Our first podcast of 2010! We start out with a bit of talk about what we plan on doing for the entire year, and then move right into our 24 themed trivia in which the punishment is for us to put our fingers into a bug zapper. It was pretty brutal, thankfully yours truly only had to do it once while everyone else… well, you’ll see. We then move onto some thoughts about the current season of 24, speculate over Lost (mainly last Tuesday’s premier, so that convo is a little out of date now) and hope into a large helping of Nerd News and wrap it up with the normal Whore Daddy/Clutch section. Enjoy!

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I seriously can’t believe that we’re not only about to close up ‘09, but this entire decade. Time sure is flying by isn’t it? Well, at least it feels that way for me anyway. Getting more to the point, I’d like to once again thank everyone that has stuck by Shamoozal and the work we do around here. I know that as far as GFGames goes, 2009 wasn’t exactly a stellar year. Our last episode, launched in August, was a bit of a massive undertaking, plus, my brother and I are busy folks. It kind of blows that the only thing we were able to put out this year was “How to Hook Up the NES.” That said, I’m really happy with how that short turned out, and it is arguably our most popular short ever.

Last year I said my New Years resolution was “more” of everything for the site. Looking back, I think around halfway through the year I decided I didn’t so much want more shorts, but more mileage from the ones we already created. The fact is, there is a mass amount of people out there that has never heard of us before. Using “How to” as more of a bridge into previous shorts seems to have worked in our favor. Thanks to the success of the short, people have gone back and rewatched all of our work from ‘08 and GFGames has been getting more of a following. So in that regard, I’m happy that these shorts are still being watched by people, even if they are all pretty old by this point.

I’m not making any promises as to what you’ll see next year out of GFGames. As you might know, I took a bit of a break from the series after putting out “How to” and I’m finally going to jump back into it sometime this month. I have the basics of the next episode worked out, and it’s going to be another tough one on our part, but again, hopefully worth it. Let’s just say I’d be happy if I could do at least two GFGames episodes during ‘10.

It has been a long time coming, but here is the download version of Shamoozal Radio #29 from earlier this month. To be honest it’s been a while since the podcast so I don’t remember the full details of everything we went over, but I do know there is more about our plans for the rest of the year, like our upcoming NES Marathon and my trip to MAG Fest, along with a brand new game from Jim in which we need to figure out which of his Trenton stories is the false one. There is a large Nerd News segment along with our Whore Daddies and Clutches. Buckle up and cherish this one because this is our final podcast for the 2009!

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Let’s take a Broment to give thanks for all the blessings this past year has bestowed. Join us this Saturday, November 14th at 8PM EST for the live broadcast of SRP #29. We’ll be doing all the usual things you’ve come to know and love. It’d be super if you joined us.

Back in September my nephew and I went over to a local game con called “Game Core.” I was curious to see what the con offered and was also in the mood to pick up a couple of classic games so off we went.

While there I happened across a table that was occupied by a podcaster that runs a show called “We Talk Games.” They asked me if I was willing to do a quick take for their show and I mentioned that I too dabble in a little podcasting. Of course they never heard of Shamoozal (who has?) but I went ahead and told them a bit about it albeit off air. Whoops!

So anyway, if you feel like it, head on over to We Talk Games and download their latest show. I’m at the 14:50 mark where you can listen to me totally botch a plug job, take a jab at the 360 (come on, how can I pass it up?) and try really, really hard to describe why I liked Dead Space despite being able to write 6 paragraphs worth of information about a day later.

Since I know you missed out on our live stream of SRP from the other night, I command you to download the edited version of the episode! This episode is rather packed with content and FUN if I do say so myself. There is a ton of news about the site involving plans for the rest of the year, the second “Shamoozal Warrior” game, a large Nerd News section, a quick glance at some Fall TV stuff and of course our always present Whore Daddies and Clutches. So sit tight and get ready.

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It’s that time of the month again. The gang will be getting together tomorrow night to talk about all sorts of stuff. I’ll be highlighting what to expect from Shamoozal for the rest of the year, we *should* be playing a new round of Shamoozal Warrior, and we’ll be talking about the new TV season along with our regular assortment of Nerd News. Frank will not be able to attend, but we’ll have our very own JohnnyManf to fill in.

We’ll be starting an hour later than normal this month, so it’ll start between 9 – 9:30 EST time. Thanks and hope to see you there.

This was a really fun bit from well over two years ago. I guess Jim was feeling really inspired by G4’s Ninja Warrior and decided to come up with his own take on it that we could play during the show. The idea was that we each had a minute to run through a series of “challenges” including stuff like inputting the Konami code and chugging an entire Red Bull. For those that are fans of the show, this is where the infamous “Solidicry” song came from, after Steve failed to even make it past the first step of the challenge. For those that watch Ninja Warrior, he was basically like that guy that shows up with the Octopuses around his neck and falls into the first water trap on his first step. Another funny thing I caught this time through is how Frank refers to the Contra guys as “Bill & Rizer” and “Lance & Bean” on two different occasions… when its really just Bill Rizer and Lance Bean. I laughed. Also, I noticed at some point we reffer to the people on the “vent” server, this was obviously way before we started streaming these live on UStream, which kind of sucks, because this would have been fun to watch.

Maybe we can do it again sometime with some new challenges.

Part 2 is after the jump!

I was going to bring this up at the end of the last show, but we were laughing and having such a good time and I didn’t want to bring the mood down. So I figure now is as good a time as any to do it. Unfortunately, this week’s BAC is going to be the last episode for a while.

This has been something that I’ve been considering for the past few weeks as my schedule is just crazy right now. My daughter recently started school and on top of that she’s involved with activities like Karate and Soccer which we’re going to many times a week. Also, her school has weekly extra-curricular activities that we’ll be participating in which will give me even more to do in the evenings. On top of all that I’ve become a partner in a new company earlier this summer which has required a lot of extra work on my part.

As a result of this insanity, I really haven’t even been playing many video games lately which makes it even harder to come up with stuff to talk about every week.

We’re not really sure what this means for the show at this point. Phil and I have talked about it quite a bit and tried to come up with a way to keep it going. Right now, doing a weekly podcast is just too much for me. We may end up doing the show more like SRP, once a month or something like that.

Once in a while we produce some pure gold during our monthly podcasts, so I figured I’d start going through some of the episodes and picking out some of our better moments and uploading them to YouTube. I thought Jim’s story from SRP #26 back in June would be a pretty good starting point. It’s a short clip, but it’s pretty funny to listen to. I was going to put up Slap Chop Trivia first, but the game is longer than a half hour! YouTube only allows for 10 minute clips, and I’m not sure cutting it up into 4 parts would be worth it. I don’t know, we’ll see. In the meantime, whenever I upload one of these, I’ll probably post them right here on the front page.