Fresh out of lockdown (?), Dick and Jake (an Asian-American lad leaving Shanghai for New York) talk about genetic tests, the dramatic arts, and answering the question "Where are you from?" in China and America. Jake has a request for The Dickfather. Subscribe! Follow @doublepontification on Instagram!CREDITSOpening & Ending MusicSong Title: Space outArtist: ChiroLink: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP1g70PNWdABushwick Tarantella Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Photo by Mohit Tomar on Unsplash

After a long lockdown-induced podcast sabbatical, Dick and Kevin (an Asian-American lad still trying to return to Shanghai) talk about Zero Covid, dishwashers, the exodus of foreigners, and the future of mainland China's most cosmopolitan city.Subscribe! Follow @doublepontification on Instagram!CREDITSOpening & Ending MusicSong Title: Space outArtist: ChiroLink: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP1g70PNWdALaid Back Guitars by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3964-laid-back-guitarsLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-licensePhoto by Alex Plesovskich on Unsplash

Dick and Chang (a Long Island lad with sexy samurai hair) talk about hairdos and hairdon'ts,  Asian male models, and unnecessarily (?) thirsty shampoo commercials.  Subscribe! Follow @doublepontification on Instagram!CREDITSOpening & Ending MusicSong Title: Space outArtist: ChiroLink: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP1g70PNWdAPhoto by Karsten Winegeart on Unsplash

Nearing their 10-year college reunion, Dick and Jean-Claude (a Boston native and all-boys Catholic high school survivor) reminisce about bygone times of mischief and foolishness as first-generation college students in the northeast. Subscribe! Follow @doublepontification on Instagram!CREDITSOpening & Ending MusicSong Title: Space outArtist: ChiroLink: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP1g70PNWdAPhoto by Cloé fontaine on Unsplash

Dick interviews Maggie Li (a modern-day Renaissance woman from Lianyungang, China) about her entrance into the filmmaking world, her role as Co-Producer in Ascension, and what went on behind the scenes of this four-year passion project. Directed by Jessica Kingdon, Ascension had its world premiere at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival, where it won Best Documentary Feature. Ascension is one of five nominees for Best Documentary Feature at the 2022 Academy Awards. Ascension is available for paid online viewing in select regions via the links below.1. The Roxie Virtual Cinema: https://watch.eventive.org/ascension/play/6179dd52b525b5003e8b53af 2. Hot Docs: https://hotdocs.ca/whats-on/films/ascension 3. Paramount+: https://www.paramountplus.com/movies/ascension/5WF18boWJHtAu2P65EQR_UT_VW_UQ53u/It's Coming! (the AI sex doll micro-documentary spin-off) is available for free online viewing via the link below. WARNING: MATURE CONTENT! 1. Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/user3712651 Subscribe! Follow @doublepontification on Instagram!CREDITSOpening MusicSong Title: Today's diaryArtist: ChiroLink: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NwW5oPwaGoEnding MusicSong Title: Space outArtist: ChiroLink: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP1g70PNWdAMaggie Li, a dear friend and co-producer of the Oscar-nominated documentary Ascension, needs help flying from China to LA to attend the Academy Awards. Please check out her page and consider lending a hand!https://www.gofundme.com/f/send-maggie-to-oscars

Right in the midst of the Lunar New Year, Dick and J (an Asian-Canadian compatriot to Simu Liu) do a deep dive into the 2021 blockbuster Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. Talking points include masculinity, daddy issues, Marvel romance, and the challenge of being an Asian-American superhero. WARNING: Spoilers ahead for Shang-Chi and Dune! Subscribe! Follow @doublepontification on Instagram!CREDITSOpening MusicSong Title: Today's diaryArtist: ChiroLink: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NwW5oPwaGoEnding MusicSong Title: Space outArtist: ChiroLink: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP1g70PNWdAMaggie Li, a dear friend and co-producer of the Oscar-nominated documentary Ascension, needs help flying from China to LA to attend the Academy Awards. Please check out her page and consider lending a hand!https://www.gofundme.com/f/send-maggie-to-oscars

After the longest New Year hangover ever, Dick and Kevin (an Asian-American lad with a fetish for watches) return to discuss COVID exile in New Jersey, New Year's resolutions, Shanghainese cab drivers, and Wetflix Originals. Commander Steele and Lieutenant K'von star in a multi-part sci-fi drama set in a distant future... Subscribe! Follow @doublepontification on Instagram!CREDITSOpening & Ending MusicSong Title: Space outArtist: ChiroLink: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP1g70PNWdAMaggie Li, a dear friend and co-producer of the Oscar-nominated documentary Ascension, needs help flying from China to LA to attend the Academy Awards. Please check out her page and consider lending a hand!https://www.gofundme.com/f/send-maggie-to-oscars

Riding the last drops of Christmas into the New Year sunset, Dick and Kevin (an Asian-American lad with a fetish for watches) do a deep dive into the Netflix romcom Love Hard (starring Nina Dobrev and Jimmy O. Yang). Talking points include comparative catfishing, AMWF dynamics, and sequel ideas for Love Harder, Love Hardest, and Rub Hard. WARNING: Spoilers ahead!  Subscribe! Follow @doublepontification on Instagram!CREDITSOpening MusicSong Title: Today's diaryArtist: ChiroLink: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NwW5oPwaGoEnding MusicSong Title: Space outArtist: ChiroLink: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP1g70PNWdAMaggie Li, a dear friend and co-producer of the Oscar-nominated documentary Ascension, needs help flying from China to LA to attend the Academy Awards. Please check out her page and consider lending a hand!https://www.gofundme.com/f/send-maggie-to-oscars

As 2021 comes to a close, Dick and J (a Canadian lass with an affinity for igloos) discuss Christmas in Shanghai, immigrant families putting their own spin on the holidays, and dating with Chinese characteristics. The classic poem A Visit from St. Nicholas gets a facelift. Subscribe! Follow @doublepontification on Instagram!A Visit from St. Dickolas’Twas the fortnight before Christmas, in the Delta Pi houseNot a creature was stirring, not even a louse;The stockings were hung by the beer cans with care In hopes that St. Dickolas soon would be there;The fratboys were nestled all sloshed in their beds;While visions of yumyums bounced in their heads;And Derrick and Dylan and twelve other chaps,Had just fondled their balls for a long winter's fap,When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,Dudes sprang from their beds to see what was the matter.Away to the window they nakedly ran,Like a cast of a porno straight out of Japan.The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow,Gave a luster of K-Y to objects below,When what to their wondering eyes did reveal,But a miniature sleigh and eight girthy long eel,With a smiley old driver so veiny and thick,They knew in a moment he must be St. Dick.More rapid than virgins his coursers they came,And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name:"Now, Hammer! now, Humper! now Pumper and Piper!On, Sausage! on, Schnitzel! on, Hancock and Viper!To the top of the porch! to the top of the wall!"And around the frathouse, waifu pillows did fall.So Derrick and Dylan and twelve other ladsWaited and waited… until they got mad.“What gives,” said Derrick, “what’s taking so long?”As he guzzled Corona left over from pong.And then, down the chimney, it sounded like braille,The slipping and sliding of each little scale;St. Dick wore no pants, causing quite the alarm;“What’s that?!” Dylan cried, “It’s as big as my arm!”“Ho ho ho,” said Dick, “It’s Christmas, my dudes, Are any of y’all thirsty for Pokémon nudes?”“Me!” yipped Garrett, “Aye aye!” followed Bryce;“Well how do I know who’s been naughty or nice?” “We’ve all been good fratboys, we all follow Lent,We even make sure to ask for consent.”  And hearing these deeds filled Dick with respect,that even his Pole of the South got erect. “I’ve saved the best booty for lads of your measure, Please take them from Dickolas for your viewing pleasure.”So Dylan and Derrick and all of the brosCompared 2D yumyums mumbling Ohhhhs.  “Officer Jenny, Misty, and Brock…”“Hey Dick,” whispered Dylan, “Can you lend me a sock?” The boys hollered like hound dogs, they giggled with glee, Their juices were forming a Caspian Sea. “I must go, my dear fellows, more presents await! Waifus and husbandos are big in Kuwait.”Up the chimney he rose, while lugging his sack,December of next year St. Dick would be back. He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle,And away they all flew like a creamy white missile. But they heard him exclaim, as he sipped on some drank—“Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good wank!”CREDITSOpening & Ending MusicSong Title: Space outArtist: ChiroLink: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP1g70PNWdAMaggie Li, a dear friend and co-producer of the Oscar-nominated documentary Ascension, needs help flying from China to LA to attend the Academy Awards. Please check out her page and consider lending a hand!https://www.gofundme.com/f/send-maggie-to-oscars

Hannah (a Dutch lass partial to horror movies and James from Team Rocket) returns to discuss body pillows, boy love, waifu roleplaying apps, and guys who live with cats. Dick headlines a four-part doomer noir microdrama featuring Misty from Pokémon.Subscribe if you like what you hear! Follow @doublepontification on Instagram!CREDITSOpening & Ending MusicSong Title: Space outArtist: ChiroLink: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP1g70PNWdAMonologue Music Night on the Docks - Sax Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Maggie Li, a dear friend and co-producer of the Oscar-nominated documentary Ascension, needs help flying from China to LA to attend the Academy Awards. Please check out her page and consider lending a hand!https://www.gofundme.com/f/send-maggie-to-oscars