The BASH webcast does a little navel-gazing and some self-backslapping this week. After all, it's the 50th episode we have done!

Yup. Fifty episodes and we are still here. And we are not going anywhere - regardless what an overwhelming majority of critics have to say.

We started this project way back in 2006 and have tried our best to keep you, the CoD community aware of what its hard working members are up to.

We have numerous people on the show for you to listen to and get to know...

Modders like Tally, {PST}*Joker, Bullet-Worm, Garetjax.

Website admins like Matt Pruitt of planetcallofduty.com and Josh from codhq.com (now working at Treyarch!).

Server admins like the folks from Battle for Europe Tournament. 

and those are just a sprinkling of the folks that have been on the program. With the 50th episode in the can, we hope to be bringing you more from this exciting FPS community in the future.

I hope you have enjoyed the first 49 ...and here without further ado is number five-oh.

SHOW NOTES: 

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I frankly never thought we'd get this far...I thought for sure we wouldn't make it past our fifth episode much less fiftieth, given all the hurdles we had to climb.

After all we've lost quite a few audio engineers making this program over the past year,  half of the New Jersey mob has tried to gun us down at some point or other, we've had a reporter kidnapped and of course, who can forget the fact that we had our studios blown to smithereens by a Russian terrorist named Yorgi.

In celebration, tonight we will listen to some of those 50 episodes and find out why BASH has not had the following we had hoped for. Um...sorry, I meant we'll find out what has made BASH the hit in the CoD community that it has had.

BASH started off as a morale-boosting attempt at COD related entertainment for my clan, at the time, the Devil Dogz.

BASH 01 was me talking giving an intro into what CoD2 was all about...

<BASH 01>

That first webcast was listened to my um at least 20 or so people...but it was not long after that we started hitting our stride.

Buoyed by our successes in the first episode, BASH 02 started much in the same way...but trouble with a capital T, hit us right in the face....

<BASH 02>

If a wild west-shoot out wasn't enough for ya...Episode 3 started with an audio problem and ended up with half the studio sitting in my lap ...have a listen

<BASH 03>

Yorgi was our gaffer/audio engineer and possibly our most misguided hire ever...

He was soon followed by the bumbling Friedrich...a recent immigrant from Germany. He made a few too many mistakes early on ...here he is muffing an audio cue: the playing of the national anthem in honor of a Quebec Clan...

<BASH 03b>

Soon after BASH 05 we started to realize that my dulcet tones were not enough to carry the show to popularity and on BASH06 we had our first guest {PST} Joker from the extreme+ mod .

This started to get us some attention...all the wrong kind. Two episodes later...we were visited by a gentlemen named Anthony Scungile from the New Jersey Waste Management Group who was looking to settle some debts with my clan leader - who knew he would soon be looking to buy the BASH webcast.

I was a little late for that show...so Scungile who skirted our security, decided to start without me..

<BASH 09>

Scungile's appearance caused a downward spiral of intrigue at the show...

In the next episode, Hillary Wojohowski our intrepid crime reporter went missing and soon we found out she was kidnapped...

Wojohowski, or as we now know her...Mrs. Scungile, was in trouble and we needed to help  her...in came the RCMP who interrogated our whole staff...including poor Freddie who didn't quite make it all the way through interogation...

An exciting two part episode followed:

<BASH 10>

Good work indeed.

That excitement was nothing compared to when we traveled back in time in  the episode we called: THE VORTEX

Back to the future and 40 more episodes later. Hopefully you have enjoyed listening to the first few shows we did

A lot has happened since that first webcast back in December of 2006. We've learned a lot and hopefully the show has gotten a little better.

...we have left CoD2 behind, embraced CoD4 and now Activision is already working on CoD5. We hope to be bringing you the news of that game as well - it promises to be for the PC platform as well...

Finally, I would like to thank all the folks who have been on the show and special thanks to you the listener for downloading the webcast

...remember to subscribe to the podcast with Itunes that way you wont miss an episode.

Thanks again for supporting us and here's hoping you have clean headshots...