Well, greetings everybody, welcome to the end of 2023 here on the podcast. This is our final wrap-up episode of 2023. We are here at the end of the year.

Today we're going to be doing things like reading out statistics behind the show, giving shoutouts and thank yous to patron members,

reading out listener comments, as well as some exciting announcements later on.

First thing I want to say is I am still getting over being sick. So please be patient with me and bear with me with my

voice. It probably doesn't sound very good. So the first thing that I want to do is I want to give a

shout out to the folks that have been donating this year helping me through Patreon and also sending

some donations through PayPal and things like that.

So first up, with our Patreon members, I would like to thank Elian M.

Steve Keys, David Pieden

Heather M

Logan B

Dan Albin

Paul

Chelson

Dr. Ed Holmes, Jeff Miller, Ryan Sangalang,

Carolyn Lednam, Kimberly Sikorsky, Scott Olson, Iris Belocry, Rick Cortez, and Stuart Bias.

I want to thank all of you guys so much for your monthly support of what I'm doing.

It really does mean a lot.

And anyone else who has donated this year, if you are someone who did cancel your

Patreon this year, and I didn't mention you, please forgive me.

It just may not be showing up on my list here.

But if you are someone who has been donating this year that I have not mentioned,

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