title: Interviewed on Free as in Freedom
date: 2012-09-14 13:45
author: Christine Lemmer-Webber
slug: interviewed-on-faif
---
I'm extremely pleased to say that I was recorded on the [Free as in
Freedom](http://faif.us/) show and that episode is now out; you can
[listen to the episode here](http://faif.us/cast/2012/sep/14/0x31/).

In many ways this feels like a real honor. A few years ago when I had
just joined at Creative Commons I listened to [Mike
Linksvayer](http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/) speak as a [guest on the
show](https://www.softwarefreedom.org/podcast/2009/nov/10/0x1A/) (it was
called the Software Freedom Law Show back then, but it's mostly the same
thing) and I remembered thinking that that was the height of coolness.
Which, for one thing, I'm sure Mike will roll his eyes at that if he
reads this blogpost, and for another, shows just how incredibly off my
sense of what's cool is. (You know there's something wrong with you when
the height of your week is when a new episode of an [autogenerated fake
news podcast](http://www.x11r5.com/radio/) comes out.)

Anyway, maybe because of that, it was both a real honor to be on the
show, and also cause for me to be extremely nervous. I wasn't really
nervous before the recording, and wasn't really during or immediately
afterwards. But later after the recording happened I kept dwelling on a
few things I knew I could have answered better: I gave a totally derpy
answer as to why I got involved in free software partly because I was
trying to troll Bradley Kuhn for [not reading one of my
blogposts](http://dustycloud.org/blog/why-faif-games-matter) (why I got
involved in free software, and the question of how to get people
involved in free software today, which I have strong opinions on, are
posts maybe I'll make in the future). Also, my [copyleft
comic](http://dustycloud.org/gfx/goodies/copyleft_comic.txt) came up and
Bradley basically suggested that I describe it and I totally avoided
doing so, namely because I'm embarassed that it has the word
"freetarded" in it (I think the word that's based on is a harmful and
terrible one, but the comic text is partly based on some actual
conversations I've had, and the comic isn't funny when rewritten any
other way, as straw-man'ish as it is). And I finally also realized what
my friend [Asheesh](http://asheesh.org) meant when I complimented him on
an interview he was on and he said something like "I'm actually somewhat
surprised when people find the things I say interesting, because I've
been thinking them in my head so long that I just assume they sound
really obvious." (Not anywhere near an exact quote.) Also, we had just
moved, and I felt kind of tired, and I was worried that that may have
spilled through.

But I gave it a listen today, and I feel like the episode goes really
well from start to finish. Not too derpy after all. But obviously you
should [give it a listen and judge for
yourself](http://faif.us/cast/2012/sep/14/0x31/).

Also, my life has been jam-packed lately. I'm not sure I've ever had
such an intense number of things happen in a couple of months as I have
recently, and I'd like to write some of it down before I forget to it.
But as I mentioned in the podcast, I am neck deep preparing for the
MediaGoblin crowdfunding campaign because I am trying to figure out how
to be able to pay for myself to focus on MediaGoblin. So, a big "life
update" post is due soon. But probably not until this crazy month is
over!
