The Odd World News Podcast is going on indefinite hiatus. After fifty eight episodes that encompasses five hundred and fifty seven stories, and is just over nine hours in total audio, it is time to end the podcast.
There are a multitude of factors that have gone into the decision to end the show. The biggest is the amount of time needed to prepare and produce the podcast. Between writing, recording, editing, preparing the graphics, adding chapter marks, and all of the other aspects that go into the podcast, there are weeks that it takes upwards of ten hours to complete all of the tasks. Considering the average episode is approximately nine minutes and twenty one seconds, spending up to ten hours working on an episode is a significant amount of time.
Here are some of the stats for the entire 58 episode run of the podcast:

Number of Episodes
58

Number of Stories
558

Avg Stories Per Episode
9.62

Episode with Most Stories
11 (16)

Episode with Fewest Stories
29 (5)

Total Follow Up Stories
24

Most Follow Up Stories
12 (3)

Average Follow Up per Episode
0.41

Percent of Episodes with Follow Up
33%

Total Characters
286,682

Total Words
49,816

Average Character Count
4,942.79

Average Word Count
89.28

Total Unique Words
8,675

Most Used Word
police (297)

Total Podcast time
09:00:10

Longest Podcast
00:16:33 (52)

Shortest Podcast
00:04:22 (29)

Average Podcast Length
00:09:18

I would like to thank everyone who has downloaded, subscribed, or told others about the podcast. The existing episodes will remain up for quite a while, so you can listen to them again at your leisure. I hope you have enjoyed the show.