Metallica, here they come, the kings of metal.

On I burn!

This is Ray Burton, and you're listening to Metalch Your Podcast, I'm Ethan Luck. And I'm Clint Wells.

This is episode 212 and a very, very special episode, Clint, because we're here right now at HQ2, throwing the most gigantic anniversary party.

And by that, I mean, just you and I and a couple stiff drinks.

It's just the two of us with a bottle of vodka here on the table in my studio.

And we couldn't be with all of our friends this year.

So we've got each other.

You know what? That's all I need. It's kind of full circle because I remember our first episode five years ago now. Oh wait, four years ago. Four years ago. We're in year five. I mean,

I remember that night and that was just the two of us then. We didn't know who would listen to the show we didn't know uh we didn't even know if we'd be doing it past a year uh we did not no not at all i mean i we were excited that we got like a thousand

listens by the end of the first month and we thought oh there's no way it can get better than this just

think about going back into the past and letting ourselves then know that by now we would have more

than 2,000 downloads of the show more than 2 2,000. Yeah. Could you imagine telling ourselves

that? We have it. I think at least a dozen fans by now. Well, listen, we're glad you've joined

us. We're going to have a good time today. We've already decided, we already discussed before we

started rolling tape. And yes, we roll tape here. Oh, this is a two-inch machine right next to me. We decided about 30 of these. Yeah, we did.

So I can't wait to hear from everyone and see what they have to say.

We have some best of's compilations of some of our characters.

We are going to kind of go through a year in review and talk about our highlights of the

year of the episodes.

I found it very revealing and interesting today going through everything we did

because we did a lot. Yes, we did. And did not do it together primarily. Well, you know, you would

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