Check out the Cafépress store for your HS/SS goodies!

http://cafepress.com/hsss

As mentioned on the latest Limit Breaking News where we were discussing recent events with the rest of the LBR crew, we invite you to send your supportive words and letters to our fellow adventurers in Japan for a HS/SS Special episode. One special aspect of FFXI all these years was that there have never been regional servers, but that we were able to play with people from East through West, together. As one adventuring family, we wish to extend our thoughts and prayers to the japanese FFXI community.

There are many ways to support Japan in during these times, via SaveTheChildren.org, Google’s Crisis Response page, Give2Asia to name a few!

During this downtime off both FFXI and FFXIV, we ask you to reflect on your time in Vana’diel and Eorzea beyond the grind and the camping and shout out to the JP friends in our community!

You know the address: mailbag@hesays-shesays.com

Not sure if we’re going to do this as an in-character episode or not, just keep an eye on our Twitter at http://twitter.com/hsss_ffxi for more info as the days progress. We hope to record this episode sometime next week depending on the amount of letters, as always

Thank you for your time!

Love,
Viki and TamTu!

Hey guys! We realize we’ve started off a lil bit slow, but that’s okay! We really appreciate the support we’ve gotten from you and hope you’ll stick with us for the coming year as well.

Hope you’ve had a fantastic holiday season and may 2011 bring you many blessings!

All we hope for is your continued support, and you can do so by sending your letters for episode 3 of He Says, She Says to mailbag@hesays-shesays.com!

TamTu & Viki

As always, you can send it to our mailbag (mailbag at hesays-shesays dot com); episode 2 will be out very soon! Blame Abyssea!

Deadline is wednesday December 22nd!

Lots of love,
TamTu & Viki

Two years have passed since a celebrated Warrior and White Mage from San d’Oria held festivities in the Kokba Hostel in honor of their initiative’s anniversary. One year of travelling, meeting people of all kinds of trades and sharing their stories with the help of their moogles suddenly came to an end.

Word of a certain Rostam alive and well in the Great South caught young Sooraya’s ears and any chance of reuniting herself with her father would not be left unattended. Upon returning to Norg, Gilgamesh confirmed he rumor and allowed her to board the next vessel to the southern continent of Olzhirya. It was a hard decision, but it was time for her to stand on her own armored feet and adventure on her own.

Bound to his duty as a San d’Orian hero, and working hard to strengthen the ties between the allied nations, Tamtu was given no choice to let his partner go and watch her venture towards new horizons.

Nights spent in the San d’Orian Cathedral, the Temple of the Goddess in Upper Jeuno and occasionally the shrine in the Bastokan Metalworks during his residence there gave him one solid answer…

The adventure was still only just beginning. Sooraya realized that. Tamtu now did too.

Never forgetting the past, people do grow stronger when they unchain themselves from eachother. What stories have come from the adventurers over the past two years? What have you, the children of the Dawn Goddess, done to grow in your destinies?

Share your tales in the new season of He Says, She Says!

Questions? Head on over to the forums!

mailbag@hesays-shesays.com
tamtu@hesays-shesays.com
viki@hesays-shesays.com

YES!!! Kicking off Season 2!! Introducing our brand-new host and covering some bases about the new programming!

Music Credits: Luso @ Project Soul Voice

Hey listeners! We’re happy to announce that in July 2010, “HE SAYS, SHE SAYS” will kick off with Season 2! We have a brand new host-team and can’t wait to read your emails once again. Before you send in new letters, we’ll have a pre-season FAQ episode where we un-veil the new host, clear up new programming changes and tackle some questions for the FAQ show that you are invited to send to our spankin’ new address: mailbag@hesays-shesays.com!

You have until Thursday July 24th to ask us anything about the show and what’s been going on, if “Vana’diel Says” is EVER going to get released, if Kallo is the new host, anything! Be sure to keep track of our Twitter on the link below!

Thanks for your patience, we’re excited to get this show back on the road!

Twitter
Facebook link

So here it regretfully is: HS/SS is going on an unfortunate hiatus for the time being. Real-life events have taken priority over the show on top of ourselves being unable to schedule recording sessions accordingly, so we have decided to let it go for the time being. This isn’t the end of He Says, She Says, perhaps an oppertunity in the future will present itself for us to pick up the show sooner than later!

Sooraya and I are very thankful for your support over the year (and then some), in both the community forums and your added creativity to the love we all share for FFXI.

For those that care, I’ll still be helping out over at Limit Break Radio, so you haven’t heard the last of me yet. And at the risk of sounded like a broken record, I want to tie up loose ends here. Who knows, Vana’diel Says 1 might get released after all :p

Either way, thanks again for all your support; do stick around on the forums, wouldn’t wanna become strangers now!

Signing off,

TamTu and Sooraya.

Yesterday, we wrapped up the recording of episode 15 of “He Says, She Says”, which will appear within the next few days. But before that, we will release our first present to you, the listeners very shortly! We would like to take this moment to thank you all for supporting us in the past year with all of your e-mails!

Keep a lookout on the bits we have for you!

Love,
TamTu and Sooraya

Our 1st year anniversary is coming up soon, and we would love to receive party themed letters for this special show! We’re planning to release episode 15 on September 27th. I know it’s rather short notice, but we hope to receive a lot of e-mails for this until the 22nd of September! EDIT: Two-day extension to September 24th!

We will certainly try to cover regular e-mails in this show as well, so keep those letters coming!

We’ll have some fun things in return during our He Says, She Says Anniversary Week! Promise!

What a total geek. The place needs like… my amazing expertisement, so I totally visited the forums and saw there’s more artists there too. I’ll be helping out that dork to improve his totally adorable attempts at art and give him, and like, anyone else my exquisite opinion!

-Angelica.

(Check out Angelica’s Art Shack on the forums!)

Playonline’s Community Site Page has been updated! Naturally, you’ll be able to find HS/SS there, but also our friends of JPButton, PFA and LBR there as well! We’re also using the community site tool below featuring a cute lil Lycopodium!

Check out the Playonline Community Page now!

Zune: Now I know that iTunes is the predominant spot to get your podcast-fix, but I actually submitted the feed to the Zune Marketplace as well. So all you Zunists, head over to the HS/SS Page at the Zune website!

Check out He Says She Says on the Zune Marketplace!

Fanart contest: Tomorrow (Saturday May 30th) is the last day to submit your entries!  Send in your entries to the address below!!

New episode for HS/SS scheduled for this weekend! Please look forward to it~!

Now that the Podcast Tour is over we’d like to know what you thought!

PFA is hosting a survey to find out what you thought of the topics, how much you learned from listening, and there are spaces throughout the survey where you can give us additional thoughts on the tour.

We would greatly appreciate it if you took out the time to fill out the survey and as a special gift to you, upon completion you’ll be able to get a special Podcast Tour wallpaper featuring the album art of PFA, HSSS, and LBR!

Fill out the survey here.

This survey is being conducted by the hosts of Pet Food Alpha, He Says She Says, and Limit Break Radio. The FFXI community team was not involved with the selection of questions and/or possible answers.

As mentioned in the last episode, “Bastok Brawlin’!”, the winner will receive a regular t-shirt of their choice, AND a t-shirt with their winning submission!

On an unrelated note: the number of visit has doubled since the SE Podcast Tour show! We’d like to thank and welcome all new listeners to the show and we hope you not only enjoy it, but also find the time to send us some letters occasionally!

Here it is! The official Podcast Tour, hitting “Limit Break Radio”, “Pet Food Alpha” and “He Says, She Says” to gather feedback from the community about different topics relating to Final Fantasy XI.

The format of each Podcast Tour show has the hosts discussing their topic with a SE Community Relations rep and a Premier Site rep. On HS/SS, we will discuss the seasonal in-game events with Matt Hilton, Community Planner from Square Enix and Opalflame from FFXI Premier Site FF Vault!

The topic at hand can cover these events (To which I always refer to as the Moogle Events, since they’re organized by the MHMU!):

• Egg Hunt Egg-stravaganza
• Mog Bonanza
• Yearly Anniversary celebrations
• Yearly Zodiac Events
• Feast of the Swords
• Doll Festival
• Celestial Nights
• Sunbreeze Festival
• Harvest Festival
• Starlight Celebration

Topics not covered:
-Live Events like Fanfest, Vanafest, Final Fantasy Concerts (Check out Limit Break Radio for this!)
-Global Support, Premier Sites, Community Contests, Fanart Contests and more are covered by Pet Food Alpha

The 5 best emails will be awarded with some exclusive items from Square Enix!

-the grand prize for the best e-mail is the massive “Final Fantasy XI Sculpture Arts Shadow Lord” statue!
-Four will be awarded with the Final Fantasy XI Piano Collections CD

And that’s it! Since there are a lot of events to cover, we may not read all e-mails, or shorten them up. Closing date for the e-mails is April 29th! Your letters can be sent to the address below! Bring on the e-mails!!!!

Episode 11 will be out sometime this week, my friends There’s a little delay in the skit, but it will be very, very worth the wait.

Calling all artists out there! Instead of showing off myself ::shot::, I wanted to touch upon you listeners to compete in a fanart contest for HS/SS’s splash page! Right now, it’s black with logos and it’s been like that forever because I was lazy at the time. I know that the FFXI community has very talented artists so here’s your chance to not only get some extra exposure (all entries will be posted on the website!), but also win a “He Says, She Says” t-shirt and get your art prominently featured on the website’s design!

Requirements:

…and that’s it! Pick whatever theme you want, but remember: We’re a family show ^_~ The only suggestion I might have is to have some kind of open space for logo-placement purposes. Send your submissions to the address below:

Contest closes on April 30th and the winner will be announced in the first May episode of HS/SS!
PS: This has absolutely nothing to do with PlayOnline’s official Fanart contest for the 7th’s Anniversary of FFXI! I actually wanted to post this yesterday, but they stole my thunder I’m looking forward to your submissions!

We're a community site!

As mentioned in the most recent episode, HS/SS has been accepted as a Community Site by PlayOnline! But while I do have access to the latest POL News, I choose not to post it because the information is covered on Petfoodalpha and Limit Break Radio and having it on our updates may seem a bit redundant. Although I supposed I could blog about the updates and link to the source on LBR or PFA? We shall see.

For now, I’m glad we’re acknowledged like that And with that said; one of the first things I made sure would work was the Itunes feed for He Says, She Says. So if you’re an Itunes user, you can also subscribe to the podcast there! Just look for He Says, She Says and you should find it soon enough. I’ll post a button link when I get around to do so. In the meantime, leave some reviews!

Thanks for your ongoing support!

EDIT: Also, I’ve moved the frontpage from /site to the actual domain. I’m still refreshing the Itunes feed for this, but if you’ve subscribed to the old feed, please re-subscribe by clicking on the RSS button on the top right for the new URL. Sorry for any inconvenience!

Instead of creating an extra e-mail address like I did with the Starlight Special, you can now send the Valentione letters to our new and permanent event-related e-mail address: special@asktamandsoo.com.

You have until February 11th so submit your emails! Send them our way!

I also apologize for the long delay of episode 8, but I’m just about done with editing. Just gotta finish the skit and I should have it up in the next few days! Thank you for your patience ^^

We’ll be kicking off HS/SS 2009 soon enough again after a short holiday break. You have no idea how busy it’s gotten with Hyozan and all the new transfees! We’re very honored to welcome many new adventurers into our linkshell, solely from the HS/SS listeners. I have some exciting news for you HS/SS fans, though!

To prevent the episodes from getting TOO long in the future, we’re introducing a new segment that’s a seperate release from the main show. “Vana’diel Says..!” will cover the emails that have more in-depth backstories. We’ve been getting quite a few of these elaborate e-mails that are very long and take some time to edit (both the actual e-mail as well as the audio). Most of the stories are facinating, though, and to preserve the core of each letter, we’ll present them in this seperate release with two or sometimes three adventurers per episode where we’ll read their personal stories.

It’s a way for us to alleviate the main show from potential lengths, but still go through the letters sent in. We understand that as the show goes on, we will get more and more e-mails (hopefully!) and we can’t always fit them all into one episode. Considering we’re an e-mail show, we don’t think cutting e-mails is an option at all (unless it’s just in an incorrect format for the show).

We have a good backlog for this so keep an eye for “Vana’diel Says” after the next episode of “He Says, She Says”! Please understand that we cannot fit all e-mails in one show, and if your e-mail is not read on air, just wait it out. We will get to them!

We’re also thinking of an extra segment, but we’ll have to see how we want to do that first.

As usual, thank you for your support and keep them coming!

However we’ll also have a special treat! We’ve got audio not only from the presentation of Moblin Maze Mongers but also from the Dev Panel and concert that we’ll be streaming! Make sure to check it out! This special audio treat will only be available next weekend!

*RadioXI Fan Festival 2008 stream: December 20-21*

Episode 7 will be strictly Starlight Celebration themed! Any emails sent to the regular email will be considered for the next show.

Thanks for your support and keep those e-mails coming!

Don’t forget to check out http://www.radioxi.com, a new FFXI radio site created by Fusionx of Pet Food Alpha and Ganiman of FFXIclopedia. You can stream all the latest podcasts from Pet Food Alpha, Limit Break Radio and, Level Down as well as He Says, She Says – PLUS hear remixed FFXI tunes by DJ Plaeskool and Luso!

The site is also a bulletin board for the sites that are streamed! Not only is it a podcast alliance (you can see what each site is doing this month) but the streamed sites can host their own news articles to give the community all the latest updates and sneak previews on what to expect!

So while episode 5 will be released accordingly to our bi-weekly schedule, episode 6’s date falls on the Fanfest weekend! Chances are that we’ll be skipping that show and moving it a weekend. Maybe we’ll do some on-site reporting, but I’m not making any promises.

Thanks for your support!

And for the record: There are no hard feelings whatsoever regarding the Brenner matches. Sooraya and I had a lot of fun testing out eachother (although her delay IS pretty awful). Although all the comments on Najelith WILL keep me on the couch. By force AND by choice. Hah.

We’re a semi-in-character podcast so if you have something to submit, make sure it’s in character too! We want to tackle as many topics as possible! And with so many topics to ask things about Sooraya and I are bound to bump heads. Listen how we take care of not only your questions, but our internal affairs as well!

We will try to focus on in-game community related topics when we blog about stuff, because if you want actual official FFXI news, you can visit our partner-websites! We’re not trying to compete with the other shows or websites; we just want to bring some flavor to Vana’diel!

So bring on your questions! E-mail us your problems and rantings about the ongoings in Vana’diel at mailbag[@]asktamandsoo[.]com, or individually to Tamtu (tamtu[@]asktamandsoo[.]com) and Sooraya (sooraya[@]asktamandsoo[.]com).

We’re looking forward to your emails! Thanks for your support.

~Tamtu and Sooraya~