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#sfc Speaking of the podcast, will it come back (again)?

@blp (1/2)

Not a month goes by that @karen & I don't discuss restarting the podcast. To give a peek behind the curtain, the podcast started as a project mandated by a toxic employer, but it became one of the few things we actually like about that job.

It's a tribute to @karen's & my resilient & truly special professional collaboration that we were able to continue doing it after we both escaped that toxic workplace & got #FaiF going as an independent podcast.

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#SFC

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Bradley M. Kühn Dec 31

(2/2) @blp

The way @karen & I did #FaiF
when the workplace situation was still a mess was staunchly focusing it as “volunteer activity tied to no employer of ours”. It was “our thing” personally.

When Karen came to #SFC as an employee, it made podcast de-facto SFC work. We both have 0 leisure time, so it'd be SFC-official if it happens. & that has some weirdness to us.

Plus we live 3k miles away. Lotsa podcast hosts live far away, but our stichck always worked better in the same room.

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Ben Pfaff Dec 31

@bkuhn @karen I always appreciated the podcast. As someone who produced my own for a few years, I understand the amount of work involved. If you restart, you'll have at least one listener.

(Mine was also work-related, but I could never get anyone there to properly acknowledge it, so I just did it "unofficially" on my own. Over a year in, I realized that my manager didn't know that it existed. I'd never told him about it because I knew he wouldn't care either way.)

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Karen Sandler Dec 31

@blp @bkuhn I don't know that I fully agree with all of that but I do agree with the fact that it's a lot of work and we have no time!

We do hope to get back to it, though with all of the things we have going on right now it's unlikely it will be soon (did you know it's less than 2 weeks to trial?)... I'm so glad you enjoyed the podcast and hopefully we'll be saying "...and we're back!" at *some* point #SFC

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Bradley M. Kühn Dec 31

Geez, @karen, do we really
have to make our first episode if we come back a retrospective on how we both disagree about the political and sociological history of our own podcast?

*That* would be the ultimate in podcast navel-gazing episode!

cc: @blp

#SFC #FaiF #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

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Bradley M. Kühn Dec 31

Relatedly, @karen, as a reminder the “… And we're back” bit is from an #SNL skit done by Jimmy Fallon. Given what we now know about Fallon, I'm disinclined to do his bits anymore.

So we need new “return” bit. I guess I'll look for one after the #Vizio trial is over.

Cc: @blp @FLOX_advocate

#FaiF #CorrespondingSource #OpenSource #FreeSoftware

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FLOX Advocate Dec 31

@bkuhn @karen @blp How about riffing on Back of the Tree SNL skit instead?

Can you slowly say, "How about that C&C SC?"

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Katy Swain Jan 1

@bkuhn @karen I like the opening line of Ken Livingstone's acceptance speech upon becoming Mayor of London, a decade and a half after losing leadership of the Greater London Council, due to Margaret Thatcher abolishing that body:

"As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted…"