An evening with G BEAUDIN!! (Malcolm Frink actor interview)
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We interview Malcom Frink himself. G opens up about his history with acting, his role on Pocahontas, his experiences shooting Samurai Squad, his current work, and the many ways his identity has helped to shape the most iconic character of 1990's television!!
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LOVE ANI-ME, DARLING!! (SSSS Gridman Episodes 7-9)
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Another year, another three episodes of GRIDMAN.
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CHINA MOUNTAIN ZHANG!!
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Wuh wuh wuh wuh wuh!! We read another book today! We read Maureen F. McHugh's 1992 Science Fiction classic, China Mountain Zhang. It's good!! We're 1/2 on novels now. Before launching into the book proper, we talk about Asian-American literature, #ownvoices, and the adaptation of Hooooowl's Moving Caaaaaaastleeeeeeee.
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JUST BROWN & SERVO!! (with Joe D)
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Joe joins us this week for a Samurai New Year!! We talk about skiing, kotatsu, Japanese pronoun choice, translation NDAs, and the most dread Yokai: THE AMABIE. Then we watched a pretty goshdarn weird episode. It promises a "Mrs. Starkey Acts!!" episode, and instead we get... Jennifer's worst date ever. How bad does the date go? Well, you'll just have to listen to find out. Let's just say that Sam Collins is a supervillain in his own right.
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ALPHA'S MAGICAL CHRISTMAS!! (With Olivia A.)
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Merry Chrimbus everyone!! We here at the Syber Pod hope that you all are having a wonderful holiday season.
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WATER YOU DOING!! (with Emilio Diaz)
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This week we are joined by Emilio Diaz, a host of the film festival podcast Cannes I Kick It!! We talk about hot dogs, TIME FORCE TIME FORCE, hydrochloric acid, ancient mariners, sleeping in class, and sleeping during ACADEMY AWARD WINNING MOTION PICTURES. This episode is what is colloquially known as a "corker." Get excited boyas and gyarus!!
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MONEY FOR NOTHIN' AND BITS FOR FREE!! (With Jordan Olsen)
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Bum bum badum bum we got a fresh new episodeoutta tha oven for you. Jordan returns to talk about anime, fantasy audiobooks, and the IMMANENT COLLAPSE OF THE AMERICAN FINANCIAL SYSTEM?? That's right folxxx, we have a new Bernie Madoff in town and his name is MALCOLM FRINK. How will he exploit our heroes in a society without nationalized healthcare? Find out this week on the SUPERHUMAN SAMURAI SYBER POD.
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SSSP GAIDEN PRESENTS: MY LIFE ME!! (With Jordan Olsen)
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Jordan Olsen returns for a great episode about "the Canadian Kappa Mikey." What if you blended Hot Topic, Borders, and Deviantart into a single teen sitcom?? We find out the hard way! It's MY LIFE ME!! In Japanese that's probably like... [Jibun no Inochi Watashi] right? Side note: I had to cut out over half an hour where I recount the best ways to game the Academic Decathalon. Don't scheme for those gold medals, kids!
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OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF TIME!! (With Noah Bianchi)
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Hallo! WE have friend of the pod Noah Bianchi on to talk about a new episode. I think we are like... exactly one third through the series now!! Anyway, we cover such diverse topics as college film projects, the demons of Solomon, and JK Rowling's mediocre writing.
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SSSP GAIDEN PRESENTS: ENTER THE WARRIOR'S GATE!! (With Alex Berube)
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Hello everyone! It's been a hot minute. We have a lot of new content in the pipeline, with a new "regular" episode coming out within the next few days. However, this is no regular episode... It's a GAIDEN for ENTER THE WARRIOR'S GATE!! That is to say, the French-Chinese attempt at making a international crossover hit. It made... no money, helping to bankrupt Luc Besson's Europacorp.
info_outlineSo here's part one of our mega-episode on RF Kuang's fantasy novel *The Poppy War*. When a young girl enters her nation's most prestigious academy, will she be able to escape her destitute past to make a name for herself? What if she learned MARTIAL ARTS and DID DRUGS?? This novel interpolates famous sequences from Chinese history into an fantasy setting, most notably... The Rape of Nanking. Yeah. We give some historical context about the atrocity, as well as the book as a whole, before diving into Part 1 of the novel. Despite how heavy it gets later, the beginning is mostly about calling people douchebaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaags and finding out about periods... a decade after everyone else did.
I was going to include the theme song from the Christian Bale Nanking film "The Flowers of War" as our intro, but in a rare moment of insight I realized that might be tacky. Instead, our opener and closer is "Rising Tensions" by Emily from "Rollforfantasy.com". She makes wonderful fantasy music for tabletop campaigns and other worlds. Her music channel is one of my favorites on Youtube, PLEASE check her out.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG46uU4jlxak8DvmcVqN2oQ