► Tell us about you and your podcast
Jordan has a Master's degree in archival studies who teaches literature and history. Kris is an author of 2 books, a hip hop album, and is currently working in the field of machine learning research. We discuss subjects ranging from economics and politics to pedagogy and religions.
This podcast intends to bring hard conversations to public forum from both right and left leaning perspectives. We want to encourage healthy debate and promote free speech.
We are entirely non-profit, no sponsors at all. It is our aim to show people how to disagree and talk about heavy subject matter with a light-hearted human touch.
► Why & how did you start this podcast?
We aim to contribute to the progressive wave of our modern times by demonstrating healthy social discourse rather than preaching it explicitly. We feel the world keeps swinging between extremes from the right and left and neither side is offering sensible approaches to progressive social change without hubris or ego stoking the flames of divisiveness in the process. This is our donation to help make the world a better place. Positive change starts with rational conversations, a bit of humour, and a lot of honest introspective reflection.
► How'd you find the time and funding to do this podcast?
We're entirely volunteer. We use open source software for all of our audio and video production. Kris donates his webserver to host the rss feed and content. We share duties in maintaining / updating social media accounts. We started our show shortly before the pandemic lockdown, so it's been easier than anticipated to find the time to keep our content coming on a weekly basis for the past 12 months.
► What do you gain from podcasting?
Posterity. We are comforted by the idea that in a digital age this type of media and content will persist in perpetuity. Never have the barriers to entry been so low to get into broadcasting should a person be motivated enough to learn to use the free tools availed by the open source community. We're grateful for the donations of others and we aim to use those gifts to also promote peace, love and equality for all while also making accessible some of the more complicated subjects important to everyone in the world today.
► How does your podcasting process look like?
Blender, Audacity, OpenShot, GIMP, OBS, Zoom, Filezilla, vsCode, Sublime Text Editor, Chrome / Chromium / FireFox, Ubuntu Linux, Windows 10.
Kris prepares a unique graphic for the youtube video releases. We reuse a splash page and introduction video rendered in Blender. Jordan edits and writes a lot of our content, including a blurb on each episode's splash page which is also used in the description section of our rss feed for the audio-only listeners on iTunes.
► How do you market your show?
Social media, basically anything free.
► What advice would you share with aspiring (new) podcasters?
Learn as many new tools as you can. Read and listen to other podcasts. Engage in the community without explicitly self-promoting. Just be there offering good advice or insightful commentary and people will check your profile and find your links. Nobody likes spam so don't spam message boards or forums.