Episodes
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Your Flight Has Been Delayed
If you're hearing this, travel got in the way of my editing. But I do quickly talk about a fun discussion happing in the cdrama world!
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Does Korea Have a Build-A-Bear?
We are wrapping up A Shop For Killers Season 2. They feel so short when it's only 4 episodes! Just like this recap!
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Welcome to the (Thai) Jungle
It's the penultimate episode for A Shop for Killers Season 2. This is where it all goes bonkers. We've got lies, revenge, traitors, and Rasputin imitators. Seriously, what does it take for some of these people to die? Also, what do you have to do as listeners to get Andrea to stop giving you...
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On Aunties and Unnies
Yes, it should actually be transliterated as eonni, but if we're watching a Netflix show then we're following Netflix's transliteration. Season two continues on as we expand the cast of characters, include Bale's naked butt. I am not comptaining about that scene. I am Donkey saying that that is a...
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My Giant Korean Teddy Bear
We are fully back from our wee late summer hiatus and we are kicking it off with season two of A Shop for Killers. Most importantly, my wee Korean Teddy Bear aka the gigantic burly bus driver who towers over everyone else is back in an expanded role. After an episode explaining exactly what…
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September Update
A wee update before I'm actually back-back after my hiatus!
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Surprise Episode!
Just jumping with a little update on podcast dates - just realised I didn't sing "See You In September" and am so disappointed in myself - and a relevant news story given we have just finished talking about Mr. Sunshine. Enjoy the short bonus episode!
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Hold Your Breath and Count To Ten
Do you get it? Do you get the title of episode? Skyfall lyrics, these come immediately after the first line "this is the end." Sure look it, some times things get stuck in my head and you just have to deal with it. But this is the end! We have made it to the last episode of Mr. Sunshine and it's…
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This Is Not The End
It is finally the actual penultimate episode! Notes for episode 24 are lengthy, so we're getting two podcasts this week. You'll also get a lot of crying. Sorry, not sorry.
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Mapping My Way to Fish Jokes
As always, love to point out the penultimate podcast of a series and we have reached it for Mr. Sunshine, covering episodes 21 and 22. A series that was an entire year in the making. Along with another short history lesson, Andrea rants about men being horrible husbands and no one paying…
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Butchering Names and Kicking Accents
We are so close to the end of Mr. Sunshine. We're talking about episodes 19 and 20, so why not talk about "Mayo for Sam" and historical inaccuracies in Braveheart? It's a match made in long-winded heaven! It is also the official start of the Andrea Cry Count for Mr. Sunshine. How high can we get…
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Not a James Bond Podcast
While covering episodes 17 and 18 of Mr. Sunshine, we also cover some James Bond, some 1950s children's songs, and why Andrea is making up her own timeline for this series. I read a history book for this series! I can do what I want! Also, the children's song to look up on YouTube: My Brother -...
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It's Not Goodbye...
Andrea takes a bunch of trips down memory lane and occasionally remembers that she's supposed to be talking about Mr. Sunshine, episodes 15 and 16. We start with a pensive discussion about the location of a killer and we end with pensive staring at an eclipse. Both of those involve squinting. In...
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We're Making Cinematastic Happen!
And we are back to our regularly scheduled programing with episodes 13 and 14 of Mr. Sunshine. Not only are they action-packed, but someone other than Andrea actually swears! And we finally meet Jeon Insurance Kang! Well, just Jeon but the red string says I must add the Insurance Kang!
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Keeping the Sports Separate
If you're hearing this, someone did not find her mic in time to record and edit for a Tuesday post. But instead of the usual "this week will be late and this one will disappear once it is up", I'm doing a quick episode with some corrections from last week and some rants about sport. And it's…
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Sister Michael in Joseon Korea
With this podcast covering episodes 11 and 12 of Mr. Sunshine we are officially halfway through the series. We talk a little vague Korean history as well as some personal history that indirectly led to the creation of this podcast. There's sassy side characters, there's long looks of love…
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Golden Retrievers and Golden Hours
We start with hugs and we end with heartbreak. We're covering Mr. Sunshine, episodes 9 and 10. That means we're talking about backstabbing, traitors, look alikes, drunk (almost) golden retrievers, fantastic lines, and some of Andrea's favourite cinematography!
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Fictional Characters as Travel Show Hosts
We continue to learn about love and build friendships (and then tear them apart) in episodes 7 and 8 of Mr. Sunshine. There's multiple gunshot wounds. Some intentional, some accidental. There's decoy ships to Shanghai and mistaken identity between Andrea's favourite "are we sure they're not…
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More Rattling of Sabers and Gnashing of Teeth
How are we going to celebrate reaching episodes 5 & 6? By having Andrea *bleep* a word that rhymes with hunt... twice. Well done, me. But don't worry, I also go on a rant about the cinematography in one of the scenes. So, some anger, some love, some annoyance about life. A typical episode!
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The Glory What?
To kick of Pride month, we're talking glory ho...tels! Yup. Never stopped and giggled over that name! Nope. Not super mature me! We cover three episodes to get us back on track. There's murder, ransacking, eye witnesses that saw nothing, false descriptions, disguises, and questions about the...
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Playing Fast and Loose with Dates
We are back with a full series, and we are finally taking on Mr. Sunshine. So let's talk about The Wind That Shakes the Barley vs Michael Collins. Look, it will all make sense if you listen. We become a temporary amateur history podcast before discussing why inconsistent dates in a historical…
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Hashtag, Number Symbol, Pound Sign
We're wrapping up this series of stand-alones with a zombie movie because I like zombie movies. We've been over this! Many times! Well, at least three times previously to this. A look at what happens when there's a zombie outbreak and you stay in your apartment all alone, like the authorities…
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Getting My Chinese Fantasy On!
For the penultimate episode for this round of stand-alones, we're visiting the XianXia worlds of Chinese fantasy to talk about The Untamed (love the totally platonic bromance *wink*), Eternal Love (love the second couple and a bunch of the side characters), and Feud (love seeking revenge on…
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REPEAT: Master of My Own
While Andrea tries to limit screentime like she's some sort of toddler, enjoy a repeat episode that is most definitely not created using AI! Good luck to AI replicating whatever it is going on in this brain!
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K, I Did a Thing!
Covering the one Narcos entry that has nothing to do with the other two, so it's only natural we're going to talk about Colombia tourism... in Suriname? We learn the fictional retelling of the real story of one of Korea's largest drug lords... who lived in South America and the untrained…
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Sci-Fi is the Best Fi
The first stand-alone episode of our new batch is on the sci-fi series, The Silent Sea. Learn exactly how much Andrea loves sci-fi... and who you can blame for that. Hint: it's my stepmum. Blame my stepmum. Her choice 36 years ago is directly responsible for this episode. You're welcome.
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Podcast Update and Repeat: Harbin
I'm not abandoning the podcast, just some good life news means the next few weeks are going to be busy, so a quick life update, a repeat episode, and a few new stand-alones in the works for the weeks ahead.
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REPEAT: Train to Busan
Due to reasons, we're doing a repeat of the Train to Busan episode. Relive Andrea ranting about dickish COOs, spoiled endings, and politics.
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Discharged from the Hospital
We're recaping the last two episodes of Resident Playbook with cameos from our golden retrievier and teddy bear, and zero references to rugby! We do, however, dip our toes into kpop (and cpop) territory. We've got relationships developing, residents trying to woo interns to their departments,...
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Six Nations Is Done, Back to the Kdramas
This episode totally dropped on time to discuss episodes 9 and 10 of Resident Playbook! I wasn't a slow as Molasses dropping the pretend nice act in case the cameras are still rollowing in getting it out. No, siree! We've got a closeted Um Jay fan, a proxy war fought through the first years, and...
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Missed Flights and Dumplings
It's episodes 7 and 8 of Resdient Playbook! We've got missed flights. We've got mother's staying in her daughter's hospital. We've got foreigners who only speak Russian. We've got a possible love V and the dismantling of a 10-year crush. And, most importantly, we've got Andrea not talking about...
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This Will Not Become a Sports Podcast
Andrea starts her recap of Resident Playbook epiodes 5 and 6 with a Six Nations Rugby discussion, like all good Kdrama podcasts should! We're back! It's time to vent about Molasses like we're Nam-kyung venting to a patient! It's time to swear like our husband just told us we're going to wait two...
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Angus, Agnes, It's All Korean to Me!
It's episodes 3 and 4 of Resident Playbook and Andrea can't remember the nicknames SHE MADE UP! Angus is totally the same as Agnes, right? And 20 weeks is the same as 20 months... if you're an Icelandic Shark! There is laughter, tears, references to elementary school teachers, tears, references…
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Meep Morp Robot Sa-bi
We're back with a new series, Resident Playbook, a spin-off of Andrea's beloved Hospital Playlist. It's the show that asks the questions what would it be like if robots became doctors? If anti-social people with crippling debt took up a resident position? If a former kpop idol was actually kind…
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We Are Done Like Dinner
We've done it! We've reached episodes 11 and $&%# 12 of When the Phone Rings. Look. I'm not saying that this episode did me in, but I did try and upload it without an attached audio file. Twice. Listen as Andrea loses her ever loving mind about entering an active war zone as a civilian in…
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And Andrea's Acting Award Goes To...
We are nearing the end of When the Phone Rings, so Andrea takes a moment to gush about Park Jae-Yoon's acting. Also, a quick nod to Yoo Yeon-seok, but really, Park Jae-Yoon stole the whole series for her. Also, the parents are still horrible, eels should not be used in children's mobiles, and a…
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When The Brooklyn 99 Rings
We're back covering episodes 7 and 8 of When the Phone Rings, covering such topics like is anyone in this series an adult? Why are we still flogging this dead horse? And is Baek Sa-eon secretly Charles Boyle?
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There Doesn't Appear To Be a Single Adult In This Show
Andrea needs to do a Search and Rescue for episodes 5 and 6 of When the Phone Rings because what the fark was that?!?! From underwhelming dresses to flogging a dead horse on a storyline that should already be done, there are a lot of growls of frustration in this podcast episode.
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Try Using Your Words
NOTE: Just realised that I selected the wrong Friday for publication date. Apologies for the late. As a result, I'll hold Tuesday's episode for a Wednesday release so this one doesn't get missed. Once again, the parents are awful, everyone needs to learn to have big people conversations and use...
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Starting 2026 With A Rant
All of Andrea's annoyance at 2026 already being a sh!t year has to to go somewhere, so why not towards a show she doesn't like? It's the melodramatic absurd ridiculousness of When the Phone Rings first two episodes. We're talking British Sign Language vs Korean Sign Language, we're talking not...
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This Is A Podcast. NO!
Happy New Years! We're ringing in 2026 with a mini episode of a few of my bloopers from: All of Us Are Dead Kingdom A Shop For Killers Nothing like a great line-up of comedies just begging for a verbal faux pas or two! What day do new episodes drop?
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How To Pants A Podcast
To pants something, such as writting a book, is to do it without a plan. To that end, this was not the podcast that was planned for the final episode of 2025. But sometimes people go into holiday mode early and forget things. And then sometimes they realised what they planned actually would be a...
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I Am Not Qualified For This
We're coving the 2024 Korean movie, Harbin, about the assissination of Japanese Prime Minister Ito Hirombumi by An Jung-geun, so naturally, we're going to talk Canadian politics, Irish history, and HBO's "Rome". All things that naturally belong in a podcast about Kdramas, right?
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Working Nine to Nine!
Not satisfied with how much her day job already dominates her life, Andrea decides to cover two office romance series with "What's Wrong with Secretary Kim?" and "My Dearest Nemesis". There's childhood trauma, nerdy tchotchkes, and another call for AO3 Seo Dan World Class assassin stories....
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Release the Bromance Cut!
Who needs romance when you have the best bromance in the history of kdramas? Andrea is talking Guardian: The Lonely and Great God. Or because it has a second name that is less syllables, Goblin. Complete with a visit to Canada. Not the best part of Canada, mind you, but at least it's not Alberta?...
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It's Queerly a Podcast Episode
We're covering three series in one episode! Yes, THREE!! Has Andrea gone mad? Or maybe, she just wanted to stick to a theme: queer up your media! We're talking about three LGBTQIA+ series in this episode - one from Korea, two from China - and how one of them caused a change to local laws…
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Yellow There! You Sea What I Did?
We're journeying across the Yellow Sea to cover Andrea's favourite cdrama... so far. It's a one-shot for 'Master of My Own'. Also known as "Andrea's Happy Place Rewatch If It Wasn't 32 Episodes!" Does 32 episodes make it a united Ireland? Incredible that joke isn't in the podcast proper. The...
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It's All About the Comeuppance
The first stand-alone episode of Incheon Into My Seoul jumps into a Korean zombie movie... and Canadian politics. Yes, it's going to be that sort of podcast episode. Along with Train to Busan, we touch on Blood Quantum - oh, that's why we get an Andrea rant on Canadian politics - and Peninsula.
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Attention Shoppers! We're Under New Management!
It's a discussion of physical health, mental health, and therapy as we cover episodes 7 and 8 of 'A Shop For Killers.' Who's going to be around for season two and whose death made Andrea cheer? Okay, so the 2nd half of that question doesn't require listening to this podcast to answer. But how…
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Even For Me, This Is A Lot Of Swearing
Andrea's cursing abilities get a workout as she continues to loudly express her displeasure about Jeong-min as we cover episodes 5 and 6 of A Shop for Killers. Maybe it's because Le Carre is one of her favourite authors, but she just finds it astounding that such a self-proclaimed genius could so...