Doc Skala's Old-Time Variety Hour, episode 4

In glorious mono from Roncesvalles, Toronto, and Hilo, Hawaii, it's Episode 4 of Doc Skala's Old-Time Variety Hour, brought to you by Tuong Ot Toi Viet Nam, and by the words 早い and 速い. This episode features more Hawaiian tapes, and some thoughts on alcohol - in Buddhism, and in Norse neopaganism.

• Episode 4, brought to you by Tuong Ot Toi Viet Nam, and by the words 早い and 速い.
• Transgender and privilege
• Wasteland and Tiresias
• (music)
• A word about our brought-to-you-bys
• A note on the "make my day" law
• Tape from Hawaii: an unknown park in Hilo
  • Kamehameha
  • SPAM
  • Loco-moco with a fried egg
  • No clocks
  • Theme restaurants, theme tours
  • Splintered paddle
  • Wet feet
• Buddhism and alcohol
• Norse neopaganism and alcohol
• Buddhism and relativism
• More tape from Hawaii: a small island in front of the hotel, early in the morning
  • The view
  • Plate lunch
  • A town, not a city
• Listening to J-Pop
• The joke about the nun
• Less tolerance for contempt
• Finishing the book

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