You got me all excited with "large orange screen". That sounded like a fun error message display. Instead I just got a default error message with a link "Clear Error and Retry" link. After clicking the link, I was hit with a bunch of text .... which I quote below, if the click trick doesn't work for people:

Here's the text from post.news:

Why The "Make No Law" Podcast Stopped

Today I posted a link to an episode of Make No Law, the First Amendment podcast I did for a number of years. I'm very proud of the podcast and very grateful to the folks at Legal Talk Network -- particularly producer Laurence Colletti and our extremely talented composer and sound designer Adam Lockwood -- for their hard work. (Adam did the super-cool riff on the National Anthem in our intro.) It was a good product because of their hard work and creativity. A lot of people liked it.

So why did it stop?

It stopped because of me.

When you're in the long war with depression and anxiety, different tasks land different ways. For whatever reason, this format was extremely difficult and anxiety-provoking for me. I've been handling unscripted podcasts without any real problem for several years now -- first on All The President's Lawyers and now on Serious Trouble. I do research for those, and we plan them ahead, but they're nothing like Make No Law. I deeply researched each episode of Make No Law, scripted everything (except for the interview portions, where I only had questions scripted), and we painstakingly did multiple takes of the scripted portions to get it right.

For whatever reason, that format -- researching and drafting a script -- has been intolerably hard. Depression and anxiety lie; they don't make sense. I can't explain it. I only know that the tyranny of the blank page has been particularly painful when trying to script new episodes. That, as sufferers will know, leads to a shame and anxiety spiral where not having done it for a long time makes it worse and worse. Maybe it's that I did the first episodes during a bad patch and associated the process with those feelings. Maybe this particular slice of creativity triggers something. Whatever it is, I can't do it without being completely miserable. This is entirely my responsibility. The Legal Talk Network team, especially Laurence, have been nothing but supportive, professional, and ready to work.

In the last 25-or-so years knowing I had depression, and the last maybe 9 or so taking it and anxiety "seriously" by dire necessity, I've learned a few things are crucial. One is honesty and openness. I'll be honest and open: right now I can't do this, and I'm not sure when I will be able to. Self-care is also crucial. That means deciding what you have to do and what it would be just preferable if you could do. It would be preferable if I could do this, but I can't right now. I primarily regret letting the stellar Legal Talk Network people down, and secondarily regret letting down fans who wanted more, but this is how it is.

Why am I saying this? First, because people keep asking, and I keep deflecting with "it's so much work." It is a huge amount of work -- maybe 20 - 25 hours per episode -- but that's not the reason. That's not honest. The truth is I'm not doing it because I'm taking care of myself. I'm in a good place. Depression and anxiety are cyclical, and there will be good and bad times for the rest of my life, but through a mix of honesty with myself and others, cognitive behavioral techniques, meds arrived it by trial and error, and other forms of self-care, I'm doing quite well. I'm okay, or better than okay. But part of being okay is saying "the disease makes that painful, and I don't have to do it, so I'm not going to do it."

Depression and anxiety are common. Openness about them is healthy; shame and obscurity are deadly. Be honest about how you feel, and then take care of yourself, and tell people that's what you're doing.

@Popehat As a fellow cyclical-depression sufferer, I totally get it.

@greg_doucette @Popehat Can second this. I once used them to ensure a 7 hour roadtrip with my mother went smoothly, so you know they must be good.

@fsinn @Popehat I join in the best wishes and echo the “take care of yourself, above all else” admonition. After having faced forced retirement, ongoing daughter’s relapse, I’m falling into a sense of purposeless-ness and lack of value. Finding meaning in routine tasks (home improvement, improving my cooking skills) is necessary but not sufficient. I hope your decision manifests itself in greater self-satisfaction and renewed meaning.