The Co-Optional Podcast

The Co-Optional Podcast, formerly known as the TGS Podcast, is a gaming podcast hosted by TotalBiscuit, Jesse Cox and Dodger. Whilst originally airing from its own channel, The Co-Optional Podcast was moved to the Polaris YouTube channel. However as of the 13th of November 2014, it was moved again to TotalBiscuit's channel instead due to "disagreement on creative direction".

Format
The show starts with the main host,TotalBiscuit, introducing his side hosts and that episode's guest and then (one at a time) everyone talks about what games they have been since the last episode of the podcast. They then go to their first break and afterwards talk about that week's news or that week's releases if the news has been very slow. They then take their last break and talk about that week's release if they haven't done so already and afterwards talk about what videos are going to be uploaded to their channels (varies if they guest isn't on Youtube) and then they say their goodbyes.

Episode Guide & Guests
Almost every episode of the podcast has had a guest and the guests of each episode are as follows:

The Game Station Podcast

 * 1) Gunns4Hire
 * 2) HuskyStarcraft
 * 3) Myndflame
 * 4) MuzzaFuzza
 * 5) Maru the Cat (GIF)
 * 6) Simon
 * 7) ZAMoffical
 * 8) Davis/The Warp Zone
 * 9) (No Guests)
 * 10) JonTron
 * 11) PeanutButterGamer
 * 12) AngryJoe
 * 13) HuskyStarcraft & Rosanna Pansino (Dodger as Main host) (No TotalBiscuit)
 * 14) (No Guests) (TotalBiscuit, Jesse Cox & Dodger live from Jesse's Kitchen, first time all 3 in same place)
 * 15) The Completionist
 * 16) Layne Pavoggi
 * 17) WoWCrendor
 * 18) Josh/Indiestatik (No Dodger)
 * 19) JonTron & PeanutButterGamer (No TotalBiscuit)
 * 20) KnightWing01
 * 21) ZoocDoesStuff
 * 22) DaveChaos (No TotalBiscuit)
 * 23) (No Guest)
 * 24) Martyn & WoWCrendor (No Dodger)
 * 25) StephenPlays & IndieStatik (No Dodger)
 * 26) PurpleRodri
 * 27) Felicia Day/Geek & Sundry
 * 28) Myndflame, WoWCrendor and MunchingOrange (No TotalBiscuit and Dodger)
 * 29) ChuggaConroy (No Jesse Cox)
 * 30) Jarrett Cale/Pure Pwnage
 * 31) JP McDaniel
 * 32) Yamimash
 * 33) Lucahjin
 * 34) BlameTheController
 * 35) SideStrafe (No TotalBiscuit)
 * 36) KnightWing01
 * 37) (No Guest)
 * 38) (No Guest)
 * 39) Randy/ElderGeekDotCom
 * 40) ImAnderZEL
 * 41) CinnamonToastKen
 * 42) The Completionist (No Dodger)
 * 43) ChuggaConroy (No Dodger)
 * 44) Criken
 * 45) ForceSC2Strategy
 * 46) TalesOfLumin
 * 47) TradeChat
 * 48) Markiplier, Myndflame & WoWCrendor (No TotalBiscuit and Dodger)
 * 49) The Game Station Podcast Panel Live at PAX East 2013 (Criken joins half way through)
 * 50) DMJared & WoWCrendor {No TotalBiscuit)
 * 51) Angry Joe & Lisa Foiles (No Jesse Cox and Dodger)
 * 52) ZeitgeistReview
 * 53) Jwittz
 * 54) Rurikhan
 * 55) AzuriteReaction
 * 56) Caddicarus
 * 57) DissidiusWasTaken & WoWCrendor (as guest host due to no TotalBiscuit)
 * 58) ItMeJP
 * 59) Justin of Silvermania (Was kicked off half way through the show, see trivia for more info)
 * 60) SmoothMcGroove
 * 61) WoWCrendor
 * 62) ThatOneVideoGamer

The Co-Optional Podcast

 * 1) James Portnow
 * 2) JonTron
 * 3) Pusheen the Cat (No Guest)
 * 4) AngryJoeShow
 * 5) WoWCrendor (as Main Host) & Dracula Cat (PIC) (No TotalBiscuit)
 * 6) The Co-Optional Podcast Panel Live at PAX Prime 2013 (No Guest)
 * 7) NorthernLion
 * 8) IndieStatik
 * 9) Larry Bundy Jr.
 * 10) ItMeJP
 * 11) Sips
 * 12) Jim Sterling
 * 13) Boogie2988
 * 14) PeanutButterGamer
 * 15) Kyle Bosman
 * 16) Smooth McGroove
 * 17) Matt Lees
 * 18) WoWCrendor
 * 19) (No Guest)
 * 20) Cryaotic
 * 21) Nika Harper & IamChiib (No Dodger)
 * 22) Strippin
 * 23) WoWCrendor & ThatOneVideoGamer
 * 24) Nick of ContinueShow
 * 25) Yungtown
 * 26) (No Guest)
 * 27) (No Guest)
 * 28) ItMeJP
 * 29) Jim Sterling (No Dodger)
 * 30) CinnamonToastKen
 * 31) Super BunnyHop
 * 32) NorthernLion
 * 33) WoWCrendor (No TotalBiscuit)
 * 34) ProJared
 * 35) xXSlyFoxHoundXx
 * 36) UnitLost (No Dodger)
 * 37) iNcontrol (No Jesse)
 * 38) Larry Bundy Jr. (No Jesse)
 * 39) Criken (No TotalBiscuit)
 * 40) Birgirpall
 * 41) WoWCrendor (No Dodger)
 * 42) MathasGames & Cryaotic (No TotalBiscuit)
 * 43) Paul & Josh of ContinueShow (No TotalBiscuit)
 * 44) Aphmau/ChallengeAcceptedInc & iDubbbzTV (No TotalBiscuit)
 * 45) Jim Sterling & Matt Lees (No Jesse or Dodger)
 * 46) (No Guest)
 * 47) Jontron
 * 48) ItMeJP
 * 49) Sty and Kiri of Unit Lost (No Jesse)
 * 50) WoWCrendor
 * 51) Woolie of TheSw1chter (Two Best Friends Play)
 * 52) ProtonJon
 * 53) ThatOneVideoGamer and TheNationalDex of Super Beard Bros
 * 54) WoWCrendor & ItmeJP
 * 55) (No Guest)
 * 56) Nick Robinson/Babylonian (Formerly of Rev3Games)

Trivia

 * The show usually lasts from around 2 hours to 3 hours and 15 minutes.
 * The shortest Podcast episode was episode 49 which was around 50 minutes because it was the PAX Est TGS Panel and they were only allowed an hour of their panel. That podcast panel was also the first time that Criken showed his face in public.
 * The Longest episode was episode 18 of The Co-Optional Podcast which last 3 hours and 39 Minutes with Simon's episode (epsiode 6 of the TGS podcast) close behind with 3 Hours and 30 minutes.
 * Episode 59 has the only guest to be kicked off the show was Justin of Silvermania who was kicked off due to him not contributing towards the on-going discussions (of videogames) and his roommate and Justin himself insulting the hosts numerous times. He finally got kicked from the podcast after his roommate called TotalBiscuit an a**hole.
 * After being kicked off the show, Justin posted to his facebook fans: "They (the hosts) couldn't handle our awesomeness".
 * Simon, Martyn, DaveChaos, Sips and Strippin have all been on the show.
 * From episode 63 onwards, the show was renamed the Co-Optional Podcast.
 * From Co-optional Episode 27, each show begins with an animated intro. The visuals were animated by Julian GD of youtube.com/sabertoontigers, and the introduction music was written and performed by Miracle of Sound.
 * After the show was renamed to the Co-Optional podcast, TB stopped caring about the guests being from the Polaris network, as mentioned on episode 69 when NorthernLion (who is part of the Machinma network) was on the show.
 * Episode 68 was the Co-Optional podcast panel at PAX Prime so there was no guest.
 * On the 14th episode of The TGS Podcast, Dodger ate a pack of Jaffa Cakes with the best before date being the year 1272, whether this was just a mis-print or the box of jaffa cakes were actually from the medieval age, this goes down as one of the most memorable moments in the podcast's history.
 * With a total of 13 appearances to date, WoWCrendor is the most frequent guest on the Podcast and is joked to be the "like the fifth beatle".
 * Jesse had previously been the only host to be present every episode up until episode 37 of the co-optional podcast where he missed the podcast due to being on holiday in Peru with his dad.
 * The Co-Optional Podcast is live every Tuesday at 3 PM EST / 12PM PST / 8pm GMT /¸9pm CET on Totalbiscuit's Twitch channel : http://www.twitch.tv/totalbiscuit (check his page for times and guest) If TotalBiscuit's twitch is not live by 3:15 EST, check Polaris', Jesse's and/or Dodger's Twitter for info.
 * Kaeyi Dream is known to have watched the show and is most likely a fan of it due to the fact that she mentioned that she first saw Martyn on the 24th episode of the TGS Podcast.
 * It was originally though that the name change from the TGS podcast to the Co-Optional podcast came about due to copyright issues with Gamestation, a line of video gaming shops in the UK however, it was later clarified that the change of name was due to the change of the Network's name from being The Game Station to Polaris.
 * Jesse, one of the show's hosts, broke the law live on air on the 39th episode of The TGS Podcast when he illegally got sent a case of cans and a 1L bottle of the UK-exclusive (although primarily Scotland) fizzy drink, Irn-Bru by a fan and drunk a can live on air. Needless to say, the mass amount of sugar (as well as a certain chemical which bans it from the US) made Jesse hyperactive which made him rage at TB and Dodger which is still to this day, one of the funniest moments in the podcast's history.
 * If any of the hosts are not available, Dodger or Jesse Cox (depending on who is missing) takes over as the main host and they either replace the missing host(s) with more guests or a picture/gif of something.
 * BlameTheController and SlyFoxHound are the only non-Yogscast Youtubers who has been on both The Co-Optional Podcast and The Shaft.
 * Nerd3 was offered to be on the Co-Optional Podcast but declined at the time because he though he didn't have good enough internet. However, now that he does have good enough internet Dan said he said that he'll go on it eventually although he has never watched an episode.