The D-Pad (Podsmiths podcast)
| The D-Pad | |
|---|---|
| Published by | Podsmiths |
| Website | dpadup.com |
| Release date(s) | April 3, 2011 |
| Podcast | |
| Host(s) | |
| Featuring | |
| Intro theme |
"Helix Nebula" by Anamanaguchi |
| Outro theme |
"History Repeating Pt. 2 (One Last Time)" by The Megas |
| Original run | April 3, 2011 - June 1, 2012 |
| No. of episodes | 43 |
| Episode length | 30 minutes |
| Megaseries | |
| Part of | The D-Pad |
| Followed by | The D-Pad (UNregular Radio podcast) |
| Subseries | Sonic Week |
| Related programs | |
The D-Pad was a 2011-12 weekly half-hour podcast created by Rick Desilets and published by Podsmiths as a part of their family of audio programs, as well as the debut of the D-Pad brand as a whole. It was hosted by Rick, John Selig, Nick Bebel, and occasionally C/J Haley, and featured the team discussing topical news not just in the realm of video games, but in movies, music, television, technology, and filmmaking. As a spinoff from the Open Lounge podcast, the programs featured a few crossover episodes, including the premiere episode of The D-Pad and the first Let's Play published to the team's YouTube page, 5 Days a Stranger. The series premiered on April 3, 2011, and ran for 43 episodes, airing on Sundays until the announcement that the show had been picked up by Boston independent web radio station UNregular Radio in the series' final episodes in the closing days of May 2012.
This series would ultimately result in the creation of The D-Pad Let's Play, a YouTube channel designed to accompany the show. At first, the team held an event in June 2011 called Sonic Week, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the release of Sonic the Hedgehog, hosting uncut longplays on their own website. After enjoying the Let's Play format, the team opened up their YouTube channel the following month, premiering with their first Let's Play of 5 Days a Stranger, followed by edited re-uploads of the Sonic Week videos, split into 15-minute chunks to fit under YouTube's guidelines on video length for new users at the time.
This first season of the overall D-Pad podcast was hosted by Podsmiths on dpadup.com, but ownership of the site lapsed in 2014 and was infamously bought up by Rahasia Sukses Digital Marketing, an Indonesian marketing firm. In 2017, Rick re-purchased the domain, which now serves as a redirect to the D-Pad YouTube page. As of December 2017, no episodes (aside from the Sonic Week Let's Play videos in their edited format) are known to exist.
Episodes
| DP# | Episode | Title | Length | Host(s) | Guest(s) | Release date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | 1 | "Press Start" | TBA | Rick, John, Nick | Alex Laferriere, Steve DiTullio | 3 April 2011 |
| 002 | 2 | "Comix Zone & Robin" | TBA | TBA | Ryan Keough | 10 April 2011 |
| * | * | "Bonus Stage: Cake Race" | TBA | Rick, Nick | 12 April 2011 | |
| 003 | 3 | "Pizza Planet" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 17 April 2011 |
| 004 | 4 | "Retcon + Cats" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 24 April 2011 |
| 005 | 5 | "We're Doing It Live!" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 2 May 2011 |
| 006 | 6 | "2 Days a Screenplay" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 9 May 2011 |
| 007 | 7 | "Looking Back" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 16 May 2011 |
| 008 | 8 | "Power Plugs" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 22 May 2011 |
| 009 | 9 | "Smash TV" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 29 May 2011 |
| 010 | 10 | "Highway to the Danger Zone" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 5 June 2011 |
| 011 | 11 | "In the Key of E" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 12 June 2011 |
| 012 | 12 | "Sonic Week, Act 1" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 19 June 2011 |
| 013 | 13 | "Sonic Week, Act 2" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 26 June 2011 |
| 014 | 14 | "Super Effective" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 3 July 2011 |
| 015 | 15 | "A Link to the Future" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 10 July 2011 |
| 016 | 16 | "Divine Providence" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 19 July 2011 |
| 017 | 17 | "The Hangover" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 24 July 2011 |
| 018 | 18 | "A Gran Grimoire" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 2 August 2011 |
| 019 | 19 | "Safe Haven" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 9 August 2011 |
| 020 | 20 | "Volume Up" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 14 August 2011 |
| 021 | 21 | "Feedback" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 21 August 2011 |
| 022 | 22 | "Come On, Irene" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 28 August 2011 |
| 023 | 23 | "Madden Kart" | TBA | TBA | Richard Pavis | 4 September 2011 |
| 024 | 24 | "10, or the Fartcopter" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 11 September 2011 |
| 025 | 25 | "The IMDb of People" | TBA | TBA | Dan Suitor | 18 September 2011 |
| 026 | 26 | "Professor Layton and the Mysterious HoJo" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 25 September 2011 |
| 027 | 27 | "Bob Loblaw Lobs Jobs Bomb" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 5 October 2011 |
| 028 | 28 | "Two-Bit's Dream Land" | TBA | TBA | Sara Gouveia | 15 October 2011 |
| 029 | 29 | "Meta Sonic" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 16 October 2011 |
| 030 | 30 | "Waddle Dre" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 29 October 2011 |
| 031 | 31 | "Happy Holidays" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 20 January 2012 |
| 032 | 32 | "Superb Owl 46" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 5 February 2012 |
| 033 | 33 | "Third Time's the Charm" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 20 March 2012 |
| 034 | 34 | "Rolling out of Beta" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 25 March 2012 |
| 035 | 35 | "Press Reset" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 1 April 2012 |
| 036 | 36 | "Easter Execution" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 8 April 2012 |
| 037 | 37 | "Celebrity Birthday Edition" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 15 April 2012 |
| 038 | 38 | "The Final Countdown" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 22 April 2012 |
| 039 | 39 | "It's the End of the World as Nintendo Knows It" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 29 April 2012 |
| 040 | 40 | "Thor's Hammered" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 6 May 2012 |
| 041 | 41 | "Billion Dollar Baby" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 13 May 2012 |
| 042 | 42 | "The End of an Era, Part 1" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 30 May 2012 |
| 043 | 43 | "The End of an Era, Part 2" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 31 May 2012 |
| * | * | "The End of an Era, Uncut" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 1 June 2012 |