October 14, 2025 – Twenty-One Years of Podcasting

Coming to you this time from the actual lush and lavish studios of MWS Media, I observe the twenty-first anniversary of my first podcast, which is also more or less also the 21st anniversary of podcasting itself. In and around that milestone, two podcasting legends have retired, and another ill-conceived podcast award is announced. I have thoughts.

Also, an update on my own creative life, including my new website, a hopefully fresh approach to selling stuff on it, and anxiety around creating fiction.

This episode was recorded on October 14, 2025.

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Links and Topics Mentioned in This Episode

• My creative services for authors and podcasters. Can I help you? Book a free discovery call and let’s find out.
• My fiction and non-fiction.
• The 40th podcast was probably The Dragon Page: Cover to Cover. Sadly, I can’t find their first podcast episode archived anywhere..!
• You can find close to 100 episodes of my first podcasts, as well the complete run of Writers Talking and every episode of Five Minute Memoir (so far), at the cultural treasure that is The Internet Archive. You can also hear every episode of Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick right here on my site, and see all episodes of I Know This Much on YouTube (audio versions aren’t archived anywhere yet).
• Melvyn Bragg was the host of In Our Time for over a thousand episodes.
• Marc Maron recently ended his landmark interview podcast WTF.
• Here’s the open letter I wrote Marc Maron to gently scold his repeated claim to be a podcasting pioneer (and deliver some history, and gratitude).
• The Golden Globes are honoring podcasts now, sort of.
• I talk about my new website, which is live… and I mention using WooCommerce, with which I was struggling and which is awful. Since recording, I’ve embraced FluentCart. It’s pretty great so far, and at least until the end of October, 2025, they’ve got a price on a lifetime license that’s hard to beat.
• This episode was recorded (audio and video) using my Insta360 webcam and my Aurycle A87 microphone (through a Behringer U-Phoria UMC202 audio interface) via OBS Studio.
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