Major apology. Some of you may have noticed that for the last three episodes of U&F in the free podcast feed, I’ve been (unwittingly) posting episodes you’ve heard before. I had no idea I was doing this. I thought I was posting the correct episodes. Unfortunately this was based on a miscalculation where, for some baffling reason, I counted where we were in the story from the end of Season 4 instead of the end of Season 5. So instead of posting what should have been S6E6, posted S5E6.
What caused this? Senility? Maybe, I’m not as young as I used to be. More likely I was just tired or distracted. In a normal business, someone else in the team might have caught my mistake before the episode went out, but I have no team, so no one did. And when a listener said they thought they’d heard the episode before, because they were just one among the 2 or 3k listeners who hadn’t reported anything, I assumed they must be experiencing a technical issue.
The next month, someone else reported they thought they’d heard the episode before. This was now more than a coincidence, so I checked the episode, and it was what I thought it should be (though what I thought it should be was wrong). So again, since the other 2 or 3k listeners hadn’t reported any issues, I put it down to a technical glitch somewhere.
It wasn’t until it happened this month, when Gal Zilberman reported that S6E8 was the same as S5E8 that I finally realised what I’d done.
So, after a massive dose of sickening mortification, I spent yesterday correcting the three affected episodes and replacing their story content with what it should have been. The bumpers are the same (since their news is date-relevant), but the recaps and story content is corrected. All three are now replaced in the feed.
My apologies to everyone. Especially to those who reported having heard the episodes before. I should’ve investigated more thoroughly much sooner. My only excuse is that I was distracted by the writing and recording of that month’s new Patreon episode, which is always my primary focus, and there was also the cancellation of the U&F TV option, that was kind of distracting too. But whatever; the buck stops here. I f****ed up, and I’m sorry.
It won’t happen again.
Mike Bennett Author 