WEBVTT - Introducing The Tortoise 0:00:02.040 --> 0:00:09.760 Welcome to the tortoise. A podcast that digs deep. Into 0:00:09.760 --> 0:00:13.090 the power of slow. I am Brooke McAlary and I 0:00:13.090 --> 0:00:15.190 am joined by my husband, Ben McAlary. 0:00:16.690 --> 0:00:25.220 It's not a podcast. It's a podcast. So what's the 0:00:25.220 --> 0:00:26.660 tortoise going to be all about? 0:00:26.690 --> 0:00:32.120 Well, it's about slow, but it's a much more expansive idea. 0:00:32.120 --> 0:00:36.110 Or look at what slow is in the world. You know, 0:00:36.110 --> 0:00:38.479 when we first started the Slow Home podcast, it was 0:00:38.479 --> 0:00:44.240 really about home and, you know, self development, self awareness 0:00:44.240 --> 0:00:48.260 and what slow living could do individually and in a 0:00:48.260 --> 0:00:50.750 closer sense. And it grew over time. And I think 0:00:50.750 --> 0:00:54.950 we tried to make it expansive, but the idea of 0:00:54.950 --> 0:00:57.890 it being about the home somehow felt like it kind 0:00:57.890 --> 0:01:00.920 of put walls around what slow could be in the 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:04.580 conversations we were having. And when it became clear that 0:01:04.580 --> 0:01:08.270 the slow HomePod was coming to its natural end, we 0:01:08.270 --> 0:01:10.310 didn't want to finish podcasting and we didn't want to 0:01:10.310 --> 0:01:14.150 finish talking about slow, but we were looking for some 0:01:14.150 --> 0:01:16.970 different kind of way in. And that's what the tortoise 0:01:16.970 --> 0:01:18.800 is going to be because you think about what a 0:01:18.800 --> 0:01:24.800 tortoise is, it's slow, but it's intentional, it's powerful, and 0:01:24.800 --> 0:01:27.110 that's the lens through which I want to look at 0:01:27.110 --> 0:01:29.429 heaps of different topics on this podcast. 0:01:29.450 --> 0:01:32.390 Yeah, absolutely. So how is it different to the Slow 0:01:32.390 --> 0:01:34.510 Home podcast R.I.P.? 0:01:36.709 --> 0:01:39.920 It's just more expansive. Yeah, the idea of the slow 0:01:39.920 --> 0:01:43.730 home was really what it needed to be for us 0:01:43.730 --> 0:01:47.700 for many years. But over time, it it kind of 0:01:47.700 --> 0:01:54.120 felt restrictive, whereas this feels much more expansive and invitational 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:57.840 and looks far beyond the home it looks. We're going 0:01:57.840 --> 0:02:03.670 to look at topics that will impact. Family, work, community. 0:02:03.790 --> 0:02:06.070 You know, you can take it as broad as you want, 0:02:06.070 --> 0:02:10.510 and it just feels like permission to me to make 0:02:10.510 --> 0:02:12.970 a change, which I think we need sometimes. You know, 0:02:12.970 --> 0:02:15.910 we did the slow HomePod for eight years and it 0:02:15.910 --> 0:02:20.140 was wonderful. But slowness represents more than that to me. 0:02:20.139 --> 0:02:22.720 And I feel like the conversations that we're going to 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:25.900 have will ripple further. 0:02:26.700 --> 0:02:29.940 And these conversations are going to be recorded where we 0:02:29.940 --> 0:02:36.510 can outdoors. They'll be unedited, unfiltered, complete with dog barks, 0:02:36.510 --> 0:02:38.790 wind in the background and cars going past. 0:02:38.910 --> 0:02:41.040 You know, and that's the draw to me, actually. You 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:44.400 and I recorded a couple of episodes, the final episodes 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:47.130 of The Slow HomePod like that. And there was something 0:02:47.130 --> 0:02:53.820 really joyful and candid about it. And I want to 0:02:53.820 --> 0:02:56.940 play around with that. You know, I think that it's 0:02:56.940 --> 0:03:01.900 the antithesis to what a lot of podcasts have become. And, um, 0:03:02.760 --> 0:03:07.050 and I know I'm drawn to real conversations rather than 0:03:07.050 --> 0:03:08.910 highly edited, scripted. 0:03:13.450 --> 0:03:13.750 Jeff. 0:03:16.130 --> 0:03:17.150 I don't know if you can hear it, but the 0:03:17.150 --> 0:03:21.200 black cockatoos in the background going overhead. Sorry, that's just 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:24.650 made me really happy. They mean a lot to me. 0:03:24.680 --> 0:03:25.160 They do? 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:27.019 Yeah. You're spirit are an animal. 0:03:27.139 --> 0:03:28.820 Yeah. Do we say spirit? Animal? 0:03:28.850 --> 0:03:34.660 I do. That's my spirit animal. The car, getting. 0:03:34.660 --> 0:03:36.640 Past neighbors driving down the driveway. 0:03:39.550 --> 0:03:42.760 So, yeah, as you said, they're always going to be candid. 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:45.640 They're sometimes going to be funny. I hope so. And 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:47.320 they're going to be a monthly podcast. 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:50.860 Yes. So that's the other shift that we've made. I'm 0:03:50.860 --> 0:03:58.720 all about being really intentional with our outputs and overcommitting 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:03.280 is is not slow, you know, So really just committing 0:04:03.280 --> 0:04:06.910 to having a deep conversation once a month at this 0:04:06.910 --> 0:04:11.080 point feels right. Yeah. And so much of what we're doing, 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:13.870 the changes that we're making are all about how things 0:04:13.870 --> 0:04:16.660 feel and it feels right. So I'm and it feels 0:04:16.660 --> 0:04:20.140 exciting and I think it will give us it will 0:04:20.140 --> 0:04:24.490 feel like a. Like a treat almost, you know, to 0:04:24.490 --> 0:04:28.240 to to dig in and explore a topic deeply once 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:28.840 a month. 0:04:33.110 --> 0:04:38.000 We're incredibly excited about what this podcast can do, not 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:40.370 only for us, but hopefully for you, the audience. So 0:04:40.370 --> 0:04:44.720 we encourage you if you haven't already, subscribe via Apple Podcasts, 0:04:44.720 --> 0:04:49.130 Spotify or your favorite podcast platform and we will be 0:04:49.130 --> 0:04:55.240 in your ear holes with episode one very shortly. Until then. 0:04:55.660 --> 0:04:56.560 Take good care.