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And now your helpful bartenders at The Speakeasy present your drink:

The Bloody Ceaser
6 oz. Clamato Juice
1½ oz. Vodka
2 Dashes Hot Sauce
2 Dashes Worcestershire Sauce
Celery salt
Freshly Ground Pepper
Lime/Lemon wedge
1 Crisp Celery Stalk

Served on the rocks in a highball class. Rim the glass first with a lime wedge and then with celery salt.

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Show notes:

Opening song: The Sherlock Hound Opening: Sora Kara Koboreta Story (A Story that Fell from the Sky) by Da Capo.

[00:18] Intro: Just in case you wanted to know who we are and what we are about. We also give all the standard contact info as we introduce ourselves.

Including:

• Our Blog: Reverse Thieves
  
• Our Host Site: Anime 3000
  
• The Podcast’s Website: The Speakeasy
  
• The Reverse Thieves e-mail: reversethieves@gmail.com
  
• Alain’s Twitter – HisuiRT
  
• Kate’s Twitter – NarutakiRT
  

[2:27] News

• We have a mini-memorial and retrospective for Sataoshi Kon who sadly passed away on August 24th.

[8:10] The Happy Hour Promo Break

• Friday Ace at Otaku USA
  
• The Anime 3000 Bonus Round
  

[10:04] The Cocktail: What is the rhyme and reason to modern anime licensing?

• Clearly the strategy and methods in which anime is licensed and released in the U.S. has changed. The question is why did it change, what are the current strategies, and what do we expect to see in the future.?

[11:04] Big Change Number #1: Economic Meltdown

• A horrible world wide economy.
• The death several US anime companies.

[15:16] Big Change Number #2: Avast, me hearties!

• What changed that made piracy such a problem

[17:50] Big Change Number #3: Crossing the Streams

• Streaming video has changed everything

[18:42] What are the dead distribution methods?

• Is paying for anime via digital download a dead model?
• Digital rights and price per episodes still have to be hammer out.
• Single disk DVDs are very dead and pack-in-items as well.

[27:39] Get a Second Drink Musical Break

• Food for thought: What will be the methods of anime distribution in the future?
• Painopainopai (Tokyo Bushi) from Taisho Baseball Girls
  

[29:03] What are the modern licensing models and strategies?

• Taisho Baseball Girls is cool.
• Now that everything has changed how is it going to be different.

[31:09] 1st Major Change: Streaming goes Legit

• Simulcasting and streaming is king.
• Anime on DVD has an amazing list of everything that is streaming.
• With ads VS. ad free with a monthly subscription.

[38:40] 2nd Major Change: DVD Distribution has Changed

• Season sets and half season sets are the new model.
• Crunchyroll is now licensing anime for DVD distribution.
• A reminder that streaming rights are separate from DVD rights.

[43:02] 3rd Major Change: What Gets Licensed has Changed

• It seems that super popular titles and super obscure titles at the extremes get picked up.
• What we see as Sections 23's, Funimation's, Bandai's, and VIZ's strategy on how the pick shows.

[61:08] Final Thoughts

• Which of these strategies will succeed?
• Who will survive?

[72:49] Ending

• Otaku no Video giveaway!
  
• A guide for getting fallen fans back into anime
  
• New mini articles
  

Ending song: Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century