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Host Scott is joined by special guest Scott Kraushaar & Steve Smith (Dropping A Bruce and The Men of Action Podcast. Also because Scott is a podcasting maniac he also hosts The Church of Tarantino and Kill/Marry/Smash/Eat) to chat about an obscure East meets West Christopher Lambert action thriller " The Hunted."Over the course of the episode we talk about how the film avoids many of the pitfalls of the "Japanes panic" action films of the late 80s/early 90s while simultaneously falling over into the white saviour trap. We debate whether Christopher Lambert is the best lead for the film, talk about how wasted Joan Chen is and dissect the films one truly excellent action sequence set on a Bullet Train. You can listen to Dropping a Bruce hereYou can listen to The Men of Action Podcast hereYou can listen to The Church of Tarantino hereYou can listen to Kill/Smash/Marry/Eat hereSend us a tweet on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@90saction⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠"All '90s Action, All The Time" is Produced & Edited by Scott Murphy. Music by Elyssa Vulpes."All '90s Action, All The Time" is also a proud member of the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Last of the Action Heroes Podcast Network⁠⁠

Joe Deeney has created a daunting looking Saturday grid -- there are oodles of 4-stack answers, and as an ADDEDBONUS, a pinwheel in the center with very few exits into the rest of the puzzle. The clues were definitely of Saturday calibre. As proof, consider 53D, Arabic man's name meaning "servant of God, ABDI; 30D, Scorching, HOTASHADES; 46A, Antonym of "iie" in Japanes, HAI; and the absolutely fabulous 50D, What's added to one to make zero?, NOTA.In short, a brilliant way to end our crossword solving week, well done, Joe!Show note imagery: From 16A, Bird whose name may be written with two diacritics called kahakos, NENEWe love feedback! Send us a text...Contact Info:We love listener mail! Drop us a line, crosswordpodcast@icloud.com.Also, we're on FaceBook, so feel free to drop by there and strike up a conversation!

National chocolate mint day. Entertainment from 1994. Cracker Jack started putting prizes in their boxes, 980 Japanes soilders killed by crocodiles, George Harrison guilty of plagiarism. Todays birthdays - Lee Marvin, Smokey Robinson, Lou Christie, Jeff Daniels, Falco, Seal, Justine Bateman, Benicio Del Toro. Johnny Paycheck died.Intro - Pour some sugaar on me - Def Leppard http://defleppard.com/Mint chocolate chip - Jonathan MannThe power of love - Celine DionI swear - John Michael MontgomeryBirthdays - In da club - 50 Cent http://50cent.com/Tears of a clown - Smokey RobinsonLightning strikes - Lou ChristieRock me Amadeus - FalcoKiss from a rose - SealFamily Ties TV themeTake this job and shove it - Johnny PaycheckExit - Its not love - Dokken http://dokken.net/

While everyone has been worried about U.S. elections, Japan held elections too – with a result that has upended everything we've known about Japanese politics since 2009. To understand what has changed and what is at stake, Jacob is joined by Japan expert Tobias Harris – they chat about changes in Japan and why underestimating Japan is a bad idea. They also discuss Tobias's recent biography on former Japanese PM Shinzo Abe and his legacy.--Timestamps:(00:00) – Intro(02:38) - Japan 101(08:00) – Japanese disaffection(16:36) – Japanes paralysis(19:15) – Zoom out(23:22) – China(30:36) – ROK/Japan(36:32) – Shinzo Abe--Link to Tobias's book: https://www.amazon.com/Iconoclast-Shinzo-Abe-New-Japan/dp/1787383105--Jacob Shapiro Site: jacobshapiro.comJacob Twitter: x.com/JacobShapCI Site: cognitive.investmentsSubscribe to the Newsletter: bit.ly/weekly-sitrep--Cognitive Investments is an investment advisory firm, founded in 2019 that provides clients with a nuanced array of financial planning, investment advisory and wealth management services. We aim to grow both our clients' material wealth (i.e. their existing financial assets) and their human wealth (i.e. their ability to make good strategic decisions for their business, family, and career).--Disclaimer: Cognitive Investments LLC (“Cognitive Investments”) is a registered investment advisor. Advisory services are only offered to clients or prospective clients where Cognitive Investments and its representatives are properly licensed or exempt from licensure.The information provided is for educational and informational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice and it should not be relied on as such. It should not be considered a solicitation to buy or an offer to sell a security. It does not take into account any investor's particular investment objectives, strategies, tax status or investment horizon. You should consult your attorney or tax advisorThis podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podtrac - https://analytics.podtrac.com/privacy-policy-gdrp

We don't usually cover historical fiction in the Garden, but this opportunity was too good to pass up. Tong Ge has already won one award for best new fiction, but she's a finalist for yet another prestigious award. Ancestrally biographical (I think I made this term up), she takes us through the Chinese experience of the Japanes invasion and occupation, and how that led to the Maoist Revolution. Tong takes us through those scenarios through the eyes of one family and the protagonist, Golden Phoenix. During the course of our discussions, we cover history, the politics of China, the military of China, the Taiwan issues, the cultural and socio-economic status, and religion in China. We discuss the Uiygars and other matters as well. Born and raised in China, Tong Ge came to Canada in the late 80s as an internationalstudent. She has obtained a Master of Science degree from University of Saskatchewanin 1992. Since 2012, she has written under both her real name and the pen name TongGe, publishing poems, prose, and short stories in both English and Chinese across NorthAmerica, England, and Taiwan. Her works can be found in publications such as PRISMInternational, Canadian Stories, Ricepaper, Academy of the Heart and Mind, FLOWmagazine, Vineyard Poetry Quarterly, 渥水, 远方的诗, Polyglot Magazine, AlokaMagazine, Magnets and Ladders. With four literary prizes already received, she is also afinalist for four others. Her debut novel, "The House Filler," was published in Canada in 2023 and is among the fivefinalists worldwide for the 2023 Eyelands Book Awards historical fiction + memoir category and is the winner of the2024 Independent Press Award for new fiction. It is also a finalist for the 2024 Canadian Book Club Award.To request additional review copies or an interview with Tong Ge, please contact Mickey Mikkelson atCreative Edge Publicity: mickey.creativeedge@gmail.com | 403.464.6925.

National chocolate mint day. Entertainment from 1994. Cracker Jack started putting prizes in their boxes, 980 Japanes soilders killed by crocodiles, George Harrison guilty of plagiarism. Todays birthdays - Lee Marvin, Smokey Robinson, Lou Christie, Jeff Daniels, Falco, Seal, Justine Bateman, Benicio Del Toro. Johnny Paycheck died.Intro - Pour some sugaar on me - Def Leppard http://defleppard.com/Mint chocolate chip - Jonathan MannThe power of love - Celine DionI swear - John Michael MontgomeryBirthdays - In da club - 50 Cent http://50cent.com/Tears of a clown - Smokey RobinsonLightning strikes - Lou ChristieRock me Amadeus - FalcoKiss from a rose - SealFamily Ties TV themeTake this job and shove it - Johnny PaycheckExit - Its not love - Dokken http://dokken.net/

Hideo Nomo could have stayed in Japan and played ball. Made alot of money, and enjoyed his fame, but he wanted more for himself. His move to play in America, was an attack on the Japanese baseball establishment, but it also promoted thought for not only future Japanes ballers, but the whole entire Asian-Pacific rim, as he offered a pathway of least resistance, to playing the best of the best. He was willing to risk his ruputation back home. He was willing to risk all that he had accomplished as a baseball superstar in Japan. He was willing to put it all on the line, without really knowing if he would be successful. But he believed in himself. He had very little to gain, and everything to lose. This week we discuss the career of the baseball pioneer, Hideo Nomo, who's impact on Major League Baseball, changed the game forever, and for the better. #MasinoriMorakami #HideoNomo #KintetsuBuffalo #MasatoYoshii #AkiraOgi #NankaiHawks #SanFranciscoGiants #LosAngelesDodgers #KeishiSuzuki #ShigetosiHasagawa #DonNomura #ArnTellum #RandyJohnson #ShoheiOhtani #HidekiMatsui #HidekiIrabu #YuDarvish

Hideo Nomo could have stayed in Japan and played ball. Made alot of money, and enjoyed his fame, but he wanted more for himself. His move to play in America, was an attack on the Japanese baseball establishment, but it also promoted thought for not only future Japanes ballers, but the whole entire Asian-Pacific rim, as he offered a pathway of least resistance, to playing the best of the best. He was willing to risk his ruputation back home. He was willing to risk all that he had accomplished as a baseball superstar in Japan. He was willing to put it all on the line, without really knowing if he would be successful. But he believed in himself. He had very little to gain, and everything to lose. This week we discuss the career of the baseball pioneer, Hideo Nomo, who's impact on Major League Baseball, changed the game forever, and for the better. #MasinoriMorakami #HideoNomo #KintetsuBuffalo #MasatoYoshii #AkiraOgi #NankaiHawks #SanFranciscoGiants #LosAngelesDodgers #KeishiSuzuki #ShigetosiHasagawa #DonNomura #ArnTellum #RandyJohnson #ShoheiOhtani #HidekiMatsui #HidekiIrabu #YuDarvish

Gastgeber Andreas Müller, Dr. Juliane Reil, Silvia Silko und Christian Seidl diskutieren über die Alben: Slugs Of Love von Little Dragon // The Endless Coloured Ways: The Songs Of Nick Drake von Various Artists // In The End It Always Does von The Japanese House // Supermodels von Claud.

Lightning Bored by Sam Burns is an M/M reimagining of Frankenstein. We wanted to cover a creepy book for Halloween, instead we got a flat tale that didn't inspire us at all. So what are two Raunchy Readers to do? Go off the rails. From Hans Christian Andersen to Count Silver Nose, this is an episode of flights of fancy, tales from the crypts of our mind, and fun facts.Enjoy or fearsome tales. Sleep over truths from middle school (the most horrifying of times), Star Wars, LOTR, more plucky reporters, Supernatural, Zombies, Nightmares and Stoned Kids in Graveyards.Warning: Suicide, and discussion of suicide ideation.

We sit down with Howard from Baka Broadcast and talk Japanese music!Original Video: https://youtu.be/7LB_EPS48HEGAIJIN GUYS Discord!  https://discord.gg/qefJjUAGErGet EXCLUSIVE Reactions and Content at https://www.patreon.com/gaijinguys

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This week, Kate talks about Frances Harvey who settled in Dorset, Ontario (near today's Algonquin Park), but his wife and children lived in Prescott near Ottawa. Yet Harvey somehow managed to travel back and forth and make it work - during a time of few roads. A definite case of wanderlust. Plus Paul talks about Chinese Canadians who largely weren't accepted into the regular armed forces during WW2 due to discrimination, but were recruited as commandos in the British SOE's Force 136. Their job? Go behind enemy lines in Japanes occupied SE Asia. Kate Butler is the Director of the Haliburton Highlands Museum. Paul Vorvis is the host of the Your Haliburton Morning Show 7 - 9 a.m. Fridays on Canoe FM 100.9 and streaming on your devices. Haliburton County is in cottage country about 2 1/2 hours north of Toronto. You can contact us at timewarp@canoefm.com

We have entered the Z! The time has finally come for Randy and Doug to crack open a cold apple with the boys and take a dip in the Dead Zone. It's double the fun this time as we've watched the movie TWICE - Once in the original Japanes and a bonus watch with the 90's Ocean cast. It's time for a blast from the past with perhaps some nostalgia glasses and added sound effects for this spectacular DBZ Movie 1 review! --- Follow us on Twitter at wegottapod (@wegottapod) / Twitter Email us your questions and comments to wegottapod@gmail.com -- Music is "Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot - Main Theme (Hip Hop / Trap REMIX)" by Rifti Beats. Subscribe so you don't miss a single episode to your favorite Dragon Ball bros! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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「明日香のキッチン・トーク」Episode128は、究極のイチゴに出会ったお話のパート１です。日本のイチゴのクオリティは世界トップレベル！美味しい品種がたくさんありますよね。フルーツ大好きな我が家ですが、いまの季節はやっぱりイチゴが一番のお楽しみです。そんな中、出産祝いにいただいた徳島県佐那河内村の「さくらももいちご」を食べてみたところ…その甘さにびっくり。恋するほどの美味しさでした！ということで今回は、知っているようで知らないイチゴの豆知識と、佐那河内村でしか採れない希少なイチゴの秘密について語っています。 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/djasuka/support

Jim ist quite a legend: The 78 year old American is a famous investor, a Bestseller-author and a financial commentator based in Singapor for 13 years now. He was the co-founder of the Quantum Fund and Soros Fund Management in the 70ies, got really rich and became a globetrotter, travelling with his motorcycle arround the world. Jim kissed the Vienna stock exchange awake in 1985. 2007 he sold his mansion in New York City and moved to Singapore, because he wanted to invest profitably in the World´s greatest Market China and to teach his two daughters mandarin. He warns that the youth has to pay the price of tremendous debt some how. Jims favourite investments right now: The Japanes stock market, South Korea, China, Asia in general, Russia, commodities like precious metals, oil and gas, agriculture, copper. US-shares are too expensive, he says. MUSIK- & SOUNDRECHTE: Silly Intro by Alexander Nakarada _ Is anyboddythere by 8er41 _TEC Money/Coins/Dice by tec_5 Donkey braying 1 (ID 1549)_ Free Upbeat --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/geldmeisterin/message

Robin joins the show to talk about Japanese cinema. He did a masters in  Japanese Culture Studies and wrote his thesis on the style of Japanese cinema and we get into all of that and much much more in this episode. He also writes a blog, Japanese Cinema Archives, reviewing Japanese movies and anime, which is a great place to find new, old and classic Japanese films to add to your watchlist. For a great list of top 10 ranking Japanese movies by year, check out Kinemajunko (Japanese). For a good introduction to Japanese cinema, check out Donald Richie’s book, A Hundred Years of Japanese Film.Follow Robin's life in Japan on his other blog Husky Loves Japan.Sponsors:Bearfoot BarA variety of Japanese made craft bottled beers. A range of whiskeys and basic cocktails also available. Burgers and pub style snacks. Friendly English and Japanese speaking staff. Located in downtown Sapporo, walking distance from the subway station. https://www.facebook.com/bearfootbarThe Red House Located in the heart of Rusutsu Ski Resort, just cross the main road and it’s behind the Seicomart Convenience store. The restaurant features a mix of Japanese, Asian fusion, and western Style dishes, including shabu-shabu with wagyu beef and Hokkaido wagyu beef steak. Open winter and summer, 12-3pm for lunch, 5-9pm for dinner, with prices ranging from under Yen 1000 to about Yen 5000. https://theredhouse.jp/Rusutsu LodgesOpen all year round. Located 5 minutes walk to the main Rusutsu Ski Resort Gondola. There are Japanese, Western, and apartment style rooms with breakfast packages available. There’s a Japanese sento (public bath), two convenience stores less than a minute walk, ski room and tune up tables, free pick up available from the bus stop, plenty of free parking space, and summer BBQ packages available. Check out the website for more information and availability. http://rusutsulodges.comHokkaido GuideEstablished over 10 years ago, written by locals for locals and international tourists. The guide contains information on all types of businesses and locations around Hokkaido. There's information regarding all things Hokkaido such as sightseeing, nightlife, events, services, food and restaurants, entertainment, outdoor activities, and more. Currently offered in English and Thai, advertising space available. Check out website for everything you need to know about this beautiful prefecture. https://hokkaidoguide.comUse our Buzzsprout affiliate link to start your podcast today!  Website:https://www.voicesinjapan.com/ Follow us and check out our other content:https://twitter.com/voicesinjapanhttps://www.facebook.com/voicesinjapan/https://www.instagram.com/voicesinjapan/Get in touch: voicesinjapan@gmail.comSupport the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/voicesinjapan)

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The Hiku, Eugene Scanlon and Marie McNamara: Hosted by Carol McNamara and Geraldine Colleran remotely  with Jim Collins in studio -00.00 Mary O’Connor talking about the “haiku” which is a short form of Japanes poetry in three phrases typically characterised by three qualities -12.30-Eugene Scanlan originally form the Lane, Scariff and living in London now for the last 35 years talks to Carol about how things are on the ground in the UK and the school that he works in. -35.36-Marie McNamara talks about the Clare based home help agency she works for and how the current situation we find ourselves in has effected the work for carers and the people they look after. Saturday Chronicle is Sponsored by JAMES M NASH AND DERG KITCHEN DESIGN  http://dergkitchendesign.ie

Join Kelly Anderson and Brynn Berryhill as they discuss the turmoil between man and nature found in Studio Ghibli's Princess Mononoke. We can't wait to dive into the story, themes, and animation found in Hayao Miyazaki's 1997 animated feature film. From Ashitaka to Lady Eboshi, we have so many favorite characters to geek out about! So let's get started and let's get animated!Thank you to our Patreon patrons for supporting voting for this episode topic. Become a patron to vote on upcoming episode topics!Find more info on our website!E-mail: fanimatedpodcast@gmail.comfacebook: Fanimated PodcastInstagram: @fanimatedpodcastBuy us a coffee.Kelly Anderson's Instagram: @kanderdraw

The poor today are always working long hours in menial jobs to pay off something that is continuously breaking down. In many ways they are being punished for being poor.   If you have a hot jug, fan heater, hairdryer, juicer, toaster, vacuum cleaner and other consumer white ware - with a bit of luck you may get two to three year’s life out of them - and then they are off to the landfill.    This interview of Rex Weyler, is one of the original Greenpeace activists - when it was more a volunteer organisation - and they were true Rainbow Warriors - tells of the continuous battle on bringing humankind to become accountable and responsible for the wanton abuse and use of the earth’s critical resources.    This below is Rex’s most recent article ‘Its a waste world’ that was printed in Greenpeace Magazine https://www.greenpeace.org/international/story/23747/its-a-waste-world/ A popular bumper sticker in the United States – typically seen on large vehicles, with giant wheels and vibrating chrome muffler pipes – reads: “My carbon footprint is bigger than yours.” This appears as a banner for the culture of extravagant indulgence. And wherever consumption is encouraged and admired, waste follows. The world’s rich cultures are all wasteful, and not just because of excessive fossil fuel use. Even our modern electronic devices represent a massive waste stream. Last year, electronic waste reached an all-time record of 65 million tonnes. Planned Obsolescence   Used bulb lamps collected by Greenpeace volunteers during the clean up at Bokor Island conservation area on Thousand Islands. © Dhemas Reviyanto / Greenpeace Even modern LED light bulbs, for example, do not last as long as incandescent bulbs made a century ago. One carbon filament light bulb, at a fire station in Livermore, California, is still burning continuously after 120 years. Building things that last, and consuming modestly, used to be common human values. But that all changed with the advent of contemporary business models and modern marketing. In 1924, three companies – Dutch Philips, German Osram, and US General Electric – formed a cartel, Phoebus, to shorten the life of light bulbs. Making light bulbs that could last 100 years limited their sales growth. They agreed on a thousand-hour standard, about three or four months of normal use, the historic beginning of planned obsolescence. During World War I, the U.S. Treasury Department launched a frugality campaign to save resources for the war effort. Merchants, however, opposed the initiative. According to Giles Slade in Made to Break, US stores displayed signs such as, “Beware of Thrift,” and “Business as Usual.” New York retailers formed the “National Prosperity Committee,” with slogans like, “Full Speed Ahead!” and “Clear the Track for Prosperity!” During the global economic depression in 1932, New York manufacturers circulated a pamphlet: “Ending the Depression through Planned Obsolescence,” the first known printed use of this phrase. An article in Printer’s Ink journal warned that the idea of durability was “outmoded,” claiming that, “If merchandise does not wear out faster, factories will be idle, people unemployed.” Paul Mazur, a partner at Lehman Brothers, declared that obsolescence, designing products to fail or wear out, was the “new god” of business philosophy. In 1950s America, advertising firms learned that they could sell products not based on function, quality, or durability, but on novelty. Products were sold as “new,” “modern,” and “innovative,” whether or not the “innovations” offered any genuine value. The throwaway fashion industry was born on the notion that clothing “styles” allegedly changed every year, and that to appear “modern,” one must repeatedly buy new clothing. Ad agencies convinced popular journals to publish fashion sections to inform, or manipulate, the public regarding the latest styles. Thus, the idea of well-made, durable products died away in rich nations, replaced by products that break, wear out, become obsolete, or go out of fashion. This trend has now seized the modern electronics industry. E-waste and the cost of high tech   A small child sitting among cables and e-waste in Guiyu, China © Greenpeace / Natalie Behring Since the 1980s, computers and electronic devices have made lives in rich countries more convenient and entertaining. Some observers expected that modern electronics would also make society more “efficient,” that computers would save paper and other resources. Those hopes, however, encountered what is known in economics as the “rebound effect“: Efficiency often leads to more resource use, not less. Human enterprise now uses six times more paper than we used at the dawn of the computer age, six times more lithium, five times more cobalt, more iron, copper, and more rare earth metals. Mining for these minerals tends to be ecologically destructive and exploitive of human labourers. Due to increasing demand and low rates of electronics recycling, mining companies are now proposing strip mines on the ocean floor, a practice that ocean biologists say would permanently damage unique and biodiverse ocean ecosystems. As computer chips got smaller, more powerful, and more energy efficient, the material and energy intensity of those chips increased exponentially. Since our computers require so little energy to operate, we may believe they are “efficient,” but we are measuring the wrong metric. To understand the high cost of high tech, we must consider the embodied energy built into our devices, our telecom infrastructure, server networks, and data centres. We also have to consider the sheer growth of consumption and the acceleration of waste. According to Statisa, about 4 million cell phones are sold every day, over 1.5 billion per year. About 250 million computers are sold each year. The average lifetime of these devices is now about two and a half years. Manufacturers design in obsolescence, changing critical parts and marketing more fashionable, “improved” devices. We may marvel at social media and connectivity, but this level of consumption leaves behind a massive, toxic, and destructive waste stream.   Discarded computer monitor casings in a lagoon in Ghana. © Greenpeace / Kate Davison Apple Corporation has become notorious for designing smartphones, tablets, and laptops that are difficult to repair or upgrade. These policies are not an accident or a necessity of technological advance. They are marketing decisions, designed specifically, like the three-month light bulb, to sell more products. Between June 29, 2007 and November 3, 2017, Apple introduced 14 new iPhone models, one every 37 weeks. The company stopped supporting the first generation phones within three years, and continues to make previous phones obsolete and unsupported. According to Jason Koebler at Motherboard, “Apple is trying to kill legislation that would make it easier for normal people to fix iPhones.” Apple designs products with proprietary parts that cannot be easily repaired and the company has actively lobbied against right-to-repair legislation in the US. According to a Repair.org study, both Apple and Sony have blocked environmental electronics standards that would support repair, upgrade, and recycling. However, Apple Corporation is not alone. According to a 2017 Greenpeace report, other consumer electronics companies are lagging far behind. Although Apple has made progress in the use of renewable energy they are “moving in the wrong direction,” along with Microsoft and Samsung, by shortening the useful life of devices. Samsung, Amazon, Oppo, Vivo, and Xiaomi receive failing grades in every category, using toxic chemicals and dirty energy, making short-lived products that are difficult to recycle, and hiding the data about their practices. On the other hand, HP, Dell, and Fairphone are leaders in producing products that are repairable and upgradable. Electronic waste has now reached over 65 million tonnes per year. Computers, screens, and small hand devices comprise about 22% of that waste, 14 million tonnes annually. According to a 2014 UN Report, Europe produced the highest per-capita electronic waste, over 15 kilograms per person every year. Asia generated the most e-waste, 16 million metric tonnes, followed by the Americas, 11.7 million tonnes per year. Since 2014 those volumes have increase by about 50%. System Change As with most of our ecological challenges, there are solutions, but the response requires more than marginal change. According to Deishin Lee, at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, “most waste is generated on purpose,” built into modern business models. Lee criticizes “output-oriented,” production systems that only consider the product. “Every output-oriented process,” she writes, “is designed to produce waste.” We can overcome this by shifting to input-oriented production, considering the value of all resources, how to conserve, and how to use resources effectively, with a minimum of waste.   Smartphone repair © RIcardo Padilla Roman / Greenpeace Economist Tim Cooper, at Nottingham Trent University believes that a transformation away from planned obsolescence will require a “radical, systemic change.” In his book, “Longer Lasting Products,” Cooper suggests the change could be accomplish with economic policies to encourage minimum standards of durability, repairability, and upgradeability. Quality goods, robust repair-and-servicing, and secondhand markets would result in more jobs and more economic activity for a given amount of resources. Cooper calculates that when consumers spend less on throwaway products, they will spend more for other services and investments. In “Culture of Waste,” Julian Cribb, a fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, describes how we could reverse the trends toward food waste with government regulation to limit wasteful practices, full-cost pricing and taxing, subsidies for good stewardship production, and with education. The 2017, Greenpeace Report, advocates similar actions to create closed loop, circular production, beginning at the design stage, with all companies required to design recyclable parts, easy repair, and a take-back program for all products. Growth swamps efficiency Everything we build requires energy. Wasteful practices waste energy. Although we are witnessing an unprecedented effort to develop renewable energy, we are failing to keep pace with growth in demand. Unless we address the growth of human numbers and human enterprise, we are destined for the natural results of ecological overshoot. We also need to phase out fossil fuels and redouble efforts to build renewable energy infrastructure. The following chart – prepared by Canadian energy engineer David Hughes, using data from the 2019 BP Energy Review – shows the annual growth in renewable energy compared to the annual growth in electricity demand. A great deal of this demand is due to wasteful manufacturing and sales practices. Two-thirds of the growth is met with fossil fuels. Furthermore, this only accounts for electricity. 83% of the world’s energy consumption is non-electric.   The only year that renewable energy growth exceeded demand growth occurred in 2009 during an economic recession. This chart reveals two critical pieces of our waste and energy challenge: (1) Renewable energy growth is not keeping pace with total energy demand, and (2) The way to turn this around is to end the expectation of endless economic growth. Some companies, such as Fairphone and Patagonia, have business models that account for slowing growth. The idea that we should keep businesses growing by creating waste is no longer valid – and never was. We can employ more people by building quality products and repairing them. To reverse the trend of wasteful production, biodiversity collapse, carbon emissions that cause global heating, and general ecological overshoot, humanity has to embrace modest consumption and put an end to the era of extravagant indulgence.   References and Links “E-waste World Map Reveals National Volumes, International Flows,” StEP Initiative, 2013, Quoted in Greenpeace E-Waste report, 2016.E-waste: The Escalation of a Global Crisis, TCO certified“Made to Break: Technology and Obsolescence in America,” Giles Slade, Harvard University Press, 2007; and excerpts at Google Books.“A Culture of Waste,” Julian Cribb, Ecology Today, 2012.Guide to Greener Electronics 2017, Greenpeace Reports, October 17, 2017“Overcoming the culture of waste” Deishin Lee, MIT, Sloan School of Management, 2017.Power-hungry gadgets endanger energy efficiency gains, review of The International Energy Association analysis, John Timmer, 2009, ARS Technica.The Global E-waste Monitor, 2014: UN University, 2014.“Electronic Waste (E-Waste): How Big of a Problem is it?” Rubicon, 2018Facts and Figures on E-Waste and Recycling, Electronics Takeback Coalition, 2014“The monster footprint of digital technology,” Kris de Decker, Low-Tech Magazine,“Electronics Standards Are In Need of Repair,” Mark Schaffer, Repair.org, August 2017.“Apple is against your-right to repair i-Phones New York state records confirm,” Jason Koebler, Motherboard, 2017.“Longer Lasting Products: Alternatives to the Throwaway Society,” Tim Cooper, Gower Books, 2010.Culture and Waste: The Creation and Destruction of Value, Edited by Gay Hawkins and Stephen Muecke, Rowman & Littlefield, 2002.“The L.E.D. Quandary: Why There’s No Such Thing as ‘Built to Last’,” J. B. MacKinnon, New Yorker, 2016.“Patagonia’s Anti-growth Strategy,” J.B. MacKinnon, New Yorker, 2015.What is happening here in NZ?Here in NZ we continue with this ‘business as usual’ attitude, superimposed over the whole country. It is ‘taken for granted’ and the NZ Government is basically none the wiser. They just continue to carry on as if everything is normal. The NZ struggle to get recycling more efficientNZ has not been able to get a deposit on soft drink or beer bottles, where once we had them. As a kid I used to be continuously walking up and down the main road collecting beer bottles as they were in those days just thrown out the window of cars. At the big rugby games at towns, dur9ng the curtain raiser prior to the main game, I was always able to collect enough coke and lemonade bottles to be able to buy a drink and a hot pie and have some change left over.  Why has NZ not been able to follow the legislation as in the State of South Australia and in the State of Oregon in the USA.  Because, like all the other states in Australia and the USA - business interests in both these countries have overridden prudent ecological policies.  Time and time again the breweries and Coke cola with huge financial resources and well paid lawyers - have been able to stop a deposit with regard to recycling - in its tracks. Hence, the throw away mentality is still prevalent in NZ especially with the unconscious male macho way of life.  Yet, it could be said that as an extension of the top of this article that stoves, fridges etc don’t last long too too, when compared to how they were built 50 years ago.A person working at a local transfer station north of Auckland said - If it was not for the Warehouse - he would not have a job! (The Bargain was not necessarily a bargain)Some of the other issues talked about in this interview was that big business is still calling the shots.One of the issues is that businesses do not look at our planet as a complex living super system. They fail to see the biosphere as a homeostatic, self regulating system of trillions of living creatures that are all delicately balanced and embedded in the web of life.Their (very limited) perspective is that they are on ‘a platform’ - that has raw products coming in (they are not interested in where these products come from or how they are extracted or gained) -  all they want to do is then push (highly packaged) product out onto the market. It also does not really matter how much pollution they produce in the process - hence various governments world wide - have had to enforce clean air and clean water standards on businesses to force them to comply. This has been an ongoing ‘battle’ for over 100 years.There is no thought of ‘nature’ in any business model.  Where as in America there is a remarkable treatise on this thought to come from a First Nations ‘Indian’ called Chief Seattle.     Privatise the Profits and Socialise the Costs - This means putting products or services on the market and if they do not measure up, then society picks up the costs.  - Cigarette companies did this with cigarettes. They made money out of selling them but when smokers ended up in hospital beds - especially in countries with ‘free’ hospital care - it was those countries (the taxpayers) that paid to take care and treat those dying patients. It  was the same when the Wall Street bankers in New York took insane monetary risks back in 2008 whilst still collecting ‘extremely inflated commissions and salaries’ - that they threatened to collapse the whole US and world banking system. That the US Government was then ‘forced’ to bail them out - with the US taxpayer taking the hit. This same mentality is pervasive within the current business world. Privatise the profit and socialise the losses. That there is now such a devastating effect by having to clean up the global environment as a result of business practices that did not factor in a healthy future of the world’s children. Cradle to Cradle  - and the Circular EconomyCradle to Cradle was mentioned. http://www.cradletocradle.com Cradle to Cradle is a design framework for going beyond sustainability and designing for abundance in a Circular Economy. The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability—Designing for Abundance is the eagerly awaited follow-up to Cradle to Cradle. Drawing on a decade of lessons, William McDonough & Michael Braungart put Cradle to Cradle®concepts into practice with businesses, governments, and people around the world.Prof Dr Michael Braungart gave an interview on the subject of microplastics on 23-10-2018 in the ZDF news programme heute+. Car tyres are the main cause of the microplasty discovered in the human intestine, says environmental expert Michael Braungart. The main problem is the harmful pollution.In the 1980s, Braungart dedicated his work to the environmental organization Greenpeace and beginning in 1982 helped to establish the chemistry section of Greenpeace International, which he took over in 1985. In the same year he received his Ph.D. from the University of Hannover's chemistry department. In order to develop solutions for complex environmental problems, EPEA was established by Greenpeace in 1987. Ever since, Braungart has been involved with research and consultancy for eco-effective products i.e. products and production processes in a loop, not only harmless to man or nature, but beneficial.Time magazine recognized William McDonough in 1999 as a “Hero for the Planet.” In 1996, Mr. McDonough received the Presidential Award for Sustainable Development, and in 2003 he earned the first U.S. EPA Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award. In 2004, he received the National Design Award for achievement in the field of environmental design. In July 2014, Mr. McDonough was appointed as Chair of the World Economic Forum Meta-Council on Circular Economy. Also mentioned was that we are reaching limits to growth and Rex and I touched on some of the major environmental challenges now affecting the biosphere. Japanase built cars superior to American carsIt was quickly noted that when the Japanese car companies came to North America that it only took a few years or so for the American people to realise that Japanes cars were not only more reliable but they lasted longer. The planned obsolescent cars from Ford, General Motors and now defunct Chrysler were far inferior to the Japanese brands - hence their continued success in the US car market today.  Apple in the US comes in for some well earned criticism in the interview.That between June 29, 2007 and November 3, 2017, Apple introduced 14 new iPhone models, one every 37 weeks. The company stopped supporting the first generation phones within three years, and continues to make previous phones obsolete and unsupported. Listen - Apple are not your kind and caring corporation. They are a hard nosed business wanting to continually corner the market for their own ends. Listen to how they and Sony stopped legislation to not allow their products to be repaired.   “Apple is trying to kill legislation that would make it easier for normal people to fix iPhones.” A Global commitment to CHANGE … Transformation away from planned obsolescence will require a “radical, systemic change.”  to encourage minimum standards of durability, repairability, and upgradeability. What's wrong with 10 years for everything over $4,000?Having quality goods, robust repair-and-servicing, and secondhand markets would result in more jobs and more economic activity for a given amount of resources. We could also reverse the trends toward food waste with government regulation to limit wasteful practices, full-cost pricing and taxing, subsidies for good stewardship production, and with education.  2017, Greenpeace Report, advocates similar actions to create closed loop, circular production, beginning at the design stage, with all companies required to design recyclable parts, easy repair, and a take-back program for all products.There is a limit to growth on a finite planetThere is a limit to growth - that if one becomes an astronaut or a cosmonaut - they see clearly from space - that life within the biosphere can only take so much.  That the increase in human numbers and their extracting and polluting practices is overwhelming the natural worlds ability to rebalance these intrusions because of the short time span. Rex mentioned, that unless we address the growth of human numbers and human enterprise, we are destined for the natural results of ecological overshoot. We also need to phase out fossil fuels and redouble efforts to build renewable energy infrastructure. France Under French law it is a crime to intentionally shorten lifespan of a product with the aim of making customers replace it. ... The French investigation is being led by the economy ministry's consumer protection agency. It follows a legal complaint filed in December by pro-consumer group Stop Planned Obsolescence (Hop).Jan 8, 2018 End of the line for stuff that's built to die? A new French law demands that manufacturers display how long their appliances will last. Could this stop planned obsolescence – products designed with restricted lifetimes?  https://www.theguardian.com/technology/shortcuts/2015/mar/03/has-planned-obsolesence-had-its-day-design Apple investigated by France for 'planned obsolescence' - BBC News   https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42615378 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/01/09/apple-investigated-by-france-for-planned-obsolescence-of-older-iphones/  - This is a Silicon Valley newspaper.Also covered was Regenerative Farming and Biological Farming as a way to make soils more healthy and keep the soil from being blown and washed off the land. This farming method is most definitely the most important way to regenerate our land without using fertilisers.https://www.ourplanet.org/Default.aspx?CCID=34961&FID=629092&ExcludeBoolFalse=True&ID=/greenplanetfm/search-results So there we have it However, it goes far deeper than this.  ListenThis is a very important interview - on an imperilled planet that is awash with rubbish, toxins and the throw away society. That we have to ask the question - are we throwing away our future and our children and grandchildren with it? Time for decisive action, from the Grass Roots up. Not top down from the summit of the Pyramid of Businessmen and Bankers. This has to be where all ‘grassroots’ groups as in localised communities across every nation need to be brought into the conversation and also the planning and action.

The Super Inframan is one of those Japanes kaiju movies, except it's Chinese. It's wonderfully colorful and the guys in monster suits are really spazzy. Jason and Todd talk other bad movies, fist fights, church shootings, great character actors, and politics all while half-watching this piece of low-rent garbage unfold. Sexy.

James is joined by Chelsea Spollen this week as they don their safety goggles and head back to the land of Double Hell Death and two cards from FMW in 1991. The build up to the companies 2nd Anniversary Show was hampered by the departure of three company executives, and lead heel Mr. Pogo. Tales of laziness and aggravation trailed Ohnita as his early success went to his head. Can our hero pull it out of the fire? Chelsea and James go in depth on the upliftingly violent world of FMW, and of course, there are mullets galore.

This week, it's more Anime Firehose Round up with BBK/BRNK, Tabi Machi Late Show, Schwarzes Marken, Grimgar, ERASED, and more. We also talk about a movie that at first I didn't really want to watch, but it wound up winning me over. It's called "Princess Iron Fan", and its credited with being the first Chinese Animated Feature.

Mike and Nat are bereft as Holywood Dan takes the Premier League football option and doesn't make it to the studio this week. To mask their distress they pretend it doesn't matter to them but the hurt is ever close to the surface. To help them through this difficult time they invite ESPN America head honcho (he honches heads you know) and College Football supremo Patrick 'Paddy the Brick' Sturgeon. In other news: The refs are back and it's already easy to forget how bad the first few weeks were; Patrick knows about betting but urges you to just join him 'for the journey'; Mike watches Japanes films; Patrick does Zumba, the guys are confused; the Podcast Awards have come around again, feel free to nominate us; Jay Cutler is a winner; Romo gets picked off all over the field; the Patriots score more points than is seemly; the Jest have 34 reasons to think about what they're doing; Chuck Pagano is getting treatment for leukemia and we all wish him strength and wellness; Patrick talks us through the College ball situation; the Tigers punched their playoff ticket by winning the American League Central on Monday night; the White Sox put some pressure on them by beating Cleveland; Detroit responded with a 6-3 win in Kansas City the NHL is still locked out, silly buggers; fantasy league news, your questions in the Bodeans mailbag and much, much more...

IGN's Nintendo show returns after a week in Japan. Join host Jose Otero, Peer Schneider, and Brian Altano, as the crew discusses two anticipated games in Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer and Super Mario Maker. Then, after the break, the crew discusses the big August update for Splatoon, the Japanes rollout of Smash Bros next DLC pack, Dragon Quest XI's announcement, and more.

Studio Banana TV interviews Japanes architect Yoshiharu Tsukamoto.