overcast #016a
Part 1 of 2 of an extended conversation with Hugh Hancock and Johnnie Ingram. We talk about Johnnie’s job interview to come work for Hugh, BloodSpell, WoW machinima, the book Machinima for Dummies (which they are cowriting)… and, of course, Furries and Gnomes. Featuring music from the BloodSpell motion picture soundtrack.
Thanks for listening! Let me know what you think.
This Week’s Hot List (URLs from the show’s content):
- Music: Angel Conversations - “Crushed”
- Strange Company
- Ozymandias
- Building a House for Sentient Elephants
- BloodSpell
- Belleville Rendezvous (link?)
- The FairGame Project
- Edge of Remorse
- Music: D-Cent Jerks - Maldita Perdita
- Something Awful Second Life Safari (NSFW)
- Captain Dan’s Authentic Pirate Hip-Hop (NSFW)
- Machinima For Dummies
- Google Docs
- Johnnie’s favorite word: gotten
- One of Hugh’s journalistic influences: Hunter Thompson
- Furries, Furries, Furries
- Blender
- Music: Reiser - Rock Star
Comment by Johnnie Ingram — April 24, 2007 at 5:52 am
Oh man. We do not come out of that well, do we?
In our defense, we were very, very tired at the time, and also not entirely without the influence of alcohol.
I can’t believe there’s still the second half of this to come. I’ll be dreading it until its release. I just hope my poor mother never gets to hear this. She’ll be so ashamed.
Comment by Hugh "Nomad" Hancock — April 24, 2007 at 6:09 am
ZOMG. Wow, I was slurring. A lot. Sorry to anyone who has a bit of a problem following, you know, my words.
Johnnie is very funny, though. And some of it was intentional.
Comment by Johnnie Ingram — April 24, 2007 at 6:35 am
After our argument in the middle of the podcast about the intricacies of grammar, it’s a little embarrassing that Hugh has just pointed out my incorrect use of an apostrophe in the phrase “dreading it until it’s release”. I hang my head in shame, and humbly request an edit function.
Comment by overman — April 24, 2007 at 7:20 am
Aw, come on guys, I didn’t think it came off that badly. You were loose, but not out of your gourds. I thought it was a fun conversation that stayed remarkably on topic.
Apostrophe edit: done.
Comment by Hugh "Nomad" Hancock — April 24, 2007 at 7:33 am
Don’t worry - I don’t think it was a disaster at all. I’m just slightly embarrassed that for the first ten minutes, I have a habit of speaking entire paragraphs as a single slur of syllables.
And Johnnie’s just being terribly British about the entire thing. It’s a national character trait - if you say anything nice about us, we have to spend the next twenty minutes apologising for all our mistakes.
Of course, any attempt at modesty is probably ruined by the fact it’s now obvious that the first thing we did today was spend an entire hour listening to ourselves talk…
Comment by Johnnie Ingram — April 24, 2007 at 8:03 am
… if you say anything nice about us, we have to spend the next twenty minutes apologising for all our mistakes.
Yeah, it’s true. Sorry about that.
Comment by overman — April 24, 2007 at 2:33 pm
LOL!
Comment by Buddy_DoQ — April 24, 2007 at 6:25 pm
I honestly can’t tell you what I find more entertaining, the interview it’s self or all of this senselessly apologetic post-game banter.
Carry on!
^_^
Comment by gToon — April 25, 2007 at 1:40 am
I like both! Seriously, you guys are nuts, this was a very enjoyable and entertaining interview. Maybe a bit fast at times, but Johnnie and Hugh were happy and half drunk. I laughed all the way through it. The whole thing had such a great sense of fun. Esp. enjoyed the notion that writers of a book like “Machinima for Dummies” are students themselves. So true.
Great job guys! I’ll sure be buying the book. In the meantime, get Part 2 up soon!
Comment by Kate — April 25, 2007 at 3:38 am
Great to hear you guys talking together. Hugh and Johnnie’s enthusiasm is infectious. I look forward to the second part of this.
Comment by FLeeF — April 28, 2007 at 3:52 am
Very interesting and entertaining discussion. Educational too; I learned that I didn’t want to know what furries are, but I found out anyway.
Comment by Hugh "Nomad" Hancock — April 28, 2007 at 8:18 am
Fleef - That’s funny - that’s almost exactly what we said. The “furries” part, that is, not the “very interesting and entertaining” part, although thank you for that!
Comment by Allenm — April 29, 2007 at 3:37 am
You guys are charming and fun to listen to!