 Start streaming. Turn on the merits, especially with all this bad weather. You never know. You saw there's a ton of power outages in Brooklyn. You know, I've never had a power outage. I've never had one in my current apartment. I've never had a power outage. I think maybe once the UPS went click, click, maybe, but like very many, many years ago, even during even during the hurricane, the big one, I had power the whole time. I threw my UPS away. I actually don't have any. I never actually even, even though I have shitty spectrum, I don't even remember any long internet outages except for when like the shitty router they gave me busted. Every internet outage we've ever had was our, the router failing and having to be replaced. I wouldn't know if there was a telephone outage because I don't use the telephone. There have been water outages when they had to fix it in the street recently, like a month ago. Yep. I've never, I haven't had that. We had that a couple times during the day. We had a couple of those during the day. So, but that was 10 years ago. They were like, they dug up the street recently and never had it. The elevator goes out. That's what happens. I think we're good to go city. Oops. I don't want to play that audio. Okay. It's Wednesday, August 8th, 2018. I'm rim. I'm Scott and this is Geek Nights tonight. City, the Manga by Keiichi Arari, the Ditchy Joe guy. Is it a guy? Yeah. Keiichi sounds like a guy's name. Keiichi? That's a guy's name. Arawe. I assume Arawe is the surname. It's not, wouldn't it be Arawe sound or something? Japanese, you switch it in. Yep. Here, let's see what this page says about. You wouldn't name it. He was born and raised in Gunma. He grew up in some other place. He went to this high school. Gunma, that's an initial deterrent. No. I'll keep this up. All right. Oh, we already got a bunch of people watching the stream. Go away, people. All right, sad Piro. It's not sad Piro. So I said, oh, nobody listened. No one can consume my heart. No, Piro didn't say go away. He also said no one can consume my heart. It's bad. I'm bad. I'll burn my art books so no one can see them. No, that's not what I want to do. That's completely different. I'm saying you shouldn't waste your time. I'm making this just because I want to make it. Then why even, why do we publish it? Why don't we just make it? Why don't we just sit here and not record anything and just do it? Yeah, sure. That sounds okay. All right. You said you have an eye-opening bit, so I go for it. So, you know, you go to buy some breakfast, right? Like you do. Sometimes you can get a whole, but you know, to save money, I want to get breakfast that I can have at home and just wake up and eat, not have to stop and get an expensive bacon, egg, and cheese every day, right? Yeah, so as much as I would think that, as much as I like things like yogurt and stuff for breakfast, I pretty much want a hot breakfast. I'm not going to make a hot breakfast at home. No, so, you know, I got, I got some pancake mix. I got some, sometimes I buy some English muffin. Yeah, pancake mix, that's a weekend breakfast. That is not a Tuesday breakfast. I can actually just make a few pancakes. You're not going to do that before you go to work unless you work from home. I do it anyway. But, you know, sometimes even though, you know, people our age don't do cereal. Sometimes I'll go for some cereal. So where I work, we have like the cafeteria with snacks and stuff, but in the morning there's that gigantic cereal bar with like 10 different cereals and a lot of people eat cereal for breakfast with their milk. But anyway, so the cereal that I like is shreddy wheat because it's nothing but wheat. What are you, 90 years old? Shredded wheat is awful. It's great. And then there's no bullshit. Is it at least the frosted shredded wheat? No. Why would you eat shredded wheat? It's delicious. It tastes like nothing. Tastes like wheat. Yeah, nothing. You don't like cream of wheat either. No, cream of wheat. Cream of wheat. I think you just don't like wheat. Cream of wheat is disgusting. I think rim just doesn't like wheat. Wheat is excellent if converted into something like bread. It converted into a hard biscuit or into a watery mush. Yeah. Hard biscuit is fine. Hard shredded wheat, not fine. That's a biscuit anyway. There is a world where someone would call that a biscuit. That is not a biscuit. To me, a biscuit is the most primarily of butter and fat. First of all, it says biscuit on the box, right? Because there's two versions. I could take a poop in a box and write the word biscuit. There's the one with the big one and the one with a lot of little ones, right? The big one that it says right on the box, big biscuit. I don't like that one. I was about to say, if you like that one, that's even worse. You got to get the ones, a lot of small ones. And it's the grocery store next to me doesn't have it. I got to go far away to get it. And I don't want to. So I look at all the cereals in the grocery store next to me to see which one doesn't have any fucking sugar. Right. And granted, like for comparison as a kid, the cereals I ate were the Nintendo officially branded cereal. So just sugar in a bag. I need a lot of jars, but I really only ate the marshmallow. Sugar in a box. Okay. And frosted flakes. So actually I found that the cereal with the most sugar per gram is Honey Nut Cheerios, which is one of the cereals that I would eat. Yeah. There you go. But actually I used to really like sugar crisp. Yeah. I like which was renamed what golden crisp. I don't know. I like corn pop was this sugar cereal. I most sugar cereals I would not eat. I usually ate cinnamon toast crunch was my jam in high school. That's what I would eat. That's what I would eat. If those were like, it was like the only sugar. Have we ever done a show on cereal? Maybe, but whatever the point is. So I went and I looked at all these healthy looking cereals that looked healthy on the box. That's our next Thursday show. We've never done a show on all these healthy looking brands like Kashi and whatever the fuck. Right. And all these series of look at the box. They look super healthy. Like, Hey, we are, you know, tons of greens. And then you look at the fucking ingredients on the side and it's like sugar a bajillion grand. You know what that's like? It's like this is no better than the lucky charms. That is like when you try to get like a fruit juice and you look at it and it's actually just concentrated apple juice and flavor. Right. So it's like all these healthy looking cereals are just sugar. So I'm like, all right, fine. I'll just get a rice crispy. It's rice plus fire. But no, even rice crispy has some sugar in it. I. So there was a time when I would eat rice crispies every morning. I like rice crispy. Yeah. It's like you get some banana in there. Yeah. And then you'd have a little meat rice crispies. Adorned. Never on a door. Yeah, I put it in there. Not going out and going out. Do you eat a frosted or a non frosted flake on a dorm would you eat a shredded weed on a dorm? No, I put a raisin in the shredding. Just one raisin. No, just one raisins. That you don't eat. You don't eat those either. I like raisins. You don't eat raisins. I don't. So I take issue with the fact that 99% of the time When I see a cookie that from a distance is chocolate chip, and I find out that it's oatmeal raisin I'm disappointed. Oh, the raisin is delicious And I actually like oatmeal cookies without raisins and the more than I like oatmeal raisin cookies anyway I do like raisins. I go to buy the rice krispie. It's a little box of rice krispie They didn't have a big one and it was mad expensive. So I'm like, what the fuck is this? Why is it like five dollars this tiny box of rice krispie inflation? So I go over and as I'm walking I realize hey There's those like off-brand cereal in a bag Well, you really are like 70 years old and I'm like hey There's that off-brand cereal in a bag that I would never in my whole life think of possibly buying when I was a kid But actually I bought my term for those because I was a young child I noticed them in the grocery store. There were two levels of the low rent cereal There was bottom shelf cereal that usually was in boxes or big bags and Had names that evoked the names of real cereal, but then there is one step lower There was the giant trough so you could just scoop it into your own bag. I didn't see that anyway So yeah, I see the off-brand rice krispie in a bag and it's way cheap compared to the real rice krispie All right Was it worth it because I'm assuming you bought it and you tried it and had less sugar than the real rice krispie So it's probably worse. It was pretty much just right just and it didn't even have high fructose corn chip The ingredients were literally just like rice, you know and crispy and Chris right had some sugar But not near not as much as the actual name brand rice krispie. So I'm like, you know what fuck it It's so cheap. I'm gonna buy the off-brand rice krispie in a bag And you know what you could not tell it apart from real rice krispie with a wine taste test It is the same fucking thing, right? The same factory I have no idea but well, it's different though the ingredients wise but it tastes a hundred percent identical You could not fucking tell even I was unblind and I couldn't tell there's no way you could tell if you were blind Why did I not buy the off-brand cereal in a bag before? Right, why did I fall for the marketing of the snap crackling pop dudes youth naivety and Classism right so give up your your whatever pride or whatever you can trust the cereal in a bag However, I would argue that far superior to any form of cereal would be the shredded wheat or the cream of wheat Would be just like the bagel with a couple of eggs and some bacon. Oh, yeah That's great, but that costs four dollars a day Whereas the bet the cereal in a bag is like two dollars and as I said I'm gonna last you a whole week What? Regardless of how much two dollars a week or four dollars a day back when I was pretty poor I was willing to sacrifice most things in my life to have a good hot breakfast. I'm not poor I'll get a four dollars. Maybe once or twice a week. Maybe once every other week You know, I still would rather pay two dollars a week total Yeah, I will say though that lately. I pretty much my breakfast is like two bananas Well, now you get a banana a crispy in some or sometimes a banana one banana one plum like that's good breakfast So yeah in some news since it's Wednesday anime manga comics. What do you got? So I don't know if people realize this if you don't read underwear perfect comics, right? But fantastic for has which was Marvel's like the first Marvel Universe comic was fantastic for people Don't I don't have many people don't know that or do whatever, right? Like the Marvel Universe didn't even exist until the human torch met Namor, right? At some point that was like when it became a universe before that it was just separate heroes But yeah, the fantastic for it was like the first Marvel comic and it ran super long And then some time ago it disappeared and not only did the comic disappear But all the characters disappeared from pretty much every Marvel thing and the story goes that basically the Crazy, you know nut job owner of Marvel studio, you know, whatever, right? You guys got bought by Disney, but he's still the owner Chief of Marvel who basically doesn't seem to do much He just sort of an owner like the editor in chief of Marvel's who really makes the comic book decisions handed down some decree like no more fantastic for because They didn't have you know, even when they didn't have the movie rights So he felt like they were this is just a story, right? He felt like Marvel comics were giving free advertising to someone else's movies someone else's stuff Which honestly makes sense because the market the core market for actual floppy comic books pretty tiny You're gonna only gonna make real money by selling the movies So they so they did stuff in the story to basically make the fantastic for go away. So you wouldn't see those characters anymore And such But now they're back because why well Disney which bought owns Marvel That 21st century deal with that's gonna finish probably next year and then they will own the fantastic for again So they got to get the hype up because they're gonna, you know Bring it in probably one or two years from now You're gonna see some fantastic for Marvel universe stuff happening in anyway I don't know. It's hard to say if I care or not. So the thing with Fantastic Four, right? It's like they're not like my favorite heroes, right? You know, it's like I'm not like the biggest fantastic for a fan in the universe. They are very simple one could say elemental well But the thing is if you read the old comics, they're hella corny, right? As underwear pervert comics of all old underwear pervert comics are corny the special thing about Fantastic Four, right? Stanley and Jack Irving is that it is not quite dr. Strange level of psychedelic But still sort of old crazy sci-fi Twilight Zone ish in a way, right? It has those vibes going on The other comics don't really have that sort of you know pulp sci-fi stuff going on Well, like venture brothers has like their superhero stuff in that universe and it's basically the fantastic for and it's like that Fits with the like super science genre, right? So if you read say, you know a fantastic for story You're basically like you can as a with a human as a human with a good brain You can sort of extract and separate like this corny presentation. I'll hit you you little guy From this sci-fi story that also comes sort of intertwined and like your brain as you read them Sort of splits them apart like a DNA coming apart in two strands Right, so it's very easy and many people have in more recent times You know made fantastic for stories that don't have the corny part But at the same time like to be fair if I really want like a trippy far out sci-fi story I'm gonna read like a culture book or something. Yeah, you can do you know, whatever It's not that it's not exactly that kind of sci-fi, but anyway So fantastic for number one. I think comes out today because it's Wednesday, right available on August 8th for purchase Yeah, okay. I was right Wednesday is comics day came out today. It's written by Dan Slott I've seen some rumblings online that like maybe Dan Slott is a bad guy But I don't know why because I've only ever seen him being a good guy He I think I mentioned this before that I found out that he wrote the red and stumpy comic That was awesome when I was a kid and he also is like any any Dan Slott comic I've read has been sort of that really Light-hearted and fun, but still really good like the kind of thing that a kid could read and connect with but also an adult Can read and you know it sort of you know lifts makes the kid feel like he's smart, you know And it's still you know the kind of that's the kind of feel like the matrix made a lot of people feel very smart about Baby's first philosophy Right, but you know it's you know the more like it's fun, but it's not stupid fun It's it's somewhat intelligent, but still like there's something there like a like a Saturday morning cartoon that you can appreciate You know like a dexter's lab kind of level maybe even a little more than that, right? That's the kind of stuff he writes and Yeah, so he's writing this new Fantastic Four So maybe is gonna be good. I feel like we're gonna have to review it. We can't avoid it Maybe I'm not gonna buy the issue You don't buy comic issues. It's 2018 I would say you don't buy comic issues. It's 1998 But yeah, but apparently from what I've heard is that you know since the Fantastic Four like been missing that in the first issue It doesn't get them back together yet So it's sort of like it's almost a zero issue and not a number one issue. Ah, I did I Really have a hard time with well, let's start over again like that I think it more explains what happened to them since you haven't seen them in so long Oh, but I don't care about that either I almost would want a new Fantastic Four to just start in media res with yeah, here's the Fantastic Four and let's just go They're doing something. Well, the problem is is like, you know, I think they were like all in different places Yeah, you know, yeah, I do something like more recent spider-man stuff. We're just like, you know who spider-man is We're just gonna have a spider-man story You know spider-man like, you know Peter Parker's company is like in the Fantastic Four's building or something Because they're not there anymore So in some other news, if you didn't know Otacon, which is no longer in Baltimore and we no longer perform at Is actually this coming weekend There's supposed to be a nazi rally down the street Yeah, so the news here is one if the nazi rally is happening and you're going to otacon You should go counter protest the nazi rally and go to otacon Don't just do one bring make sure your cosplay includes, you know rocks or something to throw at them Yeah, uh, do not cosplay as a nazi No But that's generally good advice anywhere. Not just if there happens to be a nazi rally nearby It's still weird though like to this like we don't go to at this point In gig nights. They haven't been otacon in nine years. We don't perform. We went to two three four five We went to eight otakons until a few years ago. We had done more panels at otacon than it packs Like we went to eight otakons and there's been A lot since we stopped going there have been nine that we haven't gone to but more importantly We used to attend and perform at a lot of anime cons And we're actually at a point where we neither attend nor perform At any anime cons not any pure anime cons Yeah, at least currently there are no anime centric conventions that we attend or perform at in any capacity Uh anime boston is still fantastic. Like it's a great convention. It's the best anime con I can think of but One it's in a cold part of the year and two the security in boston means that I basically don't want to ever go to any convention in boston I'm even annoyed at going to packs east because of that security but uh Even though we haven't been to otacon in a long goddamn time. I don't want to go to otacon I definitely don't want to perform at otacon I still get weirdly nostalgic when I think about otacon because we went to a lot of otakons and spent a lot of time there So, yeah, it's this weekend and I guess if you're going I'm curious how it goes because since they moved it seems like a lot of the but like almost no one I know goes anymore either to perform or just to attend So I like don't know what the state of otacon is If you want to go to an anime con that we might go to though Anime nyc is coming up in november. It does not overlap with packs. Meaning we can actually go to it There's a good chance. We're gonna actually perform at it and do some panels. We're still working that out We just take the subway over yeah walk around look around do a panel go home Yep, the subway that goes to anime nyc Also goes directly to my apartment. Yep, like it's real hard to not go to this I'm not gonna go to that uh anime Expo sponsored other anime event. No, that's gonna be in new york Because one I can't take the subway to it and two. I don't think it's gonna be good No But if you want to do a panel at this anime convention anime nyc You should submit them because the panel deadline is like Next week it's coming up real quick. They're actually doing it way in advance because it's all smart people around in the con All right That's enough news All right, let's see But anyway things of the day what do you got? So, you know, I'm sure rim is familiar I don't know how many listeners are familiar with the yoshida brothers who are a a group of people who play The I believe their brothers They play traditional japanese instruments. I'm a big fan of the yoshida brothers. Typically shamisen. I think right and they play You know, they don't play typical japanese music on those shamisen. They play fucking awesome music on those Yeah, so if you just go on youtube type yoshida brothers, you'll find good stuff Here is something I came across. It is a group of people with traditional japanese instruments Uh, and they are playing the theme song to Say the moon. This is real good, which is pretty good. So, uh, I think this channel I think has other stuff too, right? Both the stage craft is good and the music is good. Yeah Yeah, it's like it's like a filming of a live performance. So Yeah, this is worth a listen So I had a different thing of the day, but since Scott had traditional japanese instruments I have one I found a long time ago. I think I used it as a stinger at some point But this is a traditional japanese band using mostly traditional japanese instruments Covering a song you all know and love Africa by Toto Which has been continuously stuck in my head for almost eight months now It hasn't been eight months since we talked about this. Oh, we got stuck into my head Well before we started talking about it. So at least Nobody once told you Somebody bless the rains down at least it is ousted in a different song So I'm gonna warn you guys though like fair warning because remember a while ago I was like I should make an anime music video and then like I just did and I made it So I have that same feeling in my brain and I took that same first step I took all-star And I took Africa. I don't know if those mixed well together. They so you wouldn't think they would You're trying to you're trying to do a Neil Cicero. Good job. So I pull I I threw together like I hacked it together Just to see like is there a way to make it work And it worked About as well as when I was like I should just take this phony song and take Take Utena and just like mash him together and I just like through the timeline together and just listen to it It kind of worked I might try to make the Ciceringian style Africa all-star. How do they give the skills to do that? Uh, it'll be quite low bar here Quite low bar. You know how a lot of experience making mashups But I do have a lot of experience Arranging I think if you made a hundred of them, then you would start and we make good ones But you know, I'd never made an amv before and I'd none of those skills and I made a pretty fucking good amv in my opinion It's a little more uh obvious to you know, I don't think it takes a hundred I think only takes like 10 to make a good amv, but I only made one I just made one it only took like two days But uh, we'll see I'm working on this a little bit But it's past the point of this won't work and it's at the point of it's stuck Kind of like a rabbit. So if you the thing about pet rabbits is that sometimes they'll get an idea in their head Like how do you know? So how do you know the rabbit's thinking? So here's an example So say there's an area the rabbits can't get to and should not get to Usually it's not a problem. They can't get there. They don't express any interest in getting there It's not a problem, but occasionally the rabbit will appear to be like investigating the area that they're not supposed to get into Or actively attempting to get into the area. So of course you fortify the area From that point forward For the rest of time the rabbit will always be trying to get into that area and you see them attempting it Once they decide they want to do something the more you try to stop them the more they will try to do it Yeah, it's what children do. That's what I do when it comes to Mashing up. What is this? No trespassing sign. I want to go in there real bad No swimming. Fuck you. You can't you're not my boss Fuck you dad. I do what I want. Maybe they maybe you only see this in rabbits because they're learning from you They got your your dna's Other rabbits don't do this Only only rabbit sense. They learn from a rim. They learn from a professional All right, get to the meta stuff All right This is like the eighth time someone in the live stream has pointed this out because gig nights is actually recorded at night It's evening. It's like 7 p.m. Our time. It's just light out because it's summer. It's still evening. It counts That's all i'm gonna say about that. I'm home from work. It's not like i'm doing it before work Yeah, or during the day. Yeah, it's what you're supposed to do. We're supposed to if it's summer We're supposed to wait until like 10 o'clock at night. Yep It's recorded in the late evening. I'll go with that At some point we're gonna have to rerecord the closing bit Because if I get new music, we're gonna have to rerecord a voiceover because I don't have all the original components I don't have the recording of like us doing that end bit without the sailor moon thing. You should probably rewrite it anyway Yeah, you just give away that it's a sailor moon thing. Yeah, but only in the live stream Also, i'm changing it because it's time I think four or five people have figured it out over the years I never would have figured out how could you possibly Because it's not like it, you know, it's such an obscure. It's not, you know, it's like a it's like a track from a Image album or something. It's a track It's it's a segment People don't even know what an image album is anymore. Yeah, it's from one of sailor moon's IST's Did they even make IST's for him anymore? I don't even know But I don't even know like I can't even believe that they're it's hard to even imagine that there was a thing Market for so much that they were made to begin with I basically like I don't listen to Japanese music much anymore Most of the music I listen to only listen to like vaporwave Japanese music Yeah, but like I feel like Korean music has completely filled that void for me. Well, that's because the Korean music as uh makes itself available Yeah, well, it's on my streaming things I go to my sonos and be like play me k-pop and it'll just play me k-pop Yeah, it's what I tell it to play me k-pop is great when you get toto stuck in your head because basically there's a new k-pop song Every other week to erase the previous one. Yeah G g g is now in my head. That's like You know all that song. I know but it's real catchy Maybe I could mash that up with toto's african the number one k-pop song right now is power up All right Got a perfect all killed Which means it was number one in every single chart Not a lot of songs get there In the meta moment the book club book is no longer the odyssey. It is now the odyssey Regular odyssey space odyssey you got to find a third odyssey. Yep. Uh, actually If I use that uh planescape book That I keep talking about it is odyssey adjacent the pages of pain pages of pain. It is Pages of pleasure is basically all the culture books That party and player of games in the beginning before he goes off The guy gets so drunk. He falls off the cliff and it's totally fine. Let's watch some Everyone's walking around with their narcotics bowls Yeah, full web I see I had to explain I said full web to someone at work yesterday. Oh, they didn't know what it was Of course not. Of course not. I had to explain it. But you know what? Full web as a concept that is the most succinct way to express that kind like that Moderately complex concept in a succinct form right well Well, I think this two those are two terms from uh science fiction novels, right this grok Which is sort of like you have a full web of understanding is what so grok means you have full web of understanding And full web means you have accomplished a complete Right. Yep. Yep. They're related in that way and they both uh sort of uh Uh communicate fullness. Yep, right of of you know, I don't know That's why they that's why we need words like grok and full web because there's no other word Yep. Well at work. I'm taking over like I'm taking over an area for someone else So I have to like do this knowledge transfer and like learn all their biz so I can deal with their biz And one of the engineers was like so does this all make sense? And I said I understand it, but I do not yet grok and he said all right Like he he he fully grok what I said to him he grok the grok. Yeah, perfectly cromulent word But anyway, 2001 a space Odyssey. I went to see the movie in 70 millimeter. It was still great I hadn't seen in a long time. I'm gonna read the book like imminently I started I thought I was like two chapters of the book. It doesn't seem that long actually I was planning to read it Uh possibly to fullness at the beach, but I feel like we're not going to the beach this week It looks like it's gonna rain now. Maybe the weather will change and we will go to the beach. We'll see we'll play The point is uh, I didn't realize this but the I thought it was a book was written and then a movie was made But actually the book and screenplay were written simultaneously by Simultaneously Right, uh, what's author's name again Arthur C. Clark and Stanley Kubrick worked on this at the same time That was news to me and that's kind of really interesting But they're still different from the movie and still worth reading Separate even if you see the important point is we have a book club and you should read these books I think every book we've read and done a show on is worth reading So at least one person who had already read the book said they were gonna read it again. Wow Okay, but yeah That's a person already reads books. We need people who don't read books. This is a all-time classic book I feel like you should read it if you're a nerd of any kind. I was just scrolling through I think there's I haven't read it and I'm fixing that you should fix it too I am confident there is in fact only one book we have ever done on the Geeknives book club that you should not bother reading World war z that book's real fucking dumb. I'm pretty sure we did name of the wind also. Uh I think that's almost worth reading. It's worth reading name of the winds. Okay Remember most of our complaints about name of the wind were based on knowledge from the second book Not based on that book that book in and of itself wasn't that bad? It wasn't it was worth reading I think world war z is literally the worst book we've ever talked about. It's not like by a mile Anyway, uh, yeah and packs west is uh labor day weekend We're gonna be there our panel is monday at the crack of dawn It's gonna actually be streamed even though it's a such a shitty time. That's a trade-off whatever. I'm going to packs I don't care. Yep. Otherwise, we'll just be at packs doing paxing. Duh Uh Yeah, if you see us around We're gonna try to do our expo haul thing like the video thing that we used to do and then we stopped I think we'll have time to do it at this packs west. I got I got some ideas I got some ideas too. We should plan this. I'll have the new camera by them too Are you do you definitely? Yeah, so it's about how to bring any I'm going to bring a real camcorder to get video. So I don't have to bring any video cameras I can bring way less stuff We'll see so we should debate because if you bring your camera the only value of that other than you taking photos But you could bring a smaller camera for that indeed Is that we would have two 4k high quality actually color correct camera angles for our panel We've never had that we always have your good camera and my like 15 year old camcorder We'll see we'll see we'll play it by ear, but for at least for the purposes of doing Non-panel content. I will have a real camcorder Which will just make that way easier to pull off All right Do you gotta buy a tripod that can hold it? Uh monopod, but yeah and tripod. You should get the the same one. I have only with I Yeah, I think that's the one movie thing at the time Actually send me a link to that because that's probably the one I want to get because I've used it I mean you could probably get at this They I think they have a newer model of like the same basic one $100 extra for carbon So I have aluminum on one hand. I've never noticed on one hand. I I feel like I don't want to but on the other hand I was at bnh the other day The carbon one is way lighter like it's of course shockingly lighter. Yeah, my bicycle is shockingly light Yeah, well like My the the fact that my bike has a carbon fork alone just that was shocking in the difference it made Uh, oh, yeah about 10 years ago you guys Rim asked on the podcast who was listening to the podcast on a psp That guy was me. All right. All right. How's your psp doing? Do you still have the psp? Do you still use it? It was there at geek nights on mv3 on a memory stick of sony. Oh my god a memory stick meanwhile, I'm uh I still use compact flash on the Moran's compact flash is still a thing more than memory. It is barely a thing more than memory stick Yeah, definitely more than memory stick. All right. I'm diving in Diving into the main bit So city so, uh, Keiichi Arawe Is the person who wrote the manga nichi joe that you probably know from the anime nichi joe I've never read that manga nichi joe, but I watched like a handful of episodes of the anime I've watched a lot of the anime. It is one of my favorite Non like non narrative anime and it was all right, but it was sort of it was a little bit more disjointed and wacky Uh, then say ozamanga dial. It's one step more in feel in genre. I would say it's one step more zany than ozamanga dial But it also has didn't feel compelled to keep watching it even though watching it wasn't so bad I did but not in the sense of like watch every episode in order But more in the sense of I want to see something funny I'd pick literally a random episode and just watch it But anyway, uh, so I saw in the comic order form City volume one and it's like from the creator of nichi joe a new manga volume one buy it now and I'm like All right, I'll try that out see what the deal right? You know not an anime manga, right? We'll see what the deal is so I got city volume one and I also got city volume two But rim only read volume one I read both but I remember two way better than one because I read one a long time ago Yep, so the short the TLDR version is I really like it. I'm gonna read all of it Right, so it's weird So the best way I can describe it is it's like it's like a super cliche like you've seen all this before But it's crooked slightly so and it's also current right? It's like even though I feel like I've read These exact stories before I've seen all this these characters before and everything I haven't exact not exactly anyway. Oh other characters slightly different But what other manga anime coming out now is this kind of thing It's like in the past there. I feel like I feel like even though I hard time naming them right these kinds of stories But what were they? I think it's this and what coming out now is that kind of story? I guess like the genre it's it's slice of life crossed with Like a little more zany this than the real world, but not much more Yeah, because honestly like the level of things that happen in this comic Are about on par with the level of like things that I encounter living in new york city on a like weekly basis Yeah, all right, so the deal is right and his is where you'll see the cliches, right? There is a very poor She's my favorite character what nagamo. Yeah, I guess so it's hard to say there's a main character It's called it's called city because it's really about all these characters I think the main character is the creepy guy spying on everyone No, anyway, it's it's about all these different characters living in a city So it's sort of simpsons esque or there'll be like chapters that are about a character who's not the main one Yeah, but you start off focusing on this one character and that sort of is really the She's the driver for that first volume and it seems to get more focused than the others Uh, thus making her the main one, right? Yeah, even though it's not she's not as it goes on. She doesn't really get that much more focused, you know percentage-wise anyway um But yeah, so she is poor She can't afford to pay the rent and she's kind of like neutral evil Yeah, she's got to do some shenanigans to get rent money Uh, you know escapes her apartment and stuff when you know landlords all upset Right, you know, it's like you feel like you've seen that before right somewhere, right? Uh, and then there's all these other wacky characters around. There's the girl who keeps taking photos of stuff There's there's the cop. The cop who always stands at the booth There's the old lady who apparently knows Hokuto shinken, right? There's a restaurant where somehow she ends up with a job or the restaurant has like the dad Who's the cook and the son who I like how she didn't want to work there They didn't want to hire her and yet she ended up working there. Yep. Yep You know, it's like, oh, you know stuff like that, right? Uh, and then it's like on the one hand is like this thin line of like things developing like it actually Unlike nichijo, there is a narrative emerging slowly through this slice of life Right, even though each chapter is like completely episodic comedy situations that come Like there's a chapter in volume two That's about uh the the kid who works at the restaurant getting trapped in the mascot costume Yep. Yep as like a whole chapter, right? Even though this every chapter is like that There is sort of this thread of very slow progression We're like the character the connections between the characters are increasing and they know each other more because at the beginning They like don't know any even though they live in the same city. They have no Visible connection to the one guy is like wait, isn't that the restaurant that girl works at? Right is like they start discovering each other and learning about past connections to each other and developing current connections To each other and learning each other's names and you know creating a group And coming closer to each other sort of like that scene in snatch where all the cars crash into each other, right? It's through you can see that slowly happening and you can also see people like getting their shit together slowly, right? She's slowly Getting money and getting her shit together and they sort of hint at like, ah, this is her She actually has a talent and you know the photo girl You know gains a fan and the sea The one Nagamo like bus into her apartment and she's just like taking pictures of broccoli that she's arranged on the floor Yeah Pretty much if I I mean if I had to describe like the important point about this mark because it's great I like I think it's really funny and I like it it has impeccable comedic timing The way like even in terms of like what will be on the next page like it's so well crafted I laughed out loud Easily a dozen times reading volume one and I think the part like the best the most illustrative story in volume one about this Is when the dude at the restaurant the chef Spills the dish he was going to serve to this client. That's a very sign for that It is he spills this new these noodles Right, he's going to he's going to I think what he's going to give someone noodles to serve them And the guy's like drinking some wine so he doesn't like he's not notice He doesn't notice he spills the noodles into the guy's open bag on the ground and the guy doesn't notice Yeah, and the whole question is what does he do in this situation? And it is so utterly funny Like I can't even spoil it the last page of that arc Is a comedic triumph. Yeah, that's a good one But I don't know this is for everyone like I think I can't think of the person who wouldn't enjoy this comment person Even then it's just look at the pictures. It's funny the cold-hearted evil person. Oh, yeah I guess if someone's evil they would not enjoy this. Yeah, even then they might still think it's funny Sometimes I mean some evil people also read books and enjoy them. So it's possible I guess so But like I really I literally recommend this manga to anyone who's a fan of nichijo to anyone who's a fan of Autism Osamanga Dio To anyone who listens to geek nights Like I I I think this is great and I think you should check it out. So the the thing is the art is very Simple Right, it's like it's sort of like folk up for comp for panel yet the characters are all Instantly recognizable. I'm never confused as to who someone is Yeah, I mean it's sort of like the art is like if you ever read the Osamanga Dio manga Which was a four panel a four coma. They call it right It's better than that, but it's like you look at say Yotsuba Yotsuba is like elaborate compared to City, right? Yeah, so if you're looking for like fancy artworks, this is not it I think the important part is also if you're looking for length, this is not it either Like this reads and like two seconds like you buy this thing for what what does it cost? I have no idea what things cost It was it's not expensive, but it's like, you know Uh, see what it is to get it from the South American yep But it's low investment like it's easy to pick up and put down It's episodic enough to where it doesn't really matter like how quickly you read it You're not going to get sucked into some long crazy narrative. All right, so it's like it's like 12 13 dollars of volume, right? Uh, you're going to blow through that in like 15 minutes But also like a dollar a minute entertainment the dialogue like the way the carrot like especially Nagumo and the girl She's kind of mooching off of Their dialogue is actually pretty like realistic to how friends would interact Yeah, it's not, you know, it's they don't talk in any kind of weird way Yeah, but it's it's all everything's very natural reading a translation also, but I guess you know the translation totally I you forget that it's Japanese except you're reading right to left. Yeah, they're in a very Japanese city So i'm gonna read the rest of this if scott keeps buying it I'll just keep borrowing it from him and if he stops buying it. I might just buy the rest of it No, you're gonna spend your 13 dollars. Hey, I'll buy it on kindle Is it on kindle? Uh, let's see i'm on the amazon page. It is kindle and comicsology eight bucks Paperback 11 30. Oh, it's actually much cheaper to not buy the paper version. Maybe I'll buy the not paper version from now on Yeah, it seems like it's eight bucks of volume That's not bad. Yeah, comicsology and kindle. That's fine the art This is if you don't need this to be like full color right in the display to appreciate the art Yeah, no, it's not the art's good, but it's I don't need there were no color pages, right? I think none. Uh, there's a handful cover the cover wasn't there's the insert and there's a couple of little colors Oh, I mean if I read out my ipad, I'll see color anyway. Yeah, so what do I care? There's the bit in the beginning about the bird the irrelevant bird And even though the bird is irrelevant. Yeah, I keep seeing the bird on things Also, the one unexplained mystery I'm kind of invested in is In the police station you keep seeing in the background There's a picture of this like cobra looking snake and it's just like have you seen me I expect at some point that is checkoffs cobra and we're gonna see that cobra You're really noticing all the details. Yep, but the bird appeared a couple of times in the background too Well, I think that's what it is is like, you know, like I said before there's these connections building, right? So and it's you have all these individual episodes yet during those individual episodes There are small things happening being said characters seeing each other You know, I think there are some chapters We're like you see even though it's this you read one chapter And then you read the next chapter has nothing to do with the one previous But you can see that aha these character was there right near the character the other character Yeah, I was doing something at the same time It's like aha. They were in the same place in this small little city Right and even though they didn't see each other or talk to each other But they they show you that they were near each other at that exact moment in time these two events took place You know on the same exact street Right and that somehow, you know, maybe they bumped into each other if it didn't say anything or one person caused a thing that You know was it, you know, you see it like someone trips and falls But then in the second in the next chapter they show you ah that actually happened because of this Yep, and you didn't know it uses the fact that you see everything Like there's all this stuff around these statues and like one girl steals one to try to sell it But then it's like when she tries to sell it it's worth way too much money So she feels bad about stealing and she puts it back But then she breaks it someone else talks later about how like oh, yeah I've just been throwing those things away because like our friend my mom keeps sending them to us and I don't really care like There's a lot of jokes that are based on the fact that you know the true story Of the thing that all these all their people are interacting with So yeah, you should pick this up and read it and as someone in the stream asked This is not at all similar to dr. Slump. No dr. Slump is much more Simplistic humor Does not rely very much on timing and frankly I've read a lot of dr. Slump because I own it all Not actually that good. Well dr. Slump is made by the dragon ball guy. Yeah, Toriyama It's enjoyable, but it's not like I like gintama too. I think gintama is really funny. This is both very different from gintama and Objectively superior to gintama in terms of its comedy. I'd say the same thing. This is objectively comedically superior to dr. Slump. Yeah, I think the thing I like about the city the most is that it's sort of less Zany and ridiculous Right, even if you look, you know, it's not completely unzany But like, you know, nichijou is famous for like the goat wrestling Gif or whatever, right? Even I was among a diet. I was like chi ochan's dad where it's like, what the fuck Well, that's just a soccer dreaming right But I mean the point is is that there's none of that in city It's much more down to earth. Yep, you know, it's not 100 realistic But there's no like super things like the zaniness is literally like I said It is the level of zaniness that I actually for real encounter on a regular basis living in new york city So yeah, check this out. It's totally worth reading. All right. Good. I'm hungry. I'm also hungry All right The psp is broken That's a shame. All right. Sorry your bsp is broken