Episode 398: Have Fun, Live Long with Kara Swisher

Elise, what's been going on with you?

I have a couple updates.

I am in the middle of a crowdfund campaign, which I've never taken part in before.

I've never done, like, a Kickstarter or anything, but I'm learning a lot about it.

One is it takes constant vigilance because there's a ticking clock.

Yes.

So by the time this airs, it might be over or nearly over.

I have until the end of April to raise enough money, like 80% of our goal, for Windswept.

This is for the post-production.

So we have shot most of Windswept, a documentary about the kids who's lost their homes in the fires, and we've shot most of it, but now we're in the assembly stage or what's called post-production, and post-production's very expensive.

And so we're raising to help pay for our archive producer, who's gonna look for all the old social media and news archives and things from certain points in the kids' lives, and we're also raising to pay for some of the edit.

Um, and these platforms work in such a way that you can't keep the money that is pledged unless you hit a certain goal.

Oh, yes.

And then I'm taking part in a rally.

It's like a crowdfund rally with other AAPI filmmakers.

Cool.

And under the rally rules, not only do you have to fund, you also have to get a certain number of followers.

That's free, so we're gonna put the link in our show notes for my Seed&Spark campaign for Windswept because I could really use y'all, Forever 35 listeners, um, to help, you know, join the squad and be a follower of this campaign.

I've already hit up Dory and Sammy and Sammy, um, because everyone counts, and we have to hit our follower goal to even be eligible for matching.

Thank you for following.

And, um-

I think I was your...

I might've been your first follower.

Oh, very special.

Thank you.