Pop Culture and Life, Narrated in Pieces
For the final podcast for 2020, I talked about “Saekano the Movie: Finale” with Anime Corner‘s Marlo Barcellano.
Marlo, who has seen the movie already way ahead of us, joins me for a brief discussion on what makes Saekano special, including our best moments from the movie.
Did I mention that Marlo has watched this movie when he was at C3AFA Singapore 2019, when Aniplus had a screening there? Lucky him.
Listen to this podcast episode now:
Just after we launched the first podcast episode syndicated on both Anchor.fm and YouTube, let’s have a recap of all the episodes (posted and upcoming) for the months of July and August.
On this episode, we look back at our third Twitch live with cosplayers Ai Natsumi, Mais Semblante and Diane Marie Sabandeja as we talk about their lives on and off their cosplay careers. Gary Montejo co-hosts this discussion from his home base in Cebu.
This is the audio version of the recently-finished Twitch stream with highlights already on YouTube.
While there’s definitely technical issues on Ai’s side, much to the disappointment of fellow mongrels who are very much active during the stream, I look forward to the installation of more infrastructure before this year ends so that we can have her back.
We take a look back at the successful Cebu Hobby Events Organizers’ Roundtable held last May 30, featuring Max Qman Maquiling of UNITY Productions and Cebu Esports United, Jomar Joshua of Otakufest, Joshua Varela of Toys and Figures Convention Cebu and Jolu Escaño of ARCHcon Cebu. Journalist Red Mendoza moderated this panel discussion from his home base in Quezon City.
Following the successful Twitch steam, I sought Gary’s help to get in touch with Cebu’s hobby events organizers, and I’m really happy with the output. This is the audio version of the successful event, and I hope for an encore as things have changed drastically.
Just before we reach 80 episodes, I decided it will be the best for the podcast to have its video version – almost everyone’s in it these days. Now that the podcast has a face to show on video, we are introducing our first guest for this month’s lineup. Prior to serving real estate clients with her digital marketing skills, most of you may have known Jasteanne Benito as the cosplayer Loli-J. On this episode, we will take a few pages from her book and share to us her life and the lessons she learned along the way.
The moment Jasteanne posted her online course certificate, I thought of guesting her already, so here we go. She’s an example of people in small businesses who are going big in their respective fields. Watch us on YouTube.
For our episode this month, we are joined by wotagei player Hinootora for a discussion on her wotagei journey (including her brief journey on how she got scouted by her current team Senkou Wotagei Dan), as well as her past accolade (whom she credits to our iM@S PH seniors Lor and Louie).
It took quite a while until I got to record an episode with one of the few ladies in the Philippines’ wotagei community. Looking forward to have another wotageishi in the future podcast episodes.
You can listen to keepsakes.: The Podcast on Anchor, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcast, or wherever you listen to.
Subscribe on YouTube as well, as we are catching up on uploading the rest of the podcast episodes.
It’s been two years since I started podcasting again. Honestly, there are a lots of hits and misses, but I am getting the hang of the basics.
I had my podcast start around 2009, a decade ago, when I decided to make good use of the MP3 player I got as a gift from my mom, whipped up Audacity, and upload audio on the Internet Archive under the name JP Angeles (which I consider a good name at that time). Be aware that I got some good ol’ cringy stuff here.
I consider myself as an early adopter of podcasting in the country, listening to GeekNights, TWiT and the like. This was at a time where Tek Tok was a podcast and not a segment on the then Global News Network of GSat.
Podcasting actually led me to meet Al, which led me to do podcast projects with him before – some of which are on the Internet Archive as well. (Those close to me have probably heard me say that after our stint with Deremoe where we made good stuff, we decided to move to our own lives.)
Way back then, podcasting is a term I associate with audio, and my appropriate term for video podcasts is vodcast. Vlogging was not that popular as a term, and only a few networks are doing such.
Nowadays, there’s no such thing as vodcasts, only vlogs and podcasts. Yep, I had a beef with podcasters only having a YouTube channel as a platform, because to me, the only thing that considers your show as a podcast is having an actual Libsyn/Podomatic/Soundcloud/Anchor/Spotify page with all of the episodes on audio only.
Until I remember that TWiT had enough resources to have its own iTunes Video podcast feeds.
You know, maybe I was wrong. Maybe I am too outdated with the trend. What year is it again? 2019. Good.
My first podcast recorded March 15th (re-uploaded September 6 months after) was just done using a smartphone, inside a quiet room. 60 episodes after, I’d be using a lapel mic for most of the time, and will be editing the tracks on Vegas. Five days after, I said “my target is 10 podcast episodes per month.” Joke’s on me, that was a goal that I can achieve if not for the busy day job.
I then settled for a two-episode-per-month schedule, which works fine except that there are hits and misses, which should be normal considering that this is a podcast set at a minimum of 30 minutes per episode. All I need to do is to beef up the way I spread the latest episodes online, as well as make good audio for each of them.
What got me back into podcasting are Ellie Nogami and Gary Vaynerchuk. Ellie hosts Idle Talks which is streamed on YouTube for the vampire social club audience (aka the ones who stay up late to listen to, sometimes, idol tea) while Gary is the real talk kind of person, dishing out stuff that convinces people to move their asses and start doing.
Gary shares a 2016 Nielsen study stating that podcasting received a 76% growth year-on-year. Top this off with the rise of home appliances such as Amazon Alexa and Google Home and how it raked in 600,000 more listeners PLUS the acquisition of Anchor (my podcast platform) by Spotify this year.
The signals are here – it’s a good time to start a podcast. Even former radio broadcasters are starting their own.
Just this week I was at a Podcast Network Asia meetup at Launchpad (right beside 5 Media Center which means by correlation I can safely say that I finally got my foot on 5’s HQ). Tony Toni, Delamar and Stan Sy are the names I recognize the most.
I loved their stories about their radio careers, but as soon as Tony Toni said the magic phrases, I was saddened but not surprised: There’s no money on radio if you’re not one of the top DJs, and there’s only a few DJs in town.
Understandable, considering that I listen to stations that offer less talk and more music. Wait – I’m actually part of the problem, or rather, was I conditioned to understand that this is the new normal?
So yeah, I’m aware that we have three podcast networks in the country, namely PumaPodcast (literally “podcasting”), Cut Print Podcast and Podcast Network Asia.
PumaPodcast already makes waves, and as I mentioned earlier, Podcast Network Asia is more into creating a community. As for Cut Print Podcast, I have yet to listen to their Creepsilog podcast series.