Redban quits editing Kill Tony after 13 years
The man who has cut and uploaded the show since the start says the stress is not worth it anymore.
Brian Redban is out of the edit bay. In a post on X, @redban said that starting tonight he will no longer be editing or uploading the video and audio for Kill Tony, a job he says he has done for 13 years. His reason was short. It is not worth the stress anymore.
The work is not disappearing, it is just moving down the hall. Redban said the show now has what he called amazing editors working for us, the same people who have been making the Behind the Scenes videos, and they are taking the upload over from him. He said he has been planning this for a while and that this seemed like the best time.
What changes for the show
In practice, probably nothing you can see. The podcast still goes up, it just goes up because staff put it there. What changes is who you yell at when the audio is rough, and Redban got ahead of that in the same post. He wrote that in the future he has nothing to do with any problems with the video or audio. Read that as a man closing a very long customer service window.
He was not sour about the job itself. Redban said he enjoyed editing it. The part he is clearly happy to lose is the schedule, because a weekly show cut and posted by one person eats the back half of every week.
The real story
This is a one man process becoming a department. Kill Tony started as something Redban could run himself, and 13 years later the show has an editing team big enough to produce its own Behind the Scenes series, which is who inherits the main feed. That is a growth problem solved the normal way, by hiring, rather than a blow up. Nothing in his post points at a fight, a falling out or anyone pushing him.
It does land in a stretch where the credits around the show keep shifting, after Dedric Flynn stepped back from his role as earlier covered.
Redban signed the post off with XO, which is roughly the tone of the whole thing. No grievance, no long goodbye, just a man who has done the math on 13 years of lost Saturdays and decided he would like some of them back. He said having his weekends open for the first time in 13 years is a dream he cannot wait to feel again. For once, that is the entire story.
having my weekends open for the first time in 13 years is a dream that I cant wait to feel again
I have been doing it for 13 years, its not worth the stress anymore
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