A podcast about movie making and the science fiction featurette, Daughter of God, with Director Shri Fugi Spilt, (Dan Kelly). Daughter of Godcast, 051 Thanks. An appreciation for TEAM DOG in song.

Howdy! Episode 051 of the Daughter of Godcast, Thanks! Just one episode from our 1 year anniversary. This will be a short and sweet episode, a quick epilogue of the swim followed by a song of appreciation for everyone who joined TEAM DOG in our epic crowd funding experiment.

Last week TEAM DOG, me, swam 2 miles as a fundraiser for the Watershed Center, Grand Traverse Bay. I came in 12th out of 43 swimmers of all ages, 3rd in my age class of 50-59 with a time of 54:17. The winning time was 39:12. I gotta little lost at the end, surfing the swells and drifting away from the paddle boarder who was trying to guide me.

TEAM DOG raised $2171, $153 more than our $2018 goal, making us the second highest fundraiser for the swim. This experiment in the gentle release was encouraging on many levels.

1) This was my first open water swim race and I’m excited for more. 2) I like the Watershed Center and was happy to help with funding. 3) Comparing the podcast stats for June and July, there definitely seemed to be more consistent pattern of listening after TEAM DOG started fundraising. I am pondering proposing a more ambitious crowd funding campaign to an international non-profit that DOG really resonates with, like maybe Mozilla, the Electronic Frontier Foundation or maybe SomaFM.

Well, that’s down the road, we’ve still got a few stories to tell about the making of the longest little movie ever, the making of the movie that made me. In Episode 051, Thanks, we’re just going to sing a song, kind of a long song for a short episode.

i wanted to swim the other day

what do you know, money

why do you need money, you fool

just me and a bunch of crazy earth lovers

Wait a minute DOG, is this some kind of cult

could you be more clear

fine!