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Friends,
Against Everyone with Conner Habib is eight years old today!

Not many media projects last for eight years or make it up to nearly 300 episodes at this point.  To celebrate, I talk here about conversation; what it means to all of us.

And I’ve included my first episode. Clumsy, personal, filled with insecurity and uncertainty. 

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I loved podcasts but was wary of calling myself a podcaster. 

It was, after all, another job that people found dismissible, stupid, because they did an aspect of it in their own lives.

We all do some something like podcasting, of course. We talk, we talk with other people, in front of other people Our conversations are witnessed and sometimes have value to those who aren’t speaking, but merely listening in.

I’d been a porn star and everyone, well, most everyone has sex. I wanted to be a writer and everyone, or almost everyone writes. Anyone can do that, people think.

Unlike being a welder or a plumber, an accountant or a pilot, the substance of everything I’ve ever wanted to do is shared by others. 

Conversation, sex, and the youngest of the three, writing, are all free, all available to all of us at some pointing our lives – all part of the commonwealth, the well we draw on to live, to be human.

So I realized what I wanted to do with this podcast, as with everything, was take a part of the commons, part of what is available to everyone, and to elevate it somehow.

If I could somehow do what everyone does: talk, take an interest, meet people and think with them out loud, maybe I could help enrich the commons itself.

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If I asked you if conversation had changed your life, you’d probably say yes. 

A conversation that set you down a career path, or a new place to move to.

An argument that went haywire and ended your relationship. A flirtation that led to the great love of your life.

But we forget, too, that other people’s conversations change our lives.

Hopefully, something I and my guests have offered in the past eight years has — if not changed your life — changed your perspective, your mood, your understanding, your direction… even if just for a day or a moment.

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Want to watch the first episode on video? Here it is!