Hello people.

Hi, welcome to Sabir reasons malicious life, ask us anything.

I'm Ran Levy, and with me in the studio today are our senior producer, Nate Nausen.

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And sitting in front of me, Hadas Duker, our social media manager, Hiadas.

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Thank you to everybody who joined us today to celebrate Malicious Life's fifth birthday anniversary. Today is a rather special day for me and for everybody

who worked on the podcast for the past five years because malicious life is a kind of a

miracle. It's not really a miracle because a lot of people worked really

hard for this miracle to happen, but if anyone would have told me when we set out

on this journey that five years and some 171 episodes later

malicious life will become one of the world's top security podcasts and in fact one of the world's top technology podcasts I would have

responded well that would take a miracle so a big thank you to everybody who were in

on the show's production.

A big chunk of that miracle is due to our wonderful community of listeners from all over the world.

I've been podcasting for about 15 years now, and if there's one thing I've learned

during that long long journey is that there's only one way for a podcast to

become really successful and that's not great marketing. It's only through word of mouth, which means

you people talking about malicious life with your friends, your family, next to the coffee machine

in the office during family meals and on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn,

Reddit and whatnot.

I had the pleasure of chatting and talking with fans, tens if not hundreds of listeners over the years and I'm always amazed by all the

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