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All right, so now let's get to our show.

Wired.com presents The Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

And here is your host, David Barr-Kirtley.

Hello and welcome to episode 422 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Our guest today is Steve Alpert.

For 15 years, beginning in 1996, he was a senior executive at Studio Gibley, working to get anime movies such as Princess

Mononoke and Spirited Away distributed outside of Japan.

And we'll be speaking with him today about his new book sharing a house with the never-ending man, which describes his friendship

with Star Director Hayao Miyasaki and explores what it was like to be the only non-Japanese

employee at Studio Gibley. And now here's our interview with Steve Alpert.

All right, so we're interview with Steve Alpert.

All right, so we're here with Steve Alpert.

Welcome to the show.

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