Somebody Write This Podcast

Catching up on transcripts! Only seven more to go! The audio version of this episode can be found here . Hannah: A nightmarish hippie cult is on trial for retiring in post-Katrina New Orleans. Jennie: Somebody write this! H: Hi, and welcome to Somebody Write This, where we use a random plot generator to give us an idea and then brainstorm how that could be a thing somebody might want to write. I'm Hannah. Jennie: And I'm Jennie, and to help us with our brainstorming today, we have a guest. Welcome, Bethany Megill! Bethany: Hi, everybody! H: Hey! You are the second of my sisters that we've had on the podcast, of my many sisters, so I'm glad to have you here, because you were one of the ones who did this experiment with me way back when we were writing it on notebooks. Actually, before we get into our actual question, I want to ask you the same question I asked Rebekah when she was on. Do you remember any of the stories you wrote when we did this game when you were younge...

The audio for this episode can be found here .  Hannah: His bowling buddies try to find out why her son tries to invade earth in the Texas Bayous. Jennie: Somebody write this. Hannah: Hi, and welcome to Somebody Write This where we use a random plot generator to give us an idea, and then we brainstorm how that could be a thing somebody might want to write. I'm Hannah. Jennie: And I'm Jennie, and to help us with our brainstorming today, we have a guest. Welcome Tim McMeen. Tim: Well, hello there. Thanks for having me on the show. I'm really excited. Hannah: Yeah. I'm excited to have you on the show. Tim and I have been friends for a really long time, but right now, what we're doing a lot together is he's DMing a D&D campaign that I'm part of that we're doing virtually with a group of friends. Jennie: You're the DM I've been hearing about. Hannah: Yes. Tim: Hopefully good things. Jennie: Yes. Yes. Hannah: It's my first time. I dipped my toe...

Friends, I have somehow *just* learned that the final version of this episode that I uploaded and released back in June has weird chunks of missing audio throughout. I don't know where those pieces went. It must have happened at some point during the final save process, because I absolutely would have caught that during editing! I'll have to keep an eye out for that one. As such, the audio and this resulting transcript I commissioned are...a little disjointed. It's a bummer, because it was a fun concept! I'll post the transcription and leave up the episode for completion's sake, and I've filled in the gaps where I can remember them,  but feel free to jump along to later episodes if it's too distracting. Hannah: An old friend finds himself shooting a big-budget war movie, but he is distracted by shop-lifting.  Jennie: Somebody write this. Hannah: Hi, and welcome to Somebody Write This where we use a random plot generator to give us an idea, and then we brain...