Best Charles Jameson Podcasts (2025)

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What Is Dreambook & The History Of Chronicle Creations | The Chronicle Podcast Ep.1 1:05:40

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Welcome to The Chronicle. A little over two years ago, I founded Chronicle Creations. Since then, we've defined our flagship product and assembled an incredibly talented team to bring it to life. That product is Dreambook — a story creation app that harnesses the power of generative AI to help children imagine, create, and explore their own narrati…

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Being & Nothingness, Part 2 2:17:11

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In Part 2, we wrap up our consideration of Jean-Paul Sartre's midcentury magnum opus by exploring how we move from the inaccessible interiority of consciousness to our concrete relations with others. The latter half of Being & Nothingness takes up the question of what aspects of our being are revealed to us in confrontation with the Other. Sartre f…

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Nota Bene: The Metaphysics and Moral Vision of David Lynch with Jon Repetti 2:43:40

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Note Bene is a series of off the cuff episodes that delve more into our personal experiences with broader topics with relevance to normativity and the ethical life. In this episode, Charles is joined by the writer and critic, Jon Repetti, to reflect on the art and philosophy of the late American avant-garde filmmaker, David Lynch. While touching up…

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Contemporary Conversations: Matt McManus on The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism 1:25:21

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Matt McManus joins us to help excavate the common origins of liberalism and socialism within the revolutionary republican tradition and illuminate shared political and normative principles rooted in a commitment to egalitarianism and expressive individualism. His new work, The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism. functions as an survey of key fig…

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Contemporary Conversations: Ryan Ruby on Fredric Jameson's The Political Unconscious and Context Collapse 2:01:26

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In a far-reaching conversation with the critic Ryan Ruby, we unpack the legacy and impact of Fredric Jameson's landmark work of Marxist literary criticism, The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act. Jameson's text argues for the explanatory richness and coherency of a Marxist hermeutical approach to interpreting the social fun…

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Being & Nothingness, Part 1 1:41:03

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In Part 1, we explicate Jean-Paul Sartre's attempt to build a total existential system hinges on an unusual account of the evanescent character of consciousness at the heart of the meaning of existence. In this episode, we cover the first half of Sartre's monumental work, Being and Nothingness, explaining core concepts derived from his philosophica…

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Repetition 1:33:35

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Repetititon(1843) is a difficult and, for many, a baffling work by Søren Kierkegaard. It is equal parts psychological study, literary riddle, and philosophical problematic. In this discussion, we attempt to shed light on its central concept of repetition, how its interior dialectic differs from the Hegelian concept of mediation, and what the possib…

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Contemporary Conversations: Vanessa Christina Wills on Marx's Ethical Vision 1:59:22

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In this lively interview with philosopher Vanessa Wills, we discuss her recently published book, Marx's Ethical Vision, which argues that Marx's historical materialism contains a coherent and consistent moral picture of social transformation grounded in a view of human nature and the conditions of human flourishing. Contra the amoralist reading of …

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Fear and Trembling 1:44:44

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This episode inaugurates a series of episodes exploring the existentialist approach to modern philosophy by considering the most well-known work of the melancholic, Danish philosopher, Søren Kierkegaard. Fear and Trembling: A Dialectical Lyric is a genre-bending blend of aesthetic criticism, biblical exegesis, and critical ethics. It is perhaps the…

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Dialectic of Enlightenment, Part 3: The Culture Industry 1:44:07

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To complete our series on Dialectic of Enlightenment, we take an extended look at the famous chapter on the culture industry. The function of the culture industry, or the sphere of production concerned with creating entertainment and art is to inure and train consumers to acquiesce to the dominant ideology expressed through its culture products. Th…

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Dialectic of Enlightenment, Part 2 1:29:07

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In this multi-part series, we examine the legacy of critical theory and the prospects of a recuperation of Marxist theory in the face of rising fascism by delving into the dense and fragmentary landmark text of the Frankfurt School, Dialectic of Enlightenment. In Part 2, we focus on the final completed fragment, "Elements of Anti-Semitism: The Limi…

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Dialectic of Enlightenment, Part 1 1:15:48

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In this multi-part series, we examine the legacy of critical theory and the prospects of a recuperation of Marxist theory in the face of rising fascism by delving into the dense and fragmentary landmark text of the Frankfurt School, Dialectic of Enlightenment. In Part 1, we discuss the meaning of Enlightenment as the advancement of thought and ask …

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Vocation Lectures 1:23:04

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This episode discusses the German sociologist Max Weber's Vocation Lectures. In these lectures, Weber outlines a secular conception of the meaning of a vocation, the role of passion in politics and scholarship, and the kind of ethically responsibility that confronts us given the unavoidably violent nature of modern politics. Weber characterises mod…

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Shame & Necessity 1:15:53

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In Shame and Necessity, Bernard Williams interrogates what we can still glean about the universal character of human action and the notion of responsibility from a study of the Ancient Greeks. William provides a philosophical interpretation of the historical circumstances of the Greek understanding, expressed in the tragedies, of agency, responsibi…

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Sources of Normativity 1:14:50

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This episode turns to Christine Korsgaard's Tanner lectures, "The Sources of Normativity," to explore how morality might be rationally vindicated from within the nature of practical rationality. Korsgaard's project is an iteration of the Enlightenment's attempt to ground morality in human nature. Korsgaard suggests that the correct moral theory wil…

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After Virtue 1:28:19

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This episode examines Alasdair MacIntyre's attempt to explain the existence of interminable moral and political disagreement as a symptom of the disarray of our inherited moral concepts. MacIntyre contends that the best way to unify our disparate and competing concepts of right, obligation, and virtue is to understand them as emerging from determin…

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Moral Realism 1:26:50

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In this episode, Devin and Charles climb down from the heights of Nietzsche's critique of conventional morality in order to take a brief detour into the domain of twentieth-century analytic metaethics. Together they explore the historical context, motivating forces and access the viability of moral realism—the view that our moral claims have object…

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Dawn 1:35:48

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In the inaugural episode of Moral Minority, Devin and Charles make the case for Nietzsche's continual relevance to contemporary politics by examining the problem of moral foundations and how we make sense of our normative commitments in the absence of transcendental warrant. This episode centers around a discussion of Nietzsche's under-discussed 18…

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Franz Alvardo | 100 Million Downloads, What a Decade Of Design Experience Teaches Us | Ep.70 1:33:23

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Franz Alvardo has watched the world of design evolve and along with it his career from the material to digital. Franz started at a jewelery story and over a ten year career now works as a principal designer at T-mobile and has amassed over 100 million downloads associated with the projects he's worked on. Many have heard of a full-stack developer, …

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A New Business, Memories Of MY Father, Leaving Japan, Moving To Thailand | The interstice Podcast Ep.69 59:33

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I'm back after a half a year and ready to start this creative thing all over again. Let's get to work.

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Speaking Last, Insomnia, Christopher Nolan's Character Evolution, Love, Heart Break | Interstice 68 55:36

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On this episode of the podcast we get into a good idea I learned from the author, Simon Sinek. What follows is a discussion of the movie 'Insomnia' one of Christopher Nolan's first which followed the wildly successful 'Memento. Featuring an excellent performance from Al Pacino and Robin Williams it is without question a fantastic film. Then, we end…

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Entrepreneurial Planning, Corporate Evil, Playing An Infinite Game, Swimming With Dolphins | Ep.67 59:40

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From swimming with dolphins to a dicussion of corporate evil. The interstice podcast will not subject itself to things like being beholden to one particular range of topics.

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What Happens When We Die, The Wisdom Of Youth, Human And Social Evolution | Interstice Podcast Ep.66 57:57

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Ever in search of the most light-hearted topics for the podcast this episode I chose to focus on the most cheery of all, death. Not only that of course, human evolution found its way in there as well. Finally we get into a discussion of what it takes growing older to avoid become embittered or left behind by life. You know, fun stuff.…

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Ai Companions, AAA games vs Indy history, GRIS Indy game | The Interstice Podcast Ep.65 50:44

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I ran a social experiment on myself using a companion ai app. The results were very interesting. It will be a fascinating thing to see how ai companions and the relationships they have with us meat bags evolve over the next decade. If you thought life was weird now, just you wait. Other than that we go hard on the nerd discussion, touching on a gre…

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Guest: Jason Mcnamar Artist On, Love Death And Robots, Spiderman, Angry Birds | Interstice Ep.64 1:28:07

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Moving to two episodes a week we have our first guest in some time. Jason Mcnamar is an accomplished texture artist and modeler who's work can be found in both summer blockbusters and netflix originals. He is currently living in Japan and took the time to share his life story with us and insights on his industry.…

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Recent Success, Shorts, Don't Be A Turkey Theory, Randomness Is Healthy | Interstice Podcast Ep.63 59:43

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#davetrippin #theinterstice #podcast It's official we are moving to two episodes a week for the podcast. And we've got a lot to talk about in this one. It has now been three weeks since finally giving the full productive effort to creating the amount of content that I feel fits the standard necessary to grow and do this who creative thing full time…

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Creating Your Own Path, Return To Tokyo, Ray Kurzwiel, The Singularity Is Nearer | Interstice Ep. 62 1:02:39

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After so much time away I finally got back to Tokyo. I think it's been over two years actually but there I was back in the ol.. I don't know if there's a nickname for it. I got a chance to meet up with a subscriber who's become a good friend over the years. His story was amazing. For anyone who is determined to carve their own path through life he …

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Hormesis, Post Traumatic Growth, Shell Shock, Terry Pratchett | The Interstice Podcast Ep.61 1:01:29

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Hormesis and Post Traumatic Growth, these are nearly completely new terms to me and they're both great for considering the idea of healthy stress. That's our opener for this episode but then we get into some juicy history details. I saw a clip on reddit of soldiers who had shell shock and it made me think of warfare and its evolving impact on us an…

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The Shrink Next Door, The Name Of The Wind, Don Bluth Animations | The Interstice Podcast Ep.59 46:47

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Let's get to it EP.59. We are a little leaner this epsiode. For whatever reason I had a few less things to discuss. Perhaps a sign I need to crank up the adventure in my life. No biggy. I'll do it. That doesn't mean though what is here was not worth the talk. I have been reading and I have been watching a lot of great media recently which informed …

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Guest: Joe Keating | Designer | The Interstice Podcast Ep.58 1:45:15

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Joseph Keating is a fascinating man. Managing to develop a skill-set that expresses both his understanding of technical fields alongside the artistic is no simple task. We dicuss the kind of thinking that goes into creating the inside of retail stores as well as a his philosophy with it is for himself as opposed to a client. This was a good one. It…

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Hiroshima, The Nuclear Bomb Museum, Wakeboarding, Odyssey | The Interstice Podcast Ep.57 58:52

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I'd never been to anywhere in Japan more south than Kobe until very recently. I finally got a chance to go to Hiroshima for the purpose of filming a wakeboarding tournament taking place there. Come August our studio is filming a major tournament in Kyushu so this was a great opportunity to see what the realities on the ground were for filming this …

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Guest: Alan Algee | Director, Cinematographer, Educator, | The Interstice Podcast EP.56 1:08:35

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Alan is a friend who I've met since moving to Kyoto. This man has skill. When you look at his body of work it is self evident. Crisply composed and tuned to some of the best colouring you've ever seen, Alan is a pure pro. I particulary enjoyed in the course of our conversation getting into how Alan described his style having a melancholic quality t…

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Guest: Adam Valois | Syrian Refugee Crisis Logistics Manager | The Interstice Podcast Ep.55 1:10:11

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Adam and I grew up together on Vancouver Island. It has been incredible to reconnect with him and discuss the absolutely mad path that he has taken through life. Like myself he was bit with the desire to seek out new horizons but where my path took my to Japan, his took him all over the world. There is so much to Adam's story that we cannot nearly …

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Guest: James Palmer | Mechanical Engineer | The Interstice Podcast Ep.54 1:08:54

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Today's guest is James Palmer an old friend and mechanical engineer. He'll joined me to talk about mostly anything but then we ended up staying on the topic of education for quite some time. It will be fascinating to see how these systems develop going into the future as the freedom to information and education continues to grow.…

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Teacher, Creator, Student, Kendrick Lamar, Deep Fakes, The Northman | The Interstice Podcast Ep.53 53:50

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Teacher, student, creator, are these the elements which make up a fully actualized human being? In this episode I do my best to argue for that fact. Recently I saw a quite touching clip on instagram taken from a Louis CK's show and it was talking about love. I offer a few thoughts on that. Then we move into a discussion of deep fake technology and …

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Hallucinogenic Honey. Antifragile, Limbic Friction, Unreal 5, Elden Ring | The Interstice Podcast Ep.52 56:00

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Went all out on this episode and actually for once made a list of topics to work through. I like to dabble in books as a topic but it's often fun to make sure I try and get outside of that box. For that reason we go all over the place. Perhaps hitting the most meta discussion of all, what other podcasts have taught me. One Dr in particular is of gr…

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Haruki Murakami, Self Delusion, Koyasan, Kinosaki Onsen Town | The Interstice podcast Ep.51 56:37

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We return. We get back up. We are on the horse. In the return of the podcast now heading towards the coveted 100 episodes we've got a few interesting topics. I had somehow avoided reading and any of Haruki Murakami's books, that was, until now. I have completed "Hard Boiled Wonderland And the End Of the World" it was great and ever a testament to n…

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Guest: Caden Ostermiller | Graphic Designer| The Interstice Podcast Ep.50 1:16:00

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Some years ago Caden reached out and offered to help me with my Youtube channel. He's since then done an immeasurable amount of helpful work for me and I'm forever in his debt for that. It was a pleasure to have him on the podcast to discuss a few things. Surprisingly social anxiety ended up being a large part of the conversation.…

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Fantasia Orchestra, New Gear, Netflix Arcane | The Interstice Podcast Ep.49 55:00

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We've quite a range of topics to discuss in this video. More projects have come to Garden Lab recently which I'm excited to share. I went to a live orchestra for the first time in my life (to listen to Fantasia no less). I recently completed the series 'Arcane' on Netflix and it was amazing and worth discussing for its narrative strengths and final…

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A Reflection On The Year And What's To Come | The Interstice Podcast Ep.48 59:04

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Let's recap the year and talk about what's to come in 2022

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Guest: Zane Johnson | Fashion Designer - Shodo Calligraphist | The Interstice Podcast Ep.47 58:54

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Zane is a fashion designer, calligraphist, and all around artist. Currently working out of Osaka Kansai region, he sees the relationship between function and meaning as mutually contributing elements to a distinct style. We discuss his journey, his process, and a bit of what has formed his approach to life.…

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The Interstice Podcast Ep.46 | Visiting Kobe University 44:09

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In this video we go into discuss in full detail the upcoming project for Garden Lab working in collaboration with Kobe University along side an organic farm and business to create a sustainable business of bamboo field reclamation.

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The Interstice Podcast Episode 45 | The Hero Of A Thousand Faces 46:44

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We are back at it. The Podcast is once again live and will be 4 times monthly posted. In the first half I discuss the iconic book I've been reading, 'The Hero Of A Thousand Faces'. In the second half we talk about where I am now employed and the expat community in Kyoto.

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Guest: Jay | IT Specialist | The Interstice Podcast Ep.44 1:45:08

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Jay has spent a significant amount of his life here in Japan. In doing so he has climbed the IT ladder and finds himself now married and doing well. Through his experiences we come to understand better what that life's evolution looks like. He is a man. He is not a cat.

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Guest: Josh Olufemii | VFX Artist, Youtuber | The Interstice Podcast Ep.43 1:49:58

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Josh is one of those heroes of the interwebs, holding all us would be creators up with his incredible tutorials. If you've ever tried to learn anything on the adobe creative suite it's likely that you've come across Josh. His kind and straightforward demeanor sets the stage for a presence which treats others well while never hesitating to get down …

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Guest: Andrew Szeto | Skateboarder, Woodworker | The Interstice Podcast Ep.42 1:11:11

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You get a person like Andrew when positivity collides with work ethic. Of the many things you could call this man: engineer, videographer, skateboarder, woodworker—lazy does not rank among them. It's easy to get caught up in the excitement of a new skill, interest or craft. It is something wholly different to continue applying yourself past the ini…

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Guest: Robin Rauner | Kyoto Startup - Head Of Public Relations | The Interstice Podcast Ep.41 1:08:23

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Robin answers questions with the careful confidence of someone who considers well what's in their head before speaking. When you ask her about what led her to Japan, you notice something curious: while she describes her series of choices plainly, and as though any other might have made them, they are exceptional. Not many have travelled in her fami…

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Guest: Victor | Photographer | The Interstice Podcast Ep.40 1:18:36

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Viktor and I have collaborated over the years on various projects. Although he is taking a break from it now, he is an excellent photographer and his travels around Japan have taken him to many beautiful places. Viktor prefers to emphasize the art in his work, and is incredibly weary of becoming overly concerned with reach. A noble consideration gi…

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Guest: Tina Tokyo Diaries | Tokyo Youtuber | The Interstice Podcast Ep.39 1:08:08

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Oh to speak Japanese at an N1 level, something Tina has been doing for years. She's attended some of the most famous universities in Japan and found herself a quite fascinating job to do while she pursues her creative passions.

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Guest: Tyler Crane | Director, Film-Maker | The Interstice Podcast Ep.38 1:02:23

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Tyler has a herculean work-ethic. That has led him to become one of the fastest evolving and in-demand film makers now working in Japan. He runs a studio out of Tokyo with an impressive range of international talent that are pushing the limits of what is possible in Indy Film production. We get into it all: influences, work flow, what keeps creatin…