Scott Johnson

And at the end of the show today, we're going to actually play a throwback segment from a long time ago because the person who made it very sadly just passed away kind of suddenly. And I think we owe him a little honor there. So to bring all of that back, we're going to start with an old one and think about that guy a little bit. More on that later. But anyway, lots of cool stuff on the way.

We also started a new guild within the core guild, which is all part of my core podcast. You might say, wait, what happened to AIE? They're still there. So if you're in there, you're already good. You're with friends. You're among friends. We're just kind of spreading it around a little bit, having it sort of permeate other places.

And now that guilds are cross-faction, cross-realm, way less barriers to entry. Yeah. Just seems like a perfect time to kind of kick that part of the industry or the of the community together. So we're looking forward to all of that. And who knows, Bobby might be the guy that leads like the real hardcore, you know, weekly locked out freaking mythic runs. I don't know.

Yeah. What do you, do you think there'll be like a line for this? I think there will be, people are going to be like, I want to, I want to do mythics with Bobby just from our conversation here. They don't even have proof that you're good at that yet. They don't even know. They're just going to show up and go, I have a keystone.

Astounding levels of leadership. That's what you bring. So I'm not worried.

That's right. You can also expect, I've been talking a lot to PR lately, you can expect a lot of conversations with more folks at Blizzard, some familiar people, some newer people that no one's really met in this way before.

like all this stuff is possible so it's all coming up speaking of which last week i went to um blizzard entertainment there in irvine california for roughly 36 hours it was very quick um but i got a message some days before from an old friend of blizzard chris metzen who said hey do you want to be the guy that does this interview that we need doing and i said 100 i would i'll come do that for you he's done so much for me why wouldn't i go that do that for him

And it turns out it's a good thing I did because I don't think anybody was going to do this if we didn't have some sort of mutual agreement on who was going to interview and that sort of thing. So I was honored to be asked, first of all. Second of all, it's just kind of a no-brainer. And I was like, all right, let's go. The only problem is it bumped this show a week.

We were supposed to record this last Tuesday. Yeah. That's kind of sucked, right? I was like, hey, Bobby, sorry.

And they went, well, I guess we can settle for it. It's fine. But, yeah, I went out there and got to sit one-on-one with Chris. We did a very – those guys are very professional about their camera equipment and their audio stuff. It's kind of awesome to see them prioritize that. They have, like, full-time people that just do that.

They're at Blizzard whenever it's needed for their various games and whatnot. Of course, right now, a lot of WoW stuff happening there. But the interview happened. If you haven't seen it, go to the Warcraft YouTube channel. It's currently, I think, the most recent video.

Yeah, they basically made a part of that playlist, even though it was kind of outside of it, but it fits. I think you can hear it as well without the video on their RSS feeds, but I think it's worth listening to for a bunch of reasons. One, it was a really great look at 30 years of Warcraft, which is an insane thing to say, 20 years of World of Warcraft.

And what that time has yielded for both Chris personally and professionally, what the plans are moving forward, what it's like to come back after that amount of time and some of those challenges. It went places. And a lot of it got cut because we had done an hour and a half of content. They had to whittle it down to about 20 minutes or something. Yeah.

I think the entire community feels that way. So don't... Yeah, yeah.

and the art of storytelling and um and it just if it was it's great everybody should listen to it it's it's really really great yeah i think you should too so as far as like things that got cut um there's there were immediately in the youtube comments people who

I have followed my stuff for saying things like, Scott, how did you not say Khadgar the shit wizard when I brought up Khadgar and kind of paused awkwardly because I looked like I was maybe going to call him a shit wizard because we've been doing that for years on here. And there is a version of some footage somewhere that is cutting room floor for this where I did refer to him as the shit wizard.

And I can't remember exactly what the content was or why. It wasn't part of when I was talking about him in that context that did make it. But there was some other Khadgar comment that got yanked. Um, there are a few other things. Like he said something, everybody wants to know when he said, um, we're not prepared for something to do with the sword being extracted from Azeroth.

And I said something in the aftermath of that, that got cut. Um, And so I don't actually know the answer to this. I just know that my, the word, you might call it a proper name, a proper noun that I said got cut. I'm not saying that means it's anything or doesn't mean anything, but they left in the comment about you and are prepared. And if they're willing to do that.

I'm just saying put together your own thousand-piece puzzle, okay?

Okay. No getting around it. It was so much fun, though. And it really only represented about two hours of time for the trip. The rest of it, I got to go tour a bunch of stuff. We got to have lunch with Chris and hang out for a bit. Their curated internal museum, the Blizzard Museum, very cool. Like, you would love this thing. It's like literally a museum. Yeah. And they curate it like one.