Episode 281: Interview with Manveer Heir and Rashad Redic from Brass Lion

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🗓️ 22 November 2019

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

It's been two years but he's finally back. Manveer Heir, who came on Waypoint Radio in 2017 to talk about his time working on Mass Effect: Andromeda, has returned to the podcast studio with Rashad Redic, an industry veteran whose worked on games such as Fallout 3 and Skyrim. Together they make up two thirds of Brass Lion, a new entertainment studio with goal to tell the stories of underrepresented and marginalized groups in their own voices, from their own perspective. Austin sat down to chat with them about their first game, Corner Wolves, their experiences in the industry, building a new startup, and the best hip-hop artists of all time.

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0:00.0	What's good internet is awesome Walker welcome to Waypoint Radio a special episode
0:22.7	Something that a lot of people have been clamoring for for I guess two years now
0:27.1	We years two years ago 2017 had a great episode of my all-time favorites
0:33.6	With a developer who I respect a great deal nodding his head right now
0:39.7	He's he is let me tell you the fit is right right now. I appreciate that maybe air is here. How are you doing?
0:46.4	I'm doing very well. Welcome back to the show. Thank you for having me. Yeah, no, I appreciate the Waypoint audience you
0:52.3	Of course the feedback last time was like on prep given ahead nothing to promote
0:56.9	I was just you were promoting your freedom you were promoting I'm about to go out there and make stuff happen
1:02.5	Yeah, and now we make it stuff happen
1:04.5	You're here not alone. You're here with Rashad reddick is reddick correct. Yeah, that's right. That's right
1:09.7	It is right. You're not just you're not just telling me that you're not just being okay
1:13.5	You would tell me if I got it wrong. Oh, yeah, all right good. Oh wait. Can I correct you then? Yes, actually
1:17.9	I haven't told you this so I'm gonna do this live on the air so
1:20.7	Manveer is my colonizer name. Oh shit
1:23.4	This is the name that finetically people have said to me since I was a kid is my
1:27.2	My dad I had no no, but I have gone by that I
1:29.9	Right and so recently in the last year or two I was like you know what why am I letting people call me main
1:34.9	Veer when that's not the way you pronounce my name. Oh, so the a in Indian language in Punjabi which I'm Punjabi Sikh
1:41.1	Is more like a you okay, so it's actually pronounced the Munveer Munveer
1:44.4	So I'm now trying to tell all my friends are people that
1:47.7	That know me and when I do conferences and interviews that I'm actually Munveer hair. His name is coming out
1:52.9	Listen good so that is yeah, so if you see me
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