Here's a surprise for today! [According to LBRYnomics, I am 409th in the top 500 people on LBRY.](https://lbrynomics.com/) Absolutely unexpected, and *probably* deeply undeserved, I still appreciate the fact that some people find bits of my work worth consuming. Hopefully not only will you good folks continue to enjoy what I do but continue to seek me out, whatever mad blathering I manage to produce. (Today you can catch me on the live [LBRY Community Podcast](https://lbry.tv/@LBRYFoundation:0) from [the LBRY Discord server](https://discord.gg/fpqRuN). I'm sure that can't possibly and poorly.)

While some people hang out with their family and spend time celebrating the holiday season, I found myself at loose ends this afternoon. Luckily, Discord never fails to reward boredom. I received a random DM from someone who purported to be working on [a research project about 10 timezones east of me,](https://publicvalueofdata.tlu.ee) and were looking for people who would be interested in responding to about 15 questions. Would I be interested? Well – have you met me? Of course I was interested! You mean there's somebody out there who will listen to me ramble on in response to their questions? *I'm absolutely that guy.* They gave me the choice of a live audio interview or responding in text, and I replied that I could do them one better, send me the list of questions and I would record my responses for them this very day. Now, my original expectation was that it would be about 15 minutes of short, simple responses and maybe I do a little audio cleanup on it and send it off. I ended up with 57 minutes of unedited recorded audio, and I decided that I wasn't going to throw any editing on it at all. Instead I just use the exact same polish pass I use on the [**LBRY Foundation Community Podcast**](https://odysee.com/@LBRYFoundationPodcast:f?r=GXFuFbK7Yj3zUwXExfE2zn19jk7v4Eiu) audio every week, put it in a box, and send it off. But then I started thinking – there's probably someone that would be interested in hearing me ramble about LBRY as a protocol, LBRY as a platform, Odysee, and the usual things that we talk about on the podcast, only me being less manic and directly entertaining and more considered. I'm sure somebody out there wants that. I don't know who, but somebody. Besides, I also believe that every interview that you do with someone should have the raw, unedited content available for people to examine at their leisure. You never know when you're going to be taken out of context or straight up edited to say something that you did not intend, and the ability of those being interviewed to record and present their version of what happened is an important check on both academic and journalistic issues. So I've got this. Recorded on Christmas Eve, when I probably should have been spending time with my family or at least pretending to be a normal human being – but no. This is what I've got. So this is what you've got. If you like this sort of thing, please give me some feedback. Let me know what you think. I'm sure there are plenty of things in here that you will find to disagree with, and maybe one or two that you resonate with. Tell me about it. Until then…