Haitus

Hey everybody, Chris here.

First of all, thank you for

listening to Non-Topical. As we

always say,

we appreciate you listening,

and it's great that we've had

the opportunity and have the

opportunity

to share our lives together

with you. That said, Non-Top

ical is going to go on an inde

finite

hiatus, and I don't know that

it's permanent. It's just

something that Kit and I need

to press

pause on for now. There are a

couple of reasons for this.

First, it's been a very

difficult summer for

me personally, and I'm not

going to get into the details

of that. Don't worry, my

relationship with

Kay, my girlfriend, is still

good. I'm abbreviating her name

here. And in general, things

are looking

up, but it's been a difficult

transition. Secondly, the

entire premise of this show,

was predicated upon Kit and I

taking these long walks

together and him constantly

asking,

what I wanted to talk about. So

what do you want to talk about,

Dad? What do you want to talk

about?

And that led to some really

funny and creative

conversations, which Kit and I

both thought

would be entertaining for

people to hear. And that is and

was true. That said, Kit is

also at the age

where he should no longer be

asking, what do you want to

talk about, Dad? He should be

instead driving

conversations that are things

that he actually cares about.

By putting him in a position

where he's always

asking somebody else what

should be discussed, it limits

his ability to really decide

for himself what he wants.

Now, that doesn't mean that

this is going away permanently.

But what it does mean is he

needs

some space to figure himself

out in terms of what he likes,

what he's passionate about,

what he cares about,

versus having me drive the

conversations. And if you look

back at our catalog of past

episodes,

you'll notice that usually it's

me doing most of the talking.

And that's not necessarily a

bad thing. But it needs to move

to a point where he's doing

more talking and I'm kind of

stepping back from the

microphone, so to speak.

Does that mean the show is

fully going away? I hope not,

because it's really a fun

experience to be able to have

that conversation ability with

your developing children.

And also, it's been a lot of

fun. But at the same time, it's

not something that right now

can continue in its current

form, because he really needs a

space to be able to figure out

what he cares about and learn

to drive conversations on his

own.

I do have a couple of

recordings in the can, so there

may be a couple of episodes

released over the next several

months.

And we'll see what happens in

terms of as Kit grows and

changes and learns to embrace

himself if he wants to come

back to it. If he does, great.

If not, I don't know. Maybe I

'll just start recording things

on my own and ramble. I'm

pretty good at doing that.

But really, it wouldn't be the

same in that case. So we'll see

what happens. For now, I just

want to thank everybody for

listening to Nontopical. Thank

you for your support. And thank

you for those who did offer

feedback and encouragement. It

was well worthwhile.

And if anybody out there still

wants to donate a hypothetical

$1,000 to general causes, you

could do it at ko-fi.com/nontopical

And if you do have

any feedback, feedback@nontopical.com

is the place to go.

In the meantime, for Kit and

myself, thank you for listening

, and we hope to be able to

catch you in the future. Thanks

, everyone.