209: On the Streets of Tokyo, Japan

Podcast But Outside

Headgum

Comedy Interviews, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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209: Konnichiwa, outsiders! We finally hopped on a plane and recorded an episode in the wonderful country of Japan. Co-hosted by comedian and friend Vinay Murthy, who has lived in Japan for 23 years! Guests include a young Japanese ramen maker looking for love, foodie brothers from Kuwait, and two pals from Canada on the trip of a lifetime (that they've done many times before). Recorded on 10/18/24 in the Shibya ward of Tokyo, Japan.

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0:00.0	This is a Headgum podcast.
0:05.0	Hello and welcome to the introduction for podcast, but outside episode 209.
0:09.1	I recorded this episode in Tokyo, Japan, in the Shibuya neighborhood with my friend
0:15.5	Vinay Murthy.
0:16.6	Vinay is a comedian in Tokyo, originally from Los Angeles.
0:21.0	He helps run an amazing comedy club called Tokyo Comedy Bar, which is in Tokyo.
0:26.0	I've performed there many times.
0:27.6	They have great shows in English and Japanese every night of the week.
0:30.9	Go check out Tokyo Comedy Bar.
0:32.9	Update.
0:34.1	There are massive, brutal fires in Los Angeles.
0:37.4	My house was without power, and the fires were quite close to it, so I've been in Santa Barbara this week.
0:42.3	My heart goes out to everyone who has lost their home, who has been forced to leave the place that they love, who lost possessions, things, people who've lost their lives.
0:52.3	I'm going to put a link in this episode
0:55.7	description on YouTube and on podcast apps for an assortment of mutual aid resources. So it's
1:03.0	basically a listing of a ton of go-fundmees for folks who lost everything in the fires. And you can
1:07.7	donate there. It really does directly help families who don't know what is next for them.
1:12.6	I'm personally fine. My house is fine so far. Everything's okay with me.
1:17.6	Cole Hirsch, he used to host his show. He did die, unfortunately, on the show.
1:21.6	But if he were alive, he's okay too. But he was living in Altadenaena and, you know, he's been very affected.
1:29.7	Apparently his place is still standing.
1:31.5	Again, he is dead in terms of this show.
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