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That's So Fcked Up

Jarring Japan- Ep. 2: The 2011 Tsunami and Fukushima Disaster

That's So Fcked Up

Ashley Love Richards

Comedy, True Crime, Society & Culture

4.5 • 541 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

This week, Ash is joined by hosts of Live, Laugh, Larceny, Amanda and Trevin!

The trio discuss the 2011 tsunami in Japan. It was the second most destructive tsunami of the 21st century, leaving 18,000 people dead or missing. It also caused the infamous disaster at the Fukushima power plant.


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0:00.0

At 415 around there, the Fukushima power plant was hit by a 50-foot wave.

0:10.0

That is super bad news bears.

0:13.0

That's so fucked up presents.

0:17.0

That so fuggled up presents. That soed up presents That's So F fucked Up Presents

0:22.6

That's So Fooked Up Presents is a spinoffered up, a podcast of That's So Fooked Up Presents, jarring Japan. That's So Fooked Up is a spin-off series of That's So Fooked Up, a podcast about cults, murder, and other generally fucked-up stuff.

0:44.3

In That So Fooked Up Presents, each season is like a mini series where we dive into a particular topic over the course of a month.

0:51.4

This season, we're talking about some of Japan's most interesting cultural aspects.

0:56.9

I'm your host, Ashley Richards, and this is Jarring Japan.

1:00.9

Today, I'm very excited to be joined by two amazing hosts of Live Laugh Larsonie.

1:09.8

Well, the, the amazing host, as far as I know you guys don't

1:13.6

have any more, Trevin and Amanda. So, yeah, tell the people like what you're about.

1:20.2

Okay, well, Trevin and I, we've been friends for quite some time now. Gosh, I don't even know.

1:27.4

Has it been like seven years, Trevin?

1:29.0

Yeah, seven is about right.

1:30.2

We wanted to do a podcast together, but we wanted to kind of take a unique spin on the traditional

1:38.6

true crime comedy shows.

1:41.1

So instead of talking about heavy subject matter, we wanted to spin that around and dive

1:49.1

into petty crimes and tell them in a more dramatic tone. I was more of true crime. Trevin was more

1:57.4

into comedy. And then Trevin, do you want to tell them all about like your, your music and sound effects and everything? Sure. So basically, I was always just trying to think of, like, how to make a different kind of comedy show. So I thought it's really funny to hear those true crime podcasts that kind of take themselves a little too seriously, the really cheesy, like, investigative discovery documentaries series.

2:18.9

And I thought, okay, a lot of them will have, like, those really cheesy reenactments and the goofy effects,

2:23.3

and they're always so overly dramatic.

2:25.3

So I thought, I want to tell these funny, petty crimes, petty headlines in a dramatic tone like that.

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