Working: A Working Farewell and What We’ve Learned

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🗓️ 8 September 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

This week, hosts June Thomas, Isaac Butler, and Ronald Young Jr. reflect on the best tips, tools, and words of wisdom from the past four years of Working. They bid farewell to the show, to the listeners, and discuss the lessons that stuck with them and changed the way they work. They also save time at the end to reply to some heartwarming listener emails. Past episodes that they mention include: How Choreographer Annie-B Parson Expresses Music Through Movement, Writer Oliver Burkeman on the Dangers of Obsessive Time Management, and How to Write Every Day and Stick to It. In recent years, Working has been hosted by June Thomas, Isaac Butler, Ronald Young Jr., Karen Han, Nate Chinen, Kristen Meinzer, TK Dutes, and Cameron Drews. Morgan Flannery was the founding producer of the most recent iteration of the show. Cameron Drews and Kevin Bendis have been the primary producers of both Working and Working Overtime. Please send comments, questions, tips about creative work, and feedback to working@slate.com, and thank you so much for listening! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to working. I'm your host, June Thomas.
0:12.8	And I am your other host, Isaac Butler.
0:15.3	And I am your other other host, Ronald Young Jr.
0:19.7	Isaac, Ronald, I am, as always, really glad to see you both, but I am also a little
0:25.9	sad to see you both because as a lot of listeners already know this is the
0:31.9	final episode of working.
0:33.4	But da da ba, ba da ba,
0:34.8	but a ma ba.
0:36.2	That's where I thought this was going and I assumed that Isaac was gonna do it.
0:39.6	Yeah, I really, I really fucked up you guys. I can't believe I missed an opportunity to
0:46.8	sing a dumb song into a microphone which I feel like is my trademark. You know
0:51.7	we've talked about this before we could make this a musical episode. This is our last chance. No, we did not we didn't. We didn't. Among other things, the songwriting team of Passick and Paul was too expensive. We put a bit out we said we have
1:05.0	$7.35 to spend on this and they said that will get you one measure of music. You get four counts of music out of it. Oh four counts. You can do a lot in four counts.
1:16.6	I mean if you just loop it and then one of us freestyle's over it. There you go. I've been ready. This is my moment.
1:27.6	You got your mole skin filled with verses. Yeah, mom spaghetti. I'm ready to go. Listeners, this is all the stuff we normally edit out that Cameron, maybe Cameron will edit it out again.
1:36.0	We're in suspense, we don't know.
1:39.0	But we should probably...
1:40.0	True senior right us over here, man.
1:41.0	Ooh boy.
1:42.0	It's like, it's like Joe Biden at 11.30 PM right now on this
1:46.3	podcast and on that note let's get to the actual meat of this episode.
1:51.6	All right it's our last episode,
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