Greetings, you 10-foot Governets. Welcome to the Blind Buy Podcast. This episode actually

marks the fourth birthday of this podcast. We've been doing this podcast for four fucking

years. I don't think at the time I thought I'd be doing this podcast for four years. I

didn't think that this podcast would become what it has become. I initially started this

podcast as a way to promote my Book of Shard stories. It was 2017, late 2017. I'd just written

a Book of Shard stories. I'd never written a Book of Shard stories before and I was like,

fuck, how do I go from being the lad in the rubber bandit's who was making music to all of

a sudden having a Book of fiction? How do I do that? Will people purchase it? How do I let them know

that the stories in this book are even worth reading? So I said, I'm gonna have to do a podcast

and on this podcast I'm gonna read out some stories and then hopefully some people will hear

it and then they'll say, these stories aren't too bad. I think I might try this book. So I did

a read out a few short stories on the first couple of podcast episodes. I thought maybe

I was gonna do about four podcast episodes back then and then the podcast got really popular

really quickly. So I said, fuck it. I guess I'm doing a weekly podcast now and here we are

four years later. I think we're as almost 35 million listens. We've got listeners all

over the fucking world and there isn't really any signs of anything slowing down the podcast

continues to grow. It started off as kind of just a thing in Ireland but now, she's at

say most of my listeners now are outside of Ireland. Don't really have an Irish podcast anymore.

I just have a podcast that people listen to all around the gaff and I have to say and

I genuinely mean this and thank you to everyone who listens to this podcast. But this podcast

has been the highlight of my career. It really has been the highlight of my career and what

feels so lovely about that is I've been serious about creating art or entertainment or whatever

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