Okay, welcome to the Other People podcast. I'm Brad Listy. I'm your host. It is Sunday. There's a Sunday episode this week. There's something happening here on The Other People Show. I'm very excited about it. I am launching today a brand new series on the podcast. It's a bit of an experiment,

and it is something that I have wanted to do on this show for a long time, and I finally got it together.

I'm finally doing it. The series is called character studies. And in this new series,

which I think is going to be happening on Sundays, maybe not every Sunday, but on Sundays,

there will be character study episodes in which I will be interviewing civilians,

which is to say, these are not authors, these are not

journalists, these are not media figures of any kind, these are people who have nothing to

promote, and they are appearing on this program anonymously. I'm interested in just talking to people who don't have any kind of agenda other than to share

their stories, and I think that it's useful to hear these stories.

If you're a writer and you're listening to this show, these episodes might provide insight

into the hearts and

minds and lives of people to whom you would otherwise not have access. And, you know, if I'm thinking

about the origins of this show and the name of this show, you know, it's called the Other People

podcast, which is a bit of an odd name choice and in the

beginning i didn't think too much about it i was just like oh i'm going to be talking to other people

but i think if i go back even further i remember making a joke about wanting to start a magazine

called other people magazine as opposed to People magazine.

This is years ago.

And I wanted to, uh, the joke was that it would just be about people who would normally never show up in a magazine for any reason.

And this is kind of the realization of that vision, you know, albeit in a

different media, or medium, I should say, but I'm very excited about it. And so far I have conducted

several of these interviews, and they have exceeded my expectations.

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