Well, here are some words that I said a few times over the last 13 years or so.

This is Howard at the home of the unexplained.

I just wanted to say a few words on the passing of a milestone that a few of you have been

in touch with me about.

That is the passing of the 400th show which we've just done and of course 401 is now

out as well.

It's been a heck of a ride doing this, and it's been amazing to prove to myself, I think,

most of all, that I was actually able to produce something that's been over these years

completely independent in a world of corporate media where a few control pretty much everything.

The unexplained here online has been a totally independently produced show, and of course,

doing it for all of these years I have learned about podcasting in a small way.

I think I've become a bit of an expert on podcasting so people now ask me for advice on

how to do one and how to set one up, and I have to say that over the years I've invested

in technology and kit, a lot of which I've decided hasn't been right for me, and I've

learned the things now that work for me, and the things that don't.

I started recording these shows, I suppose the secret can now be revealed on mini-discs,

and in fact the first pretty much 300 shows were done that way, they were mastered on

a mini-disc, Sony Japanese technology.

But it worked brilliantly, I'd seen radio stations using those admittedly none do now,

but they are rock solid and they never ever let me down.

If I recorded a show on a mini-disc, then I know that it would stay there in master form

on the mini-disc.

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