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Japan By River Cruise

Japan By River Cruise

78 episodes

Stand-up comedians Bobby Judo and Ollie Horn purport to report on the Japanese river cruise industry each week.

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Ollie is in Tokyo and Fukuoka (and Hong Kong and KL and Brighton and London and Edinburgh...)

Published: April 30, 2023, 7:33 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 36 seconds

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Fancy a Cheeky Valentine's Show? (live show announcement)

Published: Feb. 2, 2023, 8:56 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 2 seconds

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The official round-up of 2022 (every single news story) [Part 1: January~June]

Published: Dec. 22, 2022, 4:11 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes 12 seconds

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Why was Shinzo Abe killed? (w/Jake Adelstein)

Published: Nov. 2, 2022, 12:26 a.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 54 seconds

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Tokyo, City of Dreams/Permissive Zoning Policy (w/Joe McReynolds)

Published: July 9, 2022, 11 p.m.
Duration: 59 minutes 13 seconds

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Biden Time! (w/Michelle Ye Hee Lee)

Published: May 31, 2022, 2:55 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 42 seconds

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Marching into April/Japanese Castles (w/Oleg Benesch)

Published: April 7, 2022, 11 p.m.
Duration: 58 minutes 21 seconds

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Quick update - we're coming back!

Published: March 10, 2022, 1:22 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 8 seconds

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Imagining a Militarized Japan and then Laughing (w/Tom Phuong Le)

Published: Jan. 27, 2022, 11 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 25 seconds

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Locked Out of our $500 Abandoned House (w/Alex Kerr)

Published: Jan. 20, 2022, 11:34 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 10 seconds

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JBRC HOLIDAY SPECIAL 2021, YAY!

Published: Dec. 23, 2021, 11:10 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes 14 seconds

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Married to Our Research (w/Joy Hendry)

Published: Dec. 17, 2021, 11:25 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 33 seconds

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Fumio, Fumio, Whatfore art thou, Fumio? (w/Tobias Harris)

Published: Dec. 9, 2021, 11 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 14 seconds

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Kat(akana) Got Your Tongue? (w/Dr. Wes Robertson)

Published: Dec. 2, 2021, 11 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 39 seconds

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All in the Same Boat, But We're in Steerage (w/Thalia Harris)

Published: Nov. 26, 2021, 2:27 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 3 seconds

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Need a Leader? Try Kishida! (w/Motoko Rich)

Published: Nov. 19, 2021, 1 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 54 seconds

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The Runaway Bride (w/Aya Shimada)

Published: Nov. 5, 2021, 12:30 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 53 seconds

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Burakku Purin: The UK-Japan Trade Deal (w/Pernille Rudlin)

Published: Oct. 29, 2021, 12:33 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 45 seconds

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Bonus Extras from E83 (w/Chelsea Schieder)! (No episode this week)

Published: Oct. 21, 2021, midnight
Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 2 seconds

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The Hair Police (w/Anne Crescini)

Published: Oct. 15, 2021, 2 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 36 seconds

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How Many Nobel Prizes Does it Take to Make You Japanese? (w/Mary Kobayashi)

Published: Oct. 8, 2021, 12:56 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 56 seconds

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The Secret Ingredient is Entitlement (w/Marc Matsumoto)

Published: Oct. 1, 2021, 1 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 25 seconds

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Japan's Ready-For-Prime-Time Players (w/Derek Wessman)

Published: Sept. 23, 2021, 11 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 1 second

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A Delhi-cate Predicament (w/Dr. Megha Wadhwa)

Published: Sept. 17, 2021, 4 a.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 6 seconds

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World Suicide Prevention Day (w/TELL outreach director Selena Hoy)

Published: Sept. 9, 2021, 11 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 46 seconds

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The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (w/Hiromu Nagahara)

Published: Sept. 3, 2021, 1:01 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 16 seconds

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The Big 97: Sometimes We Like Japan (w/Brian)

Published: Aug. 27, 2021, 1:24 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 31 seconds

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Land of the Rising Floodwaters (w/ Dr. Wesley Cheek)

Published: Aug. 20, 2021, 2 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 33 seconds

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Paralimited Access (w/Mark Bookman)

Published: Aug. 16, 2021, 2:49 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 9 seconds

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Vax Passports: Valid in Participating Locations ONLY (w/Magdalena Osumi)

Published: Aug. 5, 2021, 11 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 17 seconds

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Stairy Stories (w/Lindsay Nelson)

Published: July 30, 2021, 12:41 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 41 seconds

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Bursting the Press Bubble (w/Oscar Boyd)

Published: July 23, 2021, 12:54 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 50 seconds

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The Spectatorless, Segregated, Chinese Olympics (w/Meshida)

Published: July 15, 2021, 11 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 43 seconds

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"Sustainable Japan Comedy," or "Recycling Content" (w/Dogen)

Published: July 2, 2021, midnight
Duration: 29 minutes 20 seconds

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Summer Sonic Lineup Lines Up for a Visa (w/Unseen Japan's Noah Oskow)

Published: June 25, 2021, 6:47 a.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 28 seconds

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Japan in the Golden Age of Consent (w/Dr. Alexandra Hambleton)

Published: June 17, 2021, 11 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 50 seconds

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A Japan Less Traveled (w/Alisha Ivelich)

Published: June 11, 2021, 12:01 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 5 seconds

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Localized Pain (w/translator Sarah Moon)

Published: June 4, 2021, 1:30 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 25 seconds

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Bonus: No More Olympic Cutbacks! (w/Rochelle Kopp)

Published: May 29, 2021, 12:58 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes

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Japan's Gay Ideal: Macho Matcha Man? (w/Dr. Thomas Baudinette)

Published: May 27, 2021, 11:34 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 15 seconds

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Five Rings That Rule Us All (w/Matt Alt)

Published: May 20, 2021, 11 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 45 seconds

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Comfort Women: Why Deny? (w/Chelsea Szendi Schieder)

Published: May 13, 2021, 11 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 26 seconds

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What is Visual Kei? (w/Sarahphina)

Published: May 7, 2021, 4 a.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 25 seconds

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Games Japan ACTUALLY Wants (w/Stephen Case)

Published: April 30, 2021, 1 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 26 seconds

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Hiroshima's First Annual PCR-Palooza (w/JJ Walsh)

Published: April 16, 2021, 11:38 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 26 seconds

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The Children are the Mirai (w/Jason Mitchell from Nihongodomo)

Published: April 9, 2021, 7:25 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 43 seconds

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Japan Stories: More Wack, Less Fact? (w/David A McNeill)

Published: April 2, 2021, 2:30 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 48 seconds

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Olympick Your Battles (with Rochelle Kopp)

Published: March 26, 2021, 2:23 a.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 43 seconds

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Late Night Snacks (the Japanese kind) (w/Alice)

Published: March 19, 2021, 12:20 a.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 56 seconds

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Go Virtually Everywhere in Japan (w/Nick Szasz)

Published: March 12, 2021, midnight
Duration: 31 minutes 8 seconds

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Yen-der Inequality (w/Marika Katanuma)

Published: March 5, 2021, 12:13 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 22 seconds

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Cosplay for Pay (w/Kat "Mystik" Gunn, Reika)

Published: Feb. 25, 2021, 11 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 47 seconds

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You Can't Fire Me! (w/lawyer Atsuro Tsujino)

Published: Feb. 18, 2021, 11 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 51 seconds

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Coal, Mori, and Other Fossils (w/Stephen Stapczynski)

Published: Feb. 12, 2021, midnight
Duration: 28 minutes 56 seconds

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Woke Dad Japan (w/Daniel Yoder)

Published: Feb. 4, 2021, 11 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 44 seconds

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Japan's Vaccination Vacillation (w/Lisa Du, Brian)

Published: Jan. 28, 2021, 11 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 3 seconds

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I Think I'm Learning Japanese (w/Loretta Scott AKA KemushiChan)

Published: Jan. 21, 2021, 11 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 52 seconds

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A State of Emergency for Suga's Approval Numbers (w/Jake Adelstein)

Published: Jan. 15, 2021, 12:17 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 49 seconds

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Get Your 2021 Japan Visas Here! (w/Ann Kilzer)

Published: Jan. 8, 2021, 2:51 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 53 seconds

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Oh Come All Ye Faithful Brians (w/livestream Brians)

Published: Dec. 24, 2020, 10:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 25 seconds

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Famous(?) Foreign(?) Faces (w/Black Samurai)

Published: Dec. 18, 2020, 2 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 30 seconds

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Nike Wins the Race... Debate (w/Baye McNeil)

Published: Dec. 11, 2020, midnight
Duration: 29 minutes 15 seconds

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Tariff-ic News for Japan (w/Katsuhiko Hara)

Published: Dec. 4, 2020, 12:30 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 38 seconds

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Desperation is the Mother of Unnecessary Invention (w/Rochelle Kopp)

Published: Nov. 27, 2020, midnight
Duration: 28 minutes 31 seconds

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VERY CROSS Cultural Communication (w/Tutti Quintella)

Published: Nov. 20, 2020, midnight
Duration: 30 minutes 21 seconds

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Why Japan Voted Trump (w/Saku Yanagawa)

Published: Nov. 13, 2020, midnight
Duration: 29 minutes 11 seconds

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Demon-strably Profitable (w/Matt Schley)

Published: Nov. 6, 2020, 1:01 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 31 seconds

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Wasei-Eigo Wide Show (w/Anne Crescini)

Published: Oct. 30, 2020, 12:09 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 16 seconds

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Bullshido (w/Oleg Benesch)

Published: Oct. 23, 2020, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 53 seconds

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A List of Women (w/Yan Fan)

Published: Oct. 16, 2020, midnight
Duration: 29 minutes 56 seconds

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Best bits of Season 2

Published: Oct. 15, 2020, 11 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 18 seconds

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The Worst Ways to Visit Japan (w/ JJ Walsh)

Published: Oct. 9, 2020, 1:18 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 18 seconds

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Let's War! (w/Jesse Johnson)

Published: Oct. 2, 2020, 2:14 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 1 second

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That's What Yasashii Said (w/Ako Suzuki)

Published: Sept. 25, 2020, midnight
Duration: 29 minutes 8 seconds

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Super Suga Special! (w/Jake Adelstein and Derek Wessman)

Published: Sept. 18, 2020, midnight
Duration: 56 minutes 50 seconds

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Don't be a Bad Influencer (w/CurrentlyHannah)

Published: Sept. 4, 2020, midnight
Duration: 29 minutes 54 seconds

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Stay Home, Japan, You're Drunk! (w/ Matthew Boynton)

Published: Aug. 28, 2020, midnight
Duration: 28 minutes 48 seconds

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Feeling hot, hot, hot! (w/Oscar Boyd)

Published: Aug. 21, 2020, 1 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 48 seconds

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Sour Korean Grapes and Idol Chatter (w/Amina Dujean)

Published: Aug. 14, 2020, midnight
Duration: 30 minutes 5 seconds

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Has-Been Hamster Turns to Politics (w/Matt Alt)

Published: Aug. 7, 2020, midnight
Duration: 30 minutes 3 seconds

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Government-Subsidized Infection (w/Phoebe Amoroso)

Published: July 31, 2020, midnight
Duration: 29 minutes 8 seconds

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You (Legally) Can't Go Home Again(w/Rochelle Kopp)

Published: July 24, 2020, 4:47 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 5 seconds

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The Happiest Place to Die (w/Yumi Nagashima)

Published: July 17, 2020, midnight
Duration: 30 minutes 53 seconds

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When It Rains, It Pours (w/Angela Ortiz)

Published: July 10, 2020, midnight
Duration: 30 minutes 24 seconds

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Not Clear For Re-entry (w/Magdalena Osumi)

Published: July 3, 2020, midnight
Duration: 30 minutes 56 seconds

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Bad News For People Who Want to Mainline Alcohol (w/Brian Ashcraft)

Published: June 25, 2020, 11 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 38 seconds

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In a way, NHK SUCCEEDS in Explaining Racism (w/Baye McNeil)

Published: June 18, 2020, 11 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 17 seconds

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The Wizarding World of Disaster Prevention (w/Greg Lane)

Published: June 12, 2020, 1 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 21 seconds

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Social Activism and Decoy Panties (w/Phil Wang)

Published: June 4, 2020, 11 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes

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Small Foreign Paper takes on the Olympics; Loses (w/Jake Adelstein)

Published: May 28, 2020, 11 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 22 seconds

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JAPLANDEMIC: Japan Covid Theories (w/Rochelle Kopp)

Published: May 21, 2020, 11 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 47 seconds

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Sexy Cartoon Fish Talk (w/ Lisa Wallen)

Published: May 15, 2020, midnight
Duration: 28 minutes 34 seconds

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The Golden Week That Never Was (w/Andy Curtain)

Published: May 8, 2020, midnight
Duration: 28 minutes 43 seconds

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Best of Pandemic Profiteering

Published: May 1, 2020, midnight
Duration: 30 minutes 27 seconds

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Give Me Pachinko AND Give Me Death! (w/Ayana Wyse)

Published: April 24, 2020, midnight
Duration: 28 minutes 35 seconds

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Hostess Clubs Are Now Online, But So is Abe (w/Micaela Braithwaite)

Published: April 17, 2020, midnight
Duration: 29 minutes 37 seconds

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Lockdown, Telework, and Other Things Japan Can't Do (w/Rochelle Kopp)

Published: April 10, 2020, midnight
Duration: 28 minutes 14 seconds

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Japan Loses a Comedy Icon to Covid-19 (not Ollie), Plus Embarrassing Places to get Infected (w/Derek Wessman)

Published: April 3, 2020, midnight
Duration: 29 minutes 47 seconds

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Bobby Gets Tested for Covid-19 (like, actually); Olympics Gets Postponed

Published: March 27, 2020, 1 a.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 48 seconds

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Holding Petty Grudges, Buying All the Tickets, and Other Big Ego Problems

Published: March 20, 2020, 1 a.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 25 seconds

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Support Your Local Chinese Restaurant, and Stop All that Ass Blasting

Published: March 13, 2020, 1 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 58 seconds

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This Episode Has Been Canceled

Published: March 6, 2020, 1 a.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 9 seconds

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Inkan't believe Japan still uses stamps to transfer money to river cruise operators

Published: Feb. 28, 2020, 1 a.m.
Duration: 32 minutes

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If You Board the River Cruise, You Will be Expected to Finish the River Cruise

Published: Feb. 21, 2020, noon
Duration: 30 minutes 47 seconds

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Still Mad at the Listener who Asked about KOREAN OCEAN CRUISES (w/Sophie Hardison)

Published: Feb. 14, 2020, 1 a.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 45 seconds

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Ainu This Was Gonna Be a Terrible Pun.

Published: Feb. 7, 2020, 1 a.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 15 seconds

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Season 2 Hits the Water

Published: Jan. 31, 2020, noon
Duration: 56 minutes 2 seconds

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Sadly, Sawajiri Erika's Guest Appearance has been Canceled. We're Not Sure Why.

Published: Nov. 21, 2019, 3 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 54 seconds

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River Cruise Employees Will No Longer Be Required to Wear Wet T-shirts at Work (w/JJ Wakrat)

Published: Nov. 14, 2019, 3 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 47 seconds

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Rivers are Ever Changing, Radiation Levels are Not

Published: Nov. 7, 2019, 3 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 25 seconds

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The Promotional Material for the River Cruise Orgy MAY HAVE BEEN Slightly Inappropriate

Published: Oct. 25, 2019, 1 a.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 22 seconds

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Friends with Benefits, where "benefits" means discounted River Cruise Tickets (w/Matt Davies)

Published: Oct. 25, 2019, 1 a.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 32 seconds

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The Only Hazing on This River Cruise is Due to Inclement Weather (no refunds)

Published: Oct. 17, 2019, 3 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 16 seconds

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Sadly, The Potentially Deadly Typhoon May Delay your Japanese River Cruise

Published: Oct. 10, 2019, 3 p.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 55 seconds

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Fix that River Cruise Sunburn with JBRC Brand Bleach!

Published: Oct. 4, 2019, 1 a.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 40 seconds

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Tax Exemptions for Brians (w/a Brian)

Published: Sept. 27, 2019, 1 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 59 seconds

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All Non-Tokyo River Cruises are Garbage. Here's the order in which they are garbage.

Published: Sept. 21, 2019, 1 a.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 29 seconds

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You know, River Cruises are pretty much Guaranteed to be Road-Rage-Free

Published: Sept. 13, 2019, 1 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 23 seconds

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Abe to Trump: "Don't Dishonor our River Cruises."

Published: Sept. 6, 2019, 3 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 30 seconds

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Beat the Heat (before you die) on a Japanese River Cruise!

Published: Aug. 9, 2019, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 47 seconds

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Aziz Ansari's Apology Tour Didn't Include Even One Single River Cruise

Published: Aug. 2, 2019, 5 a.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 40 seconds

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It's like the Olympics of River Cruises, Except without the River Cruises... So Just the Olympics

Published: July 26, 2019, 7 a.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 22 seconds

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Brought to you by Kim Kardashian's "River Cruise" (Trademark Pending)

Published: July 19, 2019, 5 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 17 seconds

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So, 11 Japanese comedians, a mob boss, and a navy rapist walk onto a River Cruise...

Published: July 12, 2019, 7 a.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 22 seconds

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Is there a Doctor on the River Cruise?(No, Not You, Ma'am)

Published: July 5, 2019, 7 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 53 seconds

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The First Ever Japan By River Cruise!

Published: June 28, 2019, 7 a.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 54 seconds

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