Season 4 Finale: A Fond Farewell, What’s Next & Would You Rather

**Conor Bronsdon** (0:00)
Don't mind me just derailing the episode. I'm like, I'm done hosting this thing. I can just derail now. I'm a guest. I get to screw around.

**Andrew Zigler** (0:06)
You mean this isn't going in?

**Ben Lloyd Pearson** (0:10)
I'm sure some of it will. Adam's already thinking about the video clip. He's gonna get off of this.

**Conor Bronsdon** (0:14)
He loves a good blooper. This might be the intro of the whole episode for all we know.

**Ben Lloyd Pearson** (0:26)
Hey, everyone, welcome back to Dev Interrupted. I'm Ben Lloyd Pearson, your host, and I'm thrilled to be joined by our former current host, I'm not sure yet, Conor Bronson, and our newest addition to the team, Andrew Zigler. So it's great for both of you to be here with us today.

**Conor Bronsdon** (0:43)
Hey, everyone, great to be back. And Andrew, fantastic to meet you. I'm excited to see what you do with the show.

**Andrew Zigler** (0:47)
Hey, thanks for bringing me on. I'm excited to be here and carry the mantle, and I hope everyone keeps me honest in the comments going forward.

**Ben Lloyd Pearson** (0:54)
Yeah, and part of why there's a bit of confusion about current or former, I mean, to us, you've actually been gone for a little while, but to the Dev Interrupted community, you've actually been a host up until, I think, just a couple of weeks ago. But I wanted to bring you back for what's become kind of an annual tradition for us, this holiday episode that we're having. And it's a little bittersweet, right? Because we have you back, and it's great to see your face again and hear your voice.
And the holidays like this is all about like spending time with people you care about, looking back on what you've accomplished, and think about what you can start to celebrate in the new year. So, you know, we may be saying goodbye to you after this episode, but actually just one sneak peek, we will have one more episode next year where you'll pop back in as our host. This is our farewell to you, and I really wanted to give you an opportunity to share your reflections with our audience before we officially send you out the door. Yeah, and then, you know, as a part of that, we're also welcoming Andrew to our team here at Dev Interrupted, who's going to be a regular on the show. In fact, he may end up being a host on most of the episodes moving forward. So if you listened last week, you got the chance to hear him for the first time, but you'll be hearing a lot more. So thanks again for both of you for coming here today. And I know it's a lot of news for our audience to digest right now.

**Conor Bronsdon** (2:13)
I love it. It's been an incredible four years with Dev Interrupted, building the show, working with you, Ben, working with Dan, obviously, the amazing production crew, Jackson, Adam, Chris, everyone who's been involved over the years. And I just can't wait to see where you two and Dan take the show next year. There's such an opportunity for Dev Interrupted to continue to be the central hub for engineering leaders and engineers who want to become leaders to have a community, to have insights and hopefully continue to create content. I look forward to continuing to listen to the show every week, even if I'm not going to be a part of it. And I'll say for our listeners, you can always find me on LinkedIn as well. So don't hesitate to reach out. I love hearing from you all. And yeah, Ben, Andrew, just so excited to see what you do with the show.

**Ben Lloyd Pearson** (2:57)
Yeah. And I personally am just extremely grateful for the opportunity to continue the success of DI. So looking forward, I really think there are opportunities for us to take what we've been given, this gift that we've been given to New Heights. Our audience is really engaged with the things that we cover. So I think there's an opportunity here for us to really ramp that up and deliver a lot more to the people that listen to us. So, all right, we've got that out of the way. I want to have a little fun. I'm going to give Conor a chance to share what his favorite moments from the show have been. But before that, I want to have a little bit of fun before we get into it. So I've come up with a would you rather, like let's do some would you rather questions, like with a little bit of a holiday twist. So I know each one of us has come up with one.