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The other day I considered ending our podcast run because I need to try and trim a few things from my schedule and budget.

In the process of trying to decided whether to continue our podcast, I just happened to look at our statistics, I promise that I am telling the God's honest truth when I say I hadn't checked in a year and a half at least. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that we do in fact have an audience, something 8,200 views and downloads in the last one year period.

When I started the page around two years ago, I simply did it because not many other bands (well, maybe zero that I knew of) were doing it and I was sitting on dozens of songs that I wanted to release but not in a traditional, iTunes or show merch kind of way. Now, of course, it goes without saying that listener data shouldn't necessarily be the sole motivation for continuing a podcast. And it isn't because I still have hundreds more songs I want to put out. But it is encouraging to find out that at least a few hundred people have/are listening and I would love some more interaction from those of you that do turn in. Also, it's a reminder in a journalistic sense (and podcasts are by nature, at least part journalism as well as entertainment) that I must return the loyalty of the reader/listerner by not betraying their trust in any way.

So, on we go. Off and Up and Away.

Ryan Townsend
Sept. 16, 2009