Listen in to me chatting to Safran and Father Bob about Tezuka’s Buddha on the podcast I’m about to link you.

Here is where I talked to John Safran and Father Bob about Osamu Tezuka’s Buddha manga on their show Sunday Night Safran. It took months to organise this interview and because of that I felt really nervous when I finally got on the show, so if you hear some heavy breathing occasionally when I talk (by the way I’m Jacob Martin on the show) it’s because I was really trying to fit as much as I could in the time. You can fast forward to me at 36:53 mins on the Quicktime player of the podcast to hear me speak.

Bet you thought it wasn’t gonna happen! Well, sorry.

Can it live up to the wait? Never! I finally managed to get about eleven hours of source material down to a barely-listenable half hour. Here’s my notes:

Intro: The real otou-san speaks
Opening theme: “I Think I Can,” The Pillows, from FLCL. Get it? I think YU KAN!
2:40 - Jumping right into the conversation, because the first part was awkward and rough, and not in a really interesting way either.
4:00 – To all you “gentleman bloggers” (as Riex calls you), I actually DO want to have you on.
5:00 - Baka-Raptor enters True Otakudom with Evangelion
7:41 - bad edit, but here’s where it gets… good?
22:00 - Uh oh. The P-word.
23:22 - “She’s Seven!” Isn’t that the point? What does a seven-year-old know?
24:05 - Let’s get inside Baka-Raptor’s head. What’s in there? Kamen No Maid Guy, of course.
25:00 - JLeeson rants on Golgo 13.
26:50 - Baka-Raptor says, watch Garden of Sinners.
27:30 - JLeeson and otou-san say, watch Daughter of 20 Faces.
29:00 - Merciful release! Exeunt, with Maid Guy’s OP “Special Life” by Kotoko

Right now the podPress plugin is not working, so we don’t technically have a “podcast” so much as an “isolated audio file.” I hosted this little bugger on DivShare for the moment. Expect a more elegant solution in the future. You can download at this URL, by clicking the “Download original” link on the right side. Or you can use the handy-dandy Flash player below to listen in your browser.

Bear with me…

It’s a good thing Yukan HQ is a virtual location, because this blog is starting to look like the wackiest place in the otakusphere.

It’s possible that’s because we’re operated by an angry, ailing midget whose hobbies include torturing cartoon bunnies until they kill themselves.

But while all this is going on, I think it’s my duty to add to the insanity. Why beat around the bush, here’s my (fully blissmo-sanctioned) plan:

I can has podcast?

The question is not whether I’m gonna do it, but: Who’s with me?

I’m looking for:

1. Interested Yukan folks to participate/co-host with me.
2. People who are up on their anime news.
3. Other bloggers who aren’t concerned about having their damn gender identified on-air, who want to participate in conversations for the entertainment of the Yukan readership.

My idea:

1. Some news but mostly editorial and discussion
2. Short length, so us ADD people don’t get distracted and turn it off right away
3. A little music
4. A tie-in with the bunny channel in some way, but that’s really up to my small overlord.

My pledge:

1. I will handle the technology side. Anyone who wants on will need only to get on a Skype conference, which I will record.
2. I promise not to talk about Real Drive the whole time.

When I say I’m serious I mean with a capital Youbetcha, so if there is no interest from fellow Yukanners (which I hope there is) then I’ll be getting on this horse from my own blog.