The Perfect Show
First Haircut in Japan | The Perfect Show Season 3 Episode 4: Scot moved to Japan at age 24 and experienced the best haircut of his life. As a stranger in a strange land, Scot stumbled into this perfect experience a bit unexpectedly. We examine what made that haircut so special, and then snap back to the present to find a way to recreate it with some help from my friend Jose and Ivan Gomez from Barber and Gent in San Francisco. Barber and Gent: Boothee: https://www.bootheeapp.online/ Show Links: Music from this episode by: Shawn Korkie - Gelyan - Shivam S - Avishka31 - ...
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What surprising thing used to happen in a video store on a holiday like the 4th of July? This time Scot rewinds back to high school for his job at a video store and a night involving a special car. In this episode, he looks to stop the feeling of life running in fast-forward, and search for a place to pause. When you’re ready, all you have to do is press ‘play.’ Music from this episode by: Shawn Korkie - https://www.fiverr.com/shawnkorkie Gelyan - https://www.fiverr.com/gelyanov Shivam S - https://www.fiverr.com/imshivamsingh Relaxo Beats - https://www.fiverr.com/relaxo_beats...
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Season 3 continues rolling with an episode 4 years in the making. Taiko drumming is a big a bedrock of classic Japanese culture as video games are for their current culture. Take a spin with Scot back into the world of Japanese arcades with the drumming game Taiko no Tatsujin, a fast paced rhythm experience that hooked him at just the right time, and his quest to find the game and achieve a perfect score on a special song. He’ll take you on the journey across an ocean to recount the game and the song that combined to form a decades long obsession. Scot also examines the J-Pop song Sakuranbo...
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The Perfect Show is Back! This episode is all about looking back at every episode of the podcast so far, and looking forward at where the show will go from here. And to do that we take a sound-design journey down to the Perfectorium itself, the Index of Perfect Things. Join Scot as he gives you a full tour during the episode. It's more fun than a simple clip show should probably be, but I've been out of the game for a while and I just couldn't wait to jump back in with both feet. Music from this episode by: Shawn Korkie - https://www.fiverr.com/shawnkorkie Fernando Darder -...
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After an extended break The Perfect Show is back! Here's a trailer for the upcoming season: https://perfectshowpodcast.com/ Transcript: Hi, I’m Scot Maupin, and welcome to The Perfect Show - where in a series of very much unperfect episodes, I bring you the story of one thing I’ve flagged as a perfect object or experience from my life. I tell you about it, we explore what makes it so special, and then I try to recreate it in some way in the present, and hopefully fall down some weird rabbit holes along the way. On season 3 of the Perfect Show, first up: I’ll be covering a...
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Hello? Hello! It's been a while. I've come back with a short episode and a quick announcement about a new season of the show coming up! Stay tuned.
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This episode Scot dives into the world of compliments, via the story of a pair of pink shoes. What’s so special about pink shoes? Scot explores how they act as a magnet for compliments, and what is even going on there. Scot also ventures into some new territory by going to a local punk show and meeting a band there. Hear his voyage into live music for the first time since college, and discover a strong connection between pink shoes and punk shows that wasn’t obvious at the beginning. Special thanks to listener Steven, Jeff Clemens () , and of course Nicole, Jerry, Julio...
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For this episode, Scot talks sports! One sport in particular. A Japanese sport that may be new to you. It’s the wonderful game of Park Golf, and we give it a glowing deep dive. Small club, big ball, rubber tee, and you’re ready to hit the course. Listen to stories about Park Golf from Japan and adventures I have in America. I talk with Kris Beyer Jones from Destroyer Park Golf for an interview with the first park golf course in America, and some of my usual unusual hijinks with my friends Jeff Clemens and Alex Yocum. Find Destroyer Park Golf at Find the International...
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In this episode we examine what happens at sea in the middle of the night, culminating in a crazy night in a Frankenstein-themed nightclub. Join Scot on a discussion of boats, water, staying up all night, and then join him aboard a ship in the middle water and in the middle of the night for this topic. Check out all pics, videos, and transcript on the webpage for this episode: Music from this episode by: Simon Carryer - Bastereon - Brrrrravo - kgrapofficial - dawnshire - desparee - rito_shopify - Aandy Valentine - ...
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This episode Scot revisits stories of the most amazing building he’s ever been to, the Taj Mahal, and the magic that happens to it during an Indian sunrise. Scot also looks more locally to see if there is anything around his area that can help recreate this experience and even complete a part of it he could never do in India. Check out all pics, videos, and for the first time a rough transcript on the webpage for this episode: Trappy808 - Gopakumar1830 - rito_shopify - Tushar Lall - mwmusic - aarchirecords - Aandy Valentine - ...
info_outlineShort episode trying something new where Scot puts out a call to action, calling on you to call in with some compliments. Tell me about the best ones you’ve ever gotten and tell me about the best ones you’ve ever given.
A short 4 minute episode to introduce the new Podcast Call-In Line at 616-737-3329. Call and leave me a voicemail that could get played on a later show!
That’s 616-737-3329, 616-PERFECZ
UPDATE:
I have made the episode this call-in was for, so I'm no longer taking calls, and the episode I used this for is ep 15 - Pink Shoes / Punk Shows.
Check it out and be on the look out for more of these in the future.
Visit perfectshowpodcast.com for more.
Music on this episode by:
Noah Makes Music: https://www.fiverr.com/noahmakesmusic
Brrrrravo - https://www.fiverr.com/brrrrravo
AI-Generated Transcript:
Speaker 1:
Hey everybody, it's Scott and this is the Perfect Show. I'd like to try something new today and see if I can interact a little with you all. So I set up a call-in number and I'm looking for listeners to call in with responses to two questions First, what's the best compliment you've ever gotten? And second, what's the best compliment you've ever given. That's it. So that means to you call in and let me know your answer for either one or both of those questions. Tell me the compliment, tell me the story, if it needs a little context, but I want to hear it. I want to know about the best compliments you've given and about the best ones you've gotten. You call in, leave your name or however you want to be referred to in a short message that I may use on a future show. Mind that I'm thinking of for the show as a funny one, but funny, serious, long short. I want to hear whatever you got. So, about the phone number, you know how you can pick your number sometimes and the numbers on phones will spell out things if you're using old phones or texting T9 or whatever. Well, I got the Google voice number. That spells out 616-P-E-R-F-E-C-C. That's right, 616-737-3329. Don't call 616. Perfect. It's one number different than I was able to get, because, of course, all the ones that spell out perfect or already taken, I mean I didn't have some special early invite to Google voice. So we are 616 perfect Z no T 616-737-3329. Give it a call. Tell me about some compliments. Also, you might predict that if I don't get any calls I'll be sad and think I don't have any listeners. But no, no, no, no, no. Well, you'd be half right. I will be sad because it will only mean that my listeners are all clearly very terrible, rude people who never compliment each other. But that's okay. It just means you'll need whatever I'm making all that much more. So if you're hearing this, try not to wait until the last minute. I'm a procrastinator myself. I get it, but that compliment that just popped into your head when I asked about it just now. You're going to forget that one if you wait too long, and I really want to hear it. So just call up our shiny new voicemail at 616-737-3329. Maybe unsurprisingly, I make this show pretty slowly. So if you figure it's been a month and you are too late, you aren't Up until you see an episode that uses the compliment voicemails. It's still fair game, so call in and add your story to. I am working on the next episode already. It's almost done. So this isn't for that and that will be out sooner than a month. But this will be for a different episode later on. Hello there, this is Scott from the future In rejecting to let you know I have now finished that episode and it's episode 15 about pink shoes and punk shows. It should be in the same feed. You found this just five episodes later in the timeline. So the original window for calls has passed. But I'll try to do more of these down the road somewhere in the future, especially if I hear that this is the type of thing you'd like more of. That's it. I just wanted to jump in and say thanks for listening to the show and I hope you like what I made out of this. Okay, now back to the original episode. Okay, so you can find the number here a bunch of times It'll be the show notes and on socials for you. Yeah, the gauntlet has been laid Lied. I have lied down the gauntlet. Gaunt laid, gauntlet lane. Yeah, call up the compliment line and that number one more time is 616-737-3329. That's 616-perfect Z, Perfect Z, perfect Z, perfect Z for non-Americans and lay some compliments on me. Lay, lie, lay your compliments upon me. The Perfect Show site is perfectshowsite. Perfect Show Show on Twitter, instagram and YouTube. Perfectshowshow at gmailcom and now 616-perfectz. Anyway, until next time, I'm Scott Moppen, and thanks for listening to the Perfect Show. I'm going to eat 50 eggs.