Hello, pals. You’re probably thinking: “By this time of the week, I’ve usually received the new episode of Answer Me This!, seeing how it comes out on Thursdays and is supposed to be weekly. But where the crivens is Episode Four? Huh?”
Well, you’d be right to wonder. Episode Four is indeed all ready and champing at the bit to be released. However, as in Terminator, technology is the enemy; unfortunately it is the very enemy to which the medium of podcasting is inextricably wedded. And currently, it’s a marriage in which our web hosting company is out somewhere on a three-day booze bender, having left poor old Episode Four back at home chained to the kitchen radiator.
Hopefully our hosting company will come back from the saloon with a contrite expression and a posy from the all-night garage, promising Episode Four he didn’t know what came over him and it won’t happen again. Episode Four is sick of being blamed for all the problems in the marriage, and just wants Technology to start behaving itself again. But Episode Four can’t even think of leaving Technology and going it alone. All Episode Four wants is love…
Meanwhile, if you can’t wait for an Answer Me This! hit until our technological problems are resolved, why not have a listen to Episode Three, Episode Four’s pretty cousin who never seems to have any problems? Alternatively, you could make your own personal Answer Me This! with a couple of sock puppets and a funny voice.
Also, while we’re on the subject of Bad News: our MySpace account just got hacked and some naughty swine sent all our Imaginary Friends lots of bulletins about penis enlargement. So, if you’re one of our Imaginary Friends and got thusly spammed, we apologise. Honestly, we have no interest at all in enlarging your penises.
It’s not all doom and gloom at Answer Me This!, however: last Saturday we were shocked and delighted to discover that after only three episodes, we were already in the iTunes top 100 comedy podcasts, at number 63!
This mightn’t sound particularly glorious to you, but our expectations were LOW. And number 63 was only a few places below the Reduced Shakespeare Company and famous-off-the-telly David Walliams talking about swimming!
Even more excitingly, later that evening we went up to number 55. Calloo callay! Since then, we’ve hovered somewhere between 55 and 70, snapping at the podcasting heels of David Walliams. But this morning we found that not only was Answer Me This! back up to 55, it was also a whopping TEN PLACES ABOVE WALLIAMS! And neither of us has even swum the Channel! If we had, we’d probably be top 20 for sure.
So, thankyou ever so much to all of you who have subscribed to Answer Me This! on iTunes. If you haven’t, you can do so by clicking here, and as soon as you’ve done that, please subscribe to one of the really popular comedy podcasts (eg Gervais, Brand, Moyles, Best of YouTube, that sort of thing) because we’ve found that helps shunt us up the chart a bit. We can get into the top 50, people! Let’s all reach for the skies!
And in the meantime, let’s hope that Episode Four and the Hosting Company patch up their differences and give it another shot.
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