FIR 176: Our 1,000th episode is hefty but good

FIR 1000

The February 2019 edition of the Hobson and Holtz Report podcast, aka FIR episode 176, is a show that marks a big milestone for Shel and I.

It’s the 1,000th episode* of a podcast that we began in January 2005.

In addition to recollections of times past and comments from listeners from throughout FIR’s 14-plus-year history, plus special news from Shel about continuity plans, we report on these stories in this episode:

Special thanks to Jay Moonah for the opening and closing music.

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*The formula for calculation that gives us 1,000 is a simple one:
176 episodes of “For Immediate Release” (the weekly show including the monthly H&H Report since September 2015) + 824 episodes of “For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report” (the original bi-weekly then weekly show from January 2005 to September 2015) = 1,000.

But there’s more!

In addition to the anchor show Shel and I do, we have also done myriad interviews, book reviews, and live shows. Take interviews, for instance: the archive blog has over 30 pages of interview posts. At 7 posts per page, that’s over 230 podcasts.

And that’s just FIR/H&H content – if you visit the FIR Podcast Network, you’ll see more than 20 active podcasts produced by people with a passion for their topics and linked to the FIR brand.

You can explore the FIR archive, our home for a decade before we moved to the current site in 2015. It’s a veritable memory lane.

Neville Hobson

Social Strategist, Communicator, Writer, and Podcaster with a curiosity for tech and how people use it. Believer in an Internet for everyone. Early adopter (and leaver) and experimenter with social media. Occasional test pilot of shiny new objects. Avid tea drinker.

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