We stand on the precipice on the end of one of the best series of anime we have ever seen. It's been one heck of a ride. Thank you for joining us. Okay now that that's over let's ask a more important question: what the fuck is going on with Planetes dude??????
Episode 211: The Corin Nander Push
2021-11-17 20:22:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello and welcome to the beginning of the end of VoIP Life! In this one, we consider a life after podcasting, and then have a lengthy talk about movies, and then read a really bad list. The list has a lot of Code Geass spoilers so if you don't want to hear those I guess skip the last 15 minutes. Sorry about that. If we had known the list would b...
2021-11-15 05:37:04 +0000 UTC View Post
We're joined agin by Rick to fully diverge from the movie's plot and reach uncharted territory as we experience the wild Akira Volume 4.
2021-11-13 01:11:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Three from the end. I'm gonna miss this my friends. It's been an incredible ride, and we've been rewarded for our efforts: Harry Ord is wearing Starry Pajamas. And he keeps his sunglasses next to his bed. Does not stand up without them. This is the deep lore we've been asking for.
Episode 210: Harry Ord Had Hoes
2021-11-10 19:34:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Our reputation as cop fiction lovers takes a real beating this week as we watch one of the cornerstones of modern conservative fantasy and find it a real mess of a film. But hey, Andrew Robinson is good! Also, enjoy the talk of a half dozen other films that worm their way into this conversation, including a lengthy remembrance of the Rocky franc...
2021-11-09 00:31:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Recorded on the weekend from hell, we bring you a tired but good spirited discussion of all the news that's fit to print. Definitely didn't run out of steam 10 minutes in. No sir. Never. We're PROFESSIONALS
2021-11-04 21:37:45 +0000 UTC View Post
We're fucking in it now. It's all kicking off. Full sprint through the next few weeks this is true Gundam.
This episode's Gundam discussion features spoilers for both Ideon and the final Evangelion Rebuild movie.
Episode 209: Impossible To Have Several Points Of Contact With Hachimaki
2021-11-03 20:25:21 +0000 UTC View Post
We are joined again by Rick to continue our journey through Akira! Episode 50 ended up being a particularly short episode because not a lot of meaty stuff happens in this volume but it sure ends on some incredible panels to remind us just how good Otomo is at this shit. 2021-10-31 20:40:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Today we're joined by friend of the show Dre, to talk about some fuckin incredible episodes of Gundam. I'm so sad we're so close to the end of this show. It should have run for 500 episodes.
Episode 208: Triple Big Face
2021-10-27 04:09:34 +0000 UTC View Post
We're back in the booth for a surprise recording, but it turns out even with a month off there isn't that much going on with everyone settling into a new normal. Lots of talk about ereaders and books, video game navel gazing about Square and Nintendo, and of course the podcasts that have left us with nothing but memories.
2021-10-21 13:15:35 +0000 UTC View Post
WE'RE ON THE MOOOOOOON. It's moon time. This is what we've been waiting for. Meanwhile, in Planetes, all semblance of logical and consistent storytelling has left the building and we are in uncharted territory now.
Episode 207: Rap Game Duchy Samples
2021-10-20 20:14:41 +0000 UTC View Post
We're joined by Rick again to read volume 2 of Akira! Less dense this time but we still have some truly incredible action scenes to read. Last time went long but this is the range you should expect the Akira episodes to be in. Quick check ins on fantastic manga.
2021-10-20 01:25:46 +0000 UTC View Post
We're back! Not even slightly refreshed from our week off, we return to enjoy some classic Gundam space bullshit, and get really annoyed at a very bad romance plot between two deeply immature protagonists.
Episode 206: Good Ol' Harry Ord.
2021-10-13 16:20:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Shout out to Autumn (@autumnal_coffee) for coming by to talk about movie rankings, Batman, age gaps, and more. Also we sit down and have a big talk about Naruto, because Jackson finished it and all three of us like it! The first 35 minutes or so are all other things, but once it's Naruto, it basically is just that for the rest of the episode.
In this long and tangential Block Busters, we talk about depictions of mental illness and disability and care for both in cinema, but also talk about a bunch of bullshit besides including box office, what makes a movie star, and our favorite Will Smith films. Please enjoy!
Next time: Dirty Harry
We are joind again by Austin Ramsay to talk about the second half of Gurren Lagann! We jump off from a show we didn't like much at all to talk about the limits of anime storytelling generally, the things we're looking for from these stories, and the way we approach stories in t...
2021-10-03 18:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Planetes is good again!! At last, we can stop complaining about one of the shows on our podcast and just enjoy some god damn anime.
Also: we're taking a week off next week. There will be a bunch of other content though, so look out for it. That's our version of time off.
Episode 205: Bring Joseph To Space Change.Org Petition 2021-09-29 18:21:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Today we are joined by Hannah to talk about Makoto Shinkai's Weathering With You, a fascinatingly awful movie about one of the nastiest little freaks anime has ever seen. And we're here to pour over every ideologically loaded second of it. It's truly wild.
2021-09-26 03:35:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Finally some good news! We're on the cusp of Em returning to work, so we're trying desperately to get all our ducks in a row so none of our podcasts are delayed as we go back to the kind of schedule we haven't had since Covid hit. It's ... going okay. Also discussed: movie watching, ebooks, and trying to make a new PlayStation All Stars game ros...
2021-09-22 22:17:42 +0000 UTC View Post
There are multiple episodes of pretty good anime to talk about this week but that's not what matters. Nobody cares. What matters is Pokemon. We have some opinions about Pokemon.
Episode 204: Going To The Pineco, Want Anything?
2021-09-22 08:58:15 +0000 UTC View Post
We're joined by Red today to watch the recent cult classic to a tragically small cult made up of about fifteen of people I am friends with on twitter. It's Granbelm, the Mecha/Magical Girl show from a couple years ago, which turns out to be a delightful surprise!
2021-09-20 00:37:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Turn A continues to walk the knife's edge of being a series about topics I would never trust any anime to handle, yet being better about handling those topics than even prior Gundam or Tomino shows, while Planetes. We need to have a word. We gotta have a talk. Buddy.
2021-09-15 17:02:59 +0000 UTC View Post
This one gets a little heated! We have much to say about the very stupid time that we still live in: the long shadow of Post-9/11. We didn't mean to schedule this so close to the anniversary, so consider it an eerie coincidence if you choose to believe in such things.
NEXT TIME: Rain Man
2021-09-14 03:42:08 +0000 UTC View Post
This Voip Life is brought to you entirely by courtesy of Camille, who has made maybe our most incredible quiz of all time. I cannot thank her enough.
One important warning. You have to be nice to me. You HAVE to be nice to me. I say things in this episode that are so embarassing they will stay with me to my grave. And you have to be nice t...
2021-09-10 19:19:39 +0000 UTC View Post
These summaries are hard. They've been hard all season. The show is just good every week what the fuck do you want from me. We are living in a golden age of Gundam and every time I see the sunset I get the bittersweet feeling that these times will not come again. Planetes, however, is a different story.
Episode 202: Harry Ord's MAL Profile...
2021-09-08 20:15:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Today we’re joined again by Rick for a slightly different kind of Beach House. This year we’ve been trying to transition away from splitting up our series so much, hoping to eventually be covering most anime in one episode. So of course we immediately have two experiments diverging from that simple goal. Last time was half a Toku show and I ...
2021-09-07 01:05:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Austin and Jackson have both recorded podcasts about Eva in the last week (check out the Waypoint+ one hitting today) and yet come into this episode with lingering complaints about the ending. Skip to 25:30 if you want to avoid those spoilers.
After that though? Holy shit dude. Turn A Gundam. It's just unfair how good this show is.
E...
2021-09-01 20:01:10 +0000 UTC View Post
We're joined once again by Nick to talk about the first 28 episodes of Kamen Rider OOO, Beach House's inaugral Toku episode. We were a little unsure at the start how covering toku would turn out for our format but came out the other side feeling great. I think this is a fantastic episode, I hope you enjoy!
2021-08-31 23:26:28 +0000 UTC View Post
We bring you a podcast today that riffs on some of the ideas from GGP 200 and the Q&A episode of Just King Things but in typical fashion spins out into some introspection, fear, and thinking about working online. It's fun, I promise!
FF8 spoilers go from when I warn people in the pod until around 25:05, but we talk about the ...
Turn A continues its unbroken string of bangers as we start a new backup show! Plus, your emails about The Big O are answered on this very podcast.
Episode 200: Existential Ryckert
2021-08-25 17:47:00 +0000 UTC View Post