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The YoGPoD is the official podcast of the Yogscast duo, Lewis and Simon. The first episode, Snowcast, was uploaded on February 2, 2009, during a period of heavy snowfall in the UK.

The YoGPoD was initially created as a follow-on from Lewis and Simon's early World of Warcraft "How to" videos, in which they would often go off-topic. The YoGPoD features general conversations between Lewis and Simon about events around the world and their lives, which were mostly recorded in Ventrilo. However, both have a tendency to go into off topic discussions revolving around a mistake the other may have made or a statement's absurdity.

The name YoGPoD came from a conversation which was uploaded in the YouTube podcast announcement video "Now Available... The YOGSCAST Podcast".

The podcasts were made available on-release on Apple iTunes and the first 33 episodes may also be found on Podcast Alley. In June 2015 the backlog of episodes were uploaded for the first time to YouTube, onto a channel dedicated the to podcast, however it has since been repurposed for the Triforce! podcast, starring Lewis, Sips, and PyrionFlax.

Over the years, a number of Yognau(gh)ts have taken it upon themselves to animate segments of the YoGPoD. Animations by FredMalm, cartanrider (Euan) and Kaldmigtue were uploaded to the main Yogscast channel, with the first being uploaded on the 20th March, 2011. The most recent episode of YoGPoD animations was uploaded June, 22 2012.

Structure[]

The structure of the YoGPoD is somewhat free-form and regularly subject to change. Traditionally the podcast consisted of random segments, often idle and spontaneous conversations, which were recorded by Lewis while he and Simon talked on Ventrilo. These conversations were interspliced with various unique segments that Lewis and Simon had come up with; such as Simon getting Lewis to arbitrarily pick a page to read from Ripley's Believe it or Not, Lewis creating a competition to see who could make the best song about werewolves, or the online quizzes featured in The Dragon Quiz. YoGPoD "Liners" (typically created by Simon) are played between sections of the podcast.

Semi-consistent sections of the podcast include Vyrian's Film Review, Hannah's Cooking Segment, Letters from the Yognau(gh)ts and Into the Mind of Woman. None of these features proved to have any real longevity, appearing only in a few consecutive episodes before the podcast returned to its conventional format. A number of suggested features were planned for the second season of the podcast and never came to existence, such as Yohi's Econimitsu segment and Mearis' scientific discovery segment.

Recurring Characters[]

Guests []

Members of the Yogscast[]

Many of Simon's and Lewis's guildmates appear on the Podcast as non-celebrity guests (see the celebrity guests above), whether they appear often, or rarely.

Non-Yogscast[]

Some people have appeared on the YoGPoD who weren't part of YOGS at the time and are outside interviewers/interviewees/other special guests:

Intro Music[]

Made by a user named 'Captain Rhythm' on 'Ye Olde Goones Squade Forums' , it consists of a musical accompaniment to Simon singing 'This is the Yogpod' out of tune to the Star Wars theme. The intro music was first used on YoGPoD 10: Hanging to the left, where at the start of the episode Lewis plays the music to Yohi. This is one of only three instances since being introduced that the music was not used as introduction music to the episode. It is also the only time that the music is heard in full.

In later episodes (before the hiatus), they instead used a 25 second intro theme created for the YoGPoD by podcast editor Sparkles* and his band Area 11. Also featured was a short tune made for Lewis and Simon by Canadian DJ Deadmau5. Following the YoGPoD's hiatus, they returned to using the old theme music by Captain Rhythm, presumably for nostalgic reasons.

Episode List[]

  1. Snowcast (50:33) 05/02/2009
  2. Sipsgate (21:16) 19/02/2009
  3. Toaster Bags and Tina Barrett (32:23) 01/03/2009
  4. Na na na, nana na naa na (32:01) 07/03/2009
  5. The LHC and politics (21:18) 13/03/2009
  6. Zombies and Drugs (15:28) 13/03/2009
  7. The Dragon Quiz (28:12) 24/04/2009
  8. Dave Yogpod (55:46) 02/05/2009
  9. Dungeons & Dragons Part 1 (54:18) 21/05/2009
  10. Hanging to the left (26:41) 01/06/2009
  11. Xephos is lazy and never provides a title... (41:58) 24/06/2009
  12. Dungeons & Dragons Part 2(45:00) 18/07/2009
  13. The Last Watch (57:55) 19/07/2009
  14. Xephos' War Stories (33:26) 05/08/2009
  15. Halloween Special (46:10) 08/08/2009
  16. Boobles, Man-man, Cowboy MMO and floating Jaffas (28:21) 14/08/2009
  17. Don't they just go down to their undies (31:47) 26/08/2009
  18. You put the boom boom into the durr (27:30) 07/09/2009
  19. Dungeons & Dragons Part 3 (1:19:55) 30/09/2009
  20. Miss, have you got any Dostoevsky? (37:34) 13/10/2009
  21. Halloween Spacktacular (1:07:43) 31/10/2009
  22. Thai Fish in a Bag (44:26) 12/11/2009
  23. Simon's Cheesecake Surprise (46:09) 30/11/2009
  24. Christmas at Poundland (29:20) 23/12/2009
  25. Chess Boxing and Other New Years Party Games (44:15) 08/01/2010
  26. Your Grandad Was A Bee? (39:34) 18/01/2010
  27. Warwick Davis Exclusive Interview (43:58) 09/03/2010
  28. I'm just putting the Daz in the sink (39:12) 26/03/2010
  29. SCRAMMMBLED (50:59) 14/04/2010
  30. IM THIRTY-TWO YEARS OLD (46:38) 04/05/2010
  31. Simon, Simon, come and drink the tea of the Inca people (41:02) 5/5/2010
  32. D&D2 - I'm Just Making A Camp Guys (Part 1) (1:08:06) 21/05/2010
  33. I am Michael Macdonald and I listen to the yogpod all day (55:59) 10/06/2010
  34. My mum bought me a troll (55:59) 20/08/2010
  35. Fridge Tax (46:47) 28/11/2010
  36. Christmas Special 2010 (42:56) 23/12/2010
  37. Live on Nordrassil (1:56:49) 28/2/11
  38. Hodor! (41:29) 15/04/2011
  39. Borange (1:00:00) 02/07/2011
  40. Christmas Special Fun Packed 2011 Special (27:32) 23/12/2011
  41. Toaster Mic (57:38) 31/01/2012
  42. Bear Claws (1:02:45) 08/02/2012
  43. Strawnana (55:28) 04/07/2012
  44. Citizenship Test (1:12:46) 21/08/2012
  45. Halloween Spack-2-cular (41:58) 28/10/2012
  46. Halloween Spack-3-cular (38:08) 31/10/13
  47. Halloween 5pack-cular (1:12:12) 29/10/2015
  48. Spirit Animal (39:59) 24/11/2015
  49. Livestream Special! (1:03:00) 7/12/2015
  50. Christmas Special 2015 (1:14:22) 15/12/2015
  51. New Year's Revolutions (49:39) 30/1/2016

Challenges[]

The listeners of the YoGPoD have been given three challenges, namely:

Specials[]

Specials usually detour from the usual structure of the YoGPoD and often are centered around specific topics the full way through. To date there have been eight special episodes. They are:

Non-Official Episodes[]

These episodes are taken from various non-Yogscast radio shows and podcasts that star by Lewis and Simon as guests. As such they are not traditionally considered to be official episodes of the YoGPoD but often do appear in official listings on sites such as Podbay and iTunes.

D&D Adventures[]

Apart from their usual set up, Simon introduces Lewis and Hannah to the pen and paper game Dungeons and Dragons. There has currently been one complete series, in which Simon acts as the group's Dungeon Master and therefore controls the storyline, NPCs, encounters, ect. whilst also playing as Dylan, a human bard, with Hannah joining him as Madeowyn, the elven mage, and Lewis as Brick, a golem with undisclosed class. There is also a second, incomplete series, which also features Sips, role-playing a goliath bard, and Mulchie, playing a doppelganger rogue of the same name. They are currently taking a break from D&D, since tensions arose between Hannah and Lewis over a certain goblin named Barry and an invincible cat.

The Last Watch[]

The Last Watch is a fan-fiction short story written by Lewis for a Blizzard short story competition in 2009 and read by Simon as part of YoGPoD 13. It is a story about Gilneas's defense against the Scourge during The Third War. A dark agent of the scourge, Arthas, threatens to crush the city before his leave.

Guest Appearances[]

To date, Lewis and Simon have made 4 guest appearances on various webshows which have been included in the YoGPoD listings. They have appeared twice on Nordrassil Radio, first in an interview with DJ Stayven and secondly when they were guest hosts of the show. They have also featured on The Incredible Podcast of Amazing Awesomeness and The Shaft. These podcasts can be found alongside their main podcasts on their iTunes page.

Outside of the YoGPoD, they have appeared on a number of other podcasts; for instance, when Simon guest-starred on the sixth TGS Podcast.

Controversy[]

It is generally believed and suggested multiple times in the YoGPoD by Lewis and Simon that listening to the podcast over long periods of time will lead you to becoming generally insane. The fact that you tuned into the YoGPoD shows your insanity and the more you listen to it the further you will lose yourself. Despite this theory, many continue to live amongst the common people.

The theory was born when a brave Yognau(gh)t listened to every episode that had been released at the time of his experiment while driving through Germany and the results were shocking. He started seeing vans carrying huge quantities of Jaffa Cakes across Europe and almost died multiple times from swerving from laughter. Although currently nobody is believed to have died listening to the podcast, as the number of YoGPoD listeners grows new listeners should be made aware of what YoGPoD overdose can lead to.

Simon issued a warning in episode 25 (Chess Boxing and other New Years Party Games) that the YoGPoD could give girls the plague. This is because when a listener sent a letter to Lewis, it contained information telling him that when the sender of the letter played the YoGPoD in a car with two other girls, it looked as though they had caught the plague.

Trivia[]

  • During their Q&A session at their "panel" at Insomnia 52, Turps answered the question of "would the YoGPoD ever return to it's former schedule / glory?" by saying that due to Simon and Lewis seeing each other on a daily basis and rarely talking on Ventrilo, it was unlikely. However, in late 2015, the podcast did return for the annual Halloween episode, with two more episodes following in November and December, with the latter being a Christmas special.
    • As of 2020 the podcast is not regularly updated, however new episodes are occasionally released on YouTube on an infrequent basis. The current interval between episodes seems to range from a few months, up to two years.

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