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Wayne D Rudderham's avatar

Thanks Justin for another year of wonderfully insightful posts. I, like others, enjoy the historical background to your posts.

My question is whether you will be making a New Year’s resolution to start a BE&S podcast in 2025. I would encourage you to consider. You and Jen Gerson did a great job years ago. Your recent collaboration with Paul Wells and Jen went well and was fun to watch. Hopefully, Santa brought you audio equipment. I am looking forward to 2025 and reading/hearing more in 2025.

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Justin Ling's avatar

Thanks Wayne, for your loyal subscribership.

I'd actually love to launch a proper BE&S podcast, but unfortunately there's a chasm between what I want to do and what I have the time/technical chops to achieve. I'm aiming to drop a new episode early in the new year that features a bunch of conversations I've had with Russian dissidents over the past year, similar to what I published after my trip to Columbia U this summer. (I.e. it'll be a bit rough around the edges but it'll sound like a real podcast.)

Beyond that, I had actually cooked up the idea to do a Substack Live with Wells and The Line folks even before Trudeau lost Freeland. Then all hell broke loose and we did an impromptu live: I thought that was quite fun. Expect more of that, and I aim to have more interesting Substackers on with me in the near future. (The one pain is that Substack Live currently only works on mobile, so I can't even use my proper audio gear!)

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