John Slanina
John Slanina ("JammerB") is a studio manager and engineer for TWiT and frequently handles the TWiT Brickhouse-side switching for NSFW. Though his voice is (mostly) edited out for the final release to podcast, he can sometimes be heard during the live show giving Brian and Justin prompts and other vital information. He also tends to hang around in the chat room during the after show as a quiet but very much amused observer of its shenanigans.
As if he needs more reasons to be awesome, John has the same birthday as Brian and Brett (January 17).
During studio setup for the recording of iPad Today #4, John Brodied the TWiT livestream and played some of the Zombie President submissions from NSFW #34. When the TwiT Live stream totally failed during the live show at Dragon*Con '10, John played the chat room's favorite viral videos to save the day.
When he received a promotion at TWiT, John briefly changed his chat room handle to "JammerA."
He is part of the Diamond Core production team (with Tony Wang, OMG Chad and Jason Howell) that the Chatrealm reveres as they must often stay very late at the Brickhouse to capture and edit NSFW. Though Chad has been training to operate the Tricaster, John quickly quashed any Chatrealm speculation that Chad might succeed him as primary board operator for NSFW.
During the brick fundraiser campaign for the TWiT Brickhouse, John bought up several Diamond Club-related bricks to represent NSFW and the Chatrealm. In response, Brian rallied the Chatrealm to buy at least one brick for every episode that aired between then and the move to the Brickhouse.
According to Leo, John also makes awesome plunger coffee, despite being a non-coffee-drinker himself.