It was started by Daniel Friedlaender, who resides in San Diego, California. He started it because as an Apple fan, he had watched the live stream of Steve Jobs' speech where he unveiled podcasting as the newest thing for iTunes. He figured that since there were already podcasts on Apple, that were pretty good, that he would do a Nintendo Podcast He had always been a fan of Nintendo. He had simply grown up with Nintendo products, and always bought the new Nintendo games, especially for GameBoy Color. He had simply assumed that Nintendo was the best company around. He obtained a new-found interest in the company during E3 2004, where Nintendo took the wraps off of the Nintendo DS. He had been waiting for a new type of GameBoy anyway. He became a senior news contributer for DSFans.com (now offline). The first episode came out on July 31st, 2005.
Daniel Friedlaender went by the alias DSCUBED for about 20 episodes of the podcast before deciding to reveal his real name. The podcast grew and eventually, out of the kindness of a listener, a logo was created:
The reason you have visited this page though, was probably to ask, "Why LITHCast?"
Well, its actually very simple. LITH is an acronym. The word, "Nintendo," comes from the phrase, "Leave it to Heaven," and that is where LITH comes from.
