* Episode recap
* Commentary
- Izumi epitomizing "tragic mother" theme
- Knowing what the boy really is
- Return of intercutting plot lines
- Archer's investigation
- Keeping Hughes' death a secret
- Beginning of the Greed story arc
- Who's Pride?
* Listener feedback
- Toby: Extra episodes and lame Cornello
- JoshTheBanditKing: Winry's motivations
- BoardwalkBhikku: Why Ed and Al take Izumi's abuse
- xslickx1: In the movie, why the need to close both sides of the gate?
- Lordanubis485: Sloth revealed in episode 25, theme of abandonment in FMA
- edcrazy_2008: Should there be a live-action FMA movie?
* Shwag
- Fullmetal Alchemist: Trading Card Game for Nintendo DS
- New manga from Sonny Strait (voice of Hughes)
- Piano Squall game and anime music album covers FMA song
* Convention appearances for weekend of Feb 8 - 10:
- A & G Ohio (Akron, OH): Mike McFarland (ADR director, Havoc)
- Ikkicon (Austin, TX): Tiffany Grant (Marta), Kyle Hebert (Falman), Brina Palencia (Nina Tucker), Chris Patton (Greed), Aaron Dismuke (Alphonse), Vic Mignogna (Edward), Chuck Huber (Shou Tucker), Leah Clark (Noah), Wendy Powell (Envy)
- Naka-con (Kansas City, MO): Christopher Sabat (Armstrong), Sonny Strait (Hughes)
* Convention appearances for weekend of Feb 15- 17:
- Katsucon (Washington, DC): Tiffany Grant (Marta), Antimere Robinson (package designer for Funimation)
- Animation on Display / San Francisco Animation Convention (San Francisco, CA): Vic Mignogna (Edward)
* Convention appearances for weekend of Feb 22 - 24:
- (none)
Send your questions or comments:
* Visit podcast page at http://annotatedalchemist.libsyn.com/
* E-mail to annotatedalchemist@gmail.com
* Skype voice-mail to user annotatedalchemist
* Call 678-999-2650 (toll call to Atlanta, GA, USA)

Podcast for Episode 29: The Untainted Child
* Episode recap
* Commentary
- Divergence of anime, manga storylines
- Homunculi, how they're born, and the boy
- Ed's visions inside the gate
- No-circle alchemists
- Is Izumi hiding something?
* Shwag
- DVD box sets and re-releases
- Trading Card Game no longer produced
- 2008 FMA wall calendar
- Book: "The Art of Fullmetal Alchemist 2"
- Other domestic FMA stuff still available: t-shirts, plushies, backpacks, purses, pins, necklaces, wallscrolls, etc.
- Why you won't be getting an FMA soundtrack
* Convention appearances for weekend of Jan 4 - 6:
- Anime Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA): Vic Mignogna (Edward)
- Ohayocon (Columbus, OH) - Tiffany Grant (Marta), Monica Rial (Lyra), Clarine Harp (Mrs. Armstrong), Antimere Robinson (Funimation package designer)
Send your questions or comments:
* Visit podcast page at http://annotatedalchemist.libsyn.com/
* E-mail to annotatedalchemist@gmail.com
* Skype voice-mail to user annotatedalchemist
* Call 678-999-2650 (toll call to Atlanta, GA, USA)

Podcast for Episode 28: All Is One, One Is All
* Episode recap
* Commentary
- Title's zen koan
- Bottom-up enlightenment
- Return to nature
- Individual/universe relationship theme in FMA movie
- Parallel plots in different times
- Laying groundwork for Wrath plot
- The young, pre-armor, Al
- Few speaking parts other than Ed and Al
* Feedback
- Early returns in favorite episode poll
- Hyper Angel: why Ed and Al take Izumi's abuse
- Fullmetalexile: multiple instances of the various homunculi?
- David: Winry's motivations
- Winryxautomail: How can I get other people to watch FMA?
- Emily: Thanks via Skype voicemail
* Convention appearances for weekend of Nov 30 - Dec 2:
- Anime Supercon (Fort Lauderdale, FL): Tiffany Grant (Marta)
- Holicon (Miami, FL): Kyle Hebert (Falman)
* Convention appearances for weekend of Dec 7-9:
- New York Anime Festival (New York, NY): Colleen Clinkenbeard (ADR Director, Rose, Hawkeye), Justin Cook (Line Producer, Russell), Mike McFarland (ADR Director, Havoc), Michael Tremain Sinterniklass (Leo), Sonny Strait (Hughes) 
Send your questions or comments:
* Visit podcast page at http://annotatedalchemist.libsyn.com/
* E-mail to annotatedalchemist@gmail.com
* Skype voice-mail to user annotatedalchemist
* Call 678-999-2650 (toll call to Atlanta, GA, USA)

Thanks to listener Mikie D for correcting me on this: FMA is on [adult swim]'s broadcast schedule again, currently showing Saturday night / Sunday morning at 1:30 AM Eastern and Pacific. For updates, you can always check out the online [adult swim] schedule.

Podcast for Episode 27: Teacher
* Episode recap
* Commentary
- Where other story-arcs go wrong
- How Izumi's introduction brings us back to Ed and Al
- Foreshadowing Izumi
- Is Izumi sadistic or is her tough-love what the Elrics need?
- The metaphysics of transmutation circles
- Izumi's secrets foreshadowed
- The mother cat metaphor?
* Schwag
- FMA box sets from Funimation
- Funimation also re-releasing individual DVDs at lower price
- What's the right price-point for anime anyways?
* Convention appearances for weekend of Oct 26-28:
- Shikarricon   (Newtown, PA):  Kyle Hebert (Falman)
* Convention appearnces for weekend of Nov 2-4:
- AC Cubed (Ottowa, ON): Kyle Hebert (Falman)
- IzumiCon (Oklahoma City, OK): Leah Clark (Noah), Collen Clinkenbeard (ADR Director, Rose, Hawkeye), Vic Mignona (Edward), Chris Sabat (Armstrong)
- Janicon (Jacksonville, FL): Luci Christian (Psiren, Wrath), Chris Patton (Greed)
- Nekocon (Hampton, VA): Troy Baker (Archer), Travis Willingham (Mustang),  Aaron Dismuke (Alphonse)
* Convention appearances for weekend of Nov 9-11
- Bakuretsucon (Colchester, VT): Tiffany Grant (Marta)
- Tandokucon (Philadelphia, PA): Collen Clinkenbeard (ADR Director, Rose, Hawkeye), Aaron Dismuke (Alphonse), Kyle Hebert (Falman), Vic Mignona (Edward)
Send your questions or comments:
* Visit podcast page at http://annotatedalchemist.libsyn.com/
* E-mail to annotatedalchemist@gmail.com
* Skype voice-mail to user annotatedalchemist
* Call 678-999-2650 (toll call to Atlanta, GA, USA)

Podcast for Episode 26: Her Reason
* Episode recap
* Commentary
- An easily-forgotten one-shot "breather" episode
- Diverting viewers from the homuculi conspiracy plot
- Archer and Sciezka stories start here
- One of the last episodes largely adapted from manga
- Reuse of Rush Valley manga elements elsewhere in FMA anime
- Who's the protagonist here?
- What does Winry want?
* Feedback
- "Newtype USA" poll of Japanese viewers' top 10 episodes
- Hughes as a father figure
- Did Envy perform alchemy in episode 2?
- FMA movie OVAs
- What happens to Huskisson in the movie
- Gluttony's appearance in the movie
- What are the Gate Children?
- Does Hughes go to a better place?
* Convention appearances for weekend of Oct 12-14 :
- Another Anime Convention  (Nashua, NH):  Christine Auten (Izumi)
* Convention appearances for weekend of Oct 19-21 :
- Oni-Con   (Houston, TX): Aaron Dismuke (Alphonse), Chris Patton (Greed), Clarine Harp (Mrs. Armstrong), Kyle Hebert (Falman), Mike McFarland (ADR Director, Havoc), Tiffany Grant (Marta), Travis Willingham (Mustang), Vic Mignona (Edward), Wendy Powell (Envy)
- London Movie and Comic Media Expo (London, UK):  Colleen Clinkenbeard (ADR Director, Rose, Hawkeye), Laura Bailey (Lust),
* Convention appearances for weekend of Oct 26-28:
- Shikarricon   (Newtown, PA):  Kyle Hebert (Falman)
Send your questions or comments:
* Visit podcast page at http://annotatedalchemist.libsyn.com/
* E-mail to annotatedalchemist@gmail.com
* Skype voice-mail to user annotatedalchemist
* Call 678-999-2650 (toll call to Atlanta, GA, USA)

According to Anime News Network, Funimation has announced that FMA voice actors will appear at the September 20 showings of "Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa" in four cities. Travis Willingham (Mustang) will be at the Century City (LA) showing, Leah Clark (Noah), Caitlin Glass (Winry), and Aaron Dismuke (Alphonse) will be in Arlington, TX. Vic Mignogna (Edward) will attend the Houston showing. And ADR directors / voice actors Colleen Clinkenbeard (Rose, Hawkeye) and Mike McFarland (Havoc) will be at the Atlanta showing, presumably having arrived for the next day's Anime Weekend Atlanta. Check the announcement for specific theaters the actors will be visiting.

Podcast for Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa
* Movie recap
* Commentary
- Of movie sequels to TV shows
- Bringing Fullmetal to the real world
- Believability versus reality
- Design notes
- The politics of 1923 Munich
- Alfons vs. Alphonse
- Equivalent lives in parallel worlds
- The "uranium bomb" McGuffin
- Loose ends left hanging
- Wrath's reward
- Crazy Villain ex Machina
- Hoenheim's guilt
- Equivalent exchange and its context
- All is One, One is All
- Is this it?
* Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa showing in US theaters for one night only, Sept. 20, as part of "Anime Bento Festival"
- Info page: http://www.fathomevents.com/details.aspx?eventid=659
- Participating theaters list: http://www.fathomevents.com/news/default.aspx?newsid=61
Send your questions or comments:
* Visit podcast page at http://annotatedalchemist.libsyn.com/
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* Call 678-999-2650 (toll call to Atlanta, GA, USA)

The FMA movie, Fullmetal Alchemist The Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa is getting a one-night-only theatrical run, on September 20. 250 theaters (from AMC, Entertainment Group and Georgia Theatre Company) are participating in the four-night Anime Bento Festival, which will also show Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles (9/19), Lupin the III: Castle of Cagliostro (9/26), and Karas the Prophecy (9/27). Locations and advance ticket sales are available from the Fathom Events web pages linked above, and a complete list of participating theaters is also available.

Fullmetal Alchemist returns to [adult swim] Monday, July 2 at 1AM ET, according to the [adult swim] schedule. They're running the whole series all the way through, concluding on September 12, after which it gets replaced by another run of Cowboy Bebop (which is also wonderful, but I figure everyone's seen it by now, right?).

So Fullmetal's back. As for me... not looking so good for a return. I got halfway through the script for a special episode on the movie before life intervened again, and I can't imagine having the time to actually push through that and the back 26 episodes. But I'm renewing the Libsyn and Skype accounts this week just in case I find the time and will to get it back together (you know, for the like five of you out there who haven't unsubscribed yet...)

Oh, and I turned off comments on a lot of the podcast episodes because they were getting link spammed. Sorry about that, but it sucks to have to go through twice a day removing spam.