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In this episode, Robert Bohl (designer of Misspent Youth) and Joshua A. C. Newman (designer of shock: social science fiction) end it all. Just in time for your Dreamation 2010 drive/flight!

- You can't cut a piece off something living unless it wants you to, like one of those happy cow-like aliens from Resturant at the End of the Universe or a German suicide
- The TV show Dollhouse by J.J. Abrams
- Rob's a bad designer and Joshua doesn't like people
- Game Chef
- Shock: Human Contact by Joshua, and In a Wicked Age…. and Apocalypse World by Vincent Baker of Lumpley Games
- Meguey Baker of Night Sky Games
- Behavior-based questioning in interviews, and how it relates to game design
- John Wick and Ed Healy also are doing a project like Oo!
- AXE COP
- Another project: Ludic Jibber Jabber (no link yet)
- The Podge Cast shows up on iTunes when you search for Oo!
- Our negative review on iTunes
- Our requisite Radio Lab reference
- Sons of Kryos, Science Times, Brilliant Gameologists
- HOW TO FAIL!!!!!
- An NPR story referencing public administration and dead horses
- Kevin Smith's The Mountain Witch

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The intro music is "Gotta Whizz" by Boris the Sprinkler, from the album Mega Anal. The outgoing music is a live version of "The End of the Tour" by They Might Be Giants from the album John Henry.

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I'm glad we were able to get you back! Since the whole podcast is only 40 minutes long, we were losing you pretty quick.

We did our first interview with someone else this last weekend at Dreamation. We'll be doing some other stuff, then editing and producing aggressively. It'll be on a slower timeframe than Oo! was, simply because there will be a lot more to do in each episode. But it will be a more polished, more coherent thing, we hope.

cinderellaman2112 said:

Sounds good to me. Will you be using your new show to talk about games you have in development? I'm guessing you were doing some playtest at Dreamation.

I imagine it will leak into the conversation now and again. We're starting off with the show being pretty much "Shit that's exciting enough to want to share with other people" format. Ideally, of course, our own stuff falls into that category.

I was, indeed, doing some preliminary testing of a design principle with Shock:Human Contact at Dreamation. I'll talk about that here on the blog when I've got a few.

I'll keep a look out on your blog for an announcement on the launch of your new 'cast. Best of luck to you both on this new endeavor.

Thanks!

What's this about Kevin Smith and the Mountain Witch??

I'm sorry (and happy?) the conclusion of the series was a let-down for you, but I'm pretty confident that what we're working on now will be a great show.