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In today’s Mailbag Monday episode, I share some listener feedback, including thoughtful YouTube conversations about my Marvel movie comments and several notes from people who enjoyed yesterday’s more casual outdoor recording.

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00:00 Welcome and Format
00:18 Mailbag Monday Setup
00:35 Outdoor Episode Feedback
01:32 Office Background Plans
02:12 Tangible Work Reflections
03:20 Podcast Studio Follow Up
04:04 Supporters and Patreon
04:43 Thanks and Sign Off

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What is Daily(ish)?

Challenging myself to record a podcast episode a day for my 50th year on this planet.

Speaker: Hello, and welcome to
Daily-ish for Monday, October 5th, 2026.

I am attempting to record an
episode of this podcast every day

on my 50th year of this planet.

No, that didn't…

Something didn't come out right
there, but you know what I meant.

All right, mailbag Monday episode,
going through some comments

and some replies and feedback.

I was thinking the YouTube comments,
uh, kind of like feel like a bit

of a self-contained thing 'cause
they're on the episode page.

Other listeners, viewers,
whatever, can see them there.

It feels a little more like
a, a conversation that's

already happened there.

So I, I won't necessarily always pull in
YouTube comments, but there's some good

conversations about the, Marvel movie
feedback as well as, uh, folks there as

well as elsewhere gave some good feedback
about liking la- yesterday's or last…

Yesterday?

Yeah, yesterday's episode, doing
a more casual recording outside,

which is good, and I'm glad that the
slightly more relaxed, less official…

Although it's actually more work when I
don't do it this way, the sort of what

feels like a more official version in my
office, uh, with my mic and camera and

stuff, is actually easier on a technical
level than trying to do the outdoor one or

non-desk one anyways, uh, for reasons that
are, have everything to do with me being

picky about how I put the things out.

But, I can streamline that
a bit, uh, as I work on it.

But also winter is coming, and
so outdoors will not be very

favorable in the near future.

But we'll try and do them every so often
just to give it a little bit of a visual,

variety than just this boring office.

I also do hope, I'm not promising, but
I hope that I'm able to improve this

office a bit, not just for this because
of this podcast, although this is a good

motivator, uh, more for just myself.

It's been kind of in this state, and
you can't see even the other half of

the office, which is right behind,
like just right there is a wall

But, uh, just some stuff to hang up still.

I, I always kind of feel like it's not
quite right, and so I, I'm reluctant to

settle into this being the arrangement.

I'm hopeful that over this winter
I can do a bit of prettying up of

the background and, and things yeah,
make it just nicer both for myself

most of the time, but also for folks
who are watching the YouTube version

And I know nobody was
criticizing the office.

It was just kind of a nice change of
scenery to be outside, and I agree

Listener, uh, Nicholas mentioned in a
Discord, I mean, on tangible work, there's

very little he can point to, which is sad.

First 10 years was all disks shipped
to contract sponsors that aren't

even referenced on the internet much.

Current job has the documentation
history online, but much of the code

I wrote eight to 10 years ago is
being retired for the better, and

no one would ever see it anyway.

It's kind of weird.

And Haroldina said, uh, "I literally
make tangible objects for a living,

and so few of them are ever seen or
touched by people outside of the company.

He does bring some scrap
parts home to show off."

I think what was helpful with that
feedback is just kind of a reminder, even

for myself, of how many jobs really aren't
actually tangible things you can show

off or, or even just be proud of sitting
on a shelf or knowing that they went to

someone's home or whatever that you made.

Much of what we do, we all are involved
in work-wise, is either very temporary

in the digital sense or just even in
the world sense of like it's gonna

be replaced in some point, in some
form or another I think it's the,

the grass is always greener on the
other side idea, like I mentioned

in that episode where I was talking
about digital versus real world, work.

seeing it more favorably in
hindsight than it was in reality

And a bit of follow-up on that
episode, I did look into it.

There is actually a place in
Saskatoon here that does have a

podcast sort of studio rental space.

It's a bit, like, clinical-looking
and kind of like enterprise-y, I

don't know, environment, so not
like fun YouTube show necessarily.

I can't say for sure just based
off the website obviously how

successful or not it is for them.

So I haven't done too much more deeper
research on that locally here, but just

doing a bit of looking and googling and
kind of basic sort of napkin scratchings,

it feels like probably not a huge
opportunity there locally unless there's

a lot of effort put behind marketing it
and advertising and just making awareness

around that idea of as, as a thing that
people can do All right, on Mondays as

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