Unfortunately for a daft show like ours…we have serious business to attend to.
Business so big, and serious…that it cannot be contained by this column.
(Cogswell, our patron saint yet again)
And thus begins a post we never really wanted to write. Let’s get the facts out of the way to make everything clear, then we will do what we do best – ramble.
Ladies and Gentlemen, Synners, Shaolin Monks Of Woof Clang, the 100th episode of the Here Goes Nothing podcast (at time of writing we have just released Episode 97) will be the final episode. There. That’s the big news. At least 6 of you are inconsolable right now.
So with that out of the way, allow us to explain. We are all part of the same community here and we want you, our family, to understand why HGN is coming to an end. The first point we want to make is the most important. NOTHING WENT WRONG! Nobody has fallen out with anyone(Mock The Weak excepted. Twats.), creative differences didn’t drive a wedge. Hell, it wasn’t even the fact nobody enters our competitions! Boz and Casey were and remain the very best of friends, and lay to rest their podcast with nothing but pride and hugely happy memories, metallic and otherwise. The simple motivating factor behind the decision to finish is our pride in the show. Time constraints and real life pressures (well-documented, we won’t go into them again.#fuckcancer)have encroached to the point where we didn’t feel we were able to produce the podcasts we wanted to. The skits (oh, how we love skittage) became few and far between, and in the end we became two tired boys trying to be spontaneous and funny at 1am after full working days. We always promised to each other, as two guys who were constantly annoyed at some of the ultra-amateurish and content-free podcasts available at the bottom of the iTunes Store barrel, that if the quality suffered or the show felt like a job…we’d bow out with our dignity intact. That time has come, as sad as were are to admit it.
Another important point that we want to stress, however, is that this doesn’t mean the end of Boz and Casey at Simply Syndicated. If anything, this gives us more scope to work on new things for the network. Rich has given us very generous and warm assurance that there is always a place on the SimSyn airwaves for us, and we are excited at the potential of this. We are Synners, and we’re not going anywhere.
We are certainly not planning to retire HGN quietly. Planning is already well underway for a finale that does justice to the previous 99. We are going out with laughter and beer, the way we came in, and we’d love you all to join us in saying goodbye.
So just before we sign off, we’d like to again say a HUGE thank you to Simply Syndicated for the opportunity to realise a dream of ours. We began as fans of the network and ended up on the show schedule. The whole thing has been such a joy, we cannot emphasise how much our time as a Federation show has meant. In the same way that without the late Mr Jobs many of us wouldn’t have come across podcasts, in the same way Casey wouldn’t have the best friend he now does, and if you really analyse it, Boz probably wouldn’t have re-discovered the lost love of his life. Sounds crazy, but it is true. And one hundred episodes of the silliest show SimSyn has ever put its name to. What a ride, and a fitting point to bow out. We love each and every single one of you that gave us a chance. Now let’s make these last episodes count.
Woof Clang us. Woof Clang us, everyone!
Boz & Casey
Here Goes Nothing
