Hello, everybody, and welcome back to the show.

This is the penultimate episode of this series on Brandon Tina.

But before we get started, I want to share a few things about this podcast with you.

This is an independent, ad-free, one-woman show, which means I depend on you, the listeners,

to help keep us going.

Our fifth anniversary just passed, and there were two things about the show that I never

wanted to change.

I wanted this to be an experience that would never be interrupted by advertisements.

We may get interrupted by my side-trackiness or off-topic meandering, but never for an

ad for a kitty litter or man-scaping products.

Now, I don't really read the reviews that the show gets very often, and because mostly

they're positive, I regularly receive one-star reviews for being too annoying or opinionated,

and those are just the listeners who just don't get the show.

That this was meant to be something that was an easy listening kind of a thing, something

to help you fall asleep.

That's what I liked podcasts for.

Those of you who listen, you already know that.

The title of the show has the word dreaming in it, because my concept was for this to

be something to help you go to sleep.

That's why the music in the background is very low.

I try not to be too loud or shouty when I'm recording.

I don't use very many audio recordings or 911 calls, and if I do, I make sure to control

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