1000: Syntax Episode 1,000!

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Wes Bos

Tech News, Technology, News

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2026

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Wes and Scott celebrate 1000 episodes of Syntax, reflecting on how the podcast started, the team behind it, memorable moments, listener stats, inside jokes, and how the show has evolved over time—from early recordings and sponsors to supercuts, spooky episodes, and what’s next. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 02:01 Intro to Kaitlin 03:08 Intro to Randy 06:16 Intro to CJ 09:01 Intro to Niki 10:08 Who “yaps” more, Wes or Scott? 10:28 Brought to you by Sentry.io 18:37 Wes’ supercuts app 24:04 How Syntax got started 28:04 Joining Sentry 29:47 The 6-7 compilation 30:42 The original Syntax doc 38:44 Dead Nuts supercut 38:58 Kaitlin’s journey from Level Up to Syntax 45:30 Where new listeners should start 46:41 The Wordle episode and viral moments 48:24 Most popular Syntax episodes 48:40 The Halloween episodes and spooky stories tradition 50:57 Listener stats by country 55:22 First sponsors and early monetization 57:30 Who edited the early Syntax episodes? 59:25 Will there be a Syntax conference? 01:01:33 How many guests have been on Syntax? 01:02:58 Evolution of Syntax intros 01:07:54 More Syntax supercuts Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Wes: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Scott: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Randy: X Instagram YouTube Threads

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0:54.5	awesome episode plan for you. So don't go anywhere. We got some fun history on the podcast. We've got
1:01.6	some stats about the episode. I built a bunch of those really fun super cut clips, which I think
1:07.1	that'll be an episode in itself on building that because that was so cool. But welcome, Scott.
1:12.3	Congrats on a thousand.
1:14.2	Oh, Wes.
1:15.4	Congratulations, man.
1:16.8	Wow.
1:17.8	Man, in 2017, did you imagine 1,000 episodes, whole team of people.
1:25.9	What a cool, cool thing this has been so far. Pretty, pretty nuts. So today
1:31.5	we're going to be going through all that stuff. We're going to introduce the team, go through
1:34.8	some of the history. We even, I dug up the Google Doc that me and Scott on April 1st,
1:41.8	2016, we sort of just banged our heads together as to what a good podcast would
1:46.8	look like. And I pulled it up and we're going to go through it together. So let's get on into it.
1:52.7	First of all, let's bring the team on and introduce everyone. Not just Scott and I, we yap,
1:57.3	but there's much more talented people behind the scenes that make this thing work.
2:02.1	Yeah.
2:02.6	So the first person that joined the syntax team was actually someone who worked with me on level up tutorials.
2:10.8	And that is Caitlin Bloom.
2:13.2	Welcome to the show, Caitlin.
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