This weeks show is just me sitting down talking about stuff I want to talk about. Which is basically what this show is anyway.
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Every Week
Hello everyone. A day late posting this as yesterday was a really intense workday. I was trying to dot the I’s and cross the T’s on my talk SOLARPUNK – LIFE IN THE FUTURE BEYOND THE RUSTED CHROME OF YESTERMORROW that im giving at Unsound festival in poland next week. I’m also giving a panel on Interspecies Solidarity alongside Luke Turner, author and co-founder of The Quiteus and the artist, cultural geographer, and film maker Amy Cutler. I’m really looking forward to it.
I must admit tho, this Solarpunk talk as been a struggle to pull together. Mainly because its 50mins in length. Which is a very different beast to pulling together a 20min long talk of the kind I’ve gotten used to giving in the last year or so as part of my accidental slide in to public speaking circuit.
Once I finish this show I’ll be diving back into google slides and hope to have everything finished by early afternoon so i don’t need to think about it any more.
This morning I must admit is one of those days where I’m really not into the idea of sitting down and making a podcast. I’m really just not feeling it. Writing recording and editing a podcast in one hour is an intense burst of energy and creativity that I really do enjoy doing.
However As the podcast has progressed the most well received shows seem to be the essay ones. They are also some of the episodes I most enjoy making. To just sit down and get an idea out of my head, record it and post it is really satisfying. What I have observed about myself though is that for me its just not possible to do that every week.
It’s not that I don’t have opinions about stuff because believe me, I have plenty of them. Most of them bad. I could easily sit down and fill your ear holes with a 5 min long rant about what’s been going on in the world, why it’s ridiculous and why it makes me furious.
But to be honest that’s not the sort of show I want to make.
Nor is it how I want to spend my time. Using up psychic and physical energy getting mad about things on the internet – which is exactly what that kind of show would be is something find distasteful when I see it in other people. I can only imagine what kind of toxic spiral that would cause on my mental health. ranting and raving every week. I could easily turn myself into some kind of conspiramystical alex jones of the left. And ain’t nobody got time for that.
As I’m making this show, I actually remember that one of the episodes I’m least pleased with that I’ve made over the last 50 whatever episodes was November last year. About removing excess salt. It was a long extended metaphor about how you need to desalt a gammon before you cook it, boomers and Brexit. Since then I’ve been trying hard to not make another show like that. Avoiding how that show made me feel, rather than its content. It’s one of the reasons I stopped making the show after that last year. Partly as i was really busy with stuff throughout December, but also because I didn’t want to continue making it if they were going to continue to turn out like that.
There are plenty of things that in the back of my mind I have a vague idea of what i’d like to make a show about.
I’ve read in excess of 60 Warhammer 40,000 books from games workshop this year and I haven’t had anyone to talk to. Except at a bbq in the summer where I saw a bunch of old school friends who raised their eyebrows in surprise at the fact that the primarch and genetically engineered demigod of the ultramarines roboute guilliman is out of stasis after 10,000 years and back in the grimdark kicking ass.
I’ve wanted to do a show about Dune since the early days too. Mainly as a troll episode where i’d make my usual claim that almost all scifi and fantasy in the later half of the 20th century wis basically derivative of two books. Dune and Lord of the Rings. Don’t even get me started about that Stark boy at the end of game of thrones being the Kwisatz Haderach.
As regular listeners will know not really that into movies. I’m not excited for the new movies the more I find out about them. But I am looking forward to rolling my eyes at what kinds of fandom wars are going to happen when they come out.
Also, when i’m making this show in the script phase i sometimes massively overwrite a subject or start something and then go back and start again on a different subject. At the bottom of the document I write all my scripts there’s three offcut episodes of about 400 words each. About 1/3rd of a show. One on the written word and the Atemporality of social media, one on spiritualism and the left, and an overwrite from last week about creating sacred time and place.
There’s a couple of books i’d like to review and recommend. Off the top of my head: The Brazen Vessel by Scarlet Imprint. Paul an autobiography by bible scholar NT Wright, The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington amongst others. But I haven’t made them as they just aren’t thing i’ve felt strongly about yet to make the show. We’ll see if any of these make the light of day.
One of the important things I’ve come to understand about this show is that it benefits from consistent production. I’m learning every week and still overcoming deep seated insecurities. I think I’ve got the hang of this podcasting thing and consider it an asset or a skill that I’ve developed.
Making it every week benefits me the most, and it’s why I started it and continue to make it.
I am extremely grateful and sometimes humbled by everyone who listening or has written about it or shared it. And it makes me want to continue to make it.
As I’m the person whos making the weekly show, and I hope that you the audience don’t mind what i talk about and are just along for the ride.
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