I'm Moving to Substack

I'm not Larry David. He just looks like me.

I've started publishing my stories on Substack.

If you're not familiar with Substack, it's a platform for writers and creators to publish content directly to subscribers, paid and not paid. Many journalists, pundits and others have turned to Substack, which is independent and not supported by advertising.

 Print and broadcast journalists are losing jobs for economic reasons as well as being threatened and/or censored as mainstream newspapers and networks (legacy media) are being gobbled up by mergers and acquisitions in the big money game.

The media landscape has changed. Wealthy investors are becoming the overlords of information, including tech titans Larry Ellison, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. Even Donald Trump has his own social media site.

I've decided to move beyond my blog to reach more readers and get out from under Google, whose platform supports this blog. Substack should offer me more freedom as far as control of my photos and what I write. At least that’s the theory.

I thank Google for affording me the opportunity to publish my work for the past 10 years. They have made it easy. Substack is relatively new, launched in 2017, and does not offer the easy layout tools that Google provides.

All things not being equal, there is no guarantee that Substack will survive. And Google may become an AI behemoth. So what's new? We live in a fast-changing world.

I plan to continue my Talking Real Stories on Google while I begin to post the SAME material on Substack. I may end up using both platforms. I’m trying something new and we’ll see what happens.

I invite you to join me on Substack:.https://kevinsamson731032.substack.com/. You are not required to start a paid subscription. I'm not clear about the advantage for paid subscribers. For writers it's an opportunity to earn a little money, a rare concept.

Substack will offer you the opportunity to “follow” me and receive my posts by email, without me going through the process of sending them to you individually. That’s a bonus for me.

Thank you, my esteemed readers. It's a great pleasure sending my stories to you, and reading your comments.

Again, Talking Real Stories will continue to appear on this current Google platform for the time being. It will also appear on Substack. If you have questions, you can contact me by email or text me. I will send you my phone number for texting, if you do not have it, through your private email address. 

Mahalo, Melekalikimaka, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! 

Hope to hear from you in 2026!