Player One Podcast

The Player One Podcast is one of the longest-running independent video game podcasts on the Internet. Since we began in October 2006, we've recorded over 500 episodes, rarely missing a week (even on holidays). It began on a whim after an Xbox Live conversation between ex-video game journalists Chris Johnston and Greg Sewart, and has grown into a continually running show with four hosts (+ Phil Theobald and Ethan Einhorn) and the ambient sounds of toddlers in the background. Never listened to the show? <a href="http://www.playeronepodcast.com/2012/07/22/episode-300-072312-300/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Episode 300 will give you a pretty good primer on the show in general.</a> 
We bring a unique perspective as previous journalists/reviewers/interviewers who now play video games for fun (sometimes also as a job, but for this show—for fun). We'll often tackle topics including the state of games journalism, PR, news, etc. but also spend a healthy amount of time just talking about the games we played this week or in the past. We hope that the show comes off as a conversation between friends, and we encourage listener participation either via asking us questions for the show 
<a href="http://www.twitter.com/p1podcast" rel="nofollow">via Twitter</a> or <a href="http://www.playeronepodcast.com/forum/index.php?act=idx" rel="nofollow">on our message boards.</a> 
Over the years, the show has changed a bit—new fourth-chair hosts have jumped on and off this train. But we've been incredibly consistent with new episodes. As our schedules and lives have become more complicated with kids and families and all that, it's become more difficult to produce the type of show we want to do each week. With your help and support, we can keep things going* and elevate the quality!
 
That means taking time to edit out coughs and background noise where we can, remove obvious Internet lag or talking overlap, and make the show sound more professional - this part is already happening, no goal needed. But we'd also like to do more special episodes - Interviews, spoilercasts, theme shows on topics from the past. We think we can bring a unique perspective to this and provide you with many more hours of entertaining audio all for the love of video games. Thank you for your support! * Note that even if you decide not to support us via Patreon, the podcast will continue and will remain free every week. Your financial love is optional and appreciated.

Free

The easy and inexpensive way to support the show. For just the price of a song on iTunes or cup of coffee whenever Sally Struthers began saying that on television, you'll get: 
 
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<li>New episodes of the Player One Podcast made available to your favorite podcast client or on the web on regular release day.</li>
<li>The satisfaction that you support our show in a small but meaningful way. Every little bit helps, so we thank you.</li>
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Loyal Listener

You like the podcast enough to slip us a fiver each month. Thank you! You'll have access to the podcast as per usual but ALSO you'll have access to a special patron-only audio RSS feed which contains Aftershow audio recorded after the YouTube livestream has stopped. All you do is cut and paste a special audio RSS link into your podcast client of choice and it's like getting 1.25 episodes of the Player One Podcast injected into your ears each week.

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