I didn’t help with the episode at all. I helped with the new website tab and Josh & Kevin turned that into an episode all on their own. I did not expect them to do that.
As for time spent on that project, the actual definitions took probably tube hours in aggregate for me to compose and edit (much more time spent on editing than writing). It took additional time to select which jokes I was going to write definitions for, and there was a waiting period to hear back from Corban on what needed adjusting on my end to make the definitions receive Josh’s approval. (Of course, I’m not counting the hours and hours of my life that I’ve spent listening to and documenting the Inner Tube in advance of this project.) Once the website tab went public, I looked at it and gave additional feedback to Corban and he made adjustments during the weekend so that it would be ready for Episode 200.
How do I feel? I feel fine; I feel much more proud about what we accomplished with the Aux Cable Holiday Special: Fan Edition than this list of 20 Innerside Jokes. I really want to write a backstory for each Innerside Joke, but that will take quite a bit longer. Some jokes are easy to pinpoint a backstory for (see the comment section of Episode 161 for one example), others not so much. The thing with Inside jokes is that the backstory means so much more than the definition, so what I’ve done is just “laying a foundation” for the possibilities that may come later.
I’ll let you listen to Inner Tube Episode 200, read the new “Innerside Jokes” website tab (which I think is easier to read on mobile but looks cooler on an actual computer), read all of my comments to Inner Tube Episode 200, and look up the Bible passage about donkeys that Kevin mentions in the episode. Then tell me what you think of what I did.
