The first Volts podcast!

Happy Christmas Eve, everyone. I hope you are somewhere safe and
warm.


Here’s a little holiday treat for you: I recorded my first
Voltscast.


Matt Yglesias runs a newsletter called Slow Boring. He is
interested in the energy bill that Congress passed this week. I
just wrote a long post about that energy bill.


We wanted to chat about it. Starting a whole official podcast
with professional editing and music and a name and all the rest
sounded a bit daunting, so as an experiment, we decided, in the
immortal words of Bill O’Reilly …


We talked, we recorded it, and we’re sending it to you, unedited.
Fast and loose. Let me know what you think and if you’d like to
see (er, hear) more like this.


I’d like to get into doing more audio in the future. Apparently
some people don’t have time to read 3,000-word pieces, but they
can listen to me read pieces while they wash the dishes or walk
the dog, so I might try a bit of narration. And I’ve had a few
early talks with people about doing something more professional
and produced.


I’ll be honest: I don’t really want to launch an Actual Podcast
and get tied to a particular format and schedule. I’m terrible at
satisficing and I know if I did it I would obsess over it and it
would eat up all my time, and I’d rather spend my time writing.


I’d like to do it on a less formal basis, though, at least if
y’all are into it, so let me know.


In the meantime, stay cozy like Mabel and Forest.


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