Pure TokyoScope Podcast 100: Live from Shakey's! The History of Pizza in Japan!
Patrick Macias and Matt Alt bring you pop culture from Japan!
For the landmark 100th episode of the PURE TOKYOSCOPE Podcast, authors Matt Alt (Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World) and Patrick Macias (Mondo Tokyo: Dispatches from a Secret Japan) throw a buckwild pizza party at a Shakey's in Kichijoji, Tokyo and reveal the secret history of Pizza in Japan! Mama Mia, that's a spicy podcast!
Show Notes!
The Food!
The Folks!
The Fun!
Let’s Sing Shakey’s 45” RPM record
Kirin Beer x Shakey’s Promotion
Japanese Shakey’s Employee, 1984
Shakey’s Machida, Japan 1985
Sherwood ‘Shakey’ Johnson (L) and Employee (R)
Three Awesome Shakey’s Commercials
Who’s Got the Button?
Wonder Woman Lynda Carter Has Good Taste
What is the PURE TOKYOSCOPE Podcast? Well… Author and fellow Substack writer Matt Alt and I have been recording together for over a year now.
Our show is a mix of Japanese pop culture news and features and some of our best episodes to date have been:
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So, Matt, what you were saying is, I doesn’t has to call you Johnson? I heard what you did there. 😁
So I am not a pizza guy. Some have claimed that makes me unAmerican. Fie I say, and shake my fist in reply! But I am not Shakey. Knowing what I know of Japan, I have no doubt that the cooks and prep guys all had to wear that gear, foam floater hat, handlebar moustach and all, every single day.
It’s funny how the deco looks so much like ‘90s tgiFridays.
Hey, is Anna Millers (do I have that right?) still a thing? You need a vid cast from one of their locations. Hopefully filled with sukebans and banchos. 👍