[00:00:00] Steve: [00:00:00] connor, my man. Hello? Hello?

[00:00:05] Connor: [00:00:05] What's up?

[00:00:07] Steve: [00:00:07] Oh, you know? Yeah. Usual. So I'm just going to launch right into it. You got an hour,

[00:00:16] Connor: [00:00:16] got some time.

[00:00:18] Steve: [00:00:18] We'll see if it takes an hour. It may not take. Okay, so

[00:00:24] Connor: [00:00:24] there's an alternative,

[00:00:25] Steve: [00:00:25] but we'd also meet.

[00:00:28] Connor: [00:00:28] Somewhere for grains, and this.

[00:00:30] Steve: [00:00:30] There's not an alternative, and I'm about to explain that.

[00:00:36] That's hilarious though, that that that's how you started this call. Okay. Anyway, you're about to understand this and why that's so funny. I had an idea today that has taken a couple of forms over the course of the last few hours. I'm going to walk you through all of them here. And I want you to like help me think through it the right way to do it. The reason that I'm calling you here is because you're really good at sort of just being on the same page with me. You're very quick to tell me when I'm wrong. Usually you understand and can illuminate why I'm wrong about something immediately and then tell me straight to my face.

[00:01:10] No, Steve, you're an idiot. Here's why. That is great. Super valuable. I need that. Only a few people who can do that. Uh, then, then second, you're one of the only people in the world who I think gets more mad at me if I don't record our conversations, then if I do record our conversations, uh, and that is especially useful right now because the thing I'm about to spring on you is that I want to start pool.

[00:01:34] I feel bad saying this cause I feel like every podcast in the world is actually just two guys who think they're smart. Starting a podcast. But I think

[00:01:46] Connor: [00:01:46] that's

[00:01:46] Steve: [00:01:46] probably true. I'm starting a podcast. Uh, it's going to be video calls on zoom, just like we're having now.

[00:01:53] They're about an hour, so I imagine that'll vary, right? Um, and it'll basically just kind of be. Let me tell you where this came from. so I was challenged by my friend who I've known since elementary school that nothing virtual can be as connecting. I think his intention was to express that like the sort of intimacy you feel in an in person conversation.

[00:02:18] Is strictly in person conversations. Uh, he used the phrase connection though, like real connection only happens in need space and I think that's wrong and dumb. And so. Especially as the curator of TEDx Colorado Springs. Like I get the power of online video and send, it hit me right in my heart and I was exceptionally triggered.

[00:02:38] And so I've been thinking about that for a couple of days. Uh, and then today I saw a couple posts that, that were, uh, Paul Graham posted a thing that was like, if you're interested in doing a video series, you should do it now. Cause you'll be able to get more interesting audience than possibly ever.

[00:02:53] Cause everyone's going to be at home with nothing to do. Cause of Corona virus. So that was interesting. Then a couple of other people, I think Arlin Hamilton tweeted that, uh, if you are going to start a podcast ever, now is the time to start a podcast, take her advice very seriously, and so she's like. You should start a podcast about stories now to the whole world. I'm like, that's, yeah, who am I to not listen to that advice? And then. Um, the final like straw was, I saw David corral, I think is how you pronounce his last name.

[00:03:26] Post a tweet about. Uh, he was like, um. I have a business idea. You should put together a company that consults for other companies, teaching them how to start an internal podcast, because if everyone is going off offline or online over the course of the next several months, a lot of companies won't know how to do that.

[00:03:50] It'll be helpful for them to have an internal podcast so the company can keep up to date with each other asynchronously via audio in a way that is great for people. Very smart idea. I misread this tweet completely. I read it as someone out there should start a podcast that interviews companies that do remote work and ask them how they do remote work and share that with the world.