PODCAST 175

Participants: John Steppling, Jennifer Matsui, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Adult journalists lose their minds over Taylor Swift’s engagement ring, US gunboats to Venezuela to do what exactly? China marks the end of WWII with a film about the Nanjing massacre as well as other memorials, Hirohito’s lesson on how to lose a war: just don’t call it surrender, “Kirishima Desu”—a film about a Japanese radical who came in from the cold, old style alternative media—magazines, radio, public access television, Canadian parliamentary committee wants to let “mature minors” receive medical assistance in dying. Music track: “Bemsha Swing” by Thelonius Monk (public domain).