Thank you for supporting Nepal Now

I've really enjoyed making this podcast since 2020, but the time has come for the last episode. After I returned to Canada at the end of last year I was committed to continuing, but I haven't been able to find a strong focus for the show. To me that's the signal that I need to stop, rather than keep making new episodes just to maintain the show.

Thanks to everyone who's been involved over the years: the guests who gave their time to speak to me, the subscribers who paid regularly to help me cover costs and others who encouraged me to keep going when I wondered if anyone was listening. My wife Niku deserves a shout out. She was an unpaid producer all these years: answering my many questions about Nepal, helping with translation, and listening with a an especially acute ear. Finally, thanks to you listeners, who found ways to let me know that you cared. I will miss our connection. 

I am looking forward to creating a new journalism venture here on the west coast of Canada. If you're interested, stay up to date on my website, martylogan.org or my Substack, 11,020 km. I'm also on LinkedIn and Bluesky. 

Transcript

Marty Logan 0:00

Hi everyone. Marty here. Unfortunately, this is going to be the last episode of Nepal Now. I realized that it's just too hard trying to keep the show going from here in Canada. You might remember I returned here at the end of October and put out three episodes speaking to Nepalis but I just couldn't really find a strong direction for the show and for that reason I think it's better to let it go, to say it's been a great run; it's been six years. I spoke to many people, I learned a lot, and I hope that some of you who listened regularly feel the same way; that if nothing else, you were entertained from time to time. I wanna thank all of you for listening and everyone who supported the show in whatever way, through encouragement; some of you actually paid me a little bit of money to produce the show over the years. I really need to give a big shout out to my wife, Niku, who was basically an unpaid producer all these years. She would answer my questions about Nepal, give me some great feedback when I was going in the wrong direction, or just sounded like I didn't know what I was talking about, which I'm sure happened more than once. Without her, definitely the show would not have been as good as it was. One reason why I wanted to keep it going when I came back to Canada was that I didn't want to lose you, the audience. But I realize now that I am online in enough places that you can find me if you wish, through my journalism. I have a website, martylogan.org and my Substack, 11,020 km. If you go there, you'll find out what that name means. I am on social media, especially LinkedIn and Bluesky. So I hope to hear from you there. If you have any ideas on what you think I should be doing in my next project, feel free to let me know I'm open to suggestions and feedback as always. If there's been a specific episode that you thought you might want to listen to one day, now's the time to do it; the show will be disappearing from podcast feeds in coming weeks. I'm not sure if it'll remain on YouTube, but anyway, now's the time to download the episode and take a listen. So although I am saying goodbye to producing this show and speaking to you regularly. I'm looking forward to what comes next; quite excited with the opportunities that I see here in Canada, and I really hope that you can find a way to keep up with what I'm doing and, if you can, let me know what you think about it. Bye for now.