Gross
This podcast had all the makings of greatness but the main guy is so horrible that I had to say goodbye. I was four episodes in and tried to keep listening as an exercise in building capacity for people like him (think: “crippling insecurity, overcompensation, mansplaining, misogynistic, self-hating l, loneliest parts of Reddit type of guy”) but the last episode with the Japanese woman co-host turned me away for good. I literally puked in my mouth a little when he gave his unsolicited opinion on “pretty girls who try to bring men down with sexual assault charges” or something to that effect regarding Heard v. Depp and YouTube influencer in similar legal trouble. His insane level of tone-deafness regarding sexual assault and highlighting one highly-publicized case as evidence of “not all men” was sad but unsurprising. But that condescending tone with which he “explained things” to his Japanese woman cohost, assuming she didn’t get his inane commentary, was the final nail in the coffin for me.
TampaPierce via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 08/30/23
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As a former Kagoshima JET from the early 2000’s I was so excited to find this podcast. But host Mitch has made that an impossibility. Mitch is a Las Vegas bro dropped in southern Kyushu who seems to loathe everything about the country he now calls home. From mocking Japanese people, including his...Read full review »
frontrowkatie via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 12/16/23
Keep it up guys!!!
Nana77711 via Apple Podcasts · Japan · 09/12/19
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