Lucky #888 — My Tour of Designing Luck in China, Japan, and Korea

00:24

Episode 888: How do you design luck?

01:44

Why eight is lucky in Chinese culture

04:48

Expensive phone numbers, license plates, and Olympic dates

07:04

Lucky skyscrapers and apartment prices

08:00

Four, death, and disappearing hotel floors

09:31

Casinos, feng shui, and designing for good fortune

12:12

A gaming room designed around one gambler’s birthday

13:47

Uncle Sam’s lucky-money products

14:20

Japan: Tim’s exchange-student experience

14:36

How Japanese writing works: kanji, hiragana, and katakana

16:53

Hachi, suehirogari, and the shape of growing prosperity

18:33

From Toyoda to Toyota: eight lucky strokes

19:25

The Shikoku pilgrimage, 88 temples, and Craig Mod

19:57

Sponsor: AG1

21:32

Korea: saju palja, eight characters, and the language of fate

23:43

666 and the number of the beast

24:20

Heavy metal, the evil eye, and Ronnie James Dio’s grandmother

26:21

Why six and 666 can mean good fortune in China

27:24

88, 886, and a numerological goodbye