The One Where It All Ends

VoiceOver Man [00:00:14]:
You’re listening to the Keith Blakemore Noble Radio Show. Interesting chats with interesting people about interesting things and no adverts. Here’s your host, Keith Blakemore Noble.

Keith Blakemore-Noble [00:00:33]:
Hello. Hello, hello. Hello. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome to, I would say to another episode. Welcome to the last episode of the Keith Blakemore Noble Radio Show. I say last episode.

Keith Blakemore-Noble [00:00:46]:
There will be two more. I’ll mention that a little bit later on. What’s going on there a little bit later on. But effectively this is the final episode of the Keith Blakemore Noble Radio Show. Yes, all good things must come to an end. And what I didn’t want to do was I didn’t want for the show to just kind of fizzle out and no more episodes appear and people going, well, is that it? Other more. Is it finished? I wanted to finish, to have a definitive end point and that’s this episode. And what I thought we would do is sort of explore why the show has come to an end and take a look at, look at some of that, some of the highlights from the, from the, the past episodes and see what’s coming next.

Keith Blakemore-Noble [00:01:35]:
So that’s, that’s this episode, the very last episode proper of the Keith Blakemore Noble Radio Show. All existing episodes will continue to, to be out there. They’re not, I’m not, not pulling them down. They’re going to stay there. So you’ll still be able to find them on all the US, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Audible, Spotify, YouTube, this website or my website. They’ll be around for a long time to come. You can check out all of the episodes. Not going anywhere.

Keith Blakemore-Noble [00:02:08]:
Do remember, give us a, like a comment, a share a review. I would say subscribe. There’s probably no point in subscribing to this show that’s finishing, but still give us comments, share it, give us reviews. Just because there’s going to be no new episodes of this podcast doesn’t mean there’s no reason for people to find it and check out the back catalog as well. So, yeah, the show has been going for a while. It’s been going for over six years. It’s been going for over six years. Launched in 2019.

Keith Blakemore-Noble [00:02:44]:
That’s a long time ago. I explored in some earlier episodes, explored how the show came about. It’s basically I had been doing some podcasts on a, on a live Internet radio station that kind of fizzled out for reasons which I’m still not going to go into because it’s ancient history now. Nobody needs to know all that stuff. But I’d enjoyed Doing podcasts and I still want to do something, do something of my own. And that’s where McKeith Blakemore Noble Radio show came into being. I did learn a lot from doing those old ones which were, were genuinely done live. Obviously the KBNRS is not done live where it’s pre recorded.

Keith Blakemore-Noble [00:03:33]:
But you know what, we still record every single episode as if it’s live. So it’s done in one single take, hit, record, record the episode, hit, stop, and that’s it. Couple of reasons for doing that. One is it just makes for a much more natural flowing conversation without all the start, stop, start, stop jumping around. And yeah, if I’m honest, being lazy makes my life a little bit easier. There’s less editing needed. And when you’re doing these every single week, the less editing that you need, the better because it’s me. I do all of this myself.

Keith Blakemore-Noble [00:04:10]:
I record it, script it, record it, book guests, edit it, polish it, create all the show notes, do all the promo, promo, do it all myself. So anything that can be done to streamline it, it’s obviously, obviously for the, for the best. But yeah, we started over six years ago in that time. Done. Well, this is episode number 172. Plus there were two trailers done for a couple of their different series, but 172 full episodes, that’s a lot of episodes. I’ll give you some other numbers in a moment, but I guess you’re probably wondering, why is the show stopping? Have you done 107, 172nd episode, why stop now? Six years, that’s, that’s a good, that’s a good run. Why stop? Especially as I believe the figures, I believe the figures are still correct.

Keith Blakemore-Noble [00:05:05]:
Correct. The vast majority of podcasts never get beyond the 10th episode. So if you are doing your own podcast, more power to you. If you’ve got, if you’ve already got more than 10 episodes under your belt, you are doing better than the majority of podcasts out there, which is excellent. Keep up the good work. Why am I. Keep up the good work, he says, as he’s saying, I’m stopping. Why am I stopping? Well, a couple of reasons and both of them have kind of come together and it’s now the right time to stop this.

Keith Blakemore-Noble [00:05:44]:
One of the reasons is around guests. When I first started the podcast, my plan was episodes would alternate. There’d be a solo episode and then be an episode with a guest, solo episode, episode with a guest. Few different reasons for that. It means not having to create 50 solo episodes in a year. You Only have to do 25 solo episodes in a year. Don’t have to find 50 guests in a year. Only have to find 25 guests in a year.

Keith Blakemore-Noble [00:06:15]:
Makes it, makes that, that side of it easier. Having guests on means, I mean, it’s kind of evolved. Originally the idea was have guests who had stories of overcoming, overcoming hardships, overcoming obstacles, all that sort of thing. But over time and it evolves and I’ve used it over the six years. It’s a great way to connect with people I might never had a chance to connect with were it not for the podcast. If you look back through some of the episodes, you can probably pick a few where you go, wow, so that’s how we got to connect with that person. I made some good connections, made some friends through it. As a result, it kind of evolves into interesting chats with interesting people about interesting things.

Keith Blakemore-Noble [00:07:04]:
No adverts, no promotions, no turning it into half hour infomercials. Just a chance for me to have a good chat, interesting chat with interesting people about interesting things and to share it with you, dear viewer, dear listener. And that worked well. That worked well for six years. Lots of really interesting chats. Had some guests actually returning. I mean, I’ve had 78 different guests over the, over the time. 78 guests over there.

Keith Blakemore-Noble [00:07:36]:
172 episodes. And some of the guests have been on a couple of times. I mean, yeah, four of the guests I had on a couple of times had. Jesse Lawrence was on a couple of times. Jenny Leggett, the Dragon Ball lady, had her on a couple of times. Stacy Calder was in twice. And Tony Edwards, we had him on a couple of times exploring two very different things. Some guests have been on more times than that.

Keith Blakemore-Noble [00:08:05]:
I’ll say who they were a little bit later on. I’ll tell you who the most regular guest, the guest with the most appearances has been. They’ll also tell you the episode with the most number of guests on it as well, because why not? But yes, over time the podcast landscape out there has kind of changed a bit. People have conned on to the, to the, the promotional possibilities of podcasts and, and rightly so, nothing wrong with that at all. These days it’s much, much, much more common for people who want, want to be guests on podcasts because they want to come on and promote their stuff. And yeah, I totally get it. It is a great platform for promoting, promoting stuff. But what I’ve always wanted to avoid is turning it into a 30min commercial.

Keith Blakemore-Noble [00:09:02]:
Nobody wants that. Yes, some guests I’ve had, have had things to sell. Quite a few guests have had books, some really, really interesting books. Some of my guests do have programs or coachings or whatever, and we make mention of those for people who want to find out more. But it’s not about promoting this. It’s about having a chat with that person, finding out the person behind it or finding out what’s. What’s going on in their life and just having a really good chat. It’s like having a good chat with someone over a nice cup of tea, cup of coffee or something stronger if that’s your.

Keith Blakemore-Noble [00:09:39]:
If that’s your bag. But it’s been getting harder and harder to get people who want to come on and have a chat. More and more they want to actively promote what they’re offering. A lot of times people want to come on. Yeah, I want to come on and promote my coaching, which another problem because my main job, main role, I’m a coach, right? The mindset master, founder of the Overachievers Club. 15 years of using hypnosis, NLP and coaching to help thousands of people around the world to take back control of their lives. So it’s kind of a bit of a conflict if I bring lots of other coaches on to promote all. Excuse me, promote all of their coaching.

Keith Blakemore-Noble [00:10:19]:
Just doesn’t sit right the other side of it. Podcasting is becoming a lot more commercial. More and more people are charging appearance fees to come on, which again is fair enough. I totally appreciate it takes up some of your time. Time is money time which you could be usefully using to do other stuff. This podcast is almost, almost a hobby really. It kind of, yeah, I would say it is a hobby when you, when you think about it. So it doesn’t have the budget to pay fees to bring guests on.

Keith Blakemore-Noble [00:10:56]:
So. And also increasingly I’ve found, and I’ve chatted with other podcasts as well and find this, this seems to be happening. People go, yeah, I’d love to be on. Okay, let’s book you in. When’s convenient silence. Just ghost you. My suspicion is because it’s getting harder and harder to get on podcasts, sometimes people will blanket apply to like 30, 40 podcasts in the hopes of getting on two or three ones that they really want to. It’s fair enough, but it’s just reached a point where that was just taking more and more and more time.

Keith Blakemore-Noble [00:11:35]:
It’s just getting harder and harder to get people in for what is effectively a hobby, which is the other reason for the other reason that I’m stopping the Keith Plate one over Radio show It is, if I’m honest about it, is more of a hobby than anything related to business, anything related to what I do. Deliberate policy of no ads because people don’t want to listen to adverts in a podcast. We get adverts thrown at us everywhere. Last thing I want to do is invade your space with even more adverts. So no adverts. So it doesn’t generate revenue. It has been a hobby and I’ve kind of reached the point where I’m thinking, you know what I have to focus what I do on the things that build the business, build money for the business so the business can run and help transform even more lives around the world. Something kind of has to give as the podcast, I mean six years, 172 episodes.

Keith Blakemore-Noble [00:12:35]:
I think it’s a had a good run and I’m feeling, feeling good about it. It’s ending on, ending on a high as I say. What I didn’t want to do was just have this fizzle out and say nothing and no more episodes appear and listeners are going is that it? Are there going to be any more episodes? Has it finished? I don’t know. A definitive, you know what, we’ve had a lot of fun. This is it. All good things come to an end. This is the final, the final episode. I did mention there are going to be two more episodes.

Keith Blakemore-Noble [00:13:13]:
Regular listeners will know that for the past few years I’ve done at the end of each year I’ve done a top 10 which count us through the top 10 most listened episodes throughout the year. Now it’s not the top 10 episodes of that year. It’s the top 10 episode top 10 listen most listened episodes across that year. Most of those episodes are from that year, but there will also be episodes from previous years. Some of the episodes still get listened to regularly. In fact, the most listened episode that I have is from a few years ago and tell you a little bit more about that in a moment. So where was I going with this? Yes. So there’s going to be two more episodes.

Keith Blakemore-Noble [00:14:01]:
There’s going to be two more episodes. Christmas Day I’m going to release episode the top 10 most listened episodes throughout 2025. That’s going to be the episodes from this year or no, the episodes which got listened to most throughout this year. And then because this is a definitive finish to the, to the whole thing where we’re ending it New Year’s Eve 2025, I am going to release top 10 most listened episodes ever which will be the 10 most listened episodes for the entire history of the show. And I can tell you at the moment it looks as though number one is going to be an episode from 2020. So from five years ago, older episodes still get listened, older episodes still have value for people. Do go and check out the back catalog. Find out more keithlakemorenoble.com show look for the KeithLake More Noble radio show.

Keith Blakemore-Noble [00:15:07]:
You’ll find all 172 episodes in there, including previous top tens, etc etc. Check out. There’s a wealth of guests, a wealth of knowledge in there. Lots of useful information. It’s well worth a listen. Lots of interesting chats with interesting people about interesting things. Now I mentioned that some guests have been on more than once. I have had I’m just looking at my pad here because I was made notes of all the all of this stuff before before hitting record.

Keith Blakemore-Noble [00:15:43]:
I have had two guests who have been on three times. We had Gary Jones. For those of you who don’t know Gary Jones, check out his episodes. He was actually my special guest on mine 100th episode as well. We had a good old chat about podcasting. Etc he’s been a guest before as well. He runs Grow show. He runs Grow Radio.

Keith Blakemore-Noble [00:16:04]:
He also helps lots of people to get into podcasting. He produces podcasts for several people, does podcasts, teaches people how to podcast, etc. So obviously and he’s been a friend for a number of years. So obviously I had him on a few times. Had him on three times. The other person who has been on three times, a gentleman called Brad Burton. An amazing, amazing man, a great motivational speaker, international business speaker, written many books. I’ve had him on three times.

Keith Blakemore-Noble [00:16:39]:
There’s somebody who has been on even more than Brad though I’ll mention them in just a moment. Most of the episodes were solo me and one guest. The most number of guests I’ve had in one episode has been three. It would have been four but unfortunately technical reasons one of the guests was unable to connect technical issues with they were away they were connecting from their phone and it just wasn’t having it just wasn’t working unfortunately. But that was so I had three out of the four people on – The Zebecks. It’s a band from the town I live in. They they now live in Glasgow but we had we had a great chat with three out of the four Zebecks exploring where they came from, what their what their journey had been so far, where they were heading. And I’M delighted to say they are.

Keith Blakemore-Noble [00:17:36]:
They are going from strength to strength. It’s been fun watching their progress. We had hoped to have the four of them on, but as you can imagine, because they’re getting more more and more busy, more and more popular time schedules just did not permit that to happen. So alas, we’re probably not hear from them again on this series because this is the last episode. Unless something really weird and spectacular happens and we have a one off show, which is always a possibility. You never know. But that was the episode with the most number of people on four of us on here and it worked rather well. It was good fun.

Keith Blakemore-Noble [00:18:19]:
It’s great, great when technology works. But I’m not going to pad this out unnecessarily. I want to thank you dear viewer, thank you dear listener, for being with us. Whether you’ve been for the whole six plus years or whether you’ve just stumbled upon this recently. Thank you so much for being a part of the journey. Do check out the older episodes. Remember you can find them all on all the places where you get to get your podcast. Apple Podcasts, Amazon music, Audible, Spotify, YouTube.

Keith Blakemore-Noble [00:18:56]:
Anywhere you get podcasts, you’ll find these. Again. Give us a Like a comment. Share it. Give us a review. Just because we’re finishing doesn’t mean that there’s not a lot of content in there that people will find useful. A lot of stuff that people may enjoy. I did promise I was going to tell you who the guest I’ve had on the most.

Keith Blakemore-Noble [00:19:18]:
There’s one guest who’s been on four times. One guest been on four times, would have been on undoubtedly would have been on six times by now. Unfortunately they passed away last year. And that’s dear friend Paul Newton, founder of MentalTheft, co-host of Newton’s Nuggets old podcast. That was Paul Newton and Jesse Lawrence. Paul was always very supportive of the show and he was my guest four times. We had him on every single series. Would have had him in series 5 and 6, but alas no longer with us.

Keith Blakemore-Noble [00:20:01]:
But he’s he holds the record as being the one who has guested the most on the Keith Blakemore-Noble Radio Show. That’s it. Again, thank you so much for being with me for however short or long your time together on this journey has been. This isn’t the end for podcasting for me. I am guesting on more and more and more other people’s podcasts, which is great. You can check some of those on the website as well five minute meditations. That podcast is going to continue and well, just keep your eye out. There could be something new coming in 2026.

Keith Blakemore-Noble [00:20:42]:
That’s all I’ll say. Keep an eye out for that. That’s it for now. Anytime I have a guest on, obviously we have a Q and A. Get lots of detail from them so we can structure what’s going to be in the episode. Every episode is unscripted. It’s unplanned. Just have a good conversation.

Keith Blakemore-Noble [00:21:01]:
I’ve always had two questions for them. One at the start, we’ve heard your bio, but who is X? Who’s the person behind it? And then the question at the end, where can you find out more? If people want to find out more, maybe get in touch. What’s the best way to do that? I do ask my every single guest just before we start recording. I always also ask them one other question. Do you have a favourite quote or saying now? I deliberately don’t ask them until immediately before we’re about to start recording because some people do have one, some people don’t. Either is good. But always what I wanted was if somebody said yes, I wanted it to be a quote or a saying that genuinely meant something to them. I didn’t want them to go away and look it up, look up on the Internet and find a quote that would make them sound good.

Keith Blakemore-Noble [00:21:51]:
I wanted a quote that that meant something to them. Some guests didn’t have one. That’s absolutely fine. We didn’t mention it. For those guests who did have one who then end the show with their favourite quote or saying. So I am going to end this show with my favourite, with my personal favourite. And it is a lyric from my all time favourite song which is also from my all time favourite band. The band is Queen.

Keith Blakemore-Noble [00:22:22]:
The song is innuendo. No it’s not. The album was innuendo. The song is The Show Must Go On. And if you know anything about the story of how they came to record it, it was whilst Freddie Mercury was getting toward the end of his life with HIV AIDS causing him lots of problems. He recorded the entire vocals in apparently in one single hit. It’s very impressive when you when you hear the vocals, incredible vocal range. I’ve loved the song since it first came out and I want to leave you with my favourite lyric from that song.

Keith Blakemore-Noble [00:23:05]:
I’ll face it with a grin. I’m never giving in; on with the show.

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