Broadcasting to you, not-quite-live from the crystal gondola in the palatial main Tiltyhouse studios in beautiful downtown Nagaoka Japan, for the education, elucidation, emancipation, enlightenment and mental emolument of the Nipponistic hoi-polloi.
Or in plain English, Dai-Cast is a weekly podcast highlighting recent developments in Japan and Japanese pop culture from a western perspective.
Hosts: Ian Horner, Jason Hill, Eryn Deardon and Brendan “Beej” Dery.
Topics Covered this Week:
- Japan Soft on the iPhone? – link
- Beef Heaven, the Mega Mac in Japan – link
- In Japan, Everything Contains a God – link
- Famed Animator Iwao Takamoto Passes Away – link
- New York Times Assumes (Incorrectly) That Inventions from Japan are Hive Mind Inventions – link
- Famous Historical Figures, Do you Know Them? – link
- Fold the ¥1000 Bill to Look Like a Turban Wearing Man – link
- Russians Say Japanese Government is Brainwashing It’s Citizens – link
- Roppungi English – Japan Probe Teaches You to Pick Up Gaijin in Japan – Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8
- Beej’s Web Comic of The Week- Minus
Running Time: 00:57:55
Whoa. I know Kung-Fu.
Comments! (Lime commas but with that carefree Mentos attitude)
1. When Mega-Churches get a hot beef injection from the corporate world: The Mega-Mac
1.1. “Beef Will Set You Free” – http://plif.andkon.com/archive/wc186.gif
2. Who has cooler Web 3.0 toys (ie. cellphones) Japan or the United States of Canada: Japan wins. 20 years from now we will have the iSony with its robotic puppies of all colors and nationalities. And the chinese version will even come in different “flavors”.
2.1. “An Edmontonian in Japan: Jamie Woods” His KeiTei and why it’s cooler than yours. – http://users.livejournal.com/_consume_/50525.html#cutid1
3. More later after it finishes downloading for the nth time. Stupid timeouts.
3.14 Pie. It’s good to hear your voices again.
-chibi