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GTR Retro - PAX08: Gamercast Network - Podcasting The New Media

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Other Games, Video Games, Games, Leisure

4.2522 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

In this special episode of GTR Retro, we celebrate the 20th anniversary of our podcast. Live from Penny Arcade Expo 2008: A Roundtable Discussion with the Gamercast Network. Episode was released on Aug 31, 2008.

Join podcast hosts from the Gamercast Network for a lively discussion on their experiences and the rise of podcasting as the new media. Moderated by Chris Paladino, Xbox Community Manager of Gamerscore Blog, the panel features:

Jeromy Adams, Founder and Co-Host of Sarcastic Gamer
Chad Hantak, Webmaster and Co-Host of The Video Game Show
Danny Peña (Godfree), Founder and Co-Host of Gamertag Radio
Natalie Sousa, Co-Host of Achievement Junkies
Jay Van Beveren, Editor-in-Chief of Talking About Games

Danny and Riana are to announce the launch of the new business "D&R Media Consulting" and podcast called "The Danny and Riana Show". New episodes every Wednesday. Check it out! http://dannyandriana.com

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"Danny is your typical young boy. He loves playing video games! Read along and find out how he transformed his passion into his career. Based on the true story of Gamertag Radio Founder & Host, Danny Peña."

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0:00.0

Ladies and just gentlemen.

0:02.8

This is Gamer Tag Radio.

0:05.8

We have a brand new episode here at GTR Retro.

0:09.0

Thank you for listening.

0:10.8

This is your host Danny Pena.

0:12.4

For those I don't know, if this is your first time listening to the podcast, we're

0:16.2

celebrating 20 years of Gamer Tag Radio all year long.

0:20.9

So every Thursday, we're going to be releasing episodes from way back in the days,

0:26.7

some unreleased content, some like we released back then.

0:31.9

And yeah, we just have a little short commentary,

0:35.4

commentary about the episode of the retro episode that

0:40.8

were released every week. So every Thursday, we're going to have a brand new content. So in this

0:44.7

one, we're going to go back to PACs 2008, uh, Gamer Taggartaguer. We used to be part of a

0:51.7

podcasting network called GamerCast Network. At that time, this was all independent.

1:00.0

We had multiple shows that was part of this and all the hosts got together and we did a panel at Pax.

1:06.1

So it was Uncle Gamer, a podacular, video game show, achievement junkies.

1:13.2

So we were all part of this roundtable discussion.

1:16.7

We talked about why podcasting is important.

1:19.2

At that time, I remember we called this the new media because it was nothing like that.

1:25.1

Back then, it was toy, totally, very new.

1:27.4

And there was not that many podcasts in the early days of gaming podcast. So great conversation overall. We also had Chris Panadino that used to be part of the GamerCast Network. His show, Really Game Show, was part of it. But then he left because he got a job in the industry.

1:45.0

He started working at Xbox.

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