NOT a regular EAA episode but a backup plan if the hosts' schedules get overwhelmed. The pre-recorded session is thus not always in chronological order in relation to regular episodes.
In this episode, the trio continues their conversation about democracy. The discuss the inefficiency of democracy and howlegitimacy is often gained through results instead of support, making highly democratised processes extremely ineffective. They also talk about how this prompts thoughts of the alternatives to democracy, and how the best compromise - representative democracy - is increasingly compromised.
In this episode, the trio has a conversation about the premise of democracy. They discuss the difficulty of following people's will, the disparity of democracy's goals and what happens in practice, and the lack of incentives that drives talents away from politics.
In this episode, the trio wraps up their discussion of Cross-strait relations. The talk about how some people push certain agendas and ignore the legal status quo, the weird obsession of the DPP's active undermining of the ROC government's legitimacy, and how cultural and national identity play a part.
Join Roddy and Adrian as they talk about the recent infamous assassination of political influencer Charlie Kirk and how some people must understand that political violence is not the way.
*Note: This is NOT a regular EAA episode but a backup plan if the hosts' schedules get overwhelmed. The pre-recorded session is thus not always in chronological order in relation to regular episodes.
Join Adrian and Roddy as they talk about the peculiar revenge psychology in practice in modern politics and the grim situation of their clubs' recruitment.
*Note: This is NOT a regular EAA episode but a backup plan if the hosts' schedules get overwhelmed. The pre-recorded session is thus not in chronological order in relation to regular episodes.
In this episode, the trio continues their discussion of Cross-strait relations. The talk about the potential reasons behind the relative ignorance of the younger generations on the issue, the difficulty of navigating the sea of overwhelming information and the subsequent challenge of biased narratives instead of misinformation, and the incompetence and lack of information of the standardised curriculum about the topic.
Join Roddy and Adrian as they talk about course selection, social battery, anticlimactic plots in literature, and more.
*Note: This is NOT a regular EAA episode but a backup plan if the hosts' schedules get overwhelmed. The pre-recorded session is thus not in chronological order in relation to regular episodes.
In this episode, the trio kicks off the new theme format with the first topic - Cross-strait relations: Taiwan and the World. Adrian gives an analytical view of how outsiders see the China-Taiwan situation and the influence of biased narratives from international media outlets on the issue. The conversation also touched on the age-old question of identity and its role in Taiwanese politics before turning to the discussion of the recent recall votes.
In this episode, Adrian, Evan, and Roddy welcome a special guest, Kun, a civil engineering student at NTU. He recounts his personal journey to Taiwan, marked by visa rejections, the threat of conscription in Myanmar, and eventual support from Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Kun talks about the corruption and instability in his home country, while also pointing out the danger of rising anti-China sentiment and political polarisation in Taiwan.
In this episode, Roddy and Adrian talk about the frustration and challenges associated with people's unwillingness to take responsibility. They also discuss why their generation is very commonly accused of instinctively criticising institutions instead of themselves.