Introducing Slow Boring Audio

In lieu of a Monday thread

I really, truly appreciate everyone who has become a Slow Boring member and helped support this site and have been spending a lot of time thinking about what I can do to increase the value of membership.

One thing a number of people have mentioned to me is a desire to see Slow Boring posts in audio form as a podcast. That intrigued me, but the problem to me has always been that the time it would take to record and produce them would take away from reporting, research, and writing so I wasn’t sure it would truly be additive in the end.

Then along came Curio which is a subscription audio service that partners with lots of content creators. They take articles and turn them into podcast. And then if you subscribe to Curio, you can listen to the podcasts. So I made a deal with them, which was they will do their thing with Slow Boring articles and it becomes Curio content for Curio subscribers. But also I get a copy that I can upload here as content for Slow Boring members. The first one, a…