Hey all you animatics and welcome to an interview with Peter Payne. Peter Payne is the founder

of JList.com and you've probably heard us talking about JList.com recently in our regular

episodes and this is the guy behind it all. So say hello Peter and let us know what's

on your mind right now. Hello Peter and let us know what's on your

mind right now. Well no one can say that he doesn't follow directions. Yeah hello everybody

thanks for listening to our little little discussion. So yeah I'm Peter Payne. I started JList

an amazing 20 years ago which I can't believe. Is it 20 years this year? 20 years October.

October 1st of was our 20th anniversary. That's a big deal. Congratulations again. Thank you.

Yeah so it's been it's been a really great you know time obviously we started at the dawn of

the internet one year before Google by the way. So yeah I knew it was the the changes that we've

seen of course we we started up with a dial in modem and we actually had back in those days we

had to you had to call or it's like like one or two years before we started JList you had to call

to Tokyo to get internet because there was no internet providers in our prefecture. You know you

have something when you pre date Google like that's that's how you know so it's actually a really

good time to have you on and be doing one of our interviews with you because as most people know

it is the holiday season and many people here in the States are gearing up for Christmas

whether as a religious or secular holiday and so many people are getting ready their Christmas

wish lists and what better way than to talk to someone who has their fingers on the pulse of

what's hot in Japan and just so happens to have a retail website to get a bunch of cool anime

stuff from Japan to people's doors. So what do you have going on right now that you want people

to know about on jlist.com for the holidays. Well we always have a big you know a lot a lot of

stuff coming in in the holidays a lot of really cool product always hit a lot of good toys and

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