Audio Bonus Content #27 - Commentary for "Monsters"
The Once And Future Nerd
Glass & Madera
4.8 • 768 Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2020
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Today’s Bonus Content is something new we tried recording, back in late April (i.e. approximately 7000 years ago). Several of us recorded a commentary track for Book 1, Chapter 4 – “Monsters,” released all the way back in the spring of 2014.
It also includes a message that we think you should hear.
CONTENT NOTES for the first 8 minutes or so: police violence, racial violence, victims of hate crimes, white supremacy, and police violence.
The transcript for this episode can be found here. And the original script for “Monsters” can be found here.
Announcements for this week:
- https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/
- On June 19, Bandcamp will be donating all proceeds from record sales to the NAACP legal defense fund, and we’ll be doing the same. For any song you buy from our Bandcamp on that day, we’ll donate the proceeds.
- If you’re Black and starting out in Podcasting or VFX, our director/co-creator (@Ctmadera) is offering some free services. Details in this tweet.
Shout-outs from the Commentary:
- The Notice Blog on YouTube
- Recent Cutbacks on YouTube
- Can You Violate The Geneva Conventions? on Twitter
Our sponsor this week is Shaker & Spoon, a subscription service for making craft cocktails at home. Get $20 off your first box at shakerandspoon.com/toafn!
We plan to be back with more bonus content on June 28. Hope to see you then.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, lately, you might have seen a bunch of your favorite podcasts doing a blackout where they replaced a regular episode on their feed completely with a message like the one you're about to hear. |
| 0:13.4 | We decided that because until two weeks ago, we'd been doing kind of an unintentional several-month blackout by just not releasing episodes. |
| 0:25.3 | Ultimately, this message was going to reach the most possible ears if we put it at the head of an episode. |
| 0:33.3 | In the coming weeks and months, we're hoping to feature more and more work by black creators |
| 0:37.9 | on our regular feed. We've also been trying to signal boost podcasts and other works of fiction |
| 0:44.1 | by black creators on our Twitter feed, but we also encourage you to seek them out on your own. |
| 0:49.9 | There is no shortage. Also, if you are a black creator who's starting out, I, Christian, am offering some services for free that I would normally charge for for you. |
| 1:00.4 | If you think you might benefit from any of my experience making this podcast or working professionally in visual effects, you can find out more on my personal Twitter at C.T. Medera. All the details are in |
| 1:12.8 | my pinned tweet. Until then, we are taking a message from HeartLife NFP, which they in turn took |
| 1:19.1 | from the example and words of Black Lives Matter Chicago. Oh, and if you are black, brown, or |
| 1:24.5 | indigenous, and you don't want to relive all of this again, feel free |
| 1:28.6 | to skip ahead to about eight minutes or so for today's actual episode. But if you are not |
| 1:34.9 | black, brown, or indigenous, and especially if you are white, we really, really, really want |
| 1:40.2 | to encourage you to stick around for this and just sit through your discomfort. |
| 1:46.1 | We call for an end to the state violence against and criminalization of black communities |
| 1:51.4 | through police forces, an unjust legal system, and federal, state, and local political organizations. |
| 1:58.0 | As the artists behind the once-in-future nerd, we call on our fellow art makers in |
| 2:03.3 | positions of institutional power and privilege to take concrete actions to make your institutions |
| 2:09.0 | and artistic work explicitly and actively anti-racist. We affirm our commitment to do the same here. |
| 2:16.5 | We will interrogate ourselves when we have fallen |
| 2:18.8 | short of this goal and recommit to do better every time. The United States is a country founded on |
| 2:25.7 | land stolen from indigenous peoples built with the stolen labor and lives of enslaved black people. |
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