Greetings, and welcome back to the Sioux Empire Podcast. It's been a long time, and a lot has happened both globally and nationally as well as personally for me. We've been silent for a while. So I've had a lot of time to think about what I want from this podcast and from podcasting in general.

As some of you may know, I've been mourning a loss in the family of someone close as well as dealing with a health scare with my dad that required several heart surgeries while we were away. These events have both had a profound effect on me. Specifically, my thoughts on what I want to do with my time while I'm here on this earth with you, and then the COVID outbreak began, which brought all of that into even more stark relief. For now, I'll be focusing on telling non-fiction stories. I'm not ruling out a future season of the wonderful audio drama we produced last year, Edge Case Podcast (https://anchor.fm/edgecase).

So finally you're probably wondering where is this going, what is the plan to move this podcast forward. The answer is that the Sioux Empire Podcast will now be my primary focus once again in podcasting. It also means that I'll be making the most radical shift in the show's format I've ever attempted.

The Sioux Empire Podcast is moving towards a highly produced and polished non-fiction audio format. It will include facts, history, current events, and human interest stories about the Sioux Empire. Our goal is to bring a unique perspective with journalistic honesty to those living and working individuals and families from the Sioux Empire. Stories you've never heard in the Sioux Empire about the Sioux Empire.

It will be a very different format than the last show. I hope if you're an old listener, you stick around and give us a chance. And if you are new to the podcast, we hope you enjoy where this is going.

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