Trash Taste () is a weekly audio and video podcast hosted by Joey Bizinger, Garnt Maneetapho, and Connor Colquhoun – three Tokyo-based content creators primarily focusing on anime and Japanese pop culture. The podcast generally discusses Japanese culture and life in Japan.
History The podcast was started in February 2020 by Kadokawa's talent agency division GeeXPlus, which was originally a subsidiary of BookWalker, who helped the two hosts (Garnt and Connor) relocate to Japan, assisting them in having more access to Japanese culture. GeeXPlus and BookWalker also promote their products on the hosts' channels. They decided to start a podcast that had already been planned for some time. The first episode of the podcast was uploaded to YouTube on 5 June 2020. Since then, new episodes have been released every Friday, with exceptions for the release of specials.
The first live show, Trash Taste After Dark, was broadcast on Twitch on 26 January 2021. This was followed on 19 February when they co-streamed the 5th Crunchyroll Anime Awards.
On 26 May 2021, the hosts moved out of the studio in which they had recorded the first fifty-four episodes, dubbed season one, and relocated to a new studio that officially kicked off season two. On 17 June 2021, the hosts were invited for a live 'podcast' event about Japan-based YouTubers by the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan; discussions ranged from living in Japan to how Trash Taste got started. Trash Taste also appeared in the Foreign Correspondent Club Japan's Number 1 Shimbun Magazine June 2021 volume.
On 19 March 2022, they hosted a 24-hour-long charity event for Doctors Without Borders on Twitch, raising $181,000 in donations.
In May–July 2022, Trash Taste podcast recordings were done outside of Japan for the first time. This included three episodes in London, eight in Los Angeles, and one Trash Taste After Dark episode at the Twitch Australia studio in Sydney (aired 17 July 2022). These episodes were released on 10 June through 9 September 2022. Also during this time, the hosts held Q&A/discussion panels and special events at MCM London Comic Con, Anime Expo, Florida Supercon, and SMASH! In October 2022, during the Trash Taste 2022 Tour, the hosts participated at the New York Comic Con and had an impromptu podcast recording in Tampa, Florida (aired 25 November 2022).
Format Discussions in the podcast are about more than just anime and delve into various topics, including otaku culture, life in Japan, and topics varying on the episode's theme. The show will occasionally have a special guest, and an entire episode will be devoted to them. Past guests included:
Akidearest Aleks Le Anthony Padilla Boy_Boy Chris Broad (eight appearances) Cold Ones Daidus (two appearances) DillonGoo Emirichu (four appearances) Ethan Nestor The Gaming Beaver Geno Samuel HasanAbi (two appearances) Hori Benny I Did a Thing Ironmouse jacksepticeye Jessica Nigri Josh Strife Hayes Kaho Shibuya (three appearances) Ken Arto Kevin Penkin (two appearances) Kson Lachlan Power Ladybeard (two appearances) LazarBeam LilyPichu Ludwig Ahgren (three appearances) Meilyne Tran (two appearances) Michael Koji Fox Michael Reeves Mori Calliope (two appearances) Mudan (two appearances) Nano Noriyaro NileRed Penguinz0 PewDiePie (two appearances) Pokimane PremierTwo (four appearances) ProZD (two appearances) Reina Scully RinRin Doll Sally Amaki (three appearances) Shindo L Shu Uchida Super Eyepatch Wolf SushiKebabGuy Sydsnap (two appearances) Sykkuno William Osman Yoshihiro Watanabe
Generally, each episode is between one and three hours long and is broken up intermittently with sponsor spots and a list of all Patreon subscribers near the end. The intro and outro title card feature the copyright-free song "Soul Searching" by Causmic.
The podcast's producer is Meilyne Tran, and Toomas Lismus (MudanTV) does the video editing.
Tours
On 23 September 2022, Trash Taste podcast embarked on its first live tour, with 23 stops in North America, beginning in Los Angeles, California, and ending on 30 October in Portland, Oregon.
Announced on the 5 May 2023 podcast, the second live tour was from 30 August to 11 September, with eight European stops, beginning in Dublin, Ireland, and ending in Cardiff, Wales. On 26 April 2024, a one-show event of the Trash Taste Tour was held in Australia. Hosted by DreamHack Melbourne, the show was held at the Rod Laver Arena.
Shows List of shows, showing date, city, country and venue Date City Country Venue2022 Tour — North America23 September 2022 Los AngelesUnited States Wilshire Ebell Theatre25 September 2022 Saint Paul Fitzgerald Theater27 September 2022 Chicago The Vic Theatre28 September 2022 Cleveland Agora Theatre30 September 2022 Royal Oak Royal Oak Music Theatre2 October 2022 Toronto Canada Queen Elizabeth Theatre4 October 2022 BostonUnited States Shubert Theatre5 October 2022 Glenside Keswick Theatre8 October 2022 New York City Palladium Times Square9 October 2022 Washington, D.C. Lincoln Theatre10 October 2022 Raleigh Meymandi Concert Hall12 October 2022 Nashville James K. Polk Theater14 October 2022 Orlando The Plaza Live16 October 2022 Dallas Majestic Theatre17 October 2022 Austin Paramount Theatre19 October 2022 Kansas City Folly Theater21 October 2022 Denver Paramount Theatre22 October 2022 Salt Lake City The Union Event Center24 October 2022 Phoenix Orpheum Theatre25 October 2022 Los Angeles Ricardo Montalbán Theatre26 October 2022 San Francisco Palace of Fine Arts29 October 2022 Seattle Moore Theatre30 October 2022 Portland Revolution Hall2023 Tour — Europe30 August 2023 Dublin Ireland The Helix2 September 2023 Copenhagen Denmark DR Koncerthuset3 September 2023 RotterdamNetherlands Oude Luxor Theater4 September 2023 Amsterdam De Meervaart5 September 2023 Stockholm Sweden Cirkus6 September 2023 Oslo Norway Folketeateret7 September 2023 Berlin Germany Urania Humboldt-Saal9 September 2023 London England Eventim Apollo11 September 2023 Cardiff Wales Cardiff University Students' Union2024 Tour — Australia26 April 2024 Melbourne Australia Rod Laver Arena
YouTube The Trash Taste podcast has four channels on YouTube. The main channel, Trash Taste, was created on 14 February 2020 and includes all podcast episodes and specials. Trash Taste After Dark (originally called Trash Taste Streams) was created on 23 August 2019 and features recorded live streams from the podcast's Twitch channel and behind-the-scenes videos. Trash Taste Highlights, established on 14 February 2020, and Trash Taste Shorts, created on 11 March 2022, both provide short clips from each podcast episode that are significant or interesting. All four channels have received a silver YouTube Play Button for surpassing 100,000 subscribers. In contrast, only the main channel has received the gold YouTube Play Button for surpassing one million subscribers, which it achieved on 17 July 2021.
Specials Typically debuting on a week in which no podcast episode is released, the specials, available exclusively on YouTube, feature the hosts of Trash Taste outside the studio.
Podcast episodes Season 1 (2020–2021)
Season 2 (2021–2022)
Season 3 (2022–present)
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