RIP to the pod, an announcement

0:24 Hey, cool friend, it's me Adrian or Aiden. Either way, I have been your host and you have been listening to Susto, a podcast about paranormal folklore from Latin American cultures. I'm going to have the band aid off because I don't know how else to do this, but effective immediately, I am halting production on the podcast indefinitely. This comes after many months of grappling with myself of thinking about this, and I think I think if you are an active listener of the show, then you may have noticed these last couple of weeks. It feels like I've been scrambling to keep this going, but I wish I had a better reason other than I just can't do it anymore.

1:20 The biggest reason that I've made this decision is because I had hoped that after all this time, I would have built a team around this project, and I haven't been able to accomplish that. And because of that, this isn't sustainable anymore for me. For the sake of my well being, for the sake of my mental health, I don't think this is something that I can continue doing. For eight years, which is about a quarter of my life. I have been producing this show independently. I've taught myself a lot. I've learned a lot, and I'm so very grateful to everyone who's been part of this. As you all know, I have a full time job that is not sustle. I've said it time and time again. If I could do this as my job, if this could be my full time thing, it would, But I can't.

2:22 And in a sense that that was a lie. That was wrong because it is a full time thing. This was my second job, and it's very hard to have essentially two jobs and to try and still be a person. It's gotten to the point where it started to feel like it wasn't fun anymore. And I only want to remember this experience as being something fun, as something that I really enjoyed, and I worry that if I were to keep this going, I would start to resent it. Initially, my plan was to finish out the rest of the year, to go through December. Unfortunately, like I mentioned earlier, for the sake of my mental health, I realized that I can't keep doing it. I feel awful for saying I'm tired, but I am, and I wish it wasn't. I don't want to drag this on so I want to say thank you to my family and my friends for all the support that you've showed me these last eight years.

3:34 I want to say thank you to you all for listening to the show, for sharing the love of storytelling that I have shared. I want to say thank you to everyone who has given me advice, who has asked me for advice, who has mentored me, who has invited me out for an event, for fun, for creative And I said indefinitely earlier because as we know, nothing is one certain. I don't know what the future holds. I don't know if maybe one day I will pick up the microphone again, but for now I cannot sustain a full production. That being said, I am still going to be around. I'm still a folklorist, so I will try to maintain my social media presence. I will be available for one off and freelance work. I guess. So if you would still like to see me at an event or invite me to be a guest on something or to ems or present, I would still love to do those things again. I just I can't commit to a production like this anymore. So you can still follow me on social media. I will still be there. It'll I

5:08 will probably be better at responding now because I won't have this entire thing to work on and worry about when I'm not working on it. The show itself will remain online, the website will stay up, and the Patreon will also stay open. However, no new content will be posted on there. So if you want the archive of ad free episodes, of videos, of the scripts and documents and all of that stuff that existed on Patreon that will stay open, feel free to sign up. If you are a Patreon subscriber, feel free to cancel. The Patreon will again exist as an archive, and it will be used to keep the show online and to keep the website up again. I'm around. You know where to find me.

6:10 Somebody asked me if this was a good or a bad thing, if I was happy or sad. Then I said both. I don't want to do it, but I feel like I need to. I need I need, I need some time. So I'm very sorry for the abrupt notice, but again, this wasn't my initial plan. Thank you for your understanding, thank you for your patience, thank you for eight years of doing this. Like I said, I did have a great time and I wanted it to stay a great time. So I don't know what the future hold and I can't promise that I will be back doing this, but stranger things happen every day, right. Thank you so much for listening. You know where to find me, and until then, not dead soustics. Bye,