June 2020 Monthly Update

Hi.

Heck of a week huh? I thought this month I'd tell you a little about how Monday's show came about.

Last weekend I read about the plans for a Tuesday “Blackout” by the music industry and got to thinking. We could take DTNS off in a show of solidarity. But we weren’t music and other podcasters might not and what message would that send anyway? How would it help?

Then I thought about the conversations I had just listened to on SMR Podcast and SnobOS podcast. Those two shows had opened my eyes to experiences I was unaware of. And that weekend they had both expanded on that, furthering my understanding. 

So then I had the idea of taking down the show and replacing it with excerpts front he two shows. 

I got in touch with the folks at both shows and asked permission. I told them I felt it was my duty to listen and my role to amplify. They both agreed to let us use their excerpts. Which was frankly risky for them in some ways since it’s one thing to talk to your own audience in context, it’s another thing to be blasted to an entirely different one. 

I also ran the idea by Roger and Sarah. Roger reminded me that we had Chris Ashley from SMR Podcast already booked for Tuesday so we quickly decided to switch to doing this on Monday, since there wasn’t a guest and it would feel wrong somehow to reschedule Chris. 

Then I decided to reach out to some of the other black contributors to DTNS and ask them if they wanted to record a message for the show. I explained my reasoning for this again. Ant and Lamarr both were willing. This was an even bigger ask. It’s one thing to excerpt, it’s another thing to ask them to record their feelings, especially right now. 

But they both got back to me. I listened to both submissions with tears in my eyes. Roger, Sarah and I made the final call and I planned to get up Monday and edit.

Ha ha. Yeah. Some of you may have seen my tweet about underestimating how long it takes to edit. It always takes longer than I think. I should know this by now.

I decided to start with Ant’s incredibly moving recording because it starts so strong. You can almost hear everything you need to hear in that sigh. I then chose SMR’s excerpt next because it had the most explanation of the roots of these events with honest relating of some of the ways their life is affected that seemed to tie in nicely to Ant’s examples.

That led perfectly into Terrance and Nica’s conversation about Breanna Taylor and the nature of privilege which I thought they summed up nicely. It’s not what you think people mean when they say it and they helped explain that so well. Then I put Lamarr as our closer because he had such a genuine honest approach and I think is the most familiar to our audience. I also loved how he ended his recording. It felt like the proper ending to the piece.

I record my intro which I had been writing in my head all week. I ran that by Sarah and Roger before I recorded it and got their sign off. Then I put the whole thing together (hours) and sent them the rough cut. After a couple of smart adjustments, we had a final file. I posted it to Patreon and asked Roger to post it to Acast. 

We held our breath for the response.

And it was beyond what I would have hoped. Many of you liked the idea on the face. And that’s excellent. But some of you admitted you didn’t like the idea but you listened anyway because I asked. And you got it. And that’s what this is all about. I wanted people you know and trust to talk tech to tell you what their life is like. So you wouldn’t feel preached at. You’d feel it was your friends. And I wanted to cash in some of those chips I had built up from my own privilege (see Terrance explanation in show) to help and get people to listen who wouldn’t have heard these stories otherwise.

Thank you.

Thank you for trusting me.

Thank you for listening.

I have no words.

Stay safe out there.

Tom

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BEST OF GOOD DAY INTERNET May 2020

Every month Joe and Roger team up to bring you the best moments from Good Day Internet! Here’s the best moments from May.

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UPCOMING GUESTS/EVENTS

[Regular schedule is Tue: Patrick Beja , Wed: Scott Johnson, Thu: Justin Robert Young]

Friday June 12 - Robb Dunewood

Monday June 15 - Veronica Belmont

Tuesday June 16 - Lamarr Wilson

Friday June 19 - Shannon Morse

Friday June 26 - Robert Heron

PATRON SHOUTOUTS

WHEEL OF THANKS

The wheel spins and we say thanks to these folks, and everyone who continues to support the show!

Zach Hornbaker

Don Warlick

Tuong Do

FIVE YEAR ANNIVERSARIES!

These are the people celebrating an anniversary of five years with us as of this month! You and everyone who sticks with us are amazing.

James

Smith

Brett

Henderson

Benjamin

Golub

Complexity

Adam

Barnard

Shane

Shapera

William

Scott

Trent

Steinberg

Doug

Yeager

Travis

Gruber 

Brandon

Butler

James

Finney

Suzanne

Lee

Jeremiah

Rodriguez

Saharath

J. Ploysook

Jason

Gunn

Joe

L Walker Jr

Keith

Griffin

Christopher

Comer

Jordane

Labarussias

Adam

Ritenour

logicwerx

Michael

Stites

Reuben

Thum

Tim

Davies

Ali

& Lisa Sanjabi

Drew

Meyer

Angela

Truong

Chris

Harkins

Marion

Gabriel

Hermosillo

Steve

Harlow

Richard

D Thompson II

EmoPolarbear

Jim

Wright

Eric

Dittmer

Jeff

Murphy

Willy

Wong

David

Neufer

Chris

King

Brandon

Cohen

David

Greg

Buchholz

Norbert

Frassa

Brian

Beechum 

Paul

McGunnigle

Shawn

Cathcart

Michael

Miller

Nicolaus

Hill

Stefan

Johansson

Greg

Matyola

Mike

Tomaszewski

Matt

Mckeehan

Danomite

Dan

Gunter

Master and Grand Master!

Deigratia    A. Daniels

Tony    Glass

Steve    Iadarola

Michael    Aikins

Chris    Allen

Jeffrey    Zylks

Ken    Hays

Bradd    Schick

Paul    Boyer

Dustin    Campbell

Andrew    Bradley

Paulo    Jacob

Scott    Hepburn

Dan    Kohlbeck

Erwin    Stuhr

Justin    Zellers

Tim    Deputy

Kevin    S. Morgan

Dan    Dorato-Hankins

John    Johnston

Chris    Smith

Jeff    Wilkes

Sonia    Vining

Rueshann    Brantley

Martin    James

Bjorn    Endre

Tim    Ashman

Philip    Shane

John    Specht

Juan    D Hernandez

Paul    Theisen

Ali    & Lisa Sanjabi

John    Atwood

Chris    Beneteau

Ragnhild    Varmedal

reid     fishler

Paul    Reese

Mark    Gibson

Dr.    Carmine M Bailey

Mike    McLaughlin

Philip    Less

Frederic    Huebner

James    P. Callison

The January 23rd Club

There are the folks Patreon says have been with us since we launched the Patreon on January 23rd, 2014.  HUGE thanks to them!

Brian

Justin

Robert Young

Ryan

Alcott

Roberto

Villegas

Anthony

Marco

Joshua

Hill

Chimaera

Michael

Marks

Kevin

Schneider 

Bill

& Britt Doran

Jonathan

Gillespie

Trey

Warren

Raymond

Johnson

Tom

DiGianvittorio Jr

Cyril

Petrie

Aaron

Wirth

Heino

R Pull

Nick

Marvais

Gary

Swinsburg

DrunkKidsgaming

Thomas

Neill

Daniel

R Holihan

Gavin

Whyman

Bob

Stacy

JAMES

W THATCHER

Matthew

Richmond

Zeab

Ahmad 

Mike

Kennedy 

William

Forde

Cathi

J Greenwood

Bill

Nobes

Scott

J. Hall

Alan

Char

Chris

Matthias

Boll

Tim

Jahr

Patrick

Beja

Ed

DeWald

Michael

Aikins

Kiril

Klyandev

Kenji

Yoshino

Christopher

Copping

John

Mogensen

Christopher

Taylor

Karl

Davis

Mike

Escutia

Justine

MacDonald

Jordan

Cohen

Doug

Clemann

Gary

Meola

Timothy

Magnuson

Johannes

Hammersen

Clifton

Anderson

Joseph

Clarke