Tom Rhodes Smart Camp

Tom Rhodes
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About Smart Camp podcast Tom Rhodes Smart Camp is a festival of ideas, knowledge, stories, books, and adventures. I have been a comedian for more than 40 years, traveling the world to perform comedy. Whenever I can, I will share my adventures with you on this podcast. Together with my creative partner and best friend, Ashna, we 're offering a blend of wisdom, humor, and heart. Tom I have been a comedian for more than 40 years. I travel the world, performing comedy. Exploring diverse cultures and connecting with people from all walks of life while doing comedy is at the heart of my journey. Whenever I can, I'll share my adventures and a global perspective with you on this podcast. Ashna Ashna, Dutch artist, photographer, and my ex-wife, is my best friend and she's an essential part of the Rhodesies production team. We've traveled the world together for 8 years. With her background in cognitive psychology and her passion for philosophy and the arts, Ashna shares her unique European perspective.

  1. 9h ago

    434 Book Roulette: How to Win Friends & Influence People

    Tom is back from Japan, about to get on a plane to France, and feeling pretty damn good about life—which seems like the perfect time to talk about how not to be an a*****e. This episode, Tom cracks open Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People, a 90-year-old book he picked up for a dollar and fully expected to be outdated. Instead, he finds himself underlining advice that feels remarkably useful in 2026: remember people's names, listen more than you talk, give people genuine appreciation, control your temper, and avoid arguments like snakes and earthquakes. Along the way, Tom remembers the sales advice his father gave him that became surprisingly good comedy advice, the relationships that taught him to shut up and listen, and why sometimes the most compassionate response to someone's problems is simply, "Dirty bastards." There's also Abraham Lincoln's furious letter he wisely never mailed, Benjamin Franklin learning to stop correcting everyone, a near-death encounter crossing the street in Bangkok, an elbow to the ribs on the Tokyo Metro, French dinner-table wisdom, Los Angeles rage management, and the enduring human desire to feel important. It's Dale Carnegie the Tom Rhodes way: comedy, travel, relationships, anger, empathy, questionable encounters with strangers, and some genuinely useful advice for getting along with your fellow humans. Hooray for humanity! We're dropping new episodes every Thursday-ish.   Connect! Be part of the Rhodesies team and get goodies: https://patreon.com/tomrhodessmartcamp https://patreon.com/ashnarodjan More Tom  https://www.instagram.com/_TomRhodes More Ashna https://www.instagram.com/ashnarodjan

    434 Book Roulette: How to Win Friends & Influence People

  2. Sep 18

    433 Japan Reflections

    Tom is back from a month in Asia with a suitcase full of stories, questionable observations, and a new appreciation for Japanese baseball. In Japan, he finally gets the baseball experience he's been chasing for 15 years, eats ramen worthy of a spiritual awakening, sings karaoke with strangers in Osaka, wanders through Kyoto's temples, and discovers that even the garbage trucks are cute. Along the way, his reading of Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan sends him down a rabbit hole of emperors, samurai loyalty, World War II, and how Japan became the country it is today. Then it's off to Thailand for comedy, khao soi, extraordinary coffee, an unforgettable crab curry, and a return to a Phuket beach that carries a very different meaning than it did ten years ago. It's travel the Tom Rhodes way: history, food, comedy, baseball, strangers, cultural misunderstandings, old memories, and the occasional existential detour. And finally, a piece of rock-and-roll knowledge that shakes Tom to his core: was Cheap Trick's Live at Budokan really live at the Budokan?   Hooray for humanity! We're dropping new episodes every Thursday-ish.   Connect! Be part of the Rhodesies team and get goodies: https://patreon.com/tomrhodessmartcamp https://patreon.com/ashnarodjan More Tom  https://www.instagram.com/_TomRhodes More Ashna https://www.instagram.com/ashnarodjan

    433 Japan Reflections

  3. Aug 19

    432 Tokyo Tom

    Konnichiwa from Tokyo! Tom is back in Japan for the first time in 11 years, broadcasting from the Mustard Hotel in the vintage shops and record-store-filled neighborhood of Shimokitazawa. This first dispatch from Japan is about returning to a place that left a lasting mark on his life. Tom reconnects with comedian friends he met more than a decade ago, performs at the Tokyo Comedy Bar, and finally gets inside a Japanese baseball stadium after once traveling all the way to Osaka only to spend two nights listening to sold-out Hanshin Tigers games from outside. There are rainy Tokyo adventures, strangers coming to the rescue, gifts for people who touch his heart, Japanese cultural curiosities, samurai jokes that work much better in Japan, and the extraordinary experience of watching baseball with thousands of fans singing and chanting as one. Tom is also traveling through Japan with history on his mind. Reading about Babe Ruth's legendary 1934 tour of Japan and Emperor Hirohito leads him into the nationalism and militarism of 1930s Japan, the road to Pearl Harbor and World War II, and some bigger thoughts about what can happen when too much power is concentrated in one person. Baseball, comedy, friendship, history, vintage T-shirts, Tokyo rain, and 11 years of memories coming full circle. Tom's Japanese adventure is just getting started.   Hooray for humanity! We're dropping new episodes every Thursday-ish.   Connect! Be part of the Rhodesies team and get goodies: https://patreon.com/tomrhodessmartcamp https://patreon.com/ashnarodjan More Tom  https://www.instagram.com/_TomRhodes More Ashna https://www.instagram.com/ashnarodjan   About Smart Camp podcast Tom Rhodes Smart Camp is a festival of ideas, knowledge, stories, books & adventures.

    432 Tokyo Tom

  4. Jul 24

    431 Smart Talk: What Books Changed You?

    One question, three perspectives. Tom, Ashna & ChatGPT. Hosted by @_tomrhodes & @ashnarodjan. Weekly episodes. DM your questions.   Hooray for humanity! We're dropping new episodes every Thursday-ish.   Connect! Be part of the Rhodesies team and get goodies: https://patreon.com/tomrhodessmartcamp https://patreon.com/ashnarodjan More Tom  https://www.instagram.com/_TomRhodes More Ashna https://www.instagram.com/ashnarodjan

    431 Smart Talk: What Books Changed You?

  5. Jul 16

    430 Smart Talk: Is The World Cup Rigged?

    Episode 430. One question, three perspectives. Tom, Ashna & ChatGPT. You decide...  Hosted by International comedian and writer Tom Rhodes and Dutch Cognitive Psychology Ashna Rodjan. Weekly episodes. DM your questions.   What skills are needed in 2026? Is the environment doomed? Is the World Cup Rigged?   Hooray for humanity! We're dropping new episodes every Thursday-ish.   Connect! DM your questions. Be part of the Rhodesies team and get goodies: https://patreon.com/tomrhodessmartcamp https://patreon.com/ashnarodjan More Tom  https://www.instagram.com/_TomRhodes More Ashna https://www.instagram.com/ashnarodjan

    430 Smart Talk: Is The World Cup Rigged?

  6. Jul 5

    429 Smart Talk: A scientist, A Comedian & A Computer

    In this Smart Talk episode of Tom Rhodes Smart Camp, Tom and Ashna answer three audience questions from very different angles: Tom as a comedian and storyteller, Ashna as a European with a psychology background. Then they ask ChatGPT the same questions and decide: useful wisdom, or total BS? Hi guys, Tom & Ashna here, we're starting something fun. In an effort to put out more podcast episodes, Ashna and I decided to record conversation using Riverside. These are the types of conversations Ashna and I normally have so we thought it be great to share this with you. When her and I are sharing or talking about art, literature, or movies that we've been consuming, it always prompts great conversation that goes in other directions also. Please keep the questions coming. Thank you to the listeners that submitted these questions and we encourage everyone submit more. It's nice to know that there are so many people that care about this podcast.

    429 Smart Talk: A scientist, A Comedian & A Computer

  7. Apr 3

    428 Mormons Are Great People

    Hear all about my journey to the land of kindness and my experience filming a clean comedy special for Dry Bar Comedy. Also listen to me delight your skull by telling you about my visit to Moon's Rare Books & learn why there are so many Peruvians living in Provo. "He is rich who owns the day."   Hooray for humanity! We're dropping new episodes every Thursday-ish.   Connect! Be part of the Rhodesies team and get goodies: https://patreon.com/tomrhodessmartcamp More Tom  https://www.instagram.com/_TomRhodes More Ashna https://www.instagram.com/ashnarodjan   About Smart Camp podcast Tom Rhodes Smart Camp is a festival of ideas, knowledge, stories, books & adventures.

    428 Mormons Are Great People

  8. Mar 27

    427 What Remains

    What remains is the answer.   Hooray for humanity! Connect! Be part of the Rhodesies team and get goodies: https://patreon.com/tomrhodessmartcamp More Tom  https://www.instagram.com/_TomRhodes More Ashna https://www.instagram.com/ashnarodjan   About Smart Camp podcast Tom Rhodes Smart Camp is a festival of ideas, knowledge, stories, books & adventures.

    427 What Remains
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About Smart Camp podcast Tom Rhodes Smart Camp is a festival of ideas, knowledge, stories, books, and adventures. I have been a comedian for more than 40 years, traveling the world to perform comedy. Whenever I can, I will share my adventures with you on this podcast. Together with my creative partner and best friend, Ashna, we 're offering a blend of wisdom, humor, and heart. Tom I have been a comedian for more than 40 years. I travel the world, performing comedy. Exploring diverse cultures and connecting with people from all walks of life while doing comedy is at the heart of my journey. Whenever I can, I'll share my adventures and a global perspective with you on this podcast. Ashna Ashna, Dutch artist, photographer, and my ex-wife, is my best friend and she's an essential part of the Rhodesies production team. We've traveled the world together for 8 years. With her background in cognitive psychology and her passion for philosophy and the arts, Ashna shares her unique European perspective.

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  • Creator
    Tom Rhodes
  • Years Active
    2011 - 2026
  • Episodes
    430
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2011 Tom Rhodes
  • Show Website
    Tom Rhodes Smart Camp

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