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Hello , welcome to season number

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four . I

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can't say Steven speak any longer . I can't say Stephen

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speak because I've rerun it , as you've probably seen

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on social media . So the show is now called Infinite

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Prattle , formerly Stephen

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speak . But for series four and for

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the foreseeable future we are

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now Infinite Prattle because if

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you've listened to my podcast previously

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, then you know that I can ramble on potentially

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infinitely . If you're new to the

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podcast , then hello welcome . Thank

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you for joining us . You're

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in for a wild ride . I would like to say that I'm more organized

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this season , but

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my wife will attest . Today I'm

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recording everything for the

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podcast , including intros and outros etc . All

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in one go and it's

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been a disaster . But you know , let's get

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into it and let's hear that

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new intro sound . Well

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, that's the first mistake of the new series , pressing

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the wrong button . Welcome to series

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four . You're

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listening to Infinite

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Prattle with

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your host , steven . Thanks

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for joining me on scripts

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and edits . Oh

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, what do you think about that intro ? It cuts off a bit abruptly . I might

1:29

need to change that . I

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was expecting the symbol to carry on as it used to do , but

1:34

oh well

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, if you don't

1:38

know about this show by now , then you'll

1:41

never know it's full of cockups

1:44

and me banging into things and

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doing things that I shouldn't be doing Messing

1:49

with things on the fly as I'm doing now , because

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setting up your mic

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prior to actually starting

1:55

recording it is my

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priority . I've started my own media company

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, as you might know . This

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is the professional level you'll get with my

2:05

services . Obviously

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, if it's for you , I would take more care Just

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drinking my brew . So , apologies

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, I

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just recorded the intro there on my phone

2:18

. I did say

2:20

I was going to do video . By the way , this

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episode has no target , has no subject

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whatsoever . I don't know what I'm

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going to do . I know what the next

2:31

episode is going to be . I

2:33

don't even remember Johnny came on the show

2:35

. He

2:37

came on when was it ? It

2:42

would be series three , I think . And

2:45

what's it ? Series three , series

2:48

two , I don't know . Check

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, you can go back and check . He

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came on and was

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talking about what trip he'd done to the Antarctic

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. It's a great episode over two episodes . To be

3:01

fair , towards the end

3:03

of last year , I think it was the start of December

3:05

, end of November . Myself

3:08

and my wife came with us that time . We went

3:10

up and saw him again and recorded another episode

3:12

by a trip that he did last

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year . After I

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recorded the episode with him . It was pretty

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much nearly a year today that he recorded the episode

3:21

and he went out in the January . It

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could have been series

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two . We recorded another two episodes , johnny . The

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first part of that two-parter again

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is going to be next week's show . At

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least I've got something organised already . I've

3:37

got a few people in the works to

3:39

record another couple of podcasts

3:41

as well . Fingers Cross , I've got

3:43

to get in contact with them . This week my admin's been terrible

3:45

. I

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had a bit of a break . As you know regular listeners

3:50

will know the last episode was like

3:53

December , like the first

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week of December . I think it was Maybe the second . I

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should have probably checked before I started talking about it . Here's

4:04

for rebranded internet prattles . Say well

4:06

, steven , um , yeah , so I

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I wanted a bit of a break . Um

4:11

, work's been quite difficult . I think . Probably

4:13

my brain's a little bit burnt out . I've not really had

4:15

like . Even though I've had holidays , I've

4:17

never really it's not been long enough to relax . I feel

4:19

like I need like a complete , like

4:21

month away from everything

4:24

. Um , the first two weeks just to

4:26

like get my brain back to a normal level and

4:28

then two weeks then to enjoy before I come back to

4:30

like the real world , um , so

4:33

it's been . It's been quite difficult for my brain to concentrate

4:35

on , on anything really

4:37

. Um , I've had a nice break from the podcast

4:39

and that is the way my brain works

4:41

. It's things stay in my brain

4:43

for a long time before I actually anything

4:46

, um , and

4:48

that's that's um

4:50

in everything I

4:52

do , really , if I'm honest with you . So that's

4:54

stuff around the house . So I've been

4:56

essentially building some wardrobes for

4:58

a while . Um , I know what I'm

5:00

going to do in my brain when I

5:02

have to buy some stuff and probably

5:05

actually write some sort of plan down , and

5:07

that kind of goes goes through everything that I

5:09

do . So I've been thinking about changing the podcast

5:11

for a while to a different name

5:13

to separate it from . As I say , I've started like

5:16

, uh , I've gone as a sole trader for

5:18

production stuff Cause , um , remember

5:20

one of the episodes last year told you that I'd

5:22

create like a soundscape for a local charity

5:24

, local , uh

5:26

, heritage center for the railway , and

5:30

, um , I could have charged for that service , but

5:32

, having never done it before , um , I

5:34

didn't feel like code , didn't , didn't want to

5:36

, to be honest , um , but having achieved

5:39

, I think , what was quite a good

5:41

um for having never done

5:43

it before . I think it was , I think it was quite quite

5:45

good . I think I'm underselling myself there

5:47

Um , cause I got some really good feedback

5:49

a good , a good soundscape and a good , good

5:52

first attempt . And um , I'll

5:54

keep using the word good but you insert your own word

5:56

. That's more descriptive and and entitles

5:58

me to more praise . So

6:01

from that my brother basically said he's been into

6:03

like audio stuff for years , like DJing

6:05

, uh , doing sound , um

6:07

production and stuff like that for gent , various

6:10

stuff he studied at uni . So he said

6:12

, you know , you could , you could have probably charged them up quite a lot of money , like

6:15

, and he was . I think he was quite impressed with what I did . So

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I was quite impressed with that

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cause , kind of hold my brother in high esteem for stuff

6:22

like that . Um , um

6:25

, oh , I

6:27

got my car keys in my pocket for some reason , I don't know why . Anyway

6:31

, this episode is going really well . It's

6:34

. I'm blaming the stress of like

6:36

recording the intro and outro . Everything's so compressed

6:38

. I thought it was going to be easy . My

6:40

computer's been having a paddy . Uh

6:43

, the software I use on my Mixcast um

6:45

audio I

6:48

can't find words today audio

6:50

interface Um software

6:52

kept crashing for some reason . It turns out I think it was to

6:54

do with my um Skullcandy

6:57

player , pm

6:59

NT headphones being

7:01

the output sound

7:04

source , it seems . As

7:06

soon as I disconnected them , it seemed to work . Anyway

7:09

, um , my brother was quite impressed with the soundscape I

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created . Hey , listeners , this is what they're

7:13

all like . Um , there's , there are sometimes

7:15

interesting . Hold on , I do say stuff

7:17

that's interesting sometimes . Um

7:20

, I'm talking quite quickly as well . I'm excited about

7:22

being back . I've missed doing this . It's

7:25

been . I must admit , it's weird . I didn't want to just record

7:27

anything . I probably should have just recorded

7:29

some episodes and then I could have added in the

7:31

new jingle afterwards . What do you think about that

7:34

? By the way , it's more snappy than the

7:36

old one . Uh , now I've got

7:38

like four subjects open . Um

7:40

, yeah , so

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my brother was impressed with the soundscape and basically said I probably

7:44

could have charged quite a lot of money for it and it kind of got me thinking

7:46

. You know , it's it's stuff that I enjoy

7:49

and I actually managed to put it together really

7:51

quickly . I was , it was in my head basically

7:53

this is what I'm going with it . It was in my head for a long time

7:56

what I could do to achieve the things

7:58

I wanted to achieve , and

8:00

I had to submit it to the council and

8:02

the person that was going to review it , uh

8:05

, on a Tuesday , okay . So I had a deadline

8:07

of this Tuesday . Um , we were going to , you know

8:09

, I was going to send it to them or we were

8:11

going to meet up and listen to it , and

8:14

basically they were . That was like probably like

8:16

a week before the exhibition opened or a few days before it

8:18

opened , and I did nothing

8:20

literally up to the Sunday before . I

8:23

kind of opened up logic pro

8:25

once and kind of had

8:27

a play around with some sounds using my little

8:29

Akai Is that how you say it ? Akai

8:31

, okay , a-k-a-i

8:33

Little kind of got a little mini keyboard . I

8:36

had to mess around with some of the sounds on that weeks

8:40

before and then went ehh

8:42

, that sort of something , and that's kind of how

8:45

it was , and I was just like kind

8:47

of noting stuff down . Every time I thought

8:49

of something , I'd got a little note thing on my phone with

8:52

about six bullet points and it was just like the sounds

8:54

of people walking and brushing up , the

8:56

sounds of a big drill , big impact

8:58

sounds , someone dropping some tools

9:01

, the sounds of the doors opening in the morning

9:03

and on the Sunday , before

9:05

it all became one , basically

9:08

, and I think that's what I'm getting with

9:10

. Everything stays in my brain quite a lot and I

9:12

find it very difficult . Even if I write

9:14

stuff down and it doesn't

9:17

always , doesn't always

9:19

help , talking

9:21

through it helps . So

9:23

, in a weird loop , infinitely

9:26

talking

9:29

about stuff really helps me . Ironically

9:33

, I've never done counseling and think

9:35

it's a bit weird to talk to strangers

9:37

about stuff , although I talk to strangers

9:39

regularly about crap , including

9:44

yourselves , you good people that listen along

9:46

to my crap . So , yeah

9:48

, and I think I wanted to take the break from

9:50

the podcast and I wanted to take a break for my own benefit and

9:53

just kind of focus on like home life and work

9:55

and just doing stuff that I wanted . But I

9:57

really really missed doing this . Like

10:00

I think it's been a

10:02

little stressful today with my software and stuff not

10:04

working , but I really missed just coming up

10:06

to this mic and I

10:09

kind of like being unprepared . It's something

10:11

I'm really learning about myself and it's something that

10:13

I don't know if I can change it

10:15

. I've always known that I work

10:17

really good under pressure ie that

10:19

soundscape I was just on about and

10:25

just having confidence . I

10:27

have like a weird , sometimes misplaced , confidence

10:30

in the fact I can just do it , I

10:32

will muddle through and I will produce a result

10:34

. And it's kind of like kind of what I've

10:36

always kind of done , and

10:38

it's probably not the best because it

10:42

does it does stress me out , but I also

10:44

then produce good results from that and

10:47

I kind of do that in my work , I kind of do it in my personal

10:49

life and

10:53

it also weirdly brings me like a massive amount of satisfaction

10:55

to do that . So it's oh no , it's really bizarre

10:57

. I'm really wondering

10:59

what the AI is gonna do with me rambling right now

11:01

, cause I'm now using AI to like

11:04

kind of listen to the podcast and like create , like

11:06

I've mentioned this , create like a description

11:08

and transcript , and I'm talking that fast

11:11

and randomly . It

11:14

creates its own version of what the title should

11:16

be of the show , like this , each episode . So

11:18

I'm kind of intrigued

11:20

about what it'll come up with and even if it'll be able to distinguish

11:23

what hell I'm saying , cause I'm rambling

11:25

at a rate of knots today . If

11:29

this is your first example of the show , it

11:31

does get slightly better . I am a bit more calm

11:34

. I sometimes have a subject and

11:36

it's sometimes it's not , until I walk up to the microphone . You know

11:38

we've all heard me like

11:40

dozens of times just say it's not what I'm gonna talk about today

11:42

and I've got an idea , and

11:44

then it comes out and what

11:46

I'm trying to say is I've missed . I've missed this , I

11:48

missed you guys , even

11:50

though you're not here . But you know what I mean . I've

11:53

missed that just

11:56

saying anything I want to in a microphone and

11:59

getting out of me and putting it into the ether and

12:01

then knowing that someone somewhere is

12:04

listening to it and that's

12:07

kind of nice , it's kind of and I hope people get something

12:09

out of it , like I hope people listen to me today and just go

12:11

, that's exactly what I'm like . Yeah

12:14

, and we don't have to put a label on it . You know I've

12:16

mentioned before that . You know my wife thinks I'm

12:18

maybe a bit autistic or ADHD

12:21

kind of spectrum-y , and maybe

12:23

I am . And the more there's more kind

12:25

of I kind of evaluate

12:27

myself , the more I think it could be so . But

12:33

I don't need a label . We don't need to label that we don't

12:35

. We don't always have to have a label on everything . You know you

12:37

can , you can , you can get through

12:39

life and you just have to know yourself

12:41

. And I

12:43

have that tattoo on my arm in Latin and

12:46

know myself in Latin , because

12:50

I think it's important to remind yourself that

12:53

you know just to be

12:55

you , and I'm trying to , and

12:57

it's difficult recently is

12:59

what I'm saying God , if

13:02

you can decide for this , please , please email

13:05

me , contact me , especially on Instagram

13:07

, and tell me what the hell I'm on about . What

13:10

I'm trying to say is my brain is messed up and I've

13:12

needed some time just to chill out , but

13:14

I've missed the show . That's the summary

13:16

and the rebrand thing . As

13:19

much as I really wanted to do on season 4 and I've

13:21

had like four weeks off . Again , procrastination

13:23

leaves us . The last minute is just

13:25

. It's just my it's just , it's

13:29

just my jam . I think that's just how I do , that's

13:31

just . You know I've had other things on as well

13:34

. You know I've been , I've been doing the bands

13:36

, two bands . I'm in now leasing

13:38

of two bands and I'd like to say

13:40

my voice is getting a bit better , get a bit more

13:42

confident . You know really

13:44

enjoyed it . It'd

13:47

be nice to get out there and I may

13:49

, with permission , but I've been recording some

13:51

of the , some of the , some of the practices . So once

13:54

we've done a bit more practicing , with

13:56

permission I might play a bit over the

13:58

airwaves on one of the podcasts for you . I might even get

14:00

the bandage on the podcast . That'd be cool . Maybe

14:02

, maybe get the band on the podcast . That'd

14:04

be pretty epic , wouldn't it ? So

14:07

, anyway , yeah , so

14:09

there's all infinite prattles . So the

14:11

rebranding was because I was coming back to

14:13

this . I was trying to separate , like , starting off

14:15

as like a soul trader for them , for the , for my media

14:17

, media business . So , but the whole

14:20

thing about my media business , it's gonna be cool , it's . It is called

14:22

Steven Speak , media production and

14:24

it . I

14:27

just want to get out there and just like help people make podcasts

14:29

and maybe MC for some people

14:31

you know , host and I'm

14:33

quite confident . I don't mind standing from a room of strangers

14:36

and just talking and and comparing

14:38

, so I don't mind doing that , you

14:41

know . And it also expands into

14:43

the whole potential video production

14:45

, photography , which I really like

14:47

and I want to get back into . So it's

14:49

kind of a plethora , but a

14:51

good word , plethora of

14:54

like how that feels in my mouth . Oh

14:57

, some words just feel good , don't they , yeah

15:03

? So yeah , I kind of like want to get back on track with with

15:05

all of that , because it brings me joy and it's creative

15:07

and that's what I need to do . So I'm

15:09

getting back in with my music stuff , which is it

15:13

makes me want to cry with happiness , and

15:15

I want to get back in with more creative stuff

15:18

of producing music , producing

15:20

sounds and helping others do that

15:22

as well , and I think that will bring me joy

15:24

and it will hopefully

15:26

give me a little bit of income . And I'm not , you know , I'm soul

15:28

trader . So it

15:31

means I can , I can write , I can claim some VAT

15:33

back on the stuff I'm buying for

15:35

the podcast or for you know my

15:38

venture Whether

15:40

I make anything , I'll just hit my hand on my desk

15:43

. I'm talking my

15:45

hands a lot today . If you've ever videoed

15:47

it , see , come back to that . So

15:51

, yeah , I just I'm speaking a little bit of hands . Today . I

15:53

feel very energetic , I'm excited

15:55

. I'm excited . I hope you guys are

15:57

. Let me know what you think of the new logo and stuff . Actually

15:59

, the new logo , um

16:01

, can

16:04

I do this ? I've been

16:06

sketching in my Kindle Scribe

16:08

, just doing a little . There's cracking

16:10

a little device , by the way , I've

16:12

been just doodling little things and at first

16:15

I was going to rebrand the StevenSpeak as a podcast

16:17

and have StevenSpeak Media Production

16:19

and StevenSpeak Podcast . But then

16:21

I was thinking I think I need to separate a little

16:24

bit . I want to separate it . So

16:26

I started thinking you know what do I do ? I love the word

16:28

Prattle . I started adding that into

16:30

my hashtags and stuff like that . And

16:33

, um , the history

16:35

of the word Prattle not the history of the word Prattle , the

16:39

history of where I heard it and where I wanted to use it from

16:41

. I

16:43

was watching a John Cleese interview . Um

16:45

, I was like John , no , no , it was

16:47

Monty Python . It was Monty Python . I was watching

16:49

the Monty Python series and in

16:52

one of the episodes , john Cleese basically

16:55

has this rant and he goes oh yeah , prattle it on . And

16:57

I thought what a cracking word Prattle is . This

16:59

is just . It makes me happy to say

17:01

it and I don't care if people say I Prattle on . I feel like

17:03

Prattle is you're Prattle it on , but

17:06

I feel like the content , if

17:08

you're rambling , is kind of like without meaning , but

17:12

I feel like Prattle is someone

17:14

saying something of content , but

17:16

it's an extended period of time

17:18

, which is what I do . So

17:21

that's my understanding of the word Prattle

17:23

in the context of infinite Prattle and

17:26

the form of StevenSpeak , and

17:29

I think the whole infinite thing

17:31

is just . I think people

17:33

have said for years , like you could talk forever and

17:36

forever is infinite , isn't it ? So I

17:38

thought , well , the simplest way of doing it Again , stevenspeak

17:41

was a simple title and I

17:43

thought infinite Prattle . So I

17:45

was doodling infinite and

17:47

I was doodling with

17:49

the end of the E , how to end the E , and I decided , oh

17:52

, actually that could be the infinite infinity sign

17:54

. So if you look on the logo , infinite

17:57

is the infinity sign

17:59

and I wanted

18:01

it to kind of look , kind of written

18:03

almost like the Men in Black font

18:05

from the film , and I was going

18:07

to clean it up and make it look like

18:10

, trying to make it look cleaner but hand-read

18:12

at the same time . And in the end I used my first

18:14

draft and polished it up a

18:16

little bit and used that as the logo . So

18:18

I might make a slight rendition of it

18:20

at some point . Rendition , is that the right word ? Revision

18:24

of it at some point To

18:26

make it look a bit more professional . I've maybe had the

18:28

word podcast for certain logo usages

18:30

. But yeah , so my

18:33

new slogan is unscripted

18:36

, unedited everything , because

18:38

then that kind of sums up infinite

18:41

Prattle , unscripted , unedited

18:43

everything . And yeah

18:46

, so that's what we are now . We

18:48

are infinite Prattle , sound

18:51

like the collective , sound like the Borg . So

18:56

if you are new to the podcast and

19:00

you've got to this point , thank you Definitely

19:02

. Go back and listen to Steven's speak , because it's much the same

19:04

just under a different guise , and

19:07

there's quite a few episodes in the first and second series

19:09

that haven't had as many lessons as I think they

19:11

deserve . To be honest , I think some of them episodes

19:13

are really cracking and I think they

19:16

deserve a bit more love . But

19:19

as the first episode of season 4 goes

19:21

, that kind of brings it to the

19:23

end . Yes

19:26

, I'm really looking forward to the AI now when I process

19:28

this . This is going to be interesting , to say

19:30

the least . But thank you very much for

19:32

joining me . Thank

19:34

you very much for supporting

19:39

the show . My numbers went up last

19:41

year . I've made the top

19:43

100 in good pods on

19:45

5 different areas , so

19:47

2024 onwards and upwards

19:50

with Infinite Prattle and

19:52

, yeah , I'll see you

19:55

in the next one .