Podcasts about sky island

We have some controversy this week between different characters and different scenes. I dont know that there has been this much disagreement for a while on episodes. We are half way through Sky Island and the crew has their groups. Now it just comes down to if they can stick to their groups! Next Week: Episodes 169-173

We are back this week discussing the Straw Hats finally making their way to Sky Island! We just met a lot of new characters that are going to be around for a long time as well is more about the authority structure in the world of One Piece. Some things are easy to remember and others...not so much. Only Skypeia lies ahead. What will the people look like? What will the city look like? I wonder if they know what steak tastes like?... Next Week: Episodes 154-158

Joe is caught up on One Piece, but Eric is watching for the first time. Join them for Episodes 151 & 152, where the Straw Hat pirates head to Sky Island! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/phazecast/support

Joe is caught up on One Piece, but Eric is watching for the first time. Join them for Episodes 131 & 144, where the Straw Hats begin their search for an island in the sky! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/phazecast/support

A mysterious gloom has appeared beneath Hyrule Castle. When the princess and her knight go to investigate it, they find more than they bargained for.

Al and Jonnie go through all the news and newly announced games Timings 00:00:00: Theme Tune 00:00:30: Intro 00:02:07: What Have We Been Up To 00:20:06: News 01:16:56: Outro Links Roots of Pacha Back on Steam Wholesome Direct Date Above Snakes Steamdeck Coral Island Summer Update Harvest Moon: The Winds of Anthos Plushie Harvest Moon: The Winds of Anthos New Screenshot Everdream Valley Release Marvelous Showcase Starstruck Vagabond Just Life Natsu-Mon 20th Century Summer Vacation Grandma Green Grimoire Groves Revenant Hill Circle of Kerzoven Contact Al on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheScotBot Al on Mastodon: https://mastodon.scot/@TheScotBot Email Us: https://harvestseason.club/contact/ Transcript [00:00.000 –> 00:30.000] . [00:30.000 –> 00:35.000] Hello farmers and welcome to another episode of the harvest season. [00:35.000 –> 00:44.000] My name is Al and I’m Johnny and we are here today to talk about farming games. [00:44.000 –> 00:51.000] Important note at the top as always transcripts are available for this episode in the show notes and on the Web site. [00:51.000 –> 00:55.000] So if you need that go and get that. How you doing Johnny? [00:55.000 –> 01:01.000] I’m good, I’m good. It’s early morning on a Sunday so we’ll see how coherent I am by the end of the episode. [01:01.000 –> 01:06.000] But other than that I’m excited to talk farming games like legitimately. [01:06.000 –> 01:10.000] That’s what we’re talking about today right? It’s just infinite farming games. [01:10.000 –> 01:18.000] So many games. So I have found like as always there’s always games that appear and I’m like oh that’s a game I didn’t know about it add it to the list. [01:18.000 –> 01:25.000] And I don’t always talk about those new games as I come across them because like sometimes you can get a bit overwhelmed. [01:25.000 –> 01:33.000] And we’ve gotten to the point where I had like a couple of games and I was like maybe it’s time to go through these games let’s do an episode on it. [01:33.000 –> 01:42.000] And then boom a bunch came out this week. A bunch were announced this week so it was the perfect week to do it apparently. [01:43.000 –> 01:44.000] I just didn’t know it. [01:44.000 –> 01:48.000] It was well planned because usually these things happen like immediately after you record the episode. [01:48.000 –> 01:53.000] So you’ve clearly nailed the timing after four years of doing the show. [01:53.000 –> 01:57.000] We’ll see. Let’s see what happens after this recording. [01:59.000 –> 02:02.000] Alright cool so we’re going to talk all about those new games. [02:02.000 –> 02:07.000] We’ve got some other news that isn’t new game related which we’ll go over. [02:07.000 –> 02:09.000] But first of all Johnny what have you been up to? [02:09.000 –> 02:12.000] Well Al there’s this new game I don’t know if you’ve heard of it. [02:12.000 –> 02:17.000] It’s called The Legend of Zelda and it’s very good. [02:17.000 –> 02:20.000] I know you’ve been playing it a whole ton. [02:20.000 –> 02:30.000] I’m pretty sure you’re well ahead of where I am but kind of anytime I have time I am playing the new Zelda and I love it. [02:30.000 –> 02:35.000] It’s like I know people are going crazy and saying it’s maybe the best game ever made. [02:35.000 –> 02:38.000] Those people are probably accurate it’s probably the best game ever made. [02:38.000 –> 02:45.000] I always like I’m not saying it’s not the best game ever made right because I’m saying I’m not willing to say that. [02:45.000 –> 02:51.000] I’m not I’m not willing to say it is the best game purely because like I don’t even know what that means. [02:51.000 –> 02:54.000] Right like how do you define the best game? [02:54.000 –> 02:56.000] So I can I can answer this question. [02:56.000 –> 03:02.000] So you think of a game and that game is better than all of the other games. [03:02.000 –> 03:04.000] That game is the best game. [03:04.000 –> 03:11.000] What does it mean to be better like this is it is very subjective right like I think there are plenty of people. [03:11.000 –> 03:16.000] None of them are apparently on my friends list because almost everyone on my friends list on the switch is playing it. [03:16.000 –> 03:24.000] But there are people who don’t like this type of game right and so that that would be a subjective thing to them. [03:24.000 –> 03:26.000] They would not enjoy that kind of game. [03:26.000 –> 03:32.000] Yeah I think what I personally really like about Zelda is just how open it is right. [03:32.000 –> 03:40.000] It took the concept from Breath of the Wild of kind of go anywhere and do anything into actually do anything. [03:40.000 –> 03:53.000] The ultra hand mechanic that’s kind of the huge innovation that makes this game not just Breath of the Wild 1.5. [03:53.000 –> 03:55.000] Yeah I would agree. [03:55.000 –> 04:00.000] I think it’s funny there’s two things I find really funny about people playing this game. [04:00.000 –> 04:04.000] And they do something crazy and they’re like oh they’d never know we do this. [04:04.000 –> 04:10.000] And I’m like no maybe not specifically that but like do you think they didn’t have this sort of thing in mind when they designed this feature. [04:10.000 –> 04:16.000] Do you really think that they were designing this feature for you to make a boat to go across a river. [04:16.000 –> 04:17.000] Of course they not. [04:17.000 –> 04:20.000] They knew that this would be incredible on social media. [04:20.000 –> 04:24.000] People would make these insane things and it would get them so much positive. [04:24.000 –> 04:28.000] They knew that come on like we know that these people know how to make games right. [04:28.000 –> 04:33.000] They’ve made two games in a row that people are saying are the best game ever made. [04:33.000 –> 04:39.000] Right like they know what they’re doing they absolutely knew what people would do with this. [04:39.000 –> 04:45.000] And the other thing is when people do like a shrine and they’re like oh this is not the proper way to do this shrine. [04:45.000 –> 04:48.000] And I’m like there is no proper way that’s the point. [04:48.000 –> 04:52.000] Right like there is an intended solution to make sure you can get through the shrine. [04:53.000 –> 04:58.000] But they’re totally open to you cheesing the hell out of the shrine if that is the way that you get through it. [04:58.000 –> 05:06.000] Like I’m at the point where I’ve got over a hundred shrines now and anytime I go into a shrine that has one of those like pressure sensitive things that you’re meant to do something with a ball. [05:06.000 –> 05:08.000] I’m like no no and I just shoot it with a bomb arrow. [05:08.000 –> 05:15.000] I’m done with those I’m fine with just just getting through like absolutely like that there’s no specific way to do these things. [05:15.000 –> 05:20.000] And it’s like even with some shrines there isn’t actually like a clear intended thing. [05:20.000 –> 05:22.000] Like there’s multiple different ways to do it. [05:22.000 –> 05:29.000] I think with a lot of them there is like here’s the way that this is like the as you say suggested way to do it. [05:29.000 –> 05:32.000] But I think there are even shrines that that’s not the case. [05:32.000 –> 05:37.000] Yeah that wouldn’t surprise me I’ve only done about 30 so um yeah you know. [05:37.000 –> 05:43.000] Relatively speaking I’m not that far in and it would not surprise me if there’s there’s shrines like that. [05:43.000 –> 05:48.000] And you know I was talking to some friends about Zelda last night and they haven’t played it yet. [05:48.000 –> 05:52.000] And they were asking you know because I’m off doing all of the side stuff and haven’t done any of the main story. [05:52.000 –> 05:54.000] They’re like but won’t you be overpowered when you come back to the story? [05:54.000 –> 06:01.000] It’s like no that’s not really a thing like yes you know I might have some powerful weapons by the time I come back. [06:01.000 –> 06:06.000] But it’s not like the combat is the gating in this game really I don’t find. [06:06.000 –> 06:12.000] No if you’ve played Breath of the Wild and you got good at the combat in Breath of the Wild you’re already overpowered for this game. [06:13.000 –> 06:27.000] Right like and sure you can get new weapon and stuff but you can get like the best weapon and the best bow and the best shield almost immediately in the game if you cared about it. [06:27.000 –> 06:30.000] Right they’re like they’re right there you can go and get them. [06:30.000 –> 06:31.000] Yep. [06:31.000 –> 06:40.000] Like nothing’s stopping you and so much if you are good at dodge this is the thing about Breath of the Wild this is actually why I love the combat in these games. [06:40.000 –> 06:46.000] Is if you are good at dodging you can beat any enemy with almost any weapon. [06:46.000 –> 06:50.000] It’ll take longer if you have lower powered weapons obviously you might get a bit bored. [06:50.000 –> 06:54.000] But you can if you’re good at it you can do anything with any of these enemies. [06:54.000 –> 07:00.000] Yeah and the thing I like right because I am not particularly good at the dodging mechanics I don’t have great timing. [07:00.000 –> 07:12.000] But even I can like there’s ways to cheese around the combat right and so I can go like I’ve gone and taken on some stuff that’s you know technically a lot more difficult than the quality of the weapons should let me beat. [07:12.000 –> 07:23.000] But with all of the ability to build stuff and bomb arrows and like all of the weapon fusing stuff you can get through some pretty difficult battles you know pretty easily if you want. [07:23.000 –> 07:37.000] Yeah just bomb everything and especially if you if you get to the point where you’ve got you know a significant number of batteries for the Zonai stuff you can make some pretty dangerous weapons with the with like the charge beams and stuff like that. [07:37.000 –> 07:49.000] Like you can I saw someone and someone defeated one of the glioks with literally 30 seconds with with a Zonai weapon. [07:49.000 –> 07:53.000] Like they’re just some of them you can make insanely overpowered things. [07:53.000 –> 08:07.000] Yeah and for me this is the most ridiculous thing about this game is so last night I finally kind of went into the underground so you know explored and done a lot of the towers and done some of the sky islands. [08:07.000 –> 08:14.000] And I’d done like just that very intro quest where you get the camera in the underground and that was all I had done. [08:15.000 –> 08:25.000] And I was like oh maybe I should go into the underground and do like the the second quest that’s that’s down there or the second quest that you get given to go down there and spend the entire night down there. [08:25.000 –> 08:38.000] And why is the underground so fun and like because to me it’s this thing that didn’t even need to be in the game right if they were just like here’s Breath of the Wild plus Sky Islands everyone would have been like great this game is amazing. [08:38.000 –> 08:54.000] Yeah and then they put this entire third map into the game and it wasn’t even the big promotion part and it’s so good it has no right to be that much fun to explore and just I don’t know it’s it’s amazing. [08:55.000 –> 09:03.000] And there’s also there’s there’s there’s are obviously like there’s loads of enemies down there that are just like the normal version but with gloom on them which is fine. [09:03.000 –> 09:12.000] Like people get annoyed about these I don’t think that’s a problem like I actually quite like that because it’s like it’s playing around with the usual enemies and making you have to think about them differently. [09:12.000 –> 09:20.000] But there are also completely exclusive enemies down there as well that you only get in the depths that you wouldn’t find anywhere else, which is fun as well. [09:20.000 –> 09:31.000] Yeah and I’m not really impacted by the like I’m like gloom enemies I’m running minimum hearts so they’re not that different to the regular enemies from my perspective. [09:32.000 –> 09:35.000] Run away. Run away and bomb them. [09:37.000 –> 09:41.000] Yeah yeah definitely avoid the the gloom Lionel. [09:41.000 –> 09:54.000] Yeah this is not a podcast about Zelda so we’re going to stop talking about this just now and we will be doing I guarantee you we will be doing a greenhouse episode about Zelda because I think we have a lot more to talk about it. [09:54.000 –> 10:02.000] So look out for that probably a couple of weeks but it will come out but yeah okay cool anything else other than Zelda? [10:03.000 –> 10:20.000] As usual just being you know Marvel snapping up a storm it’s still a really good game I have no idea what they’re trying to do in order to monetize this game because other than season passes like I just look at the bundles that they release and I just am so fascinated by who would be picking up these things. [10:20.000 –> 10:40.000] I think it’s I think it’s I think the season pass is for most people who will if you’re going to put any money and you’re going to do the season pass right like that is that is the thing to do I think the bundles are for for the whales right the whales will spend a ridiculous amount of money and they’ll do whatever it’s like oh yeah I’ll drop 50 quid for that of course like some people. [10:40.000 –> 10:44.000] I would say in most games I am a whale and it’s too much for me. [10:45.000 –> 11:04.000] I feel like probably we just don’t fully understand what whales are like whales are not like oh yeah I’ve put in 200 quid this year right like that’s not a whale that’s that’s a decent chunk of money but it’s not a whale a whale is like yeah all my free money is going in this you know. [11:04.000 –> 11:33.000] I guess by that definition I’m definitely not but I mean I yeah it’s their pricing is insane but High Evolutionary just came out which is a very fun card has you know really taken over the meta game for the last few days and I may have been a horrible person and gone back to playing Galactus just really effectively dunks on all of these High Evolutionary decks but High Evolutionary is a really fun card and like just the design that I’ve been doing with Marvel Snap has been really really good. [11:33.000 –> 11:46.000] They’ve been making a bunch of sort of small tweaks on a weekly basis which has been awesome for the meta game and yeah I just I really like it as a little fun game that kind of just keeps ticking over. [11:46.000 –> 11:53.000] I thought I would have bounced off by now but I’m really still feeling it so I love Snap. Are you still snapping Al? [11:54.000 –> 12:14.000] Not regularly. I pop in every so often and do stuff but I’ve not really done for the last couple of weeks. I still it’s I think I mentioned this last time we were we were chatting about it is like I try so hard to be the type of person that will just play a game for 10 minutes a day but it just is not me and I have never managed to do that. [12:14.000 –> 12:30.000] So like I’m either playing a game or I’m not playing a game so no like well this is the thing like even with Zelda right like I can do something in 10 minutes so why wouldn’t I do something in 10 minutes like it’s not like a game where once you start you’re in it for an hour. [12:30.000 –> 12:41.000] No it absolutely is because it’s the sort of game where you start with a thing in mind and then doing the thing that you had in mind takes so long because you get distracted doing a million other things. [12:41.000 –> 12:53.000] Yeah, so anytime I’m so I think my point is like anytime I would possibly pay Snap I’m just playing Zelda instead right and if I was playing Snap I’d be like why am I not playing Zelda because I’m enjoying that game. [12:53.000 –> 13:08.000] So I’ve been playing a lot of Zelda I was just double checking my switch says I’ve been played for over 70 hours on Zelda now, which is kind of stupid considering it’s been two weeks and that’s nearly a full time job. [13:09.000 –> 13:12.000] Over two weeks. [13:12.000 –> 13:23.000] So, yeah, I suspect I’m probably pretty close to the ADHD burnout part of the first play of Tears of the Kingdom. [13:23.000 –> 13:28.000] So I suspect at some point in the next week I will end up putting it down for a few months. [13:28.000 –> 13:37.000] But we’ll see. That is how I play my games. I have to do it as much as possible because I know the end is coming where my brain tells me I’m done for now. [13:37.000 –> 13:51.000] Yeah, see I think I’ll be playing this game for like the rest of the year and it’s a shame because I’m looking at other games that are coming up and coming out and I’m just like, I don’t know how I’m going to find time for these games around Zelda because that’s just me for the rest of the year I think. [13:51.000 –> 13:58.000] I’ll keep coming back to it but I don’t think I’ll be playing as much as I have done just now over the next month. [13:58.000 –> 14:03.000] I would hope not. That feels like an unsustainable pace for the rest of the year. [14:03.000 –> 14:06.000] 35 hours a week for every week. [14:06.000 –> 14:10.000] And we need new episodes of this show to come out. [14:11.000 –> 14:22.000] I’ve got a game I need to play this week for next week’s episode so I definitely won’t be playing 35 hours this week because that is literally all, you know, any second of free time I have that 35 hours. [14:22.000 –> 14:25.000] Oh man, that’s a lot of time. [14:25.000 –> 14:34.000] Or the other thing is obviously I’ve not been playing it but I watched the PlayStation Showcase on Wednesday and I’m very excited for Spider-Man coming out. [14:34.000 –> 14:36.000] I believe you mean Spider-Man 2. [14:36.000 –> 14:38.000] Do we need to get into this? [14:38.000 –> 14:43.000] We don’t need to. I just, you know, I know how much you love that name so I just wanted to make sure we were… [14:43.000 –> 14:52.000] So what I said to you before the Showcase, Johnny, was if they announce a release date and they haven’t given us a new name I’m accepting that that’s the name. [14:52.000 –> 14:56.000] They haven’t given us a release date. They didn’t give us a release date on Wednesday. [14:56.000 –> 14:58.000] I don’t know why they’ve not given us a release date, right? [14:58.000 –> 15:03.000] Like, this game is probably like four months away and they’ve not given us a release date. [15:04.000 –> 15:06.000] So I’m still not accepting it, right? [15:06.000 –> 15:09.000] It’s the third game. Well, what sixth game actually? [15:09.000 –> 15:11.000] Do you live in denial? [15:11.000 –> 15:13.000] I do. I do live in denial. [15:13.000 –> 15:21.000] But it looks like a good game. I’m excited. It looks like there’s a bigger area. It looks like there’s a ridiculous number of enemies as usual. [15:21.000 –> 15:23.000] I don’t know how they managed to stick so many enemies in. [15:23.000 –> 15:30.000] I’m really interested to see whether the Green Goblin is actually in it because they teased that in a previous game but they didn’t show anything about that. [15:30.000 –> 15:34.000] So maybe he’ll be like a surprise endgame boss or something like that. [15:34.000 –> 15:41.000] But then if he is in it, you’ve got Lizard, you’ve got Kraven, you’ve got Green Goblin. [15:41.000 –> 15:45.000] Like, that’s quite a lot of enemies to start with and there’s no way it will just be the three of them, right? [15:45.000 –> 15:48.000] Because of Venom, of course, as well. What’s going to happen with the Venom stuff? [15:48.000 –> 15:58.000] I’m really interested in that because at the beginning of the trailer it looks like Peter is just kind of like, you know, bonded with Venom and just quite happy and just going on with his life. [15:58.000 –> 16:03.000] But then there’s a weird bit at the end where you’re like, oh yeah, things are clearly not okay there. [16:03.000 –> 16:08.000] And so how are things going with that? I thought it was weird halfway through. I was like, why is Peter so okay with this? [16:08.000 –> 16:15.000] Like, he’s not acting weird. He’s just kind of doing things but he’s got new abilities. [16:15.000 –> 16:21.000] And I’m intrigued to see how that happens because they cannot do the thing where he overcomes Venom and gets rid of Venom. [16:21.000 –> 16:26.000] Because then Peter becomes less useful a Spider-Man than Miles, right? [16:26.000 –> 16:37.000] They can’t do that. They have to have a point where you can be playing both of them and they both have different abilities but both on top of what the base Spider-Man abilities were in the first game. [16:37.000 –> 16:48.000] And so what are they going to do with that story? Are they just going to get to the point where he’s just okay with Venom and Venom’s not causing Peter any issues? I don’t know. I’m intrigued to see. [16:48.000 –> 16:58.000] And it’s going to be interesting to see, right? Because in theory having the two Spider-Men to play as means that they could go in a direction where it’s like… [16:58.000 –> 17:11.000] I don’t want to say less fun but maybe have a little bit more of a loss of control feeling with the Venom thing which is okay because you can always go back to Miles if you want the more classic Spider-Man experience, I guess. [17:11.000 –> 17:13.000] So it’ll be interesting to see how they do that. [17:13.000 –> 17:24.000] Yeah, I mean Miles has different abilities. This is where I get really annoyed. The abilities they gave Miles in the second game was called Venom ability. [17:24.000 –> 17:33.000] So you’ve got Miles who has Venom and Peter who has Venom but they’re different Venoms. I don’t know why they’re different. [17:33.000 –> 17:41.000] Just don’t think about it too hard. Maybe that’s why this is Spider-Man 2. It’s technically a sequel but don’t think too hard about the first one. [17:41.000 –> 17:47.000] So the other thing I’m intrigued about is how they’re going to do that you can play as either Spider-Man. [17:47.000 –> 17:55.000] Is it going to be you can choose whichever one you want for a specific situation or is it going to be you switch between them as your story goes but they decide when you switch? [17:55.000 –> 18:03.000] It’s not quite clear from the thing that we had. There was a point where they switched and it kind of showed it kind of like it could be. [18:03.000 –> 18:13.000] Oh this is now the time that we switch or it could be like oh it was just kind of hinting that you could switch now by the way if you wanted but they could actually do it at any point. [18:13.000 –> 18:32.000] I’m intrigued with that. I’m kind of like and this goes back to the Zelda conversation right like I’m not a huge fan of puzzle games in general or puzzles in games because I quite often feel like they are expecting me to have a very specific thing to do and I don’t find that fun like oh I need to figure out what they want me to do. [18:33.000 –> 18:51.000] That’s not fun puzzle to me and I suspect we might end up in a situation where you’re like oh you can only do this with Peter or you can only do this with Miles and you have to figure out which one they want you to do because only Venom’s ability can do this bit or only the Venom ability can do this bit. [18:51.000 –> 19:10.000] Right like it doesn’t I don’t find that sort of fun and that’s why I love Zelda so much is because like it doesn’t matter what they wanted you to do you can do whatever that’s fun puzzle to me it’s like figure out a way to solve this not figure out our jigsaw right like it’s not a one size fits all thing. [19:10.000 –> 19:20.000] Yeah my assumption was going to be that you could kind of free switch if you were just doing the open world stuff but there might be certain missions that are Miles or Peter. [19:21.000 –> 19:38.000] That would be likely I think yeah but that still leads me towards the assumption that there’s going to be puzzles that only work with one or the other and that stuff just annoys me that’s not a puzzle right that’s just like oh you just need to remember to switch like that’s not fun. [19:38.000 –> 19:39.000] But no anyway. [19:39.000 –> 20:03.000] No like I’m with you on puzzles right like and it’s one of the hard things about puzzles and games is when they have specific solutions and then you look it up and so many times it’s like you get stuck on something and it’s often because you’ve worked out how to solve the puzzle but you didn’t do step 2a that you have to do to technically get all of the right pieces in place and it’s just like just recognize that I understand how to solve the puzzle and let me move on. [20:03.000 –> 20:11.000] Yeah yeah anyway I think that might be our longest what have you been up to section so should we get on to some news? [20:11.000 –> 20:12.000] Let’s do it. [20:12.000 –> 20:28.000] So first of all we have an update on the route to patch situation in that the game is back on steam now and the the two companies the dev team so did them then and the publishers is it critical critical? [20:28.000 –> 20:29.000] Cretivo? [20:30.000 –> 20:33.000] Thank you for suggesting a third pronunciation. [20:33.000 –> 20:47.000] Well anyway doesn’t doesn’t matter the two of them have amicably parted ways under terms that are mutually beneficial and I hope you heard the air quotes in that. [20:48.000 –> 21:03.000] I mean the statement that they put out on twitter is very clearly a statement that was written by lawyers and I don’t think we’ll hear anything more about went on behind the scenes and to be honest we don’t need to hear more. [21:03.000 –> 21:09.000] It’s good that it’s available back on steam and it sounds like there’s a way forward which is awesome. [21:09.000 –> 21:23.000] Probably for me the other piece of news that was interesting coming out of this just in some of the twitter replies from the routes of parcher twitter is that the team’s actively working on a roadmap that they’re hoping to put out next week. [21:23.000 –> 21:31.000] So that should cover things like when routes of parcher is likely to come to consoles as well as new content. [21:31.000 –> 21:33.000] Yeah yeah I agree fun. [21:33.000 –> 21:36.000] But if you want to know more about routes of parcher listen to last week’s episode. [21:36.000 –> 21:46.000] Yes yeah great episode by Cody and Kev on the game and I said before that I was going to listen to it to decide whether I wanted to buy the game. [21:46.000 –> 21:54.000] The answer is yes but probably not yet purely because I have so much going on in terms of games. [21:54.000 –> 21:57.000] As the rest of the news section will show. [21:57.000 –> 21:59.000] That is exactly where I landed. [21:59.000 –> 22:05.000] I was like I’m excited for this to come out on consoles in like three months when hopefully I have some time to play it. [22:05.000 –> 22:13.000] Yeah yeah yeah maybe this could become my like summer game where I play it when I’m on holiday and I don’t really have any other things. [22:13.000 –> 22:19.000] Because like for those who haven’t listened to the podcast before there’s like a month in the summer where I’m away. [22:19.000 –> 22:28.000] I’m not on holiday I’m doing some things for some of the weeks and I’m working for the other weeks but I’m not at home and I don’t want to have to deal with the podcast so we pre-record a bunch of episodes. [22:28.000 –> 22:38.000] I’ll have like a month and a little bit of just like not needing to think about other games for the podcast so it might be nice to do that then but we’ll see. [22:38.000 –> 22:42.000] Next we have the date for the Wholesome Direct. [22:42.000 –> 22:52.000] So we knew this was coming but we we now have the date it is going to be on Saturday the 10th of June or Sunday for some people. [22:53.000 –> 23:02.000] Saturday the 10th of June in America and Europe and Sunday in well probably I don’t know where the line will be based on the time. [23:02.000 –> 23:04.000] It will definitely be Sunday in New Zealand. [23:04.000 –> 23:12.000] It’s the great thing about living here is anytime you see a date announced for something you can say okay I’ll just make that one day later on the calendar because that’s when it actually will be happening for us. [23:12.000 –> 23:16.000] Yeah I hadn’t actually noticed the time before 9 a.m. Pacific. [23:16.000 –> 23:22.000] That is 5 p.m. for me. Ah the worst time. The worst time. [23:22.000 –> 23:28.000] Literally that is the worst time for me because if it’s earlier than that I can do it while I’m working. [23:28.000 –> 23:37.000] If it’s in that two hour period between five and seven that is the period that I’m dealing with my kids. [23:37.000 –> 23:46.000] I’m getting them tea I’m getting them ready for bed I’m getting them into bed 7 p.m. and later that’s that works before 5 p.m. that works five and seven that doesn’t really annoying. [23:46.000 –> 23:47.000] Whatever. [23:47.000 –> 23:55.000] I think what’s most concerning about this Wholesome Games thing is that they’re going to have footage from over 70 games. [23:55.000 –> 23:57.000] Yeah I mean most of those you won’t care about. [23:57.000 –> 23:59.000] Too many games. [23:59.000 –> 24:05.000] Most of those you will not care about because I guarantee you because I think that’s roughly the same number they had last year. [24:05.000 –> 24:12.000] And I think we ended up having like six to talk about on the podcast and out of those you’d probably not care about three of them so. [24:12.000 –> 24:17.000] 70 games that’s just too many games coming out we need we need less games. [24:17.000 –> 24:24.000] This isn’t even all the games right this is just they would they will have turned down about half of them again. [24:24.000 –> 24:30.000] Well hopefully there’s something for everybody in the Wholesome. [24:31.000 –> 24:36.000] Yes and we will do an episode talking about everything that was in it. [24:36.000 –> 24:38.000] Hopefully. [24:38.000 –> 24:40.000] That is a busy day for me. [24:40.000 –> 24:43.000] Oh wait it’s a Saturday it doesn’t matter about when work is. [24:43.000 –> 24:45.000] I’m an idiot. [24:45.000 –> 24:49.000] Well now that we’ve come full circle on that one. [24:49.000 –> 24:51.000] Shall we talk about Snakes? [24:51.000 –> 24:53.000] Yeah why not. [24:53.000 –> 24:55.000] Which is now verified for the Steam Deck. [24:55.000 –> 24:57.000] Which is awesome. [24:57.000 –> 24:59.000] And it’s out now right? [24:59.000 –> 25:01.000] It is. It is. [25:01.000 –> 25:03.000] As you’re listening to this it came out a week ago. [25:03.000 –> 25:05.000] It came out on Wednesday. [25:05.000 –> 25:08.000] And it looks great on the screenshot that they’ve got. [25:08.000 –> 25:12.000] Oh it’s not a screenshot it’s a photo of a Bob Snakes running on the Steam Deck. [25:12.000 –> 25:14.000] Same thing right? [25:14.000 –> 25:17.000] Just a poor man’s screenshot. [25:19.000 –> 25:21.000] Yeah that’s exciting. [25:21.000 –> 25:33.000] Yes I will play this at some point but I can’t play it just now because I kickstarted for the Switch version which isn’t out yet and they have not replied to me about switching my key to Steam. [25:33.000 –> 25:40.000] So if anyone from Above Snakes is listening and I’ve sent you a message please give me a Steam key. [25:40.000 –> 25:43.000] Also please give us a release date for the Switch. [25:43.000 –> 25:47.000] Even if it’s like ages I would just like some detail on when. [25:47.000 –> 25:52.000] Because I really want to play Above Snakes and there has not been any detail on when it’s actually going to come out on the Switch. [25:52.000 –> 25:54.000] 100% it won’t be this year. [25:56.000 –> 25:59.000] But it was on my 2023 like most anticipated list Al. [25:59.000 –> 26:04.000] Yeah. Don’t blame me. I am not a developer. [26:04.000 –> 26:07.000] You are the closest thing I know to the developer though so. [26:07.000 –> 26:13.000] That is a very very low bar. [26:15.000 –> 26:17.000] I have talked about it. [26:17.000 –> 26:19.000] Exactly. Exactly. [26:19.000 –> 26:24.000] Next we have Coral Island. The Summer update is out now. [26:24.000 –> 26:28.000] And I am not going to play it yet. I’ve got too many things to do. [26:29.000 –> 26:35.000] But I am very excited for this because it unlocks the final bit of the mines. [26:35.000 –> 26:41.000] I was waiting for it to update because I need to get into that fire gate and get that last giant out of there. [26:41.000 –> 26:44.000] Get some Osmium ore. [26:44.000 –> 26:49.000] You’ve got to be most excited for the chicken steer off in the cow racing right? [26:49.000 –> 26:53.000] Yes. So it adds three animal festivals. [26:54.000 –> 26:57.000] Rodeo challenge. Test your skills on a mechanical bull. [26:57.000 –> 27:01.000] Chicken steer off. See who’s chicken has the strongest steer. [27:01.000 –> 27:05.000] Okay. And cow race. Find out which cow is the fastest in town. [27:05.000 –> 27:08.000] Because of course as we all know the best animal to race is cows. [27:08.000 –> 27:12.000] Yeah. Absolutely. I love the idea of a chicken steer off. [27:12.000 –> 27:14.000] Because I don’t know if you are aware of this. [27:14.000 –> 27:17.000] It’s kind of like an old wives tale but I’ve seen it happen a few times. [27:17.000 –> 27:19.000] But you can actually hypnotize chickens. [27:19.000 –> 27:21.000] Yes. You can. [27:21.000 –> 27:26.000] Oh okay. Amazing. Because usually when I say this to people they look at me like I’m just growing an extra head. [27:26.000 –> 27:29.000] No it’s 100% real. It’s 100% real. [27:29.000 –> 27:32.000] I have not done it because it’s very mean. [27:32.000 –> 27:36.000] But I did used to have some chickens that I took care of. [27:36.000 –> 27:40.000] And I am aware that the hypnotizing is real. [27:40.000 –> 27:43.000] It’s weird and mean but real. [27:43.000 –> 27:48.000] But if you want your chicken to win the chicken steer off I would suggest hypnotizing it. [27:48.000 –> 27:50.000] That might be a good place to start. [27:50.000 –> 27:53.000] They also chickens have very stable heads. [27:53.000 –> 27:55.000] They work very much like a gimbal. [27:55.000 –> 27:58.000] So you can strap a camera to a chickens head and it’s going to be a very stable video. [27:58.000 –> 27:59.000] Interesting. [27:59.000 –> 28:01.000] Obviously it has to be quite a small camera. [28:01.000 –> 28:04.000] You’re not sticking a red camera on it. [28:04.000 –> 28:07.000] Like one of the GoPro Minis would probably work. [28:07.000 –> 28:13.000] Yeah. Wow. Who was expecting actual animal facts on this here? [28:13.000 –> 28:16.000] It makes me sound like I was an actual farmer. No. [28:16.000 –> 28:19.000] I just had 12 chickens. That’s not unusual is it? [28:19.000 –> 28:22.000] Well look I’m from New Zealand so no that’s not unusual. [28:22.000 –> 28:26.000] But I’m not sure how much that translates to the rest of Ella’s in the bays. [28:26.000 –> 28:28.000] Chickens are such fun. [28:28.000 –> 28:35.000] You know what I find most funny is people get really confused en masse when you talk about the fact that chickens can fly. [28:35.000 –> 28:38.000] What do you mean chickens can fly? Chickens can fly. [28:38.000 –> 28:43.000] The reason you don’t see them flying in farms is because they clip their wings. [28:43.000 –> 28:47.000] They’re birds. They’re not ostriches. They can fly. [28:47.000 –> 28:49.000] Maybe not the most efficient flies. [28:49.000 –> 28:53.000] No they are not. They look a lot like pigeons when they fly. [28:53.000 –> 28:56.000] And you’re like how on earth are you staying in the air? [28:56.000 –> 29:05.000] Although it’s really funny even when you clip their wings they can still use the wings to jump like six or seven feet high. [29:05.000 –> 29:10.000] So still can escape most things without a roof. [29:10.000 –> 29:16.000] Or you can occasionally see when they get onto the roof of their chicken poop which is really fun to confuse townies. [29:16.000 –> 29:20.000] Ah fun times. Moving on from the chicken conversation. [29:20.000 –> 29:26.000] Yeah there’s lots of stuff. One thing that I am very interested in that I wasn’t aware that was coming was sprinkler attachments. [29:26.000 –> 29:31.000] So you can upgrade your sprinklers to have auto seed and auto fertilize on them as well. [29:31.000 –> 29:33.000] And yes yes yes yes. [29:33.000 –> 29:37.000] And that’s something I’m surprised we haven’t seen in more farming games. [29:37.000 –> 29:43.000] Because it feels like one of those automation things that should be in a number of games. [29:43.000 –> 29:48.000] I know it was in Ooblets with the Oobcoops. Still the best feature of that game. [29:48.000 –> 29:53.000] And so it’s good to see it here because it’s just one of those things that I’m surprised doesn’t make its way into more games. [29:53.000 –> 29:57.000] Yeah I think Ooblets had the most. So they had you can basically do everything. [29:57.000 –> 30:03.000] As long as you put seeds in the Oobcoop, the little storage, they will do everything you need. [30:03.000 –> 30:09.000] And Stardew had you could get the the juvenile hut and they would go and harvest. [30:09.000 –> 30:12.000] But I don’t think they would ever plant or fertilize. [30:12.000 –> 30:14.000] No they would not. [30:14.000 –> 30:19.000] So I don’t know of any other game where you can plant automatically and there’s possibly a fertilizing one. [30:19.000 –> 30:24.000] But I can’t think that I’ve just got in the niggling in the back of my brain that says there’s one that has an automatic fertilizing. [30:24.000 –> 30:26.000] But I can’t think of what it is. [30:26.000 –> 30:29.000] No neither. But exciting that this is coming to Coral Island. [30:29.000 –> 30:36.000] Yes yes go go play the summer update Bev. Bev it’s time go play go play more Coral Island. [30:36.000 –> 30:39.000] Next we have Harvest Moon the Winds of Anthos. [30:39.000 –> 30:44.000] We are this game I’m I still I don’t know what to think of this game. [30:44.000 –> 30:46.000] Let’s let’s go through. [30:46.000 –> 30:50.000] We have to accept we’re excited for this game that is that is where we are at now Al. [30:50.000 –> 30:52.000] Some level of excitement certainly. [30:52.000 –> 30:55.000] Look let’s go through the easy the easy and clearly exciting stuff. [30:55.000 –> 30:57.000] The plush is out. They’ve decided what the plush is for this game. [30:57.000 –> 31:00.000] It is a sleeping cow. It’s amazing. [31:00.000 –> 31:02.000] It’s the best. [31:02.000 –> 31:04.000] It’s good. It’s good. [31:04.000 –> 31:08.000] Their cows are still not as good as the story of Seasons cows but it’s still a very good cow. [31:08.000 –> 31:12.000] You can pre-order the game now and get that plush. [31:12.000 –> 31:20.000] I believe if you pre-order on the Natsume website there’s a second pre-order bonus that they haven’t announced yet. [31:20.000 –> 31:23.000] Can’t pre-order outside the US as far as I can see. [31:23.000 –> 31:27.000] Certainly can’t here and almost certainly you won’t be able to Johnny. [31:27.000 –> 31:29.000] No I definitely cannot. [31:29.000 –> 31:33.000] Not that you’re going to because you are strongly against pre-ordering games. [31:33.000 –> 31:38.000] Well when there’s a pre-order bonus it can become flexible for that cow plush. [31:38.000 –> 31:41.000] To be honest if I could I probably would. [31:41.000 –> 31:43.000] That is a good cow plush. [31:43.000 –> 31:45.000] What else have we got this long list. [31:45.000 –> 31:49.000] So we’ve got the consoles now because I think previously it just said PC and console. [31:49.000 –> 32:00.000] So now it’s officially coming to Switch, PS5, PS4 and the Xbox series and of course on Steam. [32:00.000 –> 32:09.000] We’ve got a new screenshot of the player character meeting a tiny harvest goddess. [32:09.000 –> 32:17.000] Yeah this looks like a screenshot from a Harvest Moon game. That’s what I have to say about that. [32:17.000 –> 32:22.000] I will say it’s continuing to look in my opinion as good as the previous screenshots. [32:22.000 –> 32:25.000] I really like this art style. I think it’s done really well. [32:25.000 –> 32:31.000] We’re gonna not know until we actually see some footage and then get our hands on the game. [32:31.000 –> 32:37.000] Whether it actually is like that or whether they’ve just really given us very specific screenshots. [32:37.000 –> 32:40.000] And we got release date 26th of September. [32:40.000 –> 32:44.000] So really stretching the definition of summer there. [32:44.000 –> 32:47.000] Yeah I mean they’re pushing it right till the end right? [32:47.000 –> 32:51.000] It depends how you like I will die on this hill. [32:51.000 –> 32:56.000] People talk about summer and spring like they are clearly defined seasons. [32:56.000 –> 33:01.000] There are at least four definitions of the seasons if you ignore the southern hemisphere. [33:01.000 –> 33:04.000] These things are really not clear. [33:04.000 –> 33:13.000] In fact I just double checked this doesn’t even fit in the summer definition that people have. [33:13.000 –> 33:20.000] The summer definition that is most commonly used actually finishes summer at the 23rd of September. [33:20.000 –> 33:23.000] No one actually thinks that way Al. [33:23.000 –> 33:26.000] But people just go by months. It’s easier to go by months. [33:26.000 –> 33:29.000] But this is the thing. Oh my word. [33:29.000 –> 33:35.000] No definition includes the 26th of September in summer right? [33:35.000 –> 33:37.000] Which one? [33:37.000 –> 33:40.000] The definition of summer is July, August, September. [33:40.000 –> 33:42.000] What definition is that? [33:42.000 –> 33:44.000] It’s not a definition of summer. [33:44.000 –> 33:46.000] Literally just made up to prove my point. [33:46.000 –> 33:50.000] So the astronomical season which to me is just wild. [33:50.000 –> 33:58.000] Which goes from the summer solstice to the autumn equinox is wild to me. [33:58.000 –> 34:04.000] Because the idea that like the longest day of the year is the start of summer is bizarre. [34:04.000 –> 34:07.000] To me that’s the middle of summer not the start of it right? [34:07.000 –> 34:09.000] And I don’t understand why you would ever use that. [34:09.000 –> 34:14.000] But if we leave that one aside there’s the meteorological season which is also commonly used. [34:14.000 –> 34:19.000] Goes from the 1st of June to the 31st of August. Doesn’t include the 26th of September. [34:19.000 –> 34:21.000] And then there’s the one that I prefer. [34:21.000 –> 34:24.000] Well of the generally used ones this is the one I prefer. [34:24.000 –> 34:28.000] I actually have a much more radical definition of the seasons. [34:28.000 –> 34:30.000] But this one is May, June, July. [34:30.000 –> 34:33.000] I think that makes much more sense to me as a summer. [34:33.000 –> 34:36.000] That’s the Celtic seasons. [34:36.000 –> 34:40.000] But none of these definitions include the 26th of September. [34:40.000 –> 34:41.000] It’s not summer. [34:41.000 –> 34:43.000] I agree it’s not summer. [34:44.000 –> 34:45.000] It’s the… [34:48.000 –> 34:49.000] Anyway. [34:50.000 –> 34:51.000] My word. Sorry. [34:51.000 –> 34:53.000] Did not mean to get into a rant about seasons. [34:53.000 –> 34:54.000] These things just happen. [34:54.000 –> 34:57.000] Seasons are stupid. Stop pretending like they’re clearly defined. [34:57.000 –> 35:01.000] Anyway, Harvest Moon, Winds of Anthos, release date 26th of September. [35:01.000 –> 35:02.000] Not summer. [35:02.000 –> 35:03.000] Yes, not summer. [35:03.000 –> 35:04.000] Stop saying it’s summer. [35:06.000 –> 35:07.000] Cool. [35:07.000 –> 35:09.000] Let’s see what comes out of that game. [35:10.000 –> 35:16.000] The last non-new game news is Everdream Valley is releasing on the 30th of September. [35:16.000 –> 35:20.000] This is where everyone goes, oh, I forgot about that game. [35:20.000 –> 35:21.000] So there you go. [35:21.000 –> 35:23.000] That was literally my responses. [35:23.000 –> 35:25.000] Oh, I forgot about this game. [35:25.000 –> 35:26.000] Fun fact, right? [35:26.000 –> 35:29.000] You can buy this game just now. [35:29.000 –> 35:30.000] They’re calling it pre-purchase. [35:30.000 –> 35:34.000] But if you buy the game now, you get access to it now before the release date. [35:36.000 –> 35:37.000] Okay. [35:37.000 –> 35:39.000] We’ve officially gone too far. [35:41.000 –> 35:42.000] Just buy the game. [35:42.000 –> 35:43.000] Isn’t that just… [35:43.000 –> 35:45.000] Yeah, that’s just buying the game and playing it. [35:45.000 –> 35:47.000] Because this is the thing, right? [35:47.000 –> 35:50.000] Who can access the game without buying it? [35:50.000 –> 35:53.000] So if you buy the game before the release date, you get access to the game. [35:53.000 –> 35:56.000] Surely that’s just the release date. [35:57.000 –> 36:00.000] This is some silly 1.0 argument, right? [36:00.000 –> 36:02.000] That’s what this is? [36:02.000 –> 36:04.000] They’re like, oh, but we’re on version 9.8. [36:04.000 –> 36:06.000] No, they’re not in early access. [36:06.000 –> 36:08.000] They’ve not done an early access. [36:08.000 –> 36:09.000] What? [36:09.000 –> 36:11.000] This is not early access. [36:11.000 –> 36:13.000] The game is not officially released. [36:13.000 –> 36:16.000] If you go onto Steam, it says coming the 30th of May. [36:16.000 –> 36:20.000] But they said on their most recent, or one of the… [36:20.000 –> 36:25.000] Yeah, so their second most recent news event is [36:25.000 –> 36:28.000] prior access starts today. [36:28.000 –> 36:30.000] You can start playing today. [36:32.000 –> 36:34.000] If you don’t want to count the last days to the full launch, [36:34.000 –> 36:35.000] don’t worry, we got you covered. [36:35.000 –> 36:38.000] You can pre-order Everdream Valley any time [36:38.000 –> 36:42.000] and unlock access to the game before the official release on the 30th of May. [36:42.000 –> 36:44.000] The game is released! [36:44.000 –> 36:46.000] Yes, it is! [36:46.000 –> 36:49.000] If you’re not buying the game, you’re not getting the game. [36:51.000 –> 36:53.000] That’s just releasing the game. [36:54.000 –> 36:57.000] I don’t understand how this isn’t just released. [36:57.000 –> 36:59.000] How is this game not out? [36:59.000 –> 37:01.000] It’s out! You can buy it and play it. [37:02.000 –> 37:04.000] So, the news. Everdream Valley is out. [37:04.000 –> 37:06.000] You can buy it and go and play it. [37:06.000 –> 37:09.000] Well, of course, the funny thing is the 30th of May [37:09.000 –> 37:12.000] is the day before this podcast episode comes out anyway. [37:12.000 –> 37:14.000] So, yes, the game is out. [37:20.000 –> 37:21.000] Oh, my word. [37:21.000 –> 37:23.000] That is some silly news. [37:23.000 –> 37:25.000] Shall we talk about some new games? [37:26.000 –> 37:28.000] Yes, let’s do that. [37:31.000 –> 37:33.000] Marvelous did a… [37:33.000 –> 37:35.000] I don’t know what it was. [37:35.000 –> 37:38.000] Like a Nintendo Direct, basically. [37:38.000 –> 37:41

Today my guest is Jennie MacFarland, a returning guest from Episode 6, a nearly life-long Arizonan that loves exploring different habitats in Southeast Arizona. She currently works as a Conservation Biologist for the Tucson Audubon Society and coordinates the Important Bird Areas Program and other bird survey conservation projects. Jennie organizes several large-scale community science efforts in Southeast Arizona each year, including the Elegant Trogon surveys of five Sky Island mountain ranges.This is the second episode of two that focuses on the Tucson Birdathon, through the eyes of a local team, the Wrenagades. This episode, we'll talk about how the Birdathon went this year, getting into the details of the route, some of the highlights and trends. More on the Desert Purple Martin Project (Including some videos of them!)https://tucsonaudubon.org/purplemartin/More information on the 2023 Southeast Arizona Birding Festival (Aug. 9-13, 2023)https://tucsonaudubon.org/festival/Chapters00:00 - Intro00:34 - Recent Elegant Trogon Survey03:26 - 2023 Birdathon Recap18:54 - Trends from the Birdathon20:36 - Things that went well & Things that didn't23:40 - Curve-billed Thrasher in the Background23:47 - Bird of the Episode33:31 - Southeast Arizona Bird Festival34:39 - Desert Purple Martin Request38:03 - OutroThank you for listening!Please checkout the podcast's Instagram - @lookingatbirdspodcast -  for some pictures of some of the birds discussed on the podcast. 

We've already spent so much time exploring what is just a sliver of what is waiting for us. We have 2 more powers to obtain before we are ready to leave this island

We have begun our new adventure! After an exciting opening, we find ourselves on a new island full of mystery and fantastic new powers.

Episode #286 of BGMania: A Video Game Music Podcast. This week on the show, Bryan and Bedroth from RPGera get into the Zelda mood for the rest of the month, beginning by exploring some Zelda-like games! Email the show at bgmaniapodcast@gmail.com with requests for upcoming episodes, questions, feedback, comments, concerns, or whatever you want! Special thanks to our Executive Producers: Jexak & Xancu. EPISODE PLAYLIST AND CREDITS Theme of the Legendary Hero from 3D Dot Game Heroes [Shinji Hosoe, Yousuke Yasui, Ayako Saso, Shoichiro Sakamoto, Teruo Taniguchi, Takahiro Eguchi & Norihiro Hurukawa, 2009] The Overseer's Tower from Fairune II [Yuumi Kimura, 2016] Fireside Rest from Genshin Impact [Yu-Peng Chen, 2020] Sky Island from Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas [Kalle Ylitalo, Kenji Ito & Nobuo Uematsu, 2013] Animal Town from Crusader of Centy [Motokazu Shinoda, 1994] Dream from Linkle Liver Story [Hidehiko Enomoto, 1996] Overworld 2 from Golvellius: Valley of Doom [Masatomo Miyamoto & Takeshi Santō, 1988] The Valley of Eternal Spring from Immortals Fenyx Rising [Gareth Coker, 2020] Cursed Shinshu Field from Okami [Masami Ueda, Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Rei Kondoh & Akari Kaida, 2006] Vidalia from Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion [Ryan Borbone, 2021] Sparkle Sparkle Neuromaze from Anodyne 2: Return to Dust [Melos Han-Tani, 2019] Eden from Darksiders [Scott Morton, 2010] Sunkiss Canyons from Blossom Tales II: The Minotaur Prince [Josie Brechner, 2022] Ending Theme 1 from Crystalis [Yoko Osaka, 1990] SUPPORT US Patreon: https://patreon.com/rpgera CONTACT US Website: https://rpgera.com Discord: https://discord.gg/cC73Heu Twitch: https://twitch.tv/therpgera Twitter: https://twitter.com/OriginalLDG Instagram: https://instagram.com/bryan.ldg/ Facebook: https://facebook.com/leveldowngaming RPGERA PODCAST NETWORK Very Good Music: A VGM Podcast The Movie Bar --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bgmania/message

Justin completed another Saga from One Piece in record time! So lets review that saga! Sky Island Saga!! We Go!

Little Wizard Stories of Oz by L. Frank Baum audiobook. The "Little Wizard Stories of Oz" are six short stories written by L. Frank Baum in 1913. By all accounts, Baum intended to finish the Oz series with "The Emerald City of Oz," published in 1910. Following that, he attempted to write non-Oz books, publishing "The Sea Fairies" in 1911 and "Sky Island" in 1912. But, (as Baum himself laments in the prefaces of many of his Oz books,) his "little tyrants" were only interested in hearing more Oz stories. So in 1913, he returned to writing about Oz, putting out both The "Little Wizard Stories" and "The Patchwork Girl of Oz" that year. The Little Wizard Stories were geared toward younger children and were originally published separately, "similar in style to today's Little Golden Books." The next year, they were published together as one volume. Each Little Wizard Story revolves around the adventures of two famous Oz characters, and their humorous adventures in and around the land of Oz.

Writer Amy Chu and illustrator Janet K. Lee join the Slipperhood as a creative team to share their respective artistic journeys, their lifelong love of Oz, and provide a peek behind the curtain of creating a published work. Amy and Janet share more about the creation of their graphic novels, Sea Sirens and Sky Island, which gather inspiration from L. Frank Baum's novels.Show Notes:Amy's websiteJanet's websiteDown the YBP Etsy ShopPatreon - DTYBPRavensburger websiteInstagram: @downtheyellowbrickpod#DownTheYBPTara: @taratagticklesEmKay: @emshray

We've had first One Piece , what about second One Piece? We conclude our double header with the G-8 Filler arc. One of the best filler arcs in all of the anime and could easily be mistaken for canon. This filler arc takes place directly after the Straw Hats exit the Sky Island  but before Water 7.    When the Straw Hats  land in the middle of the marine base G-8, they are forced to abandon their ship, as many marines immediately spring upon it. Separated, the crewmates are forced to disguise themselves and try to find a way out of the base, which is comprised of a huge mountain surrounded by water, and then a ring of sheer rock cliffs that form a wall of sorts.   The film came out in 2009 with a run time just shy of 2 hours. It was  produced by infamous Toei Animation known for making some of anime's staples such as: Toriko, Dragonball (Z), Digimon Adventures, and many more.   Let us know your thoughts on the episode and connect with us at one of the links below. If you think we're wrong about the show, send us a message!   Social links Follow us on Instagram :https://www.instagram.com/filleracademy/ Follow us on Twitter : https://twitter.com/filleracademy Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/FillerAcademyPodcast TikTok : https://www.tiktok.com/@filleracademypodcast? Reach out and send us an email : filleracademypodcast@gmail.com   Episode Links If you'd like to see what the anime community thought of it, check it out here! https://onepiece.fandom.com/wiki/G-8_Arc   How we determine what is filler:  www.animefillerlist.com

Aloha Straw Hat crew! We go over the "The Forgotten Arc" (imho) of One Piece - Skypiea! What happen to the gold? Who can defeat Eneru? Was Noland a liar? Let's go over the Sky Island arc of One Piece☁️ Follow us on Twitter and Instagram for updates, anime anniversaries, and fandom events + https://twitter.com/FunUntitled + https://www.instagram.com/fununtitled/ Buy Anime-related keychains and stickers at Annie's Shops + https://www.etsy.com/shop/Suraelis Subscribe to our Youtube channel to listen to our Podcast AND watch a speed drawing of our thumbnails + https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQCi61PkguoTJKJr_shZCuQ Check out our Linktree for all our Accounts + https://linktr.ee/FunUntitled

Jeremy Norrie of The Sky Island is known for documentaries exploring subjects such as taboo phenomena like UFOs and Bigfoot along with human beliefs and thoughts which determine day-to-day reality. These documentaries are open minded and take serious perspectives on a wide variety of controversial subjects, all of which have a common theme of overcoming adversity, gaining empowerment, and achieving recovery. In Season 2 Episode 5 of the "Taboo Truths and Tales" podcast series, Jeremy reveals how his documentaries are conceived, produced and shared across multiple online platforms. S2 E4 (62 minutes.) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/madeira-desouza/message

Thank you very much to Florian for commissioning this episode! These episodes are a big improvement on the confusing jumble that I covered last time. We're introduced to a new friend, and some dudes that I enjoyed have returned to be helpful and fun instead of enemies. The whole premise here is that there's possibly a way to launch the ship into the sky, but it's pretty dangerous and it's not even a guarantee that there is a Sky Island to get to. LET'S DO IT!

In the most remote part of Guyana, plateaus called tepuis—also known as sky islands for poking through the clouds—rise up from the jungle. They're topped by unique ecosystems, filled with plants and animals never before seen by human eyes. That's because getting there is no small feat. Eager to find new species but unable to scale the sheer cliff faces, 80-year-old biologist Bruce Means teamed up with professional climbers and Indigenous people to trek through the jungle and get to the top of an uncharted tepui named Weiassipu in search of frogs and adventure.  For more information on this episode, visit nationalgeographic.com/overheard.   Want More? To learn more about the expedition to the top of Weiassipu, take a look at Mark Synnott's feature story in the upcoming April issue of National Geographic magazine.  And to see these stunning sky islands for yourself, check out the National Geographic special Explorer: The Last Tepui, streaming on Earth Day, April 22, exclusively on Disney+.

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On this episode we take a look at the last three episodes of the Skypiea arc, episodes 193-195! With the bell rung and Enel defeated the people of the Sky Islands along with the Strawhats party it up and celebrate! As they all prepare to leave though Robin makes a startling discovery from the Shandian Poneglyph! Hope you enjoy!Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/sunnygopodcast)

Michael Fojtasek is a compassionate, curious, and courageous human, a husband, father, chef, and neophyte trail runner. After a 6 year hiatus spent building the Olamaie Southern Food restaurant in Austin, TX, Michael transitioned from a background in road running (up to the marathon distance) to trail running. He took his first stab at the ultramarathon distance with this year's Sky Island 50k. Michael ultimately DNF'd at Sky Island and we talk about what lessons he learned and how he will roll them into the Big Bend 50 coming this January. We also talk about how Michael is building inclusive and compassionate culture at Olamie and reopening the restaurant with a new menu and staff focused on modernizing Olamaie's interpretation of modern Southern Food incorporating the latest trends and flavors.

Ayo boyssss welcome back to another episode of the strawchat podcast! Today kiingneon and SEANOMACK sit down to talk about One Piece Sky Island, Jaya, One Piece Theories and much more...

America Adapts joins with the Sky Island Alliance to discover conservation in the desert southwest. Learn about the unique Sky Island ecosystems along the U.S., Mexico border. Hear about the unique biodiversity in the region; how the landscape is adapting to climate change and the negative impacts of the border wall on wildlife and the ecology of the region. You will hear from experts on the challenges facing the Sky Islands and the opportunities and challenges of cross-border conservation. Staff and board members from the Sky Island Alliance will share conservation programs and why they think the region is so special. Doug joins SIA staff in a visit to the border wall to learn all about these issues. Have a listen! What are Sky Islands? Conservation on an international border. An on site visit to the infamous border wall along the U.S./Mexican border. What has been the impact of the Border Wall on wildlife. How is the Sky Island ecosystem adapting to climate change. What is happening to the spring resources in this region. What is the biodiversity in the Sky Island Region. The role of volunteers in a conservation organization. Experts Interviewed: Louise Misztal, Executive Director of the Sky Island Alliance Emily Burns, Program Director with SIA Paulo Quadri, former Conservation Director at SIA, now with Natural Capital Exchange Claire Zucker, Board Member Sky Island Alliance Britt Rosso, Volunteer, SIA Juan Carlos Bravo, Board Member Sky Island Alliance Donate to America Adapts Listen to America Adapts on your favorite app here! America Adapts now has a newsletter! See first issue here. Follow here! Sign up to be a guest on Cimpatico Studios! Check out what Cimpatico is all about! https://www.cimpatico.tv https://cimpatico.com/dougparsons Doug Parsons and Speaking Opportunities: If you are interested in having Doug speak at corporate and conference events, sharing his unique, expert perspective on adaptation in an entertaining and informative way, more information can be found here! Now on Spotify! List of Previous Guests on America Adapts Follow/listen to podcast on Apple Podcasts. Donate to America Adapts, we are now a tax deductible charitable organization! Facebook and Twitter: @usaadapts https://www.facebook.com/americaadapts/timeline www.americaadapts.org @Sky_Islands Links in this episode: https://skyislandalliance.org/who-we-are/staff-list/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_island https://skyislandalliance.org/our-work/ https://skyislandalliance.org/the-sky-islands/ America Adapts was published in the Federal Reserve! Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Strategies to Address Climate Change Risk in Low- and Moderate-income Communities - Volume 14, Issue 1 https://www.frbsf.org/community-development/publications/community-development-investment-review/2019/october/strategies-to-address-climate-change-low-moderate-income-communities/ Article on using podcasts in the Classroom: https://naaee.org/eepro/blog/are-you-using-podcast-your-classroom-you Subscribe to America Adapts on Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/america-adapts-the-climate-change-podcast/id1133023095?mt=2 On Google Podcast here. Please share on Facebook! Podcasts in the Classroom – Discussion guides now available for the latest episode of America Adapts. These guides can be used by educators at all levels. Check them out here! Here Are 10 of the Best Climate Change Podcasts Out Right Nowhttps://earther.gizmodo.com/here-are-10-of-the-best-climate-change-podcasts-out-rig-1845397380 The best climate change podcasts on The Climate Advisorhttp://theclimateadvisor.com/the-best-climate-change-podcasts/ 7 podcasts to learn more about climate change and how to fight ithttps://kinder.world/articles/you/7-podcasts-to-learn-more-about-climate-change-and-how-to-fight-it-19813 Directions on how to listen to America Adapts on Amazon Alexahttps://youtu.be/949R8CRpUYU America Adapts also has its own app for your listening pleasure!  Just visit the App store on Apple or Google Podcast on Android and search “America Adapts.” Join the climate change adaptation movement by supporting America Adapts!  Please consider supporting this podcast by donating through America Adapts fiscal sponsor, the Social Good Fund. All donations are now tax deductible! For more information on this podcast, visit the website at http://www.americaadapts.org and don't forget to follow this podcast on Apple Podcasts.   Podcast Music produce by Richard Haitz Productions Write a review on Apple Podcasts! America Adapts on Facebook!   Join the America Adapts Facebook Community Group. Check us out, we're also on YouTube! Executive Producer Dr. Jesse Keenan Follow America Adapts on Apple Podcasts Doug can be contacted at americaadapts @ g mail . com

Yes, it's Enya and yes, it's her 2015 album "Dark Sky Island". Henry explains more as we discuss why Enya is such a unique artist and why she deserves more than to be dismissed as just some "new age music for massages". To listen to the music we discuss, go check out the playlist in Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5mFmxCR1tymWnziOuU44G8 Drop us a line at: @imightbewronguk on Twitter and Facebook. Thanks to T-Toe for the intro music! Find his work at https://t-toe.bandcamp.com/

Bil Thorn joins Clara from Washington to chat about: their timber-frame greenhouse + leveraging wreaths and garlands for winter income + more.  https://skyislandfarmcsa.com https://www.instagram.com/skyislandfarm/ Follow Clara: https://www.instagram.com/farmerclara Sponsors: www.growingformarket.com  http://johnnyseeds.com/ http://tunnelvisionhoops.com Support our work: www.notillgrowers.com/support or www.patreon.com/notillgrowers        

In this episode of the Farm Walks Podcast, we have the opportunity to talk with Bil Thorn of Sky Island Farm in Humptulips, WA about low-risk marketing outlets and food safety best practices for direct-to-consumer marketing and wholesale outlets. Bil also addresses innovative ways to find farmland and his approach to scaling up their business by expanding their market reach. To close out this episode, we get to chat with Laura Raymond, WSDA Regional Markets Program Manager. Laura shares about innovative marketing strategies and safety precautions employed by direct-marketing farms during COVID to provide our communities with local food while keeping farmers, farm workers, and consumers safe. Sky Island Farm is a 15-acre vegetable, herb, fruit and flower farm owned and operated by Bil Thorn and Kate Harwell. Located in Humptulips, WA they grow intensively on two acres using only organic, sustainable and regenerative methods and sell through farmers markets, stores, restaurants and their CSA. Bil and Kate run Grays Harbors largest and longest running CSA with home delivery. In 2019 they partnered with Grays Harbor Community Hospital for a patient CSA program and were also a part of the farm to pantry program with Coastal Harvest. They provide clean, organic vegetables to food banks around Grays Harbor County. You can find Sky Island Farm at the Aberdeen Sunday Market, Seabrook's Saturday Market, and increasingly in restaurants and stores in Tacoma and Seattle. They have even had their blueberries featured in a special Blueberry Harvest Beer as part of a collaborative project with MetierBrewing Company! Bil and Kate believe it is important to support your local farmers and enjoy giving back to their community by hosting field trips for kids at the farm, participating in school gardens, and providing volunteer/intern opportunities for new and beginning farmers. Bil was recognized as the 2020 Farmer of the Year at the Tilth Conference in recognition for his dedication to organic and sustainable farming, building a better food system and addressing food security. This episode is generously supported by the National Farmer Union's Local Food Safety Collaborative. The Local Food Safety Collaborative is a network of farm and agriculture organizations providing education and training for local food producers.

Little Wizard Stories of Oz - L. Frank Baum - Book 17 Title: Little Wizard Stories of Oz Overview: Little Wizard Stories of Oz is a set of six short stories written for young children by L. Frank Baum, the creator of the Oz books. The six tales were published in separate small booklets, "Oz books in miniature," in 1913, and then in a collected edition in 1914 with illustrations by John R. Neill. Each booklet is 29 pages long and printed in blue ink rather than black. The stories were part of a project, by Baum and his publisher Reilly & Britton, to revitalize and continue the series of Oz books that Baum had written up to that date. The story collection effectively constitutes a fifteenth Oz book by Baum. Baum had attempted to end the Oz series with the sixth book, The Emerald City of Oz (1910). In the final chapter of that book, he sealed off the Land of Oz from the outside world. He began a new series of books with The Sea Fairies (1911) and Sky Island (1912). Also, he reacted to his 1911 bankruptcy by increasing his literary output. He produced five books that year, his greatest output since 1907. Baum tried to launch two other juvenile novel series in 1911, with The Daring Twins, released under his own name, and The Flying Girl, under his "Edith Van Dyne" pseudonym. None of the new series was as successful as the previous Baum and Van Dyne series; the Oz books and Aunt Jane's Nieces. Both the Flying Girl and Daring Twins series ended with their second volumes, The Flying Girl and Her Chum and Phoebe Daring, both published in 1912. Disappointing sales through 1911 and 1912 convinced Baum and Reilly & Britton that a return to Oz was needed. Baum wrote The Patchwork Girl of Oz for a 1913 release, and in the same year, his publisher issued the six Little Wizard stories in individual booklets at a cost of $0.15 each. The goal was to reach the youngest beginning readers and create in them an interest in the larger Oz canon, as part of a "promotion of L. Frank Baum and all of his books." Published: 1914 Series: Nonestica Continent of Imagination, Land of Oz, The Oz Books Series, Short Story Collections #6 Author: L. Frank Baum Genre: Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales, Fantasy, Children's Novel, Action & Adventure, Children's Literature Episode: Little Wizard Stories of Oz - L. Frank Baum - Book 17 Part: 1 of 1 Length Part: 1:17:25 Book: 17 Length Book: 1:17:25 Episodes: 1 - 6 of 6 Narrator: Phil Chenevert Language: English Edition: Unabridged Audiobook Keywords: adventures, travelers, fairy tale, magic, magical kingdom, wizard, witches, royalty, whimsical, fantasy, mythology, legends Hashtags: #freeaudiobooks #audiobook #mustread #readingbooks #audiblebooks #favoritebooks #free #booklist #audible #freeaudiobook #LFrankBaum #wizard #wizardofoz #oz #dream #happy #cute #traveling #adventure Credits: All LibriVox Recordings are in the Public Domain. Wikipedia (c) Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. WOMBO Dream. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/free-audiobooks/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/free-audiobooks/support

The Scarecrow of Oz - L. Frank Baum - Book 9 Title: The Scarecrow of Oz Overview: The Scarecrow of Oz is the ninth book set in the Land of Oz written by L. Frank Baum. Published on July 16, 1915, it was Baum's personal favorite of the Oz books and tells of Cap'n Bill and Trot journeying to Oz and, with the help of the Scarecrow, overthrowing the cruel King Krewl of Jinxland. Cap'n Bill and Trot (Mayre Griffiths) had previously appeared in two other novels by Baum, The Sea Fairies and Sky Island. The Oz books form a book series that begins with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) and relates the fictional history of the Land of Oz. Oz was created by author L. Frank Baum, who went on to write fourteen full-length Oz books. Even while he was alive, Baum was styled as "the Royal Historian of Oz" in order to emphasize the concept that Oz is an actual place. In his Oz books, Baum created the illusion that characters such as Dorothy and Princess Ozma relayed their adventures in Oz to Baum themselves, by means of a wireless telegraph. Published: 1915 Series: Nonestica Continent of Imagination, Land of Oz, The Oz Books Series, Novels Series, Oz #9 Author: L. Frank Baum Genre: Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales, Fantasy, Children's Novel, Action & Adventure, Children's Literature Episode: The Scarecrow of Oz - L. Frank Baum - Book 9 Part: 1 of 1 Length Part: 5:18:56 Book: 9 Length Book: 5:18:56 Episodes: 1 - 24 of 24 Predecessor: Tik-Tok of Oz, Sky Island Successor: Rinkitink in Oz Narrator: Phil Chenevert Language: English Edition: Unabridged Audiobook Keywords: adventures, travelers, fairy tale, magic, magical kingdom, wizard, witches, royalty, whimsical, fantasy, mythology, legends Hashtags: #freeaudiobooks #audiobook #mustread #readingbooks #audiblebooks #favoritebooks #free #booklist #audible #freeaudiobook #LFrankBaum #wizard #wizardofoz #oz #dream #happy #cute #traveling #adventure Credits: All LibriVox Recordings are in the Public Domain. Wikipedia (c) Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. WOMBO Dream. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/free-audiobooks/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/free-audiobooks/support

In this episode we spend three minutes with Wanda(Vision). We go over what did for Rune Removal Day? We give big shoutouts to JD the Gamer for his birthday summon session!! Then, the crew starts our adventure into the No Man's Sky Universe! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mrgtsw/support

In this seventh episode of my tracking series I get out in the field with Bryon Lichtenhan of Sky Island Alliance to volunteer doing some work in gathering data for a border wall study that the conservation organization is conducting. In this journalistic style episode we learn from Bryon and the Executive Director of Sky Island Alliance, Louise Misztal, why wildlife migration corridors along the border are important, the threat that the looming border wall poses to these corridors, and how tracking supports SIA's efforts in collecting data to bolster conservation work towards preserving the area and the migration corridors used by many species. You'll also have an opportunity to learn tracking knowledge from Bryon and get a peek into the minds of trackers as Bryon and I attempt to decipher tracks and sign in real time. Connect with Sky Island AllianceSIA Website

This episode of the Undercover Weebs One Piece review, we cover the Sky Island Saga, which contains the jaya and skypia arcs. These two arcs are a fairy tale and folk tale filled arcs with a ton of worldbuilding. Hope you enjoy!

In today's BONUS episode, Jason talks with returning guest, Emily Burns. Emily provides a 6 month update on the Border Wildlife Study. Take a listen to hear how border wall construction is having an affect on wildlife and how many different species have been captured in this camera survey. To learn more and get involved with the Sky Island Alliance, visit: skyislandalliance.org --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/conservationunfiltered/support

Edo Huang is known the world over for his amazing talents as a magician and designer.  Creating some of the most well known modern decks out there, such as Sky Island and Svngali Playing Cards in partnership with Alex Pandrea, or the School of Cardistry V4 in collaboration with Jaspas!  Edo has established himself as not only an amazing designer, but a mind blowing magician, having created some amazing effects such as Naya and SUMATOFON!  Join us for what can only be described as a SPECTACULAR episode of Deckin' Around as we talk magic, cardistry, design, and more with Edo!Edo Huanghttps://www.instagram.com/edohuanghttps://gumroad.com/l/ehmembershiphttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_D64GukhAsMvVpqo6b-jdQSVNGALIhttps://svngali.com/Join us for Episode 38 of "Deckin' Around" with Tyler and Steve.  Special Guest: Edo HuangSubscribe and click the bell to catch all of the fun times on Deckin' Around! Follow us on Instagram!Deckin' Around - http://instagram.com/deckinaroundTyler - http://instagram.com/collectadeckSteve - http://instagram.com/nothing_only_cardsEvery Thursday we look at some of the best playing cards, magicians, graphic designers, playing card collections, and cardists in the playing card community.  Interested in contributing to Deckin' Around, or have questions for our guests? Feel free to reach out to us on Instagram!#EdoHuang #SVNGALI #DeckinAround #playingcards #magictricks #magician #designerSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/deckinaround)

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In today's episode, Jason talks with Emily Burns of the Sky Island Alliance. Emily provides updates from their borderland camera study including how many species have been identified, some species of note, and the progress of the border wall in the Sky Island region. They also discuss how the study will continue and how YOU can get involved to help them out! To listen to Emily's first appearance on the podcast (Episode 45), go here: www.conservewild.org/podcast You can find out more about the study and see some great pictures at www.skyislandalliance.org To donate or sponsor a camera, go here: www.skyislandalliance.org/give-2/donate-border-wildlife To help identify species caught on camera, go here: www.skyislandalliance.org/our-work/wildlife-program/species-identification

On today's episode, Jason shares a little political talk, but without the politics. He is talking about the wildlife found in the Sky Island. Sky Island is located in Southeastern Arizona and Northwestern Mexico. The US-Mexico border crosses right through this beautiful country. Our tour guide is the Program Director for the Sky Island Alliance, Emily Burns. Emily has a 15 year resume of helping wildlife. She has worked for the Save the Redwoods League, started the citizen science project: Fern Watch and now, is the lead scientist of a wildlife study at the proposed site of a new section of border wall. Listen in as I talk with Emily about how the study is being conducted, why we even need this study, and what the Sky Island Alliance hopes to do with the information. To find out more information, visit the Sky Island Alliance Follow Sky Island Alliance on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook

Episode 2: Devotion. What part does it play in our path wellness? Barb Quinby, owner of Sky Island Bed & Breakfast discusses her inspiration for opening Sky Island as a yoga retreat center and shares how she and Kristin divinely met. This episode of Spiraling to Wellness focuses on the importance of creating a devoted practice that aligns with your intentions. For added inspiration, we invite you to follow your devotion and visit Sky Island for an upcoming retreat or getaway.

They found it; the Sword of the Seven Seas. All was strung as tight as a bow-string, and as Kipa pulled the engraved blade from the cursed ground, hell broke loose. Lark, the King of Sky Island, warned the party that there was something bad guarding the sword, but it wasn't until the blade was pulled free that the goop hit the wind-fan. Not one, but two cursed bears made of stone and vine were raised from the cursed flora to meet our heroes in battle over the deadly oceanic artifact. No longer is the party fighting kobolds in market districts; no longer are troglodytes being bashed over the head with stalagmites and broom handles. Our boys are face to face with a threat that won't hesitate to kill them, and all the cards have been dealt. The arbiters that will determine our story are the dice, and they have 20 answers to our one Question. Tune in this week to your favorite long distance friends from afar, to From Afar Podcast!

The boys are reaching new heights, as they almost come crashing down. The flora has proven to be not only dangerous, but mysterious, with some strange goop that even Gwyneth Paltrow would be disgusted by. However, our party comes face to face with some original and not so violent inhabitants of the islands, who seem to be in just as dire of a bind as Sieghart, Aereus and Kipa. Will our boys have the resources, wherewithal, and knowledge of Nintendo history to not only help Sky Island royalty, but also find what they were sent to retrieve: The Sword of the Seven Seas. Who knows, everyone may just turn vegetarian after this episode, along with the help of a very cute, and fluffy friend. Tune in, drop in, turn off, and/or explode from afar, in this week's installment of From Afar Podcast, with your favorite long-distance friends! Afraid of heights? Well, so is Aereus. So deal with it, ya millennial.

Each year Errit looks up in the sky to see an island full of wonders floating in the sky above his head and out of reach. He dreams of wonders and the people that must be up there. A chance encounter gives him the opportunity to adventure up to floating sky island.   What will he find? Will he like it? Will he stay? "This is really good.  No I really mean it, really good." -- 8 year old reviewer "I loved it! Great singers, great music!  You made this?" -- A Grandfather If you enjoyed listening and want to give us virtual applause, please give a positive review on social media or wherever you get podcasts. More than you know, positive words mean so much to us. Sky island is the first full musical I wrote. I owe so much to my friends and family for supporting me. This has been a journey filled with fun, laughs, joy and a lot of work. I hope you'll love the results.

In this episode, we tackle a filler arc in its entirety in one episode! Plus, it's the longest, and potentially, greatest One Piece filler ever! We talk Robin being a clever woman, we talk Luffy and Zoro being sidelined, we talk Sanji reaching peak levels of being annoying, and we talk Chopper's career as an actor! We love Vice Admiral Jonathan, and we also welcome the strongest member of the Straw Hat pirates aboard the crew: Condoriano!

We close out the Skypeia arc with discussion of Eneru as a villain, our thoughts on Jaya/Skypeia as a whole, theories about space and Poseidon! Curtis is unhappy with the warrior giants we saw near the beginning of the series, and we also have tangents aplenty- some focused on mustaches.

Before we can see how the Skypeia arc will end, first it's time for some flash backs! However, we find Calgura and Montblanc Noland to be incredibly interesting. Actually, they're both pretty good looking people, and we agree that Calgura has "Big Bowser" energy. Ho boy, even 400 years ago we have ourselves a grand adventure!

There's a lot to discuss in this episode, and the Straw Hats are managing to just barely keep one step ahead of Eneru! Usopp and Nami show courage, Sanji demonstrates a play, and then we spend some time talking about the time the Straw Hats were in a play. And to top it all off, we compare the cool factor of Zoro and Sanji

We take a break from Sky Island's climactic final battle to watch the sixth one piece movie, ostensibly centering on Zoro... Except it isn't, really. We discuss what worked well about this film, but mostly on where it fell flat. And, of course, we can't discuss non-canon material without once more trying to pitch our own versions of the movie or alternate realities we'd like to see.

Yes, it's time for the final, epic showdown between Luffy and Eneru! Except... it gets cut short, but not before we get TAAAAAKO HAAAANABI! Joel loses his mind, and Curtis briefly considers the possibility of Aisa being a super powerful witch. Conis has a super badass moment, and we also discuss Logias and their natural weaknesses.

The action is really picking up now! The Survival game enters its final round, Zoro and Wyper have gone absolutely crazy in Upper Yard, and Nami and Robin somehow finds themselves among a group of far more blood-thirsty and battle-tested warriors. But it's all okay, because Wyper seems to have KILLED Eneru? Incredible! Also, before his defeat, we see him ranting like a madman- he has entered his second form!

This episode gives Robin her first canonical chance to shine as a Strawhat in combat, giving us a few hints as to this "void century" she's always hinting at. But mostly we just hate on Gedatsu, easily the most useless of Eneru's priests. We also go into which fights we've found the most entertaining thus far, being particularly grateful that the less fight-oriented members of the crew have been holding their own.

This thrilling episode brings you a heated 3 way death battle in God's land! Eneru predicts that the fighters will be reduced to just 5 members in 3 hours time, and also he has GOAT PEOPLE under his command??? What nonsense is this! We also talk about the new opening and closing songs, and we discuss whether Buggy and Alvida are the Team Rocket of One Piece. Oh! And Zoro totally gets a long range attack. With his swords. Yup, just another day in anime pirate land.

The battle with Satori rages and reaches its conclusion. Plus, Nami makes a startling discovery about the so-called "vearth" up in Skypeia. What all could it mean?!? But more importantly than that, we have a mother-flippin' WOLF PARTY on our hands! Will Nami meet the wolf man of her dreams? What sort of things would we put in our surprise balls? How would the Straw Hats serve Luffy if he were bestowed the title of god and they were his priests? All this and more in this week's episode!

In this episode Luffy, Usopp and Sanji attempt to fight an opponent who appears to be psychic?? We speculate about a viable strategy to defeat this opponent, and Curtis is asked to predict how similar the other 3 priests will be to Satori. We also cleverly deduce Eneru is nothing more than a rogue AI controlling an orbital satellite, and we talk about Straw Hat crew member fusions.

We've made it to the skies in this episode, a place that has masked warriors, a sky night and his terrifying bird-horse, and... angels? Worry not folks, we're fairly certain the crew didn't die on the trip up the knock up stream, but you never know. Plus, the straw hat crew are already criminals on the sky island? That totally changes... nothing for the crew, really. Oh, and did we mention god might be the Big Bad for this arc?! Holy smokes, potentially literally!

We have so much to talk about this episode. "Pirate Santa" is revealed to be none other than Marshal; D. Teach, AKA Blackbeard! A villainous D? Say it ain't so! And all those other Jaya weirdos are all part of his crew! We talk Whitebeard's first appearance, we talk Blackbeard's crew and their aesthetic, we talk about the Shichibukai/Seven Warlords, the Gorosei/Five Elder Stars, and Fleet Admiral Sengoku! So much "stuff" to discuss!

Before we can continue our journey towards the Sky Island, we first must embark on the fourth One Piece movie! We see a glimmer of hope lost in the writing, pacing, and characterization, but we have fun imagining what this movie could have been in an alternate reality. So get ready to listen to us spend too much time talking about furnaces, and just bashing pretty much everything in this movie except the concept!

We've managed to escape the terror filled waters that is the Filler Ocean, and get to meet a bunch of brand new characters for our 50th episode! We've got Pirate Santa, someone who calls himself Bellamy the Hyena, a luchador, you name it! Plus, we play some extra exciting trivia games with Curtis. Thank you for joining us for 50 episodes. Truly, our listeners were our greatest treasure this whole time.

Before the real season 3 content can start, our podcasters first must endure one final trial of filler. We have robot suits, time travel, and a rainbow mist, and we have more criticisms than we do praise. Plus, we discover filler names are hard to remember, Plus we talk a little more about Kingdom Hearts.

Look, the actual anime had a plot with an old man and some goats. The goats were cute and Zenny is fine- neither great nor awful. So once again, we get distracted by other topics! We discuss the series "best girl" so far, we get distracted by Kingdom Hearts for a fair bit, and then focus on who Coby's rival could be, as well as reflecting on Luffy's personality and whether it's a good fit for the role of Pirate King. Oh, and Kathryn finds us the shadiest of sponsors. We're just going to ignore that

Click here to buy: https://adbl.co/2vzzXGC DCI Michael Gilbert is called out to Sark - the world's first dark sky island - after bones are found on Derrible Bay. He is followed by journalist Jennifer Dorey, driven by a secret in her own past. The remains are decades old, but after a body is discovered Jennifer and Michael fear there may be a killer on the island. Together they follow a dark trail of bad blood and a conspiracy of silence. Everyone on the island is under suspicion. No one is what they seem. And the murderer could strike again at any time... If you love Ann Cleeves, Peter May and Elly Griffiths, you'll love the latest atmospheric thriller from Lara Dearman. Dark Sky Island will keep you guessing until the very last page. Read by Penelope Rawlins (p) Orion Publishing Group 2018

LIT LIT LIT LIT IX took place on Saturday, July 22 2017 as part of *Sky Island. New readings were written and given by Bára Hladíková, listen chen, Nathan Crompton and Brent Lin, followed by a conversation with LIT LIT LIT LIT co-organizer Steffanie Ling and Jannie Leung. 00:00:15- INTRO by Kara Hansen, curator of Sky Island 00:06:54 - Steffanie Ling reads “Be a Goddamn Professional” 00:12:39 - BÁRA HLADÍKOVÁ is a writer and musician who has been seen eavesdropping on local bystanders. She recently performed at Deep Blue with Silky Boys, collaborated on Behind the Curtain at Dynamo Arts Association, and hydrated her tropical plants.  00:22:16 - listen chen is a daoist and a bat-enthusiast who lives and writes on unceded coast salish territories.  00:31:46 - BRENT LIN has been a business consultant and television reporter. These days he studies media theory at McGill. His writings on digital culture have been published in attractivoquenobello and Real Life.  00:44:58 - NATHAN CROMPTON is a writer based in Vancouver, where he works as a housing organizer and edits The Mainlander. He is currently completing his PhD in French history at Simon Fraser University and has contributed art criticism to Fillip, October and the Bartleby Review.  00:53:44 - Conversation between JANNIE LEUNG and STEFFANIE LING JANNIE LEUNG 梁泳詩 is a community organizer fighting for social justice and people power with the Chinatown Action Group.  STEFFANIE LING is a producer of criticism, pamphlets, stories, essays, exhibitions, reviews, bluntness, anecdotes, shoutouts, wrestling, storylines, proposals, applications, jokes, readings, minimal poems, poems, dinner, compliments, and diatribes. She lives in Vancouver frequenting grocery stores, the Cinematheque and other air conditioned spaces. 01:20:19 - QandA

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