Hi everyone. So I just wanted to talk to you one last time. So I am feeling oddly emotional about the end of this podcast. So I kind of wanted to talk about it because this is 12 years of my life on and off that I have Talked about movies, recorded about movies, talked about psychology and recorded about psychology, had a bunch of guests, made a bunch of friends. It's been strangely a really important part of my life, and I'm very grateful for it. And I am grateful for people who listen to even one episode. Even if you only listen to one episode and you listen to this, I'm grateful for you because, you know, my goal at the start of this— there were 2 goals. One was to get one person Who I didn't know to listen to this podcast. And, you know, the numbers come and go, and— but there were times where this show did very, very well, you know, in the many hundreds, close to 1,000 listeners in an episode. That's crazy to me. I never expected it to be popular in any sense. And, you know, it was a lesson because you start off saying, oh, if just one person listens, it's fine. And then the more listeners you get, the more you want to gain, and it's a weird thing, and you can kind of get obsessed with numbers. And that's not really important. The other thing I was interested in when I started this was, can I, can I do a show where I talk about movies and I talk about psychology, but not just, you know, the big-time movies, not just the arthouse movies, not just movies you are gonna think psychology when you think of it, right? Right? It's not going to be difficult to make an episode about psychology and Silence of the Lambs. That's easy. Can you do it about Big Fish? Can you do it about Who Framed Roger Rabbit? That is where the challenge lies. And I always said you can talk about psychology with any movie because psychology essentially is the study of humans and there are humans in every movie. So there's a way to look at it. So this show brought me through a lot. It brought me through struggles in grad school. It brought me through relationships ending, relationships starting, getting married, spending time with my family, losing my father. There's a lot that happened in 12 years. And it's interesting that you can kind of take a look at these episodes as little time capsules. To understand all of the things that were happening. So I am sad to see it go, but I will say that this podcast is a lot of work. It's more work than most podcasts. I know this because I talk to other podcasters. You have to think about it this way. Sure, it takes an hour or 2 hours to record the episode. I also have to research all the psychology and record that and editing. And when you add it all up, you know, you're talking 5, 6 hours a week, and that's a lot. So I— and also when you do 400 episodes, if we're being real, you kind of start to run out of topics because there's really only so many psychological topics. And there are a lot of movies that cover similar topics, so you don't want to repeat yourself. So those are the reasons why the show is ending. I'm also grateful for the show because of all the people that I've met. If not for this show, I never would have moved to Kentucky, which means I never would have met my wife. So this show is a blessing. And it has also allowed me to meet a lot of really good friends. A couple of them showed up on this show a lot more than others, right? Mike Denniston was a big, big part of this show, and I'm extremely grateful to him. And I'm extremely grateful to him for helping me broaden this show and keeping it going when there were moments that I did not think it would. I am, of course, also thankful to Will Bjarnar, who is my latest co-host. God bless him. He's put in a lot of time in the last year or so. The good thing about this is this feed is not going away. I'm not going away. Will is not going away. So the great thing about technology is you can just keep the same feed and change some information. So I am going to start a new podcast very soon on this very feed. So as long as you don't— So as long as you don't unsubscribe, you will start to get those. And the very next thing that you will hear on this feed is a little trailer just for that new show. So the last thing I want to say is once again, thank you for listening. Thank you for being here. Thank you for allowing me to spend time with you an hour a week for about 12 years. So this is it. I am signing off from Pop Culture Case Study. This is the last time. I will be here diagnosing your favorites and judging you for what you watch.