# "The BYC 20th Anniversary Special!"

An episode of [The BYC Podcast](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1531637824), 25 Jun 2025, 51 min.

Audio: https://pdst.fm/e/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/7784f840-c291-422a-924b-ad9000bbad71/f471b2a1-18b5-478a-bb27-adef016c50fe/c20df689-27b9-45d4-9e9e-b30700000ed3/audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=117551c5-f081-4f2b-be60-adef016c5128

Welcome to a special episode of the BYC on a significant day… Twenty years ago today – June 25th, 2005 – a group of tragic cricket fans in Wellington, dressed head-to-toe in Beige Brigade kit, gathered around some crude recording gear and hit record on what would become New Zealand’s first-ever sports podcast… The BYC. It was the heyday of The Ricky Gervais Podcast with Ricky, Stephen Merchant, and Karl Pilkington. The term “podcast” had only just been coined by a Guardian columnist the year before. Born out of the Beige Brigade fan movement formed in 1999, the BYC is now comfortably New Zealand’s longest-running podcast series, sports or otherwise. On a cold, wet Wellington evening in June 2005, New Zealand’s version of Gervais, Merchant, and Pilkington — Paul Ford, Kevin Sinnott, and Jason Willis — recorded the first official BYC episode, backed by resident crooner Blair Sayer. Join ACC Head G Lane joins Dylan Cleaver and Paul Ford for a trip down memory lane! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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