Ishtalks‪!‬ I.K. Stern

It's been a while since Season One ended, but here we are— stronger and better. Dan talks about what happened during his two year hiatus on his podcasting hobby.

Dan and Basil dive face first into the mind of the one and only “Passion Incarnate”, Nathaniel Tantay. He is a street magician, an amateur musician, a Youtuber and he also likes to stalk and creep girls he likes on Facebook regardless if they know him or not. Ishtalks takes a very cautious direction of this topic due to Nathaniel being silent and the sources which is all one-sided, as we need Yin Omega's own side after all. Is he suffering from delusions of grandeur? Grade 8 syndrome? Or he's just a first class a-hole? We'll find out.

In the second season of Ishtalks, Dan and a random barangay tanod from the infamous Smolbrain meme/support group share their experiences to each other and Basil as they uncover the seemingly peaceful group with deep, problematic secrets hidden inside, finally uncovered after they tried to cancel Dan themselves.

With a very special participation from last episode's ChibikiSenpai, episode 10 is a special one: Basil and Dan bawls out their scary stories, their childhood struggles, stories of trying to fit in and rejection.

Dan, Basil and ChibikiSenpai, our guest for this episode, provides an in-depth explanation, experiences and various dilemmas encountered by Filipino Otakus in our heavily conservative country.

Dan and his new co-host, the fabulous Basil Bacor, talks about rape culture and how it propagates, as well as Dan's lowkey career as an experimental musician, sprinkled on top with a dose of creepy stories from the Typhoon Yolanda aftermath. (Music: soundcloud.com/ishtak-khabarov-stern)