{"podcast":{"title":"The Audio Blog of Steven Sirski","slug":"the-audio-blog-of-steven-sirski-4631297","podcast_index_feed_id":4631297,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/60de2500/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://www.stevensirski.com","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/16151712/16151712-1697601718342-547b59c86f1a2.jpg","author":"Steven Sirski","episode_count":1342,"summary":"The daily musings of an expat in Beijing.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-29T10:21:17.615745+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-audio-blog-of-steven-sirski-4631297"},"episode":{"title":"SSAB - July 14, 2026","slug":"ssab-july-14-2026","published_at":"2026-07-14T15:11:46+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-audio-blog-of-steven-sirski-4631297/ssab-july-14-2026","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-audio-blog-of-steven-sirski-4631297","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stevensirski/episodes/SSAB---July-14--2026-e3m2unp","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/60de2500/podcast/play/122828985/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-6-14%2F3c19d65e-cd3d-9bfe-9ca3-1c3e9a3c425e.mp3","summary":"Cleaning continues, gf says “It’s not that much.” But… I DID post some stuff for sale! Met up with a few old colleagues. How are they doing? -Off to the Friendship Store (?) -Ate at Carbo, a pasta-ria -Then to DuLi for dessert but they didn’t have anything worth sticking around for -So off to Jenny Wang’s supermarket (a knock off of Jenny Lou’s?) for ice cream And is fois gras now a thing in China? Is this why Blue Frog introduced it a while back? Kinda makes me wonder, why can’t you start a business in China? Well, what great idea do you have? WSJ article here: https://www.wsj.com/world/asia/forget-france-china-is-the-new-foie-gras-champion Donate to the show! PayPal link below! https://www.paypal.me/stevensirski?locale.x=en_CA *** Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com And on Notion: https://stevensirski.notion.site/SSAB-The-Audio-Blog-of-Steven-Sirski-00acfe344e164bfab191d3cddf6952b2?pvs=4 Newsletter over at stevensirski.substack.com Language vlog on http://www.youtube.com/@stevenslanguagevlog Google Stock Tracker Sheet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kbpCC2cieuq23zYyr0-WznPRogVX0aS86BF4_vPvgMY/edit?usp=sharing Hope you have a great one!! 00:00 Don’t Botch the Ending 00:26 Reuniting With Colleagues 01:04 Xinjiang Trip Memories 03:46 Why She Returned 05:34 Airport Searches Talk 07:15 The Exit Plan Question 09:45 Back to Teaching English 12:44 English Classes and AI Shift 18:30 Friendship Store Night Out 20:43 Late Recording Reflections 21:44 Decluttering and Selling Stuff 29:48 Rent, Moving, and Timing 31:01 China’s Foie Gras Boom 36:06 Business Ideas and Passion 43:20 Wrap-Up and Farewell","meta_description":"Cleaning continues, gf says “It’s not that much.” But… I DID post some stuff for sale! Met up with a few old colleagues. How are they doing? -Off to the F…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2677,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-audio-blog-of-steven-sirski-4631297/episodes/ssab-july-14-2026/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-audio-blog-of-steven-sirski-4631297/ssab-july-14-2026.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}