Akkedis

I don't know what I would give to have some Dota 2 developers from Valve on the podcast.

You'd be amazed at the creativity and talent of the DotA developers. This is a quote from Neichus, the person that took over from Steve and colaborated with Icefrog (before he got the leash): Something along the lines of the last paragraph is, what I think, they were refering to during the podcast. Somewhere he also mentions how the Pudge hook was programmed - a bunch of glaives that follow on each other. You can find a summary of Neichus' thoughts on his time as a DotA develper here.