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First some follow-up about National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada, then some topic ideas crowdsourced on social media, and then I riff off a Buttondown blog post, “What We Lost When We Lost Comments,” and talk about why I'm pro-comments on blogs and the internet in general.

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00:00 Dailyish Intro
00:14 Follow Up
01:44 Crowdsourcing Episode Ideas
03:08 What We Lost With Comments
03:48 Why Comments Matter
05:25 Buttondown Comment Features
05:48 How To Reach Me
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Chris
I edit podcasts so you don't have to. I live in Saskatchewan so you don't have to?

What is Daily(ish)?

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

Chris: Hello and welcome to Dailies
for Friday, October 2nd, 2026.

I'm attempting to record an episode every
day for this, my 50th year on the planet.

First of all, a bit of follow-up to
the National Truth and Reconciliation

Day episode I did a couple days
ago, from my wife who was listening

and sent me in a message from the
car, uh, voice text, obviously.

Uh, "Follow up on National
Truth and Reconciliation Day.

In many provinces here in Canada, they
have actually made it a statutory holiday.

It's actually Saskatchewan that
has chosen not to make it a

statutory holiday, so federally it's
des-designated as a federal holiday.

I believe it's also any provincial
government workers that get it off.

That's why our schools are closed,
however, because it costs businesses

money to have a statutory holiday because
they have to pay workers for it, and our

provincial government is pro-business
and don't really care about honoring

the vulnerable people of our world or
even being compassionate towards them."

So that's my opinion, her
opinion, on why they haven't

made it a statutory holiday yet.

So that's why businesses remain
open and business as normal goes on

for most organizations, but schools
are closed and so everyone has to

figure out what to do with childcare.

So there you go.

I appreciate the follow-up
and, uh, clarification,

correction sort of, I guess.

I don't know if I got it wrong,
I just didn't really know.

But, uh, either way, I agree with
her assessment that, uh, because

businesses would have to pay for it,
and it's also because the indigenous

people here in, in Saskatchewan are
sort of tokenized when it's helpful,

and when it's not and inconvenient,
then it's not really worth doing.

And so that's why things like National
Day for Truth and Reconciliation is

not something that the Saskatchewan
government, which leans pretty

heavily conservative, decided
not to partake in that directly.

I was searching for a topic for the
episode, and I'd even put it out

onto social media to get some ideas

Steven Gary said, "Try recording without
planning anything," which I appreciate the

idea that I do a lot of planning for this.

Dave Roberts says, "Skip it, and then your
next episode is what you did while you

were skipping it," which would probably be
just waiting for my dog to finish barking

Stephen had a follow-up suggestion of
doing what TV shows do when they run out

of ideas, either a musical episode or
historical period piece episode, and I

thought maybe a recap episode would be
appropriate at some point On YouTube you

can see Neville's pouting here 'cause
he got thrown in the crate here in my

office Brett said low energy video
games that aren't Fortnite, which, uh,

I think I mentioned Pass the Dutchie or
Dutchie something, whatever it was called,

which I've been playing a little bit.

Uh, and then, uh, Mini Motorways
actually on iOS, uh, in particular,

and then on Mac too I have done.

I did a little bit of a…

I'd actually did a live stream
of playing Mini Motorways one day

just, and got a bunch of views on
my gaming channel for some reason.

I guess maybe that one's
more popular than I thought.

VoidandCozy said, "I think we need
to have a serious conversation

about coffee and coffee machines."

I agree.

I am, uh, nervous to do that because
all I know it'll be expensive.

Over on Threads, uh, @ @durga.kub

replied with swords.

So talking about swords,
which I don't know much about.

That could be maybe something I could have
my brother-in-law Chris on to talk about.

Uh, I could talk about my favorite
jackets and where I wore it.

I'm too-- It's too soon to talk
about jackets in Saskatchewan.

I-- S- Winter is coming, uh,
and I don't wanna talk about

it any more than I have to.

And on Bluesky, at Stella replied with
how to s- find a subject for a podcast,

which is kinda what I'm doing, showing my
work, crowdsourcing But then I, uh, came

across this article that I'll link to, uh,
from the actual Buttondown's blog, the app

that I use for my newsletter, my weekly
newsletter, buttondown.com/lemondcast,

Buttondown.com/lemoncasting.

the title of it is "What We
Lost When We Lost Comments,"

and it's by Matthew Gay, Gay?

I'm not sure how to
pronounce his last name.

But, uh, anyways, he just sort
of walks through the history

of comments on the internet.

Not so much YouTube comments,
but blogs and websites and how it

was really popular, and then they
obviously got really toxic, and then

they took them away, and they're kind
of making a comeback on websites.

And I just wanted to, I guess, thumbs up,
like, whatever, share that idea that, I

think comments are awesome as far as…

And I always look forward to comments
I get, whether it's on, on all the

things I, I do, whether it's YouTube,
my blog, even posting on social media.

Uh, I really value and appreciate
someone taking the time to respond, even

if sometimes it escapes containment,
as they say, and, people who are

outside of my sphere, c- reply and
don't always take into account or

understand the context behind something.

I still think it's kind of interesting
when an idea or a thought or a blog

post or a podcast episode resonates
and goes further than I ever

intended it to, and seeing how that
bounces off other people's brains.

And so a bit like what I said in the
podcast, uh, International Podcast

Day episode, podcasters or bloggers,
if they have comments enabled,

I think always appreciate that.

Um, I'm lucky in that, uh, none of,
none of my stuff is big enough that

I would be generating comments from
massive amounts of people, and so

getting two to five, whatever comments
or replies to something that I put out

into the world is pretty easy to manage.

So I can understand for some blogs and
some sites where, you know, maybe you

have an audience of thousands and you
get 50 comments on a thing, obviously

it's hard to keep up with that.

But I know especially on my YouTube
channel over the years, I've really

appreciated when folks ask follow-up
questions to tutorials I've done

or, uh, ask for specific versions
of, you know, a variation of what

I've done or help with their thing.

'Cause it…

Not only does it show that other people
are watching and viewing and, and are

reading what you're putting out there,
but also it helps generate ideas for

future episodes or videos or blog posts
to get comments and questions from folks

who are reading and following along.

So I'm very pro-comments

So I just appreciated Buttondown's
approach to enabling comments.

It's just on their archive pages, so
I don't, uh, and on paid accounts,

and so I don't pay for my…

I'm not big enough on Buttondown
to have to pay for an account

there yet, luckily, I guess.

And so, um, there isn't
comments on my newsletter posts.

But, I think it's cool that they are
enabling that and helping creators

who write newsletters have comments
if they want on their archive pages.

Speaking of comments, feel free to
reply to this post on social media,

in the comments on YouTube where
you might be watching this, or you

can email me at chris.enns@gmail.com

If you have emailed and I haven't
gotten it, it's 'cause it got s-

slapped, hit, whatever, collected
by spam, and I haven't seen it.

So reply somewhere else
maybe, and just let me know.

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Have a great day.

Bye.