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All Hail the New Show Name: atNickHodge.

Com­ments in the chat stream from Thursday 18th’s #under­stil 7 (Conked Out and Stoked) ended with a sug­ges­tion from @LafinBoy to change the name of the show. Not because Stilgher­rian Live! nor being his under­study is a bad thing: just it is just time to gradu­ate. Up the ante. Grow up, maybe.

After 4.2 minutes of think­ing, the only name that fell into my head is “atNick­Hodge” (@nickhodge). That will do for the moment. At least it is con­sist­ent with my strict per­sonal brand­ing guidelines. And I will prob­ably change my mind and call it some­thing else one day.

Thanks to all my pre­vi­ous guests, and the future super sekrit guests. And a big thanks to @dekrazee1 for her help and sup­port. Oh, and @mrsnickhodge and @yin_0x7f for their guid­ance. Doing a weekly show seems to add struc­ture into my life; and is becom­ing a new hobby.

Onto way more import­ant topics.

Nick at Arro­manches (D-Day Gold Beach) May 2004.

The next show is sched­uled for 8.30pm, Thursday 23^rd April 2009.

URL: http://tinyurl.com/atnickhodge

Topic this week: “The Lost Uncles”. It is Anzac Day this Sat­urday. In Remem­brance, I am going to reveal the his­tor­ies of four indi­vidual sol­diers from World War 1 and 2; each of which I have a per­sonal con­nec­tion. This show is not to glor­ify war; nor cre­ate false her­oes. It is an epis­ode just to remem­ber four men.

Three from WW1, one from WW2; Two I am related to, two have other con­nec­tions; Two sur­vived the war, Two did not. Three were enlis­ted men, one an officer. One was mar­ried and had a child prior to enlist­ment; two had no chil­dren and I am dir­ectly des­cen­ded from one. One I met in per­son; all are in my being and thoughts.

This show is for Lock, Roberts, Mason and Hodge.

Lest We Forget.

Please pop this into your diar­ies. See you on Thursday night.