Category: Audio Podcast

Just a quick 18 minute update for episode 18. I really didn’t plan it that way, weird. One main topic and a bunch blabber divided into two parts. Enjoy!

Show Notes:

• Part I – AM
• Planned material ahead, ごめん、ね！
• Coffee episode audio is recorded
• Quick stop at the conbini
• Police officers – part two
• Thinking more with an open mind
• Boredoms – buy the album at the iTMS
• Part II – PM
• What’s going on at work
• More open mind blabber
• “Summer Madness” by Kool and The Gang

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I took the chance during this rainy day to walk around Asakusa and just spout random thoughts into my cell phone. Listening back, it wasn’t all that bad so I’m posting it as a podcast episode. This one feels a little more intimate and fun I think. Plus, there is all sorts of great things to listen for in the background. Enjoy!

Show Notes:

• Another haircut at QB House
• Looking for headphones in Asakusa
• Eating breakfast at Denny’s (menu photo 1 / menu photo 2)
• Comments on restaurants in general
• Children’s book I’m reading
• Link to Amazon.co.jp page for it
• 
• Coffee episode coming soon
• Comments on various store fronts I pass by

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Is it true? Is it true? An audio episode?! Yes, I know its been a while but I pulled up my bootstraps and got myself in front of the mic for a good hour today. After editing out all the coughs and false starts, this one comes down to about 41 minutes or so. A full episode follows, complete with a brief sound scene at Mos Burger, only in Japan segment, and two big topics. Listen to my gravel-like voice in true stereo as I whisk you through the Japanese medical experience and my reflections on the park.

Show Notes:

• Golden Week and what I’ve been doing
• Being sick in Japan
• This cold is kicking my ass
• Pharmacy / medicine store experience
• Japanese medicine
• Japanese clinic experience
• Armpit thermometer
• Comments on Japanese health-care system
• Park visit today
• Had to get out of the house
• Listening to Jazz while biking through Tokyo
• Comparing Japan to New York
• Mos Burger Sound Scene [3 mins]
• Only in Japan: How many dogs can you take to the park??
• Japanese park teaches me to relax and enjoy life
• Another story about my bike
• Proof that I’m not the only manly-man riding a mama-chari bike
• Updates
• Computer work
• Yurikamome video footage
• New episodes
• Hi’s and Hello’s
• Rock concert podcast ending [it takes for ever]

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This episode is the first ever, Finding Japan <=> Tokyo Calling crossover episode. Not really sure what else to call it. I met up with Scott Lockman from Tokyo calling a few weekends back. We spent very little time getting to know each other since we had already known each other through our respective podcasts. However, we did share the common interest in technology, the future of podcasting and more.

This interview occurred in a noisy hotel front coffee shop in Tokyo. If you can stand the background noise, please listen. Enjoy!

Show notes:

• A brief chat on the creative process and writing every day
• Formats of podcasts / how Tokyo Calling developed
• Why do people listen to podcasts?
• Privacy and the Internet
• Future of social networking

I’d like to thank Scott for taking time out of his busy day to chat. Hopefully this won’t be the last of such episodes.

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I should have given the cops some Yaki-imo. Confused?! Well listen in to today’s episode and get acquainted with the Yaki-imo truck vendor, the cops, and my dinner. This episode comes straight from my kitchen while I cook up one of the only dishes I know how to make here in Japan, Yaki-soba. MMmmm. ^_^

Show Notes

• Making Yaki Soba
• Busy as sin, so I can’t mail anything right now ^_^
• More about GTD
• Vitalist has a Mobile Site
• Buying a bicycle – Mama Chari
• Getting pulled over by the cops, on a bike
• Bear with me while my food cooks LOUDLY – it doesn’t quite work well in audio does it?
• Should I post the TokyoCalling duel interview clips?
• Helmet’s “Size Matters” in Japan has two bonus tracks
• Dark side of podcasting
• Terrance is a patient guy
• And I start using street lingo while explaining it, what’s with that?
• Listen to A Year in Japan’s episode on Love Hotels
• Yaki-imo やきいも Truck Recording – Stone Roasted Potatoes

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Today’s episode is very much like a one-way telephone conversation. Recording with my cellular phone, I do a quick update and introduce a few subjects very briefly, not getting into too much depth. This is more of an experiment than a proper episode. I hope it meets the approval of your ears in terms of quality. What do you think? Is this quality level too annoying? It’s super convenient for commute-casting. Also, there’s something more natural about recording into a cell phone, so strange. I’m undecided.
Show Notes:

• Wednesday = hump day?
• Doing the podcast on my keitai (cell phone)
• Regular schedule in Japan has started
• Will do an entire episode on coffee in Japan
• Will do an entire episode on first week in a Japanese office
• Keeping in touch with friends (Gmail / Keitai symbiosis)
• Getting Things Done
• Vitalist
• Will this be a full episode? – Yes.

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Take a stroll with me as I take a walk through a park near where I live and talk a bit about lessons in humility. I have a random conversation with a stranger and share some sounds of Tokyo as I walk home. A short episode coming in at 20 mins and little more personal than the rest before. Highly edited due to wind noise however so please bear with me. Hope you enjoy! Mata!

Show Notes:

• Unwinding in the park
• Getting a haircut in Japan
• QB House – 1,000 円 haircut
• Had to fix my own hair, ha!
• Working in Ariake
• The Dream Bridge (picture below)
• Building numbers in Tokyo – why they exist
• Humbleness, humility, and humanity
• Still learning about myself
• Placement tests
• Random conversation with fellow park-walker
• Answering Matt’s question on the JR Rail Pass
• Random sounds and babble for the last 5 minutes on my way home
• I must have a nice ass
• National health insurance
• Japanesepod101.com
• It’s Friday night!

The Dream Bridge in Ariake

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