MIDDLE

Derek chats all things USA with friend of the show Eric.

Theme music: Steppin’ by Wake

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Go and vote!

We’re back! In this episode Derek sits down with friend of the show and fellow Japan resident Bill to chat about his thoughts on the upcoming U.S. Presidential Election.

Theme music: Steppin’ by Wake

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The Awful Secret Behind Trump And This Election from Cracked.com

Dick jokes can be pretty funny

This week the boys are joined by friend of the show Dan Conley to discuss the crazy two weeks where we had the horrible Charleston Shooting, and the joy of the US Supreme Court Marriage Equality ruling. Plus we talk of less important things.

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Landmarks around the world lit up to celebrate the US Supreme Court Marriage Equality ruling.

According to Snopes.com, Dylann Roof may have eaten Burger King, he was not taken to Burger King.

Shooters of color are called ‘terrorists’ and ‘thugs.’ Why are white shooters called ‘mentally ill’?

Bill O’Reilly attacks Jeremy Glick, the son of a 9/11 victim.

Charleston aftermath: Why not stop selling guns as well as Confederate flags

Family Guy Season 3, Episode 12 — To Love and Die in Dixie

“You know I never understood why you gun control people don’t all join the NRA. They’ve got two million members. You bring three million to the next meeting, call a vote. All those in favor of tossing guns… bam! Move on.”

Seriously, if you haven’t seen The West Wing, go watch it. Do it now. I’ll wait.

Sepp Blatter.

The ACT legalised Same Sex Marriage with the Marriage Equality Act 2013 which was subsequently reversed by the High Court of Australia.

Putin wants to build 40 more nukes, but up until a couple of months ago it had a contract in place for France to build it two new Amphibious Assault ships. That deal is now cancelled.

And finally, The Cornish beaches where Lego keeps washing up.

We’re back! Again! We apologise for our inability to stick to a schedule, we promise we’re going to try really hard not to break this promise this time. John would also like to apologise for uhming and ahhing so much in this episode, but you can be sure that his uhming and ahhing bothers him a lot more.

Oh, yes, we talked about stuff. Including a really, really, super sexy topic.

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Show Notes

Carly Fiorina thinks the Chinese can’t innovate. This from a woman who drove HP into the ground.

Ariana Miyamoto, the 2015 Miss Universe Japan winner

Adam Goodes, Indigenous Australia footballer and all-round awesome dude.

“White Australia is so terrified of Aboriginal people that an imaginary spear still has them crying 3 days after it didn’t hit them.”

Also from Aamer Rahman, here is his editorial in New Matilda about the “controversy” surrounding Adam Goodes’ celebration.

Waleed Aly is a lecturer on Politics at the University of Melbourne and the host of Channel 10’s The Project. Here he is on ABC’s Offsiders talking about the reaction to Adam Goodes’ on field celebration.

And to put it in perspective, here are some Italian racists throwing bananas at players Kevin Constant and Nigel de Jong.

“The Irish basically guaranteed everything — not only savings and checking accounts, but also the bonds that banks sold to investors.”

The Sydney Morning Herald’s article on housing affordability in Sydney.

The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The town of Fudai, Iwate was the town that survived the tsunami largely because of the seawall that the late Mayor Koutoku Wamura had pushed for.

By the way, his name is KOUTOKU WAMURA, not KOTAKU, as is widely reported. It took a fucking gaming blog to work that shit out.

Bonus Material

Adam Goodes speaking at a press conference after he was racially abused by a young spect...

We’re back! In the time from our last show John has been back to Japan, including a stint in Tokyo, where he and Derek had a special show planned. This isn’t that show. This is more of a, err, tribute, to what that show could’ve been…

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We will have a separate post with our recommendations to make visiting Tokyo easier, along with the places we talked about on the show.

“Get the fuck out of my house”

The Pussy Posse

David Letterman’s race prepped Volvo 960 Estate

The boys battle through exhaustion to bring you this latest episode.

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Show Notes

John Oliver on Australia’s Tobacco Plain Packaging Laws.

Georgio Moroder

I just read the plot description for the Neverending Story and I still don’t know what the movie is about.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

Louisiana Purchase

The history of the Cajun

Mags and Fags

Why are white people expats when the rest of us are immigrants?

Why Is It Hard to Make Friends Over 30?

If you’re ever in Hiroshima you have to go to Koba.

And if you’re in Kobe, try Mickey’s Club.

On this week’s show: John sees racism where no racism has been found before, Derek talks of his love of polka music, and the boys are joined by special guest Dan Conley to talk blackface in Japan, horribly racist tv shows, and Yanni.

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Show Notes

Look, when TMZ calls you out for being racist, you know you’re making a pretty racist show.

Jero.

The Swastika didn’t mean what the Nazis thought it did.

Hey Derek, good news — Yanni is still touring!

BONUS

Check out this unauthorised but totally amazing bootleg of the Power Rangers!

This week, a bunch of topics that didn’t make it into Episode 4 — The Simpsons, music we grew up to, and, ahem. Cosby.

Derek and John will be back next week with a fresh hour, but for now enjoy this extra episode.

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This week: John screws up the intro, and the boys start talking ABC’s new sitcom Fresh Off The Boat and ends up somewhere completely different.

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Show Notes

The Fresh Off The Boat Promo

Tall Poppy Syndrome

Paul Hogan was married to his Crocodile Dundee co-star Linda Kozlowski but has since divorced, and he has had some trouble with the Australian Tax Office but the ATO ended up dropping the case.

From Invisibilia, an episode about the Power of Categories.

Mick Jagger and David Bowie Dancing In The Street to nothing at all.

Derek was right, and John confuses the Conk with Jheri Curls.

While we’re talking about hair, here’s author and the creator of the webseries The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl answering your questions about whether you can touch that hair. (Short answer: no.)

Louie CK on white male privilege.

Our first extras show! Two short sections that didn’t make it into Episode 3 that we thought would be fun to throw out there. Derek and John will be back this Friday with a fresh hour, but in the mean time we hope you enjoy this short extra episode.

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