I just got an email from Mixcloud saying my subscription to Mixcloud Pro has been cancelled (something I never requested). When I looked at my profile it said “Spam profile disabled”. Just so people know, I know about this and am looking into it, but until it’s sorted the account will be down.

With the recent increase in traffic to the podcast, there has been a massive uptick in people leaving comments, to the point where it’s taking time away from making the actual podcast to moderate them — and sadly many of these comments are people getting very angry at things I didn’t say but which they made up in their own heads. So I’m closing the comments here.

People will still be able to comment on the Patreon links to the main episodes (all of which are public posts) or for those of you who use Facebook there’s a discussion group there.

As some of you know, I had a two-week planned holiday after episode 163. As fewer of you know, that was followed by a ten-day flareup of my chronic illness which meant I couldn’t think due to brainfog and couldn’t type due to joint pain. Unfortunately, both these came just as I was working on the biggest episode since 150, a truly massive undertaking that has required more research than any episode I’ve done in about a year, and required me to scrap and completely rewrite one script that simply didn’t work.
I’ve made a few statements on my Patreon about when I expected the episode to be up, and have missed every day I suggested, so I’m not going to say for sure when it’s going to be complete and uploaded, but what I can say is that I just finished recording the 57th section of the episode (Moe Tucker just turned up for the first time) and Tilt has been editing in parallel while I’ve been recording.
The next few after this should be much, much more straightforward — I already know exactly what I’m going to say in the next two and it’s basically just a matter of transcribing them — so we’ll be back on a regular schedule soon. Thanks for your patience.