Casting Our Pod Into Your Face
In 2008, a few guys with careers in the video game industry started producing a weekly podcast out of a San Francisco apartment. We called it Idle Thumbs, inheriting the name from the sporadically-operational game culture website we helped found back in 2004.
At the time, we had few goals for the show, except that it be independent, that it avoid a predetermined segment-driven format, and that it only be recorded with all parties present in the same room–never remotely. Somewhat to our own surprise, we stuck to those guidelines, and the podcast found an audience.
The show ran for about two years across two incarnations, Idle Thumbs and The Idle Thumbs Podcast. It attracted a listenership who appreciated our dubious blend of interpersonal chemistry, insight into development and the industry, pretentious musings about video games, overenthusiastic evangelism of Far Cry 2, and bafflingly phonological explorations of Jeff Goldblum's name.