A special announcement: Old Truck Good Coffee’s next phase
We are turning on paid subscriptions and making more audio for you!
More audio, which you all seem to enjoy
OTGC opens up paid subscriptions, allowing you to thank us with money.
Old Truck Good Coffee has been reliably delivering every Sunday for a year and a half now. Leo and I started with a question that has become a certainty: the challenge of the interchanges in between Americans is worth attention.
In our irregular Oregon-Montana “Xhats” (I made a typo when we once set up an online meeting and the name stuck), Leo and I find more and more to talk into. There is anger and frustration at the state of the world — anger directed both directions from our centrist positions. But then there is a renewed curiosity. Where does this American quirk come from? What explains my passion for or dislike of one thing or another?
We are not going to run low on material, but we are sensing change in it We had to work through a lot of anger early on, and we will continue to. But the curiosity is stronger now. It pulls us into the topics.
That curiosity is part of what OTGC is for me. I have learned, as a person capable of deep, distracting worry, that curiousity can supplant fear. Fear, the mind killer. Curiosity is medicine for us.
OTGC is in the middle of of a writing exercise that is also an anti-fascist practice. Each week, we take on one of Timothy Snyder’s 20 Lessons on Fighting Tyranny. For this project, we have also dusted off our mics and record each article, available on our podcast feed as well as oldtruckgoodcoffee.com.
Our anti-fascist move is to eliminate the need for an authoritarian by seeing healthy interchange between humans.
Thank you for being a reader of OTGC. We know that our voice is not the typical confirmation-bias internet reads. We try to find the surprising, challenging idea lodged in plain view. It takes more effort to read us than your typical link-bait post.
Old Truck Good Coffee is lodged in my life. I am irked by the deadlines like one is irked by the puppy that needs you to play with it. I have learned to appreciate the growing list of subscribers and readers, though I wish they grew faster. (Please do share us with someone you think would enjoy a little good coffee on the tailgate of an old truck).
Your subscription, your likes, shares, and feedback, like the puppy prodding of deadlines, are part of the dynamic of Old Truck Good Coffee.
But we are asking for another way to prod us: with money. We are opening up paid subscriptions for our articles, starting July 15.
If you have already pledged
Important: If you have pledged to us previously, that payment will go through on the 15th. We are not offended if your situation has changed and you need to revise your pledge. Click here to have a look.
Subscribing is fun and productive
The subscription is $5 a month or $50 a year. We will continue to publish four essays and four podcasts each month. In the future, more recordings of our episodes will be available for subscribers, and perhaps other features. But truly we are just asking, NPR style, for you to pay for what you can get for free. I am having a hard time hiding anything behind a paywall.
If you prefer a one time contribution to taking on another subscription, you can use the cute little site Buy me a coffee (coff.ee/oldtruckgoodcoffee/) to send us a single financial thank you, no strings.
If your life is dark right now, we hope that light comes back in soon. I believe it will. It always has before. We are grateful to be a part of your Sundays — and now Tuesdays when the podcast version drops.
Carry on. Be curious, behave curiously. Seek the interchanges, it is where the interesting stuff is. Your subscription or contribution feels wonderful to us. Thank you for reading, responding, and sharing.
If you know you want to subscribe, you can pledge right now!
