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Yada Yada Gold Podcast
by Schee Moua
Based in Minneapolis, Yada Yada Gold is hosted by Schee Moua along with brothers Kong Moua and Seng Moua. We sit down with each other, along with other curious folk, for a full hour+ as we attempt to make sense of the pressing and humorous trends concerning the broader human experience today — no niche, no beat, no script. We don't always offer the best takes, but we can offer good company on your next long walk or flight.
Episodes
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Would AI Kill Us All? What That Says About the Humans Competing for Immortality | EP. 028
Will AI kill us all if it's built in our image? Rogue OpenAI agents, AI's surprise abilities, the job-loss economy, and what stays human. Schee, Kong, and Seng take on a most reflective question of the AI era: if humans built AI in our own image and it ever turns on us, what does that say about…
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Betting Your Life On a Calling, Even When "It Sucks"-- On Criticism, Comedy, and the Creative Life
Why you have to make bad art to get good, how to survive criticism from your own family, and the terrifying thing about betting your life on a creative dream. Schee and Seng sit down with their youngest brother Roger — a working standup comic — for a freewheeling, funny, and surprisingly tender...
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Crying During Movies Now: Best Movie Endings and the Childhood Icons We're Losing | EP. 026
Kill Bill, Toy Story, Mrs. Doubtfire — the movie endings that wreck you now that you're older, and the childhood icons we're suddenly losing. Schee and Kong get nostalgic and a little vulnerable in this one: why movies make you cry more as you get older, the endings that stay with you for life…
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The Most Important Insight Behind the George Floyd Case & Tou Thao Conversation | EP. 025
The 2006 police killing of Fong Lee, a 19-year-old Hmong teen, set against the George Floyd cases — and what really decides how they end: political cost. Schee, Kong, and Seng follow their episode featuring Tou Thao with a case almost no one outside Minneapolis remembers: the 2006 police killing…
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When All You Are Is a Consumer: How Creature-comfort-culture Killed Our Most Human Drives | EP. 024
Schee, Kong, and Seng coin a term in the first minute — "the basement ghoul" — and spend the next hour testing just how much it describes themselves and the rest of society. Central question: Does a full-service, post-AI world of solved problems produce a golden age of passion projects or a…
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If We Die, Then the Truth Dies: Former MPD Officer Tou Thao Talks the George Floyd Case, Family, and Life after Prison
Tou Thao — one of the former Minneapolis police officers convicted in George Floyd's death — conducts his first long-form conversation since prison. Schee sits down with Tou Thao, one of four former MPD officers behind one of the most scrutinized cases in modern American history, for a…
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Ultra Domesticated: The Plague of Convenience- EP.022
Dudes in their middle-age realize they've become the most domesticated versions of themselves — and spend an hour trying to plan their way back to the people they used to be. The result is equal parts self-therapy, comedy, and a bucket list they'll almost certainly never complete.It starts with a...
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Erase the History, Instate the New: Reacting to the "Minnesota Mao" Documentary on Tim Walz, the George Floyd Aftermath, and the Politics of Erasing History- EP.021
What happens when a documentary confirms every political hunch you already had — and what does that actually prove? Schee, Kong, and Seng react to the Alpha News documentary "Minnesota Mao" and use it as a launch point to discuss exactly what has made Minnesota the national focal point of...
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The Generation Raising Dreamers Was Never Taught How To Be One — Immigrant Parenting, Ambition, and Creative Risk- EP.020
"Be realistic about your dreams" — often told to the younger generation. But then you wonder whether you were protecting them or projecting your own fear. What does it mean to be called a "dream killer" by the person who loves you most? Marshall and Schee wrestle with the strange guilt of...
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Why Entertainment Feels Simulated and Soulless— Music, Movies, and TV in the Age of Digital Perfection- EP.019
Why do modern movies, music, and television feel so polished yet so empty? Schee and Kong explore the cultural shift from analog to digital entertainment — from vinyl records and practical filmmaking to CGI blockbusters and infinite streaming — and what we've lost in the trade. From the warmth of...
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Can AI Exist After Humans Are Gone? — Consciousness, Meaning, and the Future of Artificial Intelligence- EP.018
If humanity disappeared tomorrow, could artificial intelligence continue to exist, grow, and evolve without us? And if it could — would that existence mean anything without human consciousness there to witness it? Schee and Kong sit with one of the deepest questions at the intersection of AI,...
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Negotiating War and a Global Depression — Iran Conflict, Trump's Art of the Deal, and the Collapse of Global Order- EP.017
What happens when the world's most transactional leader meets an adversary who refuses to negotiate? Schee and Kong dissect the Iran conflict through the framework of Trump's dealmaking playbook — a playbook that collides with an opponent publicly mocking the very premise of negotiation. This is…
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AI: New Frontier.. Or the Final One? — Human Originality, the Tower of Babel, and Civilization's Last Leap- EP.016
Every frontier humanity has ever conquered — land, sea, space, the atom — expanded what was possible. Artificial intelligence may be the first frontier that contracts it. Schee and Kong sit with an unsettling question: what happens to human purpose when machines can do everything we thought made…
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Childhood Trauma = Parenthood Pitfalls, Talking Dad Life and the Boredom Trap- EP.015
Schee and Kong unpack the subtle ways parenthood shapes the next generation, exploring how unresolved childhood experiences influence how we raise our kids. They dive into overvalidation, generational overcorrection, and whether giving children everything we lacked may actually come at a cost....
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Your Worldview Is a Sacred Space: The War for Mindshare & Officiating History- EP.014
Schee and Kong discuss the power behind officiating History, how 40 hours per week is the goldilocks zone for a compliant, unquestioning populace, and the modern hyper-obsession over shaping society's worldviews. --CHAPTERS --00:00 - 40-hour work week Goldilocks Zone 10:32 - The Power Behind...
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Talking War Narrative, Terrifying Potentialities, & Bracing for the Long Haul- EP.013
Schee and Kong reflect on 2025-26 and the various factors posturing towards the Iran war today. They posit this war as starkly different from past Middle East excursions and fear that the chief goals of each faction only illustrate a terrifying endgame. CHAPTERS00:00 - Visceral response to…
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"Systemic Diversity" Talking Comedians, Forbidden Words, and Defunct DEI- EP.012
Schee Moua and Kong Moua reflect on seeing Russell Peters live in Minneapolis. They discuss various comics' stylings, analyze the painpoints behind racial slurs, and break down when preventing "Systemic Racism" turns into "Systemic Diversity."CHAPTERS0:00 - Talking Russell Peters, Dave...
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Epstein Circus, Middle-class Manipulation, and Political Theater- EP.011
Yada Yada Gold crew takes a stab at the looming Epstein ramifications, the frustration with middle-class manipulation, and the constant political theater, all rooted in faction-recruitment. 🎙️ Available on Spotify, Apple, and other platforms Attribution:This segment includes short excerpts from...
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Plotting a Powder-keg: One Minnesotan's Experience
Our home state of Minnesota has endured two fatal shootings of US citizens involving ICE. There have been none everywhere else-- even in other Sanctuary Cities. Schee offers an average-joe-minnesotan's take, based partially on data and research, but primarily on his owned lived experience as a...
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Living in Minnesota: America's Tragedy-mill- EP.010
Minnesota has become America's tragedy-mill, a setting of recurring tragedies and fiascos garnering the national spotlight-- George Floyd, riots, social program fraud, political assassinations, school shootings, and more recently, a fatal shooting involving ICE. It's also been our home of 25+...
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America in 2026: Calamity Around Every Corner- EP.009
2025 was certainly a shock to the system, a system suspended in comatose leading up to it. But consider the fact that all of the shock and awe that took place in 2025 REMAINS in a complete state of unresolve today. Reverberations for 2026? CHAPTERS 0:00 - A Tale of Two Administrations 08:11 -...
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Immigration Nation: Somali Backlash, American Bureaucracy, & the Immigrant Story In Between- EP.008
YYG's home state of Minnesota is once again thrust into the national spotlight as the setting for what is being revealed to be a nexus of systematized, fraudulent abuse of taxpayer dollars deeply woven into various Somali-led organizations in Minnesota, potentially the largest scale of fraudulent...
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Physical Asia: Part III of YYG's "Clash of Cultural Ethos" Series- EP.007
The Yada Yada Gold crew take another deep dive into Netflix’s global spectacle: Physical Asia. The last of a three-part “Clash of Cultural Ethos” series, this analysis covers episodes 10-12 and reflects on the entire season as a whole: the best moments, the what ifs, and most importantly, the...
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Physical Asia: Part II of YYG's "Clash of Cultural Ethos" Series- EP.006
The Yada Yada Gold crew take another deep dive into Netflix’s global spectacle: Physical Asia. The second of a three-part “Clash of Cultural Ethos” series, this recap/review covers episodes 5-9 and comes with more analytics, hypotheticals, and most importantly, a bunch of fun banter. Spoilers and...
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Where the Heebie-Jeebies Live- EP.005
A post-halloween segment exploring various forms of phenomena, all of which underscore the uniqueness (and strangeness) of the human condition. This conversation hones in on a few lesser known topics that illustrate the oddity of what it means to be human while cognitively grappling with the…
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Physical Asia: YYG's Analysis and Cultural Commentary- EP.004
Netflix’s new “Physical: Asia” season offers not only fierce competition and creative game design– it is without a doubt the best representation of cultural ethos in competition. This third installment of the Physical series is perhaps the most realistic depiction of countries going to war, in…
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Decades of Deception: A Real and Scary Evil- EP.003
Evil's greatest satisfaction is the manipulation of minds. As a part of a Halloween "Chilling Series," Schee and Kong connect the threads of a recurring manipulation motif, stemming from perhaps the most objectively evil and scary force in human history: the Joseph Goebbels and the Ministry of...
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Quarterlife, Midlife, or Universal crisis?- EP.002
Schee and Kong tackle the classic middle-ager's inquiry: are we merely clinging to the "better times back in our day," or are we lamenting a modern society potentially on the verge of something truly unprecedented-- a crisis of factual relativity, societal attention disorder,...
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Hateration: A post-Charlie Kirk perspective- EP.001
Schee Moua and Kong Moua discuss the ongoing aftermath of Charlie Kirk's assassination and unpack an invisible narrative dividing households across America. What was once shelved along with religion as family dinner table taboo, political discourse has encroached upon lifelong relational ties and...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Based in Minneapolis, Yada Yada Gold is hosted by Schee Moua along with brothers Kong Moua and Seng Moua. We sit down with each other, along with other curious folk, for a full hour+ as we attempt to make sense of the pressing and humorous trends concerning the broader human experience today — no niche, no beat, no script. We don't always offer the best takes, but we can offer good company on your next long walk or flight.
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Based in Minneapolis, Yada Yada Gold is hosted by Schee Moua along with brothers Kong Moua and Seng Moua. We sit down with each other, along with other curious folk, for a full hour+ as we attempt to make sense of the pressing and humorous trends concerning the broader human experience today — no...
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