The One About Kyle

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Alright. Hello. Welcome to Daily(ish) for, Wednesday April 26. It's currently seven degrees feels like two degrees I think with the wind chill. I've been trying to get to this thing all day and I keep getting distracted by well work you know.

It's good. It's it's appropriate distractions but, it's one thing when you notice when you set up a document like logic document in this case to start recording in the morning and then, don't actually get around to hitting record until, oh, wow. It's 04:30. So there you go. This episode of is brought to by Patreon supporters possibly like you, patreon.com/ichris.

So you can go to check out how you can join a group of awesome folks who are, supporting the podcasting efforts that I do as well as the rest of us here at Good Which brings me to an interesting, well, the main reason why I'm recording this episode actually is, so Kyle Roderick is my partner in crime as it were with goodstuff.fm. We've been working together for a couple years on this thing now, and over the last whatever it's been almost a year I think. Yeah. We we rebuilt good stuff, the CMS and we being him and and we relaunched some shows, launched new shows, all that kind of stuff. We kind of like run this thing together and so from time to time we obviously we chat.

We do a lot of the stuff we do through Slack and just texting back and forth typing, texting, pasting in emojis, know, that kind of stuff, GIFs. But occasionally we chat, video chat and stuff like that and so one day as far as I know, it's the only time this has happened where we actually were chatting, video chatting, and I think I was testing out some stuff. We were doing some tests of like the streaming software that we use and I had to run upstairs to check on something and so Lucy, my daughter, four year daughter, was sitting in the chair with me and so she ended up sort of chatting with Kyle while I was upstairs and then came back down to and I resumed testing some streaming stuff or whatever. And ever since then she's been like oddly fascinated, with not not that it's odd to be fascinated with Kyle, but just out of nowhere, she's developed this funny sort of, infatuation or whatever kind of thing with Kyle. And so today at lunchtime, when we were just the three of us were eating lunch and, so I just kinda turned my phone on and just thought I'd try and get to the reason or the what's behind, her, why she likes Kyle.

So this is what's, my little interview with, Lucy here. Just a plate for you right now. Do you know who I talked to yesterday? Who?

Kyle. You're you said it's too many. Could we FaceTime Kyle?

What is so what's so interesting about Kyle?

I just like him.

I know. Well, why do you like him?

Because you just like him.

Do you like the sound of his voice?

Mhmm. And I like his hair because it makes him slick. Why do you like Kyle so much? Because I just like his voice and hair.

So so there you go. All of that is unsolicited. It's not like we planted ideas in her head or anything like that. She came up with ever since that call like I said she anytime I like mentioned to Sue that I was chatting with Kyle or that Kyle and I were talking about something or whatever then she right away is like, can we call Kyle? Can we FaceTime Kyle?

And the hair thing is bizarre. I don't know what I can't remember what hairstyle Kyle had in that video call that we did that one time. I think that's as far as I know that's the only time she's actually seen Kyle. But maybe maybe it's just because he is you know cool mister California guy or something like that. So anyways, I thought it was kind of funny.

I thought I'd share it with you guys list listeners out there. One of the things that prompted me to actually stick the phone down and and record the conversation with with Lucy earlier today and these two topics are vastly different and this is a terrible kind of segue to mix these two worlds in a way, I've been listening to it and and probably a lot of you have and, I know my wife Sue has and there's a podcast series called S Town. It's seven episode series I believe. I have one episode to go, so no spoilers. But, it's from the producers of the podcast Serial, is really popular a couple years ago, had a couple seasons and and probably will come back again I would assume.

But it basically is kind of a sort of your investigative journalist kind of story behind a town, behind a guy, behind this community and that starts off going one way and kind of spins in another direction after a series of events and and stuff and it from a audio producer podcast person, it kind of just inspires me and makes me want to that's the kind of stuff I love doing is hearing people's stories and sort of picking their brain and finding out what's going on. But from a I've never really figured out how to do that on an audio perspective in terms of you know getting the gear and then figuring out how you sort of craft the story out of hours and hours of interview footage that, you know once you listen to it all it really makes sense and there's a whole team, of folks like the some of the folks from This American Life, series work on it. So it's not just one person sitting in their basement trying to figure out what kind of story to tell through all this audio that they've collected through interviews and stuff, but, just how you begin to even craft a story out of all of that kind of boggles my mind and I would love to sort of figure out a small project to sort of take on in in lay that.

Not that Lucy is and her infatuation with Kyle is the the project to take on and try and tell that story, but just that idea of like getting people to in their own words, in their own voice, you get to hear their their passions, their their frustrations, their anger, but you don't get to see them and you don't get to actually put a face to the the voice necessarily and so you're kind of left to like conjure up what you think is going on and what you feel like they they might be saying and feel like what they might be looking like and interacting and their mannerisms and all that kind of stuff without having a the video version to sort of guide you in that that way and that's part of what's so fascinating to me about it all. So I know there's nothing particularly unique about the story in S Town. There is I mean it's unique but the that story could be happening and probably is happening in many different places. Small town Saskatchewan for example here would have many stories that would be have echoes or mirrors of what's going on in S Town for example.

And so where to begin and how to even start telling some of those stories, hearing some of those stories is a thing that I'd love to get into and just kind of like try try to decide if it's like a is it a going to journalism school kind of thing to figure that out or is it more of like just the way I've been doing things thus far is just kind of trying it and building up skills, learning as I go, reading and learning from others that are further up the road on the Internet in various ways and sort of trying things out that way. But at the end of the day sort of like telling a story in audio with music, with words, with interviews and sort of crafting that story is is kind of a fascinating thing. And and as good as S Town is as a story, it doesn't draw me back to wanting to listen to it other than sort of like trying to like hear the the craft behind what's going on. So but you might really enjoy it too. I know Sue really loved it and they released it all as one big sort of dump almost like a Netflix style podcast where all seven episodes which sounds wrong.

There must be eight or nine. I don't why it would be just be seven but maybe it is. All seven episodes released at once and so you can just listen to it as fast or as slow as you want. I've kind of gone at a piecemeal pace here and there, but, you can obviously just sit down and listen in one sitting or if you're driving you know from Saskatoon to Winnipeg, it's a nice eight and a half hour drive so you could easily fit off, the entire series if you needed to or wanted to. So anyways, check it out.

I'll put the link in the show notes. And that's it for this episode. Thank you for listening. Hope you have a great day. Oh, and if you feel like it's something we've done on the YouTube podcast and other folks have done this podcast wise, when you're listening to this, if you're on the Twitters, just tweet at me.

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