Ep.33 How global chaos affects your hobbies

About this episode

The episode discusses the impact of global chaos on personal hobbies and related topics in the Jrock scene.

It’s no secret that the world is in quite a sorry state, since we are recovering from an otherwise unprecedented shutdown. There are a multitude of global issues here to make things worse. The real question, though, is how is this impacting your hobbies? Details of all our main stories: https://jrocknews.com/?p=147367 Intro music by うたたP(@tkomine) Chapters: 00:00 Intro 01:04 How global chaos affects our hobbies 06:05 Do you know how much vegetable cost?! (tangent) 08:46 Jrock tour merch 15:24 Visa fees affecting Japanese band tours 28:04 Kaoru's (DIR EN GREY) hobbies also affected 29:57 Travel cost skyrocketing, and overseas tours 36:33 How we can "solve" this with technology 38:46 Someone throwing a shoe at SiM's concert 40:35 The irony of being a fan in Japan; concerts in Japan 50:30 Summarizing the situation

Topics covered

• global chaos
• hobbies
• Jrock tour merch
• visa fees
• travel costs
• technology solutions
• concert experiences

Keywords

• shutdown
• vegetable costs
• DIR EN GREY
• SiM
• concerts in Japan

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Japan

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