I wish I could leave the US. I mean, I love my state and my heritage - my great grandmother's brother is listed as a historic artist for his music on the Blue Ridge National Heritage Area site, and my father played too. But, well....yeah, we all know.
Oh, another podcast I listen to is Dark Side of Seoul. The hosts are an American and a Canadian who moved to South Korea and I'm pretty sure at least one of them is One Of Us. ;)
Speaking of, we recently started a new kdrama, Study Group. We're only two episodes in but the male lead character is very much One Of Us. It has a lot of violence, though. He ends up at a bad school because he doesn't jive well with the neurotypical school system and the school's social life is run by a violent bully. But the lead character has trained in martial arts for years because he once heard "strong body, strong mind" and he thinks it will help with studying, so he's earnestly trying to study while effortlessly deflecting the attacks of the bullies. He needs some more people to join his study group and in just the first two episodes he's made one friend and I imagine he'll make more. :) If you can handle the violence, I highly recommend it. :) It's on Viki that I know of - Viki is a streaming service with lots of Asian content and I think their translations are better than Netflix's.
I was talking to my husband about other autistic coded characters in kdramas and we couldn't immediately think of a female one other than Extraordinary Attorney Woo, but we'll keep our eyes open for it.
Oh, also my husband said all 10 slots for the audience for his tea presentation are filled! :)
I, myself, am an Aussie expat living up here in Scotland.
I’m looking forward to Matt’s book being released.
Just one thing — the TV quiz program Pointless, in my opinion, is an autistic show. The aim is to correctly guess the most obscure answer (not a wrong answer as suggested) — Angela, you would be a whizz on questions about Crowded House.
Hey - yes of course Pointless is very Autistic! As are most game shows here. My husband and I love 9 out of 10 Cats, Taskmaster, University Challenge, and Only Connect (and Mastermind!) all very Autistic. We have an episode on how Jeopardy in the US is Autistic too - check it if you haven't already!
BTW - the book is mine and was written by me so I hope it doesn't disappoint you. :-P
You will definitely hear a lot of Matt's ideas in there as he is a big influence to me and did a round of edits where he added things to what I was attributing to him. <3
Ok, I must’ve misunderstood Matt’s plug of the book, but I’m still looking forward to it.
I’m sure I’ll have listened to the Jeopardy episode — I’ve been binging on the Podcast, at work, since I discovered it — sometimes up to four episodes a day.
I did audition for the Australian Jeopardy show thirty odd years ago, but didn’t get past the first step, lol
I wish I could leave the US. I mean, I love my state and my heritage - my great grandmother's brother is listed as a historic artist for his music on the Blue Ridge National Heritage Area site, and my father played too. But, well....yeah, we all know.
Oh, another podcast I listen to is Dark Side of Seoul. The hosts are an American and a Canadian who moved to South Korea and I'm pretty sure at least one of them is One Of Us. ;)
Speaking of, we recently started a new kdrama, Study Group. We're only two episodes in but the male lead character is very much One Of Us. It has a lot of violence, though. He ends up at a bad school because he doesn't jive well with the neurotypical school system and the school's social life is run by a violent bully. But the lead character has trained in martial arts for years because he once heard "strong body, strong mind" and he thinks it will help with studying, so he's earnestly trying to study while effortlessly deflecting the attacks of the bullies. He needs some more people to join his study group and in just the first two episodes he's made one friend and I imagine he'll make more. :) If you can handle the violence, I highly recommend it. :) It's on Viki that I know of - Viki is a streaming service with lots of Asian content and I think their translations are better than Netflix's.
I was talking to my husband about other autistic coded characters in kdramas and we couldn't immediately think of a female one other than Extraordinary Attorney Woo, but we'll keep our eyes open for it.
Oh, also my husband said all 10 slots for the audience for his tea presentation are filled! :)
Great show today, I’ve finally caught up!
I, myself, am an Aussie expat living up here in Scotland.
I’m looking forward to Matt’s book being released.
Just one thing — the TV quiz program Pointless, in my opinion, is an autistic show. The aim is to correctly guess the most obscure answer (not a wrong answer as suggested) — Angela, you would be a whizz on questions about Crowded House.
Keep up the great work.
Hey - yes of course Pointless is very Autistic! As are most game shows here. My husband and I love 9 out of 10 Cats, Taskmaster, University Challenge, and Only Connect (and Mastermind!) all very Autistic. We have an episode on how Jeopardy in the US is Autistic too - check it if you haven't already!
BTW - the book is mine and was written by me so I hope it doesn't disappoint you. :-P
You will definitely hear a lot of Matt's ideas in there as he is a big influence to me and did a round of edits where he added things to what I was attributing to him. <3
Ok, I must’ve misunderstood Matt’s plug of the book, but I’m still looking forward to it.
I’m sure I’ll have listened to the Jeopardy episode — I’ve been binging on the Podcast, at work, since I discovered it — sometimes up to four episodes a day.
I did audition for the Australian Jeopardy show thirty odd years ago, but didn’t get past the first step, lol
Episode idea: taskmaster is autistic?!