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We each wrote you a letter today
🕑 Added 2020-10-06 20:50:54 +0000 UTCHello today. I don't know that I can accurately convey the level of surprise and satisfaction I have that this podcast turned into This Podcast. Like of course Chris and I are putting in the work and constantly coming up with ways to improve production, but I have never really been a first-person witness to the concept of hard work paying off in any meaningful capacity. It consumes a lot of our time—It's fun! But it eats a ton of time!—but I am pretty sure in the grand universe of ideas and collective thought and other metaphysical horseshit, we're getting back more than we put in with this podcast. Big Joe Energy. I don't know.
Thank you for listening, thank you for telling us you're listening, thank you for giving us money every month, and golly I SURE DO HOPE Chrono Cross hits the same way or better. I don't know what Chris is writing; hopefully it isn't the exact same thing.
-Eric
Wow. I've said this before, but it bears repeating: we started this podcast on a whim, primarily to entertain ourselves and hopefully some of our idiot friends. This is weird to say, but once had a few fully produced episodes in the can, I thought that maybe we had something that some people might want to listen to.
But you never know if someone is going to find your shit. The internet is huge, and podcasting is kind of a mess structurally. But you found it. Not only did you find it, but you told us you found it. You told other people about it. You threw a couple of bucks per month at us. You established a community. You gave us interesting angles to take on the show. Many of you listened to us record live.
I'm not bullshitting: this momentum made us work harder and it made the podcast better—it's the coolest thing I've ever done. Thank you for this.
-Chris
Comments
Controllerfreak
I had already thought I knew a lot more about Xenogears than any reasonable fan needed to know, but now, thanks to your colossal efforts, I now know far too much about it, and also a ton about new subjects like Gnosticism. I know that Chrono Cross needs to be done first, but I'm really looking forward to when you broadcast the Xenosaga series out of Vault 63 in 2032.
Chris
thank you to our most prolific commenter. before covid i got in a habit of reading all your comments every Tuesday morning.
Seth Who Talks Too Much
Thank YOU for this! I actually stumbled across you all as someone who missed the boat on Xenogears the first time around and just got into it from HCBailly's LP and some other things around the time, and I was so happy to find people still interested in and talking about it! And this has been an incredible podcast and I've had so much fun interacting with everyone especially once we opened the discord, but even when it was just commenting on here and back on twitter when I had it... :) I'm not that much of a fan of Chrono Cross (tbh it just doesn't hit the same way as a story for many reasons but then holding it up to Xenogears is too high of expectations~) but I hope to have something to contribute as we enter that season too, and I'm looking forward to it ;)
