From a small studio behind a cracked facade, this is Hereby Monsters, the 10th season.

My name is Jeff Amman and I've been making this show since 2012.

This project for me has been pretty much my whole adulthood and almost all of my professional

career.

It's hard for me to think just how much I've learned in the process of making this

show and how much of a different person I feel like I am now than I was back then.

That being said, the core idea of this show remains identical to the day it started.

You see, I am a person who is deeply afraid of the unknown.

That is my biggest fear.

And this show is a project to talk about fear and talk about the unknown and talk about

things that are scary and talk about them in a context that feels safe and kind.

Now, if you're a new listener, I hope you like the show, I hope you like the show, and

be after you listen to this episode, I really hope you take the opportunity to slowly

work your way backwards through the Hereby Monsters archive.

Again, this is a show that has been around for quite a while now and so there's a lot

in that back archive.

There's some episodes that are interviews, some are documentaries, some are research

projects, and some are just kind of broadly experimental.

And then there's episodes like this one, which is a personal story where I try to catch

some little wisps of smoke that have been floating around in my head and then try and

like mash them together into a shape and figure out what that shape means.

That's what this episode is.

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