Oh, hi, everyone. It's Tamar. I am still alive. But, yeah, it's perfectly fair to ask. You know, Tamar, where the fuck have you been?

It's actually a happy story, and I have largely the lonely palette to thank. I've been a working audio producer.

Since last summer, I've been producing both parent data with Emily Oster and a limited series that she's been doing called Raising Parents.

I produced the closing episode of PRX's award-winning series on American monuments and memorials called Monumental.

I produced a series on AI for NYU.

I've been a consultant. And through it all, I continue to produce two little boys.

So, in the midst of all of this, I have two announcements. The first is that the lonely palette Palette is not going anywhere.

It is alive.

I am writing.

I am creating.

I am interviewing.

I'm working on a series with the National Gallery that I'm so excited to share in this feed when the time comes.

And more than that, I'm really excited to write and produce and record more plain old episodes of the Lonely Palette but I need your help putting on my little green accountant visor I'm

in the process of putting together real sponsorship for real seasons so if you

have a line on any businesses that want to be a part of what we do here please

email me at

Tamar at the Lonelypalat.com. Okay, taking the visor off. In the meantime, watch this feed,

and please continue to listen to old episodes and tell people about the show. Secondly, I want to

talk a little bit about Hubb & Spoke, our mighty little collective of independent, creator-owned, community-driven, mind-expanding audio shows.

You may or may not know this if you're not in the inn, as they say, but this industry has been shook.

Shows have been cancelled, studios have been shuttered, and the sheer amount of layoffs would stagger you.

But amazingly, this hasn't been coming out in the audio itself.

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