Conversations with My Night Brain

Welcome to Conversations with, uh,
with Conversations with My Night Brain.

Yeah, that's the name of the show.

Conversations With My Night
Brain, with Chris Enns.

I'm Chris Enns and this is a conversation
I sort of had with my night brain.

It's one that, uh, as I've put out a bit
of a feeler thing to, uh, a community

to see if anybody wants to be a beta
tester for being a guest on the show.

Uh, response that I kind of thought
would probably happen, and it might

be sort of a limitation or a hindrance
for the idea that I have for this

show is, uh, someone's response was
that the things that actually keep

them up at night are probably too
personal to have out in the world.

And, and or combined with maybe
thinking that their topic, their,

their thing is, or things are not
that interesting, more boring.

Probably one of the flaws in my show
design, uh, is that the things that

keep us up at night often are the
things that we don't want to talk to

the world about necessarily, which is
why they're keeping us up at night.

And there's this weird thing where
for some people, they seem to like.

Breakthrough.

I noticed this a lot with certain bloggers
back in the day, but even more so now

with on Instagram influencer types and
Twitter people's, whatever, where some

people seem to sort of, whether it's
just maybe the appearance that they do

this well, but they seem to transcend the
idea that what they talk about in their.

Or what happens in their personal life
can be shared publicly and the people

in their personal life are also a along
for the ride and seemingly okay with it.

But I can't imagine
that's always the case.

And I'm sure we all have horror
stories or have heard horror stories

of people who've overshared on
social media or blogs or podcast or

YouTube channel or whatever, and.

Their friends or family around them
who are drawn into this world that

they didn't know they were a part of,
or publicly, uh, shamed or otherwise,

uh, you know, are similarly, uh,
frustrated with them or worse.

So that's definitely a
hard balance to walk.

Um, I do feel like a podcast, especially
if it's a longer form conversation

podcast, like what this aims to be.

There's a certain amount of
like, uh, anonymity in terms

of just the length of the show.

Someone can't just copy and
paste a quick text or it doesn't

necessarily come up with a quick
Google search, what someone said.

Podcasts tend to be, uh, there's
obviously exceptions to this, but tend

to be more, the content is buried deep.

It's even harder to sort of surface that.

It's just the nature of podcast and what
it struggles with podcasts is sharing

good content from within a show that other
people would want to hear, unlike you

on YouTube where it's just, you know, it
might be a three hour long video, but it's

pretty easy to scrub to two minutes and
30 seconds or whatever the timeline is,

and see and hear the thing that's funnier,
uh, weird or insulting or offensive, or.

But yes, it's definitely good to exercise
caution in what you put out onto the

internet and the people I would be
reaching out to at this point right

now are not like living their lives out
in public, on the internet, in great,

uh, displays of everything going on.

And so, um, by that very nature, it's also
what makes it them interesting to me to

want to talk to because there isn't, as,
Public life on display, on the internet.

Um, so it's sort of that catch 22 and
of course to anybody considering it

who's listening to this right now, uh,
whether it's in the future and I've got

the show going, or we're talking about
just the beta testing idea of the show.

Um, just remember that it's not
recorded live in the sense that

somebody is listening to the recording.

And you have ultimate vito power over
the show actually ever being published.

And obviously, um, I am very okay
with the idea that we might have a

conversation, we'll record it, I'll
even send it back to you or even before

we, I send it back to you, you think,
shoot, that is not a good thing for

me to, to say publicly in any form.

And if that very, the very conversation
that we have on about your night brain

conversations previously becomes the new
thing that you have keeps you up at night.

Obviously that's not
something I want to do.

So definitely any recording,
any conversation that's had

around this idea or is it part
of a test of this, this podcast,

um, you have ultimate veto power and,
and even to the point I think at this

point anyways, I don't know, we'll see
what happens down the road, I guess.

But even if something's published
and then all of a sudden things start

happening that you didn't anticipate,
I'm totally fine with pulling an episode.

This is not that serious.

This is not money.

This is just for interest and hobby
and, uh, just keeping up with the, my

own podcasting skills and awareness of
what it's like to be on this side of the

microphone, not just on the editing side.

So, again, as you're listening to
this, if that interests you, if you

wanna be a part of this, uh, just send
me a message wherever you can reach

me if you know how to reach me, and
I'll send you the invite and details

and we can get something scheduled.

So this has been a episode of
Conversations with My Night Brain,

meta Behind the Scenes edition
for Thursday, April 13th, 2023.

Thanks for listening.