Hello, I'm Gary Stevens, and welcome to the History in the Bible podcast.

All the history, in all the books, in all the Bibles. Bonus episode number one.

This is the first of an irregular series of bonus episodes,

in addition to my fortnightly installments.

In this bonus, I talk about history podcasting with Stephen Guerra of the History of the Papacy podcast.

Steve and the others at the History Podcasters Network have been a great help to me in getting this podcast going.

You can visit Steve at A2Z History Page.com.

And you can visit the History podcaster network at historypodcasters.com

Now thanks to a technical failure on my part, my half of the audio doesn't sound too good, but there you go.

The History in the Bible podcast resumes, as usual, next Sunday.

Hi, this is Steve Guerra from the History of the Papacy podcast.

And this is Gary Stevens from the History in the Bible podcast.

We're a part of the History Podcasters.com network, a group of people passionate about history podcasting.

Steve and I love talking about popes, patriarchs, priests, and prophets.

This is a special crossover bonus episode. We're going to do just that, covering thousands of years of history. We'll also talk about what it's like to be a history podcaster,

how we got here, and all things history podcast related. We hope you enjoy it. Now, Steve,

the word podcast was invented by the journalist Ben Hammersley in the British newspaper, The Guardian,

only in February 2004. Libson, a major podcasting hoster and hosted to both of our shows, launched in late 2004.

Podcasts were added to iTunes in June 2005.

So podcasting is only 10 years old.

Now, in a way, it's a sort of radio on demand, but it's not quite like radio.

I think that's what's great about podcasting is that people can jump in at any point. So it's not

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