Punching Holes: Recent Episodes
Punching Holes
Post-high school best friends discuss corners of the world and challenge their peripheries about life. Sometimes relevant. Sometimes left-field. Always interesting.
we took a short break because of uni but we're back with a guest for this episode! kayley shares her experience as an international student in australia & how difficult it can become growing up on your own. we compare our social upbringing as three asians who did a lot of their maturing in suburban australia. this ones a bit juicy, even danyal had fun editing it! hope everyone has a lovely break :-)
inspired by the tik tok trend, we talk through a list of how we would parent & reflect on how we were raised in our own households.
we talk through our experience with mental health: how its hard, why we should be more easy on ourselves and the best ways we've dealth with it. just a warning, we're not in any way professionals when it comes to mental health - just 2 teenagers sharing what they have gone through
is it okay to be a hater? we discuss our thoughts on haters + being a hater: what we should do when we find out someone is talking shit, if its okay to not like everyone and if hiding your feelings is being fake. we had to beep a lot of this episode out.
at the beginning of this year, we lost one of our closest friends. we reflect back on our memories with him, our experience of going through an immense loss for the first time and what it felt like grieving amongst friends. there's some tears in this one.
we talk about the different beauty standards that are upheld for men and women & why (in most cases) its just so much easier to be a boy. warning: we kinda talk abt pubes in this ep.
both of us started uni! we talk about all the trials of tribulations of uni; finding new friends, getting settled into our new courses and why its so different high school (p.s we like high school more).
as we're both leaving high school, we thought we would take a long trip down memory lane and talk about all the crushes we've had throughout highschool
Almost four months later and we're back! We didn't really take a break - Tarra was just too disorganised to edit so Danyal's taken over. In this episode, we talked about what it feels like to nearly graduate high school, if our experiences lived up to the expectations and how scared we are about our futures.
*TW: cannibalism, extreme violence, death
This week we talk about cannibalism! Are the moral reservations different for people who practice cannibalism as part of a sacred ritual vs someone who believes they're part of a devil race? Or should we always look down upon people who eat human flesh? We draw criticism from two iconic Vice documentaries about Issei Sagawa (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BosZxa1bYcE&t=89s&bpctr=1597702194) and the Liberian Warlords (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRuSS0iiFyo&t=18s) to try and impart some sage advice about harvesting their community. We also discussed Trump's executive decision to ban tiktok and what it means for our freedom (kinda).