Pondering Pootan with Ajishio Taro & Hachimitsu Boy

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Connor and Niamh read through Cromartie High School at the same pace it was published in Weekly Shōnen Magazine.

  1. 5d ago

    Chapter 240: Telephone

    Hi, you're listening to Pondering Pootan They're so hard that By the conservation of hardness in the universe You won't have any hardness left for your computer drive Support the network at exportaud.io! Our schedule: exportaud.io/pootanschedule Pondering Pootan RSS: exportaud.io/pootan Ghost Divers RSS: exportaud.io/ghostdivers The Show: @pootan.exportaud.io Niamh: @foxmomnia.exportaud.io Connor: @rabbleais.exportaud.io OP: “Ningen nante” by Yoshida Takuro ED: “Hygiaphone” by Téléphone

  2. Sep 23

    Chapter 239: Girls on Film

    As the largest dragon theme trade show in the Western Hemisphere, Dragon Con draws the slayers, riders, and spellcasters of the draconic arts together to connect, be inspired, and find new solutions. Read about some of our visitors below! MEET CRYSTAL BALLEN AND GEOFFREY TIEDRAKEN CASTING TIME MAGICK Geoffrey Tiedraken and Crystal Ballen feel right at home in the Western Shoals’ fast-paced innovation scene. Drawing on practical experience and a collaborative approach, they bring new ideas to life by casting time manipulation incantations for startups and wizarding associations. They have enchanted timepieces for just about any industry, from astral projections to the deepest abysses of the Chthonia to the deepest unknown parts of our minds’ eyes. Their mentors include former Arcanedesk CEO Karll Ba’as, Tomas Knighton of the Oxen Blood Oath astral ley lines, and The Horrid Scourge and His Despicable Henchman of NecronX. Tiedraken has been on Discovery Ley Line’s “Dragon Rider Build-Off,” has enchanted artifacts for alchemical reactors, and has even taught people to spellcast who now oversee large-scale alchemical transmutation operations. Ballen learned how to seer using crystals for fun, spent years building a giant obelisk to harvest the energy of the wind god, went sailing in the Forgotten Seas on the Edge of the World on a 1934 wooden sailboat, and loves to fly on dragonback. Let's just say dinner conversations with the pair are never dull, and you don't want to miss their karaoke parties at Dragon Con. For the caster-enchanter-seer-rider-life-partners, one adventure unfolds after another as they bend the will of world-leading innovators. And their base of operations is Casting Time Magick, an atelier they own in the Saint Francis Shoal District. “Casting Time Magick is all about irrevocably altering the passage of time in the past, present, and future to bring into being something that's never existed before,” says Tiedraken. “We work very early with the guilds in the beginning phases of startups. Most of the time, they don't even have investment coinage from a wealthy benefactor yet. Sometimes it's just a sketch on a piece of paper or an idea in a meeting – there aren't even people in the guilds yet to do magick pattern inscriptions or simulacra. We help bring their idea from concept to reality for all levels.” The pair must be flexible and resourceful to match the dynamic, fast-moving nature of the startups and wizarding associations they count as clients. That agility often means wearing different hats. At Casting Time Magicks, “I get to do a bit of everything around the atelier,” says Ballen. “Summoning on the Marquis Marchosias and Ba’al sigils, encantation, casting on the Oriax staff, artifact wielding, and soul binding.” Support the network at exportaud.io! Our schedule: exportaud.io/pootanschedule Pondering Pootan RSS: exportaud.io/pootan Ghost Divers RSS: exportaud.io/ghostdivers The Show: @pootan.exportaud.io Niamh: @foxmomnia.exportaud.io Connor: @rabbleais.exportaud.io OP: “Ningen nante” by Yoshida Takuro ED: “Girls on Film” by Duran Duran

  3. Sep 16

    Volume 11 Supplementary Material

    "What is wrong with these two?" That's the question that kept popping up as I listened to Pondering Pootan with Ajishio Taro & Hachimitsu Boy. Connor and Niamh are constantly challenging the listener to accept increasingly implausible scenarios and situations in a slapstick kind of way. They must have been improv comedians in a past life. As you start the show, there is a tongue-in-cheek timeline history of the Export Audio Network followed by the idealistic boastful lyrics of the "Ningen nante" theme song. I had put off listening to Pondering Pootan because of the cover. It is a close-up of 16-year-old Noboru Yamagushi holding up a manga volume. A dull black and white image of pixelated book covers occupy the topmost frame. Naturally I deduced Pootan was your usual run-of-the-mill manga podcast where guys talk about boring Shonen Jump series and argue about who is the strongest. If anything, the show is actually more of a parody of the genre and pokes fun at foolish readers. Trying to be supportive of a buddy and to prove that one can record about anything, good guy Connor agrees to read Cromartie High School one week at a time. Yet he's not the only one as Niamh mischievously introduces additional fish-out-of-the-water situations, each more outlandish than the previous. Connor does his best to adapt. Through his good fortune and the incredible stupidity of their bits, he manages to survive and even to become more comfortable with podcasting If you're feeling a bit down in the dumps, download a n episode of Pondering Pootan to remind yourself not to take life too seriously. Give the show a chance, though it may not seem that you would like it at first glance. Support the network at exportaud.io! Our schedule: exportaud.io/pootanschedule Pondering Pootan RSS: exportaud.io/pootan Ghost Divers RSS: exportaud.io/ghostdivers The Show: @pootan.exportaud.io Niamh: @foxmomnia.exportaud.io Connor: @rabbleais.exportaud.io OP: “Ningen nante” by Yoshida Takuro ED: "Nautical Dub" by Porter Ricks

  4. Sep 9

    Chapter 238: You Can't Hurry Love

    The friend of a romantic partner, or the romantic partner of a friend, are called the same names as romantic partners (girl-/boy-/enbyfriend, g-/bf, etc.) with the prefix great- added, with an additional great- added for each additional layer of separation. One's great-girlfriend's boyfriend would be "great-great-boyfriend". To avoid a proliferation of "greats" when discussing friend groups, one may also use ordinals instead of multiple "greats"; thus a "great-great-boyfriend" would be the "second great-boyfriend", and a "great-great-great-boyfriend" would be a third great-boyfriend, and so on. One may also use cardinal numbers for numbering greats, for example, great-great-great-girlfriend becomes 3×-great-girlfriend. Individuals who share the same great-romantic partners but are not romantic partners or friends themselves are "second pootans" to each other, as second pootans have girlfriends or boyfriends who are friends. Similarly, "third pootans" would have great romantic-partners who are dating, and "fourth pootans" would have great-great-romantic-partners who are friends. Support the network at exportaud.io! Our schedule: exportaud.io/pootanschedule Pondering Pootan RSS: exportaud.io/pootan Ghost Divers RSS: exportaud.io/ghostdivers The Show: @pootan.exportaud.io Niamh: @foxmomnia.exportaud.io Connor: @rabbleais.exportaud.io OP: “Ningen nante” by Yoshida Takuro ED: “You Can't Hurry Love” by the Supremes

  5. Sep 2

    Chapter 237: Living On The Midnight

    First thing I remember finding Was a lonesome pestle grinding And the youngest dream of growing up to joke... But that's another song and another story, but it was a suribachi much the same as that that caused some worrisome years for my mama, and started a lifelong love affair with comedy. Every time I hear the sound of some seeds Clatt'ring down those mortar's grooves I get that faraway look in my eye And I'd like to throw my costume down And take off to become a clown And not even take the time to say goodbye I've got to think about my lackeys About my school and my old lady And how much she'd miss me if I was gone And I love them more than anything But I got this feeling near by seeds And sometimes I wish I was grinding paste and gone That seeds keeps a-grinding in the bowl Making my old memories whole Making tahini boil in my veins Reviving my old love affair with Pootan... Support the network at exportaud.io! Our schedule: exportaud.io/pootanschedule Pondering Pootan RSS: exportaud.io/pootan Ghost Divers RSS: exportaud.io/ghostdivers The Show: @pootan.exportaud.io Niamh: @foxmomnia.exportaud.io Connor: @rabbleais.exportaud.io OP: “Ningen nante” by Yoshida Takuro ED: “Just” by Radiohead

  6. Aug 26

    Chapters 235 & 236: House on Fire & Doors

    Dear Connor and Midge. It’s 10:00pm on the 18th of August 2026 just 28 short minutes after you’d finished mixing the audio. The podcast is complete and ready for podcatchers all over the world. At least two people were responsible for making this episode: they gave us their time and their expertise. For this we shall be always grateful. Our thanks too to the following for giving us the tools to do the job: Pootanist International Opensesame Soundwaves Freddie Mercury ADV Manga Ltd Sound Dampening Services Mechazawa Records Polygram Pod Cast Polygram Cast Lackey Studios Apesquest AKA Maeda Labs Amy Gara Faltz and… anyone we’ve forgotten! It’s time we went to bed too. Thanks for giving us the chance to do this for you. Merry Christmas FEED THE GORILLAS Niamh, Dave and Rob. Support the network at exportaud.io! Our schedule: exportaud.io/pootanschedule Pondering Pootan RSS: exportaud.io/pootan Ghost Divers RSS: exportaud.io/ghostdivers The Show: @pootan.exportaud.io Niamh: @foxmomnia.exportaud.io Connor: @rabbleais.exportaud.io OP: “Ningen nante” by Yoshida Takuro ED: “House on Fire” by the Boomtown Rats

  7. Aug 19

    Chapter 234: I'm An Eggman

    The rules in the village are simple. When you reach the age of 70, you must go up to the top of the Upper Peninsula and wait there until you die. “The Ballad of the UP” is about an old woman whose time has almost arrived, and who is determined to take care of her family’s unfinished business before she goes to the ore docks. Most of that business concerns feeding her sons. Stated that simply, “The Ballad of the UP” sounds like humanism crossed with anthropology, sort of a “Woman in the Dunes” (1964) about death. But this movie is much more passionate than I’ve made it sound: darker, bloodier, more fearsome. It was directed by Eiji Nonaka, whose works deal with the ways we pass laws to govern our deepest impulses, and then are driven to break those laws. We see a poor village in along the shores of Lake Superior, many years ago. It is a beautiful setting, a postcard, but life is raw and hard. The people work the mines in their bare feet, breaking the land and find only enough taconite to barely feed themselves. Everybody knows everybody else’s business. That is particularly true of the old mother of the most important family. She is tireless, stubborn, willful. She wants to feed her sons. Meanwhile, the son, a universally scorned and hapless man known as the “stinker,” creeps about the village, eavesdropping. The final passages of the film have the oldest son taking his old mother up to the ore dock. She is not sick and she is not about to die, but she is a woman of great determination and she demands to go to the ore dock, but only after one final request: That he eat 40 hardboiled eggs she has painstakenly prepared for him to feed him, and that he eat them all in under 10 minutes so they won't be late for her birthday trip. “The Ballad of the UP” won the grand prize at Cannes, but it’s not the sort of film that becomes a hit, even on the art film circuit. It’s too introspective, too unblinking in the face of cruelty, too “Yooper.” That makes it all the more a fascinating experience. Support the network at exportaud.io! Our schedule: exportaud.io/pootanschedule Pondering Pootan RSS: exportaud.io/pootan Ghost Divers RSS: exportaud.io/ghostdivers The Show: @pootan.exportaud.io Niamh: @foxmomnia.exportaud.io Connor: @rabbleais.exportaud.io OP: “Ningen nante” by Yoshida Takuro ED: “I Am The Walrus” by the Beatles

  8. Aug 12

    Chapter 233: Need Your Love

    Hi Ajishio Taro and Hachimistu Boy, Imagine a world where horse are made of wood, but also could be filled with gold. Or just soldiers. Always, always soldiers. That’s the terrifying premise behind The Odyssey, a serialized epic from auteur Homer brought to the screen by visionary director Christopher Nolan, whose work blends supernatural terror, emotional devastation, and morally complex characters across a massive twenty-four-scroll story world. With allusions from the forgotten poets of antiquity, The Odyssey is the perfect thriller for fans of The Lord of the Rings, The Dark Tower, Where the Wild Things Are, and The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Bram Stoker-nominated author Maeda Akira said the series will “scare you, disgust and horrify you, and utterly break you.” Would you be open to having Christopher Nolan on your show? Nolan can discuss: The unraveling of social structure and sanity in an ancient universe How he shaped a sprawling filmic epic over many years The challenges and advantages of adapting twenty-four scrolls The evolution of serialized epic into an omnibus format Directing flawed, morally complex actors in extreme situations The influence of classical philosophy vs. modern filmic storytelling Not anything related to the political activities happening on the land where he filmed his adaptation, please do not asking him anything about that, if you do we will have to end the interview immediately If you’re open to it, I’d love to connect you with Chris for an episode. Would you like me to send his full media kit for your review? Best, Emma Support the network at exportaud.io! Our schedule: exportaud.io/pootanschedule Pondering Pootan RSS: exportaud.io/pootan Ghost Divers RSS: exportaud.io/ghostdivers The Show: @pootan.exportaud.io Niamh: @foxmomnia.exportaud.io Connor: @rabbleais.exportaud.io OP: “Ningen nante” by Yoshida Takuro ED: “I Need Your Love” by the Impressions

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