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Extra Credit 039 - Andrew Leman Interview (Patreon)

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2025-09-25 20:05:29
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Join us as we talk with our friend and collaborator Andrew Leman about the origins and offerings of the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society!

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Newk

I had a real s*** day and I'm so glad you guys let this episode out today because it made me feel a lot better. Anytime you guys have Andrew on is like a little gift to me but this episode was wholesome

Alan Ricks

We miss Voluminous ❤️

Victor Badger

I love hearing that Nick Offerman was once busted in a steam tunnel dressed as a zombie for LARP purposes. Truly made my day. Also learning that the HPLHS name origin was from a frantic mental scramble to extricate them from the clutches of unamused Law Enforcement takes me back to my days at the Second Street Rod and Gun Club, my buddy's Dad's Dentist Office where we would hang out, smoke cigarettes, drink too much caffeine and enjoy anime, video games, role-playing and light vandalism. Good times!

Eric - Speaker in Digressions

My partner, Rebecca, and I answered a call on the HPLHS Members Facebook group to playtest earlier versions of the Purgatory Chasm adventure. You should all shower Andrew and Sean and co. with money and listen to / play / consume it. We only ever interacted with the time-travel plot, and I look forward to finding and exploring the other two. I can also recommend The Spark Devil! Last year, in the wake of NecronomiCon Providence, Sean Branney ran it as a one-shot for some of us convention staff. The oatmeal-can radio is delightful, and other props were amazing, as one would expect. Also, the scenario is set in Providence. Which, OMG, is where we were! And we even won, -ish.

Ben A

I second this! But given the sheer volume of audio Andrew and Sean are spearheading through HPLHS I can understand that this project needed to be sunset, at least for a while.

Ben A

This show was a delight. Andrew, to borrow one of Chris's regular accolades, is an absolute treasure! I am constantly astounded by the high quality and voluminous creative output of the HPLHS, from props to audio and everything in between. I knew the lead time for some of these projects is measured in years, but I am surprised that some are effectively the culmination of 40 years of ideas, connections, and play. I hope all the folks involved, especially Sean and Andrew, know how much we in the broader community appreciate their many efforts. And we appreciate you guys for bringing Andrew's dulcet and unmatched voice to our ears. I hope everyone is having fun doing all this, but avoiding run-ins with the (campus) police. (I mean, ludo fore putavimus, right?) As an aside, aren't the steam tunnels at UI the same ones that were implicated in that D&D scare in the '80s? The same tunnels that were dramatized in that awful movie with Tom Hanks? Looking forward to those Poe recordings and rediscovering some of his lesser known work! And also looking forward to whatever awaits us next month on the show!

Richard Horsman

I always love a little Lehman, and this was a LOT! Really looking forward to those Poe recordings. And boys, I think this is the sign that it’s finally time for you to do Poe’s Narrative of A Gordon Pym. It is a VERY strange and gruesome and often sad story, and Poevember is just around the corner…

Richard Upton Sinclair Lewis Pickman

If you’re looking for suggestions, I might put a vote in for more Theodore Sturgeon. I recently bought a copy of Volume II of his collected short stories, titled after Microcosmic God. I was immediately taken with the first story ‘Cargo.’ Maybe it could be part of an ‘at sea’ theme?

Alan Ricks

Whenever Andrew talks about his friendship with Chris and Chad and starts to choke up it makes me tear up too. I hope everyone has such a sincere supportive friend in their lives, they are worth their weight in eldritch carven idols.

Alan Ricks

Andrew definitely has cracked the formula for Well’s New Accelerator!

Bret Kramer

Dutch is also the name of a certain sewer-dwelling entity in the scenario “With Malice Aforethought” written by Jamie Anderson and Andrew Lehman. Was this LARP an early version of that scenario?

Clint Page

I was listening to this while traveling down I-85, just a few miles south of the North Carolina border. It was a cloudy, moonless night, and a mist was hanging in the air from an evening thunderstorm, illuminated by a dull yellow effulgence. As I cleared the hill at exit 92, I saw that the source of the light was a giant, disembodied human butt hovering over the landscape. Now I'm from South Carolina, and the Gaffney Peachoid and I are basically the same age. I'm very familiar with it. But it just struck me as I was listening to Andrew talk about LARPing in the university steam tunnels that if I was a traveller from a far land, I might have had a very Weird experience that night. I have had people who only know about it from the Netflix House of Cards adaptation stare blankly at me when I tell them it's real.

Kip Barnes

I love Andrew Lehman! What a talented person he is. You can feel his excitement, passion, and love for the subject in his readings and conversation. It’s a pleasure to listen to you all talk. Super friendship vibes. It pulls me back to when I was able to hang out with you all in providence. Can’t wait to check out these projects!

Wulf Mungus

Andrew says that Offerman shared a work space with a sculptor who ..."moved out". Or perhaps he was suddenly swept away in a terrible windstorm?

Rafe Ball

Nautical November?

Richard Upton Sinclair Lewis Pickman

I like it! It’s certainly better than other November trends out there, but probably involves at least as many questionable mustaches.

Ryan Thomas

What is a steam tunnel? An answer of "a tunnel full of steam" is pointless.

Jim Cannon

Maintenance tunnels, often gave expised pipes and wires, typically "employees only" spaces

Mandy Reznor (She/It)

I have to say, this interview was a total delight. Especially learning that the name of the HPLHS came from a lie told to cops on the University of Boulder campus. When I escaped from Alabama to Colorado so I could transition years back, I worked at a gas station near that college! I rode the bus by it many a time! If I'd known that anecdote at the time, I may have cherished the proximity of that campus more than the view of the Flatirons I had at work.

It's a Ghost.

It's a walk-able (or creep-able) tunnel that contains pipes full of steam used to heat campus buildings.

Jake

Or for D&D games that take themselves too seriously and get Tom Hanks involved with Mazes and Monsters.