Ryan Ozawa

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Ryan (left) and Jen (right) Ozawa, wearing Hawaii Lost Fan Club shirts, with Henry Ian Cusick (center), at the 2006 Louis Vuitton Hawaii Film Festival Lost Panel
Ryan (left) and Jen (right) Ozawa, wearing Hawaii Lost Fan Club shirts, with Henry Ian Cusick (center), at the 2006 Louis Vuitton Hawaii Film Festival Lost Panel

Ryan Ozawa is a Hawaii resident and Lost fan who is best known for his podcast "The Transmission," which he produces with his wife, Jen Ozawa. At its most popular, The Transmission reached number 7 on the iTunes top 10 list, joining more established major podcasts such as those from ESPN, CBS and NPR. On one episode, Lost cast member Jorge Garcia called into the podcast show.

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Background

The Transmission podcast

  • Ryan & Jen's The Transmission podcast won the 2006 Jay & Jack Podcast's inaugural Hugo Cup award. Other nominees included Lostpedia and Lost-media. According to the awards podcast, Jay & Jack opined that The Transmission was the first groundbreaking Lost podcast that paved the way for the many Lost podcasts to follow later, including their own.
  • On January 31, 2006, the Ozawas announced that this was their final Lost podcast. Citing time constraints and the greater importance of their primary podcast, HawaiiUp, this episode was their final Lostcast.
    • On the former podcast page, Ozawa still managed a Lost blog, as well as a Lost filming locations list compiled with the help of fellow resident locations sleuths, which also features an interactive Google map.
  • On February 4, 2008, they resumed podcasting in the wake of the Season 4 premiere. [1]

Aliases

Content from Ozawa related to Lost may be found at the following resources:

Hawaii Lost Fan Club

Ozawa also runs the Hawaii Lost Fan Club, which is a mailing list hosted at Yahoo Groups.

Execute.tv

Ozawa is the founder of Execute.tv, a Pligg engine based, Digg derived website which allows people to vote on Sci-Fi news and information. The name Execute.tv itself is derived from Lost, and in particular from the keyboard from the Swan station.

Leaks and spoilers

Season 2 call sheet spoiler from Ozawa
Season 2 call sheet spoiler from Ozawa

Ozawa is also the source of numerous significant leaks:

  • The plotline of the S2 opener, after it was premiere screened for the "Waikiki Sunset on the Beach" one week before the nationwide broadcast of the episode. He did so in his site podcast, as well as at various forums, (e.g. (link) as user: Aloha Oe)
  • The leaked S2 Finale Call sheet, orginally leaked by Ozawa under the nom de plume "Aloha Oe" at Survivorsucks forum. The call sheet also included scenes from Episode 21, "?".image link
    • This spoiler is one of the most well-known Lost spoilers on the internet, and its authenticity was controversial at the time of its release.[source needed]
  • Leaked photos of the outdoor set the Others's camp, leaked before it was broadcast. (link)
  • Leaked video of Michelle Rodriguez directing Honolulu traffic in a police uniform, at her filming location for "Collision" - (link 1), (link 2)
  • Leaks from the University of Hawaii Medical School filming location for a Season 3 post-hiatus flashback: Flickr photo album, blog entry
  • In February 2008, Ryan Ozawa claimed that production had once again begun on Lost. This in fact was not true, and it was a production company making a TV-Movie called Special Delivery using the Lost team's equipment, and some of the crew. Ryan claimed that the crew had told him they were making Lost, and had been "punk'd" by them. [2]

See also

External links

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