Hello everyone and I want to thank you so much for your patience and waiting for part three of this series to drop.

I usually don't like to take too long but January was getting away from me and I needed to get the Patreon episode done

for the month for those who support us over there.

I have a few really important announcements so bear with me for a few minutes at the beginning of this

episode moving forward we are going to be able to quickly dive right into our stories each

week after the Patreon shoutouts but I have a few things that I need to tell you first.

I'm going to start off by saying that there are going to be some changes in the coming weeks

with the podcast, starting with, you're not going to have to hear the Blueberry intro anymore at the beginning,

and you're not going to hear that we are brought to you by orbital jigsaw anymore at the end.

California Dreaming is going back to being 100% independent.

What does this mean will change for you as a listener?

Just those two things.

No more blueberry and no more orbital jigsaw at the beginning

and at the end of every show that we've been doing for the last three and a half years.

What does it mean for me? Well, a few things. The benefits of being with orbital jigsaw meant

that I wasn't paying the cost of hosting the show with Blueberry. I wasn't paying for the

website and if you were buying California Dreaming merchandise from T-public

I wasn't making that money it was absorbed by the network so it was a fair trade-off

Obviously there were no ads ever sold.

We entertain the idea a couple of times.

I once did one of those wondery mass advertisements

for one of our new shows that every

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