Feb 8: Confab #63 (Season Premier)
2009 gets off to a muffled "bang" with a Confab that is all about Confab. That's right,...we're breaking the rule that was established near the beginning in 2005. The one about not talking about podcasting on the podcast. Since far too many podcasts waste everybody's time in a never-ending self-referential cycle, we felt that it wasn't a topic that we needed to weigh in on. This year, however, we've got the opportunity to "up our game" (as it were).
Note: All throughout the show, Richard talks about Confab starting in 2003. That date is incorrect. The very first show was recorded on October 26, 2005. Neither that show, nor the second one (recorded on November 8, 2005), were ever published. The first published show was recorded on November 29, 2005 (which would make Confab just a little more than three years old).
This show was recorded during the January 29, 2009 Confab.
Our guests:
- Heidi Anderson
- Andy Boyer
- Richard Huff
You can listen to the show here. (39.9 MB MP3, 62:30 minutes)
Sep 22: Confab #62
This show has been in the vault for more than three months. Rachele, Sara, Ben, Melissa, and I tackle James H Kunstler's book, The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape. You have to ask yourself how a society as advanced as the United States can happily squander our future on a lifestyle that is so obviously unsustainable. Cheap fossil fuels have enabled suburban and rural sprawl to a degree that we may not be able to divest ourselves of it quick enough to survive. Fuel costs have and will increase. Not by 10% or 30%, but by 400% or 10,000%. Yet, we continue to primarily waste the precious resource on commuting between our low-density communities and our necessarily high-density work places.
This show was recorded during the September 18, 2008 Confab.
Our guests:
You can listen to the show here. (33.1 MB MP3, 57:52 minutes)
Sep 8: Confab #61
Two show founders -- Gavin Shearer and Keith Vaitkus -- are back on the couch to talk with Rachele and me about a variety of topics. Do you trust Western medicine more than alternative medicine? Do you think that a job title can define inappropriate office attire, even within a knowledge worker workplace? Do you think you should skip a twenty-year high-school class reunion? We consider all of those topics, and more. It was nice to get some of the original Confab gang back together.
This show was recorded during the August 14, 2008 Confab.
Our guests:
You can listen to the show here. (36.9 MB MP3, 52:41 minutes)
