Hey there, this is Mark R. Healy and today I'm introducing a new feature that I hope some of you will find useful.

It's currently February, 2024 and the strata has been going for about two and a half years now.

Those of you who have been following along will know that there's quite a lot that's happened in that time, story-wise.

We've had literally dozens of characters come and go, story arcs all over the place and

I have to admit that if it weren't for my extensive notes, even I probably would have

lost track of a few things here and there.

So today I'm going to start launching recap episodes.

The idea is simple.

I'm going to give a brief summary of each season, no more than a minute or two each, going

all the way back to season one. I plan to release a new

recap every week as we move through 2024, and even though these will look like new releases on

your feed, I'm actually going to be categorizing them with their associated season. So the season

one recap will appear as the last episode of season one and so on. This will hopefully give you

an easy way to get up to speed on the story of the strata whenever you start a new season, or when you're trying to remember exactly what happened to a certain

character. You just have to search for the previous recaps and take a quick lesson.

I've come up with a really clever title for these episodes. They'll be called Recap,

season one, and so on. Nice and easy for you to locate in your feed. These recaps will be pretty basic, just the broad strokes really, a brief summary of events.

If you want the full experience so that you can understand character motivations, the more

subtle plot points and also find some Easter eggs, please go back and listen to the full episodes.

I guess that's my way of saying, if you're a new listener to the show, it wouldn't be the best idea to listen only to the recaps so that you can catch up quicker

because you're going to miss some pretty important things along the way. I definitely recommend

listening to the episodes themselves, at least on your first time through. So without further ado,

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