Maggie Thomas call

The Maggie Thomas call was made in September 2009, and this led to the 10 September 2009 video. The audio was leaked in 14 May 2013 by whispsonichu on the CWCki Forums. Unfortunately, the audio quality on the Chandler end was poorly recorded.

Highlights

 * Chris's favorite characters who aren't Sonichu are Wild or Bubbles.
 * He seems mad that Archie Comics doesn't take submissions over the transom. Maggie suggests to him Jhonen Vasquez's company.
 * He likes platform games and Tetris.
 * His favorite console is the Sega Dreamcast (a tactless admission to a reporter who's said the article is about the PS3, but that's Chris for you).
 * His friends and family are supportive of Sonichu.
 * His favorite person in the world, and his biggest inspiration, is Britney Spears.
 * Unsurprisingly, he does a lot of ranting about Encyclopedia Dramatica and trolls. Maggie promises not to read his ED page.
 * His message to the creative youth who want to be comic artists or game designers: "Take your time."
 * He asks if "maggiethomas25" refers to her age in her email address.
 * Maggie is from Northern England. Chris mentions a place in Richmond called "Matt's British Pub." This is where Bob gets on and starts talking about "Knees Up Mother Brown."
 * Chris asks for a photo of Maggie. He wants to know if she personally knows tech series personality Veronica Belmont.

Transcript
[heavy breathing, dialing tone] Maggie: Hello, is this Mr. Chandler? Bob: Yes... (Now who is calling?) [inaudible] Christian's father. Maggie: Oh, hello, um, I was wanting to speak t- to Christian about doing an interview, possibly, for PlayMag, which is t- the UK PlayStation magazine. Bob: Then you'll have to get him on the line. [inaudible] Maggie: OK, thank you very much. Bob: Have you talked to him before? [inaudible] talk Maggie: I have. I did send him an e-mail from my e-mail account, um, I'm not sure if he got it so I- I, uh, thought about leaving my e-mail address. Bob: [inaudible] Maggie: Yeah, it’s uh, Maggie Thomas. Have you got a pen? Sorry. Bob: [inaudible] Maggie: Yeah, it’s Maggie Thomas. Bob: M-a-g-g-i-e? [inaudible] Maggie: Yep, uh, Yep and it's t-h-o-m-a-s. Bob: [inaudible] Maggie: Twenty-five. Bob: [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: at (@) aol.co.uk. <font color="#00AF33">Bob: [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: Yeah you have to put t- the, uh, .co.uk. <font color="#00AF33">Bob: [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: [Briefly laughs] <font color="#00AF33">Bob: [inaudible] ...Is that a back slash or a front slash? [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: Um, I don’t think that there’s any slashes just the, you know, like the @ symbol .co.uk <font color="#00AF33">Bob: Now that's at aol?[inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: Yep, @aol.com.uk <font color="#00AF33">Bob: [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: yeah, s- sorry I’m really scratchy I got the flu at the moment. <font color="#00AF33">Bob: You got the H1N1... [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: [Laughs] No, I just think it’s like the regular flu. <font color="#00AF33">Bob: [inaudible] ...The regular ol' flu... [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: [Laughs] Yeah <font color="#00AF33">Bob: [inaudible] ...you don't get time off, do ya?... [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: No, I actually told them that I'd... [inaudible] ...with the swine flu they might have given me some time off. <font color="#00AF33">Bob: [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: Alrighty <font color="#00AF33">Bob: [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: Oh... <font color="#00AF33">Bob: [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: Oh that’s terrible! Um, I mean t- the office that I work for, they don’t give me international calls so I have t- to buy Skype credit to call internationally to do interviews and things so I couldn't really leave a number. <font color="#0033FF">Chris: Yes, hello. <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: Hello Christian, it- this is Maggie. <font color="#0033FF">Chris: Hello. <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: Hello. Y- Are you available right now to do a- an interview? <font color="#0033FF">Chris: [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: Oh, that’s brilliant! Um, It’s okay if I, uh, If I type while we talk, isn't it? <font color="#0033FF">Chris: Uhh...what was the name again? <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: It’s Maggie. <font color="#0033FF">Chris: [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: Um, I just I’d just tell you a little a bit about the article first, and basically, it’s about like into the artists ,like yourself, who've become sort-of quite popular; although they're often common at the minute. And basically it’s gonna be about maybe ten or twelve different people an- and of what they do and what they do to do with like, video games and things. <font color="#0033FF">Chris: [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: And that sounds alright? <font color="#0033FF">Chris: [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: And as long as you're comfortable with everything I can, like, go ahead and – What I'll do is when I’ve, like, written my markup I'll send you like an e-mail copy of that just for you, too and just to say like I’m happy with everything I’ve put. Yeah, and then like, um, Because this is like writing off what to expect so it will be, it won't be like next month’s issue it will probably be more like November- December. B- Because we tend to write them, like, a couple of months beforehand to make sure that, like, if there’s any changes that need t- to happen they can- there’s plenty of time. And then when that gets published what I'll do is I'll send you l- like a hard copy of it <font color="#0033FF">Chris: [inaudible] ...through the snail mail, right?... [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: Yeah. I do have a copy- [Chris interrupts Maggie mid-sentence] <font color="#0033FF">Chris: [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: I do, yes somebody, um, from the forums, like, uh, forwarded me your, uh, your l- like email and your website address and they had like your home address on that as well. [Chris interrupts] <font color="#0033FF">Chris: [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: Cons- basically I sort asked people on the forum whose popular at the moment because I- I knew there of a few but I thought, like, maybe there was a few up-and-coming and your name came up, like, quite a few times so I thought right out I’ll contact this guy and ask him about him about his- Now I've read some of your comics and how I’m really enjoying them I’m not done reading them, yet because there’s- there’s quite a few and I'm enjoying reading them so far. <font color="#0033FF">Chris: [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: [laughs] You're welcome. Um, so the first thing I wanted to ask was, uh, how did Sonichu get started? I did say that right, didn't I? Sonichu. <font color="#0033FF">Chris: [inaudible] ...Ah, yes... [inaudible] [Maggie occasionally says "Mhm" and "Yeah" while Chris speaks] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: Wha- Tha- I mean, like, it's been- so in 2000 it started and that's nearly ten years now. [Chris speaking over Maggie] <font color="#0033FF">Chris: [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: What keeps you drawing, like, what keeps you sort of going with the- with the comics now after, like, nearly ten years? <font color="#0033FF">Chris: [inaudible] ...like a hobby. [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: Yeah, yeah. Um, okay that sounds great. Um, the next thing I wanted to ask you was, like, my favorite character that, like, so far is actually Black Sonichu. I really like him, Um, and I wanted to know, like, who is your favorite character who wasn't your main character like Sonichu? <font color="#0033FF">Chris: Yeah, I really like- I really like Sonichu... [inaudible] ...I would have to say, uh, Wild or Bubbles. [Maggie occasionally responds with "Yeah" while Chris speaks] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: Wild or Bubbles. That's the, uh, like the blue one and the green one, yeah? <font color="#0033FF">Chris: Yes. <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: I- I'm still trying to ,like, learn all the names cause there- there's so much material to kinda go through I'm j- just enjoying reading them. [Briefly laughs] Um... so you've been going nearly ten years and what's the fan response so far, has it been largely positive I know there's been a couple of problems from, like, bad people and your father was saying just a little earlier but has it been mostly positive om- [Chris trying to speak over Maggie can be heard in the background] <font color="#0033FF">Chris: [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: I hate sites like that just- [Chris continually interrupts Maggie] <font color="#0033FF">Chris: [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: Yeah, I don't like people who say nasty things about other people just for the sake of causing people upset, it's not a very nice thing to do... I don't think. <font color="#0033FF">Chris: [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: Um... if you were approached by uh, like a, uh leading comic book company who would, uh, be your ideal person to sort of approach you about it? <font color="#0033FF">Chris: [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: Ok- sorry, [inaudible] um let me restate that. I tend to mumble a little. Um, so like if Marvel or DC or, like, Dark Horse comics said "we want t- to publish your comics" wh- who would be your favorite person t- to, uh, come and publish them? <font color="#0033FF">Chris: [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: Yes, sorry. [Briefly laughs] <font color="#0033FF">Chris: [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: Oh? <font color="#0033FF">Chris: [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: Yeah. That sounds like a good list. [Chris continues talking over Maggie.] <font color="#0033FF">Chris: [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: Yeah, yeah. T- they don't take unsolicited stuff. <font color="#0033FF">Chris: [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: Yeah. <font color="#0033FF">Chris: [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: Oh well that's not very good. Um, you should maybe think about, um, s- some of the smaller companies, like, the , uh, one that Jhonen Vasquez, the guy who writes Invader Zim and he- his, like, company is like a small amid to a lot of people who sort of started on the internet and moved over. You might want to look into them. <font color="#0033FF">Chris: [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: I- yeah I can, um, okay, so, to video games, which, is that sort of going to be the self punch of the piece? Do you, um, you based all of the characters on video game characters, um, what do you think you would do if someone said, like, w- were gonna want to make a video game of your characters now. <font color="#0033FF">Chris: [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: Yeah. <font color="#0033FF">Chris: [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: Like, um, have you s- I don- have seen the new one that's just been announced. <font color="#0033FF">Chris: [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: Tha- That's it's gonna be- there gonna go back to 2-D Sonic games apparently. <font color="#0033FF">Chris: [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: I, uh, saw an article on it, uh, someone forwarded it to me this morning. <font color="#0033FF">Chris: [inaudible] (something about the CWCkipedia) <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: Um... I- I found the CWCkipedia, yeah, uh someone gave me the- the link for that. So, I will- [Chris interrupts] <font color="#0033FF">Chris: [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: Yeah. I- I'll send you th- the link to it, it was quite a good article and they had a little preview video on it as well. <font color="#0033FF">Chris: [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: Um, so what's your favorite type of video game? Is it, like, Sonic the adventure games? <font color="#0033FF">Chris: [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: [inaudible] <font color="#0033FF">Chris: [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: Oh yes! Tetris, I like Tetris. Um, so, what would your advice be to someone who said, like, I have a- I'd like to start an online comic. What would be the best advice you could give that person? <font color="#0033FF">Chris: [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: Okay. That's no problem. Um, do you have a favorite, uh, like video game console? [Chris talking over Maggie a bit] <font color="#0033FF">Chris: [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: Yeah. Mhm. The Sega Dreamcast. <font color="#0033FF">Chris: [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: That's good and, uh, how far up would PlayStation come up on your list? That's what we'd like to hear! [Laughs] Sorry, um. [Coughs] <font color="#0033FF">Chris: [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: Oh, um. <font color="#0033FF">Chris: [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: Uh. Soni- is it just Sonichu? <font color="#0033FF">Chris: Yes. <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: Yeah. Well, that's a lot! <font color="#0033FF">Chris: [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: Okay, um. So how'd y- So how'd you, um, when you sort of started doing this, um, what sort of pushed you to say because y- you said you started, um, by with your CADD project, um, what pushed you to say, like "I'm gonna move this onto the internet now"? [Computer noises] [Phone rings in background] <font color="#0033FF">Chris: [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: Yes. <font color="#0033FF">Chris: [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: Okay, um, are your friends and family, like, really supportive of Sonichu? <font color="#0033FF">Chris: Yes. <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: They are. Oh! That's good. Um, okay so uh probably what I got- probably what I've got room for- for a couple of little questions I could probably squeeze in the end, uh, and these are the kind of questions I'll ask everyone, um, if you, uh, had to choose only one video game for the rest of your life, what would it be? If you could only play one. <font color="#0033FF">Chris: [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: Excellent choices! Um, who is your absolute favorite in the world, like, it could be, like, you know your mother or an actor or a particular person. Who's your favorite person, like, your biggest inspiration? <font color="#0033FF">Chris: [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: Yeah. <font color="#0033FF">Chris: I would say Britney Spears. <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: Britney Spears. I- I like Britney, I think she get's too much, uh, bad attention in the press. <font color="#0033FF">Chris: [inaudible] (something more about Britney Spears) <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: [Laughs] I won't look up that website, I don't think I'll need to [inaudible] you know, silly people who are probably just jealous caus- [Chris cuts Maggie off] <font color="#0033FF">Chris: [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: Mhm. <font color="#0033FF">Chris: [inaudible] ...It seems like practically five, ten minutes of self-loathing! <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: Ugh. It's just people who- who are jealous in- in seeing how successful you've become on the internet cause a lot of people talk about you so they just sort of said "well we wanna annoy that guy!" [Chris possibly interrupting] I'd ignore them if I were you. <font color="#0033FF">Chris: [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: Mhm. Huh... well that's not very nice! <font color="#0033FF">Chris: [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: Oh, well I probably won't even bother to read it, like, Internet bullies are terrible people. <font color="#0033FF">Chris: Yeah. <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: F- for one final thing, what would your, sort of, message t- to the future be, the sort of future comic book artists and video game developers and, like, th- the users of tomorrow. What would your future message be? <font color="#0033FF">Chris: Yeah. I would say... take your time! <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: "Take your time." <font color="#0033FF">Chris: [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: Yeah. <font color="#0033FF">Chris: [inaudible] [Something more about taking your time] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: That- That's a lovely message. Well, thank you- [Chris cuts off Maggie] <font color="#0033FF">Chris: Well sometimes y'know, well sometimes y'know... [inaudible] (Something about acting out a pose) <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: Yeah <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: A lot of people say that wh- who are artists, they say that they've got to act out what they're doing to, uh, to get the feel of it. Well thank you very much for your time, Chris, I really really appreciate it. Um, I'm gonna- I'm gonna do the write up and I will e-mail you that and I'll e-mail you the link to, um, to the preview video I saw. [Chris possibly interrupting] I'll e-mail you that link f- for the new Sonic game and the, um, comic book people I'll- I'll e-mail you that as well sorry I like scribbled that down on a little post-it! Um, so you'll probably hear from in the next sort of day or so via e-mail and you have my e-mail address! [Chris interrupts Maggie] <font color="#0033FF">Chris: [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: I- I did, uh, tell your father. I did send you an e-mail as well. I'm not sure if you got it. If you're getting a lot of... a large volume of messages you might've sort of missed it. <font color="#0033FF">Chris: [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: It's maggiethomas25@aol.co.uk. <font color="#0033FF">Chris: [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: Yeah. <font color="#0033FF">Chris: [inaudible] ...You're twenty-five? <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: I am, yeah. [Laughs] Although I wasn't when I, um, made that e-mail address. [Laughs] Oh, I think I was about eighteen so I picked Twenty-Five cause there was a few other "Maggie Thomases". <font color="#0033FF">Chris: [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: Yeah. <font color="#0033FF">Chris: [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: Probably. Not now, I feel a bit old! [Laughs] <font color="#0033FF">Chris: Ah, don't worry. I'm two years older than you! <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: Oh, well I don't feel so old now! [Laughs] [Chris can be heard trying to interrupt in the background] I apologize, by the way, for my throaty voice, I'm full of flu at the moment! <font color="#0033FF">Chris: [inaudible] [Bob starts talking to Maggie] <font color="#00AF33">Bob: [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: Okay! What town? <font color="#00AF33">Bob: [inaudible] ...do you live in London or where? <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: No, uh, I live in the north of England. I live in a town called Darlington. <font color="#00AF33">Bob: [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: Darlington. Really? <font color="#00AF33">Bob: [inaudible] (possibly rambling about having been over in that area in the past) <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: Oh! <font color="#00AF33">Bob: [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: Oh! Oh that's lovely! What was the name of the pub? Just out of curiosity. <font color="#00AF33">Bob: [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: Matt's British Pub. Th- [Bob briefly interrupts] <font color="#00AF33">Bob: [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: [Laughs] Oh, that's lovely! <font color="#00AF33">Bob: [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: I know that one, m- my Nana sings me that song, yeah. <font color="#00AF33">Bob: [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: Mhm. <font color="#00AF33">Bob: [inaudible] [Bob trying to talk over Maggie] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: [Laughs] Oh, that's lovely! Well, yeah I- I don't live in London, I live in the north. Yeah, it's about six hours. <font color="#00AF33">Bob: [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: Um, yeah I can do that! I could do that for you. I could probably get- [Bob still trying to talk over Maggie] <font color="#00AF33">Bob: [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: [Laughs] "Knees Up Mother Brown"! That- that's great! I could probably get you an MP3 of it, actually I- I'll write out the lyrics but I can probably get an MP3. [Bob says something inaudible] Uh, e-mail it to Christian. <font color="#00AF33">Bob: [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: [Laughs] <font color="#00AF33">Bob: [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: Y- Yeah I'll get that done for you. <font color="#00AF33">Bob: [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: Well, it was absolutely lovely talking to you. Uh, I'm gonna get writing my article [Chris comes back to the call] <font color="#0033FF">Chris: [inaudible] ...Okay, well uh, I'd like a uh- a uh photograph of your face... [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: A photograph? Oh. [Laughs] I'll- [Chris interrupts Maggie] <font color="#0033FF">Chris: [inaudible] ...considerably in a JPEG format... [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: JPEG. Right. [Laughs] I'll- I'll find something that's not hideously embarrassing. [Laughs] I've got a couple of photos on my computer but they're very embarrassing ones. Like me in, uh, school and things. <font color="#0033FF">Chris: [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: [Laughs] Right! O- Okay I'll get you a picture as well. Okay I've got a lot written down here on my little post-it [Laughs]to send you. <font color="#0033FF">Chris: [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: Oh I better go because I better get writing my article before- before my editor informs me in the morning and says, like, "have you done any work yet?" <font color="#0033FF">Chris: Okay, by the way, do you know Veronica Belmont? <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: Um, I don't. No... no. <font color="#0033FF">Chris: [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: I know who she is! But I don't actually, like, know her. She- like- like I know her work. She does do a really great job, I- I wish I knew her! I do wish I knew her, but,I'm a bit lower down on the pipeline, I'm afraid. [Laughs] I just sort of write the articles. <font color="#0033FF">Chris: [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: [Coughs] Excuse me! <font color="#0033FF">Chris: [inaudible] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: Thank you very much for your time, I really appreciate it. I hope to speak to you again. <font color="#0033FF">Chris: [inaudible] ...stay safe. <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: You too! Have a good day. Bye! [Phone call ends, recording is still going] [Maggie sighs] [Sounds of Maggie moving around] <font color="#FF69B4">Maggie: Um. [Coughs] Ugh.

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