Alex and I just made a promo video featuring music by DJ Wes!!



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Tags: DJ Wes, Alex Brooke, LearnJapanesePod.com, makikomo soap, Tokyo, Kagurazaka, Japan

Song by Alex Brooke. Self-Explanatory (sp?). Posted by Rob.

Tags: Alex Brooke, Japan, accoustic guitar, LearnJapanesepod.com

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Bicycle taxi in downtown Fengcheng

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Tags: China, Fengcheng, sinosplice.com

This is a clip of Ivan (also in our Tin's Hall video) philosophizing after a few shots of tequila and maybe an absinthe or two... The poster is hanging in Restaurante El Pancho in Shinsaibashi, Osaka. Posted by Rob.

Tags: Tequila, Mexico, Japan, Osaka, Ivan, absinthe, philosophy, sociology, sociología, global politics, Latin America

This is actually part B of number 19. Hans and I mentioned this YouTube video in episode 19.

My old racing buddy Dan Currell is back in the sport, this time as an amateur category 3 on the track. Check him out on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/currelld

The video was taken 7 July at the Sports Center Velodrome Chariot Race, Category 3. "Taylor Olson wins by a mile." Dan Currell second, Ted Schmid third.

Tags: Taylor Olson, Dan Currell, Ted Schmid, Velodrome, chariot race, sprint, Blaine, Minnesota, NSC, track racing, keirin

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Cooking with the wannabe redneck, Hans, via the series of tubes, with not much cycling discussed this time, however, we did have Norwegian pop (music), micro-brewed beer, samba, pellet guns, hillbilly foreplay, and much, much more! I think Hans was on the verge of a Mel Gibson moment, but managed to keep himself under control. You have to take his environment into consideration...

Photo by Hans.

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Tags: Tour of Ireland, Chef Boyardee, The Raelian Movement, Terence McKenna, Jews in Japan, Brokeback Mountain

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Really sorry about the computer fan and floor fan noises!! Some of the topics mentioned included:

-Thom Jones, Cold Snap
-Andresito and his brother in Japan
-DJing at Cafe Absinthe on Friday
-Cocolo FM, Yaneka in London
-Nippon Premium, Kirin's new brew
-T-shirt messages
-Last.fm
-Bar Bonobo, Jingu 2 Chome
-Fireworks at Jingu at Tamagawa
-209radio.co.uk goes old school FM
-Closing haiku


Now that poet Patrick Widdess is back in England, we've got people on the ground in Cambridge! Here's an online radio program which will be broadcasting on the Marconi soon, called Transmission Failure(?) on 209radio.co.uk. He is requestion music, poetry and logo artwork for his show. Stay tuned for details!

Patrick has also tipped me off to Prairie Home Public Radio, as in a Garrisson Keillor and Lake Wobegon podcast!

Finally, on the homefront (that's Japan), Osaka's Jonny Heartbreaker is now available on Last.fm.

Small green frog taken in Chiba Prefecture by Rob. Posted by Rob.

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Alex writes: "It's always good go through old files and see which ones are being downloaded and which aren't. While going through the files I decided to make the top 10 most popular downloads from this site."

Here they are in reverse order:

10) Lesson #5 Asking someone out

9) Lesson #15 Wait a moment Mr Postman

8) Lesson #16 Movie Japanese

7) Lesson #4 Counting

In this lesson we learned to count with Waka sensei.

6) Lesson #14 Mukatsuku

This was my favorite show and has been popular ever since we released it.

5) Fun Friday Kansai Dialect

Recently all the Fun Friday episodes have been more popular than the normal lessons.

4) ALT RAP by Rob (a.k.a. El Gringo)

This rap about life as an English teacher was written by Rob and fellow Osaka ALT John Sanders, and the music was produced by Alex Brooke. This video has continued to be quite popular all over the net.

3) Lesson #2 Basic questions

2) Lesson #1 How are you ?

But wait for it. Drum roll please, the single most popular download on Learn Japanese was...

1) Days of the week Video

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[There was supposed to be a YouTube video here. Seems like there's either a YouTube bug or a Libsyn one, and I'm going to try and find out which it is. It's been happening with all new posts and edits since yesterday. All the code just disappears. I'll get to the bottom of this...]

Something someone at work turned me onto.

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Links and stuff coming soon! (as usual) Posted by Rob. Tags:

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Tags: Horse crash, Pamella Guimaraes, eyebrows, Tony Rominger, Bill Stapleton, Bob Stapleton, Alberto Contador, Michael Rasmussen, Marco Pantani, Claudio Chiapucci, Djamolidine Abdujaparov, Frank Vandenbroucke, Wally Pleasant, Kurt Cobain, Eddie Vedder, single speeds, Tour de France, Tour of Germany, Alan Partridge

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Jonny Heartbreaker, Rob, Makiko, Chunza (a.k.a. Okha, Flying Koala) and Hyun-ju enjoy an evening of song & drink. This is part one of a series of recordings done back when we recorded Slainte & Gonbe and several other gems.

The artwork is a live painting / collage done at the monthly Flo-Union event at The Pink Cow back in April, which coincided with the month-long Nama Artshow. It was done by Makiko and me while DJ Ryosuke Ito (Taiyo Record) spun tracks for our inspiration.

Further explications [sic] and links and whatnot coming soon. Posted by Rob.

Tags: Shochu Man, soju, salaryman, SCUBA, ORIGINALS!

Jonny Heartbreaker, Rob, Makiko, Chunza (a.k.a. Okha, Flying Koala) and Hyun-ju enjoy an evening of song & drink. This is part of a series of recordings done back when we recorded Slainte & Gonbe and several other gems. Is that me getting a little defensive about my terrible singing? The artwork is a live painting from the Nama Artshow done by Tomoko, Makiko, Okha, me and participants from the audience.

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Alex and Rob provide travel advice for Andres and his bro who are about to embark upon their first journey to the land of the rising sun... Links, photo, tags coming soon! Posted by Rob.

Links coming soon! T-Shirt (photo) worn by an Aussie (what was his name?) at the Japan vs Australia game which we watched at an Irish Pub in Jiyugaoka. Photo by Makiko. Posted by Rob.

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Rik Sanchez & Co. are Osaka originals. Follow the YouTube link to Rik's other videos. Proceed at your own risk! Violence and all manners of weirdness take place by the time you get to part 3! Posted by Rob.



Tags: Rik Sanchez, Osaka, Japanese, egg, horror, sci-fi

Alex's adventures continue in Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, as we are joined by Miss Tasmania, who tells us of the strange and bizarre cicadas of some place she's probably just making up. Her boyfriend Masaki currently works 6 days a week making sushi in a French restaurant?? I'll have to listen to this podcast again to catch all the details. You should listen to it twice, and forward the link to all your friends and long lost relatives... http://media.libsyn.com/media/newsfromtheotherside/talk_show_28.mp3

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Tags: Mex Wax, Big Wave Surfing, cicadas, Tasmania