Colored Folklore - SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT (CF.Ep.028.5)

[00:00:00] Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. You know I didn't expect to be having this conversation

[00:00:10] with all of you. It has been a little bit since speaking with everyone in this way. I

[00:00:19] will try to keep it brief. I know that right out the gate you were expecting a story and

[00:00:24] not me up here, Yamrin, like I used to do. But a lot has happened. A lot, a lot. A lot has

[00:00:35] happened in a short amount of time and here we are about 15 months into the podcast just shy

[00:00:44] of 30 episodes. And you know, I really, I really, really feel like things have, have hit

[00:00:54] their stride. I'm just so happy and proud of how everything has come together. I am in love with

[00:01:03] all of the stories that have been selected. I'm really, really happy with the four volumes that

[00:01:10] we've marched through so far. I am, I cannot describe how excited I am for the next three. And it's

[00:01:21] seriously crushes me to announce that we're going to have to take at least a little bit of a break.

[00:01:31] You know, I've made sure to pump out episodes no matter what has been going on in my life or with

[00:01:39] what's going on with work or what's going on in the world. But in moving from 2021 into 2022, I have

[00:01:51] been extremely blessed to get brought onto a stage play and it's not just any stage work. It's

[00:02:02] at a monster theater and it's in a two-hander, like a hundred page two-hander. So I'm about to jump

[00:02:13] into a whole lot of words. And though I, though I am very happy and and I mean so blessed that I

[00:02:26] very honestly do think that I'm dreaming a decent amount of the time and just as excited

[00:02:31] in following that up. But I'm also losing a bit of my mind trying to figure out when I'm going to

[00:02:38] sleep. Seriously, I'm already rationing sleep and rehearsal ain't even begun yet. So I'm pretty sure

[00:02:47] that I will survive this and that's literal homies. That is not metaphorically. None of this is

[00:02:56] hyperbole. I'm being dead serious with all of this. But as far as the podcast is concerned with

[00:03:05] me working full time, then with attempting to do the show with the same time, it leaves me

[00:03:13] actually with no time to jump on the mic for any reason. I have to back away from all voice work

[00:03:21] for the for the next few months, which of course includes this podcast.

[00:03:28] Now I'm not planning on ending the show like this. I would really, really, really like to start up

[00:03:36] at the top of May in 2022. But but but but but but but if for whatever reason, say the show

[00:03:48] can't come back, can't come back that fast, can't come back at all or has to come back with

[00:03:55] another host or or just any number of other possibilities. I want you all to know that this has been

[00:04:02] easily one of the most incredible things of my life. The show the show only had a little bit of

[00:04:08] marketing before we just kind of let things organically move forward from there and we've been

[00:04:15] growing with with every volume, which has been incredible. And this time away does give us the

[00:04:21] chance to catch up on all of our social media. Hopefully I really put together a nice volume five six

[00:04:30] and seven and hopefully start starting getting these stories in the print. You know we are a small

[00:04:39] team, but but we are very, very mighty. No matter how it goes for me, for us, for the podcast, for you,

[00:04:48] the mission remains the same. Be kind. Tell your stories. Listen to the stories of others. You

[00:04:57] know it's a simple one. It's an amazing one. It's one that we're hoping you're able to explore both

[00:05:03] now and forever. Please, please support Indigenous people and respect their culture. Please

[00:05:10] advocate for and align yourself with marginalized people the world over. And please, please, please,

[00:05:17] please walk through this world aiming to leave it better than you found it in the first place.

[00:05:23] I am now officially signing off everyone. Hopefully just for now. And this is your host,

[00:05:30] Grea Omenma, loving every single little second spent with you. Thank you very much for

[00:05:38] for putting a smile on my face and love in my heart.