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Mike Stephen learns about Chicago BBQ history from Chicago Tribune food critic Nick Kindelsperger, discusses the impact of youth filmmaking in the city with DeAnna McLeary-Sherman of TrueStar and Eunice Shelley of the Wordsmith's Writer's Lab, and discovers the Secret History of the late great folk local folk musician Jim Post.

Today I'm showcasing the True Star Foundation, based in Chicago. It's the brain child of an incredible duo - DeAnna Sherman and Na Tae Thompson. True Star Foundation' brings young people deep into the world and business of media production, using media as a platform for giving young people a creative outlet, a belief that their voice matters, and a professional toolbox that can be leveraged their entire lives. Teens not only produce actual high-quality media, including two magazines, a tv show, blog and radio show, as well as media for businesses and corporations, they also they advise and execute business strategy, conduct market research, develop marketing campaigns, and are the ultimate decision makers of the brand and direction of the organization itself. In our conversation, we talk about how these two ladies came together quite by accident and cofounded TrueStar close to 2 decades ago. We talk about the lessons they've learned from founding and building an organization from the ground up, and how they continue to innovate and remain responsive to the changing media sector, and the evolving needs of young people over decades. It's a great conversation!

Two podcasts in one day? OverCoat must be crazy right? Nope, I just did 2 one hour shows instead, since I wanted to do a Radio OverCoat and it’s been over a month since I’ve been able to. So this week’s Touhou Tuesday is pretty short, unless you also listen to my other show from ...Continue reading ‘Touhou Tuesday #139 (2016-03-22): Translation Canceller’ »

OVERCOAT RETURNS! I’ve been working my butt off at the new job, and have some new stories to tell, but first and foremost I gotta play them sweet jams. I haven’t been on in a while, but the new job’s schedule is pretty random. I’ll still try to do Touhou Tuesday when I can though. Read ...Continue reading ‘Touhou Tuesday 2016-03-15: The Magical Revolving Toilet’ »

I’m back! Nothing too exciting in this episode, but I talk a little bit about my new day job and the future of the show (tl;dr, the future of the show is uncertain but I’ll attempt to do as much radio as I can :P). Also, I hope you like ska. Read on for the ...Continue reading ‘Touhou Tuesday #137 (2016-03-01): Super Touhou Tuesday’ »

This week I played a bunch of my favorite songs off Babbe’s new album Fragments of Gensokyo. It’s pretty awesome! I also played lots of Sound Holic, CarrotWine, and more, which you can see in the playlist below: ARA – STAGE 12 /MAID GIRL Babbe – Reach for the Unknown 一ノ瀬 月琉 – [The Road ...Continue reading ‘Touhou Tuesday 2012-11-27: Fragments of Babbe (All Over the Place )’ »

Today in addition to the normal playlist of music, I debuted a new track from Babbe! He’s releasing a new album this Friday, “Fragments of Gensokyo,” and I played one of the tracks from the album, “Scared Fairy With Nice Pantsu.” You can hear it right in the beginning. If you wanna check out the ...Continue reading ‘Touhou Tuesday 2012-11-20: ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° )’ »

In this episode I am DJing solo again, TrueStar once again falling victim to the trap of studying for really hard science courses. I use all that extra time to play awesome music, and cover all sorts of genres people seemed to like and dislike both : ). I also take some time to talk ...Continue reading ‘Touhou Tuesday 2012-11-13: Genre Shock’ »

YES WE KANAKO ARM | 藤枝 あかね | 夕野 ヨシミ – お空のニュークリアフュージョン道場 Shibayan – 躍る夜雀～Invitation to evening 綾倉盟 – Epicurean feat.綾倉盟 yukacco – Shine Like a Star Nhato – Listen Up Tuck.よしひさ | Issay – Asteroid Blues 鈴丸 – PETAL OF THE CHERRY BLOSSOM michiyo – Under the Quiet Moon ～The Girl From Fantasy～ Yuy／Vo. ...Continue reading ‘Touhou Tuesday 2012-11-06: MORIYA 2012!’ »

This week features both myself and TrueStar, now that she is done with all her midterm stuff for now. This episode is all about being 2spooky, since tomorrow is Halloween! I also recounted the horror stories from AkiCon aka BucketCon/GarageCon/BukkakiCon and how Touhou Tuesday will never officially endorse going to this convention ever again. Despite ...Continue reading ‘Touhou Tuesday 2012-10-30: 2spooky 2hu Halloween Special!’ »

No TrueStar this week, but I went and found myself a new intern, who goes by the name of Momiji. She didn’t talk much, but she was there to keep the chatroom in line, and fetch my coffee! Thanks for volunteering your time, Momi! On to the show, it wasn’t much of anything special but ...Continue reading ‘Touhou Tuesday 2012-10-23: Tsunderabies’ »

This week’s episode is all about Distant Phantasm 6. For those that don’t know, Distant Phantasm is an online music collaboration where anyone can submit their Touhou arrangements, and since it’s open to everyone it’s a good opportunity to get feedback and promotion on your song regardless of skill level. Since this is a radio ...Continue reading ‘Touhou Tuesday 2012-10-16: Round Two of the Gensokyo Yama Debates, Distant Phantasm 6 special!’ »

This week I got to introduce the blue-and-improved TrueStar. What a rebel! We also had an inordinate amount of Imperishable Night arrangements in the playlist. Today’s background music supplied by HertzDevil, and is available here. Read on for the playlist: Shibayan – カラフル・メロウ・メドレー どぶウサギ – 斯怪変相曲 ～ Unhuman Variations 堕悪祭怪＆昼 – Hard NEET Syrufit – ...Continue reading ‘Touhou Tuesday 2012-10-09: Imperishable Nuts’ »

The triumphant return of TrueStar occured this week, after her long and dangerous week full of chemistry and physics midterms! Upon returning, she somehow discovered Josip on Deck and wanted me to play “Moe Over Everything.” I also got to catch up on requests. Read on for today’s playlist: Josip On Deck – Moe Over ...Continue reading ‘Touhou Tuesday 2012-10-02: 2hu on Deck’ »

Today, I got to interview Leo, the artist behind the popular Ask Udonge tumblr. I also broke my listener record… by a lot! Wow! I asked Leo many questions about his art, his life, and what the future holds for him. I took a couple breaks for music, so if you’re curious what I played, ...Continue reading ‘Touhou Tuesday 2012-09-25: LEO HIJACK! Interview with Leo Modesto of Ask Udonge’ »

TrueStar was able to show up today! Hooray! Today had a pretty good turnout, and some pretty amazing fanart by Banzatou! Click here to see it: http://banzatou.deviantart.com/#/d5f9iuv it’s pretty adorable! Speaking of artists, the amazing Leo Modesto will be on our show next week, so be sure to tune in! Check out his tumblr, it’s ...Continue reading ‘Touhou Tuesday 2012-09-18: A Few Good Touhous’ »

So this past Sunday, 9/9 was Strongest Day, hope everyone celebrated properly! No TrueStar again today, but she had to prepare for the Double Dragon Neon Release Party happening right after the show this week. Since I was expecting a giant increase in people, I pulled out a pretty awesome playlist and I hope everyone ...Continue reading ‘Touhou Tuesday 2012-09-11: Happy Belated Strongest Day!’ »

What an elegant way to start the show, huh? In this episde TrueStar shows up a bit late, but we had more than enough silly conversations to make up for it. Also, Locke’s Art is ceasing production of their Touhou t-shirts, so show your support by buying up every last one! They’re all discounted too. ...Continue reading ‘Touhou Tuesday 2012-09-04: Cirno Masterpiece Theater’ »

Okay! So I still had some Comiket 82 material this week, but not much, I wanted to reach back into my archives and play some other songs. No TrueStar this week, she had to run in silent mode. She’s busy studying fuckin’ magnets anyway! Read on for the playlist: 東京アクティブNEETs – 弐、【月映天蓋】 MERAMI – In A ...Continue reading ‘Touhou Tuesday 2012-08-28: C82hu Special Part Just Kidding!’ »

Oh boy today’s show was fun! We continued to play fresh material from Comiket 82, which happened 2 weekends ago. Expect more next week too, but to a lesser extent. I still have to get that touhou polka album! Today we celebrated Babbe and T-A-C’s birthdays, body pillows, English grammar, and Touhou Wiki shenanigans! Ginryu、司芭扶、Romonosov?、Wooming、妖狐 ...Continue reading ‘Touhou Tuesday 2012-08-21: C82hu Special, Part 2, ~=~aDoRAbLY sICk WuBZ~=~’ »

After quite a manic weekend of collecting Comiket 82 CDs, I have returned this week with a bounty of material. Read the playlist below to find out exactly what! Also, we did play one non-comiket song by Babbe, who released his new Touhou album on bandcamp this same weekend, so I decided to play my ...Continue reading ‘Touhou Tuesday 2012-08-14: C82hu Special, Part 1!’ »

The past weekend had quite a few things happen, one being PLANETFEST, a festival TrueStar went to to watch Bill Nye watch NASA watch their Curiosity rover safely land on Mars. Pretty awesome! Also, we are now hopelessly addicted to Phantasmagoria of Flower View, and I share my newfound interest in Komachi, the offensively rich river ...Continue reading ‘Touhou Tuesday 2012-08-07: Touhous on Mars’ »

Today we had an interview with the great Helepolis, and talked about his trip to Japan and Reitasai, which is archived magnificently in comic form here, courtesy of warugaki, as well as talked about Touhou, and the fans. We were able to cover everything in the interview without going over, amazingly, so I finished with ...Continue reading ‘Touhou Tuesday 2012-07-31: A Dutch Person is on the Air! Helepolis Interview’ »

Today, I played a lot of songs from Distant Phantasm 5 throughout the show, and made up for last week by playing lots more requests and just music in general. Also announced the interview for next week, with Helepolis, as well as talked about the new ZUN CD coming out at Comiket 82! Read on ...Continue reading ‘Touhou Tuesday 2012-07-24: Teenage Mutant Ninja Touhous’ »

Be warned, this episode is extremely not worksafe! Today on the show we had Sam AKA Regris, from Hen Da Ne, an import company that imports Doujin manga and games [and oh yes, lots of porn] from Japan. As you can expect, quite a lot of talk about the porn, but there’s some educational stuff ...Continue reading ‘Touhou Tuesday 2012-07-17: In Which We Talk Doujin with Regris’ »

This week, I was out of town, quite literally in the middle of nowhere, so I decided to leave the show in the care of TrueStar, my trusty cohost, and she managed to deliver quite a great show… as I expected! This isn’t the first time she’s done a show by herself; check out her ...Continue reading ‘Touhou Tuesday 2012-07-10: Truehu Tuesday!’ »

This week’s episode is mostly talk as TrueStar and OverCoat recap their weekend at Anime Expo. Here’s Hen Da Ne’s Twitter Feed since we mentioned them a lot on the show! Read on for the [short] playlist. spctrm – Veda C.H.S – special number 9!!11 櫻井アンナ – 癒えぬ痕 Yousuke Yasui – 緑眼のジェラシー『橋姫の情念』 zts – キャプテン・ムラサ ...Continue reading ‘Touhou Tuesday 2012-07-03: My Little Touhetaliastuck – Anime Expo Recap’ »

YEAH! すいでんげつ – 廃獄ララバイ Akane – Still in Love 堕悪祭怪＆昼 – どこでも躍れ めらみぽっぷ – 幻影セレナーデ 越田Rute隆人 – Cage to Heart 東京アクティブNEETs – 地獄ノ牛鬼 mineko,Pyn – 沈丁花 atoguru – VaizravaNa 骨折飲料 – Magical Sakuyachan☆Star amo – Folklore I amo – Folklore II amo – Folklore III uno／Vo. あいかぴん – Desire すみじゅん – K.O.K.O.R.O 美里 – S.A.T.O.R.A.R.E ...Continue reading ‘Touhou Tuesday 2012-06-26: Slamhou Jamsday’ »

Today I played some of everything. I even had a block of trance, celtic, and swing at the same time

More RTS9 overflow! I can seriously play nothing but Reitaisai 9 music for another few shows and not be short on material. However, I tried sneaking in some old Komso in there. Fortunately, he put his music on archive.org, and you can download that here. Also, if anyone wants to help me produce a videogame ...Continue reading ‘Touhou Tuesday 2012-06-12: Fairies Stole my Sake’ »

I think this is a record both for amount of listeners and how long I’ve done a show in one sitting. Wow! Today I played all new music from Reitaisai 9, with more than 2 hours of music because of all that I collected. If that wasn’t enough, I had an hour and 15 minute ...Continue reading ‘Touhou Tuesday 2012-06-05: Reitaisai9 Four Hour Super Amazing Awesome Hella Extravaganza!’ »

Today, TrueStar was able to be here for the whole show! Hooray! We played some groovy tunes, and talked about our upcoming plans for AX, cosplay, Touhou Diablo, and TrueStar’s plans to finally beat a Touhou game! Read on for the playlist. Reitaisai_Official_ZUN_WedingSong [sic] Register6 – 付喪神囃子 CROW’SCLAW – Green Of Green Eyes ziki_777 – ...Continue reading ‘Touhou Tuesday 2012-05-29: La Petite Pépite’ »

On today’s show, TrueStar’s back! At least for a little bit of the show. Together, we said goodbye to the extremely prolific doujin group, Silver Forest, a group that has released at least 36 albums according to VGMdb, in a span of merely 6 years. Due to Sayuri’s health concerns, this upcoming Reitaisai will be ...Continue reading ‘Touhou Tuesday 2012-05-22: Sayonara, Silver Forest’ »

This week’s episode was all about the non-electronic side of the Touhou arrangement scene. Nothing that uses electricity, because there is none in Gensokyo anyway [maybe]! The entire show was mainly orchestral, folk, celtic, or piano arrangements, plus some nice other styles in there too. ネオ – BEGINS… だ – meu querido 紅い流星 | 蒼い刹那 ...Continue reading ‘Touhou Tuesday 2012-05-15: Touhou Unplugged!’ »

MyonMyonMyonMyonMyonMyonMyonMyonMyon MyonMyonMyonMyonMyonMyonMyonMyonMyon. Read on for the playlist-myon. どぶウサギ – HaPPY TEWii FRiENDs Babbe – Youkai der Finsternis WK9 – Final Fantasia spctrm – in saecula saeculorum MORRIGAN／Vo. K.Juno – voyager 3L – 月齢11.3のキャンドルマジック Nana Takahashi – Memento Mori 水橋ゆっきー – 終宴を告げるは鐘の音 まさみティー – SFな夢遊病 ､jｰｪﾇYﾇtﾇf – ･ﾃｻｷ擢吐､ﾓｶｧｫH･・ spctrm – archaic minami – 9190 SOUND HOLIC ...Continue reading ‘Touhou Tuesday 2012-05-08: Operation M.Y.O.N.’ »

TrueStar’s back! She was able to be here for a good first hour of the show. I also played absolutely brand new music by ZUN himself, from “Trojan Green Asteroid,” his new album. Also went through some releases I have just discovered, particularly project, who I absolutely love, especially their latest album, “Mary Had a ...Continue reading ‘Touhou Tuesday 2012-05-01: Ability to the Extent of Providing Quality Entertainment’ »

Today I played my favorites from the brand new released “House Set of Ten Desires” which turned out to be pretty killer! I can almost recognize all the songs, having successfully made it to stage 5 in Ten Desires! And then getting a game over in the beginning of the level. Oh well. Also played ...Continue reading ‘Touhou Tuesday 2012-04-24: Toyota Disco no Miko’ »

Rainymodo? Isn’t that for little emo kids or something? Here’s this week’s episode of Touhou Tuesday. I am alone again, as TrueStar tends to her poor sick husband! That does, however, leave me more time to play some REALLY great music. Distant Phantasm 4 has officially ended, with a lot of really impressive entries from ...Continue reading ‘Touhou Tuesday 2012-04-17: Rainymodo’ »

In this episode of Touhou Tuesday, OverCoat reminisces about his previous week, having attended Sakuracon last weekend, and vacationing in LA with TrueStar for the week prior to that. Read on for the playlist.   狐夢想 – パーソナル・コンピューター・ゲーム ―東方のテーマ― 狐夢想 – ファイアーフライ Shibayan – 深紅の瞳 CROW’SCLAW – Locked Girl Yuyoyuppe – Darkness Is Always Next ...Continue reading ‘Touhou Tuesday 2012-04-10: Feeling So Anime Right Now’ »

So, finally back from my week long vacation, I am now able to post this episode. I didn’t have enough time to prepare the mp3 from inbetween the  LA trip and Sakura-con. I sound a lot different on her mic, right? Well, anyway, this episode I talked L.A. and baseball/hot dogs with TrueStar, played Toho ...Continue reading ‘Touhou Tuesday 2012-04-03 – Live From the Anime Part of Town’ »

LETS GO AWAY! Had a pretty good show this week, another record-setting turnout for the show. This 2hu thing aint so bad! For those who miss TrueStar, she’ll be back on the show next week, and I’ll have been in LA for a couple days, maybe the tan will help me DJ better. Read on ...Continue reading ‘Touhou Tuesday 03-27-2012: Daytouhouna USA!’ »

I JUST BARELY made it in time for today’s show, where TrueStar and all the listeners patiently waited for me while I was bussing home. Fortunately I still had plenty of energy after a short jog to my house and went right to work. Today focused on electronic dance music, which the Touhou music scene ...Continue reading ‘Touhou Tuesday 2012-03-20: Dance it off! Dance Music Special’ »

This week I ended up having to go it alone as far as hosting, since TrueStar was off being a poindexter, studying differential equations and physics and stuff like that – but I seemed to have more listeners that ever to keep me company this week. Getting requests left and right, there’s just as many songs ...Continue reading ‘Touhou Tuesday 2012-03-13: What ‘Bout my TrueStar?’ »

This week on Touhou Tuesday, a Nugget-related catastrophe almost prevented TrueStar from cohosting, but he turned out ok and she was able to be an awesome cohost for the 2nd week in a row. Unfortunately, my connection wasn’t quite up to snuff and disconnected a couple times, ruining the archived mp3. However, I used my ...Continue reading ‘Touhou Tuesday 2012-03-06: Beardwatch’ »

The first Touhou Tuesday was a RESOUNDING SUCCESS! TrueStar and I had a ton of fun tonight bringing you our favorite Touhou arrangements and discussing various aspects of the games and the culture. Read on for the playlist! Shibayan – 躍る夜雀～Invitation to evening 鈴丸 – CALL ME AGAIN! 3L・maria♂polo – WARNING! イワクラコマキ – sky is ...Continue reading ‘Touhou Tuesday 2012-02-28:’ »