Hello, delicious friends, and welcome to Who Dad What Now, the History Podcast

that's not your history class, with me or host, Katie Charlwood, History Harlet and

Reader of Books. And in just over two weeks, the History Harlet herself

shall be on the stage in the Americas, or the North Americas. Yes, I'm equal parts excited and

terrified at the moment, so if you're not in an area in which my show was on, feel free to donate to my Just In Case Fund.

You know, just in case.

Just in case, I need it.

But if you are in an area where my shows are on, buy your tickets.

Get your tickets because Toronto is sold out, Pittsburgh is sold out, but there's still tickets available

left for Albany, Syracuse, what's the other one? Los Angeles and Boston, those are the

ones, that's them. They're all still available. Now, if you want to see me, get your tickets,

just get your tickets, because I've had people message me

about like Pittsburgh and Toronto saying like, oh, I wish I got my tickets, I missed it, yada yada.

Yes.

Now, here's the thing, I'm a person who always buys their stuff early anyway, like just in case,

because that's who I am as a person, because I need to be organized

because I am chaos. So I need the organization in my life. Now, I know there's a million

and one reasons why you can't or won't purchase tickets in advance, like I get it. But here's

the thing from the other side of the curtain, right? Here's the brass tax, you know.

So when you have a contract with a venue, which it exists, the venue exists to make money,

typically. And so sometimes in that contract, it will have a threshold of tickets like bums and

seats that you have to meet. And if you don't meet that threshold before a certain date,

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