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Trash Taste

Trash Taste is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Trash Taste rather than just read about it. In short: Trash Taste (Japanese: トラッシュ・テイスト) is a weekly audio and video podcast hosted by Joey Bizinger, Garnt Maneetapho, and Connor Colquhoun – three Tokyo-based content creators primarily focusing on anime and Japanese pop culture. The podcast generally discusses Japanese culture and life in Japan.

Key takeaways

Trash Taste belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Trash Taste to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Trash Taste from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Trash Taste (Japanese: トラッシュ・テイスト) is a weekly audio and video podcast hosted by Joey Bizinger, Garnt Maneetapho, and Connor Colquhoun – three Tokyo-based content creators primarily focusing on anime and Japanese pop culture. The podcast generally discusses Japanese culture and life in Japan.

History The podcast was started in February 2020 by Kadokawa's talent agency division GeeXPlus, which was originally a subsidiary of BookWalker, who helped the two hosts (Garnt and Connor) relocate to Japan, assisting them in having more access to Japanese culture. GeeXPlus and BookWalker also promote their products on the hosts' channels. They decided to start a podcast that had already been planned for some time. The first episode of the podcast was uploaded to YouTube on 5 June 2020. Since then, new episodes have been released every Friday, with exceptions for the release of specials. The first live show, Trash Taste After Dark, was broadcast on Twitch on 26 January 2021. This was followed on 19 February when they co-streamed the 5th Crunchyroll Anime Awards. On 26 May 2021, the hosts moved out of the studio in which they had recorded the first fifty-four episodes, dubbed season one, and relocated to a new studio that officially kicked off season two. On 17 June 2021, the hosts were invited for a live 'podcast' event about Japan-based YouTubers by the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan; discussions ranged from living in Japan to how Trash Taste got started. Trash Taste also appeared in the Foreign Correspondent Club Japan's Number 1 Shimbun Magazine June 2021 volume. On 19 March 2022, they hosted a 24-hour-long charity event for Doctors Without Borders on Twitch, raising $181,000 in donations. In May–July 2022, Trash Taste podcast recordings were done outside of Japan for the first time. This included three episodes in London, eight in Los Angeles, and one Trash Taste After Dark episode at the Twitch Australia studio in Sydney (aired 17 July 2022). These episodes were released on 10 June through 9 September 2022. Also during this time, the hosts held Q&A/discussion panels and special events at MCM London Comic Con, Anime Expo, Florida Supercon, and SMASH! In October 2022, during the Trash Taste 2022 Tour, the hosts participated at the New York Comic Con and had an impromptu podcast recording in Tampa, Florida (aired 25 November 2022).

Format Discussions in the podcast are about more than just anime and delve into various topics, including otaku culture, life in Japan, and topics varying on the episode's theme. The show will occasionally have a special guest, and an entire episode will be devoted to them. Past guests included:

Generally, each episode is between one and three hours long and is broken up intermittently with sponsor spots and a list of all Patreon subscribers near the end. The intro and outro title card feature the copyright-free song "Soul Searching" by Causmic. The podcast's producer is Meilyne Tran, and Toomas Lismus (MudanTV) does the video editing.

Tours

On 23 September 2022, Trash Taste podcast embarked on its first live tour, with 23 stops in North America, beginning in Los Angeles, California, and ending on 30 October in Portland, Oregon. Announced on the 5 May 2023 podcast, the second live tour was from 30 August to 11 September, with eight European stops, beginning in Dublin, Ireland, and ending in Cardiff, Wales. On 26 April 2024, a one-show event of the Trash Taste Tour was held in Australia. Hosted by DreamHack Melbourne, the show was held at the Rod Laver Arena.

Shows

YouTube The Trash Taste podcast has four channels on YouTube. The main channel, Trash Taste, was created on 14 February 2020 and includes all podcast episodes and specials. Trash Taste After Dark (originally called Trash Taste Streams) was created on 23 August 2019 and features recorded live streams from the podcast's Twitch channel and behind-the-scenes videos. Trash Taste Highlights, established on 14 February 2020, and Trash Taste Shorts, created on 11 March 2022, both provide short clips from each podcast episode that are significant or interesting. All four channels have received a silver YouTube Play Button for surpassing 100,000 subscribers. In contrast, only the main channel has received the gold YouTube Play Button for surpassing one million subscribers, which it achieved on 17 July 2021.

Specials Typically debuting on a week in which no podcast episode is released, the specials, available exclusively on YouTube, feature the hosts of Trash Taste outside the studio.

Podcast episodes

Season 1 (2020–2021)

Season 2 (2021–2022)

Season 3 (2022–present)

Notes

References

External links Media related to Trash Taste at Wikimedia Commons Official website Trash Taste on Twitch

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Trash Taste

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Trash Taste claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Trash Taste before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Trash Taste ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Trash Taste

In research: Trash Taste appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Trash Taste in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Trash Taste is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 2020 podcast debuts, Audio podcasts, Film and television podcasts, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Trash Taste outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Trash Taste in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Trash Taste means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Trash Taste out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Trash Taste in simple terms?

Why does Trash Taste matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Trash Taste?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Trash Taste.