SPI 849: Big Update on How SPI is Changing in 2025

Discovery via podcast is still a tough thing to do. Like it's easy to reach a a plateau with with an audio only podcast, but you know, something like YouTube or other video platforms that are more short form, there's way more discoverability. There's way more times that people go to those platforms and just get stuff either f fed to them through like the thumb scrolling or, you know, they go to the homepage and they, you know, they pick something. But I don't really ever open a podcast app and then go look for something to listen to. Happy Wednesday.

And if you're listening to this on the day it comes out, Merry Christmas, happy holidays. And even if you don't celebrate, just I want to wish you and your families all the best this holiday season as we come in to wrap the year. And that's kind of the theme of this episode here. Caleb and I are going to be discussing some of our plans and decisions and thinking behind some of the changes that you're going to experience here as a listener of the show. And I know some of you have been listening for over a decade, some of you 14, 15 years since episode one, which is actually insane.

And it's also insane because starting in January, mid-January next year, we're changing the format of the show. So we wanted to talk about that and the why and the decisions behind it, but also get you excited because we're excited about it. I am absolutely thrilled. And it's a little bittersweet as well because it's been this sort of same format, same intro music, same voiceover guy, John Melly, who guess what, is our guest for next week's episode to sort of cap it off. I wanted to invite him on because he he's a very special character on our show here.

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