DanQ
Owner, Civilized Communication
'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.
The summary of topics is as follows:
- 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.
Enjoy.
lol.
. We do acknowledge in this special that rivaling last year's is a tall order. That said, I do believe it holds its own. Of course, I may be biased... 
, but I hope that you will listen to the entire special from beginning to end soon. This will help you form a more informed opinion on this special. 
