nick hilton is from the production company podot.lso with us is lewis goodall from the news agents podcast and tony pastor, the man behind goalhanger, which is the podcast production company he set up with gary lineker and makes all sorts of hit podcasts, including the rest is history, the rest is politics. there's something very intimate about listening to a podcast — i mean, in many ways, a bit like radio — where people have their headphones on, they're cooking, they're commuting, they're walking the dog and they get very, very close to the people in theirears. they develop a relationship with the people they're listening to on a regular basis. and we find that when we do live events, a lot of the audience comes up to our hosts and treats them like friends, like they already know them and we have to sort of remind ourtalent, our hosts, that, you know, to expect this and it's just one of those quirks that, in part, i think it's the nature of the way you listen to the shows. here's a quote to start us off. it's from an annual report