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These open the episode, not the show — A deep link lands you at 00:00 of episode 47. A show link lands you on a wall of ninety and hopes you go looking
The RSS one is not decoration — It works in every app, including the one you use that nobody ever lists. Paste it and the whole back catalogue arrives
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The book, at 12:40 — Title, author, and where to get it from a shop rather than from a warehouse. Link it out in the editor
The report, at 18:40 — The actual document rather than a news story about the document. It is eleven pages and it is readable
The other episode we keep referring to — Episode 19, and it stands alone — you don't need it to follow this one
The thing that got cut — Nine minutes on a tangent that went nowhere, gone with the guest's agreement. Nothing was cut to change a meaning
Why this list exists at all — "What was that book?" is the single most common message any show receives. Ten minutes an episode saves everybody the exchange
Nothing here is an affiliate link — Not out of principle about affiliates — because a recommendation and a commission in the same sentence is worth less than either

[18:40]

GUEST: The line everybody quotes is on page four, and it doesn't say what people think it says. It says the closure was "not expected to affect regular users". Not "will not". Not "does not". Expected.

HOST: Expected by whom?

GUEST: That's the whole thing, isn't it. Nobody had asked. There's no survey in the appendix, there's no consultation log, there's a paragraph that begins "it is anticipated" and then eleven pages of costings.

HOST: And you only found that because you read the appendix.

GUEST: I only found it because nobody else had. Which is the least flattering thing I can tell you about how any of this works.

Every episode has one — Not an automatic dump — read through and corrected by a person. Machine transcripts get names and jargon wrong, and names and jargon are exactly what people search for
Four reasons it exists — Deaf and hard-of-hearing listeners, anybody in a loud place, people who read faster than anyone talks, and search. All four are good reasons and the first is sufficient on its own
Timestamps in the margin — So you can jump to the audio at the line you are reading rather than scrubbing for it
Quote it freely — With the episode number and a link, and no permission needed. Correct quoting is easier than incorrect quoting and this is how you make that true
Corrections appear here too — Marked in place in the transcript, not only in the notes below. Somebody reading the transcript should not have to also read a separate page
Ask for another format — Plain text, a document, or something a screen reader handles better. Sent the same day, no explanation needed

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They saw this page first — The episode description and these notes go to the guest before publication. Not copy approval over what they said — a check that they aren't misdescribed in a summary they never wrote
What they're working on — The thing they'd actually like you to look at, which is often not the thing that got them booked
Where to find them — Their own links, not mine. A guest who came on this show should leave with the traffic
If you want them on your show — Ask them directly rather than asking me to pass it on. Podcasters brokering introductions is how good pitches die in an inbox
What was cut, and why — Nine minutes, for repetition and one tangent. They were told what went before it went out, which is the part most shows skip

At 31:20 I said 1974 — It was 1976. Fixed in the transcript, marked in place, and left here rather than quietly removed once it stopped being embarrassing
A name spelt wrong in the notes — Corrected the same day it was pointed out, by somebody who was very polite about it and did not have to be
The audio does not get changed — Once an episode is out it stays out. Re-uploading a file breaks every download people already have and quietly rewrites what was said
How to tell me — The form below, or reply to the newsletter. You do not have to be polite about it and you will not be argued with first
Why corrections live per episode — One corrections page nobody visits is a way of technically having one. They belong next to the thing that was wrong
What isn't a correction — Disagreeing with a guest. Those get answered in a later episode, on the record, rather than edited out of this one