Tokyo Splosion is a comedy podcast from the bowels of the world's most tentacled mega city. The show's mysteries, improv bits, tall tales, and friendliness should appeal to even those with little to no interest in Tokyo or Japan.
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In this episode, Zac presents his cases against Alek, Cal, and Kyle in friendship court. Also, the guys come up with some interesting mascots, and argue about some dumb pointless stuff. Track of the week: Ruby Ring ( ルビーの指環) by Akira Terao
This week Kyle and Cal are joined once again by Zac (@GaijinWota.) They receive transmission from Alek from the frontlines of a violent chili dog war as they discuss hijinks the Seinfeld cast would get in to if they lived in Japan. Track of the week: Suki Suki Suki by The Sadistic Mika Band.
The seasons are changing, and so are our bodies in this installment of Tokyo Splosion. Thanks to special guest Zac Saxton (@GaijinWota) Track of the week: N.E.O by CHAI
It's late Summer 2020 and we're FIRED UP over: imaginary Japanese summer festivals, discount grocery store chains, and Cal's new job as a ramenboy. Special thanks to Japankyo.com and their many interesting projects. Check em out! Track of the week: くるり (Quruli) - 琥珀色の街、上海蟹の朝 (Amber Colored City, The Morning of The Shanghai Crab)
Ah, Spring. The blossoms are blossoming, the birds are chirping, and we are all mostly stuck inside. Why? Because a relatively obscure creature from a Sega Dreamcast game has escaped and is wreaking havoc around the world. Learn all about it in this episode, along with the answer to the question "What is scarier: someone with their nose sticking out of their surgical mask, or having your eyes gouged out?" Track of the week: The Lower Classes by Tokyo Jihen (aka The Tokyo Incidents)
Welcome to Tokyo Splosion Quarterly. A celebration of the seasons and how they affect our daily lives in the Tokyo area. But mostly it's an excuse to drink together and talk about farts and stuff. In this installment, we talk about winter in Tokyo. We play some games, try some seasonal Japanese drinks, and share an experience with death and Buddhist funerals. Track of the week: Made in Japan by Buck Owens
Welcome to Tokyo Splosion Quarterly! We are now a quarterly podcast releasing comedic ruminations focused on the changing seasons and how they influence our every day lives in Tokyo and Kanagawa. In this rambunctious Summer 2019 installment Cal is assaulted by a Kafka-esque cicada, we play an ice cream game, we talk about festivals in Japan, and Alek doesn't like Cal's socks. Track of the week: シモキタ音頭 (Shimokita Ondo) by 馬浪マラカス団 (Uma nami marakasu-dan)
We're back with another rip roaring hour of potty humor from Japan. This week: Alek leaves r/japancirclejerk in shame, Cal greases bottoms, and our old friend Dr. Jeffry returns to answer listener health questions and plug his new book "The Hole Inside You." Track of the week: Pai No Pai No Pai (パイのパイのパイ) by Moriyama Kayoko (森山加代子) Intro music by Clint Breeze
This week the boys met on the Machida riverside to discuss these urgent matters: PowerPoint full of broken ding dongs New game! Everyday yokai New game! Real or fake Jpop group names Everybody's having babies! More! Track of the week: 恋は桃色(Koi Wa Momo Iro) by Haruomi Hosono
This week Alek has trouble pronouncing kawaii while the group fails to fully grasp what the word means. Other topics of note include: avoiding the 2019 Tokyo flu epidemic, nasal penetration and the Shadow of Colossus remake. Sorry Alek's mic wasn't recording for the first bit :/ Check out the video for this episode on our YouTube channel! Special thanks to guests Erik and Negima the Fenchie. Track of the week: Equal Romance by Coco
This week Cal and Alek clear up Kyle's misgivings toward modern dentistry while Kyle and Alek share thoughts on Western fast food in Japan. Then we play the new fan favorite game about Japanese movie names again. Track of the week: Yume No Naka E by Yosui Inoue
This week Kyle, Cal and Alek drink three Japanese whisky standards of varying repute while fixing the biggest problem with applause. Track of the week: Shield for Your Eyes, A Beast in the Well on Your Hand by Melt Banana
3 special young men return from a lengthy hiatus to sample some canned beverages from the konbini and discuss modern einka music, bicycle etiquette in Tokyo, name pronunciation challenges and more. Track of the week: Ruten no Hatoba by Yamauchi Keisuke
You've heard of the thermal sensation scale, but do you know the other important sensations scales? In this episode we tell you all about them. Then we give you some tips to get more out of your time in Japan. Stick around until the end for our formal hiatus announcement. We love every single butt hole and will be back! Intro music by clintbreeze.bandcamp.com | Track of the week: Beautiful Morning With You by The Pillows
In this episode: Alek skateboards on a Japanese mountain and his butt gets gross, then the boys find themselves interfering with a strange government conspiracy involving tiny stink clones. Finally, Alek teaches us how to identify konbini manga porn. Special mentions: Brady Foster (@zookelow, vimeo.com/bradyfoster) | Intro music by clintbreeze.bandcamp.com | Featured track: Praha in Spring by Ruins
In this episode: Kyle returns to the physical realm from his newly completed metaphysical chrysalis bearing good news of beer foam, sad tiny food, taking it slow in Tokyo, and other stuff too. Special mentions: @KintsugiStyle, @love2chiitan, @Ant_Cleveland, @joeyjiuliani, @GaijinWota | Intro music by clintbreeze.bandcamp.com | Featured track: Meiko Nakahara - Peppermint no Asa
In this episode: Alek is back on his AMV shit, Kyle's effort to be nicer to Alek has extreme repercussions, and Alek espouses hateful rhetoric against bearotaurs. Ah jeez, what an ep! Special mentions: Dori (@Bigwasp80), Dead Frogs Podcast (@dead_frogs), Viddy Well (@ViddyWellBlog), Rainbow Tofu (@KitsuneTofu), and Zac (@GaijinWota). | Intro music by clintbreeze.bandcamp.com | Featured track: TOKYO SKA PARADISE ORCHESTRA - Lupin the Third '78
This week is all about pulling yourself up by your own butt straps, and getting out there and hitting the pavement to improve your Japanese speaking ability. You'll learn some real advice sprinkled with generous amounts of nonsense and good times. Special mentions: Super Fun Time Trivia Podcast, Hanzai Podcast and the musical stylings of @to6okegao | Intro music by clintbreeze.bandcamp.com | Featured track: Rappa To Musume by Kasagi Shizuko
Kyle and Alek are back together for some old fashioned ToSplo fun, including: Alek boards the ship to the eternal Grey Havens of Nagano, Ramen slurping ring of power, Dentists in Japan, Skateboarding problems, Accidental cat food reprised, More! | Intro music by clintbreeze.bandcamp.com | Featured track: Mystical Composer by Kikuchi Momoko (菊池桃子)
Half robot, half prince, all wonderful fake bit artist Robotprins joined Kyle, Zac and Sam to discuss: Getting anatomical and making music in Japan Robotprins's favorite Mega Man music Working with YMCK on their newest album, and performing with them live Chip tunes vs. fake bit Creating the signature Robotprins sound Featured Track: ミラクルグラヴィティ (Miracle Gravity) feat. Robotprins by YMCK | Intro music by clintbreeze.bandcamp.com
This week Kyle, Cal and Sam talked to K-Jin from KoreanClass101 and YouTuber Megster about: K-Jin's super hardcore high school Severe discipline vs. unstructured passion Adapting to life as a foreigner in Japan, the US and Canada South and North Korea optimism More! Intro music by clintbreeze.bandcamp.com Special thanks: K-Jin from KoreanClass101, Megster on YouTube, Nate Dawg, @nicestepsjapan on Instagram
Kyle was joined by his pals Cal and Zac during Tokyo Splosion's all day live stream on May 3, 2018. And whatta ya know, we accidentally made a super informative episode about how to see Japan by local train, going to live music events in Japan, being thrifty to make your money go further, and more fun stuff! Special thanks to JaDan (@jadandandan) and our guests Cal Meyer (@nicestepsjapan on Insta) and Zac Saxton (@GaijinWota) | Intro music by clintbreeze.bandcamp.com | Featured track: Toumei Ningen (透明人間) by Tokyo Jihen.
This week: Put some stank on whitey, Alek thing or American thing?, curry dynamics, the Alek Lake anagram, remembering Isao Takahata, Jonathan Taylor Thomas's Miraculous Sloth Syrup. Special mentions: Sofa King Podcast (@sofakingpodcast), Tokyo Munchies (@tokyo_munchies), Screaming Metal (@millisbrent), BIG thank you to Mike Austin and his sweet sweet wife Mrs. Mr. Mike Austin. | Intro music by clintbreeze.bandcamp.com | Featured track: First Light by Makoto Matsushita
This week: Cat Stevens writes and performs an oddly uplifting song about Tipper Gore-esque censorship of our episode art, duped by canned coffee branding, How to get over the fear of mistakes when speaking a new language We get to the bottom of dog strollers in Japan So much more! Special mentions: Ice and the Face podcast, Name of God podcast, The Podcouple podcast | Intro music by clintbreeze.bandcamp.com | Featured track: Miki Matsubara - Stay With Me
This week: Flexin' butt and hammerin' gams at the gym, creatine keynote, driving tests in Japan, any old blanket, index finger pull the trigger game center game center game center, and more? Special mentions: Sharp - the Podcast, Super Pee Pee Time podcast, FUTURESPEAK podcast, Gareth's Random Ramblings podcast, Craig Hoffman, @millisbrent on Twitter | Intro music by clintbreeze.bandcamp.com | Featured track: Wave by Mai Yamane
This week: Genuine slurper, swastika house, Alek's coin sorting philosophy, the thing you need to find the thing the thing cannot be found, is having tattoos in Japan a big deal? And more! BIG special thanks to: Sofa King Podcast, Craig Hoffman (Grey, Grizzled, and Gaijin blog,) and @yoav85! | Intro music by clintbreeze.bandcamp.com | Featured track: Kameari Pop by P-Model
This week: Alek the evil hedgehog, English thirsties, the Kumagaya rugby/swimming bait and switch, shoplifting education, Ian the Aeon pencil pusher, food on sticks, the guitar mountain council, it's easier to smoke inside than outside in Japan for some reason, and oh boy so much more, guys. | Intro music by clintbreeze.bandcamp.com | Featured track: Aladdin by Suiyōbi no Campanella
Hope you brought your can opener, because here's a nice lukewarm can of the creamiest snippets of podcast corn that we've managed to strain out from our first 30 episodes. Pry that sharp metal lid carefully, don't cut your little fingies now, and here's what you'll see: Takasaki Cats Mystery Pts. I, II & III, Dr. Jeffry, The Grossest Little Robot, Sports is Never Gonna Happen, Balcony Intruder, and golly Bob howdy so much more! | Intro music by clintbreeze.bandcamp.com
This week: Alek is visited by a mysterious butthole specter named Davis. Davis spends the episode giving Alek a window into Tokyo Splosion's hanami past in order to divert their path from an imminent threat. Alek has trouble convincing Kyle that the encounter actually happened. | Intro music by clintbreeze.bandcamp.com | Featured track: Hisen by Susumu Yokota | Artwork by Kyle Broyles
This week: Japan is trying to kill Alek's wife, life in Japan with dietary restrictions, a friend gets headbutted, an oddly race-centric Japanese English textbook, and Andrew W.K. pizza. | Intro music by clintbreeze.bandcamp.com | Featured track: A都市の秋 by Lamp
This week: Alek's apartment caught on fire, trail wine, keys to a successful river poop, more of our favorite Tokyo spots, Alek offends Donald Glover, and Kyle campaigns for a baffling political position. Boy, what a frickin' show! | Intro music by clintbreeze.bandcamp.com | Featured track: Shimendoka by Haruomi Hosono
This week: There is nothing more beautiful on this green Earth than the telepathic pogonophobia link between a mother and her child; Case fucking closed on the Takasaki cat mystery that has lingered since episode one; grammatical and medical advice from the tremendously gifted Dr. Jeffry. | Intro music by clintbreeze.bandcamp.com | Featured track: Tell Me a Bedtime Story by Kimiko Kasai feat. Herbie Goddang Hancock
This week: Too many blue eyed boys, obscure media format corner, sex workers in rural japan, staying for the credits, a quick round of katakanundrums and whoooa nelly a whole butt load more of good fun times together with our special internet friends. | Intro music by clintbreeze.bandcamp.com | Featured track: Tasogare wa Ginpaku No by Takako Mamiya
This week: Alek eats hot food from a machine, Big Mac bingeing, Alek gets profiled at church, demons HATE beans, alcohol's role in Japanese religious life, graveyard customs, barriers of entry to Japanese society, charbill, and oh my goodness so very much more! | Intro music by clintbreeze.bandcamp.com | Featured track: Kira Kira Bushi by Rekishi
This is the very first recording of what would go on to become Tokyo Splosion that has been locked in the Tokyo Splosion vault until now. Kyle and Alek met with their pal Bryan back on Thanksgiving Day 2016 to have a mostly non-Japan related convo about such topics as the philosophy of Pokemon, D.B. Cooper theories, fallout shelters, secret tunnels, LSD, jam band baseball and more! We'll be back with a real new episode next week!
This week: Alek is a magical, mystical, spritely and nymph-like little beer faerie little boy, Kyle slept in John Lennon's house, taxis: do you use 'em?, and how to navigate the murky and sensual waters of the Japanese language. Sorry we're late, but it's worth it. I love you specifically. | Intro music by clintbreeze.bandcamp.com | Featured track: Plastic Love by Mariya Takeuchi
This week: the boys take a train to the dimension of gratitude, which makes them consider becoming train otaku. They become hesitant, however, after discovering a bizarre rite of passage. Then George Costanza is back to rate his most irksome facets of Japanese culture. | Intro music by clintbreeze.bandcamp.com | Featured track: 君が泣くなら by Lamp
Strap on your wooopiieee belts because this episode will make you say woooopppiieee! Highlights: Tom Green vs. a certain YouTuber's hijinx in Japan, the best vidya games for learning Japanese, what was Nintendo up to before they made video games?, Kyle's rock bottom sports moment, and more! | Intro music by clintbreeze.bandcamp.com | Outro track: Say Goodbye by Hiroshi Satoh
Kyle and Alek are joined again by Cal Meyer to cover some pressing topics including: Bathroom slippers and the Japanese psyche, Customer service in the US vs. Japan, Hangin' with Mormon boys, Asking for help gone wrong, Much more! | | This week's featured track: Say Goodbye by Hiroshi Sato | | Intro music by clintbreeze.bandcamp.com
The guys meet on Kyle's death bed to share some nog and tie some loose ends before Kyle passes beyond the veil. Kyle's insides have turned to stone, dry air, jibetarian - the Japanese word for convenience store ruffians, Colonel Sanders fanfiction, New Year's in Shibuya, mean texts from Alek | See you buttholes in 2018! | | Music by clintbreeze.bandcamp.com
In this episode: Yoda flavored sucker, The first cinematic use of ASMR, All you need to know about NHK, but didn't care enough to ask, Some of our favorite spots in the Tokyo area, Miyazaki thoughts More! Music by clintbreeze.bandcamp.com
In this episode: Alek spends all day at Tokyo Disney and only rides Indiana Jones, Alek is appalled by the Japan subreddits, Google Translate histories, THAT'S NOT CHOCOLATE, The storied history of virtual musicians. Music by clintbreeze.bandcamp.com
In this episode: Snarky lightning round, "Random" I.D. checks in Japan, How to get stopped by the police, Watching movies on other people's devices on the train, Getting hired to make someone quit. The Giveaway winners will be announced soon! Music by clintbreeze.bandcamp.com
In this episode: The 500 Yen Konbini Thanksgiving Our friend Cal talks about having a baby in Japan Escape from the Planet of the Apes is Waking Life with monkeys Celebrity Katakanundrums Japan is a mixed bag for parents Review us on iTunes and send us a screencap to get a box of cool Japanese stuff! Music by clintbreeze.bandcamp.com
In this episode: An insane train station encounter Japan's open secret about women Alek does a number 1 in his pants Chitose, Hokkaido nightlife: not even once Listener email! The life of a panty vending machine delivery driver Review us on iTunes and send us a screencap to get a box of cool Japanese stuff! Music by clintbreeze.bandcamp.com
In this episode: Alek quits smoking for real Japanese wedding planners hate Catholics Sittin' down and smokin' some cheese A quick game of Katakanundrums The Internet's most comprehensive Freddi Fish game guide by Alek Lake Review us on iTunes and send us a screencap to get a box of cool Japanese stuff! Music by clintbreeze.bandcamp.com
In this episode: Balcony intruder, Every day is a baseball festival, Alek gets his shit together, Kyle denies a new friendship offer, The stay and wave standoff, Getting over your bad Japanese accent. Review us on iTunes and send us a screencap to get a box of cool Japanese stuff! Music by clintbreeze.bandcamp.com
In our first annual Halloween Spooktacular, we discuss: the phantom disembodied eye Alek's wife has vivid memories seeing as a child, a beginner's primer on yokai, the Japanese ghost that lives in toilets, the works of Junji Ito, and much more! Review us on iTunes and send us a screencap to get a box of cool Japanese stuff! Music by clintbreeze.bandcamp.com
In this episode: Japanese debit cards are useless; there are dinosaurs in Fukui, Fukui; Joseph Campbell's Moshpit with 1,000 Faces; Japan has a jingle for everything; George Costanza in Japan; urinal etiquette; the nicest bathroom in Tokyo, takin' care of biz in the Biz Tower Review us on iTunes and send us a screencap to get a box of cool Japanese stuff! Music by clintbreeze.bandcamp.com
Want free Japanese stuff? Here's how you can get it! 1. Subscribe to Tokyo Splosion on iTunes 2. Write a review of our show 3. Screencap your review and send it to us publicly on Twitter (@Tokyo_Splosion) or Instagram (@TokyoSplosion) In this episode: Food Fup'em Ups, Outlook Pivots with Markus the life coach, Alek gets touched by a guy in a bath robe and can hear farts through walls Music by clintbreeze.bandcamp.com
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