Here are two sobering truths about podcasting:

Anyone can start one.

Maintaining one is something of a small miracle.

The numbers are a bit fuzzy, but according to the most frequently cited statistics, there are somewhere in the neighborhood of 3-4 million podcasts out there. If you have an idea for a podcast, there is a decent chance someone else had it first. The barrier to entry is minimal, but it’s harder than most people assume. Most podcasts — and this is true — die an unceremonious death by episode three. If you make it to 20 episodes, you are in the 1 percent of all podcasts.

So what does that say about the No Laying Up podcast, which just crossed the 1,000 episode mark this week?

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