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Trying to manage the weeds in your vineyard? John Roncoroni, Weed Science Farm Advisor Emeritus with the University of California Cooperative Extension, Agriculture and Natural Resources covers control practices including biological, mechanical, cultural, chemical, and perhaps in the future, electrocution. Although weeds rarely compete with vines, they can host insect and vertebrate pests and get in the way of pruning crews, increasing labor costs. Listen in for John's number one tip to better manage weeds in your vineyard. 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Since 1994, Vineyard Team has been your resource for workshops and field demonstrations, research, and events dedicated to the stewardship of our natural resources. Learn more at www.vineyardteam.org.   Transcript Craig Macmillan  0:00  Our guest today is John Roncoroni. He is Weed Science Farm advisor emeritus with UC Cooperative Extension, UC Agriculture Natural Resources, and we're going to talk about cultural control of weeds in vineyards today. Thanks for being on the podcast, John.   John Roncoroni  0:13  Now you bet, Creg, thank you for having me.   Craig Macmillan  0:16  We met with we'll start with kind of a basic foundation, what would you say is the definition of cultural weed control? Maybe How does it differ from other forms of weed management?   John Roncoroni  0:25  cultural weed control as part of an integrated pest management program, you know, we have basically cultural mechanical, sometimes they're put together sometimes they're split, we have biological, which is much more important, I think, in insects than it is in weeds. Now, we talk about biological control of weeds just a little bit to show how it fits in with all this too, is that you know, when you see that rust growing on a malba, or cheese weed plant in California, people say, Well, maybe that can control and you can see sometimes it really weakens the weeds. But the one reason that doesn't work here very well as it does in other places is the same reason why we can grow such great grapes and make great wines in California is because it doesn't rain in the summertime, if it rained in the summertime, like it does. In many other areas, that moisture level would stay up and we probably have a better chance of controlling Malba. We do use biological control of weeds in more landscape like range land type at large areas, but really on any kind of agricultural situation where we're looking at control in one spot, it really doesn't work that well. Even with star thistle we be talking about people wanting to put our application of of weevils for start thistle. Well, they're out there, and they're on a larger scale. So that's biological, much more important in entomology than in Weed Science, a chemical control, obviously, the use of chemicals, either conventional or organic chemicals or control. And then we have mechemical or cultural you know, cultural weed control to me is using the utilizing the plants that are there or sheep in areas of the San Joaquin Valley that used to use ducks or geese to pull out Johnson grass rhizomes, yeah, we're utilizing sheep quite a bit more. Now. Of course, mechanical we're looking at when you look at something like a mower, right, a mower is mechanical and cultural because when you mow, you're leaving some plants. So you're mechanically mowing them down. But culturally, you're leaving plant where something like French flower, maybe a blade or or you know, one of the the weed knives are all the different moving wheels, maybe more considered mechanical.   Craig Macmillan  2:30  Let's talk about mechanical a little bit. There was a book I don't know if it's still in print. And it was a SARE book. And it was called steel in the field. And the author's thesis or premise or idea was if you drive around farm country, no matter what the crop is, there's always a graveyard of old implements, just parked just parked there, you know exactly what I'm talking about.   John Roncoroni  2:51  Oh, god. Yeah.   Craig Macmillan  2:54  And his his point was, all of those things were technologies that someone had come up with. And then the individual farmer, probably then made modifications to those for their site for their crop for their soil, then the herbicide era came on. And that wisdom was lost, basically. And the argument was, hey, maybe we can bring that that idea back. And I mean, this goes back to like the 80s, early 90s. It's happening, it's happened. What are some of your favorite technologies in terms of cultivation, mechanical weed control, and some of the limitations, some of the plants that works well with other situations where it doesn't? What's your experience been?   John Roncoroni  3:39  I love talking about that, Creg, is it you know, talking about using mechanical control, and then and then going into chemicals, and now going back, it's almost like I talked to people about chemical control itself. When I started, Roundup wasn't glyphosate was a new thing. And we used it very judiciously. And I tell people, it's almost like, I learned to drive with a stick shift. I had to learn all these other things. Well, after that people learned to drive automatics. Right, because they knew one way to do it. Well, now that we're back to using stick shift, it's a whole lot easier for me, because I remember now people have to read or write. It's, it's the same thing with the mechanical. And when I started a Davis, you know, in the early 80s, we probably first came to work in vineyards in Napa, close to Davis, about 85, 86. And at that point, there was a lot less drip irrigation, a lot more dry farming, and a lot more French plowed. One of the reasons was we didn't have drip irrigation. I mean, we all want deep roots, but you're going to have more shallow roots with drip irrigation. And that was one of the reasons we moved to chemicals away from this big pasture. We always had a blade, right something like to drop a name a Clemens blade, which we all know what that is. It just cuts. You know, one of the problems with that is if the soil is too moist, then it's going to cut and go right back. And there's been a lot of innovation. My colleague Marcela Moretti, a But Oregon State's done a lot of testing with different kinds of machines. You know, one of the things about mechanical or even like mowers is that so few growers have mowers?   Craig Macmillan  5:11  When you say mower? You mean an in row mower?   John Roncoroni  5:13  Yeah, I mean inrow mower. All right. And I'm sorry, I when I talk about weeds in vineyards, because I tell people I've made my whole career out of about three   Craig Macmillan  5:21  Three to six inches.   John Roncoroni  5:24  I have about a foot and a half. Right? Sometimes I'm up to four feet, right. So that's where my whole career is right there. And that we talk about when we talked about what we're doing in the middle is with cover cropping. That's a whole other podcast and probably, I mean, I've done cover crop work over the years with some large IPM grants. I did quite Elmore and some other things. Zalem and Jim McDonald Yeah, no, I'm talking about just under vine we're thinking. Yeah.   Craig Macmillan  5:53  All right we're under vine.   John Roncoroni  5:54  Talk about being a very specific expert - four feet. At the most.   Craig Macmillan  6:01  I got it. I get it.   John Roncoroni  6:02  You know, very few growers are using mowers we have the big bladed mowers and also we'll have a straight trimmer. I was trying to do some string trimmer work, but just using a little weed eater. My old friend, Mike Anderson, who was the superintendent or basically ran the oppo research station said that I could use a string trimmer in one of their vineyards over his dead body. And I was like, you don't want any girdling in those vines. So I know, there's been a lot of apprehension. There are some other kinds of mowers very, very, very few growers have mowers, from what I've just done some surveys, I've done one because you have to go back over and over and over, right? And then everything has been weighed against, well, we can just spray mowers or one, you know, there's several different and I can't remember all the trade names. But you know, there's some of the basic technology. Yes, there's some that do some stirring of the soils, you know, with blades that are perpendicular to the soil, right. So they're, they're stirring it, there's what we used to call and when I worked in bean weed control, Lilla stuns, which are wheels that turn sort of at a 45 degree angle to stir the soil. There's, you know, power driven machines, there's just ones that ride along and there's blades, there's, you know, there are so many, and it really depends on the kind of soil you have, you know, our rocky is sometimes the place where we put grapes are not a place where you could put tomatoes, right in times, shallow soil, hillsides, kind of cultivation, can you can you do cultivation? Can you do light cultivation without getting you know, soil movement? Can you even do it? Is it allowed by, you know, some rules about land use in those areas. So, there's a lot of things that go into mechanical and again, from my perspective, the weeds you have.   Craig Macmillan  7:54  I like this point here, because I think put to put things into kind of a general sense to guide things. We have blades that basically cut just below the surface. So that's cutting off the top of the plant from the bottom of it for certain kinds of plants that will kill it or control it. Then we have things like a French plow, which is a burying it's a true plow. Yeah, it's flipping soil, picking it up and flip flopping it over. Then we have the sturer. So you mentioned that little stun the central lines and other example, sun flowers. That's what they do. Yeah. Yeah. Things like that. My missing one.   John Roncoroni  8:26  mowers.   Craig Macmillan  8:27  mowers, okay. Yeah.   John Roncoroni  8:29  So that, you know, then there are a lot of variations on those combinations. It just amazing for me, and I follow a few of the manufacturers and get to see like on Twitter X, whatever, to see the videos that they're posting on LinkedIn. You know, it's just amazing to me what they're doing and the innovation that's going into those. One of the things that my again my colleague Marcel HomeReady, up at Dr. Moretti up at Oregon State talks about making sure your tractor is big enough for some of these, you know, hydraulic using, right, but one of the things we always used to talk about was, you know, the use of gas well, I know there's a lot more use and we're moving more into electric tractors, and those sorts of things. But when it comes to mechanical, really doing a good job of mechanical weed control with those some of those, you're going to have to have electric or gas you're going to have to have a big tractor. They're not going to be like a you know, a little ATV with a nifty 50 sprayer spraying herbicides right you're gonna need some hefty equipment in a lot of them not always.   Craig Macmillan  9:33  Let's start with weed knife. That's a very popular technology you see it oh yeah all over the place. What are the kinds of weeds that that's good for controlling and under what conditions it doesn't work well and under what kind of conditions does it not work well?   John Roncoroni  9:47  And I don't know the areas and passive as well as I know Napa I was brought a while but I would tell the growers you know, using a weed knife in Carneros you have about four days from when the soil goes from being too wet to being too dry. I have heavy clay soils, it holds moisture and it just. Yeah, exactly. And I'm sure there are areas like that, you know, and it can't, you can successfully cultivate down there, but it's tough, you need the timing, it's so important. If you're going to wet that soil just goes right back with that blade, right you cut through and the roots are able to tell back in, you know, if it's too dry, it's really going to be a rough ride. Because you're not going to go too deep, it's going to work well on some smaller annual weeds, which, you know, a lot of our weeds are, you know, some of the grasses with their net have a root ball sometimes are harder than just a small annual broadleaf plant, you know, you're going to have some problems, especially with something like malware, cheese weed that that grow very large. And depending on when you doing it something like cheese weed is and rye grass and Fillory, while I mentioned them are the first weeds to germinate in the fall. So by the time you get in a little bit later, they may be too big to really do a very good job on.   Craig Macmillan  10:59  Are their soils where we die for it's particularly well?   John Roncoroni  11:03  I would say you know, in less than heavy clay soil and not complete sand, a sandy loam soil, I think that holds some moisture, you know, it was able to get in anything, I think it's not a complete stand or a real heavy clay, they do a nice job, but the weeds can't be too big. And again, it's that timing and you know, with vineyards, it seems to think everything happens at once right time when you may be in having to do some sort of insect spray or mold spray, the same time you should be out there cultivating so just and it takes a while to do a good cultivation job.   Craig Macmillan  11:35  The speed that you're rolling is really important. You want to be slower ride faster.   John Roncoroni  11:40  Well, and Dr. Moretti has done this work there is an optimum speed. If you go too slow, then you really don't do a good job of cutting. If you go too fast, you miss some. And maybe this is where some of the electric AI technology can help. You don't want to cut the vines. Right, so you have this pull away, that keeps the weeds, the weeds will go right next to the vines, which you know can be a problem. We'll be talking about other situations with little vertebrate pets.   Craig Macmillan  12:06  I'm kind of getting astray here a little bit, but I No, no, but I think this is an important question. So choosing what I do and how I do it, we go back to the other technologies, Why care about weeds? Right? Why care about you know, I had I had a vineyard once that had been an oak field. And it was direct planted own rooted sprinkler system that was planted in 1976 I got the vineyard 1993 out of heavy clay soil, and I would irrigate with sprinklers twice a summer, and that oak grass would grow up into the fruit zone up into the canopy. But it would dry out. And it completely choked out everything else I had, I had no other real issues. And we would mow the middles. And I remember people going oh my god, you got all this issue, you need decent herbicide, you think grass out of the middle because the grass is gonna. And like these vines were super vigorous. They were tons of crop. I mean, I had to crop thinner. And so I started asking myself, well, how much competition? Is this really doing? Are there particular weeds that we should see? And you're like, wow, that's gonna be a competitor for water, nutrients and others where we go, No, I don't really want it there. But I'm probably not going to dig my vines.   John Roncoroni  13:13  So Craig, this is the eternal question when it comes to this. And it really depends on where you grow your grapes, right? If your goal is to get 25 tons of grapes, if you're somewhere near Bakersfield won't offend anybody, but they're looking more for tonnage. Right. And I've gotten a lot of flack for using our premium grape situations, we're not always looking for maximum tonnage. Right. And I don't know that the problem with weeds and if you hear me speak about weeds, I rarely have ever talked about direct competition between weeds and grape vines. Now, there are some exceptions, you know, when we were looking at that balance between irrigation and getting the deficit, irrigation, right, getting those maximum flavors into those grapes. So we may be right and a little low with our water in August or September, near the end. And we see that especially, I don't know so much about about I know, part of the areas where we are with the vineyard team there that they gave, we can get these howling north winds, right? Right. And you can in a very short time, you can turn some very great, expensive grapes into really great expensive raisins, right, getting that water in at that time of year. So having any kind of like flu Velen, which is really just covers the whole area of Napa and Sonoma. I know it's moving around some other areas. But you know, people say well, how much water does it use? And my old friend Rhonda Smith used always asked me well, how much water is it used? I go, we don't have crop coefficients for all the crops. It's hard to know which you know which weeds grow, how much water they use. And then the other thing too, is that if we're looking for consistency in a vineyard, and only half the vineyard is covered with that weeds where we're gonna put two too much water in one area and not enough in the other. Isn't that different? So it's competition for that sort of thing. And of course, young vines, right when we have young vines with big weeds and that that oak grass that you had, if you had young vines, you probably wouldn't have to be worried about being a grape grower very long, right?   Craig Macmillan  15:17  You have seen that young, really healthy barley cover crop?   John Roncoroni  15:21  Oh, yeah, it's it's tough for first three years. But like talking about establishments, it's really important, no matter what you do to keep the grapes sort of weed, not weed free, but really keeping the competition down. And then late in the summertime, but the rest of the time. It's other things that I've talked about these, it's one of those things where you ask people, you know, raise their hand if they have this problem. It's 50%. Yes. 50%. No. And that's voles. And I tell people, I thought that when I was in Napa, I think 30% of the growers do weed control strictly for vole protection. Because those nasty little marmots can they can girdle a grape. And I know one vineyard and Carneros they couldn't get in and do some work. Someone told me that one year they lost one in five vines. Wow. And they're not coming back. Right? That's, that's bad. Yeah. So you know, it can be a problem. We found this when we were working with mow and blow technology years ago, looking at cutting cover crop and throwing it on the vine. The Weed control was fantastic. But in my whole time, working in vines from 1985. And, you know, until today, I've never been in a vineyard, except in this trial, where I saw voles running between the rose in the middle of the day. Right, they were just happy there was so many they kind of had to get out just to get a breath of fresh air, they use those tunnels, you know, just runway so that they were protected from that, you know, the birds of prey, which you know, can help. And I people always ask about that. But again, we have that pest and prey cycle that the voles may come in and do a lot of damage, before they get a chance to be taken. And then it depends on what your neighbors doing and how effected the birds are. This is a question that I our new vertebrate pest person, Brianna Martineco in Napa who she took my office, not my place, right. So we we about a weed scientist. And one of the questions I've asked is, you know, how much of an area around the vines? Do we have to keep clean, so that the birds have a chance and the voles stay scared? You know, that's kind of question, you know, especially as an emeritus, you can ask these questions. And, you know, let the new people answer them. You know, the other thing and I've talked about this is in a rare occasion, you know, one of the things that we do you see people, anytime I'm out in the field later in the season, I talked to a grape grower, while we're out there, they're pulling those leaves off so they can get more air movement. Well, if you get some tall weeds like that, you know, the oak grass that was growing, you know, are you going to have restricted air movement? Are you going to have higher moisture content? Is that going to increase your pathogen pressure it can, doesn't always happen. The other thing too is having, you know, high grass can cause in frost prone areas, you know, if you're not getting that radiation from clean soil, and that's in the middle, not so much under the vines, you know, we can have that and sometimes on young vines near the vine itself, getting that reradiation, but again, you know, as I like to tell people, you're not going to have all these situations, and it's not going to be every year, you know, some years you're doing things you may not need to have weed control that year, but you don't know until after that year, you know, and now and I'm not I'm not a pathologist, I'm not an enthramologist, I'm not a viticulturalist I'm a weed scientist. But you know, there's been some indications that some weeds that are growing and some of the we plant and some of that we don't are having a, you know, an increase in pathogen plant pathogens that are moved by certain insects. tikka pirate likes legumes Well, you know, especially in some of our low nitrogen situations, plants that produce their own nitrogen, like Bird Clover really tend to like that situation because they have a, they have a built in advantage by making their own nitrogen. So we can in some vineyards, we can see a high population of bird clover, which may or may not cause an increase in tikka, which could cause an increase in red blotch. So, you know, when you think of weeds just specifically for competition, like when I talked to master gardeners, I say, you know, if you're growing carrot, you know why you do weed control because you want a carrot. But when it comes to a mature, you know, a 10 year old vineyard, really hard to see that weeds are going to compete on an everyday basis like they would with an annual crop, but there are other reasons why we do it. Ease of harvest, and I talked about, you know, in talking with some pruning crews, right, you know, if you have weeds growing in when you're pruning, and I tell people, if you have an area that takes an hour for let's clean, takes a pruning crew an hour to prune, if there's a bunch of weeds that they have to move around and get around, and it takes them an hour and a half. So your labor costs have gone up 50% Yeah, these are the kinds of things that as a weed scientist, I think about I tell people I really want to know two things. And when we're when we're taping this, it's the right time of year. I only know weeds in college. Basketball. So these are the only things I really know. So, you know, and I've had other I've had, you know, some people sit down and say I should have known that you have to worry about, you know, disease pressure, and getting labor contractors. And I just think about weeds.   Craig Macmillan  20:16  And let's go back to another technology that we touched on snow plows, French plow, that's a very old technology. And, you know, we just mentioned that what a plow does is it turns the soil over, so it buries the weed plants, especially when you get into the right time, what conditions are appropriate for using a French plow? What conditions maybe it's not gonna work so great.   John Roncoroni  20:41  French plow, I mean, you know, the USDA says that, you know, doing something like that the soil is never good, and you're going to mess up the microbes, especially if you're working on that lower area. But as far as just from a weed perspective, if you're dry farming, a French blot works fantastic, right? You're not looking for, in fact, you're trying to discourage as many roots at the top as you can. So doing using a French plow when you're dry farming, it's fantastic. We don't have you know, a lot of dry farms where we are looking at trying to have more consistent harvest and looking at consistent income, where you know, dry farming were at, at the will of the of the weather, that's another talk for another day with people who are doing marketing and know viticulture are better than I do. But see, I've seen more French plows as people have gone back to mechanical in the last few years, and I have in the past think there's a lot more viable options, when you're actually looking at doing some drip irrigation, then they're just by number a lot more viable options. Just by new having new machines coming out then the French plow but I was a dry farmer, my weed control would be French plow under the vines and disk in the middle because everything's you know, maybe having a little cover crop to get more penetration. But, you know, the farther north I lived, the more water penetration I would have. So I'd get more rain.   Craig Macmillan  22:00  So let's talk about drip irrigated vineyards. And you mentioned there's a suite of technologies, some are new, some are old, what are some of those technologies that have worked well in a drip irrigated vineyard?   John Roncoroni  22:12  When I got to Napa in 2007, sustainable at that point meant post emergent only and for those kind of funny now is roundup on the right no preemergent no cultivation and we were drip irrigating, we were keeping those roots at the top so we can drip irrigate. So that's where a lot of that came from. Now, you know, using something like a blade using a little Dustin with those moving things, anything that's sort of like you don't want routine, right? Again, I don't I'm not a vitaculturalist. But roots at the very top are not great, right, you're not probably irrigating correctly, if you're getting a lot of roots at the top, but you don't want to get too deep, where you're getting some of those main roots with cultivation. You know, that's one of the reasons that we do have drip irrigation. At that level. You know, I've talked to people who weren't using cultivation and ask them why their drip irrigation lines weren't closer to the soil so they're gonna have less evaporation. One of the things that we get into with grape growing or anything is that you do things because you've always done them that way, we are cultivating that we do need to keep that drip irrigation at at a higher at a high level. But I think any of those anything that's not just completely disrupting the soil. One of the things that I would like to see with with mechanical like a blade is using some electric eye, AI technologies to get closer to the vines. But right now we have to really, you know, it's all mechanical, right? If we can have these machines down in Salinas, that are taking weeds out from in between lettuce, we don't have to be nearly that technological, to get weeds right around the vine without hurting them. And we have a little bit more leeway with the vine than we do with lettuce. Even though you lose a lettuce plant here or there. You're okay. You don't want to lose too many vines. You know, I think that that's where one of the reasons that we could use more technology. One of the things again, my doctor Moretti up at Oregon State and also lenses masky. Back in Cornell, who they were both at Davis at the same time, Lynn as a postdoc, and, and Marcelo as a as a graduate student, they're working with electrocution of weeds, I think it's what they call it. And it's not just burning them off, like you would use electric light with a flamer. It actually sends electricity down into the roots. So it's, he's working on it mostly in blueberries. But the technology I just I saw his presentation at the Western society Weed Science meeting just a couple of weeks ago in Denver. It's an interesting technology. If you're like having a transformer on the back of your tractor. It's pretty cool.   Craig Macmillan  24:35  There's a there's a lot of potential here in the future for improving what we're doing now.   John Roncoroni  24:40  Oh, yeah. And I don't know how like electric is going to fit into this. But and this is the problem. We ran into herbicides. Anytime you use one technology over and over and over and over and over, you're going to choose for weeds. If you constantly mow under the vines or anywhere, right without some soil disturbance or application of herbicide, something Like Melva, low growing weeds, they'll adapt, right nature will find a way. So the biggest thing we have to do is whatever we do just don't do it all the time. That it's the right message. One of the things that I think we want to talk about was under vine cover crop. It is something for me, I've been trying to push under vine cover cropping for so long. And the problem is, is that because the seeds are expensive, I tell people that one of the one of the plants that I pushed, just because I liked the way it worked, and what I've seen is Zorro fescue. That's a brand name, it's it's rat tail fescue, you see it growing as a weed a lot of places, one of the things I like about it is that about the time we start irrigating, it's dead, it's the nest, and you can discover you can turn it over, because once it's gone to seed, you can mow it all those things. It's a it's a self receding cover crop problem is that because the seeds are fairly expensive, we planted at about eight to 10 pounds per acre and sometimes mixed with Blendo broam, which grows a little higher and stays a little greener longer than I like, because it can be some competition for water. But that's oftentimes keeps it down. But the problem is, is that first of all, how do we get it on the vines, I find people putting it out by hand, because we haven't adapted for the cedar under the vine. Second of all, it starts to reseed itself at a fairly high rate, sometimes 50 or 100 pounds the next year and the third year. So I tell people, if you can't give me three years to make it look good, then let's not start because oftentimes, you know, we started and it looks like it's not doing a very good job the first year, and it doesn't look very good. And some people who don't ask people who make decisions about vineyards who maybe work other places, then the vineyard don't like the way it looks. Right? Right, and we move to something else and they end up spraying it out or cultivating it out.   Craig Macmillan  26:55  Then this is an example of modifying the environment to address this problem and modifications to the environment take time.   Speaker 1  27:03   And this is what intrigues me about regenerative agriculture. I know this is a whole nother subject for someone who probably but as a we, as a plant biologist, and ecologist, you know, actually choosing plants that we want to be there without causing problems. Again, the voles, the legumes with maybe some other virus problems can be, but I think choosing these plants is going to be so important. But you know, it's interesting, I had someone call me and they wanted to start using regenerative agriculture. And I told them, you know, your first three years are going to be really hard I go, you have to choose the right plants, you're going to probably maybe even have some reduced yields. And they said, Well, why John, because my friend has been doing it 25 years, and he's doing great, because his soil knows what to do. So anytime we make that transition and transitioning to this under vine cover cropping. And there has been places in the past where we've tried to use a listen. But listen, because of insects and some other things. The problem with alyssum is after about three or four years, it gets to be about four feet thick. It's one of these things, it's good for a while, but after it kind of takes over, it can cause some holding in moisture and doing some other things. I mean, some people again, depending on how fertile your soil is, you know, some places it may not be a problem, but we have to look at it on a vineyard by vineyard scale. And that's been the thing about herbicides is you don't have to think about the basically the vineyard by vineyard,   Craig Macmillan  28:24  We're basically at a time but don't ask your boys. Is there one particular thing that you would say to grape growers on this topic of let's just say mechanical?   John Roncoroni  28:34  On the whole subject of weeds, Craig, I just want to say that they need to know their weeds better. Right? I know it sounds like I always have a chip on my shoulder. And now that we have to right thing about glyphosate is they really didn't have to think about didn't have to think about their weeds. So there's there's two things I want to know we're almost out of time, but we are out of time. But there's two things I want to say about this real quickly. And I know it's mechanical, but those people who are still using chemicals, they could do a better job. Right new nozzle shielding timing, think more about put as much time and effort into thinking about the weeds as you do about insects and pathogens. Know your plants. Don't just say I'm going to do this. It doesn't matter what the weeds are, know your weeds, know their biology. Know the timing, no matter what kind of control you're doing. And then once you do, get the best tool, like if you are still spraying in certain situations in certain vineyards, use new drip reducing nozzles, use shielded sprayers when you do mechanical, you know, don't just get that old thing that like you said, that's been sitting out in the back, right? Look at the kind of machine that you want to use what we do have, I think when it comes to weed control, the whole industry could do a much better job. Okay, one of the things that I put a slide up one time and I said look, I understand pathogens first and then insects, and then weeds and someone got up and corrected me and they said John, that's wrong. I said Oh really? They go? Yeah, it's pathogens, insects, fertilizers and weeds. Right so weeds and when it comes to weeds being third weeds are not just third weeds or a distant third. They only think for me about all the cons Diversity that's happened is that people have to think about weeds again, they have to go back to knowing what we knew before that before they all started using chemicals.   Craig Macmillan  30:07  So that makes a lot of sense. Yeah. Our guest today has been John Ron crony. He is Weed Science firm advisor emeritus with UC Cooperative Extension, UC Agriculture Natural Resources. I followed you from afar for a long time. And I'm very excited to get you on the podcast. This has been a great conversation. Yeah, there's so much more to talk about, and I'm sure that we will, we will reconvene at some point.   Nearly perfect transcription by https://otter.ai

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Talking about anime live actions is like the same energy of talking about politics…until Alita Battle Angel came along and changed the way people thought about anime live action movies. But this movie was a hit…why does it feel like a miss? It had an all star cast, amazing graphics, and two well known directors that pushed this story more than the others did. What made this film so amazing and what caused its downfall from Zalem, your about to find out in this week's episode of The Screen Queen. Part 1: One year anniversaryPart 2: The history of the live action anime moviesPart 3: What is Alita Battle Angel? (Also I meant motion capture with CGI, WHOOPS!)Part 4: Compare and ContrastPart 5: The Eyes of AlitaPart 6: The men responsible for Alita Battle AngelPart 7: The real failure behind Alita's fast obscurityPart 8: The future of Anime Live Actions Part 9: What's the next episode??My insta! - @thequeenofthescreen (Hit me up for any movie recommendations you want to hear on the show!)Tiktok - themysticalspacewitch Profile picture - Cover art by Emily Whitacre (https://teenytinycoffeebean.carrd.co/)Opening Theme - Night Rider - jiglr https://soundcloud.com/jiglrmusic Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/3CmBsaH Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/u-YQBe7ZfIE Support the showMy Inglorious Ink series! - https://www.amazon.com/stores/Samantha-Parrish/author/B0BNQ2D7D1?ref=ap_rdr&store_ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=trueI'm on Goodreads! - https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/20042112.Samantha_ParrishHow To Support The Show! - https://ko-fi.com/queenofthescreen#linkModalArticles I've written - https://vocal.media/authors/samantha-parrishMy Linktree https://linktr.ee/themysticalspacewitch

In this episode, Chris welcomes back Lisa from the "I Love That Movie" podcast to discuss the first volume of one of her favorite manga, “Battle Angel Alita”. Yukito Kishiro creates what many consider to be his magnum opus with this seminal manga series. In a dump in the lawless settlement of Scrapyard, far beneath the mysterious space city of Zalem, disgraced cyber-doctor Daisuke Ido makes a strange find: the detached head of a cyborg woman who has lost all her memories. He names her Alita and equips her with a powerful new body, the Berserker. While Alita remembers no details of her former life, a moment of desperation reawakens in her nerves the legendary school of martial arts known as Panzer Kunst. In a place where there is no justice but what people make for themselves, Alita decides to become a hunter-killer, tracking down and taking out those who prey on the weak. But can she hold onto her humanity as she begins to revel in her own bloodlust? Lisa on Twitter: @AyaLisaCosplayI Love that Movie on Twitter: @ILTMpodcastI Love that Movie on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ilovethatmoviepodcast/ Geek Ultimate Alliance on Twitter: @GUAPodNetworkWFTB on Twitter: @FinestBelieversWFTB Email: worldsfinesttruebelievers@gmail.comChris on Twitter: @ChrisBalgaSupport The Alliance On Patreon & Get Ad-Free, Exclusive, Early Episodeshttps://www.patreon.com/guanetworkGeek Ultimate Alliance Network Is Produced By GeekVerse Podcast www.geekverse.caNetwork Schedule Monday: Slice Of Film/Rangers Alliance (Bi-Weekly)Tuesday: DC Alliance Wednesday: The Animation NationThursday: Star Wars AllianceFriday: Marvel Alliance Saturday: A Walk Through the Multiverse (Bi-Weekly)Sunday: World's Finest True Believers (Monthly)Follow the respective shows on Twitter so when they record live on GeekVerse Podcast Network you can join the chat and add to the conversation!

Only near the conclusion of the original manga run do Steven and James find out that they have been reading different translations. Which spurs talk about the differences between the two. Including the original video anime. Which also had two separate English translations! Skip synopsis @4:30 Email: WeAppreciateManga@Gmail.com 073: Battle Angel Alita vol. 8 Chapters 42 to 47 “One Last Broadcast” and By Yukito Kishiro Translation by Stephen Paul Lettering by Scott Brown Continuing after the events of the Panzer Bride saga, the rebel leader that is Den pontificates on the reason why he is still alive after fighting the TUNED agent Alita, knowing full well that his true body is that of Kaos' and that Alita could kill Kaos at any time if she so chooses. Koas realises this, with his telemetric powers he touches the blade which was used in the fight between Alita and Den. Once Kaos gains memories of the object's past, he realizes that he is Alita's hostage. Kaos makes a final radio broadcast to not only warn the people of the rebels but to inspire peace. Alita decides not to kill Kaos knowing that he does not share the same murderous tendencies as Den, however she does lose respect for him on his persistence in wanting Alita's love. Especially when it comes to his telemetry as he should know better that Alita's heart belongs to another. Kaos reveals where Ido may be staying and as Alita visits Ido she finds that the man has erased all his memory, including his memories of Alita. Ido's accomplices gives Alita the last video that he recorded for Alita. Within the video Ido tells her how the mad scientist, Desty Nova, revived his life, however speaking to Nova has scared Ido into sharing Nova's same madness and thus he decides to erase his memory before apologising to Alita. Alita leaves Ido, unable to rejoice with the only father figure she knows. Meanwhile Kaos seeks out Desty Nova, by confronting the mad man who is his father he dares to gain a semblance of intimacy with Alita, and the chance to build upon the memories that he can truly call his own. Sadly, Kaos is defeated only to suffer more abuse, and as Alita makes way to Nova, she encounters a mysterious figure and recognises this person's acrobatic movements as her own “Panzer Kunst”. Alita is told by the director of TUNED operations that this new antagonist is AR unit 2 of 12. And that before she can meet Nova she is to be tested as an agent in battle. Alita's life is saved by her TUNED private operator, Lou, yet the battle itself cost Alita an arm, a foot and an eyeball. Via a transmissible electric shock, Alita is woken from her rest by the director. She is told that the rebels were defeated (apparently by AR unit 10) and is reminded that her job is to apprehend Nova, thus Alita still carries on, she's smart enough not to enter the front once she gets to Nova's place. Yet within Nova's lair, Alita finds herself on the old Motorball circuit that she knows well, waiting for her is the ghost of the athlete she defeated all those many years ago. Ready for another match, as is Alita. Topics: Alita gets “prestiged”! The fight between her and AR2. And what makes a good fight scene. Translation differences between Viz and the Kodansha printing, as well as the Original Video Animation and Hollywood movie adaptations. 1994 Manga UK dub is based on the Viz translation, whereas the1999 ADV Films translation keeps Alita's original Japanese name of Gally, Hugo as Yugo and the Scrapyard is referred to as Scrap Iron City. This is faithful to the original Japanese text with the exception of minor characters. Zalem is a biblical reference to Salem, whilst the name Tiphares is a reference to the Kabbalah. Allegedly the man who changed Gally's name to Alita is Fred Burke (the same Fred Burke who did the translation for Neon Genesis Evangelion's Viz media release), Burke worked on the Viz translation of Battle Angel Alita with Sterling Bell, Matt Thorn and Toshifumi Yoshida.  Other references: Nova's base is at Norad Mountain. This is most likely based on the real world setting that is the Cheyenne Mountain in El Paso County, Colorado. Alluding to the setting of Alita being sometime in the distant future. Madness and enlightenment as a topic of this volume seems to have been inspired by the Russian philosopher and mystic George GurdJieff. “Life is Real only Then, When ‘I am'”. His students published a book after his death known as “The Fourth Way”. Facebook - facebook.com/weappreciatemanga/ Instagram –  weappreciatemanga.co.uk   Twitter -   @RealJamesFitton Website – Weappreciatemanga.com Email – Weappreciatemanga@gmail.com

James tells Steven about the two non-cannon endings of Battle Angel Alita, draws comparisons between the James Cameron / Robert Rodriguez movie adaptation and the anime, as well as bring up how much the mangaka suffered from burnout. Over all, this was an amazing cyberpunk treat and it's fair to say both dudes have a crush on Alita. Email: WeAppreciateManga@Gmail.com 074: Battle Angel Alita vol. 9 Chapters 48 to 51 “No Brainer” and “Epitaph” By Yukito Kishiro Translation by Stephen Paul Lettering by Scott Brown Topics: Casting of the Alita: Battle Angel movie Indiskovar (indi 2.0) No Brainer (MIB, death of Bigot, Lou Collins fate) Ouroboros II (Nova, “Gentle Alita” or “Gally”) Last Blade (Koyomi, The photographer, Den) Epitaph (Things we forgot to mention, the ending, the author) The different endings to Battle Angel Alita. As the majority of readers will know by now, Battle Angel Alita ends on a type of tragic cliff hanger, this was confirmed as canon when the new series ‘Battle Angel Alita: Last Order' followed from the events of this chapter 51. For a long time, the canonical ending was deemed to be the one in the Playstation videogame ‘Gunnm: Martian Memory (a.k.a. Memories of Mars)'. The following is a brief summary on the two endings, we'll refer to the original as the Shueisha ending and the other as the Playstation ending. Note that both endings count as non-canonical but start off similar since they take place after chapter 51. The two are similar in that Alita is revived by Nova and wakes up to find herself in the city of Zalem, she recalls some memory of her past life, we discover that prior to meeting Ido she crash landed on earth as she was making an attack on Jeru. The attack was pre-empted by Gerude, who Alita narrowly escapes from. On Jeru, Alita makes it her goal to save Lou from the MIB and liberate both Zalem and Jeru from the control of Melchizedek, with Melchizedek being responsible for cutting off Earth from its space elevator and creating the brain to biochip initiation. It becomes clear that Melchizedek is an AI infected by some sort of virus. Shueisha ending: Melchizedek is suicidal and decides to collapse the space elevator, to save the scrapyard and Zalem from the cataclysm Alita uses the Imaginos body that Nova gave her and fuses herself to the main bolt. Effectively Alita sacrifices her life. A few years later, searching for answers to Alita's demise is an 18-year-old Koyomi, now a photojournalist. Koyomi travels to Jeru where she finds a much older looking and jaded Figure Four, the two come across a dishevelled and decrepit Nova who leads them to Alita's grave, now known as the ‘the tree of life' or the ‘Nanomachine tree'. Which was created when Alita transmuted into the space elevator. Both Koyomi and Figure break the seed of the tree and set free a flesh and blood Alita. She retains all her memories and is happy to be in the arms of Figure again. Playstation ending: Alita leaves Nova to find out what infected Melchizedek. Meanwhile she takes part in the tenth “Zenith of Things” tournament, which involves the strongest fighters in the solar system all competing with each other. It's during this time that Alita meets Gerude, and although Alita loses a fight to Gerude she is spared because he sees that Alita's Panzer Kunst is different. And he can see that Alita has now become a defender of Earth and its people. Gerude is eventually killed by another “Kunstler”, the main antagonist of the space arc, known as Zuoh, who calls his martial art “Panzer Faust” a newly developed form of Panzer Kunst. Zuoh intends to terrorise Earth and continue the terraformation war in spite of Melchizedek. Eventually with the help of a spy called Limeira, Zuoh is arrested by Martian authorities, putting an end to Mars' involvement in the terraformation war. During these events Alita revives a space ship for the sake of frontier exploration. And it's in this conclusion where Alita is about to set off with her friends and allies on the space ship, known as Leviathan 1, that she finds that due to the absence of Melchizedek, Jeru has been transformed to resemble the likeness of Desty Nova's face. Alita chooses to stay behind on earth. Making sure that Nova does not make earth a personal playground for his experiments. More Movie related topics: Tilly Lockey (So to sponsor the Alita movie, the designers at 20th century fox made designs for Open Bionics, as a representative of Open Bionics, Tilly wore the bionic arms on the red carpet, her previous arms were based on the Deus Ex: Human Revolution Videogame) Comparisons between the Original Video Anime and the Live Action Hollywood movie: Similarities Chiren is an original character from the '93 anime, played by Jennifer Connelly in the 2019 movie. She is a love interest for Ido and a sort of anti-villain. She plays a pivotal role in saving Yugo's life. Grewishka is a composite mix of the characters Kinuba and Makaku. He works for Vector and is played by Jackie Earl Hayley in the 2019 movie. Fang the Dog is killed by Grewishka, When Alita fights Grewishka she wears the dog's blood as war paint. There is no baby Koyomi involved in the fight. Megil (the werewolf) is absent from both stories. Differences Desty Nova manages to possess and control Grewishka and Vector. Making it clear that those who work for Nova are puppets to his will. Yugo first meets Alita whilst he is working on the wind turbine, whereas in the 2019 movie Yugo pushes her out of oncoming traffic. Clive Lee's role in the 2019 movie is reduced to a cameo, for all intents and purposes, Zapan functions as a composite role in place of Clive Lee. The 2019 movie includes Nyssiana who seems like an original character but is actually based on the Mutant Woman who appears in the manga. In the 2019 movie she accompanies Grewishka and Romo. Alita is given a Berserker body by Ido, in the 2019 movie she finds the Berseker body in the ruins of a Martian spacecraft. Zapan frames Yugo for murder. Koyomi does not appear in the '93 anime but appears as a teenager in the 2019 movie. She becomes a friend of Alita's through Yugo. Alita does not fight the hunter warriors in the Kansas bar, unlike the manga and the 2019 movie. In the 2019 movie, Murdock the dog master, appears during the underground Grewishka fight. He uses his cyborg dogs to aid Alita. The fact that Grewishka kills Fang is enough motivation for him. In the 2019 movie Zariki is a Motorball champion who gets his Grind cutters stolen from Yugo and Tanji. Eventually they are given to Grewishka. Unlike the '93 anime, Zariki is not a hired goon for Vector. It is Grewishka who serves that function, thus Grewishka survives the underground fight to die in Vector's office. The presence of Motorball is the largest difference between the anime and the live action Hollywood movie. In the 2019 movie Yugo teaches Alita how to play Motorball on the streets of Scrap Iron City. And in her first appearance on a legitimate Motorball track she faces a conspiracy to kill her. We also see a brief cameo of Jasugun. As with the original manga, Zapan loses his face when he crosses Alita for Yugo's bounty. This is absent in the '93 anime. Alita experiences flashbacks of her mission that involves the invasion of Zalem and her target being the villainous Desty Nova. Major differences from the Manga: By the end of the story Chiren's organs is packaged and ready to be transported to Zalem. Including her brain.   Facebook - facebook.com/weappreciatemanga/ Instagram –  weappreciatemanga.co.uk   Twitter -   @RealJamesFitton Website – Weappreciatemanga.com Email – Weappreciatemanga@gmail.com

We talk about more characters and moments in the cyberpunk epic, Gunnm, including a very supernatural dude who uses psychometry. Plenty of coil guns and stone tape theory talk in this one. skip summary @5:00 and remember, BLM always and forever. Email: WeAppreciateManga@Gmail.com   072: Battle Angel Alita vol. 7 Chapters 36 to 41 “The Grounding” and “Dual Man” By Yukito Kishiro Translation by Stephen Paul Lettering by Scott Brown The Cyborg Alita leaves her love at his fishing town of Al Hambra so that she can continue her journey as a TUNED agent. She promises to return but her quest to find the villain Nova is what drives her. Alita gains a new TUNED operator, the Zalemite Lou Collins, who provides intel and help for Alita. When attacked by ninjas Alita is helped by the drone known as Gabriel. And one of the dying ninjas streams a video to Alita. Through the ninja, Nova says that in order to find him Alita must find Den of Barjack first. Den happens to be a gargantuan cyborg terrorist, who intends to attack the city of Zalem. Meanwhile Alita saves a young girl from a gang of bandits, the girl is non other than Koyomi, the baby Alita saved years ago, Koyomi is now a proud owner of a familiar cyborg dog as she journeys to find a radio host called Kaos. She gives Alita much insight into the scrapyard and what her past friends have been doing. And although Alita works for Zalem she regards the scrapyard as her home. Soon afterwards they are swallowed into a sinkhole, Alita saves Koyomi from drowning but damages her lungs in the process. When Alita wakes, she finds that she has no connection to Collins, that Kaos has saved her and has also fallen in love with her. Kaos can only speak using radio waves and so one must use a receiver to understand him, but Kaos also has the unique power of telemetry and through touch he can see the memories and emotions of a person's past. Kaos tells Alita that her real name is Yoko and that his father is Nova. On their way to Nova, they are pre-emptively stopped by Den. Den wants Kaos to surrender Alita and pledge his loyalty to Barjack. Alita chooses to fight Den whilst Kaos escapes. The fight is in favour of Den until Collins links back online to Alita and air drops the Solenoid Quench Gun. Koyomi, who is upset by Kaos' obsession with Alita, is swayed over Den's words of rebellion against Zalem. Reunited with her dog, she sides with the crippled Den and Alita decides to spare Den's life so to catch up with Kaos. Eventually a rainstorm begins and Alita reaches Kaos to find him digitally possessed by Den, Den already having a transmitter implanted into him. Den fights Alita once again. Topics: Alita's introspective moment and epiphany. Yasmin as a tragic figure. First impressions The Kaos character Koyomi Other references: Al Hambra translates to “the red one” and implies that the war chronicle arc is set in California. The real-life city of Al hambra is eight miles from Los Angeles. Aztec Sun God, Telemetry (a.k.a. “stone tape theory” or “psychometry” or “pscychoscopy”) the stone tape term came from parapsychologist T.C. Leftbridge. Joseph rodes Buchanan coined the word Psychometry and describes as such that “The Past is entombed in the Present! The world is its own enduring monument; and that which is true of its physical, is likewise true of its mental career. The discoveries of Psychometry will enable us to explore the history of man, as those of geology enable us to explore the history of the earth.”  EPR paradox The drone “Gabriel” is a biblical reference. The "BFG trope", shown with the Solenoid Quench Gun. This acts as a coil gun or a rail cannon, The word Solenoid implies that it is an electrically charged coil. Whereas a rail cannon specifically would use rails. It's also the type of weapon that is seen (if somewhat fantastically) in the videogames Metal Gear Solid and Resident Evil 3. Demolition Ranch have a video on using a rail gun. Technically the Large Hadron Collider itself is a coil gun. For more info you can always check out this video from Hacksmith Industries. Facebook - facebook.com/weappreciatemanga/ Instagram –  weappreciatemanga.co.uk   Twitter -   @RealJamesFitton Website – Weappreciatemanga.com Email – Weappreciatemanga@gmail.com

A deep dive critique into the cyborg fantasy that is Battle Angel Alita a.k.a. Gunnm! Alita fights a werewolf that wears shades, as you do, but is her love strong enough to save Yugo? Sorry for the technical issues guys, promise next week will have better audio! skip summary @ 6:26   Email: WeAppreciateManga@Gmail.com   067: Battle Angel Alita vol. 2 Chapters 7 to 6, ‘Tears of an Angel' and ‘Guilty Dreams' By Yukito Kishiro Translation by Stephen Paul Lettering by Scott Brown   Synopsis: A dazed and passed out Alita wakes up on a bed of soft earth in a derelict warehouse, she finds a young man watching her, his name is Yugo. They both walk through the remnants of a fight, one that isn't over until Alita is attacked, luckily, she finishes the job. Yugo has no qualms about harvesting their corpses. It's thanks to serendipity that Alita meets Yugo again as he works on Dr. Ido's roof by repairing the wind turbine. It's clear that Alita has a crush on the boy yet Yugo moonlights as a thief, stealing spines of unsuspecting cyborgs so that he can flog them onto the black market. He plans to raise enough funds so that he can fulfil his dream of living in Zalem, albeit he doesn't leave his victims for dead. Alita is unaware of this but she chooses to raise her own funds in order to support Yugo's dream. Alita becomes conscious of being a cyborg, and it pains her to know that she is too strong and too powerful to be able to safely hold Yugo in her arms. Zapan, a Warrior-hunter who has a grudge against Alita, catches Yugo in the act of stealing spines, he kills off Yugo's accomplices, Van and Tanji, but Yugo escapes. To spite Alita, Zapan puts a bounty out on Yugo's head and Alita runs through a storm so to aid him. She finds Yugo in the same place they first met and Alita confesses her love towards Yugo. He tells Alita that one of his hands formerly belonged to his dead brother and he still has the scars from the surgery. By trading his hand for his brother's, he is able to honor him. Soon Yugo is confronted by his brother's killer. A Warrior-Hunter who is now after the bounty on Yugo. He killed Yugo's brother for attempting to illegally fly up to Zalem and now he plans to kill Yugo for doing something similar. Alita fights the warrior hunter, and although he mocks her electrically conductive arm, the warrior is defeated by a lightning strike. Sadly, Yugo was egregiously wounded before Alita could do anything to help. Afterwards, Zapan and his cohorts ambush Alita, anticipating that she is protecting Yugo. Alita reveals that she has the severed head of Yugo and thus the payment of bounty goes to her. Zapan's audience quickly dissipates. However, Zapan is flabbergasted, he can't believe that Alita could behead Yugo. Zapan attempts to steal the head from her and finds that Alita has secretly connected Yugo's head to her own cybernetic vital organs. Effectively Yugo isn't dead, he's on life support! With one stroke of her hand, Alita cuts off Zapan's face, for Zapan the hit isn't fatal but it is debilitating, sending Zapan to a great fall. Since Alita has ownership of Yugo's head, it is her right if she wants to trade it in for her bounty reward, but what she does is have Dr. Ido give Yugo a new body and once acclimated to it, both he and Alita confront Vector. The man who promised Yugo a trip to Zalem.   Topics:   The tenets of Alita, in volume 1 Alita states “What good is happiness if it's only given to you”, in the prologue chapter of Volume 2, she states to Makaku “I believe that every human can choose her own way in life, we can choose to be ugly or beautiful”. Fighting werewolves with shades. One plot twist involves Alita keeping Yugo's head on life support, this is a narrative technique called, “indirect dialogue”. Where an author can deliberately choose to withhold information from readers so that it can have an emotional effect when revealed later. Alita hasn't developed a personal goal of her own yet and in the early chapters her character is defined by her relationship with Yugo. She also lacks a formidable antagonist. Having dreams and aspirations whilst being in a relationship.   Trivia:   The Warrior-hunter that attacks Yugo says “return to substance” this line is inspired by Cartesian dualism and expresses the author's personal or fictitious philosophy of being “substantiast” That the body is formless and separate from the mind. Dualism becomes a prominent topic in Mamoru Oshiis Ghost in the Shell manga which we will make a podcast on in the near future. Kiriki makes an appearance in the concluding chapter and Zapan returns in chapter 9, both their previous appearances and respective debuts are in chapter 4 ‘Resurgents'   Other references:   In the chapter ‘Tears of an Angel' a factory sign reads "Factory Front 242" in reference to the Belgian Industrial band, Front 242. Zapan calls Alita an ‘Iron Maiden', the title of the chapter, the name is a reference to the torture device, which is a container full of iron spikes, it has a door with hinges and forces the victim to stand straight, if they are to lean or fall inside one, they will do severe damage to themselves. Like the infamous ‘Chastity Belt' there is also no evidence of such device being used in the medieval era. In the footnotes of the manga an Iron Maiden is a type of killer android within the world of Alita.   In the same chapter, ‘Heaven's Gate' is the label of one bottle, this is most likely a reference to the German Metal band that were active during the 80's, their first album being ‘Night of the Dog', released in 1984. The name is also a biblical reference, from Revelations 21:21 the New International Version states “The twelve gates were twelve pearls, each gate made of a single pearl. The great street of the city was of gold, as pure as transparent glass.”   In the chapter ‘Guilty Dreams', Vector makes the threat “get out or you'll be Sashimi”, Sashimi being sliced up raw fish, the etymology behind it meaning pierced or cut along with the kanji for meat or body. In the west it is often confused with ‘Sushi' which is a pickled rice meal that is often served with fish and seaweed strips with vinegar.   Facebook - facebook.com/weappreciatemanga/ Instagram –  weappreciatemanga.co.uk   Twitter -   @RealJamesFitton Website – Weappreciatemanga.com Email – Weappreciatemanga@gmail.com

Today's Tuesday Tale takes us on an adventure far, far away... to Taryn's friend's house. After being invited to play Dungeons and Dragons with her coworkers, Taryn was tasked with creating her own character. Naturally, she turned to the only person she could trust in a matter such as this, her co-host and best friend, Chelsea. Together, they made their way through the Dungeons and Dragons Player Handbook to create the fantasy character of their dreams. Join the hosts as they attempt to walk through the process of creating their very own D&D character (don't yell at them if they get it wrong). Along the way, they discuss Chelsea's experience with playing with her family, why people who read fantasy should be totally willing to play at least once, and, of course, they add to the list of words and terms they can't pronounce. Do you have a book you would like the hosts to review? Submit your ideas to checkedoutandoverduecontact@gmail.com, or message them on Instagram @checkedoutandoverdue! Did you enjoy the episode? Make sure to subscribe, rate, and review this podcast wherever you are listening. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/checked-out-and-overdue/support

in this episode of the PAPERLESS PODCAST by JUST SHUFFLE THE CARDS™, We are joined by the amazing Alex from Diva, Zalem, and Cardistry Touch, we talk about working with Cardistry Touch, Design, Anime, and more! -Intro and Outro Song: "Marshmallow" prod. by Lukrembo

"Zalem - The Hedonist EP is available on Blind Spot Music. Buy: https://www.beatport.com/release/the-hedonist/2682364 Martin Fernandez - Creazy man (Original Mix) [MTR001] ИAИO - The Unknown (Original Mix) [UNTWT002] ZALEM - Physical (Original Mix) [BSM194491175320] Vladw - The history will absolve me (Original Mix) [TN0020] ZALEM - Sensor ( Tabo Remix) [UTWT003] ZALEM - The Hedonist (Original Mix) [BSM194491175320] KØLPØS - Cloruted (Original Mix) [NRDR081] Thomi-E - Beginning (Original Mix) [UNTWT002] Mariano DC - Kaverna (Original Mix) [INF015] ZALEM - Kerosene (Original Mix) [DMR001] Tabo - I Belong (Original Mix) [UNTWT001] Specific Objects - Standing Against (Original Mix) [DMR001] ZALEM - Travel (Das Remix) [UTWT003] ZALEM - Travel (Original Mix) [UTWT003]" This show is syndicated & distributed exclusively by Syndicast. If you are a radio station interested in airing the show or would like to distribute your podcast / radio show please register here: https://syndicast.co.uk/distribution/registration

À 19 ans, Adèle Blanchin quitte sa Picardie natale pour aller s'installer à Paris. Elle va alors rapidement croiser le didgeridoo sur son chemin. S'en suit une grande aventure qui va la mener du parvis de Pompidou où elle y jouera pendant plusieurs années pour gagner sa vie jusqu'aux États-Unis pour faire une tournée avec son duo de l'époque "Adèle et Zalem". Dans cette interview, Adèle nous raconte son parcours de vie, son lien avec le didgeridoo et sa place dans ce monde très masculin qu'est celui dans lequel on vit (et pas uniquement celui du didgeridoo !). Dans ce moment passé ensemble, on aborde aussi son rapport à la musique. C'est d'ailleurs à l'occasion de la préparation de son futur album qu'elle a accepté mon invitation pour cette interview ! Je vous souhaite une bonne écoute !

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Le mangaka Yukito Kishiro revient sur son oeuvre majeur. Gunnm estuntitre culte de science-fiction qui a a marqué de son empreinte la pop culture mondiale et a directement inspiré George Miller pour son Mad Max Fury Road.  Ce chef-d'œuvre nippon, publié aux éditions Glénat, imagine un univers postapocalyptique contrôlé par une cité aérienne high-tech nommée Zalem. On suit alors la jeune cyborg Gally dans son parcours initiatique ponctué de multiples combats. Le graphisme novateur et la qualité visuelle des scènes d'action ont fait, à l'époque, l'effet d'électrochocs et n'ont pas manqué d'impressionner Hollywood. Le cinéma américain a récemment adapté ce manga dans un blockbuster : Alita. Battle Angel.

I was not going to miss a Mr. Bungle reunion, and neither was my old friend Nick.  Nick Loiacano and I became friends over 20 years ago in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and have collaborated on a number of musical endeavors.  He was my partner in crime on Nothing's "The Grey Subaudible" album, he's the main writer in Climb to Zalem and has been involved in a number of bands including Killer Whale, Self Spiller and Snares of Sixes.  Nick and I often bonded over Faith No More and Mr. Bungle, so it only made sense for me to fly down to Los Angeles to join Nick for the show. The morning after the amazing Mr. Bungle concert, we invaded a small studio in Los Angeles, and took it to the next level by recording on location, and with a producer.  In this episode we do a deep dive on the history and musicality of The Meat Shits including some A Capella Meat Shits covers, we talk at length about Nick's now defunct podcast The Bionic Broadcast, and we play each other music from Japan, England, Texas and from all over the god-damned globe.   Join us for some tunes, a few laughs, and a very unique episode of I Hate Music.   -------------------- "I Hate Music" theme by Marius Sjoli, performed by Billy Smeer. Closing music "Dunk Contest" by Killer Whale. Recorded in Los Angeles by Producer Justin. -------------------- https://www.facebook.com/hatepod.music/ Email and listener suggestions to: hate.pod.music@gmail.com Donations to support our podcast: paypal.me/hatepod

Hello listeners! Today you’re all my valentines, and I’m here to show my love by sharing one of our previously Patreon-exclusive podcasts with all you lovely people! The results of our latest survey showed that many of our listeners REALLY liked our Spider-Verse episode of @ Movies with Vix where we really dived deep into the history of the characters that appeared in the film. We recorded several other @ Movies podcasts like that last year that we released as Patreon-exclusive episodes, and I thought that now that some time has passed we could share them on our public feed as well! But what’s the occasion? Well, today isn’t just Valentine’s Day - it also happens to be the one year anniversary of Alita: Battle Angel’s theatrical premiere! So we’re celebrating by sharing the first half of our @Movies episode on the film, in which Vix and Ethan join us to go over the history of the film’s production and some key differences and themes between the manga and the movie. If you like what you hear, you can listen to our full podcast at patreon.com/mangamavericks, where we have almost a dozen other bonus podcasts waiting for you at our $5 tier, including other @ Movies reviews of Captain Marvel and Dragon Ball Super: Broly! It’s a movie that happily rips out and shows you its heart with enthusiasm and glee, and we were flying so high after seeing the film that we could gone all the way to Zalem! So enjoy this special Patreon Peek at our @Movies review of Alita: Battle Angel! Podcast Breakdown: 00:30 - Intro and Updates 02:14 - Alita: Battle Angel review 53:08 - Wrap-Up Enjoy the show, and follow us on twitter at @manga_mavericks, on tumblr at mangamavericks.tumblr.com, and subscribe to us on Youtube. You can follow the hosts on twitter at @LumRanmaYasha, @VLordGTZ, and special guest Vix at @vixythevaliant. Don’t forget to also like and subscribe to us on Youtube and iTunes and leave us reviews to help us curate the show and create better content! If there are any topics, series or mangaka you would like to see us talk about on the show, drop us a line in the comments below, or e-mail us at mangamavericks@gmail.com! Thanks for listening! Music Featured: The Boston Pops Orchestra - “Hooray for Hollywood” "Motorball" by Tom Holkenburg "Swan Song" by Dua Lipa

Hello listeners! Today you’re all my valentines, and I’m here to show my love by sharing one of our previously Patreon-exclusive podcasts with all you lovely people! The results of our latest survey showed that many of our listeners REALLY liked our Spider-Verse episode of @ Movies with Vix where we really dived deep into the history of the characters that appeared in the film. We recorded several other @ Movies podcasts like that last year that we released as Patreon-exclusive episodes, and I thought that now that some time has passed we could share them on our public feed as well! But what’s the occasion? Well, today isn’t just Valentine’s Day - it also happens to be the one year anniversary of Alita: Battle Angel’s theatrical premiere! So we’re celebrating by sharing the first half of our @Movies episode on the film, in which Vix and Ethan join us to go over the history of the film’s production and some key differences and themes between the manga and the movie. If you like what you hear, you can listen to our full podcast at patreon.com/mangamavericks, where we have almost a dozen other bonus podcasts waiting for you at our $5 tier, including other @ Movies reviews of Captain Marvel and Dragon Ball Super: Broly! It’s a movie that happily rips out and shows you its heart with enthusiasm and glee, and we were flying so high after seeing the film that we could gone all the way to Zalem! So enjoy this special Patreon Peek at our @Movies review of Alita: Battle Angel! Podcast Breakdown: 00:30 - Intro and Updates 02:14 - Alita: Battle Angel review 53:08 - Wrap-Up Enjoy the show, and follow us on twitter at @manga_mavericks, on tumblr at mangamavericks.tumblr.com, and subscribe to us on Youtube. You can follow the hosts on twitter at @LumRanmaYasha, @VLordGTZ, and special guest Vix at @vixythevaliant. Don’t forget to also like and subscribe to us on Youtube and iTunes and leave us reviews to help us curate the show and create better content! If there are any topics, series or mangaka you would like to see us talk about on the show, drop us a line in the comments below, or e-mail us at mangamavericks@gmail.com! Thanks for listening! Music Featured: The Boston Pops Orchestra - “Hooray for Hollywood” "Motorball" by Tom Holkenburg "Swan Song" by Dua Lipa

The time has finally come; Chad's robotic takeover is finally at hand! With the mangled carcass of MechaMothra rotting outside the walls of the store, there is no one left to challenge Chad as he begins his ascension...or is there? I'm your host, David Snider, and joining me this week as we are saved by a deus ex machina are fellow cinephiles Ryan Caldwell, Michael Althouse, and a mysterious stranger who comes bearing a long thought to be lost James Cameron joint from the year of our Lord 2019. Listen as we discuss one of the most egregious examples of "we're setting up a franchise!" ever in a major motion picture; we wonder what happened to the third act of Alita: Battle Angel; and finally, we break down the sport of Motorball - a game with no rules and seemingly no clear objective whatsoever. Be sure to rate, review, and subscribe - otherwise, you'll never make it to Zalem! You can also Follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/ApocalypseVideo) or Like Us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/ApocalypseVideo) ! This is David Snider (Spoiler! - Still Alive!!!), signing off from Sector 2...

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Well, anything April is running behind. See, we told you were out of ideas. Actually, it has just been a busy time for the Sci-Fi Malady crew and will continue to be so. However this week we discuss Alita Battle Angel, which is more is more difficult than one might think. There’s nothing movie breaking wrong with Alita. It is not full of J.J Abramsesque plot holes or mystery boxes, it stays mostly true to the source material and is absolutely brilliantly and painstakingly visually rendered. The score is wonderful and the acting is mostly fantastic with an exception or the two. The movie is a quantum leap forward in CGI rendering, producing a computer generated person that can realistically emote and move. The problem is that story wise there isn’t much here. Alita regains her memory, or some of it, Ido comes to terms with his daughter’s death, Alita’s boyfriend is doing terrible things to get to Zalem, and Vector and Nova are going to kill Alita because they know she has the power to maybe kill them? Although even this doesn’t make sense because Zalem prevailed against and army of Alita’s. How is one actually a threat? We some motorball games, which really serves the same roll as the pod racing scene in a Phantom Menace - add some badly needed action to a dull film - and some pretty cool fight scenes, which again, serve as the lightsaber battles in Phantom Menace. Alita is an origin story. The problem is origin stories come later, after you develop a character people care about in other movies. Even Phantom Menace was an origin story, telling how Vader, The Emperor and the Empire came to be. The story we should have seen is whatever Alita 2 and maybe 3 will be. After watching Alita fight an epic war to save Iron City from the clutches of Zalem and uplift an entire population of the oppressed, we might care more about a slow, boring origin story. Again, from a technical film making point of view, Alita is a fine movie. it was just released in the wrong order. Sci-Fi Malady RSS

The origin of Alita: Battle Angel starts with Yukito Kishiro's intricately plotted 1990 manga, something this adaptation has to simplify in order to make it palatable for wide-release audiences.  The setting is an Earth five centuries from now, a mostly tumultuous and vice-filled world that suffers even more by comparison to the life of luxury from the beaming city utopia called Zalem that floats above their heads. Christoph Waltz plays Dr. Ido, a brilliant scientist who has been through he trash-heaps of history to find something of value and meaning. Ido soon discovers the remnants of a robotic entity, taking it back to his lab for rehabilitation, resulting in a cyborg creation he has dubbed “Alita” (which was also the name of the daughter he lost in a tragedy), who has the mind of a teenage girl and hard-shell body to match. She walks, talks and understands, but one thing she can't readily do is remember who she is or why she exists. Ido provides fatherly guidance, but Alita is drawn to battle and action by her nature, stoked further by an interest in the local boy named Hugo, who sees more potential in Alita's abilities that could make her formidable in a world that values such adept skills in the arena of conflict.

In this extended episode, Evan brings in special guests Daryl Surat (Anime World Order, Otaku USA) and ABCBTom (The Fandom Post, Crunchyroll News) to review Alita: Battle Angel, James Cameron and Robert Rodriguez's live-action adaptation of Yukito Kishiro's manga series Gunnm, aka Battle Angel Alita. The episode is mostly spoiler-free, other than a section at the end marked by a handy spoiler alert. David sat this one out, but fear not, he'll be back soon. Topics include: the dang anime eyes, CGI My Neighbor Totoro, and the Truth of Zalem. Send us feedback at podcast@anigamers.com! Show notes, links, comments, and more can be found at http://anigamers.com/podcast.

In this extended episode, Evan brings in special guests Daryl Surat (Anime World Order, Otaku USA) and ABCBTom (The Fandom Post, Crunchyroll News) to review Alita: Battle Angel, James Cameron and Robert Rodriguez’s live-action adaptation of Yukito Kishiro’s manga series Gunnm, aka Battle Angel Alita. The episode is mostly spoiler-free, other than a section at the end marked by a handy spoiler alert. David sat this one out, but fear not, he’ll be back soon. Topics include: the dang anime eyes, CGI My Neighbor Totoro, and the Truth of Zalem. Send us feedback at podcast@anigamers.com! Show notes, links, comments, and more can be found at http://anigamers.com/podcast.

Story: Im Jahr 2563, etwa 300 Jahre nach dem „Großen Krieg“, sind auf der Erde die gesellschaftlichen Systeme zerfallen. Von den ursprünglich zwölf reichen Himmelsstädten ist nur noch eine, Zalem, übriggeblieben. Bei seiner Suche nach Cyborg-Technologie findet der Cyborg-Wissenschaftler Dr. Dyson Ido vitale Überreste eines weiblichen Cyborgs auf dem Schrotthaufen Iron Citys, der sich unter Zalem befindet. Er baut die funktionierenden Überreste vom Oberkörper wieder mit einem gelagerten maschinellen Körper zusammen. Ihr Körper besteht bis auf ihr menschliches Gehirn aus Maschinenteilen, und Dr. Ido wird zu einem Ziehvater für sie. Beim Erwachen kann sie sich nicht mehr erinnern, wer sie war oder woher sie kommt. Dr. Ido gibt ihr den Namen „Alita“, nach seiner getöteten Tochter. In Iron City lernt Alita Hugo kennen, einem jungen Schrottsammler, der ihr den Rennsport „Motorball“ das erste Mal näherbringt. Alita versucht sich Stück für Stück wieder an ihr altes Leben erinnern zu können, um ihre wahre Bestimmung herauszufinden.

Story: Im Jahr 2563, etwa 300 Jahre nach dem „Großen Krieg“, sind auf der Erde die gesellschaftlichen Systeme zerfallen. Von den ursprünglich zwölf reichen Himmelsstädten ist nur noch eine, Zalem, übriggeblieben. Bei seiner Suche nach Cyborg-Technologie findet der Cyborg-Wissenschaftler Dr. Dyson Ido vitale Überreste eines weiblichen Cyborgs auf dem Schrotthaufen Iron Citys, der sich unter Zalem befindet. Er baut die funktionierenden Überreste vom Oberkörper wieder mit einem gelagerten maschinellen Körper zusammen. Ihr Körper besteht bis auf ihr menschliches Gehirn aus Maschinenteilen, und Dr. Ido wird zu einem Ziehvater für sie. Beim Erwachen kann sie sich nicht mehr erinnern, wer sie war oder woher sie kommt. Dr. Ido gibt ihr den Namen „Alita“, nach seiner getöteten Tochter. In Iron City lernt Alita Hugo kennen, einem jungen Schrottsammler, der ihr den Rennsport „Motorball“ das erste Mal näherbringt. Alita versucht sich Stück für Stück wieder an ihr altes Leben erinnern zu können, um ihre wahre Bestimmung herauszufinden.

TMI Makes Dystopia Great Again with our two features this week - we break out the GIANT contact lenses to take a gander at Alita: Battle Angel, and then out come the eye patches for the Carpenter classic Escape From New York.  The end of society was never this fun!  #alita #alitabattleangel #jamescameron #robertrodriguez  #snakeplissken #escapefromnewyork #kurtrussell #johncarpenter #adriennebarbeau #wall-e #aboyandhisdog

We're back to do it all over again as we review Alita: Battle Angel and Umbrella Academy! Plus, a look at the comics that inspired the film and Netflix show. And we've got the news of the nerd and a look at a few Netflix shows that don't suck!Whoopsiediddle!Treat yourself to Battle Angel Alita!https://amzn.to/2SZfxDIhttps://amzn.to/2TVbuFEhttps://amzn.to/2GLC7sWPlay Bingos Lanthimos along with us at home with your very own card!https://www.facebook.com/JustEnoughTrope/photos/a.790817924333973/1936970646385356/?type=3&theaterCelebrate guilty pleasure movies with Kal on Craft Disservices!http://www.craftdisservices.comFight crime with us on Facebook and Twitter!http://www.facebook.com/justenoughtropehttp://www.twitter.com/justenoughtropeFollow our live stream adventures on YouTube!https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv_yQ1TlPULKRSrlZa6JgtA/videosBuy us a way to Zalem on Patreon!http://www.patreon.com/justenoughtrope

Zalem Delarbre est un des joueurs de didgeridoo les plus en vu sur internet grâce notamment à son légendaire duo : Adèle et Zalem (mais pas que !). Entre beatbox, didgeridoo, influences electro et une vie menée avec passion, Rudi Delarbre allias Zalem, nous livre sa vision du didgeridoo, ses techniques de composition, les micros qu'il conseille... À écouter sans plus tarder. :-)

Alita: Battle Angel arrives in theaters in December, but this week we take a look at Battle Angel Alita Vol. 1 to see what the heck is going on. Plus we review Flash #50, Immortal Hulk #2, RoboCop: Citizen's Arrest #4 and take a look at Nailed It Season 2. Plus, who should Batman marry? Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patron at http://patreon.com/MajorSpoilers. It will help ensure the Major Spoilers Podcast continues far into the future! NEWShttp://majorspoilers.com/tag/infinity-warps/ REVIEWS STEPHEN FLASH #50 Writer: Joshua Williamson Artist: Howard Porter Publisher: DC Comics Cover Price: $3.99 Release Date: July 11, 2018 The lightning-fueled finale of “Flash War”! Zoom adapts two new Speed Force powers into his arsenal against both Barry Allen and Wally West. What are these strange new powers? What can they do? And how will this haunt the Scarlet Speedster long after “Flash War” is over? It's the power of two Flashes pitted against the seemingly unstoppable Hunter Zolomon! [rating:3/5] MATTHEW IMMORTAL HULK #2 (#719) Writer: Al Ewing Artist: Joe Bennet, Ruy Jose Publisher: Marvel Comics Cover Price: $3.99 Release Date: July 4, 2018 A random small-town tragedy. A mystery illness that spreads with grief. A green glow on a lonely mountain. Three puzzle pieces that fit together to make a nightmare. And the only mind on Earth than can connect them up...belongs to the Immortal Hulk. [rating:4.5/5] RODRIGO ROBOCOP: CITIZEN'S ARREST #4 Writer: Brian Wood Artist: Jorge Coelho Publisher: Boom! Studios Cover Price: 3.99 Release Date: July 11, 2018 OCP announces their plan to reform the Ruins into a new neighborhood called the Plateau, as well as the devastating methods they plan to use. [rating: 3.5/5] ASHLEY NAILED IT Season 2 Home bakers who have a poor track record in the kitchen seek redemption -- and cash -- on this series. In each episode, three contestants try their hand at re-creating edible masterpieces. The projects don't always turn out great, but whichever amateur baker comes closest to a successful dessert by the end of the episode takes home the $10,000 prize, which they might want to use on baking lessons. Comic Nicole Byer and renowned pastry chef Jacques Torres host the culinary competition that features such challenges as painting self-portraits on cookies. [rating: 4/5] MAJOR SPOILERS POLL OF THE WEEK http://majorspoilers.com/2018/07/08/major-spoilers-poll-of-the-week-left-at-the-alter-edition/ DISCUSSION Battle Angel Alita Vol. 1 Yukito Kishiro In a dump in the lawless settlement of Scrapyard, far beneath the mysterious space city of Zalem, disgraced cyber-doctor Daisuke Ido makes a strange find: the detached head of a cyborg woman who has lost all her memories. He names her Alita and equips her with a powerful new body, the Berserker. While Alita remembers no details of her former life, a moment of desperation reawakens in her nerves the legendary school of martial CLOSE Contact us at podcast@majorspoilers.com Call the Major Spoilers Hotline at (785) 727-1939. 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! Closing music comes from Ookla the Mok.

Alita: Battle Angel arrives in theaters in December, but this week we take a look at Battle Angel Alita Vol. 1 to see what the heck is going on. Plus we review Flash #50, Immortal Hulk #2, RoboCop: Citizen's Arrest #4 and take a look at Nailed It Season 2. Plus, who should Batman marry? Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patron at http://patreon.com/MajorSpoilers. It will help ensure the Major Spoilers Podcast continues far into the future! NEWShttp://majorspoilers.com/tag/infinity-warps/ REVIEWS STEPHEN FLASH #50 Writer: Joshua Williamson Artist: Howard Porter Publisher: DC Comics Cover Price: $3.99 Release Date: July 11, 2018 The lightning-fueled finale of “Flash War”! Zoom adapts two new Speed Force powers into his arsenal against both Barry Allen and Wally West. What are these strange new powers? What can they do? And how will this haunt the Scarlet Speedster long after “Flash War” is over? It’s the power of two Flashes pitted against the seemingly unstoppable Hunter Zolomon! [rating:3/5] MATTHEW IMMORTAL HULK #2 (#719) Writer: Al Ewing Artist: Joe Bennet, Ruy Jose Publisher: Marvel Comics Cover Price: $3.99 Release Date: July 4, 2018 A random small-town tragedy. A mystery illness that spreads with grief. A green glow on a lonely mountain. Three puzzle pieces that fit together to make a nightmare. And the only mind on Earth than can connect them up...belongs to the Immortal Hulk. [rating:4.5/5] RODRIGO ROBOCOP: CITIZEN'S ARREST #4 Writer: Brian Wood Artist: Jorge Coelho Publisher: Boom! Studios Cover Price: 3.99 Release Date: July 11, 2018 OCP announces their plan to reform the Ruins into a new neighborhood called the Plateau, as well as the devastating methods they plan to use. [rating: 3.5/5] ASHLEY NAILED IT Season 2 Home bakers who have a poor track record in the kitchen seek redemption -- and cash -- on this series. In each episode, three contestants try their hand at re-creating edible masterpieces. The projects don't always turn out great, but whichever amateur baker comes closest to a successful dessert by the end of the episode takes home the $10,000 prize, which they might want to use on baking lessons. Comic Nicole Byer and renowned pastry chef Jacques Torres host the culinary competition that features such challenges as painting self-portraits on cookies. [rating: 4/5] MAJOR SPOILERS POLL OF THE WEEK http://majorspoilers.com/2018/07/08/major-spoilers-poll-of-the-week-left-at-the-alter-edition/ DISCUSSION Battle Angel Alita Vol. 1 Yukito Kishiro In a dump in the lawless settlement of Scrapyard, far beneath the mysterious space city of Zalem, disgraced cyber-doctor Daisuke Ido makes a strange find: the detached head of a cyborg woman who has lost all her memories. He names her Alita and equips her with a powerful new body, the Berserker. While Alita remembers no details of her former life, a moment of desperation reawakens in her nerves the legendary school of martial CLOSE Contact us at podcast@majorspoilers.com Call the Major Spoilers Hotline at (785) 727-1939. 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! Closing music comes from Ookla the Mok.

En este episodio, entrevistamos al gran Carlo Cattano: músico multidisciplinar, estupendo didgplayer y mejor persona. También os traemos noticias frescas desde Francia y, nuestra crónica en exclusiva de la participacion de Jozz y Mere en Didg 2 Didg. --------------------------------------------------------- Música del programa: Zalem crowfunding - new project - Zalem (00:00 - 01:16) Terre mythe session - youtube - Kelu (06:42 - 08:49) The inncredible Hulk music video - youtube - police campus (09:03 - 09:37) Tonestep - AZ - Adele y Zalem (14:45 - 17:15) Best 16 WAR Jam - Live - youtube (19:21 - 27:30) Jonas - Matsumoto Zoku - Koji Matsumoto (29:25 - 31:35) Ghandiva waves - Ghandiva - Carlo Cattano (31:35 - 36:20) Istambul conection - Shantijaz - Carlo Cattano (39:43 - 44:03) Sihir - Shantijaz - Carlo Cattano (47:43 - 52:20) Kusun kanadinda - Shantijaz - Carlo Cattano (52:27 - 56:49) Actua Santa Cruz - Live - Carlo Cattano (58:21-1:00:28) Ganjanaman - Muscaria Psicowaves - Pablo Rivera (1:04:00 -1:08:26) Erotokritos - Ross Daly -Ross Daly (1:12:03 - 1:13:13) Semaya cikis - Shantijaz - Carlo Cattano (1:28:15 - 1:30:35) .................................

EPISODE 5 MUSIC: Main Theme: “Uncaged Czarina” by Dan-O at http://danosongs.com Henry VI, Part 3: “Pictures at an Exhibition No. 2 ‘Il Vecchio Castello'” by Modest Mussorgsky Richard III: “String Quartet No. 14 in C# Minor, Op. 131” by Ludwig van Beethoven Henry IV, Part 1: “Alone Again” by Taku Iwasaki Macbeth: “Zalem” From Tobias Tinker A Midsummer Night’s […]