EPISODE 39: THE RADIO GEMPEG SHOW 2
K “Well well, everybody. Thank you for your feedback.”
2 “Getting carried away, here is Vol. 2.”
K “Yeah we are excited.”
2 “What the hell did they like our talk about?”
K “Basically books and radio programs are censored strictly. And we got brought into the world.”
2 “It’d be even better if we were under age, but actually we can face criminal punishment.”
K “It’s because the censorship is strict, we want to go over it! There is this kind of energy.”
2 “Just like love.”
K “More troubles, more excitement.”
2 “That’s right.”
K ”Ahhhh!!!”
2 “Wow!!!! Spilled tea!!!”
K “Whoa…”
2 “Here you go. Wipe it off.”
K “Well, sorry for this interruption in the middle of the program.”
2 “I wiped it off.”
K “Yeah.”
2 “Oh, it’s wet under here.”
K “Oh, here.”
2 “Right.”
K “Well, we’re sorry. Let’s put juice over there.”
2 “Good thing is that the equipment didn’t get wet.”
K “Nomura-san will punch you again. Really…”
2 “You never thought about returning it, did you?”
K “Well, we are getting back to the show.”
2 “Yes, we are all set. OK.”
K “Yes. Brilliant. There is nothing on the table.”
2 “What? Where are we?”
K “Speaking of getting wet, the whole Odaiba went under the water.”
2 “Finally.”
K “It might be a good idea to create a city on water like Venice.”
2 “I should have visited the city before it submerged.”
K “Hong Kong?”
2 “Speaking of Hong Kong, Jackie, Sammo Hung, Yuan Biao.”
K “Classic.”
2 “Say it old school.”
K “Oh, I read that one “Love me Pao Pao”.”
2 “What’s that?”
K “Jackie’s autobiography.”
2 “Are you really a Zakuian?”
K “I also saw a documentary. It’s about Jackie’s father who worked for the military in Mao’s days and then turned out to be in the mafia! His mother used to be a gambler & pusher.”
K “Yeah. Not interested……”
2 “Hey!”
K “Wanted to go visited the old days of Hong Kong. I heard it was stinky in the whole city.”
2 “It’s like your room.”
K “Hey!”
2 “Probably the same smell.”
K “Hey, do you remember who ate that one at your house? The most stink food in the universe. What was that Zakuian food?”
2 “Gunmo?”
K “Yeah, that one! Stinks so much!!! What is that?”
2 “Oh, yeah? It’s good. Stinky though……”
K “Yeah right. It’s stinky but tastes good.”
2 “Right. But is it true it’s the most stinky thing in the universe?”
K “There are more stinky things in the universe, aren’t there?”
2 “Yeah. I guess. The universe is vast.”
K “But, Gunmo is stinky.”
2 “Isn’t there a place sounds like it?”
K “You mean Gunma?”
2 “Yeah yeah! Is that place stinky?”
K “It’s not stinky. You know Takasaki, and Maebashi?
2 “Don’t know.”
K “Those cities are quite nice. I think TSTAR NOODER is a band from Gunma.”
2 “TSTAR NOODER is cool. They’ve been reappraised.”
K “In a solid.”
2 “Something like The Damned too.”
K “Really. They are deep.”
2 “Shigeru Izumiya, you mentioned lately is also quite nice.”
K “Oh, I totally like him. Howl and Other Ballads.”
2 “Ponta Murakami’s drum is awesome. It’s like attacking.”
K “Hey, where are we?”
2 “It’s still wet around here on the desk.”
K “Drying up with a dryer?”
2 “Let’s change the subject.”
K “Yes, anything.”
2 “Let’s talk about Suzy Amakane.”
K “I love him.”
2 “He is awesome. I love everything. But his books are rare. You can never find one, the Suzy Amakane’s book.”
K “You have one, don’t you? Lucky you.”
2 “YUBIN-POST MODERN. It’s a masterpiece.”
K “One of your treasures in your life.”
2 “Yeah.”
K “I think Suzy Amakane played a major role in his first achievement of ridiculous manga drawing on the campus in Japan.”
2 “Yeah. I love him. I want to talk about a new painting but it will be too professional.”
K “Oh, yeah. I had a row fish yesterday! For the first time!”
2 “Really!? Why? How? How much?”
K “A friend of mine gave me some left over sushi at the sushi restaurant.”
2 “Shabby.”
K “The row fish is disgusting. It’s disgusting like gunmo.”
2 “Hey!” K “It’s a gunmo horror. Let’s ask George Andrew Romero for shooting one.”
2 “Don’t insult the Zakuian culture!”
K “Just kidding. But eating row fish is a valuable experience, right? It’s impossible for the ’00’s people.”
2 “It’s even more impossible for the Zakuians.”
K “Did you have your front hair cut?”
2 “No, I didn’t.”
K “Oh, ok.”
2 “Well, I watched George Andrew Romero’s Day of the Dead the other day and my mom was angry with me.”
K “Day of the Dead. That’s a killer.”
2 “She came into my room when the zombies were chopped up.”
K “Haha. I got in trouble for my Judas Priest T-shirt which I wore at the work.”
2 “By your boss?”
K “Yeah, he said the picture was too brutal.”
2 “What picture was it?”
K “The one they hold razors.”
2 “Heh, just for it.”
K “Since it’s a moral society.”
2 “Oh yeah. I had a bad day, too. A crowd of elementary kids was whistling Another Brick in the Wall (Pink Floyd) on their way home. They were like we don’t need no education.”
K “You kidding!”
2 “Really! Or there is something similar one.”
K “I’ve never heard any of that.”
2 “Anyway I thought they were cute so I smiled at them. Then they were totally like looking at me like a pervert.”
K “Ahahaha! Pervert!”
2 “So I went away straightaway. Got exhausted. What are they going to do with my humanism.”
K “They might be said like that by their parents.”
2 “It’s impossible to act like a pervert at this age.”
K “Even kids should understand that.”
2 “At the age having careful protection for even animals, how can you attack kids!”
K “It’s a trace of the previous age.”
2 “Nomura-san is remaining to be a Loli-con at this age. He is, in a way, respectable.”
K “You don’t need to praise him that much, I think.”
2 “Let’s give him the first Loli-con award to Nomura-san, the faithful man.”
K “A silver prize.”
2 “Should be an honorary award.”
K “He doesn’t want it.”
2 “May be punched again. Blacked out.”
K “Well, I was punched by Nomura the other day and had an experience blacking out for the first time in my life. And I got a revelation from Kami-sama. Really. Kami-sama, the paper.”
2 “He is kidding.”
K “No, it’s true.”
2 “Then what Kami-sama said?”
K “You know there was a club The Haçienda in Manchester?”
2 “The one of the second summer of love!?”
K “Right. At there Genpei Akasegawa appeared and he gave me a thousand yen. A bill.”
2 “Can’t even buy alcohol.”
K “Right. And then he told me to ‘speak out’.”
2 “Who? Genpei Akasegawa?”
K “Yeah. Well, it’s really a discursive conversation.”
Whew! There is no end to the talking. The recording time went over one hour. Let’s press the send button now.
Text: Kurando Furuya, Hitoshi Odajima, Tomoki Kurokawa
Translation: Mariko Takei
Photos: Kurando Furuya, Hitoshi Odajima, Tomoki Kurokawa







