¬ just serendipity 🍀 (not just serendipity)

I’m a huge fan of podcasts. In this post I’ll be talking a little about how I got to know them.

I still remember when I first listened to a podcast. I had a Nokia E63 (Symbian 3rd Edition) smartphone, with its ~250MB of RAM and its QWERTY keyboard. Oh, it was so nice. I owned it for more than 2 years, until it got stolen. It was really cool to try to find .sys and .sysx apps for it, because the Ovi Store was such a crappy thing. It had an integrated podcast manager (podcatcher).

I always tried to explore almost all of the options from my devices, so I got curious about it and searched for a few podcasts. I was a soon-to-be linux fanboy, so I used the ’linux’ keyword and expected to find something. This is the first podcast I’ve ever listened to. Period. Oh, I couldn’t understand much of it—only a few words. My English listening wasn’t very good in those old days (~September/October 2012). I still watched some TV series with English subtitles at the time (nowadays I don’t). However, I still listened to it. I really enjoyed those three guys talking (Mark, Seth and Chris). And I still enjoy it—serendipity proves that searching for linux wasn’t a bad idea at all.

This podcast isn’t really about Linux. It’s more like “life in the context of linux”: the three friends (four, I include myself too!) talk about their everyday lives, happenings in their country, bacon hahahaha—and pretty much everything. It’s a nice way to get informed about the culture of the United States and to get updated about the adventures of the three friends (there are so many things they talk about, from their old devices to their family).

The first episode I referred to was episode #66. Now, there are about 160 episodes. I’ve listened to almost all of them—probably skipped one or another, but it’s definitely more than 250 hours with those guys. Pretty nice, huh? I’ll continue this new series later, with concise tips about podcasts, and tell you about other podcasts that I enjoy.