<story><title>Dan Benjamin: Regarding The Talk Show</title><url>http://5by5.tv/specials/6</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rkudeshi</author><text>Summary for anyone who can&apos;t listen:&lt;p&gt;* Dan says John emailed him and just said it was time to move on and try something new. Dan says he has total respect and understanding for that.&lt;p&gt;* Dan says he thought if they weren&apos;t doing the show anymore, they would retire it together. Surprised and disappointed that John&apos;s doing the show on his own and re-using the name.&lt;p&gt;* Dan wishes they could have done one last episode to reminisce (120 previous episodes) and to thank the fans.&lt;p&gt;* Dan encourages fans to listen to the new show at muleradio.net.&lt;p&gt;* No other sordid details, just some personal anecdotes.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;ve never listened to any 5by5 podcasts on 5by5, but Dan Benjamin comes across in this audio clip as a total class act.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pwthornton</author><text>Dan has always come across as one of the classiest guys on the Internet.&lt;p&gt;I am genuinely sad to see this happen to him.</text></comment>
<story><title>Dan Benjamin: Regarding The Talk Show</title><url>http://5by5.tv/specials/6</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rkudeshi</author><text>Summary for anyone who can&apos;t listen:&lt;p&gt;* Dan says John emailed him and just said it was time to move on and try something new. Dan says he has total respect and understanding for that.&lt;p&gt;* Dan says he thought if they weren&apos;t doing the show anymore, they would retire it together. Surprised and disappointed that John&apos;s doing the show on his own and re-using the name.&lt;p&gt;* Dan wishes they could have done one last episode to reminisce (120 previous episodes) and to thank the fans.&lt;p&gt;* Dan encourages fans to listen to the new show at muleradio.net.&lt;p&gt;* No other sordid details, just some personal anecdotes.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;ve never listened to any 5by5 podcasts on 5by5, but Dan Benjamin comes across in this audio clip as a total class act.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>georgespencer</author><text>Like everyone is saying, Dan comes across really well in this. I don&apos;t expect JG will ever give us his take.&lt;p&gt;RE: never listening to any 5by5 podcasts–I listened to The Talk Show a few times. Maybe it&apos;s because I&apos;m used to the dogma of professional broadcasting, but I don&apos;t think you&apos;ve missed out unless you like hearing a couple of guys pause a hell of a lot during an awkward conversation. Almost every episode I heard started with an entirely charmless &quot;Uh, hello?&quot; &quot;Uh is this on?&quot; scenario.&lt;p&gt;I guess part of the appeal was that it was folksy and just a conversation.</text></comment>