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America vs. China

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PJ Vogt

Society & Culture, Business, Technology

4.84.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

People review everything, but they almost never review what it’s like to live in another country. Until now.  We interview a writer who’s lived in China, covered China, and has had to choose between life here and there. What are the big misconceptions Americans have about China? How could America learn to build trains and bridges as fast as China does? And how should the two countries actually be copying each other?  Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future by Dan Wang Support Search Engine! To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:36.9

For free. One of the more tragic TV show cancellations of the last decade was this show I really loved called Review, starring the comedian Andy Daley.

1:47.0

Daly played a character named Forrest McNeil, Forrest, a Tweedy intellectual, a professional reviewer who reviewed not books or movies or albums, but life experiences his audience requested on a five-star scale.

1:53.0

From the mundane, like there was an episode about eating pancakes to the more interesting,

1:58.0

he reviewed stealing and drug addiction, forgiveness, and being buried alive.

2:03.0

I liked the show because it's funny, but also because it made me notice something about real life,

2:08.0

which is that we really do live in a very review-obsessed culture. There's no experience

2:13.0

too personal or intimate or sacred to avoid being the subject of a review.

2:23.4

People review not just their cancer treatment, but their experience of cancer.

2:27.4

People review the sermons they hear in church, the dates they go on, everything.

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