Hobert Thompson

Shipping & Receiving, Episode 60: Lizard Lunch

Shipping & Receiving, Episode 60: Lizard Lunch

Greetings, dear listener! Our heroes are reunited after their hunt for Brother Will’s treasure, and it’s time for lunch! After noticing a mysterious food truck in the parking lot of NPC Inc’s warehouse, The Green Team figures out their strange ordering system and sits down for some delicious tacos slathered in a potent sauce to discuss what to do about the rumors being supposedly spread by Dimetra. Then it’s back to business as usual, Quinn wanders off to look at birds, Matt makes a discovery, June looks for a shower. When Dimetra discovers the identity of the culprit, will the party be too lost in the sauce to help??

Thirst for Adventure Live: Best of the Beach

Thirst for Adventure Live: Best of the Beach

Greetings, dear listeners! Please enjoy this audio version of our latest live show, Thirst for Adventure. This sunshine-y quest takes our heroes to the far-flung island of Lancalo, where an annual challenge is held to decide who is Best of the Beach! Can the heroes win this competition and impress the Sunlord? Or will traps, sentient beachballs, and their own problematic views on elves keep them from winning the prize from a dastardly contestant who seems just as determined to kill them as to beat them? Download this live ep into your shellphone or seagull (depending on your service provider) and soak in some summer fun!

Shipping & Receiving, Episode 59: Celestial Conflict

Shipping & Receiving, Episode 59: Celestial Conflict

Greetings, dear listeners! Matt and June are on a treasure hunt! Can they survive the heat and darkness to find the treasure of Brother Will, and also complete a side quest to cool down the warehouse for Bill Bonetusk? And while they’re away, will Quinn and Dimetra stay out of trouble (and the supply closet?) or will trouble find them in the form of strange rumors going around the office, spread by one of the Green Team?

Thirst for Adventure Live: High Noon June

Thirst for Adventure Live: High Noon June

Greetings, dear listeners! Please enjoy this audio version of our latest live show, Thirst for Adventure. Sorry about the audio quality on this one, we were in a different theater with a different set up, but it’s still a rootin-tootin’ good time! In this gunslingin’ adventure, four heroes with scores to settle showdown against a gang of evil sheriffs in a dusty desert town. Get ready for hot coffee, cool denim outfits, and a gunfight that will have you chanting “Piss, Piss, Piss!”

Shipping & Receiving, Episode 58: John Rainbow: First Blood

Shipping & Receiving, Episode 58: John Rainbow: First Blood

Greetings, dear listeners! Another Wednesday begins for our heroes as they wake to a heat advisory from their favorite unhinged public radio DJ, John Rainbow. Can our heroes beat the heat and start another day at NPC Inc, or will they be pushed to the edge and discover that no amount of charitable donations to public radio can slake their thirst for vengeance? Find out as a new day dawns, complete with evil forms, ominous new coworkers, and a call to find a long lost treasure, somewhere deep in the warehouse! You’re listening to WCPR, home of hot hits and hostage crises!

Thirst for Adventure Live: Fey May!

Thirst for Adventure Live: Fey May!

Greetings, dear listeners! Please enjoy this audio version of our latest live show, Thirst for Adventure. In this magical installment, four somewhat-helpful heroes are teleported to the fey realm to help a princess find her stolen smile so that Spring can begin. Can a rebellious druid, a goblin who might be a king, a devilish warlock, and a capitalist cleric solve the mystery in a world where everything is quirked up and hella silly? Is cocaine ok for unicorns? Does applesauce get you drunk? Find out in this magical live show that will have you coming back for more! (repeat customers are very important to our business model)

Shipping & Receiving, Episode 57: Meat, Pray, Love

Shipping & Receiving, Episode 57: Meat, Pray, Love

Greetings, dear listeners! The dudes of NPC Inc are hangin’ out! Join Matt, Bill, Sean, Ray and Durzek as they head to the Firepit Bowl-o-Rama to face off with a trio of challenges: Food, Drink, and Bowling. Can these fellas take a break from the stress of modern life to enjoy a game and a drink with some new friends, or will we quickly lose interest in what they’re doing and start to follow the story of a beleaguered bartender and his cigar-loving friend? Why not both? Grab some meat off Sal Manderberg’s grill and fill a glass with three kinds of scotch, let’s roll!

Shipping & Receiving, Episode 56: Speaking Dramatically

Shipping & Receiving, Episode 56: Speaking Dramatically

Greetings, dear listeners! Dimetra is in trrrrrooouble! As Mr. Lowe and Quinn remind her of the company’s very obvious attendance policy, Matt and June head to the hot, smokey office of Sean Burns, hoping to find some clarity on the recent employee survey and to continue to explore Matt’s well-established hatred of surveys. Get ready for a miraculous save via high-two and to hear our cast pull off a dizzying combo of movie, music and gaming references that would make Tony Hawk’s head explode.

Thirst for Adventure Live: The Opposite of Dracula

Thirst for Adventure Live: The Opposite of Dracula

Greetings, dear listeners! Please enjoy this audio version of our latest live show, Thirst for Adventure. In this topsy-turvy adventure, a team of adventurers set out to help the Opposite of Dracula, a kind sunflower farmer who just wants to make his hometown of Helsing a better place, but a cruel land developer and his treacherous former servant want him dead! Are they ready to defend Sunshine Farm from mean ol’ Mina Harker, or will the allure of cruel capitalism cause them to turn on the reverse-vampire they were paid to protect? Find out in this tale of blood drinking, bird vomiting, and a final battle that will have you saying “well, technically none of this happens in Dracula.”

Shipping & Receiving, Episode 55: Coin Toss

Shipping & Receiving, Episode 55: Coin Toss

Greetings, dear listeners! Whew, there’s a lot going on with the poor Green Team! June’s escaped Mama’s Records Department, Quinn’s gone survey-mad, Matt’s sore from answering questions, and Dimetra and Alan are trapped by the Lunch Bunch! Sure would complicate things if these disparate threads came together in a big warehouse brawl! And guess what? That’s exactly what happens! Tune in as worker turns on worker turns on Lunch Eater turns on team mate! Also tune in for a discussion of Steve Urkel’s many war crimes.

Shipping & Receiving, Episode 54: The Benefits of Soda

Shipping & Receiving, Episode 54: The Benefits of Soda

Greetings, dear listeners! Our heroes have finished lunch and resumed their tasks on a Tuesday afternoon. While most of The Green Team tries to make it work with Dimetra split between two teams, June submits to her punishment from Mama Storybrook. Can June survive her time in the dreaded records room? Will Dimetra be able to find a fashionable accessory for her dinner party with the Bloodskulls? And what happens when you leave an enthusiastic surveyor alone with an unwitting participant? Grab a soda, light a smoke, and tune in, adventure is a drug, and we’re your dealer, baby!

Thirst for Adventure Live: Hail Caesar!

Thirst for Adventure Live: Hail Caesar!

Greetings, dear listeners! We hope you enjoy an audio version of our latest live show! In this installment, four heroes set out to free the beautiful city of Bella Fine from the iron grip of a terrible Caesar. How bad of a Caesar is he? Well, he made wine illegal, fun forbidden, and all bar games banished! With the help of the citizens of the city (the audience) they come up with a plan to kill the hated leader and save the day, or maybe just sleep with him. But will an encounter with a mysterious spider-woman make them reconsider their course when they find out Caesar is more than he seems? If you could change yer fate, would yer?

Shipping & Receiving, Episode 53: Engage-Mint

Shipping & Receiving, Episode 53: Engage-Mint

Greetings, dear listeners! Our heroes’ strange Tuesday continues, but at least they get a chance to relax and consider their pasts and futures over lunch. Will some food and drink clear their minds and help them figure out what happened during the blur of the previous week? Or will they sink deeper into their new tasks, getting lost in supply room clean-ups, bowling plans, and survey distribution? Perhaps the advice of an older worker might come in handy, but everyone knows she hates being disrupted during lunch. Actually, she might just hate everything, all the time...

Thirst for Adventure Live: Gnomeo Mustn’t Die

Thirst for Adventure Live: Gnomeo Mustn’t Die

Greetings, listeners! Here’s another edition of our live show series Thirst For Adventure! In this adventure, four heroes have to help a hopelessly-romantic gnome who’s looking for love in all the wrong places! Like, really dangerous places. With the help of a god of chaos (and temporarily love) the heroes head to meet Gnomeo’s date, and hopefully not a terrible fate! Oooo, I love to rhyme! Get ready for an exciting and adorable adventure filled with passion, bloodshed, a magic goose, big boyfriends and one very cute squirrel.

Shipping & Receiving, Episode 52: Ones on a Tuesday

Shipping & Receiving, Episode 52: Ones on a Tuesday

Greetings, dear listeners! Our heroes have awoken to a brand new day, but not in the week they expected! What will they learn about what they did last week? Was everything super chill and there’s not rebellion forming, pissed off middle managers, social obligations and a terrifyingly boring employee engagement survey waiting for them at NPC Inc.? Or are all those things definitely waiting for them, plus some other problems I didn’t list?? It’s the second option! If I insinuate there might be a problem for our heroes, there usually is, I’m such a scamp!

Shipping & Receiving, Episode 51: Master & Commander: The Far Side of Monday

Shipping & Receiving, Episode 51: Master & Commander: The Far Side of Monday

Greetings, dear listeners! The Green Team is back, right where we left them in the heart of the sinister Elder Brain Symposium. If I remember correctly, everything was going great, right? Hahaha, just kidding. Dimetra and Daniel were in the clutches of the Shell Corp., Quinn was off with the Mad Doctor of Corporate Cohesion, and Matt and June were wrapped up in team building exercises with Bernard, who remains very hard to read! Whew, that’s a lot. I’ll let you discover the rest of the story in this thrilling episode, with an ending that will change the Green Team’s week forever (or at least a week).

Welcome Back, Green Team! (A recap & discussion minisode)

Welcome Back, Green Team! (A recap & discussion minisode)

Greetings, dear listener! The Green Team is (almost) back! Before we resume our tale of work and friendship, DM Hobert and the cast sit down to talk about the story so far, the characters, the NPCs, and all our beloved big bads. Tune in to reconnect with our story, I wonder what's going to happen next??

Thirst for Adventure Live: The Dragon’s Eye

Thirst for Adventure Live: The Dragon’s Eye

Greetings, listeners! First off an update, new episodes of NPC Incorporated are on their way! Until we check back in with the Green Team, here’s another tale of adventure from our new live show, Thirst For Adventure! In this one, four heroes join a pair of tiny treasure hunters to seek out a treasure in a lost tomb. Can they dodge traps and solve the most dreaded enemy in D&D: a simple puzzle? Find out in this surprisingly horny, lava-filled adventure! Apologies for some mic trouble we had with our NPCs!

Thirst for Adventure Live: Silent Night, Deadly Night

Thirst for Adventure Live: Silent Night, Deadly Night

Greetings, listeners! Sorry for being so quiet recently, but due to some travel and holidays and life in general, we had to take a pause on our NPC Inc story. We’ll be back soon, and miss playing around in the warehouse. Until we check back in with the Green Team, here’s another tale of adventure from our new live show, Thirst For Adventure! In this thrilling tale that is NOT A CHRISTMAS SHOW, four heroes set out into a dark, snowy forest to hunt a fearsome beast. Prepare for allyship, snow crime, and goblin juice!

Thirst for Adventure Live: The Thankswishing Day Feast

Thirst for Adventure Live: The Thankswishing Day Feast

Greetings, listeners! Sorry for being so quiet recently, but due to some travel and holidays and life in general, we had to take a pause on our NPC Inc story. We’ll be back soon, and miss playing around in the warehouse. Until we check back in with the Green Team, here’s another tale of adventure from our new live show, Thirst For Adventure! We’re still figuring out how to record in a huge room, so apologies for the rough audio, but we thought this tale of food and friendship (and then ditching your friends to be famous) was worth a listen. Tune in for some chaos, some shots, some cocaine, and a whole lot of wishing!