*** https://evangelionpodcast.com *** *** https://twitter.com/NeonPodcastEva1 *** After a few months off partaking in presumably more wholesome activities, the cousins return with a mix of new and old. For the sake of tying this escapade to some measure of reality, let's just implicate the new decade with a new format for the show, a new level for our technical kit, and let's just hope a new grip on their thus far perennial podcast existential angst. The over-all topic broadens from "Evangelion" to "Let's better understand Hideaki Anno's work to better understand Evangelion." That's progress worthy of a mid-series Evangelion episode! To start we watch some early works from the proto-Gainax "Daicon Film": The rapturously unglued otaku convention opening animations DAICON III (1981) and DAICON IV (1983), followed by the we-were-there satire/historical fiction on early 80s otaku culture "Otaku No Video" (1991). Highlights: - Listen to grandpa talk about his wild west days slinging the cardboard cocaine. - Recommendations made openly for higher quality podcasts. Though it'd be puzzling that anyone this deep in lists quality as one of their top values. - There's a new last Star Wars out right now, and some *cough* comparisons to Star Blazers are brought up. - Witness the cousins rendered breathless by the contrast between Daicon III and IV. - A quick glimpse into the cousin’s contrasting takes on body modification. Some golden "dad used to be cool" moments. - About two minutes of Evangelion content on the sixth episode of a podcast with Evangelion in the title. Those minutes mostly spent trying to recall what was going on in the last episode.