18: Slipping the DISC: State of The Portal and Chapter 2020: Difference between revisions

And I want to give a huge shout out to Cast Media, who has been the original studio and effectively a co-producer of the show along with Jesse Michaels and the advertisers and sponsors who been paying for the equipment for the people who work on the show so that nobody had to shell out anything in order to get this. The show would never have happened if it wasn't taking place as a commercial on enterprise. And so, even though some of you find the ads annoying although others of you find them actually entertaining or interesting, what we need to do is to come up with a better model, a model in which sponsors get access to the kind of heart and passion for sticking with the show. So I think I'm going to try to figure out how the riskvertizer model works in earnest this year, but it's also important to me that those of you who wish to avoid having a brain sullied with any kind of commercial intrusion have an option to do that. We've been doing that through the YouTube videos, and in that respect, I feel like in general if you're willing to sit through maybe an initial ad that rolls before the video goes, you usually have an uninterrupted viewing or listening experience thereafter. We'll try to get the videos a little bit in better sync with the audio, but most importantly what I want to get to is what the show is really about. And the last thing I will say on the sort of initial housekeeping is we probably needed to recognize earlier that we need your help. A lot of you guys are audio engineers, or you're graphic designers, or you're website builders. I don't quite know how to source the talent we need from the pool, but I've been bombarded by wonderful offers from any of you some of you at the absolute top of your field who want to help this podcast because you want to see us grow as a movement. And maybe I was slow to recognize how genuine the interest was in and just to say thank you. I mean, I think it's sort of hard to recognize that it's working for various internal psychological reasons. I've been incredibly touched and I really want to incorporate some of the offers of help because Lord knows we need it, just haven't figured out how to do it yet. So stay tuned. I think we'll be organizing that shortly. We've now got a Facebook group for the Portal podcast. We've got an Instagram account that's growing. Twitter's still our largest following, but the actual subscriptions to the podcast but on both YouTube through Apple and other places now quite large, and I think it'll be increasingly hard to shut down these channels to you so that even if we lose one or two of them because of something we say, hopefully we'll remain engaged to and will try to make sure that we were not the vulnerable to having the oxygen cut off.