The end of Evo’s Long Winter's Nap is upon us, and brand new episodes of Podcast Pontifications return on January 4th, 2021! I know you’re excited. Even though I’ve been on break since the end of October, regular listeners to the program still heard new episodes—albeit not with as much frequency—courtesy of some other working podcasters who lent their voices while I was away. If you’re not subscribed, remedy that situation, because you missed great content from: Patrick Oliver Jones from the podcast, Why I’ll Never Make It, with three innovative ways borrowed from his time in the theater to help you get “unstuck” when you’re running out of podcasting ideas.Steph Fuccio from The Geopats Podcasts explained why every podcast has a local aspect—even if you think you have a global audience—and offered advice on how you can help those listeners who aren’t right next door.Kevin Patton of the podcasts The A&P Professor and The Academic Podcaster, and honest-to-goodness lion tamer, demonstrated a simple way for you to be a nicer critic when listening to other shows.Mark Steadman of the podcast hosting, distribution, and analytics company Podiant shared his thoughts on the long-lasting impact the pandemic will have on podcasting.Bryan Barletta of the adtech newsletter, Sounds Profitable wants you to stress less when contemplating adding advertising to your podcast.And Tim Desmond of the podcast RevolutionFI provided some support to the seasoned podcaster with a brand new show starting from zero.Did you notice the brand new logo for Podcast Pontifications. More than that, it’s actually a professionally-designed logo, which I commissioned from the talented graphic designer Nik Gill. I think it’s brilliant and captures the Zen-like feeling I'm trying to conjure with Podcast Pontifications episodes as I help you ponder sometimes straightforward questions yet often deep philosophical questions about life as and the future of a working podcaster.Also, I’ve made a new Twitter account just for Podcast Pontifications. My personal Twitter account will be the main place I engage, but this new show-specific Twitter account will let me do some experimenting with social sharing tools. Sure, I could do that on @evoterra as well, but I don’t want to annoy everyone with my playing around. Expect notices of when new