Welcome to unANSWERED.

We’re Joe and Joyce, a Chinese Canadian and African American couple living in Jazan, Saudi Arabia. Cross-cultural conversations shaped us, and now we’re inviting you into them too.

Every Friday on YouTube and our podcast, we take familiar cultural phrases and dig into the stories, assumptions, and questions hiding underneath them.

If you’re curious, open-minded, and ready to think a little deeper about everyday life, you’ll love it here.

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THIS WEEK’S EPISODE

“Dripping water can wear through stone”

Perseverance is usually praised as a virtue. We admire people who keep going when things get hard. But what if persistence sometimes leads us in the wrong direction?

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What if the idioms you repeat say more about you and your culture than you think?

In our first episode, we trace the beginning of unANSWERED…two cultures, one home in Jazan, and a growing curiosity about the stories tucked inside everyday sayings.

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unANSWERED started with everyday life here in Jazan. As we got to know people at work and in our community, we kept finding ourselves in surprising conversations.

People asked questions they had carried all their lives. Sometimes they just needed someone they could trust enough to think out loud without fear of judgment.

Not everyone grows up with permission to think critically or process out loud. But when someone finally gets that chance, something shifts. Curiosity expands. Understanding grows. And people connect.

We wanted to create more of that…

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