Pure TokyoScope PODCAST #84: Fear & Pinball in the HUB British Pub!
Patrick Macias and Matt Alt bring you pop culture from Japan!
In the latest 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) bum rush a pinball arcade and waste time at the notorious drinking establishment in Japan known as… THE HUB!
SHOW NOTES!
Welcome to the Hub! Official Recruitment Video
Mikado Pinball Game Center (Takadanobaba, Tokyo)
Brenda Bakke in Gunhed (1988)
Rosemary Butler sings “Children of the Light” from the anime film Harmageddon (1983)
Shogun the Musical (1990)
Patrick Gets a Text From Domino's Pizza
Polly-O String Cheese Commercial (aka A Pizza With Nothin’)
Tony’s Pizza in Kichijoji, Tokyo
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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