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The 10 years ago I began my journey into the twilight zone

but in actuality the true beginning of this show was probably a year or maybe two even before that. Changes of hosting,

changes of websites mean that the dates you see in your podcatcher aren't the actual dates

when this show began. Rather fittingly, the beginning of the Twilight Zone podcast has been lost to time.

But in my mind, it was probably 2009 or 2010.

So when you consider that the first ever podcast is generally believed to have been released in 2004.

This show coming out about five years later means that it really was coming out in a time

when this format was just new and emerging.

Nowadays, hundreds of celebrities have their own podcasts.

Celebrities interview other celebrities.

Celebrities even now do episode-by-episode breakdowns of the shows that they acted in,

which used to be the domain of people like me doing a show, like this.

So although the Ware Celebrity Podcasts in those days,

the landscape was very different.

It was a format that fans could use to enthuse about things

in a way that they were never really allowed to do before.

What radio station is ever going to greenlight an episode by episode

breakdown of the Twilight Zone? It just wouldn't happen. The great thing about

podcasting though is, to borrow a quote from my guest tonight, you don't need to be greenlit

by a radio station, you can green light yourself.

But this young format had to prove itself if you had a radio show, people took notice, but

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