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A spontaneous late afternoon call with Lydia Pang, patron saint of good taste.
VOICE MAIL isn’t a podcast. It’s not a show. It’s just a call. Go be a fly on the wall, and listen in on an old school chat between friends, old and new.
Dial +1 (234) 332-1782 and hit that volume button, because you’re going to want to hear what this month’s VOICE MAIL Dot Dot Dot friend has to say. And… our audio is low for some reason this time. Speakerphone it is…
This time I called the delightful Lydia Pang.
Co-founder of London creative strategy studio MØRNING and its newly launched production sister EVENING, which also runs the stellar Substack newsletter BURN AFTER READING. She picked up from London where she’s spending a month away from home in rural Wales!
Before MØRNING, Pang did the whole circuit properly (Refinery29, ad agencies in London and New York, then Nike HQ in Portland, where she met co-founder Sam (hi Sam!). Two people who looked at each other across the swoosh and clearly thought: we could do something smarter. How smart!
Oh, and she wrote a book. Eat Bitter is a memoir rooted in Hakka Chinese culture (“eat bitter” being the proverb for enduring hardship to taste sweetness) run through burnout, fertility, grief, and bone broth boiled in a New York apartment while homesick. Eight recipes. All guts. One of the must-reads of 2026.
We spoke about what taste really means, why it matters more in an age of AI, what anyone trying to break into the creative industries needs to actually hear, and what the foodie is eating tonight.
Enough… Now dial in. Listen. Chew it over. And complain to us one more time about how all our VOICE MAILS route to US numbers and you Brits can’t call in. We promise, we’ll listen… maybe.
Well… you know, this month’s number does after all route to Lodi, Ohio. The oldest settlement in Medina County and the home of the now cancelled Sweet Corn Festival! And we find it just that much more important to tell you that then to make your lives easy. Go eat a crumpet or something.
Cheerio…
love this concept!