The Explosive Alan Podcast
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.
- Update frequency
- every 11 days
- Average duration
- 55 minutes
- Episodes
- 100
- Years Active
- 2013 - 2024
Ep94: The Explosive Alan Podcast
Merry Friday, everyone! It’s the 94th episode of the Explosive Alan Podcast coming atcha, very much like 90s band Cleopatra. This week we’re talking all things Switch, as well as properly announcing …
Ep93: Scaleboned
The first ‘proper’ podcast of 2017 features our future (now past) selves’ first impressions of Nintendo Switch, recorded directly *does Iwata hand gesture* from the exclusive media hands-on event at …
Ep92: How To Be Awesome At: Surviving the Apocalypse
Happy New Year, everyone! Welcome to 2017! Well, here we are, only 6 days into the year and you already have a lovely new podcast to listen to. But this ain’t your grandma’s ExAlPod, no sir! This wee…
Ep91: ExAl's Exmas Special!
Merry Christmas, everyone! You’ve unwrapped all your presents we imagine by this point, but hey, guess what, Santa has brought you one more to open! Simon has chucked together this very short Christm…
Ep90: DAY ONE MAXIMUM REGRET EDITION
We’d planned to pull out all the stops for our 90th episode, but all that pulling required far too much effort so Simon and Dan just did the usual (albeit over Skype, so slightly unusual). What we’ve…
Ep89: Trump 'n Grind
It’s the Halloween episode that never was! We’re back to our old podcast procrastinating (podcrastinating) tricks, but with good reason because we’ve been… well, you’ll just have to listen and find o…
Ep88: An Apple A Day Keeps Samsung Away
We waited until just after the Nintendo Switch and Red Dead Redemption 2 reveal trailers to bring you this most topical of ExAlPods. Well, unless you're listening to this any time after 21st October,…
Ep87: Universe May Differ From That Pictured
The Fabbest Four are reunited after a staggering 22-episode gap, in which time three of them have had children, and one of them has successfully avoided having children. Have our new lifestyles trans…
Ep86: Sitges Bitges
HOLA! Welcome to this week’s #ExAlPod coming at you directly from Sitges (that’s in Spain, don’t you know!). This week we’ve got returning LGBT episode guest Andy Grier. He was lead audio designer on…
Ep85: Time Waits For No Dan (And Simon)
SolittletimetowriteapodcastdescriptionbecauseDanandSimonarereallybusyandreallyreallyhotsojustgiveitalistenmaybewhileyouarerunningordrivingsuperfasttoreflecttheinsanelyrapidpaceofthisshownormalservic…
Ep84: The Stench of Cologne
Didn't manage to make it to Gamescom? Neither did we, so we replicated the atmosphere by filling the office with strangers and queuing for three hours to use our own computers while eating overpriced…
Ep83: Abzûlutely
Daaaaaaamn, Alan! Back at it again with the weekly episodes! That’s right, current youth people, Dan and Simon return to guide you through all things gaming and royalty-free music related. We’ve also…
Ep82: Modern Life Is Rubbish
A particularly feature-rich show this week, with Dan & Simon discussing sexy cartoon characters, sharing their games du jour, analysing major gaming news, talking over the great TV that turned their …
Ep81: 8 Nanas BATMAN
Half the crew doesn't equate to half the fun on this week's show, as Dan & Simon (Daimon) open their mouths and let fly a golden gobful of podcasting magic. Si's still fawning over VR, Dan's obsessed…
Ep80: Everything Must GO!
Apparently, 80 years of marriage is your Oak Anniversary, which fits our 80th anniversary of being married to this beautiful podcast perfectly because of all the inevitable Pokémon GO chat. (Professo…
Ep79: Breath of the "G-Money" Wild
So, here we are, then. 20 consecutive episodes! WE MADE IT, YOU GUYS! But don’t think we’re stopping any time soon, no sir! Dan and Simon are here this week to guide you through the past 7 days of th…
Ep78: Brexplosive Alan: See EU Later
Isn’t hindsight a wonderful thing? Listen to Ash and Simon in this week’s podcast as they utterly fail at discussing anything to do with sports. On top of that, we’ve also got our usual questions, wh…
Ep77: LGBT In Games
This week’s episode sees Simon taking the reigns to do something a little bit different. In response to something Gareth asked him on the podcast a while ago, Simon went on a bit of a journey to find…
Ep76: E3 2016 Special
It’s E3 week! Did you catch it all? No? Well then worry not, Simon is here to guide you through the mess of information that came out during the week. Joining Simon is our L.A. games correspondent ma…
Ep75: Empty, Empty Expo
This week’s #ExAlPod is special in many ways. One, it has Dan and Simon recording outside because it was too hot in the office. As as result, special guests this episode include many airplanes and an…