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Talkabout Tuesday 26: Podcast Reflection (Final Episode)

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Summary

Last Talk About Tuesday ever (podcast version). Meta week - reflecting on podcast. Limited impact but proud of doing it anyway. Originally voice for people not present, expanded to themed days (alliteration: Millions Monday, Talk About Tuesday, Wondrous Wednesday, Tip Thursday, Farewell Friday). Got school meeting approval. Careful about student privacy/autonomy - only mentioned staff names. Students knew about podcast. One interview (Parker). Millions Monday: guesstimate math. Talk About Tuesday: school topics. Wondrous Wednesday: physics, evolution, random topics. Tip Thursday: favorite - neat little things. Hope to do actual talk-abouts next year. WONDROUS WEDNESDAY EPISODES

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0:00 Welcome to ANI in the Air. Talk about Tuesday, the last one I shall ever do.
0:06 Well, podcast talk about Tuesday. We are quite hoping that next year we will
0:13 start doing actual talk abouts, probably on Tuesday sometimes. But, so this is the
0:22 meta week where I talk about the podcast. So I thought I'd talk about, yeah,
0:29 how the podcast has gone in terms of reception in the community and impact and
0:38 whatever. And I hinted at it last week but, you know, pretty much the podcast has
0:45 done very little. So I'm proud of that. This is definitely an adult endeavor
0:50 which nobody would have missed if I hadn't done it. But I'm proud I did it
0:56 anyway because that's just, you know, how we are as human beings, right? I think
1:01 some people did listen to it occasionally and enjoyed it, so I
1:04 appreciate that. Thank you listeners. I guess I'm wrong about this then maybe
1:12 there are lots of people listening to this and then I've just offended a lot
1:15 of people. But if I'm right about this then no one's actually listening to this
1:19 or just a couple of people and then there isn't really much I've offended. So
1:23 I feel like kind of by the logic of Pascal's Wager I should actually be
1:29 saying the opposite where it's like I had a dramatic impact, lovely listeners,
1:33 lots of them, it's been great. So pretend I said that if in fact there are lots of
1:38 listeners. But, so the podcast, you know, was originally just kind of a voice in
1:49 the air for people to who were not here in person to go and grab on to and kind
1:57 of find out what was going on and then it kind of expanded to each day having a
2:03 little bit of something. I think I expanded pretty quickly because I like
2:06 themes and days and whatever and alliteration, you know, Millions Monday,
2:12 Talk About Tuesday, Wondrous Wednesday, Tip of the Week Thursday, and Farewell
2:16 Friday. I love alliteration. Anyway, I did get approval for the podcast from school
2:24 meeting and I have been doing it every day I've been here pretty much. I think
2:31 there was one day when I did it at night at home for some reason. I just couldn't
2:38 get around to it or there's no space to do it. I like to do it outside and
2:42 probably the winter, had no tent, I don't know. I don't know what the deal was but
2:49 I might even, they even had rush home to do assembly, I don't know. Whatever the
2:55 case was, yeah, so I pretty much just been doing that. I told school meeting that,
3:02 you know, I'd be careful in what I said so that the privacy and autonomy of the
3:09 students at this school would not be compromised. That is case any parents or
3:15 whatever were listening, they would not necessarily know what was going on with
3:19 their own kids and all that and I think I kept to that. I think pretty much for the
3:26 most part the only names I mentioned were staff, maybe occasionally something
3:32 else, somebody stepping up to do a clerkship or something or other, but so
3:39 I'm happy about that. I'm happy I was able to find stuff to talk about the
3:42 whole time. You know, there's a lot of days where there isn't too much to
3:48 report but, you know, I find stuff that's nice, nice to talk about and, you know,
3:57 I've, yeah, so there was that. Students, many of them definitely know that I was
4:05 doing a podcast. I mean, obviously they can see it in Discord, those who monitor
4:10 it, and I'd hear people saying, "Oh, James is doing the podcast." You know, I don't
4:16 know that they ever listened to it but they knew I was doing it and they seemed
4:20 to appreciate that I was doing that so that was nice or it was just very kind of
4:26 them to, you know, support that but I did manage to get one interview. I mentioned
4:37 it a few times trying to get people to give me an interview but I didn't really
4:41 pursue it with people. The only exception was with Parker who was here while I was
4:49 doing a podcast. I was like, "Hey, you want to do an interview?" He was like, "Sure," and so we did one. I
4:53 think that came out well. I wish I could have done more but, you know, I don't
4:57 really want to push the point really and it can be really tricky to to do a good
5:06 interview, you know, so yeah, I didn't do that. I guess also early on I might have
5:14 talked with Josh a couple of times on the podcast. He was kind of doing the
5:19 online clerkship there and tried doing that. It was kind of over Discord maybe. I
5:24 don't know. That was kind of hard. So, but mostly it's just been me prattling on
5:32 and yeah. So, in terms of what I've talked about, you know, obviously really what
5:47 happened during the day was just really mainly targeted to people online and as
5:51 time went on, even if there were people online listening to it, the numbers
5:55 dwindled. I think we're now to about ten people who are not here at all. So that's
6:06 become a lot less important. I don't know how much I've actually said that would
6:12 would have helped anyone out there feel more connected. That was always my
6:18 intent. And then there were the special topics. Millions Monday where I did some
6:24 guesstimate-y math stuff. I just really loved doing that and, you know, I've
6:33 always wanted to do something like that. See, I would go. I figured people would
6:36 pretty much, you know, ignore it as, you know, students have other things to do.
6:42 But I thought I'd try it out. I certainly enjoyed it, but certainly no one has
6:50 come up to me like, "Hey! Talk about Tuesday?" I thought that was a bit more relevant
6:57 where, you know, just talking about the school. You know, I think, well, I said a
7:07 lot of things. At the time I think I learned things by saying those things.
7:10 Although I don't really remember them all that well, but they are recorded.
7:15 There's about twenty-some of them. And, you know, yeah. And then there's a
7:25 Wondrous Wednesday. I actually talked a lot about physics in the beginning, which
7:30 is something on math I'm eminently qualified for. Physics I'm somewhat
7:35 qualified for. And, you know, mainly the physics I talked about I'm more
7:40 qualified for. And then I started talking about evolution for a while. I am not
7:44 qualified at all for that stuff. And, although I did read a lot of Richard
7:50 Duncan's books, so there's that. And, you know, I think I kind of focused more on
7:54 the math-y side of it all. So that was something. And then I kind of got into
8:01 random topics, some of which just almost devolved into my paraphrasing Okapedia
8:08 page. But, whatever. I think Wondrous stuff is cool, wherever it takes you. I learned
8:15 some things and hopefully somebody who was listening might have learned some
8:20 things. I don't know. And then there's Tip of the Week Thursday. It was actually
8:23 kind of one of my favorite topics because I got to, well, kind of started
8:30 out with amusing stuff. But, you know, there was a lot of like neat little
8:33 things that I know that I shared and experimented with and thought about. And, I
8:38 don't know, I think it's kind of really nice to have that that all happen. And
8:43 then there was Farewell Friday, which I didn't really know what it was. Just kind
8:46 of saying goodbye and I like the alliteration. So there was that. So that
8:51 was sort of how that all went. All right, well, this is my signing off for the last
9:00 time for Talk About Tuesday. You all have a good one, and I will see you when I see you.