The Explosive Alan Podcast

Explosive Alan
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Join Dan, Ash, Gareth and Simon as they jabber on about the games they're playing, tear through the week's most interesting news stories, attempt to outdo each other in weekly challenges, and invite the community to share their opinions on heavyweight gaming issues.

  1. Ep113: Everything Must Go

    16/05/2024

    Ep113: Everything Must Go

    Gareth, Ash and a very croaky Dan rate new, AI-generated intro themes, answer a lot of your deeply personal questions and share their love for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge, Robocop: Rogue City, Venba and V Rising. Plus! A quiz to test our knowledge of weirdly named classics, and we mourn the loss of two wonderful studios at the hands of bad Microsoft management. Good job our podcast has just been acquired by Microsoft*, eh? (Fact checking Dan here: I realise now that Robocop: Rogue City is set *between* Robocop 2 and 3, but I'm glad it barely references the awful third film.) *For roughly an hour

    1h 42m
  2. Ep112: Rebirth

    20/04/2024

    Ep112: Rebirth

    Welcome to the world of tomorrow! In this jumbo comeback edition of the show, Ash, Dan and Gareth are back in the saddle and ready to fill you in what they've been up to for the last four years while offering zero explanation for their extended absence. The show itself has emerged from stasis unchanged, so expect the usual answers to your questions, a rundown of what we're playing and a quiz inspired by Gareth's universal currency of choice. Rather embarrassingly, it's been so long since our last recording that we completely forgot that the Great Debate topic is EXACTLY the same as the previous episode's. Whoops. (Also, contrary to Jazz McVoiceover's claims in the intro, Simon Chong doesn't appear in this episode. Sorry.)

    2h 2m

  3. 03/03/2020

    ↑↑↓↓←→←→BA

    Simon's back! Sort of. We catch up with our transatlantic absentee Alan via 'live' satellite linkup, and discover how life is for our LA-ex. (Spoiler: enviably great.) We also delve into some excellent Getting To Know Us questions, including casting our dream game-to-TV series. Plus! The world's most successful arcade games form the basis of our quiz Play Your Cabs Right. And, to honour the passing of Konami code creator Kazuhisa Hashimoto, we discuss your--and our--favourite cheats.

    52 min

  4. 25/02/2020

    It's Only A Game

    We skirt dangerously close to highbrow territory this week, as we discuss which games introduced you to hitherto unknown periods of history or works of fine art. Hopefully it's only a blip. Elsewhere, Gareth's love of Fortnite is reignited, Ash explores post-apocalyptia on a land boat, and Dan slowly unravels in a quiz custom-built to break him.

    42 min

  5. 18/02/2020

    The Free AOL CD Generation

    Who's your Best Gaming Friend? After last episode's rather downbeat discussion, we bring the mood back up with a chat about those special someones that you can always depend on to be up for a game. We also cover old franchises that we'd love to see revived, including Timesplitters and obscure Sierra gem Manhunter: New York, plus there's a tricky quiz on Academy Award-winning film titles in other languages. Oh, and there's some soup chat.

    53 min
  6. Don't Mention The B Word

    04/02/2020

    Don't Mention The B Word

    More hot chat about the games and entertainment we're in thrall to, including Ring Fit Adventure, Griftlands, Borderlands 3, Clash Royale (yes, again), Good Omens and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Plus, an air of melancholy hangs over the team as we discuss our tragic gaming tales, from deleted saves to sad cancellations. It's not all doom and gloom though, as Dan introduces his daughter to the podcast for the first time in his quiz Orlawatch. Can you guess which Overwatch characters she's renaming and describing?

    50 min
  7. Welcome to... THE DANGER ZONE

    28/01/2020

    Welcome to... THE DANGER ZONE

    Do you know your DIMPS from your GIMPS? Your Hipster Whales from your Hipster Fish? Then Gareth has just the quiz for you. Before you test your knowledge of obscure devs, listen to us talk through our favourite--and most hated--games and films of recent weeks, including Clash Royale, My Friend Pedro, Blasphemous, The Endless, Knives Out, Downsizing and the first 20 minutes of Marriage Story! Plus! Gareth's tale of dough woe and your--and our--memories of gamer rage.

    50 min
  8. The Shape of Cyberpunk To Come

    22/01/2020

    The Shape of Cyberpunk To Come

    We'd love to say we've spent the last 12 months painstakingly resculpting and honing our dormant podcast into a resplendent new beast, but, if anything, you should probably consider this a regression. In this unplanned, unscripted and un-unedited new era of ExAlPod, we get up you up to speed on our challenging 2019, gush over games and a great year for TV, and even find room for a quick game of 'Name That Film Score'. It's good to be back.

    1h 3m
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Join Dan, Ash, Gareth and Simon as they jabber on about the games they're playing, tear through the week's most interesting news stories, attempt to outdo each other in weekly challenges, and invite the community to share their opinions on heavyweight gaming issues.

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  • Creator
    Explosive Alan
  • Years Active
    2013 - 2024
  • Episodes
    100
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2013 Explosive Alan Productions Ltd.
  • Show Website
    The Explosive Alan Podcast