Here are two sobering truths about podcasting: Anyone can start one. Maintaining one is something of a small miracle. The numbers are a bit fuzzy, but according to the most frequently cited statistics, there are somewhere in the neighborhood of 3-4 million podcasts out there. If you have an idea for a podcast, there is a decent chance someone else had it first. The barrier to entry is minimal, but it’s harder than most people assume. Most podcasts — and this is true — die an unceremonious death by episode three. If you make it to 20 episodes, you are in the 1 percent of all podcasts. So what does that say about the No Laying Up podcast, which just crossed the 1,000 episode mark this week?