HeyJaredDeep in Japan
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Japanese Rebels with David McNeill and Stephen McClure (opens the original)
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Japan is often described as a place where the nail that sticks up gets hammered down—but what about the nails that refuse to stay down? In this episode, we speak with scholars and journalists David McNeill and Stephen McClure about their new book, Japanese Rebels: Non-conformists in a Conformist Society , which profiles a number of figures who challenged the prevailing orthodoxies of Japanese politics, religion, art, entertainment, journalism, and social life. The conversation explores openly ga
Happy Hour #94: BLACK MIST (opens the original)
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This is Happy Hour #94: BLACK MIST The episode opens with Jeff accusing Trevor/Trey of being twelve minutes late, Trevor insisting it was two, and both immediately blaming suspicious waveforms and future audio problems on the other (American punctuality, sanding-induced camera refusal, and early concern about 音質); Jeff congratulates Trey on intermittently reaching ketosis, then reframes keto failure as experimentation rather than shame—recover from a bad meal, identify the breaking point, and re
NAGASAKI: The Last Witnesses (opens the original)
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Historian M. G. Sheftall returns to discuss Nagasaki: The Last Witnesses , the second volume of his Embers series documenting the atomic bombings through military history and the testimony of the hibakusha who survived them. The conversation places Nagasaki within the wider escalation of the Pacific War—from precision bombing to incendiary attacks on cities—and reconstructs the troubled mission that carried the atomic bomb from its original target, Kokura, to Nagasaki. Sheftall recounts the mech
HIROSHIMA: The Last Witnesses (opens the original)
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On August 6, 1945, at 8:15 in the morning, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Tens of thousands of people were killed almost immediately, and an estimated 140,000 were dead by the end of the year. For the survivors—the hibakusha—the physical, psychological, and social consequences continued for decades. Eighty-one years later, we remember Hiroshima through a conversation with historian and author M.G. Sheftall about his extraordinary book, Hiroshima: The Last Witnesses . Draw
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