In May of 2024, I became increasingly concerned that I’d been overusing my television and that it had been having a deleterious effect on my life. So I decided to go on a video fast, meaning an elimination of watching tv and playing video games, for one year.

I started on June 1 by taking down my television set and storing it in a back corner.

I also made a podcast to document my progress and any effects that going cold turkey on the small screen might have. It is titled, not surprisingly, “My 12-Month Video Fast”.

The podcast ran 33 episodes and ended on May 31, 2025.

YOU CAN READ A RECAP OF EVERY EPISODE ON THE JUNE, 2025 HOME PAGE POST FOR THIS WEBSITE. IT ALSO CONTAINS LINKS FOR EACH EPISODE AND FUN FACTS ABOUT THE EPISODE LOGOS. THAT PAGE WILL EXIST FOR ALL ETERNITY, OR UNTIL THE END OF THE INTERNET, WHICHEVER COMES FIRST, AT: https://richardloranger.com/my-12-month-video-fast-recap/

YOU CAN VIEW LARGER VERSIONS OF THE EPISODE LOGOS ON THE SUBPAGE TO THIS PAGE AT: https://richardloranger.com/podcast/episode-logos/

AND YOU CAN LISTEN TO EACH EPISODE FROM THE RECAP PAGE OR RIGHT DARN HERE:

If you would like to support the podcast with a monthly donation of $3, $5, $8, or $10, CLICK HERE.

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*** GREAT NEWS!***  

7/25/24 – There’s a new review of the podcast by Tom Greenwood in a monthly newsletter from Wholegrain Digital, a sustainable web company in UK, at https://www.wholegraindigital.com/curiously-green/issue-56. Yay! And thanks for the kind words, Tom!

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*** MORE GREAT NEWS!***  

9/4/24 – The first twelve episodes of “My 12-Month Video Fast” have passed 500 downloads, so Yaaaaaaay! To celebrate, I danced a “jig” in which I’m imitating Rene Matisse imitating an intoxicated James Joyce dancing to The Pogues. Because of course I did. And I filmed it. So for your brief amusement,

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