Podcast for my family in 2000 years

10/24/2023

I started getting the idea to do something like this a couple years ago. I'm a fan of Chris D'elia's podcast. For him its part of his actual job, but he also gets the added benefit that he has all this regular content of himself that his kids or family members will be able to watch pretty much forever into the future. This also obviously applies to pretty much anyone whose profession or hobby includes recording/publicating some form of media.

But my profession does not include this.

I also coupled this with the idea that I am going to die and that if I were to die today, I'd leave behind pictures and videos and possessions, but there wouldn't really be any recorded conversations or something clear that just showed me as I am on a typical day and whatever happened to be on my mind on that particular day.

People used to not have anything of their ancestors - maybe just their names and graves. Then they had objects they could pass through generations. Then they had writings in the form of letters or journals. Then they had paintings and pictures. Then they had video tied to a physical device that could be lost or corrupted. Well we now live in the first time in history where I can record an arbitrarily long, high quality video of myself just talking to someone and store it and share it and have a high degree of confidence the video will make it far into the future.

So last year I started recording these with members of my family. Pictured above is my brother Pablo and below is my cousin Daniel. Currently I just have them stored on my laptop and uploaded as unlisted videos on youtube. I should probably have some other redundant system.

This project is currently in a hiatus because I am living in Spain and most of my family is not in Spain and also my audio equipment is not in Spain.

I dedicate these videos primarily to those farther into the future than I can see, secondarily to myself and those within the future that I can see, and tertiarily to my family in the present 🎁.