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An American expat living the life of the typical Japanese salaryman conducts soundseeing tours, introduces indy music and babbles. Primary Format : Radio Language : Unknown Also Listed as: City : Unknown State/Province : Tokyo Country : Japan Region : AS User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of Herro Flom Japan Podcasts Methings.com listings of Herro Flom Japan Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

Gayle "Obama is an Arab" Quinnel: End of story? Sorry for being so political all the time, but I'm genuinely obsessed with this election. Like, I need to check myself into a twelve-step program. If Obama wins, you'll read about me in the papers for exuberantly and singlehandedly overturning cars in Tokyo and setting them on fire. On the other hand, if McCain wins, you'll read [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Unknown arm-twister to House: "Pass the bailout bill or else" Democrat Brad Sherman of California last week said on the floor of the House of Representatives that "someone" (he won't say exactly who) threatened that if the House didn't pass the revised Wall Street bailout bill, the US could be facing martial law. Whoever threatened martial law isn't bluffing. As you may know, on October 1 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Open mic gaffe: Conservative pundits speak their minds on Palin I'm going to go out on a limb and declare this clip will become part of US Presidential election history, like that humiliating photo of Michael Dukakis driving a tank. Huffington Post has a transcript of the dialog if it's difficult to hear. My favorite quotes are Peggy Noonan saying "It's over," and, "The most [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WHAT in GOD'S NAME was McCain Thinking? Seriously, I get heart palpitations when I imagine Sarah Palin as second in line to a 73 year old president whose father and grandfather both died before age 72. She's in waaaay over her head. Three years ago she was the ceremonial figurehead for a small town in Alaska. Three years from now she could [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monkey on the loose in Shibuya Station Don't know how it got there, but it sure livened things up yesterday. Sponsored By: GD Language Programs Virtual Fair Tags: News, shibuya Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Musical Interlude His cover of the Rolling Stone's Brown Sugar is pretty good too. An excerpt from his blog: Even though I'm a ukulele player I don't own a Hawaiian shirt. It's not like anybody made a rule that if you play the ukulele you have to wear one. I never wanted one so I've never bought one. But this [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Japanese Only A link to this video showed up on BoingBoing today. In the 18 years I've lived here, the only establishment I've seen that refused foreigners and wasn't a shady pub or run-down love hotel in a neighborhood full of foreign prostitutes or massage parlor-type place was a pachinko parlor on the outskirts of my hometown. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tony & Andy’s favorite YouTube video I can still remember when Tony was a baby who only knew how to drool, eat, sleep and poop his diaper. Now he surfs the web all by himself. He even knows how to switch the keyboard to Japanese input mode and type out words in romaji. I have no idea how or when he [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Vader Sessions I think this might be the funniest video I’ve seen on YouTube. Someone lovingly remixed a few scenes from the first Star Wars movie with audio snippets from other James Earl Jones movies. A lot of work must have gone into this, and the tie fighter scenes at the end are the best part. What’s [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Happy National Hugging Day (Jan 21) By far, the best thing about having kids is the hugs. It more than makes up for the all the lights left on, the water pitchers and ice cube trays left empty, and the pee left on toilet seats. Sponsored By: GD Language Programs Virtual Fair Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dolphins create and play with bubble rings This has to be seen to be believed. I wish the clip were an hour or two longer. Dolphin Play Bubble Rings Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sofa King We Todd Did. Sofa King We Todd Did - Sponsored By: GD Language Programs Virtual Fair Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Maitri, mudita, karuna, and upeksanam The Buddhist definition of true love, which to me sounds a lot like true friendship. Maitri: Loving kindness; the ability to make someone happy. That "someone" can be: Yourself Someone you're very fond of Someone you have sympathy for (I forgot to mention that one) A neutral person An enemy; someone you perceive as the cause of your suffering Mudita: transformation of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website My Daily Commute (February 7, 2006, Part II.) Sponsored By: Global Daigaku Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Typical Morning (I'm going through all my old video tapes this weekend.) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Canned Oxygen As far as a 500 yen can of air goes, there's not a whole lot you can do with it that's interesting. But there you have it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stephen Wiltshire draws Tokyo from memory In 2005, Stephen Wiltshire, an autistic British artist, toured Tokyo by foot, bus and helicopter, then drew the entire city from memory. (Like Motoki, at age three he still wasn’t talking.) You can see the entire panorama here. I watched the YouTube video with the volume off. From the comments it sounds like the voiceover is [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tony Pwnzors Oliver Sponsored By: Jobs In Japan Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Japlish Podcast: Audio Promo Visit http://www.japlishpodcast.com Sponsored By: GD Language Programs Virtual Fair Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Verklempt in the car Tony, Andy and I are in the car in this episode talking about various stuff, including my stories about when Tony and Andy were born. I had a binaural mic clipped to each visor. You can hear my voice crack as I remembered a little too vividly how hard it was to watch my wife [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Purely Pachinko Some caveats: This is 40 minutes long. That’s how long it took for me to lose 1000 yen. Some will love it being that long, some won’t. I completly disown the part where I said, “Yeah Baby! Keep puttin’ out!” It didn’t sound as funny as I thought it would. In fact, I sound quite pathetic. I [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The lost episode that wasn’t lost It turns out I did hit the record button. My annual mohawk. It only lasts for about ten minutes. Just long enough to freak out my wife and kids. Bonus photo: Me without the goatee. I started growing it back right after I took the pic. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A podcast with the new mics Honestly, the background sound is so clear I wonder if anyone will care what I’m talking about. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Used Panty Vending Machines and other Bulls#!+ In respone to the comments to this post on Digg.com: Repeat after me: There are no used panty vending machines in Japan. The third most common vending machines after soft drinks and smokes aren’t the ones for porn. We don’t have supermarkets staffed by robots. You don’t see “many many bars and other services that have [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Used Panty Vending Machines and other Bulls#!+ In respone to the comments to this post on Digg.com: Repeat after me: There are no used panty vending machines in Japan. The third most common vending machines after soft drinks and smokes aren't the ones for porn. We don't have supermarkets staffed by robots. You don't see "many many bars and other services that have [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How I Became a Lifer For someone who hardly ever talks, I sure talked a lot tonight. I found a printout of some questions someone e-mailed me back in January. Did I already answer them? If I did, did I give the same answers this time as last time? Someone is going to mention this, so I’ll do it first. You [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How I Became a Lifer For someone who hardly ever talks, I sure talked a lot tonight. I found a printout of some questions someone e-mailed me back in January. Did I already answer them? If I did, did I give the same answers this time as last time? Someone is going to mention this, so I'll do it first. You [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sounds of Shinjuku Listen Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sounds of Shinjuku Listen Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Walk To Work: The Podcast This is the audio from the WTW video, for the video challenged members of our audience. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Last Night’s Leftovers Saved my own butt. I recorded a short one last night after finishing work but didn’t get around to uploading it. See, when I got home, the PlayStation controller jumped out of the drawer, stuck itself to my hand and wouldn’t let go. By the time it finally gave in, I was too traumatized to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Today’s Recording Ya’ll must getting tired of me ripping on my own podcasts, so I won’t. Just let me say that putting out a recording I really want to redo is downright painful. Under extreme duress, I’m limiting myself to one take. Spalding Grey used to record, listen to and critique his soliloquies over and over until [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Penalty shot I skipped yesterday, so I’m penalty kicking myself. A long time ago, shortly before I grew enough balls to start this podcast thing, I was amusing myself with a karaoke track, Audacity, and a $5 computer microphone. Tony came in and did what he does best–acted like a pest. It was just what the track needed. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Akabane soundseeing tour–sort of. I started out doing a soundseeing tour but got so enchanted with the sound of my own voice that I sort of forgot. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Smoking and other disturbing thoughts. OK, here’s what I’ve learned so far from this exercise. Before hitting the record button, I need to blow my nose so I don’t punctuate every sentence with a sniffle. When the record light goes on, my brain passes gas. Just call me Rich Pavlov, why don’cha. My inner chickenshit weasel wishes I had said “five” instead of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Little mistakes, huge consequences. Here’s episode two of our recently launched babble-a-thon. A couple of months ago I made a huge mistake at work. The worst I’ve ever made on the job. Funny thing is, it was caused by a very minor error. And I can’t elaborate. But recently, someone else in Japan made just as small of an [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New Strategy: Shittin’ ‘em Out, Part 1 of 50 Right. So I’ve come to the conclusion that the anxiety I’m feeling over podcasting isn’t going to disappear. In fact, it’s putting up quite a fight. It’s as if I’m shadow boxing and taking a severe beating. Is that the most embarassing way to lose or what?Anxiety won the last match hands down, so I’m [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Musical Interlude Show notes, photos and links later. I’m goin’ to bed.Now, I know someone out there is going to be tempted to post something negative about them because they didn’t sing and play every single note perfectly. The way I see it, they’re simply amateurs enjoying themselves–just like me.And to paraphrase the Dalia Lama: When you [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Groping Women on Trains No, it’s not a soundseeing tour. It’s me talking about the time it happened to my wife. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bedtime. This was recorded in October of 2003 on my Clie. I have tons of these. Someday when I’m old and grey I’ll listen to all of them again. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Playing with Andy Andy and I took a walk to a little park in our neighborhood. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Herro Flom Japan Podcast: A Walk Around the Neighborhood Just walkin’ and talkin’. I mention John Rosemond (expert on parenting) , undokai and Ani-Zoo. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Herro Flom Japan Podcast: Playing with Andy Andy and I took a walk to a little park in our neighborhood. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Herro Flom Japan: Soundseeing in Akasaka Warning: This episode is neither work safe nor podsafe. It will corrupt your children and jeapordize your career. And if that weren't bad enough, it'll probably hurt your eardrums too.Last night I had fish & chips with cider at an English pub in Akasaka, took a stroll, talked with a few kyakubiki (customer pullers), and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Herro Flom Japan: Soundseeing in Akasaka Warning: This episode is neither work safe nor podsafe. It will corrupt your children and jeopardize your career. And if that weren’t bad enough, it’ll probably hurt your eardrums too.Last night I had fish & chips with cider at an English pub in Akasaka, took a stroll, talked with a few kyakubiki (customer pullers), [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Herro Flom Japan: Back Behind The Wheel This will either be interesting or it will be the podcasting equivalent of sitting through a slide show of vacation photos. We’ll see. I’m still figuring this stuff out.Someone mentioned that my podcast reminded them of the weekly public radio program This American Life, so I decided to check it out. For the past two [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Herro Flom Japan: Back Behind The Wheel This will either be interesting or it will be the podcasting equivalent of sitting through a slide show of vacation photos. We'll see. I'm still figuring this stuff out.Someone mentioned that my podcast reminded them of the weekly public radio program This American Life, so I decided to check it out. For the past two [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The HairCutCast Wow, youse guys are so lucky! Two and a half podcasts flom Japan in one weekend! Oh how I envy you.There are photos in the gallery. The truth is they’ve been there for quite a while.Some of the topics of discussion I had with the woman who cut my hair:I am a podcaster. That’s why [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The HairCutCast Wow, youse guys are so lucky! Two and a half podcasts flom Japan in one weekend! Oh how I envy you.There are photos in the gallery. The truth is they've been there for quite a while.Some of the topics of discussion I had with the woman who cut my hair:I am a podcaster. That's why [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Herro Flom McDonald’s If the lack of commentary in The Frogcast made you pine for the velvety smoothness of my voice, you’re going to love this episode. It’s blabberific! ™ And every time I say “um” you have to take a drink. (Or come to think of it, maybe I should take a drink.)Show notes:My toy collection:Audio-Technica [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Herro Flom McDonald’s If the lack of commentary in The Frogcast made you pine for the velvety smoothness of my voice, you’re going to love this episode. It’s blabberific! ™ And every time I say “um” you have to take a drink. (Or come to think of it, maybe I should take a drink.)Show notes:My toy collection:Audio-Technica [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Herro Flom McDonald’s If the lack of commentary in The Frogcast made you pine for the velvety smoothness of my voice, you're going to love this episode. It's blabberific! (TM) And every time I say "um" you have to take a drink. (Or come to think of it, maybe I should take a drink.)Show notes:My toy collection:Audio-Technica [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Herro Flom McDonald’s If the lack of commentary in The Frogcast made you pine for the velvety smoothness of my voice, you're going to love this episode. It's blabberific! (TM) And every time I say "um" you have to take a drink. (Or come to think of it, maybe I should take a drink.)Show notes:My toy collection:Audio-Technica [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Frogcast Pretty self-explanatory, this one. Last night I attached my earbud microphones to my glasses with rubber bands to minimize the "cranial backwash," walked outside to the rice paddy next to our house, sat there quietly for about 10 minutes or so then went back inside.I recommend listening to it with headphones on--your best pair--and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Frogcast Pretty self-explanatory, this one. Last night I attached my earbud microphones to my glasses with rubber bands to minimize the “cranial backwash,” walked outside to the rice paddy next to our house, sat there quietly for about 10 minutes or so then went back inside.I recommend listening to it with headphones on–your best pair–and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rambin’ In Akihabara Bah. I didn't realize I recorded in mono until I got home. Sorry for all the wind noise. Need to do something about that. I should try to make shorter podcasts from now on.Show notes:Photos I took during the podcastPhotos of Akihabara on flickr.comLaox home page. Pretty typical-looking site for an electronics store in Japan. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rambin’ In Akihabara Bah. I didn’t realize I recorded in mono until I got home. Sorry for all the wind noise. Need to do something about that. I should try to make shorter podcasts from now on.Show notes:Photos I took during the podcastPhotos of Akihabara on flickr.comLaox home page. Pretty typical-looking site for an electronics store in Japan. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The “For Chrissake Just Get Something Out There Already” Podcast Ah...like...sorry. It'll be better next time.Show Notes:Masagoro's WebsiteTake 7The Godcast Network: Behind the ScenesThe Sound Professionals: binaural microphonesPictures of the stuff in my rig for binaural recording.Digital Flotsam PodcastBoingBoing blog Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The “For Chrissake Just Get Something Out There Already” Podcast Ah…like…sorry. It’ll be better next time.Show Notes:Masagoro’s WebsiteTake 7The Godcast Network: Behind the ScenesThe Sound Professionals: binaural microphonesPictures of the stuff in my rig for binaural recording.Digital Flotsam PodcastBoingBoing blog Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Being Rich Pavovitch Hitch a ride inside my head while I roam the streets of Kabukicho in search of...well, audio. My favorite part is when I buy a bottle of green tea from a vending machine and you can hear the sound of me drinking it as if you were there inside my head. The hawkers who try [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Being Rich Pavovitch Hitch a ride inside my head while I roam the streets of Kabukicho in search of…well, audio. My favorite part is when I buy a bottle of green tea from a vending machine and you can hear the sound of me drinking it as if you were there inside my head. The hawkers who try [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wooooooo Hooooooo! My first podcast! What an ordeal it is to put one of these things together, but the most fun I've had by myself in a long time. Guzzling red wine probably helped.Intro: Guano ApesSee the photo gallery! If there's nothing there, I fell asleep before I got a chance to upload photos. Check back later. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wooooooo Hooooooo! My first podcast! What an ordeal it is to put one of these things together, but the most fun I’ve had by myself in a long time. Guzzlingred wine probably helped.Intro: Guano ApesSee the photo gallery! If there’s nothing there, I fell asleep before I got a chance to upload photos. Check back later. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website