THE (NEW) JUICE PODCAST: We need to talk about SCOTUS 🇺🇸 (Patreon)

Dear PatronsI'm excited!This is not just the podcast companion to our latest Honest Government Ad. It is also the first of what will hopefully become the new regular format for the Juice Media Podcast in Season 3.As most of you know, I started making the Juice Media Podcast at the start of Season 2 (after the 2019 election) as a way of exploring the subject of each Honest Government Ad in more depth - usually with the help of expert guests.During those 3 years I had the honour of interviewing amazing people - climate scientists, doctors, economists, political leaders, luminary thinkers like Naomi Klein and Noam Chomsky, and badass activists like (my all time favourite guest) Greta Thunberg. I learned a lot!But now that we're starting Season 3 and feel a bit more confident about this medium, I'd like to try something slightly new.Don’t worry, I’ll still host interviews with expert guests from time to time. But rather than making them the norm, I want to try and make the podcast a bit shorter and compact. It'll be a chance for me to more fully share my thoughts around the latest Honest Government Ad and to discuss details that didn’t make it into the video; and to respond to some of the comments.The reason for this is partly because I'm keen to try something new in Season 3, something that gives me more space to share my own thoughts and observations about the latest HGA.And partly because long form interviews, as awesome as they are, also take a lot of time to produce. Which means that - even with Ellen's assistance, which has been awesome - I sometimes don't get much more than a couple days' break between publishing one HGA, and starting on the next one.And in Season 3, the two things I’d like to focus more of my time on are 1) writing more Honest Government Ads, and 2) spending more time with Luca and Juno, who are just growing up so fast.So we thought we’d give this new short episode format a go: our hope is that it will still act as a helpful companion to the Honest Government Ads, whilst also creating a better work-life-family balance, which in turn will ensure the longevity of this series.I hope you enjoy the new format! I'm a little nervous, sure. But I'm also excited about the potential of this new format and all the things we can do with it - including guest hosts, and an opportunity for us to cover more topics.So my hope is that we'll build on this foundation going forward. Which is why I would HUGELY value your feedback on the new format and how we can build on it.Also, I've been wondering whether we should come up with a new name for "The Juice Media Podcast"...Sure, we publish the audio to our podcast host so people can listen to it on their podcast app. But that's a small proportion of the audience. Most people watch the video version on our Youtube channel. So I feel like "podcast" might not be an accurate descriptor of what this is... It might even be a slight put-off for some people, if they think it's a podcast rather than a video.What are your thoughts? Should we keep or change the name?And if so, what should we change it to? (Yes this is a call for suggestions!)I hope you enjoy this episode, and look forward to your thoughts!GiordanoPS: have you rated the Juice Media Podcast? If not, please give us a rating here :)