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Welcome to Tech Stuff, a production from IHeart Radio.

Hey there and welcome to Tech Stuff.

I'm your host, Jonathan Strickland.

I'm an executive producer with IHeart Podcasts and how the tech are you?

Well, here in the United States, it is the day after Thanksgiving.

And normally, I would serve up

a rerun on a day like today because our office is closed for the holiday. But considering I'm

winding down my 16 and a half year long run on tech stuff, I thought instead I would do a timely

episode to talk about thankfulness and the gratitude I feel toward the many people who have contributed to this show over the years.

And yes, there will be a lot of overlap with that previous episode I did when I announced that I was leaving the show.

But starting off, the first person I have to thank is Connell Byrne.

So today, Connell is the CEO of the Digital Audio Group at IHeartMedia.

But back in 2008, he was the new head of a little website called How StuffWorks.com.

So Connell came into the company and helped broker the deal with Discovery Communications

that would see how StuffWorks.com emerged from being part of a private company that was

called the Convex Group and into becoming a component of Discovery Communications Digital

Strategy. That happened in late 2007. Now, those of y'all who have been listening to

tech stuff for a while now,

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