Comment for Gordon tribute episode
I feel like an old man for how long it took me to fucking get this to post but anyways....
Greg i really hope you see this! ! ! 😁😁😁
Hey man I've been listening to the show for a really long time! Probably close to 10 years. you can't go by my account, I think it says 7 but I had a different one before that. I lost the password or something. I simply get on here to say I think what you did for the tribute show for Gordon was fucking awesome dude. Not going to lie I might have teared up a little bit. I don't know what it's like to lose a friend like that who is so close to you but I can't imagine what you're going through so you doing this for him is just one of the I'm sure many things that you've done to show how much you care about the guy and I just think that's fucking amazing. We need a lot more of that in this world!! I forgot that I had an old episode that I wanted to go back and listen to q'd up for after the Gordon episode and it just automatically played, and it was the old theme song and so the main reason I'm commenting is just to say that you should totally bring it back! It was a fucking banger. Long before the AI generated stuff came in. but yeah you should at least throw it in one of the next episodes for your boy over here. 😜 it would be cool to hear it again for a nice throwback. I would bet money that a bunch of other listeners would totally agree! Anyways I guess I'm rambling a bit at this point. Like I said I just wanted to say, I love what you do man and I'm an avid listener I've never missed an episode in the last almost 10 years even when some of the topics aren't necessarily my favorite just because it's you, and you're really good at interviewing so you never know how you might be tying things together. I make sure not to miss them. You have certainly made factory work a lot more bearable!! I'll stop the rambling now but PLEASE keep doing what you do and take care of you and yours!
Yea I just wanted to say that I guess this finally prompted me to sign up for the membership which was long over due. I came to THC originally through the Rune Soup vector although I never meet or talked with Gordon nor was in his membership program. I first heard THC back in 2020 in those tremolduous times. My wife however talked to Gordon when she attempted to buy a signed copy of his .series book for me for our anniversary which i still have not read. Ultimately, he couldn't get one out due to the restrictions at that time, but my wife said he was really nice. I did, however, end up with an obscure text on geomancy which i need to read...another debt i need to repay i guess. I remember Gordon from back in the blogging days, and i loved the All Red Line series of emails, and i even remember pre-gaming before going out to the bar drinking homemade mead and watching Gordon's really terrible early videos before the podcast and doing magic as a terrrible dating strategy. When I learned of his passing it was through your podcast, Greg, and I was standing by a river working an odd-job, pretty fucking down on my luck. I imeadiately spent the entire day in shock walking through the woods. I do remember thinking tho - at least we know exactly what point we are on the timelime: it is at that point in the LOTR when Gandalf dies and everyone thinks he is actually dead. When i listended to the podcast on The War Mode, and you and Chris Knowles were on i knew where the discussion would lead imeadieatly. I couldn't help but think of that phrase "whereever two or more of you may meet, there too shall i be." I also remember Gordon from the podcast he did with Dan Palmer from The Making Permaculture Better podcast (another good one we lost) where Gordon talks about how he almost became an environmental engineer but fortunately his mother the psychonaut showed him what it would actually be like to be a stormwater engineer where you are literally just sizing pipes for parking lots. The funny thing is that is my actual job and i am an environmental engineer who designs pipes for parking lots. Gordon would have been a great environmental engineer if he had wanted to be and he had a gift for water. Just recently, a big engineering firm reached out to me and offered me a job, so naturally i accepted. Now I very strangely find myself very well employed and designing water systems for towns and businesses. Weird, right?
Thank you JB1226 for starting this thread and thank you Greg for giving us a place to share this.
