99 - On Fan Service: From Food Wars and Fire Force to The Idol and Hannibal

FAN SERVICE EPISODE!

 

 

 

JDO gets a business call from a bill collector, the city mafia, dumb money bullshit, living close to the bone, decision to steal, Robin Hood of Water, the cost of living has got people feeling down, The Idol, why does everyone hate this show?, what’s the criteria for “earning trashiness”?, getting opinions from Twitter, caring about tabloids, engaging with the backstory of art, sublimating the urge to do something with dumb shit, Vikings fans, Shinya Tsukamoto’s way of running a movie set, hiding old episodes, Hannibal lovefest, reaching your limits with gore, hating food sex, searching for the secret heart, music video style, agreeing to disagree, the monotone style of Succession, what is bad acting?, turning vocal chords into catgut violin strings, the many emotions of Mads Mikkelsen, Pusher II, Otaku: Database Animals, Beautiful Fighting Girls, and do otaku have a sexuality?

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Fan service talk, different approaches to possession of work, management vs. embodiment, taking canon into your own hands, otakus as the zoomers of 90s japan, catgirls, a new type of queerness, being gay for your wife, Fire Force, spontaneous combustion, demon kids, big titties, shower rooms as safe zones, are girls bothered by any of this?, shirtless Jason Statham, alpha vs. beta responses, Food Wars, orgasming while eating, camel toe clenching, food hentai, great gifts from the wife, Dandadan, Turbo Granny, father and son chefs, self-editing writers, the alchemy of fun, the spontaneous nature of anime, passively reading hypersexual material, nerds who don’t fuck, Basic Instinct, what fantasy readers like, what people get out of art, wabi-sabi, Kima’s marker, John Scalzi’s Kaiju Preservation Society, red shirts, Joss Whedon style, The Oatmeal, an excerpt from KPS, Twitter hates Scalzi, The Sound and the Fury, not dismissing things you don’t care for, talking in memes, fast pacing, beer goggles, writing like Reddit, getting drunk and telling famous authors they suck, the Black Person Name Dictionary, the utility of having characters look at each other, grinning twice, a Snow Crash / Frozen joke, different humor life paths, ass booty writers, readers don’t pretend, giving readers a gift, having a nuanced opinion, figuring out why people like dumb shit, fulfilling a purpose, shopping for wives, reverse Christmas, figuring shit out live on the podcast, the urge to destroy art, I Am a Virgo, ordering shit on Amazon, alt-lit as the mumblecore of books, trips to the post office, and wives who put up with us.