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The Podcastle episode 23 records tomorrow: Goodbye, England's Rose photo

We do not usually record an episode of The Podcastle until two weeks after the last, but on this occasion, we are making an exception and bringing you an early edition of the show. The reason for this is something that many of you will already know by now, if you caught one of the earlier announcements.

After months of questions, waiting, and "zomg what's gonna happen to The Podcastle when you move?", I am finally departing England for the United States of America. At the end of the week, in fact. To celebrate, and mark the occasion in a most fitting way, we will be recording my final Podcastle as a resident of the United Kingdom tomorrow. Join myself, Atheistium and Wardrox for our "Get the Hell out of our country" bash. 

The show will be 100% listener questions/comments, so be sure to post with your queries regarding anything and everything. We will attempt to read all five of them, but we can't make any promises. Fire away, my children.


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greeneggsnsam's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/17/2008 14:14
greeneggsnsam
Oh, and Happy Birthday (again), Wardrox!
Loogibot's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/17/2008 14:18
Loogibot
Crossing ye olde pond, eh?
Sharpless's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/17/2008 14:18
Sharpless
Do you think we could talk about spunking on, say, Hollie's face instead of Lauren's, this week? At this point, I feel as though the whole "spunk on Lauren's face" movement has kind of shot its wad.
PrinceofCannedPeaches's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/17/2008 14:19
PrinceofCannedPeaches
How will you cope with your intense resentment of us Yanks? Will you set up a royal colony? Will you stop drinking tea?
ScottyG's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/17/2008 14:34
ScottyG
So Jim, how much is Frank Melton, the "Worst Mayor in America", looking forward to having you live in his town? (assuming Aerox isn't lieing to me) :D

http://www.reason.com/news/show/123117.html
Cowboy TTop's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/17/2008 14:45
Cowboy TTop
Ah Jim, you fat gastard, good luck in the land of the burgers and fries. Perhaps it will be the making of you, and you can still get you Kit Kat fix. Lol.
eternalplayer2345's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/17/2008 14:50
eternalplayer2345
Will you start a mississippiNARP?
Drunken Mo's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/17/2008 14:57
Drunken Mo
I have been curious as to why you are leaving england anyway, mind filling us in huh?
superniall50's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/17/2008 15:02
superniall50
I went to TT Games, Jim.
Nothing much to report, nice people though.

My question is...Why are you going to America? I know that England is a complete shithole and the government are a bunch or monkeys, but surely that can't be the only reason.
(sorry for calling you surely)
Spartacus's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/17/2008 15:02
Spartacus
Jim: What are you looking forward to most in America, and what are you dreading having to deal with?

also, bible belt
paukl schmaukl's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/17/2008 15:32
paukl schmaukl
Are you going to work in taxi office in America? I only ask as we've established you're not a games journalist so you'll need something else to do.
stevephoenix's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/17/2008 15:43
stevephoenix
on a similar line as Happyhead asked?

Jim, will you commit a crime before you leave? You'd be long gone before they figure out it's you.

i'm presuming you've said yes for the next bit to work.

so now we've established that you'll commit a crime, what will it be? theiving? treason? or maybe some old fashion rape and murder?
vrplumber's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/17/2008 16:21
vrplumber
some handy tips:

British American
chips fries
flat apartment
lorry truck
supercalifragilisticespialidotous completely wasted

also Welcome to America!!!!

(dont drink the water) =)
Puppy Licks's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/17/2008 17:06
Puppy Licks
Jim, your popular seems to have the campaign of a momentum. Why are you a runaway freight train?
Sloth's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/17/2008 17:16
Sloth
Jim, you're not going over there because someone offered you Wrestlemania tickets, are you?

Or will this be like the final episode of Father Ted where Ted (Jim) gets second thoughts before his plane takes off to the States and goes home with Mrs Doyle (Atheistium), Father Dougal (Wardrox) and Father Jack after all? (That could be Vlambo - he hates getting woken up).
aborto thefetus's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/17/2008 17:26
aborto thefetus
I have 2 questions:

1. What are looking forward to the most about living in America Jim?

2. I noticed that Lauren seems to be the butt of every joke recently in the podcastle whereas the jokes used to be mostly at the expense of Wardrox. Are you ever going to go back to harrassing Wardrox? I miss it when you made Wardrox miserable. well, more miserable then he already is.

Oh yeah, happy Birthday Wardrox :P
Dragonzigg's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/17/2008 17:44
Dragonzigg
Good luck in the new world Jim. Will you ever visit our fair green shores again? And also, does this mean you'll finally get around to playing MGS4?
Elitechief27's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/17/2008 18:27
Elitechief27
Welcome to the Darkside Jim. Protip: here it's called a QUARTER POUNDER with cheese, not a ROYAL with cheese. Anyways, here's a limerick

Jim is comming to the big U.S.A

Where he will be raped by many a gay

Since Lauren was gamer of the month

A title she got for giving Acey Bongoes her cunt

Jim will become a games journalist on the way

Questions
Jim: Will we ever hear from your other half on the podcastle? Also, does she listen? Is she good in the bed?
Finally, are you excited to finally be able to play MGS4? In honor of that, please do your Liquid Snake impression, or the David Bowie Wesker

Wardrox: Are you still liking Farcry 2 a week after playing it? Also, if not why so negative gamer .com

Lauren: LULZ HOW CAN I HAS BE TEH GAUMER OF TEH MUNTH. Thinking about that, how does it feel to be xbox.co.uk's period?
Elitechief27's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/17/2008 18:30
Elitechief27
Welcome to the Darkside Jim. Protip: here it's called a QUARTER POUNDER with cheese, not a ROYAL with cheese. Anyways, here's a limerick

Jim is comming to the big U.S.A
Where he will be raped by many a gay
Since Lauren was gamer of the month
A title she got for giving Acey Bongoes her cunt
Jim will become a games journalist on the way

Questions
Jim: Will we ever hear from your other half on the podcastle? Also, does she listen? Is she good in the bed?
Finally, are you excited to finally be able to play MGS4? In honor of that, please do your Liquid Snake impression, or the David Bowie Wesker
Wardrox: Are you still liking Farcry 2 a week after playing it? Also, if not why so negative gamer .com
Lauren: LULZ HOW CAN I HAS BE TEH GAUMER OF TEH MUNTH. Thinking about that, how does it feel to be xbox.co.uk\'s period?
Clance's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/17/2008 18:58
Clance
Jim, will you put me up for a week or two next year?? I'll be a maid for the week....
welkstar's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/17/2008 19:13
welkstar
Not sure if this was asked already, but where in the US will you be moving to?
n0brein's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/17/2008 20:10
n0brein
I always wondered if you guys know/like "The IT crowd"
I think it's hilarious :D
bart999's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/17/2008 20:38
bart999
Is Jim planning on appearing in a HAWP once he arrives? If so, will there be a ceremonial Ash dropping a deuce in the bed of his new home?
Prof Doctor's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/17/2008 21:35
Prof Doctor
Left 4 Dead?

Do you think that in co-op multiplayer games like l4d, it is more enjoyable for the game to require you to work as a team, or for you to be able to run off and get through the game on your own?

Also, how fun do you find it to teamkill in the middle of a zombie horde?
Ballistic's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/17/2008 22:11
Ballistic
Jim, does your milkshake bring all the boys to the yard? And if so, is it better than mine?
V the Grigori's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/17/2008 23:47
V the Grigori
Question for all three of you:

If you could erase a single game from all of human history, what would it be and why?

It doesn't even have to be a bad game... perhaps it could be a good one... you know, for some *cough* wardroxcontroversy *cough.*
Jetsetlemming's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/18/2008 02:46
Jetsetlemming
Congrats on your new freedom. I'd also congratulate you on your new black president but you're probably a closet racist like all Europeans. :)

Where in America are you moving, roughly? If you're in my area I'll buy you a beer and teach you to shoot a gun.
Touch's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/18/2008 07:20
Touch
Ah, Trafalgar Square in the rain - does it get any better than that?

Also, a couple of points:

Please don't stop doing Podcastle

Please try not to pick up the annoying habit of speaking in the interrogative (this is when you raise your pitch at the end of every sentence, so it sounds like you are asking a question). Atheistium does it all the time, bless her - but she has youth in her defence.

For that matter, please try to resist picking up stupid Americanisms like "different than", "I could care less", etc

Other than that, best of luck to you. As I said way back at the start of the year, Blighty's loss is America's gain....
Mikular's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/18/2008 07:30
Mikular
Hey guys, one question for you all:
I recently listened to the Podcastle episode 11 again, and the first half sort of contradicted the second, a little. My question is this: would you prefer it if the videogames industry was dismissed as "just games", and no one in the main media paid any attention but gamers got more crap about their "childish" hobby, or would you prefer games to be taken more seriously, but have the likes of Jack Thompson and Keith Vaz tearing us apart in the mainstream media because our hobby/profession supposedly leads to psychotic killing sprees?
I hope that made sense.
DragonSlayer's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/18/2008 23:01
DragonSlayer
Question for ya Jim: What are you looking forward to the most in the US and what are you going to miss the most in the UK?
nebones's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/20/2008 02:30
nebones
bl
Megadev's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/20/2008 08:48
Megadev
Where are you, my hapless filth-spouters? Whither the jokes about spunk, and concerted attempts to insult every race, religion and creed no matter the consequences?
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