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KnockBack: The Retro and Nostalgia Podcast

#6: When Anime Was Underground

KnockBack: The Retro and Nostalgia Podcast

Last Stand Media & Studio71

Society & Culture, Leisure, History

4.91.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2018

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

In the late '80s, Dagan and his friend would venture to a monthly comic book convention at a Long Island Holiday Inn, where a lone merchant would sell mysterious video tapes from Japan for $30 apiece. These tapes were full of cartoons that he'd never seen or heard of before, and it was at this point -- earlier than all but the best-connected and absolute nerdiest westerners -- that Dagan was introduced to anime. The rest, as they say, is history. This podcast is all about Dagan's origin story with anime. Tales of scouring, discovering, and collecting are told, old anime is discussed and dissected, and a line is drawn between that Holiday Inn nearly three decades ago, when anime was as niche as it got, to today, where it has never been bigger. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Colin's Last Stand Knockback is brought to you by, well, you.

0:04.2

Knockback, in addition to the interview podcast series Fireside Chats and the weekly YouTube

0:08.6

show dedicated to video games called Side Quest, is fan funded over at Patreon.com slash Collins Last And,

0:15.1

and without you, none of these shows would exist. If you like Knockback or any of

0:19.0

what Collins Last Stand does, please consider going to Patreon and showing your support.

0:23.2

You can even get cool perks in return, like early access to shows,

0:27.0

the ability to vote on future show topics, exclusive Q&As, and much more.

0:31.3

Thank you for believing in Collins' Stand. Now on to the show.

0:37.0

Greetings and salutations. Welcome back to Collins last stand knockback. My name is

0:44.9

Colin Moriarty. As always, I'm joined by my brother, Degan Moriarty.

0:49.1

Hello there, how are you? I'm doing well, my friend. How are you doing?

0:52.3

I'm good. It's so funny because I often for many years have started podcast by asking the person how they are.

0:57.6

Yeah. Or at least having some sort of banter. But I'm not used to recording them like eight back to back to back over a few days yeah so I feel like I'm being

1:03.8

redundant to you now but not to the audience not at all but then it's just being done for that

1:08.4

banter and it's not really being done for substance they go that's the that's the kind of

1:11.9

ironic part it's not real. It's not real.

1:14.0

Because I know how you are. You were the same the last time I asked you a few hours ago.

1:17.0

I assume unless something's happened.

1:19.0

No, I think everything's the same.

1:20.0

For those out there that are unaware, Knockback is a nerd culture kind of, you know, retro-fueled

1:25.4

podcasts where we talk about old things.

1:27.4

Things that we like, they don't necessarily have to be that old.

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