Podcast: Hot Tears of Shame - Episode Eighteen

Podcast:
Hot Tears of Shame - The Way to Virgin Space
Episode Eighteen

The battle to end all battles kind of continues as Alphabet Drake plans to launch an asteroid containing four Moway Monsters to crash land on Planet Hertz. In order to combat this threat, The Office of Scientific Investigation ritually invokes the O.T.A.C.K.E.R.S. (“Old-school Tokusatsu Anime Candy-toys Kaiju Espy Robots & Spectreman”), an elite intergalactic unit of Super Beings from Mystery Frequency 109. The job is simple: infiltrate “Wonderfest” – Drake’s pet parallel dimension populated by shape changers with supernatural powers – and destroy the Moway Monsters in their larval forms. But first, they must overcome their own fears and twisted loyalties…

Special Guest Star: ¡El Cliones!

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Comments

[Joseph Luster]

It demands pictures of rad Wonderfest purchases!

[Patrick Macias]

Matt walked away with all them prizes. I just bought some ratty old Yamato stickers, which now proudly adorn my compu-tor.

[bryce]

The security guards had "MOE" jackets? Or are those cosplayers pretending to be "MOE"-jacket-wearing security guards?

[Steve Harrison]

There is no such thing as 'ratty' or 'old' Yamato stickers. They're 'pre-experenced' and make your items appear to have been in your ownership since the early '80s.

If I had any balls I'd take my vintage 1980 Galaxy Express 999 sew-on patch and stitch it to my Old Navy tanker's jacket. The shining face of Hoshino Tetsuro would look rad on my shoulder. In your FACE machine empire!

i'm kind of hooked on your podcast even though i don't give a shit about models or manga or anything you talk about. mega-macs, maybe. anyway, what was the song at the end of this one? and that version of "it's cold outside" you ended with before, was that the choir? it sounded different.

[Patrick Macias]

The ending theme this time is "You May Dream" by Sheena and the Rockkets. "It's Cold Outside" was a cover by Tokyo's number one garage band (The Bawdies, notwithstanding), The Minnesota Voodoo Men. Thanks for listening.

[Carl Horn]

>>i'm kind of hooked on your podcast even though i don't give a shit about models or manga or anything you talk about.

Ah, well, I think you're on to what makes Patrick's reportage stand out in a world frozen over with overexposure. Take away the models and manga and you've still got his (and Matt's) style, which alone is well worth listening to.

"Frank from Kotobukiya," eh? I'm doing a little something with him--six degrees of separation and all that.

[chris]

thanks, patrick. the music on the podcast is always great - if you're ever lazy and don't feel like talking, i for one would enjoy a whole show dedicated to your favourite tunes. i've been picking up GS collections every time I visit Japan, and have a pretty decent grip on the spiders and the carnabeats now, but your picks are always suprises to me and invariably leave me wondering who the hell they're by.

and yeah, even though I don't give (much of) a shit about manga and models, etc. I do give a shit about tokyo and pop culture, but every time I've been there it's been solo or with japanese friends, which is great of course - but none of the tokyo craziness registers much to tokyo natives, so it's frustrating not to have anyone to say "holy fucking shit, did you just see that dude in the schoolgirl drag and green wig next to the octopus ball vendor?" to... not that that would raise your eyebrows much either, i suppose. but anyway it's nice to eavesdrop on a couple of well-informed gaijin (no offense intended) on a stroll though those insane beautiful streets soaking it all in.

sorry to ramble on, but i didn't want my "I don't give a shit..." comment to sound dismissive - and to let you know that your explorations of tokyo street culture outside of the manga/model/otaku realm are also appreciated, at least by one listener & reader.

take it easy. i look forward to the next hot tears.

[Steve Harrison]

Actually, I seem to recall a Hot Tears that was all music. Wasn't that like episode 12 or so?

but you have to be willing to go past just indie bands and dip into the power and wonder of the '70s/'80s anisong.

The Wandaba song is MUCH more cool than the show itself. Just sayin'.

[Carl Horn]

I was tripped out that The Wellwater Conspiracy covered The Spiders, The Carnabeats, and Syd Barrett on the same album.