James Huggins
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Jamey has been friends with The Brothers Chaps [[Run Devil Run Interview|since kindergarten]]. He and [[Matt Chapman]] would occasionally write and perform hip-hop songs together in their youth. | Jamey has been friends with The Brothers Chaps [[Run Devil Run Interview|since kindergarten]]. He and [[Matt Chapman]] would occasionally write and perform hip-hop songs together in their youth. | ||
| - | In the early 90s, estimated by Huggins to be around 1992, a local {{w|Winn-Dixie}} commercial featured | + | In the early 90s, estimated by Huggins to be around 1992, a local {{w|Winn-Dixie}} commercial featured [[Atlanta Braves]] second baseman [[Mark Lemke]], promoting that just as Lemke made "all-star saves" on the field so too could shoppers "save" at Winn-Dixie supermarkets. Huggins would impersonate the announcer but, being unfamiliar with baseball positions, instead riffed that Lemke was the "Home Star Runner for the Braves". In [[UMFM Interview - 20 May 2003|one retelling]] of the story, Matt remarked that the brothers considered the term Homestar Runner "the best thing we've ever heard!", leaving enough of an impact to be recalled years later in 1996 for the creation of the [[Original Book]]. |
== Collaborations == | == Collaborations == | ||
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James Huggins III is a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. A fellow Georgia native and childhood friend of The Brothers Chaps, Huggins is notable for being "the first human on the planet Earth to use the three words 'Home', 'Star', and 'Runner' together," giving the inspiration for Homestar Runner's name.
"Home Star Runner for the Braves"
Jamey has been friends with The Brothers Chaps since kindergarten. He and Matt Chapman would occasionally write and perform hip-hop songs together in their youth.
In the early 90s, estimated by Huggins to be around 1992, a local Winn-Dixie commercial featured Atlanta Braves second baseman Mark Lemke, promoting that just as Lemke made "all-star saves" on the field so too could shoppers "save" at Winn-Dixie supermarkets. Huggins would impersonate the announcer but, being unfamiliar with baseball positions, instead riffed that Lemke was the "Home Star Runner for the Braves". In one retelling of the story, Matt remarked that the brothers considered the term Homestar Runner "the best thing we've ever heard!", leaving enough of an impact to be recalled years later in 1996 for the creation of the Original Book.
Collaborations
Apart from indirectly contributing the name, Huggins has had little involvement with the Homestar Runner body of work. According to the DVD commentary for lures & jigs, Jamey visited The Brothers Chaps while they were working on unused emails. Jamey made an onstage appearance at the Homestar Runner 20th Anniversary Show in 2016, rhyming with Puppet Strong Bad and retelling the story of Homestar Runner's name.
Huggins was a member of band of Montreal from 1998 through 2010. The Brothers Chaps directed the music video for of Montreal's 2007 song "Heimdalsgate Like a Promethean Curse".
