What is The Sham? A happy hour podcast talking about those things that society tells us we love, but we just can’t. Think about us like society’s Yelp review — open, honest, and to be taken with a grain of salt. We’re here to laugh, cry, and unabashedly love the things we love, or don’t. Wait, what? Have you ever done that thing, and been entirely let down by that thing (looking @ you Times Square), but enjoyed parts of it anyway? Welcome to the Sham Podcast. Because sometimes, life is a total f*cking sham.

Listen to life's shams here.

So many do all sorts of things to fit in - they buy a particular type of clothes, they watch movies everyone else are watching and some even go so far as to pay for lessons just to sound like everyone else. I took a deep dive into accent reduction, the practice of changing the way you speak and to reduce your native accent.

Reporting and production by Mayuri Mei Lin.

The world is now reopening after coming to a complete halt at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, but one long-term repercussion will be its devastating impact on mental health. In this podcast, Mayuri Mei Lin interviews two mental health experts who spoke of the dire circumstances those already living with mental illness face and the kind of legacy this pandemic will leave behind. See more at https://paused.life/