BTS: Running A Top-Ten News Podcast

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**John Bickley** (1:04)
Hello. Thank you guys for joining us. That was super fast. I was not ready for that. We, this is an All Access that we're doing for a particular reason. Our five-year anniversary is a show and the 3,000th episode of the show according to certain metrics that I believe.
We have 3,000 episodes, which is kind of crazy. Every now and then, we talk about this. I can't believe where we are and how much time and stuff we put into the show, because it doesn't feel like it.

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We've loved doing the show. Yeah, it's so fun.

**John Bickley** (1:41)
We wanted to take the next half hour to maybe longer than that, to talk a little bit about some of the behind the scenes with the show, the history of the show, but also really to take your questions and try to give you some answers, and just hear from you guys some and respond to that. That's what we really wanted to do because in the end, the show exists because you guys tune in. We are constantly amazed at when we meet people that listen to this show. It never gets old. We've said this before on the show, but it never gets old to learn that somebody actually listens to this show every day.
And we appreciate some of you guys have been there from the beginning. In fact, we want to figure out a way to find the people that have been there from the beginning and do something. I don't know what. I can't make any promises.
But we want to find out who's been there from the beginning. No matter what, if you've just started tuning in, if you've been there for a long time, we really appreciate you guys. And we love our jobs. I think part of the thing with the five years and the 3,000 episodes.

**Georgia Howe** (2:45)
It went fast.

**John Bickley** (2:46)
Yeah, it doesn't feel like that at all. Until I start remembering some moments from this, and then it does seem like a long time.

**Georgia Howe** (2:53)
And then it's like long ago memories. Yeah.

**John Bickley** (2:56)
So we, you know, one of the things, we're also going to hear from Cabot. We're specifically wanted to cue up Cabot. Cabot's been a major part of the show. You'll hear from him pretty soon. He cannot be on tonight. Usually he's on our All Access episodes because it's fun and we love, the three of us love each other.
It's easy, but he can't be on tonight. He can't get a prior engagement, so he can't be here. But Georgia, so your biggest sort of response to 3,000 episodes, five years, what's the main thing that kind of comes to mind?

**Georgia Howe** (3:30)
Well, one, that time flies. And two, I feel a lot of gratitude to do a job that is like such a dream job. I mean, I feel like we have fun every day. There are some days that are like, it's hard work.
And there are moments of some stress, but I would say, I was an ER nurse before this. Some people have asked that. I would say we don't really have life or death stress here, which is kind of nice.

**John Bickley** (4:00)
I feel that sometimes, Georgia.
But I'm glad you know, Georgia is, it's so funny. Georgia is really chill and mostly fun. I am the, I'm the highest rung one, because I'm always like, oh my gosh, something's gonna go wrong.