11/01/2026
10 years today the first episode of .pod dropped.
The day we recorded, the world was dealing with the news that David Bowie had passed the day before and Barnet had just beaten the massive Bristol Rovers. I grabbed Michael Hanley to come and record with Iain and I and I think we had very basic recording gear hence the (lack of) sound quality.
The beginnings of BeesPod was quite strange. I’d never met Iain Botterill before he private messaged me on the Barnet forum asking if I would be interested in starting a podcast with him.
Over the last 10 years we’ve become good friends and I’ve been in awe at this incredible work ethic and talent especially with . I felt like a proud older brother when he won the Lester Finch award!
In the time that BeesPod has existed we won a .content.awards, interviewed the chairman Tony Kleanthous, our manager Dean Brennan several times, Bees legend amongst others, had appearances from a whole number of special guests and enough outtake episodes which would fill a box set. (Need to work out how to fix the audio on the Jon Nurse interview that never came out)
Thanks to everyone who’s ever contributed to our podcast especially and current cohost .
Once the Bees are back in Barnet, expect us to return to a more regular output.
Mem x
