CHANGES PART TWO

As you’ll know - if you’ve seen my previous video or listened to the final Dumb Ages episode - for various reasons, mostly financial, I’m moving to creating a solo podcast.

This gives me the opportunity to clean off Jack’s desk here at the Dumb Ages complex - there’s a years worth of empty Stella Artois cans alone! - and have a rebrand. I love a rebrand! So the title and the branding is going to change BUT I believe that, as these are purely aesthetic, if you have a paid subscription, that will continue.

I ran a brief poll on what the new name should be and the clear winner was - drum roll - BEYOND REASON. This show will cover cults, conspiracies and human folly. This provides a broad and interesting brief for me encompassing not only the present but also the wide sweep of human history.

I’m told that solo pods do not lend themselves well to hour plus episodes, so I’m aiming to keep the new episodes between 30 and 45 minutes each. As I will be prerecording the episodes, there’s also greater opportunity to produce bonus content for my paid subscribers.

I’m also told that solo pods require more promotion to get listeners which means I may be branching into YouTube shorts and a corner of social media I’ve always avoided: INSTAGRAM! *cue spooky music*

I really hope you stick with me through all these changes and that you’ll find the new show interesting and enjoyable. I can’t replace Jack’s mordant Manchester mirth-making, but I can offer you my enthusiasm for the subject and my lovely mellifluous voice…well, one out of two isn’t bad.

Be seeing you.