S02E33 Your host Kuan-wen’s Monologue #4 🇹🇼 2025 Review, Intercultural sensitivity, Tommy Robinson Rally

A year end review based on 2025 Spotify Unwrapped and the podcast platform statistics, released on the penultimate day of 2025!In case you are not a stats nerd on where the podcast is consumed, this monologue episode also includes a brief discussion on the Bennet scale, also called the Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity. The framework was developed to analyse how people react to cultural differences and can be a useful tool when someone experiences cultural shocks. Your host came across this framework listening to an *international career coaching podcast (in Mandarin) and interprets this framework as a stand up comedian.Wrapping up this monologue episodes, your host Kuan-wen shares his observations on changes to comedy rooms after a far-right rally in London.---------------------------------Follow your host Kuan-wen on Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/kuanwencomedy/---------------------------------00:32 Intro03:11 2025 Spotify Unwrapped07:50 2025 statistics (July to December) from the podcast platform11:55 Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity (Bennet Scale)14:37 Six intercultural sensitivity stages20:09 What if the audience is at a different of intercultural sensitivity for a foreign stand up comedian?22:50 A non comedy example of mutual cultural understandings when it comes to toasting25:45 Accents v.s. speaking English “wrong”30:40 Changing political climate/Impact of Tommy Robinson rally in the UK on comedy shows37:49 Some final encouraging words---------------------------------If you like the episode, please share it and leave a review. For any comments or suggestions, please contact us on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/comedywithanaccent/ or email comedywithanaccent@gmail.com---------------------------------Podcast intro music by @Taigenkawabe