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James Cridlin, welcome to podcasting made simple slash poddocks.

So glad you're here to share with us the state of podcasting.

Oh, I'm really pleased that you asked me, Alex, thank you.

Yeah, absolutely.

You know, the first thing I want to get into here is just your contribution in podcasting.

One of my favorite things that you do is, is pod news.

And we'll get into that a little bit, so I'm not going to, like, spoil the whole thing now.

But it's just been such an amazing, helpful resource to the entire podcast industry, not just me, but the whole industry as well.

And I just want to say thank you so much for bringing your passion, your desire to help and serve people in the space. Like, I can't speak highly enough about the way that you show up to really make this industry a better place.

And honestly, have moved the needle doing that. So again, James, just thank you so much for what you do.

It means a lot to me personally. kind of you're making me as a as a British person making me feel you know very embarrassed we're

not used to any of that sort of thing I'm told I have a couple guys my mastermind they're

British and I'm told I should actually say mean things because that makes them feel better but I

just don't have an enemy man so I'm gonna stick with this all I got so something I always

love to do is whenever I bring on a pillar of the industry, which is you today,

I love talking about some of the past of podcasting and having you share your unique perspective.

But before we do that, and we will go more general, but you've got some interesting things that have happened in podcasting to you.

So I'm going to just kind of call those out and we'll get into more general and then we'll get through the kind of past of podcasting where it is today and then

into the future of it. But the first thing I want to mention is to have you talk about pod news.

So if you can just quickly explain what that is. And then I think that I heard you got the idea

over a beer in a bar in the United States is where the idea came from but can you talk about it a

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