Show #029 Direct Download: 
Music: Fat Bottom Girls by Queen
.hack Marriage Propsal Guy:
The Geek Nights crew had girlfriends… at least we think so.
The problems in the anime dating scene:
- Big Age Gap between Sailor Moon/Pokemon girls (ages 14-17) fans and Akira/Starblazers guys (25-35).
- In college geek clubs, males outnumber females. (Inherent shortage of geeky girls.) Usually only one third are girls.
- Long Distance Relationships are CRAP.
- If you date all the geeks you know, (all two) you risk making those guys enemies.
Tapes Noah gave Erin when they started dating:
Things that Erin was looking for in a boyfriend which Noah fulfilled and is why we are like, totally meant for each other:
- Likes the Simpsons (and can quote seasons 3 through 6)
- Likes anime.
- Likes Doctor Who
Now that Doctor Who is back, a lot more people who are my age like it, but in 1996 to 2001, Doctor Who had been off the airwaves in most places in the States, and a lot of guys who liked it were closer to thirty, and I was 17-22.
What was Noah looking for:
- Available
- Returns his calls
“I used to think that I had the tallest hair but that trip to Graceland really opened my eyes.”
How to meet girls: Teach them to play Dungeons & Dragons
Erin’s guy-meeting technique: Ask them out, and risk embarrassment. Be very clear that you are asking them on a date.
Noah’s technique on meeting girls: Seem somewhat pathetic, but not too pathetic, then impress them somehow. Eventually, start making physical contact and gradually test the boundaries.
Don’t send out anti-girl rays like Daryl Surat.
Promos:
- Arada’s podcast: Randomness
- Anime World Order – You can still win a date with Daryl Surat! Email us: Ninjaconsultant @ gmail.com
- Episode 1.3 Guns and Gossip
The Sandman book “A Game of You”.
Noah is right that the documentary is not called Speed, it is called “The Cruise” starring Timothy “Speed” Levitch.
I mention Patrick Macia’s Hot Tears of Shame podcast, this episode in particular.
You guys always release a new episode right after I sync my iPod. 😛
(PS: YAY for CON WHORES!)
We are doing it on purpose.
I knew it. Since it happens to me too… I’m always forced to listen to it on my computer at work, since of course I can’t wait until the next day to download it to my iPod.
Really nice episode, btw. It’s cool to listen to stuff about anime, but I really enjoyed hearing more about you guys too.
-kolibri
I”m doinf two things right now, feeling like an idiot becuse my promo sucks, and trying not to fall at of my chair ot you show notes. I’m so glad I don’t need love life right now. Oh, any advice for a freshman entering highchool tommorow? A nerdy one?
I’ve been meaning to mention this, but I really dig how you guys are each on your own channel. It has a very pleasant effect.
It actually kind of annoys me to hear myself nattering on in my left ear. I think I’m going to record the next show in mono.
I would encourage this just because when I have to take a bud out of one of my ears for a moment while I pause and pick up the phone (I listen at work, and often have to answer cellphone calls while in the field). After I unpause and come back I’m only hearing half the conversation!
Obviously you should tailor your podcasts to my (incredibly circumstantial) tastes.
Otherwise, nothing makes me more excited than ninja consultants two weeks in a row. Keep it up!
I find it easier to hear what’s being said now than in earlier podcasts. Of course, I think the gain is also way up above where it used to be when I had to crank my ipod to eardrum-damaging levels.
Stereo is definetly clearer. you should pause, if you have to answer the phone.
The high school popularity I think is the same everywhere no matter how good or bad the academics ofr your school are. Otherwise there wouldn’t be so many stupid high school movies about the popular kids and stuff. My high school was pretty well know, my year was around 500. Sophomore year of college this guy I knew who was really ultra popular ran for class president to basically prove it was a popularity contest and won! Subsequently he did a crap job as class president so the following two years someone competent was elected. Still it proved the point.
simpsons
have you seen the Simpsons complete guide books (from harper perrenial)? They’re great for lists of when Homer says D’oh or stuff that happens in the opening credits. Plus great Ep. guides that hi-lite the easily missed details.
another great show, thanks consultants!
Re: simpsons
Being a giant Simpsons freak, I have owned those books for over ten years, from the time they started coming out.
I’ve found a lot of details in my favorite episodes that are missed in the book – like the naked kid that runs through crowds of children in several episodes who is only noticeable in slow motion.
(Daryl Surat)
Wait a second, so you’re saying I’m pathetic? *ME*?! I got news for you.
THIS is pathetic.
This is pathetic.
So is this.
And especially this.
Clearly, by comparison, I am the opposite of pathetic. But when you’re as compassionate as I, you can’t help but lament the fact that if only someone had shown those poor souls that most revered of human interest tales, the Vernon Wells magnum opus known as Commando, then these pathetic creatures wouldn’t have found themselves as they were that day. That’s why you two need to rectify your “we’ve never seen Commando” situation STAT.
Oh, and that contest of yours? It’s over, and I won it ALL BY MYSELF, no thanks to your meddling schemes. For you see, several lucky contest winners were taken by moi to see the wonderful biopic known as Crank over the weekend, a documentary made specifically to cater to the Daryl Surat demographic of filmgoing intelligentsia, which is why Gerald and Clarissa refused to go. They opted instead to watch Voltes V and have angry rage-fueled intercourse in which Gerald would cut Clarissa off mid-moan so he could make the same moan she was going to make, thus causing her to punch him in the intestines and make him poo blood like Verbal Kint. In other words, the usual Friday routine. At least, I think that’s what they said: hearing someone over the phone when surrounded by the exceptional advancement of humanity that is Orlando’s youth can prove difficult.
One of the lucky winners got up and left momentarily during a highly pivotal and important scene, declaring the unfolding masterpiece to be the single most misogynistic thing she’d ever seen in her life. I hypothesize that the stark, harsh, unrelenting truths revealed by the film made her realize that her existence was a lot like Amy Smart’s. So you see, they’re not anti-girl rays that I emit. They’re pro-powerful rays that heal and evolve terrifyingly powerful human beings while obliterating the non-powerful.
Like Getter Rays, only less so.
First of all, the “Save Point” girl is awesome. Second, E. Honda there listens to Otakugeneration, and probably also this show. I think he mentioned me while calling in to their show. As for the group of Narutads – really not that bad.
Noah might have seen Commando, I’m not sure.
Crank couldn’t be the most misogynistic screenplay every written, as we here at the Ninja Consultant headquarters have read a guaranteed more misogynistic one, and will send it to you shortly. Crank is also unlikely to be any more misogynistic than many 1950’s “hygiene” films.
Anyway, group dates don’t count. A “date” on our terms means you and one [available] girl, and possibly a cameraman.
P.S.
Gerald says you’re a rapist and child molestor, but we know it’s not true.
Enough with the North Coast/South Coast hatin’
Hey, Hey! This North Coast versus South Coast feuding has got to stop. Don’t you know the man wins when we fight amongst ourselves like this?
One World; One Otakudom.
Re: Enough with the North Coast/South Coast hatin’
That is too funny – we need a war between like, Anime North and the Orlando cons.
Re: Enough with the North Coast/South Coast hatin’
Perfect avatar for this thread!
Noah says: I have seen Commando. It’s just a prototypical action movie from
the 80s with Schwarzenegger in it.
Teen Steam has a better plot, for the discerning Milano-phile.
yeah, but Commando has Freddie Mercury.
so take it.
Since when?
You’re thinking of Vernon Wells.
yeah, you’re right. but he looks a lot like Freddie Mercury in that movie, so i’m gonna go ahead and count it.
Commando beats out Teen Steam because it had Freddie Mercury.
so i just listened to this, and it’s a little freakish that Noah’s way of getting girls is exactly like my way of getting girls. friends first, test boundaries of touching and such, being a little pathetic, then BAM! i gots me a girl!
it’s kind of weird that this method works so well.
(Gerald)
Being a little pathetic is a sign that shows girls that you can be or have room to be changed, and girls want nothing more than to change a guy, put her “mark” on him or whatever. The more potential for change you can show without going overboard, the better off you’ll be.
…so is this speaking from experience or did you just read a bunch online articles about dating like a certain person with the initials “D.S.”?
(Gerald)
Actually it’s from watching every single one of my friends who started dating and seeing what they turned into after wards, even if they were experienced “daters” they always seemed to have changed in the end. Sometimes for the better, and sometimes for the worse, and it seemed like those changes always had some sort of connection to the girl, like the way they dressed, cut their hair, what movies they watched/liked/hated, etc…
Dating an’ stuff…
So, my name is Nick…
I just wanted too say that Erin is both a genius, and comparatively very brave in her approach to dating. In my experience most women are too big of cowards to attempt that approach but, I think the world would be a better place if more did.
Noah… I can’t really get behind your theory because it never worked for me personally, but hey if it worked for you… I do think you are right about the “Anti-girl rays” though, I used to send those out hard-core before I knew any better. Keep up the good work, love your show… = )