Heavy Networking 515: A Decade of Network Podcasting

We interrupt our programming to commemorate ten years of podcasting. In this brief chat, Ethan and Greg discuss where we came from and where we are going. Note the retro music we used, and check out outro too.
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The first episode May 2, 2010 :  Show 01 – Lab Scenario – The First Podcast – Packet Pushers
 
Automated Transcription – Unedited
HN 525 10 Years of Networking
[00:00:00] Greg Ferro: [00:00:00] you know, you know Ethan, it’s been 10 years since we started. Yes. 10 
Ethan Banks: [00:00:07] so I’ve been thinking about this. Okay. So if you look at my resume, uh, typically I’ve, I rotate out jobs every two, three, four years, depending. This is the longest single job I’ve had, not that we did at full time. At the beginning. It took a while, but 10 years that I’ve worked with you as a coworker of all people, Mr.
Farrell. Oh my goodness. 
Greg Ferro: [00:00:24] I’m not sure who needs, who needs a metal, you or me. It’s a little hard to tell it to give each 
Ethan Banks: [00:00:29] other metals, but you’re fantastic tolerance award. 
Greg Ferro: [00:00:33] Yeah. So this is the, this is the, um, very odd occasion where you’ll hear Ethan and I actually talking about ourselves to ourselves. So we don’t generally do this.
And very rarely, if you’ve been listening to the show regularly, do we ever actually put our personal lives or anything about the packet pushers. As a business on the thing. But this is our 10 year anniversary show. We started in May, 2010 and [00:01:00] it’s been quite a journey. 
Ethan Banks: [00:01:02] Well, you summed it up nicely, uh, several times here that we’ve been too stupid to quit.
That is, there’s a lot of reasons along the way where it’s like, we need to stop doing this for our personal sanity, for time’s sake, for whatever. Um, and we didn’t, we just kind of have kept on going. But of course now we are a little more motivated cause it is our livelihood. 
Greg Ferro: [00:01:22] Yeah, it is. But in Silicon Valley they call it true grit and the top leaders never given, and I call it being too stupid to quit cause it’s just, that’s actually what it is.
Any rational human being would have gone on back to work and done normal jobs, you know, disappeared into the woodwork and not a face up. You know, remember there was a time back there when we would say things and we’d get abused by vendors and. We’d be contacted by senior execs threatening us with various things, and that’s chat.
That’s no longer a thing. Obviously as the chain, you know, as, as social media and influencers are now seen as analysts, that’s changed that game a lot. 
Ethan Banks: [00:01:57] The tone has changed and now we just gotta [00:02:00] be careful that what we say makes good sense and it’s actually benefiting someone that’s, that’s always a balance that we strike it.
Greg Ferro: [00:02:06] Well, for those people who don’t know, how does packet pushes think about what we do?