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PolyCast Christmas Special 2008: "Have a Merry Little Humbug"
 'Tis the season for Civving! The second annual PolyCast ( PC) Christmas Special, " Have A Merry Little Humbug", is now available for listening. Regular co-hosts Daniel "DanQ" Quick, Makahlua, Imran Siddiqui and Annalee "Cartimandua" Barney are joined by four show co-hosts from sibling show ModCast. They are Tony "GarretSidzaka" Kiehl, Kenneth "Impaler[WrG]" Ferland and John "bt_oz" Archer with Tim "ruff_hi" Pratt.
An official podcast of Apolyton Civilization Site and a nominee in the "Best Produced" and "Gaming" categories of the 2008 Podcast Awards, PolyCast is a bi-weekly audio production in an ongoing effort to give the Civilization community an interactive voice on game strategy; its third season is to begin on January 18th, 2009 with the release of its sixtieth episode. Focusing on Civ modding, ModCast's second season is to begin on January 25th, 2009 with the release of its milestone twenty-fifth episode.
To date, ACS is the only known community on the Web to produce its own Civ podcasts.
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December 24, 2008, 02:12
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Summary of Topics
- 04m41s | Village
The Christmas City Cityset for Civilization III.
- 06m02s | Generosity
A Christmas Play-by-Email Game of CivIII where scoring is based on gifting to others.
- 09m03s | Getting
A short joke about the difference between giving and getting at Christmas.
- 09m30s | Poem
The poem " You Come to Play" by ' CivFan91'... in song form.
- 11m32s | Name
Revealing a certain something of one who has been a regular-host from the show's beginning.
- 12m45s | Story
"A Humbug Carol" written by John "bt_oz" Archer and produced by Daniel "DanQ" Quick, based on " A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens.
- 20m45s | Civmas
With inspiration and some content from a related thread, presenting "The Twelve Days of Civmas" based on " The Twelve Days of Christmas" carol.
- Intro/Outro | Miscellaneous
Imran's pretends to be confused about what this special is about, followed soon by being genuinely confused by a certain acronymn; some co-hosts adapting a 1970's television show's theme song for their own purposes, what is more than enough, and an extended blooper reel.
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December 24, 2008, 02:15
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Downloading now.
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December 24, 2008, 02:49
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Downloading now.
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Speedy. 
Enjoy. 
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December 24, 2008, 03:52
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Why not rename "Poly Cast" to Fanatic Cast, since all you discuss are topics started at civfanatics?
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December 24, 2008, 13:20
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Originally posted by EPW
Why not rename "Poly Cast" to Fanatic Cast, since all you discuss are topics started at civfanatics?
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Not all of the topics -- the story topic at least isn't (bt_oz's creation), and I don't believe the joke topic is either. For this special, it was only on CFC that I could find any topics that were both Civilization and Christmas related at the time of recording (December 6th). As owned, recorded, produced, published, hosted and marketed by Apolyton, PolyCast has been and remains an appropriate name. But PolyCast is a Civ community podcast -- not just Apolyton's.
If you look through PolyCast's current and archived episodes (and the first season too for that matter), you will note a variety of combinations of topic 'sources'. Some are almost if not entirely based on Poly threads, CFC threads, a combination of both and/or mixed in with some on the official 2K forums (with News items generally falling under any of these). Overall I believe there are more CFC threads than Poly threads covered, yes, but that is generally a reflection of the greater ( Civ) forum traffic at CFC.
Perhaps instead of "EPW", your username should be "Scrooge"  but Merry Christmas to you anyway. 
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December 24, 2008, 19:49
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December 25, 2008, 13:00
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This show was a "definitely worthy of listening to -- at least twice" (which is what I've done, so far)!
The poem "You Come to Play" by 'CivFan91'... in song form ... I'm sorry to say the poem deserved much better than as was sung.
With inspiration and some content from a related thread, presenting "The Twelve Days of Civmas" ... much better than the thread's content.
The Humbug Carol was nicely done!
So ... Have a merry Humbug, or however you enjoy the season.
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December 25, 2008, 16:07
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Originally posted by Jaybe
This show was a "definitely worthy of listening to -- at least twice" (which is what I've done, so far)!
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I myself have listened to it several more times than I usually do PolyCast productions. (That's saying something as that doesn't take into account the times I listened to the individual pieces during editing!)
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The poem "You Come to Play" by 'CivFan91'... in song form ... I'm sorry to say the poem deserved much better than as was sung.
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Before Tony sang it, he read it, and I knew I was going to go with one version or the other as released. 
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With inspiration and some content from a related thread, presenting "The Twelve Days of Civmas" ... much better than the thread's content.
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Thank you kindly. 
I originally compiled (and in part wrote) that list for Episode 36 as a 'follow-up' from last Christmas -- even read it for the recording of that episode -- but cut it in editing, deciding it would be more appropriate to include in this year's Christmas special.
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The Humbug Carol was nicely done!
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That took the most time individually of any segment in this special to complete in post-production, but I wouldn't have been satisfied with the outcome without the music, ambient sounds and sound effects I incorporated.
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So ... Have a merry Humbug, or however you enjoy the season.
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And to you.
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December 25, 2008, 23:54
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Dan - fantastic job of editing. Very impressive little polycast. I will surely be listening to this again. Probably tomorrow on the plane home.
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December 26, 2008, 00:03
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... but I wouldn't have been satisfied with the outcome without the music, ambient sounds and sound effects I incorporated.
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Your judgement demonstrates your wisdom, Dan. Your post-production efforts were well done, though a couple more seconds of the Ghostbusters theme wouldn't have been amiss.
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December 26, 2008, 00:29
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Originally posted by ruff_hi
Dan - fantastic job of editing. Very impressive little polycast.
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Thank you, Tim.
I'd been looking forward to someone who had been apart of the recording of this to comment on the final product as well as those who weren't.
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I will surely be listening to this again. Probably tomorrow on the plane home.
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I hope it's just as if not more enjoyable the second time around. (I extend this sentiment to one and all who have done/do the same.)
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Originally posted by Jaybe
Your judgement demonstrates your wisdom, Dan. Your post-production efforts were well done,
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though a couple more seconds of the Ghostbusters theme wouldn't have been amiss.
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Always leaving one wanting for more. 
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December 26, 2008, 03:39
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Im glad everyone liked the humbug play,
Dan did a fantastic job, and i told him that privately
and i will tell him publically as well
"well done dan, on the special effects of my humbug play"
and i want to thank the rest of the poly&mod cast team
for their roles they played , they did a great job.
and also to everyone who downloads the humbug xmas show
thankyou for listening
cheers
bt_oz
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December 26, 2008, 04:09
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I just wanted to troll DanQ.
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December 26, 2008, 12:08
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Originally posted by bt_oz
Dan did a fantastic job, and i told him that privately
and i will tell him publically as well
"well done dan, on the special effects of my humbug play"
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Thanks, John.
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... to everyone who downloads the humbug xmas show
thankyou for listening
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Originally posted by EPW
I just wanted to troll DanQ.
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On/for Christmas? Doesn't that translate into a stocking full of coal automatically? (At least you'll be able to build railroads. )
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December 26, 2008, 19:58
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Well done guys & gals! A most excellent PC.
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December 26, 2008, 22:36
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Originally posted by Dale
Well done guys & gals! A most excellent PC.
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Thanks, Dale.
Out of curiosity, what was/is your favourite part(s)?
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December 27, 2008, 09:20
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Thoroughly enjoyed that one
I happened to listen to it right after watching Blackadder's Christmas Carol. It shares features with bt_oz's interpretation), but your Humbug Carol is even crazier and had me in stitches
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December 27, 2008, 10:49
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Monty, glad you like the xmas humbug carrol,
it was fun also ,
cheers
bt_oz
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December 27, 2008, 11:43
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December 27, 2008, 17:14
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Originally posted by DanQ
Thanks, Dale.
Out of curiosity, what was/is your favourite part(s)?
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Definitely the Humbug Carol. hehehehe.
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December 27, 2008, 19:57
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Originally posted by Dale
Definitely the Humbug Carol. hehehehe.
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That does not come as a surprise to me.
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December 27, 2008, 21:50
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Guys Playing Civ
Oh wait...
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December 27, 2008, 22:03
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Btw, it still makes me hearing the Modcast members underwhelmed reaction to Maki revealing her name!
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December 28, 2008, 11:49
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December 30, 2008, 04:33
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Imran isn't your real name "Ali the tent maker"?????
hahahahhahahahahahaha
bt_oz
p.s i really thought makaluha was her real name NOT!
hahahahahaa
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December 30, 2008, 11:29
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Originally posted by bt_oz
p.s i really thought makaluha was her real name NOT!
hahahahahaa
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Where did that come from?
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December 30, 2008, 14:39
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Dan its new years eve already here and the party
has already begun
hic.....hic...
bt_oz
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December 30, 2008, 22:05
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Originally posted by bt_oz
Dan its new years eve already here and the party
has already begun
hic.....hic...
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Ah.
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January 10, 2009, 13:39
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I have an idea for next year!
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