Return of the Coffee & Code Cast
Last week, my long-time friend and former colleague, Mike Sheehan, and I sat down in a familiar position in front of a couple of laptops and microphones to record what would be episode 73 and the return of the Coffee & Code Cast, a podcast that we ran and hosted for 4 years before taking a nearly 4-year hiatus. The show generally was a talk show dealing with the day-to-day life of the hosts, with topics ranging from careers to travel to personal issues, all with a heavy dose of technology layered on top of it.
In 2021, the show went on a break after Mike started to feel a lack of motivation and creativity to continue making the show. I didn’t feel like I was ready to let it end at the time, and I attempted to carry on but also fizzled out just a few episodes post-Mike’s departure. In retrospect, I think the post-pandemic environment was weighing on both of us as we figured out what life looked like, and we were both navigating our careers, growing, taking more and more time away from our ability to dedicate to the podcast. As a result, the show was put on ice for nearly 4 years.
Over the inactive years, I began archiving the show, feeling it would be a significant loss to myself if no one else did if I just let all the content we created disappear. In all, we had produced and published 72 episodes of the podcast, which is an enormous amount of content. So I set out to archive the show's episodes, notes, and transcripts and even recovered the domain which we had let expire and pointed it all here on my own personal website, and that's where they lived until recently.
Coffee & Code Cast - Episode 73 - Welcome Back
On a recent trip back to Seattle, I met up with Mike, who had been going through a slew of life events much like what occurred when the show was originally conceived. With a somewhat offhand comment, the fire was relit for the show. Over the course of a few weeks, we rapidly got the bones for a website, a feed, and all the cobwebs of how to do all this dusted off. This time around, although the show won't be horribly different, there will be some changes, making it a little less gimmicky as well as making it suitable for all ages and those who aren't into explicit content, which in our case is just swearing. The topics will remain surrounding our lived experiences, careers, travel, and technology we use and encounter as we move through the world, and we'll more than likely have the occasional guest to bring in some new perspectives.
The show is available almost anywhere you can listen to podcasts and will be released every other week. If you want to give it a run you can listen to the "Welcome Back" episode above or subscribe with any of the apps below:
