Christmas Exits

19 12 2010

Those who have listened to episode 12 of Brake For Frogger will already be aware of Geordie Alan’s curious Christmas Eve tradition. He attempts, every year, to get through all 96 exits of Super Mario World in as quick a time as possible. It is a slightly odd tradition granted but it’s one that he does without fail.

This yearis slighty different. It’s the first time Alan has had the power of Twitter beside him during this task and, despite orginally not having the foggiest clue what he was doing with it, he hopefully going to be hash tagging the life out of this event come the 24th.

If you want to join Alan for this occasion, give him support or just yell abuse then use #xmasevemarioparty and follow the man himself @geordiealan.





Background Extras

7 05 2010

Brake For Frogger Episode 5 was recorded last night at my house in Gretna. It’ll be edited soon and up but before then I thought I’d take a few pics on my phone just so you can see what goes into a recording session. Think of it as DVD extras only we won’t be talking over the top.

Alan and I both finish work at 5:30pm and we meet Tom outside the shopping centre. Alan realised he had no cash so made a mad dash towards the only cash point in the entire place. A shopping centre with one cash point, see how advanced Carlisle is now?

Seriously, this is Alan breaking into a run here.

Next it’s onto Tom’s car which is one of those people carrier numbers. Because the middle of the car is taken up with child seats you can usually only fit two up front and one right at the back. Who do you think drew that particular short straw?

Tom selected the tunes for the eight mile car journey over the border to Gretna.

Brake For Frogger is a truly cross border podcast, about 15 minutes later we’re into Scotland.

As part of Geordie Al’s contract to do the podcast we have to take him to Burger King so that he may stuff his face with meat beforehand.

See, the nearest Burger King to me is at a motorway service station on the M74. It’s easy to get to but we probably ending up paying 50p more for our burgers. It does have one feature which saves it though…

House of the Dead!

As part of his ‘stuff my face’ exercise plan Geordie Al chose this bucket of Coca Cola so as to give his biceps a firm workout. It was 750ml of drink, that’s about two and a half cans.

A quick trip up the road to Spar and we’ve got snacks.

A quick run through of the podcast running order and it’s all smiles.

Or a bit of posing, it’s up to each of us really.

Episode Five should be with your earholes soon although it degenerated into filth talk quite quicklyso make sure you listen to it after 9pm yeah?





The King Is Here.

5 02 2010

“You have very calming radio voices”
“I liked the relaxed atmosphere”

Just two examples of the feedback we got from the first podcast. If there’s one piece of feedback that we’ve taken into account more than any other though, it’s this one.

“What you guys need is a lanky, thin bloke from the North East who may own a 360 and an iPhone but hates playing anything developed post 1993″

We set about with haste and we can now say that after finally agreeing to move the podcast recording to a Thursday night, Geordie Al will be joining us. People of Newcastle, your King is here!

Sega Master System out of shot








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