''Trash Taste'' ( ja, トラッシュ・テイスト) is a weekly audio and video

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hosted by Joey Bizinger, Garnt Maneetapho, and Connor Colquhoun – three

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-based content creators primarily focusing on

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and

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. The podcast generally discusses

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and life in Japan.

History

The podcast was started in February 2020 by

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, a subsidiary of

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, who helped the three hosts to relocate to Japan to help them have more access to Japanese culture and to promote their products on their channel. Since the three were brought over in Japan, they decided to start a podcast that was already planned on the back of their minds for some time. The first episode of the podcast was uploaded to

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on 5 June 2020. Since then, new episodes have been released every Friday, with exception when YouTube-exclusive specials were released instead. On 26 January 2021, the first live show called ''Trash Taste After Dark'' was broadcast on

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. This was followed-up 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

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; discussions range 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

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on Twitch, raising a total of $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

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, eight episodes in

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, 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

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, and SMASH! In October 2022, during the Trash Taste 2022 Tour, the hosts participated at the

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and had an impromptu podcast recording in

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(aired 25 November 2022).

Format

Discussions in the podcast are about more than just anime, and delve into various topics, including

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culture, life in Japan, and topics varying on the episode's theme. The show will occasionally have a special guest that will have an entire episode devoted to. Past guests included: *

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* Chris Broad (five appearances) * Daidus * Emirichu * Geno Samuel *

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* Jessica Nigri * Kaho Shibuya *

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* Kson *

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* Meilyne Tran (two appearances) *

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* Mori Calliope (two appearances) * Ken Arto * Nano * Noriyaro * NileRed * Penguinz0 *

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* Shindo L * Shu Uchida * Sydsnap *

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Generally, each episode is between one and three hours long, and is broken up intermittently with sponsor spots and a list of all

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subscribers near the end. The intro and outro

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both feature the copyright-free song "Soul Searching" by Causmic. The podcast's producer is Meilyne Tran, with

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by Tomas Liismus (MudanTV).

Tour

On 23 September 2022, ''Trash Taste'' podcast embarked on its first live tour with a total of 23 stops in the following cities: Los Angeles, St. Paul, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Toronto, Boston, Philadelphia, New York City, Washington D.C., Raleigh, Nashville, Orlando, Dallas, Austin, Kansas City, Denver, Salt Lake City, Phoenix, San Francisco, Seattle, with their last show being in Portland on 30 October.

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 the recorded livestreams from the podcast's Twitch channel and behind the scenes videos. Trash Taste Highlights, created 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

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for surpassing 100,000 subscribers; while 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 episode of the podcast 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)

Reception

General public reception have been mostly positive, with several podcast review sites giving five-star ratings, or rank high in various categories, including

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and Podbay.fm.

References

External links

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