Podcasts about Spike Spiegel

Ever wondered how an anime from the late '90s continues to resonate with audiences today? Join us as we journey through the iconic world of Cowboy Bebop, uncovering its profound impact since its Toonami and Adult Swim days. Get ready to explore the unforgettable characters and music that have etched this series into anime history, making it a cultural touchstone. From the mysterious Spike Spiegel to the whimsical Ed and the adorable Ein, each character brings something unique to the Bebop crew, crafting a narrative that stands the test of time.Our conversation doesn't stop there; we dive into the existential themes and storytelling nuances that Cowboy Bebop shares with other beloved series like Samurai Champloo. We reflect on Spike's and Faye's quests for identity and redemption, while also critically examining the live-action adaptation. With a special focus on character representation, we discuss the creative choices around Ed's gender ambiguity and Grin's portrayal, offering a personal and nuanced perspective. Our guests, Sebby Phantom, Mira Jane, and Playboi, add their voices to this rich discussion, making this a truly engaging episode.Finally, we celebrate the stunning animation that blends traditional hand-drawn techniques with futuristic design, capturing the very essence of science fiction and film noir. The legendary music of Yoko Kanno and the Seatbelts takes center stage, a character in its own right, resonating with universal themes of hope and redemption. As we close this episode, we invite you to ponder your own journey through life, encouraging you to embrace the present and look forward to the future with courage. Stay nerdy and optimistic, Space Cowboys—until we meet again.Text us for feedback and recommendations for future episodes!Support the showWe thank everyone for listening to our podcast! We hope to grow even bigger to make great things happen, such as new equipment for higher-quality podcasts, a merch store & more! If you're interested in supporting us, giving us feedback and staying in the loop with updates, then follow our ZONE Social Media Portal!DISCLAIMER: The thoughts and opinions shared within are those of the speaker. We encourage everyone to do their own research and to experience the content mentioned at your own volition. We try not to reveal spoilers to those who are not up to speed, but in case some slips out, please be sure to check out the source material before you continue listening!Stay nerdy and stay faithful,- J.B.Subscribe to "Content for Creators" on YouTube to listen to some of the music used for these episodes!

He's the most prolific video game voice actor of all time and now Steve Blum is the most prolific podcast guest of all time! Steve and Jim discuss him living his dream life in Hawaii, his love for the role of Spike Spiegel, the importance of auditioning and so much more.Support Jim on Patreon for EXCLUSIVE CONTENT including EARLY & AD-FREE ACCESS, DISNEY AUDIO COMMENTARIES, PRIZE DRAWS and more by joining the Toon'd In! family today at patreon.com/jimcummingspodcastOrder a cameo from Jim at cameo.com/toondinjimcummingsCHECK OUT FOUR FINGER DISCOUNT'S OTHER PODCASTS:Four Finger Discount (Simpsons) - spreaker.com/show/four-finger-discount-simpsons-podcastGoin' Down To South Park - spreaker.com/show/goin-down-to-south-parkThe One About Friends - spreaker.com/show/the-one-about-friends-podcastSpeaKing Of The Hill - spreaker.com/show/speaking-of-the-hill-a-king-of-the-hill-Talking Seinfeld - spreaker.com/show/talking-seinfeldBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/toon-d-in-with-jim-cummings--5863067/support.

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We discuss the two shojo manga versions of Cowboy Bebop: Cowboy Bebop by Hajime Yatate [Sunrise staff] and Cowboy Bebop: Shooting Star by Cain KugaAsk an anime fan above the age of 30 what their favorite anime is, and chances are high they'll say Cowboy Bebop. The music, the animation, the mood — it's iconic. And then there are the two shojo manga iterations of Cowboy Bebop, which have largely been lost to the sands of time (and then, there's the Netflix live action version...). Shojo and Tell host Ashley and her husband, Asher, read both of these severely out of print manga adaptations, and discuss here. Topics of discussion include: Ed and gender, why the heck is Shooting Star the way it is, and why was it decided that this seinen anime needs not one, but two shojo manga adaptations?REFERENCESBoth Cowboy Bebop manga adaptations are out of print. They were previously published by Tokyopop.The Cowboy Bebop anime is still beloved by many who aren't the AshesThe Netflix live action version of Cowboy Bebop was funYoko Kanno's music is part of what makes the anime such a hitOther series mentioned:Outlaw StarNeon Genesis EvangelionNeon Genesis Evangelion: Angelic DaysDimension WBleachLegal DrugXGurren  LagannThe Vision of EscaflowneFushigi YugiMaid-Sama!Tech bros trying to colonize space: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Richard BransonOutro song: "The Streatham Hill Gods" by DanosongsCONTACT USShojo & Tell on Bluesky, Tumblr, Instagram, and TwitterAshley on Bluesky

Intro Background Spike Spiegel created by Shinichiro Watanabe & Toshihiro Kawamoto in “Stray Dog Strut”, April 1998 Protagonist of the series, he's a bounty hunter partnered with Jet Black aboard the spaceship Bebop Over the course of the series, we learn his backstory - a former member of the Red Dragon syndicate, he fell in love with Julia, the girlfriend of his partner Vicious - when Vicious finds out, he forces Julia to kill Spike or be killed herself, so she goes into hiding to save herself Spike fakes his death and goes on the run, where he teams up with Jet - they're also joined by Faye, a gambler who recently awoke from cryogenic sleep; Ein, a Welsh Corgi with human intelligence; and Edward, a young Earth girl who's also a master hacker During the series finale, Julia has Faye send Spike a message that she is alive and ready to meet with him, but Vicious has her killed - Spike goes to the syndicate's headquarters and has a final battle with Vicious, where Vicious is killed and Spike is severely wounded or killed - the ending is left ambiguous Issues Vicious Vicious Vicious… where do we begin? Never got over his abandonment by Julia either A life of drifting vs A life of intention Treatment In-universe - Get captured as a bounty, take the time to get to know Spike Out of universe -  Skit  *knocking on door*  SPIKE: *mumbles* who the hell…*regular voice* Come on in DOC: Uh…are you Mr. Spiegel? SPIKE: I'd better be, or else you'd be dead by now. Plus we don't get visitors unless Jet has business with ‘em. He gave me the heads up. You're the doctor, right? DOC: Yes, I'm Doctor Issues SPIKE: We're not exactly fancy here, but help yourself to something to eat while you wait for him. DOC: Wait for who? SPIKE: Jet said he hired a doctor to check things out, and he wanted to make sure I was around. We're kind of in no man's land here. I think we have bell peppers and beef, but it's a little light on the beef… DOC: About that…I don't usually do house calls, but he made it sound urgent…except I need a special waiver to diagnose and treat someone so far out of my jurisdiction. He took care of that already, right? SPIKE: Suuuuuuure he did. Whatever. DOC: Good…then there's the other part of the misunderstanding I need to clarify. SPIKE: Don't tell me you forgot your equipment? I figured you'd need hardware tools if you have to deal with Jet's arm DOC: I'm not an orthopedist SPIKE: Then maybe he's got a cold or something. I dunno. DOC: I'm not here for Jet. SPIKE: *pause* I'm not paying for the bill to get you to the right address then DOC: Spike, Jet asked me to talk to you. He figured if you were in your own space you'd be more amenable. Says you've had some tough breaks. SPIKE: I thought you said you weren't an orthopedist DOC: Har har har. I'm a psychiatrist. SPIKE: I'm a bounty hunter. I hunt bounties. I know what I do. No psychiatrist necessary, unless you managed to pack a better couch with you. DOC: No such luck. But you seem to be relaxed as it is. SPIKE: Not quite. *lights up cigarette, blows smoke* ah, that's more like it. Want one? DOC: I don't condone smoking.  SPIKE: More for me, then. I suppose this is where you warn me of the dangers of smoking and tell me to quit. DOC: You just did it for me SPIKE: Taking a shortcut. I like that. How long will this take? DOC: I'm contracted for a typical hour SPIKE: Then that gives me some time for a nap. I don't have anything to talk about. You can stay or go, your choice. DOC: I don't abandon patients, but I'm not going to bug you in your own domicile. Mind if I watch something on my phone? SPIKE: Suit yourself DOC: *exaggerated reactions* Oooh his countering is so slow SPIKE: *clearly interested* What ya watching?  DOC: I always keep some fights downloaded to pass the time. SPIKE: You don't seem like the fighting type. DOC: I'm a huge fan because I view combat sports as the truest test of wills.  SPIKE: Spoken like someone who's never been in a real fight. DOC: Be that as it may, if you saw what I saw, you'd have a similar critique. SPIKE: *begrudgingly* Alright, show me DOC: See how this guy keeps his head on the center line? He invites every hook imaginable, but he doesn't have the handspeed to land a counterpunch. SPIKE: Yuck; he's too rigid. He has to just…flow. It's hard to explain DOC: Be like water. SPIKE: *pause* You're the first person to get that in the first try. *sigh* You know, it's nothing personal, but the reason I don't need a psychiatrist is because I've already trained my mind with the best that martial arts has to offer. That's how I get through things. I flow with them, until I need to crash. DOC: Hmmm…I think that may be a problem SPIKE: No way. DOC: Water as a liquid has the properties you claim. But what about under intense pressure and heat? It vaporizes. What about when it's cold? It freezes. SPIKE: So? DOC: So…depending on what is going on around you, you're making yourself subject to the whims of people or circumstance. Judging from this place, you guys are nomads. But your background means that you had a strong homebase at some point. Either your situation was so intense you needed to become vapor and disappear, or you became so frigid to them that you are more stoic than you should be. Either way, you've lost control. So which is it? SPIKE: Neither. It's like I said, I flow until I crash. DOC: So when's the last time you crashed? SPIKE: The last bum I knocked out, I guess. DOC: No, I mean emotionally. When's the last time you crashed? Who angered you? Who made you laugh? Who made you cry? SPIKE: You sure you're not ISSP with all these questions?  DOC: I'll back off, but the point is to answer those questions for yourself.  SPIKE: I've had some people tell me the opposite. DOC: Why?  SPIKE: *pause* Because they don't want me to die. DOC: Your job is dangerous SPIKE: *sarcastic* Ha. My LIFE is dangerous. Let's go with your metaphor. If I do the wrong thing, people get boiled. If I care too much, others become targets. So I freeze them out. And no, I can't just pretend that I want it some other way. All I can do is hope that the parts I DON'T like leave of their own volition, or I find something else to keep my mind occupied. Is that what you wanted to hear this whole time? Big whoop. DOC: Damn, that was deep. SPIKE: *calmer now* So, you got some time for some more fights? DOC: Depends on if you have time for more sessions. SPIKE: Well, we're due for another major dogfight and damage to the ship that'll put us out of commission for a while any day now, so I'll let you know when that happens. DOC: Sounds like a plan. SPIKE: Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go find some protein. If I have to eat one more carbohydrate I'm gonna puke. Ending Thank you everyone for coming Hope to be back for PuchiCon Teaneck in the spring See you, space cowboy…  

PAX East 2023 work is done, but King Baby Duck is still deep in his work for Anime Boston! So today, he's spinning some songs from classic and current anime! From the Lovely Angels and Spike Spiegel to a gender-changing sibling and a tanuki girl, […] The post No Borders No Race: Episode San-Byaku-Juu-Roku appeared first on B3 - The Boston Bastard Brigade |.

Manny and Mike order some pizza to the corner of Nostalgia and Reality before talking about things from the recent past they think didn't age well and things that aged like a fine wine. A Train Chin sneaks into the conversation and the hosts reflect back on poor choices when they were younger and less informed. Link slashes at their 'member berries for a bit before Spike Spiegel shows up on the scene. Grab your own chair and join Banter Banter for another conversation about the past, present, and on a rare occasion the future. Intro/Outro: "Caravan Bowser" by Flexstyle, XPRTNovice on OverClocked Remix - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR03263 Cover Art: Valeria on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/valeriyan_root/ Email: banterbantercast@gmail.com Find them on social media: Aaron: https://twitter.com/VIIIbitWizard Manny: https://twitter.com/BroGarCRE Mike: https://twitter.com/mike8time Twitter : @Banter_Cast Facebook: @BanterBanterCast

This week Andrew and Presley dive into a recently canceled Netflix original anime adaptation (that's too many things!). Will we love it, or will we hate it? Listen now to find out for yourself!All our Links: https://linktr.ee/seasononepodSpoiler Show Description: Today we are talking about the live-action cowboy bebop show made by Netflix in 2021. The show is a remake and reimagining of the original manga and anime. The show occurs in the distant future when interplanetary travel is every day, and an accident irradiates the earth beyond being livable. In this new interplanetary society, cooperations run everything, which is quite lawless, resulting in the government creating the Cowboys, bounty hunters who seek rewards by capturing the ruffians across the solar system. The show follows a ship called the Bebop, crewed by Spike Spiegel, played by John Cho, and Jet Black, played by Mustafa Shakir. As they pal around the solar system, another member reluctantly joins the crew, Faye Valentine, played by Daniella Pineda. Over the course of the series, we learn about Spike's checkered past with a crime organization known as the syndicate, and an ex-lover, Julia, trapped in a loveless marriage with Vicious, the series antagonist and former crime partner of Spike. As we watch the gang fumble from one bounty to another, we follow a Coup that vicious orchestrates on the syndicate, resulting in a final confrontation between Spike and Vicious resulting in Julia capturing Vicious, taking over the syndicate, and shooting spike out of a window into the ocean. Our characters part ways, and we close on a teaser and cliffhanger ending, preparing us for a new crew member in season 2.

Join us on this episode as we watch some Japanese Animation! Goku: Midnight Eye! Volumes 1 and 2! First appearance of the voice of Spike Spiegel! Thank you for joining us this week and ANY week you choose to listen. We love you and appreciate you. Check out or Ko-fi at https://ko-fi.com/batandspider Join our DISCORD Get your Bat & Spider STICKERS here Get a sweet new Bat & Spider t-shirt here! All sale proceeds go to The Movement For Black Lives. Technical Adviser: Slim of 70mm Theme song composed and performed by Tobey Forsman of Whipsong Music. Follow Bat & Spider on Instagram Follow Chuck and Dale on Letterboxd. Bat & Spider Watchlist Send us an email: batandspiderpod@gmail.com. Leave us a voice message: (315) 544-0966 Artwork by Charles Forsman batandspider.com Bat & Spider is a TAPEDECK podcast.

Just warning you right now, Sean opens up this episode with a big ol' "Buckle Up Cowboys," and it is absolutely warranted given the episode topic. Whether you love it (Sean) or hate it (Kev), Cowboy Bebop was an incredible influence on the western side of the world getting into anime. The episode focuses more so on the fact that it may not necessarily hold up to the test of time like a lot of other all time greats do. So we spend the episode chatting about some of Cowboy Bebop's pitfalls, and how they could have been avoided. Shoot us a rating if you're enjoying the show!! Click HERE to follow us on socials and subscribe on podcast players. This Episode Includes: Anime, Shonen, Cowboy Bebop, Naruto, Dragon Ball, Toonami, Spike Spiegel, Faye, Weeb

Filmspezial Ihr hört nur Robert. In dieser Folge, die schon zum #Japanuary hätte erscheinen sollen, doch nun erst aufgenommen wurde. Die Gästeliste änderte sich und auch wenn ihr nur Johannes hört, sind Michael und Daniel auch dabei. Auch wenn das alles keinen Sinn ergibt. Gehen soll es um "The Beast to die" und "Resurrection of the Golden Wolf" von Toru Murakawa und dem Vater dieses bekannten Schauspielers, der selber Spike Spiegel in Onimusha spielte, aber auch bei One Piece mitmischte. Hä? Also geht es irgendwie um Kapitalismuskritik und die Leiden, die der Krieg so mit sich bringt. Falls euch das jetzt verwirrt hat, glaubt mir einfach: Das sind ganz fantastische Klassiker des Japanischen Kinos und ihr wollt mehr darüber wissen. Podcast herunterladen

On the forty-fourth episode of Ammonite Movie Nite, the boys correct themselves again, Kev's winning Anime Corner streak continues, the legend of Steve Blum lives on, Spike Spiegel swings on a saxophone, Stranger Things sells you chicken, Freddy's trying to tell us something and Jason slips on a banana peel. The subtext of FREDDY'S REVENGE, the meta-comedy of JASON LIVES: it's all here. Plus, meet the new mascot of our emails section! NEXT WEEK: The grand finale of the first annual Big Fat Crazy Summer, THE ROOM & THE BIG LEBOWSKI! Questions? Comments? Concerns? What did we miss? Let us know via email/voicemail @ amntpod at gmail dot com! Our theme song was composed and performed by the mighty Chris Coffey. His band, Mr.TV Man, has an awesome album called INCIDENTAL MUSIC you can stream wherever you stream music.

This week we discuss the coolest space bounty hunters of them all: Spike Spiegel, Jet Black and Faye Valentine in the classic anime series Cowboy Bebop - recently adapted as a live action series on Netflix. Goodbye Kansas Lighting Lead Ivor da Silva talks about his passion for anime in general – and Cowboy Bebop in particular. And what kind of VFX did Goodbye Kansas Studios deliver for the Netflix series?

Oggi parliamo di #cult e in questo in caso si parla di #cowboybebop! Benvenuti amici e amiche del #bardellapsicologia su "#Profiling, dove verranno analizzati personaggi, #film e #serietv.

In recent years we've seen a boom of Asian American actors in film and TV. But for decades, John Cho was practically the only one. He first came to fame in 2004 playing Harold in the Harold and Kumar films, a role that challenged many people's ideas about what a leading man could look like. He's built his career thoughtfully ever since, taking roles (Sulu in the Star Trek films, Spike Spiegel in Netflix's Cowboy Bebop) that don't play into negative stereotypes. The son of a minister, Cho was born in Seoul and moved to the States when he was six. He has just written his first book, Troublemaker, a middle grade novel about a 12-year-old Korean American boy's experience of the LA riots. In a candid and open conversation, Cho recalls his own experience of 사이구(SaIGu), his memories of growing up in the church and the bottled up anger he's often felt as an Asian American man. Juliana and Catherine also get to hear about Cho's love of Little House on the Prairie and how books helped him through his peripatetic childhood. Follow John Cho on Instagram @johnthechoCo-host, Producer, Photographer: Juliana Sohn @juliana_sohnCo-host, Producer, Editor: Catherine Hong @catherinehong100Audio Engineer: AJ ValenteExecutive Producer: HJ Lee KoreanAmericanStory.org is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to capture, preserve, and share stories of the Korean American experience. 

A delightful conversation with New Zealand's own costume designer, Jane Holland, where she opens up about the intense craftsmanship that went into Spike Spiegel's (actor John Cho's) iconic blue suit in Cowboy Bebop - the tailoring, influences from the graphic novel, the gorgeous lining only actor John Cho knew about, and a secret 'easter egg' of sorts: handmade buttons with a water symbol - all part of a legacy costume (one the character wears the whole project!). Also, the hundreds of versions that were made of the blue suit for all the action sequences. Jane discusses the heartbreak of the shows sudden cancellation by Netflix after creating an entire studio workshop for the characters' intricate wardrobe. Jane discusses throwing herself into projects and how if you don't go all in, you aren't taking a risk, so NO REGRETS. From her beginnings working on Jane Campion's Oscar-winning The Piano to Xena: Warrior Princess, Jane sings the praises of New Zealand's tightly knit and vital film community as well as her recent colabs with her son! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/look-behind-the-look-pod/support

JUST TALKING Gen Z Critics Co-Founder Elizabeth 'Betsy' Kim joins JUST TALKING to predict 2022 Oscars. Oscar season 2022 is here and who grabs the golden trophy for Millennials and Gen Z fans? — CODA—nothing else, just CODA. You can measure the value of a film by questioning whether it's worth your money or your time. Relying on cinematic stereotypes is lazy story telling—nerdy Asians, British villains, German Nazis and uncultured countries. Why keep remaking movies with Hollywood color-casting? Why are we letting diversity quotas ruin movies? Aren't show runners doing their homework when there's already established franchise material? Look at Jake Gyllenhaal as the Prince in The Prince of Persia, Tom Cruise as The Last Samurai and John Cho as Spike Spiegel in Netfix Cowboy Bebop adaptation—this should be a wake-up call! Follow Gen Z critics: https://genzcritics.com STRIKE A CHORD Singer/Songwriter Sophia Marie joins STRIKE A CHORD from Washington D.C. to discuss her debut EP entitled “Foreigner.” When Sophia isn't recording music she's at Georgetown University writing papers, supporting her sorority organization and working at an internship—she is busy! Coming from the West Coast to the East Coast can take some adjustment time. West coast people generally have a really chill vibe. “On the East coast everyone is into consulting, politics and a cut-throat mentality.” “Foreigner” EP track “Venice Beach to Washington D.C,” is a legally blonde song embracing the challenge of transitioning from one place to the next—finding your own voice and not relying on politicians and celebrity elites to tell you what to believe in! Sophia's single “Foreigner” cautions those seduced by romanticism to fall in love with the person, not just the foreign accent. Follow and listen to Sophia Marie: https://www.instagram.com/la.sophiamarie

We've reached the end of the dream, space cowfolks. This podcast was envisioned as a companion to Cowboy Bebop, and with no more live action episodes on the way, it's time to say Howdy (in a Goodbye Way). Jamie, Lauren, and Angela look back on the journey by interviewing each other. We've had a wonderful time hunting bounties, meeting brilliant creators, and bringing new conversations to the community. Thank you, thank you. You're gonna carry that weight.

Cowboy Bebop, our favorite anime of all time, is a masterpiece. No matter what you think of the live action version, the original will always be there. This IP affects other media, pop culture, merchandise, and art. How have fan communities been permanently changed? What can we learn from the past year? What happens now? Join us on a journey through the multiverse with special guest Billy Tringali, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Anime and Manga Studies (JAMS).

WHY is the live action Cowboy Bebop LIKE THIS?! We've reached the end of the Netflix series, and we aren't holding back! Lauren and Jamie catch their white whale by interviewing showrunner André Nemec. These are (likely) his last words on Cowboy Bebop EVER, so tune in as he explains major creative choices like Julia, Ed, and what we're missing out on in seasons never to come.

Cowboy Bebop brings us a flashback episode this week, where we get all of our questions answered, from "How did Spike meet Julia" to "Vicious shaves WHERE??" Plus, we welcome our youngest-ever guest to the studio: Molly Moriarty, who played original Netflix character Kimmie Black.

If you're hungry for more Cowboy Bebop stories, check out the latest from Titan Comics! With the help of writer Dan Watters, we chase down a brand new bounty with suspiciously good luck. Expect a full review of issue 1 from Lauren and Jamie, plus our hopes and predictions for the rest of the 4-part comic book miniseries.

LET'S PARTY! Pierrot Le Fou just might be the most memorable episode of Cowboy Bebop, and we were shocked to see it adapted for live action on Netflix. We go to our happy place this week with Javier Grillo-Marxuach, who not only wrote this episode, but also brings stories from his incredible career on LOST, The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, and season 3 of The Witcher.

S4 E2: Today we find out what it takes to win a gun tournament: Is it having the most guns? OR does it take a bit of finesse and a wily nature? Thankfully we have MrEricAlmighty and Caleb Van Nice along with us to help find out! Talking points include: Who's the better tank pilot, kicking grenades out of the air, and two dudes just being way too friggin' cool for schoolFind out more about MrEricAlmighty and The Wait For It Podcast hereDiscover where else Super Bracket Bros can be found hereSee the current bracket at the pinned post at the top of the page of our FacebookVote on the all the matchups on our InstagramGet in contact with us: superbracketbros@gmail.comCheck out Eli and his many good things here

Our guest this week is known for kicking a lot of ass! Stunt Coordinator Allan Poppleton is in the studio with a behind-the-scenes look at Cowboy Bebop's biggest fights, including his work with John Cho post-injury. Galileo Hustle is Lauren and Jamie's favorite live action episode, so saddle up for a great time. ...After you call your mom and tell her you love her, of course.

Free your mind! Spike Spiegel may be trapped in a repetitive time loop, but Binary Two-Step introduces one of Netflix's biggest changes to Cowboy Bebop: Mel. This sexy, intelligent mechanic is played by our guest this week, Jade Harlow. She spills all the details about what's between Mel and Faye, but doesn't stop there. Our conversation touches on inclusivity, artists' compensation, and the value (or not!) of labels.

Scott watches the eighth episode of the new Netflix bebop series: Sad Clown A Go-Go and gives his thoughts. Vicious liberates a terrifying assassin and contracts him to kill Spike Spiegel. Later Vicious puts his plans for the Elders into motion.

Are you trying to #SaveBebop? Hoping for #MoreBebop?? There's a canonical (Netflix) Cowboy Bebop prequel novel available RIGHT NOW! We're pausing our live-action watch through to visit Red Planet Requiem: A Syndicate Story. Though he couldn't be in the studio with us, author Sean Cummings forwarded answers to some of our burning questions. We share them, this week, along with our review. Praise! Gripes! Thirst! It's all here, book lovers.

And on the next episode of Who Would Win...Anime meets video games this week as Bounty Hunter fights outlaw!Will Cowboy Bebop's Spike Spiegel (Repped by James) land his shot or will Red Dead Redemption's John Marston (Repped by Ray) catch him between the eyes? Will returning guest judge Matthew Harris find the winner in space or the West?You can now support us on Patreon at Patreon.com/WhoWouldWinShowCheck out the Who Would Win YouTube Channel!https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvvgEElLPGQG2GXkqMhQ5JwCheck out our brand new Who Would Win Merch Store:https://www.teepublic.com/stores/who-would-win?ref_id=12100&utm_campaign=12100&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=Who%2BWould%2BWinFollow us all on Twitter: @WhoWouldWinShow @JamesGavsie @AlmightyRay @ItsMattHarrisMusic Brett Van Donsel - Rattlesnake Railroad

How'd it go for the first BBC announcer with an accent?  How much work can you get if you "make it" in voiceover?  How much did the woman behind Siri make?  And what's a pencil got to do with any of this?  All this and more in part 2! Like what you hear?  Become a patron of the arts for as little as $2 a month!   Or buy the book or some merch.  Hang out with your fellow Brainiacs.  Reach out and touch Moxie on Facebook, Twitter,  or Instagram. 00:25 RP and Wilfred Pickles (voiced by Simon Jackson) 04:26 The cast of Futurama work a lot! 08:17 Voiceover is easy! (right?) 11:30 #moxiemillion 12:30 Trying to find a job 13:55 Props and accessories 15:55 AI (even worse than the movie) 18:24 Bev Standing vs TikTok 20:50 sponsors: Sly Fox Trivia, Sambucol 23:06 Susan Bennett, the voice of Siri 27:53 It's in the game Music: Kevin MacLeod, Track Tribe . Links to all the research resources are on the website.   Back when the BBC was first launched in 1922, the first General Manager of the corporation, Sir John Reith, insisted the BBC be as formal and quintessentially British as possible, and he created a number of rules towards this end.  One thing he stressed in particular was that the newscasters spoke the “King's English.“  He felt it was “a style or quality of English that would not be laughed at in any part of the country”.  He also assumed RP would be easier for people across the empire to understand versus a regional accent, of which the tiny land mass of the UK has dozens.  Reish wanted things to be ‘just so,' even ordering that any newscaster reading the news after 8PM had to wear a dinner jacket while on air, on the radio, where no one could see them.    The BBC didn't create Received Pronunciation, though.  We can trace the origins of RP back to the secondary schools and universities of nineteenth-century Britain, making it the accent of a certain social class, the one with money.  Their speech patterns - based loosely on the local accent of the south-east Midlands, roughly London, Oxford and Cambridge, soon came to be associated with ‘The Establishment.'   although one of Reith's goals in using RP was to appeal to the widest audience possible, many listeners still felt alienated by the broadcasts being beamed into their homes because of this “upper class” accent being used. Despite this, newscasters were required to use Received Pronunciation right up until World War 2.   Why change it during the war?  Didn't they have bigger things to worry about?  Well, the Ministry of Information was worried about the Nazis hijacking the radio waves.  During World War 2, Nazi Germany invested a lot of time and money to train spies and propagandists to speak using perfect Received Pronunciation so that they could pass as British.  If they pulled it off, the Nazis could potentially issue orders over the radio in a thoroughly convincing and official-sounding newscaster voice.  Therefor, the BBC hired several newscasters possessed of broad regional accents that would be more difficult for Nazis to perfectly copy, and as a bonus might also appeal to the “common man”.   The first person to read the news on the BBC with a regional accent was one Wilfred Pickles in 1941.  [sfx clip]  The public trusted that he was in fact British, but they didn't trust, or couldn't ignore his accent to pay attention to, a word he said.  Far from being popular, his mild Yorkshire accent offended many listeners so much that they wrote letters to the BBC, blasting them for having the audacity to sully the news that way.  Nonetheless, after the end of World War 2, the BBC continued to loosen its guidelines and began to hire more people who spoke with the respective accent of the region they were being broadcast.  That said, the BBC does continue to select newscasters with the most mild accents for international broadcasts.   You can't please everyone, but if you can get in good in the voicework industry, you can do a staggering number of roles.  How many?  Here are some examples, pulling only from the cast of one of my favorite shows, Futurama.  You might say my husband and I are fans; we had a Hypnotoad wedding cake.  Billy West, the voice of Fry, Prof. Farnsworth, and Zoidberg, as well as both Ren and Stimpy, has 266 acting credits on his IMDB page.  Maurice LaMarche, who did Calculon, Morbo and Kiff and is the go-to guy for Orson Welles impressions like Brain from Animaniacs, has 390 roles listed.  Tress MacNeille, who did basically every female who wasn't Amy or Leela, as well as Dot on Animaniacs and Agnes Skinner on The Simpsons has 398 roles to her name.  Bender's voice actor, John DiMaggio, without whom the Gears of War video games wouldn't be the same, has worked on some 424 projects.  The man who made Hermes Conrad Jamaican, and gave us Samurai Jack, Phil LaMarr, is the most prolific voice actor on that cast, with a whopping 495 credits to his name.  Still, he falls short of the resume of Rob Paulsen, who did the voices of Yakko and Pinky on Animaniacs, and other examples too numerous to list here, because his IMDB pages lists 541 voice acting credits.  And did I mention they're bringing Animaniacs back? [cheer]  Paulsen is trailing behind Tara Strong, though.  The actress who voiced Bubbles on Powerpuff Girls, Raven on Teen Titans, and Timmy on Fairly Oddparents has 609 roles in her 35 year career, or an average of 17 a year.  That may not sound impressive, but have you've ever tried getting *one acting job?  Strong can't hold a candle to a man whose voice I can identify from two rooms away, a man who will always be Spike Spiegel from Cowboy Bebop no matter who he's playing, Steve Blum, who has racked up 798 voice roles.  And those are just a sampling of voice actors I can name off the top of my head.  So when career day rolls around, maybe skip doctor and firefighter and suggest your kid become a voice actor.  Not everyone who does voice work has a face for radio, so I put pictures of all the actors up on the Vodacast app so you can se what Fry, Yakko, and Raven really look like ..   “Sure,” you say, “that sounds like a sweet gig.  Walk in, say a few things, and cash the check.”  Oh my sweet summer child.  If it was that easy, everyone would do it.  For starters, there is no “got it in one take” in voice acting.  Be prepared to do your lines over and over again, with different emphasis, different inflection, different pacing, or sometimes simply saying it over and over again until, even though each take sounds the same to you, the director gets the subtle difference they're looking for.  Bonus fact: the feeling you get when you say a word or phrase so many times that it stops sounding like a word and becomes a meaningless noise is called semantic satiation.   You may be standing in a little booth all day, but that doesn't mean it won't be physically taxing.  Actors dubbing anime in particular are required to do a lot of screaming.  Chris Sabat, who voices Vegeta in the Dragonball series, says that even with his background in opera and the vocal control that taught him, “I will literally be sick the next day. I will have flu-like symptoms. Because you have to use so much energy, and use up so much of your voice to put power into those scenes, that it will make you sick. That's not an exaggeration; I will be bedridden sometimes after screaming for too long.”   That is, if you can get a gig.  Remember how I rattled off actors who've had hundreds of roles each?  That's because, in rough figures, 5% of the actors get 95% of the work. So unless you're a Tara Strong or Phil LaMarr, noteworthy roles will be hard to come by.  One plus side is you get paid by the word, as well as by the tag.  A tag is part of a recording that can be swapped out, like recording a commercial, and recording the phrases “coming soon,” “opening this Monday,” and “open now.”  The clients gets three distinct commercials from one recording sessions, so you get more money.  Assuming the client actually orders the session.  You may find yourself on stand-by or “avail,” as it's called in the industry.  You may be asked to set aside a few hours or even consecutive days for a recording session.  The problem is, the client isn't actually obligated to use you during that time and no one else can book you during that time until they release you from it.    But it's a job you can do in your pj's, and I often do, and that's always a plus.  Even though no one can see the actors, voice work still uses props and accessories.  While computers can be used to speed up or slow down dialogue (which is more of a concern in dubbing Japanese animation, where the visuals are already done), certain vocal changes can easily be achieved using random items in the studio. “If the character is in a hollowed-out tree, I might stick my head in a wastebasket,” veteran voice actor Corey Burton told Mental Floss. “If it doesn't sound quite right, I can throw some wadded-up Kleenex in there for better acoustics.”  Burton, like Mel Blanc, prefers to eat real food when the moment calls for it. “They want you to sometimes just go, ‘Nom, nom, nom.' No! I want a carrot, a cookie. I don't want to make a dry slurping noise when I could be sipping a drink.”   Pencils also play an important role, not for making notes on the script or creating any sort of convincing sound effect.  The plague of these performers is plosives.  You've probably heard them on podcasts; they've definitely been on mine.  A plosive is the noise you get when a consonant that is produced by stopping the airflow using the lips, teeth, or palate, followed by a sudden release of air.  It's also called popping your p's, since that's the worst culprit.  A round mesh screen in front of the mic helps, but the old-school trick to stop plosives actually uses a pencil.  If they're getting p-pops on the recording, voice actors will hold a pencil or similar linear object upright against the lips.  This disrupts the air enough to avoid the giant, sharp spike in the soundwave.  Now if only there were some cheap and easy trick to get rid of mouth noises and lip smacks.  You may hear a few on this podcast, but for everyone you hear, I cut twenty out.   The most sure-fire way to avoid mouth noises and breathing when ordering a recording is to use a computer-generated or AI voice.  Now this is a sticky wicket in the VO community, a real burr under a lot of saddles.  Whenever it comes up in message groups, a third of people turn into South Park characters [sfx they took our jobs].  I won't get too Insider Baseball here, but here's the scoop.  AI voices are cheap, fast, and they're getting really good.  Have you ever gotten a robodialer call where it took you a moment to realize it was not a live person?  There are companies offering entire audiobooks in AI voices.  There is even an AI voice that can cry!  So why am I not bothered?  The way I see it, the people who will buy the cheapest possible option, in this case an AI voice, weren't going to pay even my Fiverr rate, and invariably, the cheaper a client is, the more working with them makes you regret ever starting this business in the first place.  It's an irony a lot of freelancers and business owners are familiar with -- the $5k client pays you the day you submit the invoice; the $50 client makes you hound them for six weeks and then they say they want you to do it over or come down on the price.  So I'm fine with letting those gigs go.  The other reason is that while AI applications and devices such as smart speakers and digital assistants like Siri are powered by computer-generated voices, those voices actually originate from real actors!  In fact, I just wrapped an AI-generation job this week.    In most cases, even computerized voices need a human voice as a foundation for the development of the vocal database. Nevertheless, AI is creating new work for a wide range of voice actors. Are these actors putting themselves out of a job in future?  Maybe. Maybe not.  It's definitely something I had to wrestle with before accepting the job.  But I figured, AI is coming whether we like it or not, so it's best to be involved to help steer the ship rather than be capsized by its wake.   When I took the AI-generation job, there were two questions I had for the client: what control do I have over how my voice is used, and what happens if you sell the company?  I asked these two questions for two good reasons, Bev Standing and Susan Bennett.  Bev Standing, a VO and coach from Canada, was surprised to hear her own voice being used on peoples' videos when friends and colleagues told her to log onto Tiktok.  For one, people could use her voice to say whatever they liked, no matter how vile, and she'd never worked with, been paid by, or given permission for use of her voice to TikTok.   According to Standing, who I've taken classes with and is a really nice lady, the audio in question was recorded as a job for the Chinese Institute of Acoustics four years ago, ostensibly for translations.  “The only people I've worked with are the people I was hired by, which was for translations... My agreement is not what it's being used for, and it's not with the company that's using my voice,” Standing said in an interview.   Standing files a lawsuit against TikTok's parent company ByteDance on the grounds of intellectual property theft.  She hasn't consented to her performance being used by TikTok, and had very real concerns that the content created using her audio would hurt her ability to get work in the future.  Imagine if Jan 6 insurrectionists and other such hateful wackaloons used your voice on their videos.  Good luck getting hired after that.  TikTok and ByteDance stayed pretty mum, both publicly and to Standing and her lawyer, also a VO, but they did change the AI voice, which certainly looks like they done wrong.  The lawsuit was settled a few months ago, but it's all sealed up in NDAs, so I can't tell you the details, but I'm calling it a win.   The other name I dropped was Susan Bennett, but that's not the name you'd recognize her as.  Though she was training to be a teacher, it soon became clear to Susan Bennet that her voice was destined for more than saying “eyes on your own paper.”  She acted in the theater, was a member of a jazz band, an a cappella group, and she was a backup singer for Burt Bacharac and Roy Orbison.  That background helped her land gigs doing VO and singing jingles for the likes of Coca-Cola, McDonald's, Macy's, Goodyear, Papa John's, IBM, and more.  In 1974, she became the voice of First National Bank of Atlanta's Tillie the All-Time Teller, one of the first bank ATMs.  Her voice made the new technology more user-friendly for a computer-unfamiliar public.     Bonus fact: one of the earliest ATMs in NYC printed the security picture of the user on their receipts.  According to the man who sold them to the bank, “The only people using the machines were prostitutes and gamblers who didn't want to deal with tellers face to face.”  Or it could be the hours they keep.  I can neither confirm nor deny this, but I like to think that sex workers are the underappreciated early-adopters that helped the rest of us to be able to hit the cash machine on the way out of town (or the Mac machine, as my mom called it well into the 90's).  Bennet also became the voice of Delta Airlines announcements, GPS's, and phone systems.   But even with all that, that's not where you know her voice from.  “Hey, Siri, how big is the Serengeti?” [sfx if Google was]  Susan Bennet was the original voice of Siri on the iphone, but she never actually worked for Apple.  In 2005, she recorded a wealth of words and wordy-sounding non-words for a company called ScanSoft or Nuance, I've been seeing either listed.   For four hours a day, every day, in July 2005, Bennett holed up in her home recording booth, saying thousands of phrases and sentences of mostly-to-completely nonsense, which the “ubergeeks” as she called them, could use for generating AI speech.  According to Bennet, “I was reading sentences like 'cow hoist in the tub hut today.' 'Militia oy hallucinate buckra okra ooze.' Then I would read these really tedious things that were the same word, but changing out the vowel. 'Say the shrayding again, say the shreeding again, say the shriding again, say the shredding again, say the shrudding again.' “  These snippets were then synthesized in a process called concatenation that builds words, sentences, paragraphs. And that is how voices like hers find their way into GPS and telephone systems.   The job was done, the check cleared, and life went on, then 2011 rolled around and Siri was unveiled as an integrated feature of the Apple iPhone 4S.  The actors who'd worked for Nuance had no idea until well after it happened.  Bennett found out that her voice is actually Siri after a friend emailed: ”Hey, we've been playing around with this new Apple phone. Isn't this you?'  Apple had bought SoftScan/Nuance and all of its assets.  “Apple bought our voices from Nuance without our knowing it.”  As a voiceactor, this turn of events was problematic for a few reasons.  Typecasting and stereotyping, for one.  The downside of being successful in a role can be that that's all people want you for after that, like Sean Bean and a character who dies.  So Bennett kept her identity close to her vest until 2013, when Apple switched voices.  “My voice was just the original voice on the 4s and the 5. But now it no longer sounds like Apple because [Siri] sounds like everyone else. The original Siri voice had a lot of character; she had a lot of attitude.   Bennet has never said how much she made from Nuance, but we know how much she's made from Apple.  In round figures, give or take for inflation, [sfx calculator] she made $0.  Her voice was on something like 17 million phones.  Even a penny per phone would have been a handsome payday, but no, no penny for you.  “We were paid for the amount of time we spent recording but not at all for usage. The only way I've been able to get any payment for it, really, is through my speaking events, but I'm very grateful to have been the voice of Siri. She's very iconic; it's led to a whole new career for me.”   Another widespread voice that didn't get commensurate royalties is known for a single phrase, barely a full sentence. [sfx clip]  From FIFA and Madden to UFC and NBA, Andrew Anthony's voice has opened EA Sports video games for 30 years now and let us all have a collective shiver of mortality at that fact.  Anthony had a friend who ran a small ad sales company, who had taken on the not-yet-industry-cornerstone Electronic Arts as a client.  "My friend then called me up in Toronto and said 'Hey will you do this thing... for free?' I said 'yeah, of course, I will! I don't even know what this is but I get a free trip down to see you, so for sure'.  So Anthony went to visit his friend, read the line, which was originally “If it's in the game, it's in the game,” and assumed he would never, ever hear anything about it again.  Call that an underestimation.  EA is valued at $37B, with the Sports being a big chunk of that.  And Anthony has seen exactly none of that money, and he's pretty okay with that.  Over the years, Anthony has met plenty of other gaming fans and happily agreed to do his EA Sports voice impression on camera.    Not every screen actor's able to do voice work successfully; we've all heard flat, lackluster performances from big name stars in animated features.  Looking at you, Sarah Michelle Gellar from the recent HeMan cartoon.  Not so with the person who arguably kicked off the trends of booking big names stars for voice work, Robin Williams in his role as Genie.  Williams recorded 30 hours of dialogue, most of it improvised, for the 90 minute movie.  He took the role for *9% of the fee he normally commanded with the condition that the recordings not be used to merchandise products.  He wanted to “leave something wonderful behind for this kids.”  Thanks for spending part of your day with me.   And that's where we run out of ideas, at least for today.  So a wife overheard her boss saying he wanted a voice to notify people when they received email and volunteered her husband. “I recorded it on a cassette deck in my living room,” Edwards told the New York Post on November 7.  “Most people think I'm retired and own an island.”  Instead, he works at WKYC-TV from 3:30 a.m. to noon, and drives an Uber from noon to 6 p.m.  In 2014, Edwards told CNBC that he pranks people by standing behind their computers and booming, “You've got mail!”  Explained the voice-over actor, “I have fun with it!”  He's not bothered by not getting royalties, so I guess we shouldn't be either. 

Cowboy Bebop S01E08: Sad Clown A-Go-Go FROM IMDB: Vicious liberates a terrifying assassin and contracts him to kill Spike Spiegel. Later, he puts his plan for the Elders into motion. 480TVPod is an 8-minute TV Aftershow Podcast from PIPE Network. New episode every Sunday! Hosted by: Patrick of Rule20Podcast and Mark of KwenTalks. Check out more shows from PIPE Network! https://www.facebook.com/pipenetwrk

Darkside Tango takes us through the moody, jazz-filled alleyways of Jet Black's past, but just how well does it uphold the stories of Udai and Fad? One of the brilliant cowfolks behind this noir-inspired world is Set Decorator Anneke Botha. The Bebop is the love of her life; we can't wait for you to hear how the team built our favorite ship from the guts of a real-life fishing trawler!

We're back with the perfect episode for anyone whose New Year's Resolution is "going green!" Callisto Soul puts a tree-hugging twist on an old fave. We welcome Script Coordinator Naomi Markman, one of Cowboy Bebop's freshest voices, to unravel why Maria Murdock and her "children" are more relevant than ever.

It's the end of the year and your detectives are here to send you into the new ones with thoughts of cowboys and bebops. After discussing pieces of media that defined their respective years, they talk about a cool floating cat, the logistics of gambling on knowing someones name, Faye Valentines no good, very bad bounty hunt, prairie oysters, cool truckers, meeting cool ladies, Venus disease, the future of Tom and Jerry, and learning a lesson about going to cathedrals if you are Spike Spiegel

Whether you prefer Betty's Boop or Betty's Bottom, we can all agree: The best part of Dog Star Swing is Ein! We analyze the episode top to, um, bottom, before welcoming the Charlie the corgi, the brightest star in Cowboy Bebop. As much as we love Charlie's barks and woofs, we are also thankful for his human mum, Steph, and his trainer, Rosie, for tagging along.

TANK! Darauf hat das Lichtspielhaus lange gewartet: Die live action Umsetzung des Anime-Klassikers "Cowboy Bebop"! Ob die Netflix-Show mit dem Original aus den 90ern mithalten kann, erfahrt ihr in dieser Folge des wirklich wahren Film- und Serien-Podcasts. Spike Spiegel, Jet Black und Faye Valentine sind ein Haufen abgehalfterter Kopfgeldjäger und eine ziemlich schräge Truppe, fast so wie Sascha und Matthias. Die drei sind nicht nur immer auf der Jagd nach dem nächsten großen Fang, sondern legen sich dazu noch mit dem mächtigen Syndicat an. Neben John Cho, Mustafa Shakir und Daniella Pineda ist der eigentliche Star der Show defitiv die großartige Musik von Yoko Kanno. Das Lichtspielhaus wird in dieser Episode zum Jazzkeller. Außerdem erfahrt ihr, wie man sich mit einer Strumpfmaske über dem Kopf beim Ausziehen unsichtbar macht, wo ihr den besten Minimalismus shoppen könnt und wie ihr aus einer alten Playstation 3 ein mittelalterlichen Wurfgeschoss bastelt. SEE YOU SPACE COWBOY... Podcast-Getränke des Tages: Birkenhof Brennerei Alte Himbeere / Bembel-With-Care Apfelwein

Grab your favorite teddy and settle in for a Cowboy Bebop podcast jamboree! This week, Jamie and Lauren are joined by Jesse (Sudden But Inevitable) and Andrew (Bebop Tabletop). It truly takes this many voices to unravel the number of bounties and sessions remixed into Venus Pop.

On Today's Episode of the Nii-San Podcast, Xell and Crim is taking on ANIME PROTAGS. We're ranking some popular anime protags from best to worst on TierMaker. Why is Spike Spiegel so dang cool? Why did Shinji have to inspire the army of Eren Yaegers? Can purposefully bland characters be good? We'll answer all of that and more on today's episode!  Do you agree with our placements? Let us know in the comments below!  Check out our pretty looking podcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsPR4t556wjeH6ChZW8P0kQ Follow Xell Here: https://twitter.com/XellTweets https://twitch.tv/Xell Follow Crim Here: https://twitter.com/TheAsianAvenger https://Twitch.tv/TheAsianAvenger Follow Nii-San Podcast Here: https://Reddit.com/r/NiisanPodcast https://twitter.com/NiisanPodcast 0:00 Intro 0:52 Boruto From Naruto 1:33 Kaneki Ken From Tokyo Ghoul 2:22 Madoka Kaname From Puella Magi Madoka Magica 4:08 Light Yagami From Death Note 5:56 Lelouch From Code Geass 7:03 Edward Elrich From Fullmetal Alchemist 9:01 Eren Yaeger From Attack On Titan 11:19 Deku From My Hero Academia 12:57 Gon Freecss From Hunter X Hunter 14:58 Shoyou Hinata From Haikyuu!! 19:37 Hiyori Iki From Noragami 21:35 Mob From Mob Psycho 100 22:42 Naruto Uzumaki From Naruto 24:38 Naoto Nandaba From FLCL 26:45 Saitama From One Punch Man 29:12 Saiki Kusuo From The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. 31:05 Shinji Ikari From Neon Genesis Evangelion 34:10 Simon From Gurren Lagann 37:29 Natsuki Subaru From Re:Zero 39:33 Spike Spiegel From Cowboy Bebop 40:59 Umaru Doma From Himouto! Umaru-Chan 42:52 Yumeko Jabami From Kakegurui 44:54 Aggretsuko From Aggretsuko 45:49 Monkey D. Luffy From One Piece 47:56 Tanjiro Kamado From Demon Slayer 50:36 Senku Ishigami From Dr. Stone 52:47 Kaguya Shinomiya From Kaguya-Sama Love is War 54:20 Yuji Itadori From Jujutsu Kaisen 57:28 Outro

This week we discuss bad music mixing, dividing by zero in Black Clover, and the king of lateral thinking. Timestamps - News 10:42, Weekly Series 32:49, Chihayafuru 47:15, Berserk 1:16:09 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nakamaradio/support

A new era of Cowboy Bebop begins with Cowboy Gospel, an episode that pulls inspiration from Asteroid Blues, Knockin' on Heaven's Door, and more. We can't believe all that Netflix packed in this one, from Faye Valentine's debut to our favorite three old men. Our first live action guest is Visual Effects Editor Kim Huston, who lets us in on tricks of the trade and Easter eggs galore!

Olá #NacãoNerd, estamos de volta e pedimos desculpa novamente pelo o hiato acidental.  A vida e mesmo assim e pra citar o nosso amodo Spike Spiegel, o que acontence, acontence.  Nesse episodio especial fizemos um crossover com nosso querido amigo @yamryuu do podcast @OtakunoKissaten. O papo hoje é sobre a serie live action de Cowboy Bebop da Netflix.  See you space cowboy…

The Bebop Beat podcast is back for Season 2! We're kicking it off with a recording of our first LIVE show. Shortly after Netflix's Cowboy Bebop premiered, we recorded our reactions with other fans on Discord. Please pay the howdy toll, then listen to our discussion on the live action performances, themes, and soundtrack.

Chat Pack's Paul Holden got to sit down with voiceover artist Steve Blum for a piece on KIRO Radio on the power of animated characters and the return of Emerald City Comic Con. Blum is the Guiness World Record Holder for voices in video games and is the voice behind Spike Spiegel, among many other voices. The story Paul did on the Con can be found here

02:00 - Unbelievable (Netflix) 04:51 - Alice in Borderland (Netflix) 08:50 - Modern Love (Amazon) 11:50 - The Boys (Amazon) 14:14 - The Flight Attendant (HBO) 16:40 - Warrior (HBO) 22:00 - King Richard and Ghostbusters 24:12 - The Black Phone 26:22 - Sing 2 28:15 Cowboy Bebop Will Netflix's Cowboy Bebop live up to the hype and be as popular as the anime? Will John Cho make a good Spike Spiegel? Alice in Borderland trending again thanks to Squid Game.

Get your Cowboy Bebop DVD cued up and watch along with the Major Spoilers Crew as they provide audio commentary for the episode, Asteroid Blues. Asteroid Blues (4/23/98) Fellow bounty hunters Spike Spiegel and Jet Black tracks down Asimov Solensan and his girlfriend, both of whom are looking for buyers for the "Red Eye drug". TRIVIA: This episode makes a homage to Desperado, with Asimov resembling very much like Antonio Banderas's mariachi character. Contact us at podcast@majorspoilers.com A big Thank You goes out to everyone who downloads, subscribes, listens, and supports this show. We really appreciate you taking the time to listen to our ramblings each week. Tell your friends about the podcast, get them to subscribe and, be sure to visit the Major Spoilers site and forums.

This week on ANIME DEATH RAY (NOW ON APPLE PODCASTS AND STITCHER WOW) our tribute to the 90's blasts off with an explosive episode of OUTLAW STAR starring Jim Hawking: the kid sidekick who accidentally kills his girlfriend and her cats! This Ep:Did they cut a check to the guy who played Spike Spiegel to NOT be in this?Why are Bounty Hunters so beloved despite being based on our worst impulses??How much coffee is safe for an 11 year old?Chris and Melfina: Hair twins!All this and a bunch of weeks old, quasi-answered predictions about the Live Action Cowboy Bebop!We are a sunny backyard anime comedy podcast and I love my neighbors so I don't care if you can hear them sometimes! Rate, review, like, subscribe and follow us in your hearts @animedeathray on instagram and twitter

Earlier this week, Netflix debuted the first look of its highly anticipated live-action adaptation of Cowboy Bebop, and fans had plenty of thoughts about everything from John Cho rocking a pristine blue suit and his best anime hair as Spike Spiegel to the adorable corgi playing Ein the data dog. But the reaction to the show's female lead has been more mixed, leading to some comments highlighting some sex*st double standards—including from the actress playing her.A HUGE Thank You To All My Patreon, Members, & Subscribe Stars! I Love You All!Simon BarnettRaymond CandelaGPSpectorDavid LDaniel GuitronTKnotatpostJohn LeAuthenticity SeekerBrian KMAY BE MEDocHollidayFrank the Redsatchell78RC ScottThe dukeMarcos R.Razor-sharp Though...Alexander LeonardWelcome To The SH!T ShowJason JohnsonJobustifyMAGAirMike PorterJeffery CarnesRobert WillingCaligula BearP MoneyKenny GSwany RiversLisa DonahueMuddledMessJasValin RookAlazmat FilmsAlexander Trapp Waelse1Raymond CandelaThe Killing JokeBeau ScottBrian KBiggles Macy RRob LynchMathew DrewJohn LeBrandon AllenAlyssa Annette Ybarra Brian HawkinsChris David Raiford B LRyan DeckertMizen Barbarossa Jerm Debo Ruakar-McTwizz-Jade Wheatley Zach Richmond JDthecomicotakuMighty PawsKato Rone Steve Glaskar Dav RozTimothy French Mike Buckner BruceyJeffrey Alan Carnes Anne HolydayNitrosgal 2Sylvia La ChivaJD2981 GPSpectorJ ThreefingersBjörn PerssonSimon Barnett Lil PoetboyLet me know what you think!

In our tenth episode, Adam introduces Rachel to the universe of Cowboy Bebop. They'll talk about the significance of star Spike Spiegel's namesake, launch into the impressive musical influences in the show, and space out trying to imagine life as interstellar outlaws. You won't want to miss this one, folks - this is some real bountiful content.  -- To pick up that second controller and play along at home, we'd recommend watching the following episodes (which is the major consistent storyline in Bebop): Episode 1: Asteroid Blues Episode 5: Ballad Of Fallen Angels Episodes 12 & 13: Jupiter Jazz pts. 1 & 2 Episodes 25 & 26: The Real Folk Blues pts. 1 & 2 -- Feel free to hunt us down on social @WhatsUpNerdsPod if you're a passionate person wanting to talk about your passionate vices, or you can always email us at WhatsUpNerdsPod@gmail.com - until then, see you, space cowboys. -- Music from https://www.zapsplat.com

The S CLASS crew takes on the legendary Cowboy Bebop. It's the ideal podcast for Spike Spiegel, Ein and all other space cowboys. But mostly Ein. Spoilers begin at 15:20​ --- INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/sclass_yt/​ ​TWITTER: https://twitter.com/sclass_yt ​​EMAIL: sclasspodcast@gmail.com --- MUSIC: Real Folk Blues by The Seat Belts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GwE0...

Cowboy Bebop isn't the only Western-influenced anime series to make waves on Cartoon Network in the early '00s. Just a few years before Spike Spiegel blew the minds of American cable viewers, The Big O emerged as an ultra-stylish and enigmatic series that blended the look of Batman: The Animated series and Japanese giant robot shows from the '60s and '70s. And, thanks to its infamous cliffhanger ending, Sunrise's series kickstarted a trend of Western funding that continues to this day. This week, Cartoons 101's Matthew Jay joins us to discuss the classic The Big O episode, "A Legacy of Amadeus."