What’s that thing they say? Don’t look too closely at either sausage or politics when they are made? Probably some good advice. Even though I’m not quite sure who “they” is in this connotation. But either way, I’m gonna pass on that advice right now and instead talk about how the podcast was made, specifically how genius this idea was that Chris came up with and how cool Bethany’s website build is.
When people are excited about a new and creative project, I’m right there supporting them on their journey. I’m sure this comes from being a therapist for over twenty years. Well, that and a “when a friend asks for help, you help them”, a favorite quote from Letterkenny. What surprised me with this project was how clear and strong Chris’ vision was for it, from the topics we discuss, to the format we followed, our important podcast “ethos” to the creation of our AI “Mr. Eggy.”
As an aside, I don’t believe this is our actual name for the mascot, but I have a long history of renaming things in 52 years on this planet. I believe Big Thunder Railroad at Disneyworld became the “run-away train ride” and all breakfast sandwiches have become “moons over my hammy.” Growing up, my Dad poked fun at how I saw things differently by referencing the song from Sesame Street for “Elmo’s World”…you know..la la la la, Elmo’s world, la la lala Elmo’s world. I have memories of saying something my Dad or brother didn’t line up with and they would sing “Elmo’s world.” I think there was a brief time where they tested out “Brian’s world” as a lyric, keeping the same tune and cadence, but it didn’t take. I used to respond with “I took the road less traveled…and that made all the difference” or maybe muttered, “hell, is other people….” So, this isn’t a new thing when it comes to renaming things. I’ve been told it is cute and endearing.
Although, I was told to me by the same person who said my snoring is softly quiet and calming at night. Which, let’s be frank, my snoring is neither soft nor quiet. Huh. Interestingly, she does have a hearing impairment, and I know she doesn’t wear her bionic/BORG hearing aid technology to bed, so now I’m seeing how this untruth may have manifested.
In any case, this cute and endearing behavior of mine reminds me of Mark Dempsey’s twitter account. If you haven’t seen it, he renames everyday things to something that is waaaay better than what it really is. For example, mantee’s became sea cows. Cheerios are bagel seeds. Zebras are barcode cows. Milk is cereal sauce. You get the picture.
But really, shouldn’t you be working? Isn’t there a zoom meeting you should be going to? Aren’t you making that excel sheet with all the names of the students who have had conduct cases this year to create a trend analysis based on the offence? Or your counseling notes. You are like 8 behind. Those aren’t going to write themselves. So maybe think before you go lose an hour flipping through Dempsey’s twitter. (And, as an aside to my aside, I get the irony of me calling it twitter, after it was renamed X. But I’m not calling it X. Each time I see that I think of Prince renaming himself to symbol and I won’t have anyone disrespecting Prince, cause he’s a sexy motherfucker. Though, come to think of it, he’s still good, right? I like to ask this when talking about men of a certain age time period. So, assuming Prince is still in the good category, my reference stands).
How long is a blog supposed to be? I mean, we debated that similar concept when it came to the podcast itself. The two schools of thought on this were #1 keep it short, 20-25 minutes per episode. Then we kept recording longer episodes which raised the question of would people listen to all the podcast if it was super long? Then #2 point became should we just find a break point and split the longer ones into shorter segments?
Listen, I haven’t really listened to podcasts. But don’t people just hit pause when they get to where they are going? Does it matter if they are stopping midway through an episode or if they just move to a part two? I feel like if I was a podcast person, I would just hit pause. But I’m told not everyone does that.
Well, that’s my blog post. What’s for breakfast? Pitter-patter, let’s get at her.
Brian
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