The long version
How it actually went.
No round numbers and no origin myth. A borrowed room, a decade, and a lot of Sundays.
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2016
First light
A borrowed room in Kypseli
Two of us, one microphone bought on credit, and a duvet nailed to the wall for the reflections. The first six episodes were recorded on a Sunday because that was the only day the upstairs neighbour was out.
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2017
The first show
The Loud Room finds a hundred people
A hundred listeners does not sound like much until you meet eleven of them at a bar in Exarcheia and they all quote the same episode back at you. That was the week we stopped calling it a hobby.
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2018
A door with our name on it
We move into Studio B, Gazi
Twenty-two square metres, a floated floor and a landlord who did not ask what a podcast was. We built the traps ourselves over two weekends and got the room quiet enough to hear the fridge two doors down.
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2019
In front of people
The first live night at Romantso
Sixty seats, all of them taken, and a recording that needed almost no editing because the audience did the timing for us. We have done two nights a month ever since, minus the year nobody could.
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2020
The year of the spare room
Everything, remotely
Eight microphones couriered around Athens with instructions written on the box. The sound was worse and the conversations were better, and two of the shows still on the network started in that period.
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2022
A network, not a feed
Four shows under one name
We stopped being one show with side projects. Shared production, shared ad sales, separate editorial — hosts keep the last word on their own show, which is written down rather than assumed.
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2024
Everything, in writing
Transcripts for the whole catalogue
Every episode, back to the first one, transcribed and searchable. It took four months and it turned out to be the most-visited part of the site, which nobody predicted.
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2026
Now
Eight shows and a room of our own
Eight shows, a studio that pays for itself between recordings, and a live night that sells out before we announce the guest. Still small on purpose: everyone who makes something here is in the same room at least once a week.