Jan. 22, 2019 - The Unexplained - Howard Hughes
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| Hello again, it's Howard in London at the Home of the Unexplained, www.theunexplained.tv. | |
| And that web address, that little phrase that I've been using here for so many years, means something new and something different from today. | |
| As you might have noticed if you stopped by the website, and you know, I recommend that you do whenever you can, the website has a completely new look from right now. | |
| It's taken a lot of work by Adam Cornwell, my web designer and web master, to come up with all of this. | |
| And of course, with anything new like this, even if it's a huge corporation creating it, not everything is going to be perfect from day one. | |
| But we hope there's a lot of new functionality in there that you're going to love. | |
| A guest book, a guest suggestion, forum, a place where you can go and tell me your story. | |
| If you tell me how to contact you, I can follow up on it, and maybe we can feature it here. | |
| Or if you just want me to know the story, that's okay. | |
| The usual way of getting in touch and giving me feedback or making guest suggestions. | |
| All of those things are provided for. | |
| The site is fully searchable, and it's got one foot in the future. | |
| And I think after all of these years, we had to make some changes, and here they are. | |
| And this is where you come in. | |
| I'd like you to give the new website a test drive. | |
| And if you find that there's anything you don't like, if you find that there's anything that doesn't work, please let Adam and myself know about that. | |
| There will be ways to contact us on the website and let us know as soon as you can if there's something that you don't like the look of, if something is not working as it should be, then we need to know. | |
| This has always been a bit of a cooperation, hasn't it? | |
| We've always done this thing together because we are a tiny little speck in the firmament, but we're getting bigger and we're doing that all the time, which is the exciting part of it and always has been. | |
| You know, this independent podcast started after my talk sport show finished back in 2006. | |
| The station was changing direction. | |
| It was moving towards all sport. | |
| So I understood back then that there wasn't a place for my show, and it was you who suggested that I made this show into a podcast, which I have done over these years. | |
| It's been 13 years as a podcast. | |
| And every year I learn something new about how you do this, the kinds of techniques you use, and the equipment, how you deploy the equipment. | |
| And of course, you know, I'm never going to know it all. | |
| I'm constantly learning. | |
| And I'm learning with you as I do it, because you tell me what you think works and what doesn't. | |
| As for the guests, it's an ever-expanding list, as you will see. | |
| More fantastic guests coming soon as well. | |
| The first show here on this new website and all the other portals where you get the show will be Fevzi Turkalp, very famous technology journalist in the UK, where we're going to take a look into the future of technology, the upsides and the downsides and what it may mean for our lives. | |
| And I think in a lot of ways, it's kind of appropriate for a brand new website, a brand new year, and a brand new start for the unexplained. | |
| Yeah, I'm massively excited. | |
| I've tried to keep the show free. | |
| I've tried to keep it accessible. | |
| And I've tried to do it in the face of a lot of big money, big media competition. | |
| There are shows out there, subscription shows, as I've said before, that are turning in north of $40,000 a month in subscription earnings, which is a sum that I wouldn't want. | |
| And I can't even imagine. | |
| We scrape by on donations at the moment. | |
| And we step forward one day at a time, really. | |
| There are 365 days in every year. | |
| And every single one offers up a new possibility, I think. | |
| So I'm very optimistic as I speak these words on a crispy, cold, sunny, warm January day in 2019. | |
| A brand new website for the unexplained. | |
| A lot of new horizons, a lot of new vistas, a lot of new people to meet. | |
| Please be part of this, and please come with me on my journey. | |
| As the great Art Bell, my inspiration, and the man who actually liked the unexplained, told me in one of our conversations, you know, this is a really great thing to do, a great way to get out there. | |
| If you're a broadcaster, it's marvellous. | |
| And his great slogan, of course, was the one I'm going to leave you with now. | |
| Want to take a ride? | |
| I guess the question is, do you? | |
| I'd like you to. | |
| Thank you very much for being part of The Unexplained for all of these years. | |
| Please enjoy the new website, and please give Adam Cornwell and myself, Howard Hughes, your feedback on it. | |
| Thank you. |
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