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The First Evah Hollywood Gamer Podcast Show. The Navin Interview: Whatever Happened to Painted Figs?
Find out here. http://www.payloadz.com/d1/freeproducts.asp?id=1531825

And, to answer, in one place, a bunch of questions that I have been receiving.

Ok so a lot has happened, and I have received a bunch of questions through twitter and email since the birth of the idea for the Hollywood Gamer Podcast Show.

1. First. There is no falling out between Russ and Craig and I. I look forward to the very next show I can be on. The closest show is definitely show 100 and may be earlier depending on the rotating 3rd chair schedule. I see myself as just going off to make a solo guitar album while the D6G band still tours.

2. Why my own show? I realized after I decided to step down that although I do not want to podcast at 3-4 hours a week, I do still love podcasting. So, I thought hey, this is a chance for me to do all the things creative and entrepreneurial that I was unable to do for a variety of reasons with the D6G.

3. What is The Hollywood Gamer Podcast Show?

• I imagine it to be a blend between a talk show and an interview show.
• It is designed to last one hour MAX. It is designed to fit that itch of gaming interest where one may not have the 4 hours for a D6G episode.
• I imagine 8-9 shows a year. Shows - not an ongoing podcast. Approx. 1 show a month with a built in “holiday” of 3 months.
• It is designed to compliment the D6G episodes. Where the D6G reviews and discusses the new game hotness, interviews the new game’s designer and all things “this year” in gaming. I plan to talk any
game or other HD item of interest via Raef’s Round Table style. I want to talk to game designers, game insiders, game store merchants, and talk comics, videos, and anything else gamers do or talk
about.
• It is designed to be ad free. I personally dislike ads. That is not to say ads are bad or not a good source of revenue, I just do not like watching them myself. So I do not want my show to have them,
BUT I believe in paying myself for the show. Ie. I do not watch “The Walking Dead on T.V. (ad supported). I buy it though Zune on xbox (viewer supported). I do want to have corporate and
listener sponsorship. And hey sponsorship is and ad too, I get it. But to me, I can take those as a listener/ watcher. I believe we gamers should support what we like ourselves by paying up when
needed. That is just me.
• Why pay per click episodes? See above, I wanted to have it both corporate and listener supported. I did not need or want a huge listener base. A big listener base will still be very complimentary to
my ego. Hey, I already have done that with the D6G, I want to do something new. I thought I could build a small but loyal listener base. And….a pay per click/show is almost never done. That was
appealing to me. Could I be the ONE that made it happen. You see, I use to play the Sisters of Battle in 40K when they were just a list in a White Dwarf. No one played them. Everyone told me not
to play them if I wanted to be competitive. They were not viable, and some would say, were not viable even after a few codices. I still played them, I was like: “No! I can make them win!” Well, I
could not. I am sure others could, but not me. I lost and lost and lost. Ah….hubris. Well I wimped out. No pay per click/ show. This time I am going to listen to the advice of others.

4. So…it is not pay per click/show then? Nope. And to be honest it’s sort of a relief. After listening back to the Navin interview, I wanted all gamers to hear it….and business students….and the guy
down the street…and whomever the freak wants to. And, who knows where it will go?

5. So how do I get this show of yours? Well for now, you have to go to my blog or click this link. Since I had the show set up for pay per click that is the podcast host and method I chose. I will see about making the show port into iTunes and other podcast catchers directly for upcoming shows.

So, that is my story. I hope you enjoy the Navin Interview and a new show format set in a plethora of gaming podcast show goodness.

Raef “Hollywood” Granger.
www.jimmyjango.com
raef@thehollywoodgps.com
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Which link?

Try it now....took me a minute to figure out the "non-pay" link. It auto sent you to a pay option. I did not want that.

Raef

Raef,

Thanks for doing this.

Ok Link was broken....Here it is here on my blog. Get it while its hot!

Raef

http://www.jimmyjango.com/2011/11/lesson-3-solo-podcasting-learned.html

Edited: Some people were having issues with the free downlink crashing I added a pay link for both options which should allow one click one person. I hope.

Interesting interview, Raef. Unfortunately a buddy of mine was caught up in it, and I think was probably one of the $30000 of pre-orders that got backlogged when the con-man took off with the money. He finally got his Dystopian Wars fleet, but it took something like 6 months. Maybe I missed it, but I didn't really hear Navin talk about the quality issues. When my friend's fleet arrived, the quality was lower than what we had anticipated, given the past reviews of PaintedFigs on D6G. I wonder if had a lot of staff turnover during his "time of troubles", or if they were just rushed to get out the backlog. Still, kudos to him for sticking with it and filling his customer's orders.

I found his comments at the end very interesting with regards to the future of the hobby, and the 3-D printing technology coming online. Interesting times ahead.

Really enjoyed the show...I'll miss you on the d6 but honestly I think this is a better format for you. Felt like your opinion sometimes got lost in the maelstrom the is Russ and Craig.

Great podcast and Navin brought some interesting views. I liked the format, d6gen episodes are so long that I often have to skip parts of the show as they are so long, so your show was great for consumption on one sitting.

I'm not sold on his idea about the future of minis with the printing technology, the timeline seemed to be a lot too optimistic.

Hey Guys thanks for the kind words or encouragement. I was not sure once tested in the field if this format would work. I am excited about it. I know it works for me.

On deck, I hope to get Matt Wilson, Curt Covert, Scott Wegner, (Comic Artist for Atomic Robo) and Dan Yarrington. I am calling it my Interview Series.

For other topics I want to do a Scotch Primer. One of my good gamer friends Greg Silberman knows everything about Scotch and its rather interesting. I know there was a Scotch Primer at Templecon a few years ago. Not sure if one is coming up this year.

Oh and I want to do a legal show to. A show on Stronghold vs. FFG; the legal battle with GW and Chapterhouse Studio etc....


Oh and the D6G Episode on Navin is D6G Ep: 42.

Raef

stonedogs wrote:For other topics I want to do a Scotch Primer. One of my good gamer friends Greg Silberman knows everything about Scotch and its rather interesting.

Oh please do this one, the other subjects are interesting too but this would hit the spot

Your wish is my command. Done! I had not decided on order and you helped me decide.

HD