Hey everybody, it's John Bewin.

So first thing is to let you know that work is underway on season 8.

The team has assembled.

I've made the first recordings.

Lots of work to do.

It's probably about a year away from reaching your ears.

But it's happening. What's the theme? Well, let's just say we're going to go

to the heart of big important things again and stuff that could help us all make sense of

what we're living through, I hope, and how we got here and what we need to fix.

And just one more thing I'll say at this point is that Chenjerai, Kuminika, is back.

You heard him in seasons two and four. I hope you did.

He's going to be in the co-host's chair again for season eight. So there's that.

During this hiatus, I'm going to be sharing some stuff with y'all from other podcasts that I

admire and think that you'll like. They're in the spirit of our show in one way or another. But before I

launch some of my favorite things, mini series coming soon, today I've got this. I started a

newsletter. It's a kind of blog called Keeping Score. Some of you know, some of you are reading it.

I've put out a few installments so far here in the new year with comments open and a reader had a good

idea. He said, why not just record yourself reading these and drop them in the podcast feed?

I don't think I'm going to do that every time. The newsletter is meant to be a different channel, a compliment to the podcast,

and a different place to convene the C-On Radio community. But I do like the idea of doing it

sometimes.

So, this is me reading the latest from the newsletter, keeping score number four.

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