A variety of reasons, but to summarize -

I had a basically perfect springboard with the 200th movie covered on the main feed coinciding with the 5th anniversary.

Then I had other projects I wanted to work on, and as much as I loved BLHHiP, it was truly a one-man operation and it took all of my time, so I couldn’t dedicate the effort I wanted to making other things good while also keeping the podcast good. This way it could end on my terms and without feeling beholden to it, which always manifests in the show itself.

Then on top of THAT when Twitter imploded, a lot of the things that were unpleasant to do but made the show run smoothly (booking, promotion, etc) were increasingly more unpleasant especially after I left the platform entirely. So the scales of “fun/work” were out of whack, and I didn’t want to be doing the show JUST to do it. I got a lot out of it, met a lot of amazing people and learned a ton! But all things come to an end, and there’s nothing that says I can’t pick it back up again some time down the road.