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Hi everyone, Em here basically a week late with the patreon letter this time. Apologies, our goal in 2020 is that we are never ...
2020-01-18 16:48:50 +0000 UTC View Post
I'd like to both thank and apologise to our patron Ryan for suggesting this episode: it turns out it's a bit of a short one because this is a weeeeird show and our thoughts are as disconnected and confused as the source material. But we do our best and I think the podcast is alright so gather round and enjoy the anime!
2020-01-17 19:11:06 +0000 UTC View Post
This week on Voip Life: a whole two hour discussion about films and film criticism! I think this one is great, and please enjoy the bumper voip life.
2020-01-16 17:21:20 +0000 UTC View Post
On this episode of GGP: G Gundam happens, I suppose, but the real event is this: Stand Alone Complex begins today. We talk about the first two episodes of the 2002 Ghost in the Shell series, and our final VOTOMs segment ever unless takahashi decides to make more. Which he doesn't have to, he's a hero, and has already made the best mech show.
... 2020-01-15 03:02:17 +0000 UTC View Post
The G-Gundam up and down continues as we finish our Patlabor journey with a movie that few people like and even less have an opinion on in any form. Next week, however, we begin Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex so please be ready if you are watching along!
Episode 121: Mister Asia
2020-01-08 02:44:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Oh fuck it's a new decade. That's a bit weird.
Hello everyone, it's Jackson here with a patreon letter!
So this week I was going to write a letter about VOTOMs - the greatest mech anime ever made - and how Takahashi's approach to metaphor within the genre contrasts nicely with Tomino's. It would have been a great...
2020-01-06 20:11:28 +0000 UTC View Post
On the final Voip Life of the year we have some goals for the next year, some questions from the discord, and a fair bit of Real Talk.
2020-01-03 18:45:44 +0000 UTC View Post
It is with a heavy heart that we must announce that Gundam and Patlabor are both bad this week, as we bring the new year in together. Press F to pay respects and let us hope we can change the future.
Episode 120: A Very Tankie Mech
2020-01-01 19:41:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello friends, Em here with the last letter of the year. It's sure been a hell of a year for us, and probably for most of you too. Seems like things will never get better, and at least for me it's very easy to fall into a despairing state of mind when the world continues to subject us to tragedies and aggressions of all shapes and sizes. 2019-12-29 18:57:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Merry Christmas! It's Gundam Time, and while G Gundam continues unabated we are also here to talk about Patlabor The Movie, the first Patlabor film and we could not be more excited to dig into it.
I hope you all have a fantastic Christmas, and I hope you enjoy the podcast!
Episode 119: Joker's Trick
2019-12-25 02:13:12 +0000 UTC View Post
We couldn’t get enough of everyone’s favorite cultural imperialism, actual space colonialism mecha franchise, so we sat down this unseasonably warm Christmas Eve to talk about both the OVA and movie versions of Macross Plus! This one is not dedicated to all pioneers, but is for everyone who ever thought maybe masculinity is actually toxic, m...
2019-12-24 07:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
For this episode of Your Uncle's Beach House, we talk about the 2006 Ryosuke Takahashi anime, FLAG. Thank you to patron and friend Roza for picking out this one, I think it's one of the best discussions we've had about a really interesting show.
2019-12-23 22:40:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Voip life is here! This was recorded on UK Election Night so to distract from things sucking we dive into the question bucket (em's curiouscat) and tackle the topics that we find.
2019-12-19 19:46:25 +0000 UTC View Post
This week on the Great Gundam Project G Gundam continues its streak of being legitimately great when the plot is happening, and we watch a very strange finale to Patlabor's early days OVA.
Episode 118: Nudist Beach House
2019-12-17 21:04:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey folks,
Jackson here with the long awaited and extremely underwhelming Death Stranding letter. Long awaited because I’ve had some form of notes on this game on the hard drive for over a month, and underwhelming because I haven’t really been able to cohere them into a strong piece. And ultimately, I’ll get the reason for that out t...
2019-12-17 04:46:24 +0000 UTC View Post
This week G Gundam brings the plot to us and gives us two of its best episodes! They're not deep, but they're good fun, and really what more can we ask for. Meanwhile, Patlabor's pulling into its endgame firing on all cylinders. The anime is good on this day and for this we give thanks.
UC GUNDAM SPOILERS AT
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As an apology for the Letter Situation, this Voip Life is avaliable for all $5 patrons as well as the usual tiers! Today we are watching Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace and doing a light commentary over it; we're not really riffing on it just using it for actual conversation as we talk over and occasionally watch the movie. People seemed...
2019-12-06 15:33:05 +0000 UTC View Post
On this week's Great Gundam Project we are joined by Olivia (@greatgrebe) to talk about two of the better episodes of G Gundam that we've seen thus far, and definitely the best Patlabor we have seen thus for. Come on in, and enjoy the anime.
Episode 116: Beware The Kass...
2019-12-04 10:31:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey!
Jackson here with a quick Patreon letter. The schedule has kinda fallen apart for this year with the increases Beach Houses and some real intense bad brain shit nd I feel awful about it. I've been promising the Death Stranding letter for what feels like a decade, and it's still coming, I've just kinda psyched myself up about it and am...
2019-12-02 21:05:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi friends, Em here finally with a new letter. If you've been listening to the podcasts you know life has been kind of difficult the last few weeks, so these letters have been difficult to produce when I'm barely keeping up with my day job and the podca...
2019-11-30 21:46:14 +0000 UTC View Post
This week on GGP we are joined by Autumn (@Alison_Coffee) to talk about two episodes of G Gundam and one episode of Patlabor! With a guest, we're slightly looser about UC discussion in this episode than we have been for prior G Gundam episodes, but specifically the big dang...
2019-11-26 15:09:20 +0000 UTC View Post
This time on Your Uncle’s Beach House we are joined by our wonderful patron timeandpatience to talk about The Eccentric Family. The show was excellent, I think our discussion was good, and it was earnestly lovely to have someone so knowledgeable about anime on the podcast to remind us both that we’re very new to this. Thank you ...
2019-11-25 20:35:33 +0000 UTC View Post
After two weeks of Big Gimmick Voip Lifes we return to our regularly scheduled, regularly priced material of talking about Star Wars and talking about Metal Gear. All is as it should be on this earth.
2019-11-22 19:48:17 +0000 UTC View Post
When does G Gundam get good? Episode 6. When does G Gundam get bad again? Episode 7. Truly this is a roller coaster for the ages and we're only three weeks in.
Episode 114: Domon Needs To Go To Jupiter
2019-11-13 03:57:04 +0000 UTC View Post
For this week's Voip Life we are doing a bracket of ALL the UC characters we have encountered in gundam thus far! It is a 128 entrant bracket and if you want to be spoiled on the answers then you can find a record of our choicesat challonge.com/GGP2019.
Because this is Gundam Content, i did not feel right charging the $10 for it, so it's a...
2019-11-08 00:23:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Your Uncle’s Beach House Returns! Today we are joined by patron Justin, to talk about the 1993 Western Cartoon: Exosquad. An intentional response to anime from a world right before they just started bringing a bunch of shows over, we dig into the ups and downs of a very ambituous show!
2019-11-07 23:45:27 +0000 UTC View Post
It's a bit of a down week here at GGP with both mech shows disappointing us in one way or another, but the takes are good, the energy is good, and the gundam train never stops.
Next week! We will be doing three episodes of G Gundam to make up for the odd number, so that's 5, 6 and 7 for next week if you're following along at home! 2019-11-06 00:02:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone, Em here today with a new letter! Sorry it's a week late, I'm hopefully going to be on time next week! Things are, as always, busy here at Abnormal Mapping. I'd say it'll get better but it absolutely will remain busy at least through the end...
2019-11-03 14:47:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Gundam is dead, long live Gundam. It's our first episode after Victory brought the Universal Century to a close for a long while, and we are ready to dive into the AUs. First on our plate is G Gundam, the show where Gundam is a shonen battle tournament, which is in theory about as far from Tomino as you can get. Or is it? That's what we are here...
2019-10-30 01:54:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Content Warning: explicit discussion of sexual assault and an attempted rape scene.
Spoiler Warning: Royal Space Force: The Wigns of Honnêamise
Hey, folks!
Jackson here with the Patreon Letter. Em took a doctor approved week off, it's been a rea...
2019-10-27 22:25:37 +0000 UTC View Post