Hello, wonderful people listening to this here podcast. There's a lot more of you than there once were. We're getting tens and tens of thousands of listeners now, which is really exciting. And I have an announcement to make as it approaches midnight on this Wednesday, the 22nd of January. You see, I just had a good meeting with the good people at Spotify,

where about a third of you, a third of you listened through Spotify,

a little bit more than that listen on Apple,

and then there's a variety of other platforms that you listen on.

And we had a chat, and they convinced me to start putting the full video out of the

episodes. So you will now be getting, if you want to watch or listen through Spotify instead of

Apple, you can watch there. You, I think for now, I think I'm right in saying, will not then, if you're

watching the video version, get so many audio ad breaks. You will occasionally get, though,

a branded ad. When I'm reading one out, you can't sort of, I mean, you can just skip it,

can't you? Don't though, buy mean you can just skip it can't you

don't though buy the things that uh because that's you know if you if you buy the things

uh from the people i uh do ads for then they come back and pay more so i can keep renting the studios

and paying freelancers and making everything work.

Anyway, so that's the announcement. It's quite exciting because I know a lot of you only ever really listened.

Maybe you don't, you're not YouTube people, but you are Spotify people.

And I have this beautiful studio in London that we use.

We are working all the time on making sure

the lighting is as beautiful as it can be. I know a lot of people say, hey, they don't care about

this. I do care about that kind of thing. I think it's a subconscious thing, but I do care

about sort of watching something. I really like maybe popping it on the TV because it's a Spotify

app on the TV isn't there. And it being, you know, 4K high resolution, beautiful lighting, and you actually see the expressions on people's faces,

you see what we look like, what we're wearing, and I think it makes you feel more part of it.

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