Hello, good afternoon, evening, morning, wherever you are in the world when you’re listening to this.

This is Lloyd, coming to you through the wonders of really simple syndication, I hope.

And I just, we’re approaching the 20th anniversary of my first podcasting adventure, and I just wanted to add my voice to those that are already talking about how the word podcast has come to mean a particular type of content that I don’t, I don’t think it has to be constrained by the format, which is usually two guys talking to each other.

Sometimes women are allowed, you know, that, that is not what I was interested in.

Although I’ve made things, I’ve made things like that, most notably with my best beloved collaborators, Robert Brooke and Dave Briggs.

But, but I’ve also done things which is just like this, me talking like a kind of voicemail.

And I’ve done things where I’ve interviewed people more formally than just a chat.

I’ve done things where I’ve recorded conversations between several people.

And I’ve put all sorts of other things in this feed, I can’t, bits of music as well, my own music.

And it feels like, yeah, I miss that, I miss that kind of rich variety in my feeds.

And I was just thinking, you know, at this point in December 20, 20, what are we thinking, 20 years ago, i.e.

2004, I was listening mostly to Adam Currie doing the 30 Source Code, which is a kind of radio show.

Where, and I don’t think he was kind of doing live talk segments in his shows then.

I think there were, if there was any other voice, it would be pre-recorded stuff.

But it was, it felt like a radio show.

Dave Weiner, of course, was doing things a bit more like this.

He’d just crack his laptop open and, and start recording wherever he was.

And, and then I was also listening to Doug, what’s his name?

Doug, Doug, can’t remember his surname, IT Conversations.

And those were recordings of conferences.

That was a big eye opener to me.

It was a great way of hearing speeches from conferences that you wouldn’t get to hear normally.

And even now, I don’t think most conferences don’t publish recordings of all of their talks online.

Or if they do, they go on YouTube and it’s just distracting seeing the face, to me, seeing the faces is just a distraction.

Anyway, so it was that.

And then there was, there was Dawn and Drew, who were like a couple doing a very informal and sometimes not safe for work comedy.

Well, you know, just funny, humorous, fun conversation about their life together and what they were doing and their relationship and sex and stuff.

And yeah, I miss, I just want to say really that I miss that kind of richness of the rich mix of content that might still be out there.

But it’s hard to find, it’s hard to filter out all the other stuff and find stuff that is just to my taste.

So this is a five minute experiment in making something a bit different like that.

Five, four, three, two, one.