Connecting with You In 2024 (And Beyond)
As 2023 rapidly hurtles to a close, we would like to use this opportunity to thank you, our audience, for your massive support of our team at Common Sense Entertainment and our news division, CSE Media, throughout the year.
You have helped bring unprecedented growth to the Common Sense Entertainment YouTube channel, fueled by the launch of our culinary adventure series Damn That’s Good, which returns in 2024 for its second season—our first episodic entertainment offering to achieve this milestone—and our news division’s monthly series Fit To Speak, which set viewership records for its fourth season, particularly with our special on missing broadcast professional and University of Maryland journalism alum Terrence Woods (more on that later in this). Fit To Speak returns in 2024 for its fifth season, along with the second season return of Fit To Speak: From The Archives, which, in the early part of the year, will revisit, update and bring context to conversations from past editions of the main show that remain relevant today.
We want to continue that momentum with our entertainment and news content, and further deepen our connection with you, our audience, not just on YouTube and our other social platforms, but right here on Substack. To this end, starting in late January, we will launch an exclusive monthly newsletter that will feature a collection of news items, commentary from CSE Vice President Eugene Obah, and behind-the-scenes information, insight and “first-looks” on select CSE productions.
The monthly newsletter—which will simply be called, in the spirit of philosopher and U.S. Founding Father Thomas Paine, Common Sense—will be available in its entirety for paid subscribers of this Substack page. For $5/month or $40/year, when subscribing to this page, not only will you have access to the newsletter, along with other exclusive content, you will have the satisfaction of directly supporting independent content creators, our productions, and the infrastructure behind said productions (e.g. equipment, monthly editing subscriptions, music clearance). For the yearly tier, readers who are currently enrolled students at an institution of higher learning are encouraged to contact CSE on X or Instagram (@commonsense_ent) for access to a discounted rate.
We will make a portion of the Common Sense newsletter free on this page, and we will continue to produce select articles and commentary on this page with no paywall.
Additionally, we will continue to cover the case of Terrence Woods, which has had very little national media coverage. Since our special aired—the most watched edition of Fit To Speak since its July 30, 2020 launch—we have received tips from viewers that may help close the case. In furtherance of this, Mehul Anjaria and Dion Mitchell, the hosts of Crime Redefined—and whom we featured on our special—started a GoFundMe, which will fund an independent investigation into Terrence’s disappearance, which, in addition to forensic analysis of Terrence’s electronics, will include investigatory techniques that, to date, have not been utilized—or, at the very least, minimally utilized—by the Idaho County Sheriff’s office, and a site visit to Idaho where Terrence was last seen. Together, let us get answers and provide closure for the Woods family. We also again call on other independent, international, national, local, and University of Maryland-campus affiliated/associated outlets to provide Terrence’s story the same fervor of coverage that most other missing persons cases get.
Our best wishes to all of you for 2024 and beyond. You may not see the vision, but you will see us.
We will not be silenced.