Well, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, everybody. Technically, Christmas is over. But, hey, if you're like me and you love Christmas, you're still kind of celebrating, at least until the new year is here, right?

Your host here, Dakota Black, and I wanted to do this 2025 rap or year-in wrap and today's episode is just going to be me talking

and so if you don't like that it's a good time of tune out but we're going to be reading out

some comments giving out some shoutouts and thank yous to supporters as well as talking about some statistics

behind the show and my thoughts and plans for the new year of 2026. All right, all of that

is happening right now.

So let's go ahead and get started here with a big thank you and shoutouts to my monthly $5 a month subscribers to my Patreon program. And these folks are Todd Klingler, Chris Gonzalez, Mike, Julie Seider, Kevin Corbett Plade X

Paul Chelson

and Rick Cortez

thank you guys so much for your $5 a month

subscription at my Patreon

for those of you that don't know if you sign up for the $5 a month

Patreon plan you get access to hundreds of completely ad-free episodes.

And it's just a way of supporting me and what I'm doing and helping me to continue doing this as the podcasting market gets more and more competitive and more difficult to keep your head above water.

And I'll talk a little bit more about that later.

But thank you guys so much.

Also, Gary Kelly, who also sends periodically donations through PayPal.

Thank you so much, Gary Kelly, for your help as well.

And anyone who's donated in the past, thank you guys so much.

All right, let's talk a little bit about some statistics behind the show. So these are statistics

from January 1st of this past year all the way up until the 29th of December.

And of course, 2025.

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