Episode 131
Yuletide, Good Life, and Plans for 2024
I talk about the word, yuletide, the good life during the holidays, and my plans for the podcast.
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Show notes with links to articles, blog posts, products and services:
- Recorded live-stream on YouTube
- Viktigt på Riktigt, by Carin Coach (in Swedish)
- Yule log - Wikipedia
- What is Yule? - Almanac
- Yule - Wikipedia
- Yule festival - Britannica
- The World's Greatest, yet Unknown Philosopher (episode 76 of The Secular Foxhole podcast)
- Christmas Should Be More Commercial by Leonard Peikoff
- Can You Really Love a Dog?: Leonard Peikoff and Ayn Rand on Pets
- My tweet and Scott Holleran's reply
- Scott Holleran's Podcast: Thirty Years in the Press
- How to Use the Value for Value (V4V) Feature
- Substack: Podcasting. But better.
- Gus Van Horn's blog
- "Movie buff" (Cinephilia)
- Scott Holleran's tweet on Box Office Mojo
- EGO blog logo
- Blogger (blog service)
- The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z
- Tempest in a teapot
- Thor's hammer, Mjölnir
- Notes to self during the live-streaming of EGO NetCast.
Episode 131 (13 minutes) was recorded on December 25, 2023, by podcaster, Martin Lindeskog, with Boomcaster. Editing, post-production, and transcript with the podcast maker, Alitu. Notes to self written on Mod 1927 notecards. Bumper and jingle by Jim Jonsson, JTunes Productions.
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Transcript
You ego net cost.
Martin:Welcome to Ego Net cost live streaming and future episode one free 131 so I will do a
Martin:talk here about Yule Tide, a good life and future plans for 2024 and I will see here
Martin:starting out saying live on air YouTube.
Martin:Check that out.
Martin:Now I hear myself here and maybe that will get into the recording also and I did also promote
Martin:it and announce it on Facebook and Instagram Stories.
Martin:And my Facebook walls it a bit so I will try to do it pretty short and sweet here and I
Martin:have been bit under the weather here so I have a bit of a cough so I will drink some tea
Martin:here.
Martin:Cheers.
Martin:But I wanted to get back on track.
Martin:The latest episode 30 was with Maria Rubia,
Martin:artist, a music artist.
Martin:That was during the spring of this year as I
Martin:said.
Martin:And at the end talk about the plans for 2024.
Martin:Now I hear my voice here.
Martin:So I will try to get through on another
Martin:podcast in Swedish called Victit Borictit important for real and what's really important
Martin:could say with by Corin coach co host Corinne Blood, master certified coach.
Martin:She asked about the bonus material at the end of the episode explaining about the word yule
Martin:tide and in Swedish we call it yevl.
Martin:And in English nowadays it's often called
Martin:Christmas.
Martin:And I have a podcast together with my co host
Martin:Blair called the Secular Foxhole and I mentioned it to him a couple of times about
Martin:the importance to point out the meaning of a word and so on.
Martin:Now it's so used to say in English Christmas.
Martin:But if you're a so called non believer or
Martin:atheist or secular individual and you hear the word Christmas, you could respond a bit and
Martin:wonder about it.
Martin:Then it's important to know about the origin
Martin:and original source, the pagan source, and also how the tradition have been.
Martin:And you could say the battle of the word.
Martin:So I will include in the show notes about yule
Martin:and yule tide and the log that you put in the fireplace like a piece of wood, for example, a
Martin:tree, like a Christmas tree, joke about.
Martin:Now again, Christmas xmas.
Martin:So the jewel tide.
Martin:So I often like to say merry jewel tide in
Martin:English to my friends, english speaking friends.
Martin:And in Swedish it's jewel.
Martin:So where it's coming from, talking about
Martin:Christmas Xmas, I will include also in the show notes an article by Dr. Leonard Peakoff
Martin:talking about why it's important that Christmas is commercial.
Martin:And for me as a poor capitalist, air quotes here understand the value that it is a
Martin:commercial holiday.
Martin:And it's also holiday about celebrating end of
Martin:the year and then with religion, others trying to force other things upon us, then it is
Martin:important to understand this about commercialization and gift giving and
Martin:celebration and good times and so on.
Martin:So for myself, I will buy myself a gift here
Martin:during Tide, a book by Dr. Peekoff and read by.
Martin:I will take it as an audiobook on audible because I have credits there and it's about
Martin:pets and it's read by Jonathan Hernig and it's Dr. Peakoff and Ein like in mine, rand about
Martin:pets importance about pets.
Martin:And I'm a cat person and I know Dr. Peekoff
Martin:has a dog and also Jonathan Hernig has a dog.
Martin:So it'd be interesting to listen, read this
Martin:book and I got notification about that and I did a tweet or an x post as they say now,
Martin:Twitter is now called X. And there it was Scott Holleran that informed me about this new
Martin:book and he thanked Blair and myself, our work with the episode on Dr. Leonard Pico's
Martin:birthday.
Martin:So I will also include that in the show.
Martin:Note he also recently in the section here good life in his newsletter Autonomia that I
Martin:subscribe to.
Martin:I will talk about that in upcoming episodes.
Martin:Also about Substac and the subscription model and the value for value model and plans there
Martin:and how you could support fellow podcasters out there.
Martin:So he had done a podcast.
Martin:Substack has now a podcast feature, you could
Martin:say, because you could subscribe to the RSS feed and have it in different podcast apps,
Martin:not a Spotify app, but you could have it in Apple Podcasts, for example overcast and
Martin:others.
Martin:And if you know the RSS feed and you get it
Martin:from them from a substac where you subscribe to and you could do that.
Martin:So that was pretty neat.
Martin:And there he has posted an episode called 30
Martin:Years in the press.
Martin:And around 910 minutes into the episode, Scott
Martin:doing a shout out and mentioning my name and also fellow blogger Gus van Horn that we had
Martin:done nice work there with podcasting and blogging and thoughtful comments about his
Martin:work.
Martin:And it was very inspirational and thought
Martin:provoking to listen to his career and his take on movie reviews.
Martin:For the record, I am not a movie buff.
Martin:So Scott tolerance work with like as he
Martin:mentioned also box office Mojo.
Martin:And then he's at scottoleran.com and now on
Martin:Substac.
Martin:It's very valuable for me.
Martin:So to go to a source where it's reliable and giving you inspiration and giving you a list
Martin:for upcoming views of a movie, going to a theater or renting it or watching it,
Martin:streaming it online, so on.
Martin:So I will check out that for next year his
Martin:recommendation recommendations again and see what I could watch for during next year.
Martin:So I will see here the time around 910 minutes.
Martin:I will try to have it within 15 minutes.
Martin:I will take another sip of tea here.
Martin:Cheers.
Martin:My plans for 2024 and I will do to joke here I
Martin:will do unbothering my Christmas shirt, you could say.
Martin:And under it I have a t shirt and that's like related to and here it's saying ego blog
Martin:egoist blogspot.com that was my first blog in 2002 on Google's blog platform.
Martin:But back in the day it was owned by a small private company and I was a premium customer
Martin:there on blog spot blogger.
Martin:So my plan is to update that blog bit more and
Martin:then I have a plan to like a daily short reading from Iran Lexicon, both words,
Martin:concepts, philosophical ideas.
Martin:Doing that every day.
Martin:And then over a year it will be then several hundreds of short episodes.
Martin:So being podcasting my first podcast since 2006.
Martin:Then it will come up in an amount that if I would done it on a regular basis as a new
Martin:media advisor, that will catch on maybe and also for search engine optimization, but also
Martin:giving me some maybe new contacts, interests.
Martin:One thing could lead to another.
Martin:For example, podcast the secular foxhole with my co host Blair.
Martin:That's one thing that I'm planning.
Martin:And also continue with this to play with words
Martin:tempest in a teapot or tours thunder.
Martin:Now I will showing here on the video on camera
Martin:play Toy plastic tour marvel.
Martin:I think it's called Hammer Mjolnir name of
Martin:Hammer Tors hammer.
Martin:So I will use this on Thursdays and doing some
Martin:ventilating about an issue, a topic.
Martin:It could be politics, it could be in the news,
Martin:et cetera.
Martin:And then ask if it's really an important issue
Martin:or is it a tempest in a teapot or storm in a teacup?
Martin:In Swedish you say storm in a water glass.
Martin:So with that, thanks for watching here live
Martin:and then in replay when it's recorded.
Martin:And then this episode one free 131 will be
Martin:editing now during day by yours truly and then post production and show notes.
Martin:And then I will publish it on a podcast hosting place captivate during the day.
Martin:So with that I will say Cheerio and talk to you soon again.
Martin:Bye for now.
Martin:Cheers.
Martin:Here I will show my notes for this episode.
Martin:Pencil.
Martin:I will do a photo on Instagram promoting this upcoming episode.
Martin:Bye for now.
EGO:Ego net cause close.