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