Season 2: The Teaser

>> Virgil Carroll: 0:28

Well, welcome back to discussing stupid, a podcast that calls out stupid digital practices you do? Well, truthfully, not you. More of a proverbial you. I'm Virgil Carroll. I'm the owner and principal human solutions architect at High Monkey, and with me today is.

>> Cole Schlotthauer: 0:46

Yeah. Hi, I'm Cole Schlotthauer. I'm a consultant with High Monkey, and I specialize in content strategy in UX, and I'm the newest voice here on the podcast, but I'm excited to be here.

>> Virgil Carroll: 0:56

Well, I appreciate you joining me, Cole, and helping me out with this. So, anyway, so let's get into it and talk a little bit.

>> Cole Schlotthauer: 1:02

About what? I think we should probably talk about it.

>> Virgil Carroll: 1:07

Talk about what?

>> Cole Schlotthauer: 1:10

Only the elephant in the room.

>> Virgil Carroll: 1:13

Where's an elephant in the room?

>> Cole Schlotthauer: 1:15

so the show's been off the air for five years?

>> Virgil Carroll: 1:19

Oh, yeah. I guess it has been a while. I suppose you want me to say something about that.

>> Cole Schlotthauer: 1:25

Preferably.

>> Virgil Carroll: 1:27

Okay, well, if I'm gonna have to say something about it, I'm gonna keep it simple. Life happens, a pandemic happened, and now we're at season two. How about we just move on?

>> Cole Schlotthauer: 1:39

Let's get on with it. All right, so what's gonna be different this time around?

>> Virgil Carroll: 1:44

When I did season one, I. I did more of an interview style, kind of longer episodes, 45 minutes to an hour, kind of talking with people, learning a lot of great stuff. but I kind of decided with season two, I wanted to do it a little bit different. I feel like, one, attention spans aren't what they used to be, and two, I feel like we need to get kind of narrower into something. So we're going to be doing shorter episodes, more like ten to 15 minutes episodes, where we talk about a very, very specific thing, like, you know, our first episode, which is going to be about alt text, and some of the good and bad practices around that and different things like that, where we really focus on something. And when people walk away from it, they actually have, some practical applications. They can use this, where they can take it back and use it in their own practices.

>> Cole Schlotthauer: 2:26

Sweet. Yeah. Let's run a clip from that first episode.

>> Virgil Carroll: 2:29

Well, that's a great idea, but I think something on top of that, especially in today's world now with AI being everything, people have really started relying on tech to kind of make this happen. And I think that's causing a lot of problems, because, sure, it can. It can read an image and it can kind of interpret it. But does that really help the end user. I mean, this is not a new problem.

>> Cole Schlotthauer: 2:56

So yeah, we're really digging into these bad practices and no area of the digital world is off limits. We'll be calling out bad practices everywhere from inclusive design to performance in SEO, business process and collaboration.

>> Virgil Carroll: 3:08

And don't forget content and search.

>> Cole Schlotthauer: 3:11

I was just saving the best for last. I might be a bit biased because that's why I studied in college, but.

>> Virgil Carroll: 3:17

Well, it's an important thing.

>> Cole Schlotthauer: 3:19

Indeed it is. But I think people might be curious here though. Virgil, are we sticking to audio podcasts only or going beyond that this season?

>> Virgil Carroll: 3:28

Yeah, no, that's a great question. We're actually going to look more at doing video podcasts. We think that's kind of the future and it'll be a great opportunity for us to give more examples and actually show things, bad practices and good practices. And I think that'll really be helpful, for people to be able to see that and kind of understand exactly what we're talking about.

>> Cole Schlotthauer: 3:46

But for like say, people who are only listening with audio, will that take away from their experience?

>> Virgil Carroll: 3:53

Well, I hope not. I mean, our plan is we'll have all that information in the show notes. So if we showed some type of demo, you know, screen share or something like that, we'll have a copy of the video in the show notes. If we're showing an image, if we're showing links or whatever it is, we'll show all those in the show notes and people could look at them afterwards. So we're really trying to give them the full experience. And while we're talking, we really want to kind of be very descriptive and not just sit there and say, hey, look at what I'm doing on the screen. Can't you tell this is happening?

>> Cole Schlotthauer: 4:24

Well, that being said, if you haven't already, be sure to subscribe to discussing stupid email updates on our website, www.discussingstupid.com to get the latest info on upcoming episodes, gain access to exclusive content, most importantly, be notified the moment a new episode drops, watch us on YouTube or listen to us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Soundcloud. We are excited to get this thing going. Thanks again for joining us.

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