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I love listening to this podcast, for the most part, and I’ve enjoyed all of Abroad in Japan’s videos over the years. Pete Donaldson, in this episode, claimed Lauryn Hill didn’t want white women to buy her records. She NEVER said that, or ANYTHING about any race. Please read Daily Beast’s “How a Racist Smear Campaign Derailed Lauryn Hill’s Career.” How disappointing that he that he didn’t bother to verify whether it was true or not.
It compromises the integrity of the podcast and made an otherwise-enjoyable episode end on an ugly, false, and thoroughly-unnecessary note.
Otherwise, I love listening to Chris and Pete’s banter and discussions on Japan.
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Used to really enjoy the podcast, as it was a fun insight into Japan, from both an internal and external perspective, but recently literally the first half of the podcast is just commercials (seven within the first ten minutes) and the promotion of Chris’s book/Youtube channel. For over ten minutes to start the podcast… it’s ridiculous to have to skip halfway into a podcast for fresh content, and then just when it’s hitting the sweet spot it is over.
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I discovered this podcast while I was going stir-crazy in Covid quarantine after a long pandemic-induced absence from Japan. Thanks guys for entertaining me and getting me ready to readjust to life back in Japan.
Thoroughly entertaining and usually informative. I gave it four instead of five stars though because I get annoyed at the details that they get wrong and because of the very English-speakers’ focus on life as expats/immigrants/tourists to Japan. With those caveats, thoroughly recommended!
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Love the podcast— I’ve been living in Japan for over five years. When my grown sons came to visit, we listened to almost all the podcasts together— laughed a lot and also learned some things !
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I’ve been listening to this podcast for years. It helped me prep for our Japan trip. However, when they just recently added the Video download, it no longer works. I always download podcasts in the morning before my commute. When I play this on my drive it doesn’t play, tells me I can only download on WiFi, then deletes the podcast. This only happens with this podcast.
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