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For those that don’t know Joel, he’s a man that’s living the dream. Living off the hard work and sweat from his brow while making Hijinx Ensue not only a great inspiration for those that want do what they love and get paid for it. We’ll talk about “The Experiment”, “The Comic”, “The Podcast” and even Joel himself

Special Guest Co-Host is Byron Wilkins from 1977 the comic

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Podcast Summary:
Host(s): Kurt (”VertigoX”)
Special Guest Co-Hosts(s): Byron Wilkins (“tr1guy”)
Special Guest(s): Joel Watson
Discussion Topic: Hijinx Ensue
Length of Podcast: 2;20

Guests in Channel:
VertigoX
tr1guy
HijinxEnsue
Mike Leuszler
dramthevirgin
ZombieRoomie
Springheeledjack
PaulW
Barb Jacobs
ThomasOverbeck
Guest 2 – 32 *Guest 1 and 5 were killed by Guest 3, 7, 19

Various Website URLs:

Other Website URLs:

Twitter:
http://www.twitter.com/Vertigo_X
http://www.twitter.com/tr1guy
http://www.twitter.com/hijinxensue

Chat Room Log:
VertigoX – Tonight’s Episode 83
VertigoX – Is with Joel Watson with Hijinx Ensues
VertigoX – http://hijinxensue.com
VertigoX – Helloo Guest 2 and 3
Guest 3 – it’s hijinks ensue not hijinx ensue
VertigoX – http://hijinksensue.com
Guest 3 – we here you
Guest 3 – hear^
tr1guy – LOL!
Guest 2 – We hear!
Guest 2 – We hear all!
Guest 3 – we here; we hear you
tr1guy – http://www.1977thecomic.com/
Guest 3 – i miss 1 and 5; they were true friends
ZombieRoomie – yeah
ThomasOverbeck – Hiya
ThomasOverbeck – hello?
tr1guy – Hey!
PaulW – hiya guys!
ThomasOverbeck – The next DWEX is August 21st
ZombieRoomie – George the Zombie fights a Chuck Liddell clone tomorrow
ThomasOverbeck – I’m back… computer’s giving me all kinds of trouble tonight
ThomasOverbeck – Firefox crashed on me
ThomasOverbeck – lol
ThomasOverbeck – I remember that episode
PaulW – i was getting coffee–not really ignoring you, Kurt
PaulW – Jerk!
PaulW – Y a I heard
ZombieRoomie – spoiler for tomorrow’s strip, George doesn’t win.
ZombieRoomie – I want a different co-host for my episode!
ZombieRoomie – the also bagels creator is pretty young.
Guest 7 – now my firefox crashed
ZombieRoomie – I only had it crash once.
ZombieRoomie – Last week, but, that was more than a normal problem
ThomasOverbeck – sheesh
ThomasOverbeck – I seem to be lagging
PaulW – he’s been promoting it–so I imagine he’s gonna show
ZombieRoomie – I’m on skype if you need me
ZombieRoomie – Heh, right when I say firefox isn’t a problem it crashes…
tr1guy –
ZombieRoomie – I jinxed myself, another firefox crash
ThomasOverbeck – I just sent Joel a DM on Twitter… if his is set up like mine, he’ll get a text on his phone
VertigoX – cool
VertigoX – http://zombieroomie.com
VertigoX – John Wigger is talking
VertigoX – wb Paul
PaulW – thanks
ThomasOverbeck – I retweeted this netcast on both my personal and DWEX twitters
VertigoX –
tr1guy – Cool!
PaulW – angry scooby doo
hijinksensue – ok how do I get on the call?
VertigoX – Get into Skype Joel I’ll add you
VertigoX – heya Zaron
Zaron – hello
Mike Leuszler – All right.
Mike Leuszler – Now it works.
hijinksensue – skype is a go
ThomasOverbeck – test…
VertigoX – Fail
ThomasOverbeck – 14 seconds lag
Mike Leuszler – Hope I didn’t miss anything good.
ThomasOverbeck – oh wait… now it’s better
VertigoX – ya it’s really bad
ThomasOverbeck – Mac as in the OS?
ZombieRoomie – MWF
Guest 7 – any other fancy bastards here?
Guest 7 – wow, just me?
ThomasOverbeck – Me too
Mike Leuszler – Tell em how you’re gonna kill… uh… you know.
Guest 7 – that’s not a spoiler
Guest 7 – he’s already gone at length talking about the death of Josh
Guest 7 – woody after hours has the coolest business card ever
VertigoX – oh?
Zaron – I’m Chris Jeffery of Cartridge (cartridgecomics.com) haha sorry for not saying
VertigoX – toss in the http:// as well Chris
ThomasOverbeck – hiya Chris
Zaron – http://www.cartridgecomics.com that better?
VertigoX – yuppers
Mike Leuszler – Whoever is getting faced f’ed by a truck…
VertigoX – Also, if you have a question
VertigoX – please ask
Zaron – sure thing.
VertigoX – hiya Barb Jacobs!
VertigoX – http://xyliatales.com
iowabarbidoll – hi!
Guest 7 – hey dram!
dramthevirgin – since when do I have a talkshoe account?
iowabarbidoll – Is there sound?
dramthevirgin – who is guest 7?
Guest 7 – etsd
Guest 7 – formerly nardac
VertigoX – I dont know who are you Dramthe virgin but welcome
dramthevirgin – wut
VertigoX – There is sound Barb…
dramthevirgin – haha, good to be here
dramthevirgin – though I might drift out a bit, House is on
iowabarbidoll – hmm. cant hear anything.
dramthevirgin – I also have no audio
VertigoX – reload TalkShoe
dramthevirgin – OH, nardac, hi!
iowabarbidoll – Not a big fan of talkshoe.
dramthevirgin – yeah I still ain’t got no audio
dramthevirgin – hey Jack
iowabarbidoll – ANyone else have a serious echo going on?
VertigoX – heya Springheeledjack
Springheeledjack – Ello Dram
VertigoX – Do you have the window open twice Barb?
dramthevirgin – one more refresh…
Guest 7 – alright another fb!
Springheeledjack – We are many
Guest 7 – there’s only like 4 or 5 here though
dramthevirgin – yeah my audio just keeps buffering but never plays
Mike Leuszler – Nice!
VertigoX – hmm… try it in IE?
dramthevirgin – oh
dramthevirgin – yeah
dramthevirgin – good idea
Guest 7 – ie is never a good idea
VertigoX – http://hijinksensue.com/2009/12/21/triumph-of-the-usurper/
Springheeledjack – Im all Bizarro with Star Trek references
ThomasOverbeck – I tend to reference 80s stuff frequently
VertigoX – That’s just priceless
Springheeledjack – You am remind me not of Bynars
VertigoX – http://hijinksensue.com/2009/12/18/cat-people-scratch-fever/
VertigoX – So Ironman
dramthevirgin – woot, audio
ThomasOverbeck – Nah, that’s gonna be my comic.
dramthevirgin – had to use FF
VertigoX – lol
dramthevirgin – Joel needs to do a comic that’s a crossover between the new tekken trailer and fight club.
dramthevirgin – with the tekken panda.
dramthevirgin – and his bitchtits.
VertigoX – lol
VertigoX – He needs Angel vs. Twilight mini-vampire
VertigoX – or Angel and Spike vs. Twilight
dramthevirgin – wait what
Guest 7 – he did a buffy fan vs twilight fan comic
dramthevirgin – and it was wonderful
VertigoX – oh? damn I haven’t read that yet
Springheeledjack – Twilight vs. Torchwood Kill them with sex.
dramthevirgin – the olmos image is now my desktop and my TF2 spray
Mike Leuszler – I thought Angel was Twilight. snicker
iowabarbidoll – LOL!
dramthevirgin – gentlemen pirhanas.
Springheeledjack – *toothy smile*
VertigoX – Wow that’s like Sacralige Mike
dramthevirgin – heheh
Mike Leuszler – Twilight vs a blood sucking Tinkerbell
VertigoX – lol Don’t be dissin’ The Tink
Mike Leuszler – Can agnostics be sacriligeous?
Mike Leuszler – Hmm?
dramthevirgin – I sure can
Guest 7 – of course they can; atheists can’t
Guest 7 – but they can still commit a sacrilege in the eyes of a non atheist
dramthevirgin – damnit, my state voted for Scott Brown
dramthevirgin – at least alex says so
Mike Leuszler – Aw, screw ‘em.
iowabarbidoll – I got attacked on an anti parent blog site once and was called a c*m-guzzling gutterslut. Got some traffic there too, but it sucked.
VertigoX – lol
dramthevirgin – …wtf is an anti parent blog?
iowabarbidoll – I was attacked by these ‘people’ for asking for donations. They called me a welfare mom- that didn’t work (both lies) they didn’t even know me.
iowabarbidoll – My readers attacked them on their own blog.
iowabarbidoll – The web can be a sucky place.
dramthevirgin – Joel doesn’t let us attack people
iowabarbidoll – THis all happened in an hour.
dramthevirgin – which of the guests are FBs?
VertigoX – wow… that does suck
VertigoX – FB?
Guest 7 – fancy bastards
VertigoX – Ah I thought facebooks
VertigoX – Any questions for Joel? Any topic about himself, the webcomic, thoughts, etc
dramthevirgin – I’m about all questioned out with joel at this point
VertigoX – really? But for those that haven’t heard him before. What would readers / listeners like to know/ask?
iowabarbidoll – What are his influences in writing and art?
ThomasOverbeck – I’d like to do my own “experiment” but I need to get my readership up first :/
VertigoX – It would be easier than you think. I hope to do that with this Podcast eventually.
VertigoX – I just finished reading: The 4-Hour Work Week. A real eye opener.
ZombieRoomie – I gave up trying to use firefox for this tonight, went to Chrome.
Guest 20 – firefox crash 2 electric boogaloo
dramthevirgin – I was using chrome but it wouldn’t load the audio
dramthevirgin – my FF crashed too
Zaron – I’m having the same problem
Zaron – If it crashes one more time I’m trying chrome
tr1guy – http://hijinksensue.com/experiment/
VertigoX – http://hijinksensue.com/experiment/
tr1guy –
VertigoX – got me Byron:P
dramthevirgin – haha
VertigoX – http://www.twitter.com/hijinxensue
VertigoX – damm iot
VertigoX – http://www.twitter.com/hijinksensue
dramthevirgin – http://www.twitter.com/hijinksensue
dramthevirgin – haha
dramthevirgin – yeah
VertigoX – I have hijinx on the brain man…
dramthevirgin – I just realized that I’ve met every webcomic creator whose webcomics I read right now
dramthevirgin – that’s frakkin’ weird
VertigoX – oh? I’ve only talked to most of them
VertigoX – Unless I camp out on their front lawn
Guest 20 – i’ve met all but randall munroe, mike krahulik, and jerry holkins
dramthevirgin – heh, I live near easthampton mass, so NEWW was a big boost
dramthevirgin – I hung out with randall munroe for like half an hour that weekend
Guest 20 – i’ve had breakfast with joel
Guest 20 – beat that dram
dramthevirgin – who is guest 20?
VertigoX – I’ve had breakfast at Tiffany’s
Guest 20 – etsd/nardac/guest 7/guest 3
Guest 20 – fairefox crashes are no good for guest accounts
VertigoX – he killed off Guest 1 and 5 and is at large
dramthevirgin – haha
dramthevirgin – meetin’ joel was weird
Guest 20 – weird how?
dramthevirgin – uh, he hugged me before I spoke
Guest 20 – lol
Guest 25 – FireFox fail
Springheeledjack – badtouch
dramthevirgin – what did christine’s shirt say?
Guest 20 – congratulations you are the 1000000th firefox crash
Springheeledjack – plug plug plug
dramthevirgin – use. chrome.
tr1guy – http://podcast.hijinksensue.com/
dramthevirgin – Christine and Jon are really sweet.
VertigoX – http://podcast.hijinksensue.com
VertigoX – damn it
tr1guy –
VertigoX – you’re too quick for me old man
dramthevirgin – technically she might get that from any and all MTV shows
dramthevirgin – hwa?
Guest 20 – congrats on the mention dram!
dramthevirgin – hahaha
ThomasOverbeck – I’ve got a link to Hijinks at the bottom of http://www.timeslikethis.com along with other DFW toonmakers
dramthevirgin – oh man I saw fight club last night, I want to scream at brad pit.
VertigoX – that was a great film
ThomasOverbeck – I loved the “Glee Ghost” strip that Joel did
dramthevirgin – Joel knows everything about why he can’t talk to Joss.
dramthevirgin – Oh man, that reminds me of when Sean got the random pic with Joss at NYCC
Guest 26 – FireFox fail II The Failining
dramthevirgin – use chrome
Guest 26 – I would have to install it first
dramthevirgin – http://www.google.com/chrome
Guest 21 – ahaha
dramthevirgin – to be fair, we get a lot more laughs out of each other than we get out of joel.
Springheeledjack – Joel is such a good daddy.
ZombieRoomie – Chrome crapped out on me too
dramthevirgin – sure seems that way
dramthevirgin – chrome is working fine for me
Guest 27 – IE is woking so far
dramthevirgin – hahaha
ThomasOverbeck – I loved the “Metallica Scale” that Joel uses (page 71 of Godspeed You Fancy Bastard or the 7-9-08 comic)… what would he give the Guitar Hero game?
VertigoX – You mean the other kids were drawing their stick figures with their heads up their butts?
Springheeledjack – McFarlan?
ZombieRoomie – McFarlane
PaulW – jim lee?
dramthevirgin – Bill Barnes?
Springheeledjack – Yeah, makes with the cool inaction action figures
VertigoX – Best Cover artist
ZombieRoomie – McFarlane did Amazing 300s, but, you’re probably meaning Erik Larsen then
VertigoX – heya Ken Drab
Springheeledjack – Calvin & Gort?
dramthevirgin – Dave and Hal.
dramthevirgin – hahaha, I found Joel on said PA forums at that point
VertigoX – lol
VertigoX – We’ve beaten our record of Guest 21
VertigoX – up to Guest 30+ now
dramthevirgin – CAD
dramthevirgin – was funny
VertigoX – I used to really read PA, PVP, CAD still do, but there are so many more
VertigoX – Balitmore ComicCon 09
RickTheStick – I was there! WOOHOOO!
VertigoX –
VertigoX – Monty Python
VertigoX – The State – Sketch Comedy
VertigoX – Arrest Development
dramthevirgin – galifanakis
dramthevirgin – I kind of want to know who’s going to replace him this year
Springheeledjack – Josh is the Christ figure
VertigoX – lol
dramthevirgin – and then eli eats cereal out of the skull
Springheeledjack – “I hope you washed that out.”
VertigoX – This Cereal tastes like soap!
dramthevirgin – nedroid is bloody marvelous
VertigoX – http://nedgroidcomics.com
VertigoX – ?
dramthevirgin – http://www.nedroidcomics.com
Guest 27 – anthony clark
VertigoX – thanks
dramthevirgin – actually those are wrong
dramthevirgin – http://www.nedroid.com
Springheeledjack – Nedroid’s Birthday Bear print just breaks my heart
VertigoX – Hobo Lol cats
VertigoX – URL?
VertigoX – Octopuspie for the Art
VertigoX – PA
VertigoX – Unshelved by Bill Barnes
VertigoX – Paul Southworth – Not Invented Here
dramthevirgin – heheh
VertigoX – Oglaf
VertigoX – NSFW
Guest 27 – Oglaf!!!!
VertigoX – Questionable Content
VertigoX – GWS – Daniel Corsetto
Guest 27 – Joel needs a recommended comics list on his site
VertigoX – GOATS by John Rosenberg
VertigoX – Douglas Adams-esque
VertigoX – writing reference
VertigoX – Over Compensating – Jeffrey Roland
dramthevirgin – overcompensating is amazing
VertigoX – The T-Shirt Guy
VertigoX – URL Dram?
dramthevirgin – “And also I puts all the T-shirts in my butt SEXUALLY!”
VertigoX – Topadoco? I’m a horrible speller, don’t challenge me to Scrabble.
dramthevirgin – http://www.overcompensating.com
ThomasOverbeck – TOPATOCO
dramthevirgin – yep
Guest 27 – Subnormality is also very good
dramthevirgin – I ain’t quiet
dramthevirgin – my money’s on Locke
Springheeledjack – Be quiet murderer
dramthevirgin – yessir.
dramthevirgin – face-okku
VertigoX – Facepukku
dramthevirgin – we can’t be as racist here, can we?
Springheeledjack – George Lucas is the Overprotective Mother of Sci-Fi. Packing our lunches to much, hugging us too hard, etc.
ThomasOverbeck – That and he revolutionized going back and fixing stuff in his older films.
VertigoX – ya but he killed the re-remastered ones…
ZombieRoomie – I’m doing a Lucas comic on Friday, heh.
dramthevirgin – if that metaphor holds he keeps giving his kids plastic surgery.
dramthevirgin – and telling them they’re fat.
ThomasOverbeck – When I retool an old TLT comic because one or two of the characters looked just TOO hideous, I say I Lucased it.
Guest 27 – To be fair ther are some truly terrible lines in Avatar
dramthevirgin – nah, it would be lucasing if you added blackface
dramthevirgin – honestly though the quality of Avatar’s raw cohesion let me sit through those lines that I would normally reject things for
ThomasOverbeck – That military commander was really one-dimensional. Otherwise the Avatar movie was pretty good.
Guest 27 – Oh I loved it anyway
dramthevirgin – yeah he was simply not a believable villain, thank god he didn’t take a larger portion of the movie
dramthevirgin – spielberg
dramthevirgin – SPIELBERG
Springheeledjack – I could just watch a Dragon’s fight Gunships cut of that movie over and over.
Guest 27 – Sully taunting the rhino hammerhead *groaaaaan*
ThomasOverbeck – James went from a semi-Chuck Norris look to that of an elder member of British Parliament.
dramthevirgin – oh man, that reminds me, the other day I found a YT vid of Anakin and Padme from ep 3 to some crappy love song
Springheeledjack – I still think Brendan Frasier was in that movie.
dramthevirgin – haha, nice Jack
ThomasOverbeck – When I saw Return Of The Jedi recently I thought Gary Sinise was playing the first guy Vader talks to.
hijinksensue – call me back
hijinksensue – internet died
ThomasOverbeck – Mine’s been crapping out on me lately as well.
dramthevirgin – hahahaha
dramthevirgin – “I’ma go be in some real movies”
ThomasOverbeck – Hayden Christiansen doesn’t do “emotionally tortured” real well.
VertigoX – nooooo…. ooooooo….ooooo
dramthevirgin – I keep hearing he’s a decent actor in other things, I have a hard time believing it
ThomasOverbeck – Case in point: Attack Of The Clones.
VertigoX – He actually was good in Jumper.. but that was it
Springheeledjack – “Your like a baby!”
Springheeledjack – “making noise! Like a child!”
dramthevirgin – Looks like this bloke, BLOODY LOST, YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
ThomasOverbeck – CSI: Grand Rapids!
Guest 27 – Brad Pitt in Snatch is great
dramthevirgin – is there a waterfall in the movie?
VertigoX – not in Sherlock holmes
dramthevirgin – HAHAHAHA
dramthevirgin – Good story
PaulW – its all about who has the better lawyers
dramthevirgin – Joel got so bloody lucky
VertigoX – yup yup
PaulW – ya–Im surprised that worked out
dramthevirgin – the great thing is that Joel’s shirt is the only thing on the merchandising section of the Olmos site
dramthevirgin – the rest is like, his charity work
Springheeledjack – The Edward James Olmos shirt store
PaulW – probably has a couple good years left in it
Springheeledjack – I wonder what happened with that pirated scifive shirt?
dramthevirgin – oh yeah, I forgot about that, didn’t they offer joel weaksauce money?
Springheeledjack – I think Joel just activated the closest Fancy Bastard
dramthevirgin – http://www.edwardjamesolmos.com/
Guest 27 – Sleeper FB
VertigoX – thx dram
PaulW – let me know when the spoiler is over
dramthevirgin – not yet
Springheeledjack – looks like the curse has spread to you dram
dramthevirgin – yes
dramthevirgin – very much so
dramthevirgin – shockwave player just keeps on crashin crashin crashin, into the future
Springheeledjack – Wil Wheaton will END YOU.
dramthevirgin – he so will
dramthevirgin – wil wheaton is actually Joel’s biggest fan
dramthevirgin – they’re friends in real life
dramthevirgin – he renamed his kid after eli.
dramthevirgin – where’s josh when you need him
Guest 21 – hahaha, your rock band comic of way back was still one of the funniest comics i’ve read from you
dramthevirgin – every metal show has a goat.
dramthevirgin – the “rock band is just like real band” one?
dramthevirgin – multiplex is great, firefly reintroduced that to me recently
Springheeledjack – firefly99 dram?
dramthevirgin – yeah
dramthevirgin – kristi
dramthevirgin – magic cheetah lady
Springheeledjack – Do we even have human names anymore?
dramthevirgin – I don’t think so
dramthevirgin – I’ve been Dram in my mind for most of the last decade
dramthevirgin – the podcast is the second best part of the HE experience, the community is the best. The comic is like the sixth.
VertigoX – How about the Premium content?
dramthevirgin – oh yeah, that’s really just a bonus
dramthevirgin – it’s all gold, but it’s melded into the rest of the site very fluidly
Springheeledjack – I for one liked the 3 hour + podcasts
dramthevirgin – indeed
VertigoX – Try and listen to a few that TGT has had
dramthevirgin – http://podcast.hijinksensue.com/page/6
dramthevirgin – haha, I did typed that from memory
VertigoX – lol
dramthevirgin – oh wait, page 7 or eight is the start
dramthevirgin – whatever, the 3-hour ones are page 6
VertigoX – http://store.hijinksensue.com/
dramthevirgin – http://hijinksensue.com/donations/
Springheeledjack – Its the most erudite, respectful podcast out there.
Springheeledjack – sensative to minorities
Springheeledjack – and women
dramthevirgin – lolacaust, movie wolf baby
Springheeledjack – sensative?
Springheeledjack – sensitive?
dramthevirgin – I am not on the border, for the record
dramthevirgin – sensitive
Springheeledjack – thank you
dramthevirgin – the book is really great, lots of extras and interesting to read even if you’re already an archive troll
dramthevirgin – @hey-friend pronounces topatoco wrong
Springheeledjack – amen
dramthevirgin – http://www.infinistorm.com/hijinks
dramthevirgin – spoiler?
VertigoX – http://tgtwebcomics.com/archive/2010/ep83-he/
VertigoX – night all! Tune in next week for Dave Reddick from The Legend of Bill!

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