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Granny Phen's Wonderland: 大象奶奶的美國日記[Phen Movie] Taipei Exchanges & Stories! [我們都是有故事的人]This episode, I talked about: A movie "Taipei Exchanges" talking about a coffee shop , exchanges & stories in it - highly recommend! WikipediaEnglish TrailerTaipei Exchanges Theme SongThrift Sores Message to my exIf you like my podcast, please give it a 5-star rating, and follow me so you won’t miss my future episodes. You could also follow me on Instagram at @elephant.phen. Thank you, and take care!
2026-01-2531 minGranny Phen's Wonderland: 大象奶奶的美國日記Goodbye 2025: My Top Three Reflections! [心愛的再會啦！]Counting down to 2026! For those regions in 2026 already - Happy New Year! We have several hours to go in the USA.In 2025, my top three reflections are: Olive joined my life as a little tree from hell, haha. And I am getting my Green Card. Lastly, I’ve picked up painting. What about you? Comment to let me know. If you like my podcast, please give it a 5-star rating, and follow my future episodes. You could also follow me on Instagram at @elephant.phen. Thank you, and take care! See you in 2026!
2026-01-0113 minGranny Phen's Wonderland: 大象奶奶的美國日記[Phen Ideas] Holiday Donation and Reflection! 感恩的季節大家捐起來！Wheww~ It’s the end of the year! In the North of America, we have Thanksgiving and Christmas Holidays! This is also the time people reflect, give thanks, and donate to help those in need. In today’s episode, I’m sharing how I've donated, and my reflection of the year. What about you? Comment to let me know. If you like my podcast, please give it a 5-star rating, and follow my future episodes. You could also follow me on Instagram at @elephant.phen. Thank you, and take care!
2025-11-2213 minGranny Phen's Wonderland: 大象奶奶的美國日記[Phen Life] First sold painting in a local gallery! 第一幅在藝廊展出的畫作賣出了！It’s been a really long time since my last episode - Some updates in my life, including my first painting sold in an exhibition at a local gallery. Thank you for supporting my work! And sharing a novel I read recently got me rethinking love and marriage. If you like my podcast, please give it a 5-star rating, and follow my future episodes. You could also follow me on Instagram at @elephant.phen. Thank you, and take care!
2025-11-1641 minGranny Phen's Wonderland: 大象奶奶的美國日記[Phen Story] A dog person first raises a cat! [犬類人的養貓日常]I am an introvert, so I always feel I should be a cat person, until I met my cat, Olive. She was abandoned so she always follows me around when I am at home. There have been quite a bit of adjustment for both of us, stay tuned if you’d like to hear more. If you like my podcast, please give it a 5-star rating, and follow my future episodes. You could also follow me on Instagram at @elephant.phen. Thank you, and take care!
2025-09-2818 minGranny Phen's Wonderland: 大象奶奶的美國日記[Phen Update] Jay Chou brought back teenage memories! 有些歌是光陰的故事！Have there been any singers or idols that represent your childhood memories? Jay Chou is someone iconic at the time when I was in high school. My cat, Olive, has been adopted into my household pretty well. We are gradually fitting into each other’s lifestyles. The American Youtuber who’s dedicated to Taiwanese popularity and education is Aiong.If you like my podcast, please give it a 5-star rating, and follow my future episodes. You could also follow me on Instagram at @elephant.phen. Thank you, and take care!
2025-09-1519 minGranny Phen's Wonderland: 大象奶奶的美國日記[Phen Story] New Family Member - My Cat Olive! 我領養了一隻貓！I’ve adopted a stray cat from a nearby animal shelter. Things got started roughly and as stressful and tiring as having a new human joining my life. Have you adopted animals? How did that feel to start with? Leave a comment to let me know. If you like my podcast, please give it a 5-star rating, and follow my future episodes. You could also follow me on Instagram at @elephant.phen. Take care & Bye-bye!
2025-09-0812 minGranny Phen's Wonderland: 大象奶奶的美國日記[Phen Update] Egg Retrieve New Week! 美國凍卵下週結束！Today is the eighth day of my fertility program. I am expecting to have my egg retrieve next week!I’ve set up my living will - During this process, I’ve chatted with a lot of people, whether to be my witnesses, or share their surgery experience with me. I’m grateful for those connections. If you like my podcast, please give it a 5-star rating, and follow my future episodes. You could also follow me on Instagram at @elephant.phen. Thank you, and take care!
2025-07-2822 minGranny Phen's Wonderland: 大象奶奶的美國日記[Phen Update] Fertility Program Day 3 !! [美國凍卵第三天！]Day 3 of medication ingestion in my fertility program!I am going to share some mistakes I’ve made during the ingestion. If you’ve ever experienced egg-freezing, or any fertility program, I’d love to see your comments to let me know how you’ve navigated it. If you like my podcast, please give it a 5-star rating, and follow my future episodes. You could also follow me on Instagram at @elephant.phen. Thank you, and take care!
2025-07-2016 minGranny Phen's Wonderland: 大象奶奶的美國日記[Phen Story] What I could have done better when I first came to the US [初到美國的那些蠢事!]Continuing the last episode, let’s talk about things I could have done better when I first arrived in the US. By the way, I’ve put out a display of my latest artwork on my Instagram. If you have not checked that out, go to @elephant.phen to support my paintings if you will.The interview of Matthew Hussy is here. And his book, Love Life. I hope they can help you as much as they helped me. If you’ve made it this far, I appreciate your time. If you like my podca...
2025-07-0632 minGranny Phen's Wonderland: 大象奶奶的美國日記[Phen Life] Culture Differences I observed in the US and Taiwan - 美台大不同For people living in a foreign country, we've been asked most is, CULTURAL DIFFERENCES! Here we are. Let’s talk about culture differences today!By the way, I’ve put out my latest artwork on my Instagram. If you have not checked that out, go to @elephant.phen to support my work if you will. If you’ve made it this far, I appreciate your time. If you like my podcast, please give it a 5-star rating, and follow my future episodes. You could also follow me on Instagram at @elephant.phen. Thank you, and take c...
2025-06-3024 minGranny Phen's Wonderland: 大象奶奶的美國日記[Phen Life] Funny Experiences & Taiwan’s KOL’s Tips in BedLet’s talk about something IN SEASON today! Listen to Taiwan’s KOL and an adult product manager share tips on how to make your intercourse comfortable and happy!The original video link is here - No explicit content except product pictures, and only available in Mandarin. If you’ve made it this far, I appreciate your time. If you like my podcast, please give it a 5-star rating, and follow my future episodes. You could also follow me on Instagram at @elephant.phen.
2025-06-1524 minGranny Phen's Wonderland: 大象奶奶的美國日記[Phen Story] Women’s Childhood BestiesDo you have childhood besties? Do you have such friends, that sometimes they’re your great companions, but sometimes they’re like your shadows, following you, or maybe spying on you?In this episode, Let’s talk about friends.If you’ve made it this far, I appreciate your time. If you like my podcast, please give it a 5-star rating, and follow my future episodes. You could also follow me on Instagram at @elephant.phen.
2025-06-0924 minGranny Phen's Wonderland: 大象奶奶的美國日記[Phen Story] PhenPhen’s Fertility Program!In this episode, the updates is I've started a fertility program, and I am sharing my feelings about the whole process, though it's just the beginning. If you'd like to check out my pictures, welcome to follow me @ IG:elephant.phenIf you’ve made it this far, I appreciate your time. If you like my podcast, please give it a 5-star rating, and follow my future episodes. Thank you, and take care!
2025-05-3121 minGranny Phen's Wonderland: 大象奶奶的美國日記[Phen News] What Taiwan Can Do with Reciprocal Tariffs?In this episode, we are summarising an episode from Fan Chi-fei’ interview as below. There seems to be English subtitles available. 台股大跌幾百億融資斷頭？川普怪招出不完，大家挫勒等？ft. 財經專家 阮慕驊 | 斐姨所思【阿姨想知道】 EP234IG:elephant.phenIf you’ve made it this far, I appreciate your time. If you like my podcast, please give it a 5-star rating, and follow my future episodes. Thank you, and take care!
2025-04-1305 minGranny Phen's Wonderland: 大象奶奶的美國日記[Phen Song] Island by My Bubba - A Duo of Icelander and SwedeIn this episode, we are going to share a song, “Island”, by a duo My Bubba composed of Islander Bubba and Swede My. My BubbaMy bubba Goes Abroader DocumentaryCat's Chowder [Lady Flavour] EP119 Cuddling Mi-PongIG:elephant.phenIf you’ve made it this far, I appreciate your time. If you like my podcast, please give it a 5-star rating, and follow my future episodes. Thank you, and take care!
2025-04-0716 minGranny Phen's Wonderland: 大象奶奶的美國日記[Phen Travel] Sky Meadow State Park - Perfect Getaway for OutdoorsDo you love stargazing? PhenPhen is an astronomy fan! Today let's talk about Sky Meadow State Park, a scenic park with very low air pollution and hosts astronomy events throughout the year. Hear what local people love about it! Sky Meadow State ParkCheck out the photos Granny Phen took for the park on Instagram at elephant.phenIf you’ve made it this far, I appreciate your time. If you like my podcast, please give it a 5-star rating, and follow my future episodes. Thank you, and take care!
2025-03-3108 minGranny Phen's Wonderland: 大象奶奶的美國日記[Phen Books] M.B’s Top Three Children’s Books and My Favorite!Let’s talk about books this week! In today’s episode, PhenPhen chatted with M.B., the staff from the Middleburg bookstore about her top three recommendations of the week for children's books. Check out below listing for your children to prep for the raining days - The Magnificent Book of HorsesJonty Gentoo - The Adventures of a PenguinWheels - The Big Fun Book of VehiclesHere is PhenPhen’s recommendation for the week - The Hidden Life of Trees: A Graphic Adaptation: (of the International Bestseller)IG...
2025-03-2306 minGranny Phen's Wonderland: 大象奶奶的美國日記[Phen Travel] Harpers Ferry, WV. -Hike, Cycling, and Great Music!I remembered I talked about Harpers Ferry before - Here we are again! Let's hear what other people visiting there say about Harpers Ferry Lower Town and West Virginia as a whole, what they like about - Check it out! Music VenueNational Park Service Things To DoCorrection - "Maryland Height cliff face is currently closed until July 31, 2025 for Peregrine Falcon's Nesting" - I used a future tense - Sorry for the confusion.If you’ve made it this far, I appreciate your time. Don’t forget to hit the [Follow] button, and give...
2025-03-1005 minGranny Phen's Wonderland: 大象奶奶的美國日記[Phen Travel] Middleburg, VA. - An Equestrian-Heritage TownMiddleburg, VA. is a picturesque town located in Loudoun County, approximately 45 miles west of Washington, D.C. Middleburg has earned the title "Nation's Horse and Hunt Capital" due to its rich equestrian heritage, including foxhunting and steeplechase events.I had the privilege of speaking with one of the staff members in the Middleburg Museum , Chesie, who has lived in Virginia for the past eight years. Let’s hear her thoughts on Middleburg and Virginia. Websites you could check out about Middleburg, VA. - MIDDL...
2025-03-0307 minGranny Phen's Wonderland: 大象奶奶的美國日記[Phen News] Trump and Putin’s 90-minute talk about UkraineAfter Feb. 18th, there has been a wave of distress among my community. We wondered, Would Taiwan be the next? I happened to work with a couple Ukrainians in my workplace. My heart goes out with them reading all the progress relating to the ceasefire, and my tears drop thinking about how similar we are on the international political avenue. Today's episode referred to the episode on the same topic from the channel LINE Today and hosted by Fan Chi-fei. The original episode in Mandarin can be found here.
2025-02-1907 minGranny Phen's Wonderland: 大象奶奶的美國日記[Phen Story] Taiwan’s Semiconductor Magnate - TSMC and Morris ChangWhat comes to your mind when you hear about Taiwan? What's Taiwan's semiconductor magnate, TSMC's relationship to the company which surged to the spotlight over the past couple years - NVIDIA?In today's [Phen Story], I’m sharing two videos. The first is an interview with Yang Guanglei, former Director of R&D at TSMC, hosted by Fan Chi-fei. They discuss whether Trump’s tariffs could impact Taiwan’s semiconductor industry, TSMC’s expansion into the West, and how cultural differences might pose challenges for U.S. semiconductor localization, including Intel’s role in this lands...
2025-02-1719 minGranny Phen's Wonderland: 大象奶奶的美國日記[Phen Love] Valentine's Day Edition - Listen and Talk!Today is Valentine's Day! I am going to share an episode that I came across accidentally. Here is the original episode.The podcaster's name is Liu Xuan, he grew up mostly in the US, but for Taiwanese, his name has been somewhat familiar, mostly due to his father, a well-known author, Liu Yong. In the episode, Liu Xuan invited his wife, Cardin, to talk about their 2024 - the ups and downs, and reflections, and sharing thoughts that they might not yet have a chance to talk to each other...
2025-02-1411 minGranny Phen's Wonderland: 大象奶奶的美國日記[Phen News] The Future Fund for the Amazon RainforestWhen talking about the Amazon Rainforest, what comes to your mind?In today's episode, we are going to talk about TFFF - A momentum currently under discussion in Brazil that is using the Amazon Rainforest as an investment in the stock market, in order to have a sustainable funding for the conversation and protection. TFFF stands forThe Forests of the Future Fund.This topic is inspired by the recent episode hosted by Fan Chi-fei onLINE TODAY, which talks about the same topic but in Mandarin. Please check out the...
2025-02-0804 minGranny Phen's Wonderland: 大象奶奶的美國日記[PhenNews] Lunar New Year & Red Envelope CultureIt's the Year of the Snake in the Lunar New Year - Let's talk about Red Envelopes.
Do you know what scenarios Taiwanese usually give red envelops and any taboos around how much you should put in it?
Today's episode is inspired by Fan Chifei's video where she talked about how she upset her mother by mistakenly put the amount of money that included a number "4", which pronounced similar to "death" in mandarin. She also chatted with her staff about the different way of spend the new year holidays...
2025-02-0210 minGranny Phen's Wonderland: 大象奶奶的美國日記[Phen News] Bring your toothbrushes when you travel, or ?!Recently, Taiwan’s hotels stopped providing toothbrushes, and toothpaste. This seems to have sparked a lot of discussions.
To me personally, has been a new normal in the US and some big cities in the Western Europe for some time, as far as I noticed.
Do you like it? What's your view on this?
This topic is inspired by an episode which talks about the same topic in Mandarin and hosted by Fan Chi-Fei, on her another Youtube channel. The original episode in Mandarin ca...
2025-01-2014 minGranny Phen's Wonderland: 大象奶奶的美國日記[Phen News] House-Sitting - Flexibility, or a doppelganger of homelessness?In 2025, I am adding a new topic called [Phen News / Fun News]
I will select one news story that I have feelings about to share with all of you. The thought is that most of the news stories being broadcasted in Taiwan or adjacent countries are produced in Mandarin. I hope to bring some of those stories to my English-speaking friends or listeners.
Today's topic is, "House Sitting" which was inspired by one episode via the platform, LINE TODAY . "House-Sitting" means someone takes care of another person's house while...
2025-01-1217 minGranny Phen's Wonderland: 大象奶奶的美國日記2025, Here we are - with some chamber melodies and a national parkHappy New Year in advance folks!
Today, I am bringing some festive melodies from Appalachian Chamber Music Festival (only a few short clips, and these melodies were believed to be common and famous Christmas songs), and a short introduction of the Harpers Ferry Historic National Park. Highly recommend check out its official website for the Top 10 Tips to get the most out of your visit, along with parking tip which I personally deem as super important.
One coolest thing is, The Point, which seems to use to call the...
2024-12-3012 minGranny Phen's Wonderland: 大象奶奶的美國日記Lily and her husband talk on cross-cultural relationshipMost people think cross-cultural relationship is challenging.
Last episode, we had Lily, who moved to the United States from Taiwan 12 years ago, now has her sweet family with her husband, Quacy, living in Denver.
Today, we are so honored to have them on the podcast together to share their story - How they met, how they navigated the challenges, whether culture-wise, food-wise, throughout their relationship and marriage.
And if you are curious, they share the most important and successful tip for their relationship, which...
2024-10-0725 minGranny Phen's Wonderland: 大象奶奶的美國日記Lily, who spent over 12 years in the U.S., shares her insights on cultural differences and language learningI met Lily and Kinny at the same time when we all prepared TOEFL exam to study in the U.S. After more than 12 years, I am glad my podcast brought us virtually together again.
Lily now has a beautiful family in Colorado, after spending 4 years living in San Francisco. I am so honored to have her on the show to chat about her journey.
Hope you will also be inspired by her positivity and like her interesting story with a open mind and a open heart.
2024-09-1719 minGranny Phen's Wonderland: 大象奶奶的美國日記Inviting my friend, Kinny, to talk about her study in the UKMe and Kinny met in a English school in Taiwan, to prepare us to attend the TOEFL exams to study in the US. She is a Japanese majored student, and she went to the UK to study Marketing in 2013. She's now in Taiwan, and learning Spanish. What a cool girl she is to have Japanese, English, and Spanish under her belt, let along Mandarin. Let's have her talk about her opinion to learning more languages, and if she has found these languages benefited her career and her dream.
2024-08-1122 minGranny Phen's Wonderland: 大象奶奶的美國日記My friend, Gio, chat about his language learning in Japanese and Spanish!I always appreciate native English speakers who are willing to learn other languages, because English is so widely-used globally, and it's just so convenient to use English to communicate.
In this episode, we are giving credits to my friend, Gio, who are not only willing to take the initiative in learning Spanish, French, Japanese and Mandarin, but also maintaining a long-time pen-pal relationship with his Japanese friend. Happy to have him talk about these adventures and maybe challenges in language learning!
Best wishes to Gio's visit to Japan soon!
2024-07-2216 minGranny Phen's Wonderland: 大象奶奶的美國日記English learning in Australia - Interview my friend PatI had spent a couple months in Australia where me and Pat connected virtually. We have been friends and chatted online for a couple years so far, and today's episode was the first time we spoke directly. It was a huge pleasure to me to have Pat participated in the podcast to talk about her language learning experience, mainly English, and shared her insights abut how to continue learning multiple languages with a positive mindset.
2024-07-0723 minGranny Phen's Wonderland: 大象奶奶的美國日記Invite my friend to talk about his language learning experience!One of the most obvious characteristics about myself is, English is my second language. So, today I am inviting one of my friends whom I met in college and can speak more than 2 languages as an American, Reid, to the podcast, and let he share his opinions on language learning, and how this experience impact his profession, for example, sports commentary. That's really cool!
2024-06-1711 minGranny Phen's Wonderland: 大象奶奶的美國日記Norwegian Wood and the feeling of writing in an exotic countrySome resources I talked about in the podcast below. Sorry I did not do a good job organizing this podcast(maybe spent too much time in writing in my own language).
I talked about how excited and uplifted by that I picked up writing in Mandarin, which I did feel bad that I cannot describe what I usually write the same in English(because my English is not that good), though the same kind of talking about miscellany, but my maneuver of Mandarin could make differences that I saw others like my articles (one...
2024-05-2621 minGranny Phen's Wonderland: 大象奶奶的美國日記What brought in language variation? Time. Introducing an English teacher in Taiwan!Have you ever wondered what caused the many dialects in the United States? And what are the major accents?According to a renounced English teacher, Karen Chung, in National Taiwan University (NTU) . What she suggested was - Time.
Here is her academic page, including her interview with one of Taiwan's KOLs via Youtube, and her own podcast about her learning Mandarin. Her parents were German and Sweden descendent, so she can speak German in a young age.
This was one of her phonetics courses for English-majored students in NTU...
2024-05-1219 minGranny Phen's Wonderland: 大象奶奶的美國日記Zhuangzi's viewpoint on Love - Understanding is more important than Love!Imagine you walk into the sauna and a person follows you in and starts to smile at you. Would you responded?
You said, "Of course! What if this person is my Miss Right / Mr. Right?"
Yes, that could be. But that could also possibly a subsequent heartbroken / grieving if that Miss Right / Mr. Right leaves you in a couple years. If you politely ignored, you could end up the day with a peaceful driving at home cuddling with your lovely pets.
This is Zhuangzi's...
2024-05-0516 minGranny Phen's Wonderland: 大象奶奶的美國日記Zhuangzi's philosophy - The birds sliding the mountains don't see the sparrows tipping on the ground smallTwo things want to add to yesterday's episode -
The one is the "bird example" in yesterday's episode -
A previous version of me, before knowing Zhuangzi, used to think that in order to challenge myself, I should go to a foreign country to compete with all the outstanding people around the world; if I can make it, I am really "something".
After knowing Zhuangzi, what I learned is, in the Nature, there is not such comparison as that in the human world...
2024-04-3012 minGranny Phen's Wonderland: 大象奶奶的美國日記Have you heard about Oriental Philosophy? He is Zhuangzi.I have been sick for quite a long time, even now, sometimes it took me a little more effort to stay awake given the remaining effect of previous medication. But an Oriental Philosopher, Zhuangzi, helped me a lot, both in my recovery of sleeping disorder (now I can sleep really well), and my viewpoints of the world. So this was the reason I recorded this episode.
I believe most of the Western philosophers and/or people who have studied philosophy have heard about Zhuangzhi, and if not - Kung-Fu might sound like a Hollywood...
2024-04-2713 minGranny Phen's Wonderland: 大象奶奶的美國日記Hot chocolate or White chocolate? A silver lining for self-improvement!Do you think accent is a thing if you are living in a country where its dominate language is your second language? Have you notice how your mouth moves differently on your face when you speak your first language versus your second?
Today, Granny Phen is talking about her funny personal experience on pronunciation and accent.
After all, hot chocolate is not white chocolate, but what really matters is, if you care about it or not. If you do, do something about it!
Happy...
2023-12-2911 minGranny Phen's Wonderland: 大象奶奶的美國日記A home improvement project for the new year - Happy New Year in advance!Hiring a skilled professional to complete home-improvement projects seems to be a common thing in the USA, but this is my first time hiring a person setting up a standing desk other than hiring movers. I was lucky this was a somewhat comfortable experience.
When my mind was wandering today, I was thinking, is it possible to let myself not too worry about if I could carry on a conversation? Could it be fine to have that couple minutes of silence without the anxiety to fill in anything?
Frankly...
2023-12-0420 minGranny Phen's Wonderland: 大象奶奶的美國日記Happy Holidays in most parts of the North Pole - wait, family conflicts?Hey y'all,
I believe most of you in the North Pole might have been celebrating the long holiday weekend, but have anyone of you experienced any family conflicts during the holidays?
In this episode, PhenPhen is sharing something that really have bothered her quite a long time.
I guess for an relatively older adult who has started over in her career to face the aging pressure herself, as well as the psychological pressure that parents are aging, and maybe they will leave this world...
2023-11-2421 minGranny Phen's Wonderland: 大象奶奶的美國日記Silver lining - noisy neighbors made Granny want to buy a house!How many of you have bad experiences with noisy neighbors? I believe throughout a lifetime, you might have bumped into once, twice, or if unfortunately, triple times of noisy neighbors. Poor Granny Phen had a crazy upstair neighbors perpetually moved their furniture items during midnight, to be more specifically, 1 am to 5 am! That was really devastating and brutal!
On the flip side, this is a good opportunity for Granny Phen to start looking at houses, and hopefully, after one year, Granny will be able to have her own house!
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Troubled Minds RadioThe UFO Experiencer - Phenomenology and HyperrealitySome people have supernatural or paranormal experiences, while others yet have experiences with UFO sightings escalating to alien abduction or direct E.T. contact. Academics seem to believe none of this is real, and Neil Tyson recently suggested experiencers should livestream their alien abductions...is it only real if a video exists?http://www.troubledminds.org Support The Show! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/troubledminds https://rokfin.com/creator/troubledminds https://troubledfans.com https://patreon.com/troubledminds#aliens #conspiracy #paranormalRadio Schedule Mon-Tues-Wed-Thurs 7-9pst - https://fringe.fm/iTunes...
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