2024-06-13
35 分钟This episode is about to be very weird and meta because I'm going to be discussing a life lesson that I learned from making this podcast.
And the reason why this is going to be weird and meta is because I rarely discuss what goes into making this podcast as a listener or follower or whatever.
You just see the final product.
And I, in a way that's by design, because nobody needs to see the inner workings of what it takes to make entertainment, if you will.
So I keep that away on purpose until today, apparently.
Before we can get to the life lesson, we must go back in time to the inception of this podcast.
It actually started in 2018, 2019 when I started my first podcast called Stupid Genius, which only lasted a year or two.
And it was basically a show where I would take a scientific question like, why do we yawn?
Or why do we sweat?
Or why is the sky blue?
And then I would hypothesize what I think the answer is, and then at the end, the answer would be revealed, and it'd be sort of this game of how close could I get to the actual scientific answer?
And then at the end of the episodes, I would sort of just riff on my personal life, like what was going on, what's been on my mind, et cetera.
And I very quickly fell out of love with the structure of that podcast.
I didn't like doing the exact same thing every episode.
It just felt boring to me at a certain point.
And so I got the idea to start a new podcast where I could take my favorite part of stupid genius, which was the end of the episodes, when I would just riff about whatever the fuck I wanted, and I turn it into a show itself.
And then anything goes was born.
A show where I could talk about anything.
Anything goes, for me, started as this low pressure place where I could just talk about whatever I wanted to a much smaller audience than what I had on YouTube, Instagram, et cetera.
It was honestly more like a hobby for me than anything.