Is the Podcast dead? Again?

Back in March of 2019, I posted how it’d been a year since we’d done a podcast. And here we are – come end of December of this year – we will once again have a year gap before having released another podcast (the last one we’d done was about The Mandalorian).

Obviously there’s been shows and movies that have come out since then.

WandaVision.

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.

Black Widow.

Loki.

And now Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.

What If…?

So why haven’t we covered this?

Honestly? Simple answer is, real life has gotten in the way.

There were plans to cover some of this…

But as I said, life simply got in the way…

In Episode 35, Maico revealed an illness he had barely survived. This lead to Maico becoming a part of IrisVision – and a part of the “Coach’s Corner” where he is streaming through Zoom with others about IrisVision. Go check out their Facebook page.

My own wife has had a number of health issues; almost back to back. A major seizure during the height of COVID, due to a bleed on her brain. She was recovering when in July of 2021, she suddenly couldn’t walk. I was fearful it was due to complications from the bleed on her brain; but the doctors found she had a compressed nerve in her sciatica. She stayed in the hospital for a few days, and came home. She was on the road to recovery, when just this past week – she suddenly couldn’t walk again. I assumed it was due to her compressed nerve, but at the hospital, doctors have been puzzled as to the cause. There’s been other health issues she has been experiencing as a result of the seizure.

Both time, and life, simply have not been on our side to be able to sit down and do another podcast.

I’ve seriously considered simply closing up shop on the podcast; because I am paying for the domain and the site, out of pocket – and we’ve never done anything to generate revenue for the podcast. We never have. And I didn’t mind before, because I was having fun. But – not doing any podcasts, and with everything going on – it’s not as easy to toss coin about.

If you follow us Twitter, Instagram or Facebook, you would see I’ve been re-reading Avengers – and posting brief summary about issues. I thought about – if I ended it and closed the site down – I’d leave the Twitter and Facebook pages up (just rename them) – because all of our episodes are on Youtube. So at least they’d be preserved there.

So what’s the future of the podcast? Not sure. I’d like to do one when the time comes up; but that could be done on Youtube with the cost of the site. So it’s something I’ve been considering. Downside to that is, the podcast would be limited to Youtube (and would fall off of Spotify, iTunes, etc) which means reducing our audience reach (which, because we’re not consistent – isn’t that large to begin with – so I am not sure if that’s a big loss).

I just figured I’d post a small update about the status of the episode, and why there’s not been any – in almost a year.

Much love to everyone,

• Tawmis