Okay, from beneath the surface this is hereby monsters.

I'm not sure how cold the water is supposed to be.

I'm just going to go for cold enough so registers is cold but not so cold it hurts.

Okay, I think I got the right temperature. I'm just going to go out into the living room so it's not so watery sounding.

So it's end of season 9 and this has been really challenging season to get out. It's also been really rewarding too.

You know, this was my first time in a long time releasing the show independently and I'm really proud of the fact that I got 10 new episodes out and I got to do some really fun things with sound.

I got to talk to interesting people and I also got to work with independent sponsors who are all listeners of this show.

And that felt really great. Over 100 people signed up for the Hereby Monsters Patreon and I got some really supportive emails from all kinds of listeners.

People who say that this show means something to them and so those emails are really humbling and I've read them all. I know I haven't responded to all of them yet.

So thank you for all of that. And yeah, I'm really proud of how this season went.

It was also really challenging too. You know, I was kind of double isolated this year. I'm always a little bit isolated just in that I tend to work from home all the time and you know with the pandemic happening before during and after this season comes out.

Yeah, I don't think I'm as resilient isolation as I previously thought I might have been kind of the light at the end of the tunnel for me has often been my summers, you know, and I usually have been able to take off a month or so.

I just kind of recharge my batteries a bit, but for the past couple years I've kind of had big administrative life type things happening in those summers that have kept me working.

And unfortunately this summer it's kind of looking like it'll be a big summer of administrative stuff too.

And I'm going to have a lot on my plate for kind of the near future. So I've made a decision that I didn't want to make, which is I'm not going to run the summer art exchange this year.

I love the summer art exchange. I love connecting listeners to other listeners, but you know running that project is just a lot of administrative work and I'm trying to keep my sanity here.

So I hope you understand that decision.

Yeah, and also related to that, you know, I don't have a date for you for when season 10 is coming out.

It is going to happen. I'm just not quite sure when I have some other obligations and opportunities that are all just a little bit fluid right now.

And I'm just really not quite sure what my upcoming year looks like yet.

So I wish I had a better answer for you on when season 10 is coming, but just know that all announce it first here on the podcast feed.

You know, here be monsters is a project that I feel really strongly about. And so I'm pretty sure that I'm going to keep this feed in my possession for the rest of my life.

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