At about 7:00 a.m. last Monday, the overcast hit ten thousand downloads/listens, according to the PodPress statistics which I implemented a few months after the show’s debut a year and a half ago. That’s an average of 400 listens per episode, up from about 100 per episode a year ago. Not a bad start.

Overcast #024 is the first of a series of four group interview sessions conducted by Hugh Hancock and Johnnie Ingram at the Machinima Festival Europe 2007, which took place at De Montfort University in Leicester, UK about a month ago. Each of the interviews was oriented around the question: What are your personal Top Three Machinima Moments? The answers could be films which were particularly impressive, events related to the machinima community, or anything of the sort.

This first session poses that question to Ross Bambrey and Steve Wallace from Strange Company / BloodSpell. Hearing the four of them interact and play off each other, I’m reminded once again of the puzzler I’ve pondered before, and that is how is it that these guys have not yet tackled a full on comedy film?

Enjoy, with disclaimer: There is a bit of coarse language - ironically enough, most of which emerged while discussing what would and would not be “bleeped.” The original vision we had for these interviews was to censor them and try to make them at least a PG-13. The truth is, a couple of the later interviews went a bit Nil by Mouth on us, and I decided I’d like to have time to work on something else for the next few months. As such, we’ve decided to present them uncensored, as they occurred. This preserves the humor of the original meetings, but also increases the chances that those who are sensitive to profanity might be rattled.

So if you’re a fan of the Exxon Valdez and alcohol-induced hijinx in general, and don’t mind just an oh-so-wee-little bit of profanity (LOL)… you’ll find these interviews-to-come highly entertaining. Be advised, and enjoy.

Here’s that link to #024 again: http://theovercast.com/overcast-024/