Here lies the Metal Detecting Show Podcast

Well, hello there.Hey, everybody. My name is Kiran.I'm the host of the Metal Detecting Show podcast.Normally, I would go I've been a metal detecting for the last 30 years, and I have been and this is an unusual episode.It's the last episode of the Metal Detecting Show podcast, as we know.I let that sink in for a little bit.Yes. So the Metal Detecting Show podcast, R.I.P.the 27th of March 2020to June 14th, 2023.So I've been almost doing the podcast now for three years and it's time to wrap it up,or at least wrap it up in its current form.Why am I wrapping it up?I know you're going to ask that.Well, I suppose the why is related to the why I got into it in the first place.The reason I got into the podcast in the first place was obviously I love metal detecting and I've been doing it for years.The landscape for metal detecting content out there at the time of the podcast going live back in March was just full of podcasts,three hour long podcasts of people trying to replicate what Joe Rogan is doing with long form content.And when you actually looked at the content that was being presented, actual content that could be used to help people learn the hobby,you could break it down to in some episodes, 30 seconds the answer of one question or whatnot.So my idea for the podcast was in opposition to that long form content,and that's why I produced the podcast that was very short and succinct and tried to answer one question per episode.A forum approved, fairly successful.Another reason I got into it was I wanted to learn how to make a podcast,and then afterwards I wanted to get into learning how to make the videos for the podcast.So it was it was a learning curve.I thought it would help me professionally as part of my role as presenting people every day.And it has done that.It has helped me develop those skills and presenting Another reason to get into the podcast,I suppose, was COVID 19,when COVID 19 kicked off.I think it kicked off three weeks before the first episode of the podcast.I was spending 3 hours a day commuting to work and we had just switched to work from home.And in that switch I felt, okay, I'm after being gifted 3 hours a day.What am I going to do with those 3 hours a day?Now it's time to do the podcast.I had registered,I had thought of the idea of doing the podcast almost two or three years before that,but I never picked up the courage to do what I had read.Sort of the main starter got on equipment,looking at the concepts two or three years beforehand,so it wasn't just a new idea,it was just the opportunity was presented and I took that opportunity.And here we are nearly three and a half years later.Why am I deciding to wrap it up now,which almost seems mid-season?I was in the middle of doing the feature series and looking at other ideas for the podcast.Well, I suppose in the last six months I felt the quality wasn't there.Now maybe that's just my own expectations.Comparing to other metal detecting podcasts quality,I just felt my quality wasn't there and I felt that it was a bit of a lie to myself to keep pushing the podcast out based on that lack of quality.There.And I'm not talking about the video quality or audio quality.That's quite good.Well, I think it's quite good.I'm talking about the content quality and if you look through the podcast,you'll see that in the last six months I've probably repeated quite a number of topics.Now I have gone deeper into them,but there is has been a certain level of repetition because I felt the quality hasn't been there.Another side of it is I work over the weekends, so my weekend is Monday.Tuesday, Wednesday I found that I was spending a significant portion of my downtime doing the podcast,so I would do a few hours Monday,a few hours Tuesday and a few hours Wednesday, just to head off a 1520 minute podcast that in my view,the quality wasn't there.I could keep going.And I, to be honest,I felt as about six months ago and I said I would just keep going.I would start putting the videos up and YouTube as requested,and you know, that's been gone fine.However,like I said, the quality wasn't there and I felt I was starting to repeat myself.And that's why I've decided to quit while I'm ahead.And believe me,I am quitting when I'm ahead.We have over 2000listeners to every episode,which is significant.If you think of the niche of metal detecting all without any real push in social media.I'm terrible at social media.Am so over 2000 listens or reach,as they call it, per episode.So the quality is is not there taking a lot of time.My personal time, it's actually taken away time for me to get out metal that I think I've actually metal detector less this year than I did last year and last year was less than the year before the first year of the podcast.I was like a maniac of metal detecting every week and that was also a benefit of the podcast to me.However, in the last two years of actually half the amount of detecting each year.So obviously I want to get back out the tackling properly and every episode almost felt disingenuous because I wasn't getting no detecting as much as I as I wanted to or as I used to.So off the plan for all the content,I'm going to keep the podcast up.It costs me20 bucks a month just to keep there.So that's fine. I'll keep that.I keep the podcast content up there in the hope that if somebody is starting out in a hobby that they can discover the podcast,go to the episodes and,you know, take them from beginners to mid-level metal detectorists,and that's the plan,is their plans in the future are maybe I have a couple of more ideas.However, I don't want to sort of set an expectation.I'll keep the podcast episodes live.However, from an update perspective,there would be no updates for the foreseeable future.I have a few ideas of where the podcast could go in the future and I'm going to investigate those ideas over the next couple of months.However, I don't want to be setting an expectation with you guys are going to be coming back in 20 months or whatever. I don't really know.What if I do come back?It will be on a season basis,so it will be over the winter season,say for example, or my winter season,for example, when I can do the content.Plus I would expect that there will be a lot more stuff to talk about.So it may it may be that there will be 20 episodes per year and but I won't be releasing content till I have all those 20 episodes done.And I just released them.Take a break for a couple of months,go detecting, got a lot more content filament recorders edited and put it back out again and a body of work.But that's the way I that's the only way I can see it working in the future.So that's the plan.I do have plans for some YouTube videos that I had or I've already got in the making,so watch this space on YouTube for listen on the podcast.Maybe subscribe on YouTube just to see what I suppose YouTube doesn't require regular as regular cadence,so I will be doing those at my leisure and I'll get up over the next couple of months or not.All that's left to say is thanks to all the patrons and buy me a copy.Over the years,you guys have ensured the quality of the podcast by things like this microphone.Your money went to buy this microphone,which was about 300 books,and every penny that was donated to the podcast went back into the podcast.It costs about 60 €70to run the podcast every month. So I wasn't on the podcast at a at a profit,despite what some people may think, especially those people who email looking for free,who look for free metal detectors off me. AM Well, yeah,you know, thanks to all the patrons who've been super supportive and without the podcast wouldn't be at the quality it is right now.And to everybody else in the community up from the bottom,I'm from the bottom of my heart.I just want to thank you all.You have been amazing.I haven't had I was trying to think of,you know, a lot of people come up and I got all the negative comments that get me down and all up.I can tell you hand on heart of how two negative comments in the three and a half years,that's between YouTube, Twitter,across the board about the podcast one I can't even remember what it was was the first one,but it threw me for a loop and just goes to show it wasn't important.But the second one was kind of funny.They gave me a four star review saying the podcast wasn't long enough,which I thought was amazing.So but yeah, so the comments from the community has been nothing but supportive and I am eternally grateful that you have, you know, embraced me and embraced the format and understood what I was going for here.And that's it, guys.All that's left to say is thanks a million.If you've listened to the podcast over the last 147 episodes,there's three things that have always rang true.People equal find.So always do your research,be efficient with your time, because more efficient you are more knowledgeable over more ground covered points.And finally,it doesn't matter what matters to you.It's the operator that makes you great.And that's it out there.Good luck and happy hunting.