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Past Due with Ana Marie Cox and Open Mike Eagle

Ana Marie Cox, Open Mike Eagle, and Andrew Steven

Society & Culture, Business, Arts, Performing Arts

4.6 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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To wrap up the year, Ana, Mike, and Andrew take a look at what it really costs to make Past Due. From programmatic ads and Patreon, to personal finances and more, this is a full accounting of both the numbers and the “why.” Get bonus content and help support the show at ⁠patreon.com/pastdue⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This week on Past Do, we are turning the mic on ourselves.
0:04.6	It's the end of the year and we thought it was only fair to take stock, not just of the creative
0:09.2	economy out there, but of this show, our work and what it actually costs to make something
0:15.0	like Past Do.
0:16.2	If you're a listener, a fan, or a fellow creator trying to piece together your own thing,
0:20.3	this is a behind the scenes look at what's working, what's not, and why we're still doing it.
0:27.4	The creative economy is broken, but some people are still making it work.
0:35.3	We're here to find out how.
0:37.2	I'm Anna Marie Cox.
0:38.4	And I'm open Mike Eagle, and this is past due.
0:47.3	How do you guys want to start?
0:48.9	We are gathered here today to pull the curtain back.
0:54.7	It's a thin curtain to begin with.
0:56.2	We don't keep a lot of curtain around here, you know?
0:58.5	It's gauzy.
0:59.3	It's linen.
1:00.3	Right.
1:00.8	It's like hospital grade, you know?
1:03.1	It's very thin.
1:05.8	And we're going to discuss the finances of this pod that is about discussing people's finances.
1:15.4	It's very, very meta, no Zuckerberg.
1:19.6	You can't see our legs. It does have that in common.
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