This week on Dai-Cast, Jason wants to get into the tampon business, beer drinking is finally safe for blind people, Obama thanks Obama (the town), and Maglev trains are coming for Tokyo and Osaka… eventually. Plus, Richard Gere is back re-making Japanese movies, this time about Hachiko, the Shibuya brass dog. And cupcakes. So sit back with a coffee, and a big box of the tasty treats, and enjoy!
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Hosts: Ian Horner, and Jason Hill, with Brendan Dery as “Beej”.
Topics covered this week:
- Braille beer cans for the blind – inventorspot.com
- Obama thanks Obama – cbc.ca
- Maglev trains between Tokyo and Osaka – japanprobe.com
- Hachiko remake with Richard Gere – q-taro.com
- New York Cupcakery in Tokyo – q-taro.com
Beej’s Webcomic of the Week – We The Robots
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NO! I am late to comment!
BLAGH! and yes we fans comment! just very rarely TT-TT I’m sad now…Meanys! xD Just kiding.
XD erm I didnt know champon was so popular now.
neither did I know about it being a tampon name XD
Oh and cream cheese frosting is good on carot cake
like carots and creamchees
This cast made me hungry… I’m just waiting for them to release radio for the deaf >_> But awesome for them providing for blind people much more than us. When can we expect this to transfer to the beerku (sp?) industry?
CBC page is gone! GONE! T_T So where can i get me a Obama beancake? Hmmm… I wonder who you guys want to win ;) <3 For Dune reference.
By the time they get those Maglev lines up will probably have much better technology. Perhaps its due to the economic levels of Japan not being as high as it was back when they planned the Shinkansen. The land issue is a major one too. We had a case of such when the Cdn Govt expanded the Queensway (Highway 404), and they basically stole land from farmers.
I miss read that Hachiko article as starring Richard Simmons instead of Richard Gere. It would be such a better film. Beej’s secret furries’ nature comes out? And I agree Christopher Walken needs to be in everything!
Mmm… cupcakes. They look really good. I’d probably pay for those just for the excuse to visit that store. I can’t help but laugh at the word cupcakery. Something tells me Beej has been playing Lazertag too much.
I am white with rage about your comments on one Mr. Barack Obama! You sirs have gravely insulted him, his family, and all the little beaches around the world.
I forgot to mention how :-o I was about the cupcake things that were said in this podcast…
Okay, sure you wouldn’t pay 2 dollars for a cupcake at Sobey’s or Safeway or whatever, they literally just drop some cake dough in little casings and spam it with icing and package it up like so much dirty stock they have to push. A specialty store, that specializes in anything, will be more expensive. The whole “Why I wouldn’t pay that kind of dough unless it solves world hunger!” which ironically cupcakes probably could.
Dry, bland and so covered in icing that the tiny bit of cupcake is really just an excuse to coat your mouth in the sticky sugar of the icing… That’s what multi-produced cupcakes are. I’ve been to the specialty cupcake place in Edmonton, we went to a Joey Tomatoes (or something similar) and afterwards went to the cupcake place for desert. There was an amazing selection of delicious cupcakes all laid out, almost as if there was a hallelujah beam of light creeping over every last moist morsel. I had one and tried some of my friend’s cupcakes, so rich and velvety, they each melted in my mouth, sumptuous unique combinations of flavours overtook my senses… Sweet but not too sweet, perfectly moist, and each cupcake had obviously been hand decorated to perfection. Yes, I’ll pay 2.75 for a damn cupcake, the experience with something like this is totally different. You don’t buy them by the dozen and run them by a pta meeting, they’re special and wonderful. Someday I hope you, too, will enjoy the thrills that a sunday afternoon jaunt to the Cupcakery can bring.
(for price comparison http://www.cupcakebakeshoppe.ca/menu.php )
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