Gishgallop Girl - Update - Episode 40 Coming Soon
Aired: 2025-10-25
Duration: 09:12


=== Update Episode Marker (09:11) ===

[00:00:01]  Hey everybody, so this is an update episode as you can probably see in the title there.
[00:00:07]  We have had an interesting few weeks since the last episode, and I just wanted to give everybody a little bit of an update and kind of post this up as a just kind of a marker.
[00:00:20]  Yes, I am currently driving right now.
[00:00:23]  Hands free, don't worry.
[00:00:25]  Anyway, yeah, so I wanted to post this up as kind of just a little marker.
[00:00:31]  Just so the podcast itself doesn't get tossed off of any platforms for not, you know, putting anything out in a while, which I understand is fair, but it's one of the one or two of the distribution channels that we have for the show.
[00:00:54]  If you don't produce content within a certain time frame, they will list your show as being inactive, which, again, fair, but you know, there are some podcasts that I listen to, such as Hardcore History, where Dan on Hardcore History sometimes won't produce an episode for fucking months.
[00:01:19]  I can't even remember the last time I saw a new episode in that feed.
[00:01:25]  But the podcast app that I use for most of my stuff, Podcast Addict, they can go back several years on shows.
[00:01:35]  So yeah, I'm never really worried about that personally.
[00:01:38]  But for people that keep up with this show via other channels, I wanted to just post something up here.
[00:01:44]  And now I will get to what I wanted to talk about, which is the length of time it's taking for me to make the next episode, episode 40.
[00:01:55]  I am nearly done with the script research, but it has been a nightmare on top of my job, for instance, has been, I guess lowball is the best way to describe it.
[00:02:16]  And I understand the world is not normal right now.
[00:02:19]  The United States is not fucking normal right now.
[00:02:23]  And I do have a number, I have a large number of great people that I serve on a regular basis.
[00:02:31]  But a lot of them, either their money or their lives, I know, are tied up in government-based shit.
[00:02:39]  And since we've had a government shutdown since basically the beginning of October, you know, they've curtailed their spending, a lot of them.
[00:02:49]  Some have gone on vacation, which is actually pretty common.
[00:02:54]  And others, while they're spending the same, they're not tipping quite as much.
[00:02:59]  So I'm having to work harder and longer than I usually do in a day.
[00:03:04]  And, you know, after a day of juggling work responsibilities and just all the things that a normal person deals with, yeah, I've had to, I get home and I've got maybe a couple of hours until I go to sleep.
[00:03:21]  And I either just don't have it in me to do the show or I only have it in me to do a shorter amount of the work that I usually will put into it.
[00:03:30]  Typically any given night, I may be home at six or seven o'clock and I start working on the show.
[00:03:38]  After I get home, say hello to everybody and we all catch up on the day.
[00:03:43]  I'll set up my writing studio and just go for it, you know.
[00:03:49]  But the other bit to that is this episode, this next episode is on the MMR vaccine.
[00:04:02]  It has taken me way more time to push back on Candace's various bullshit in this one than I have, than I usually have to do.
[00:04:14]  Typically, you know, regular listeners to the show, you'll know that sometimes I can let a clip go for three, four, five, as long as like, I think seven minutes and change is the longest clip we've ever played on the show, you know, and then I get to push back on, okay, well, actually, this, this, and this, you know, and just kind of go through it.
[00:04:38]  That has not been the case with this one.
[00:04:42]  This has been an absolute monster of an episode in that if you cut off the intro and the outro, you know, which I've explained why I do that in previous episodes.
[00:04:53]  If you cut off the intro and the outro, you're left with a 45-minute episode.
[00:05:00]  I have had to either cut clips that are 30 seconds or one minute long because what she said requires so much pushback and explanation, I feel, as to why it's wrong, that it has really dragged down, you know, the time that it takes me to go through a typical episode of this stuff.
[00:05:24]  You know, because I don't just want to kick something out.
[00:05:27]  Like, I like to be proud of my work when I'm done.
[00:05:30]  You know, free show or not, I'm doing this as, you know, a It's kind of, it kind of feels self-serving in a way.
[00:05:43]  Because I'm doing this because I listen to it and I go, no, no, what the fuck?
[00:05:47]  No.
[00:05:48]  You know, and then I go back and I research and I find out that, you know, in a lot of times, not only is she wrong, but she's wrong for reasons that I did not know at the time.
[00:05:59]  And I like to share that.
[00:06:02]  You know, I like to share what I've come across, you know, what I'm, what kind of rabbit hole I went down to find this out and to provide, of course, the evidentiary-based links in the ever-growing link stack on this one.
[00:06:18]  So, yeah, it's taken me more time than I'm comfortable with, but I am comfortable with the work that I've done up to this point.
[00:06:28]  All of that said, I'm not sure if I mentioned this, you know, a couple minutes ago or not, but I have gotten that 45 minutes whittled down to eight minutes.
[00:06:41]  And the last time I listened to the full episode was of hers was about, yeah, nearly a month ago at this point.
[00:06:52]  So, yeah, it is all being worked on.
[00:06:55]  It is all being handled.
[00:06:58]  And I will hopefully have it done.
[00:07:03]  I want to say this week.
[00:07:05]  I'm really shooting for getting it done over the next couple of days.
[00:07:08]  I couldn't work on it last night.
[00:07:10]  I got home around 11 p.m.
[00:07:11]  And I was just, I was tired.
[00:07:14]  You know, I was tired.
[00:07:15]  I wasn't, wasn't staying up to jump down any stupid conspiracy theory, bullshit, vaccine rabbit holes.
[00:07:22]  Not last night.
[00:07:26]  So yeah, I just wanted to let everybody know episode 40 is being worked on.
[00:07:31]  We're going to arrange our recording schedule for this coming week.
[00:07:36]  So, you know, expect the typical pushout somewhere between Wednesday and Friday of next week.
[00:07:44]  And hopefully episode 15, I'll be able to get through it a lot easier, I hope.
[00:07:50]  I really hope this government shutdown, you know, stops at some point soon.
[00:07:57]  Because it's, you know, it's affecting the very real people that I serve on a regular basis that I enjoy serving.
[00:08:03]  A lot of my customers are great.
[00:08:06]  You know.
[00:08:07]  And they don't deserve this shit.
[00:08:13]  I'm way out here on the far end of like, yeah, I need them to keep ordering groceries and pay for the convenience that I provide, you know, and tip me decently.
[00:08:24]  Kind of feels, you know, like a pig, but I got to eat too.
[00:08:30]  You know, I got to eat too.
[00:08:32]  I got to pay my own fucking bills.
[00:08:36]  So yeah, I'm going to leave y'all with that.
[00:08:40]  Started raining here.
[00:08:42]  I'm driving.
[00:08:45]  We are racing for winter.
[00:08:47]  Winter is coming to the Twin Cities Metro.
[00:08:52]  Yeah.
[00:08:54]  Okay, everybody.
[00:08:55]  That's it.
[00:08:56]  I feel like I've said enough.
[00:08:58]  I don't want to belabor the point anymore.
[00:09:00]  But y'all have a good weekend.
[00:09:03]  And you should be seeing our next episode in your podcast feeds late next week, as usual.
[00:09:11]  All right, everybody.
[00:09:12]  Be safe.