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Hey guys, quick announcement before this episode of the Headgum podcast.

And that is that the Headgum podcast is moving to Patreon over at patreon.com slash headgum.

And we wanted to take a moment to explain why this shift is happening and just kind of give you guys as much transparency

as possible. As you may or may not know, the show has historically been ad supported, but the

problem is, I don't know if you've noticed, for the past year or year and a half, we've had next to

no ads. It's a tough sell because the show is an inside joke of sorts. Right, and even listeners

have admitted that it's hard for you guys to pitch the show to your friends joke of sorts. Right. And even listeners have admitted that it's hard

for you guys to pitch the show to your friends because how do you even describe it? Our ad sales

team has had the same issue. So instead of having to sunset the show and have it come to an end

since it hasn't been profitable for the better part of two years, we've been able to make the decision to move it over to Patreon.

And it really did come down to that.

It was either this or the show was going to have to end, unfortunately.

So we're excited that the show is going to get to keep on going.

We also want to be paying everyone who works on this show fairly

and to be well compensated for putting their time and energy and efforts

into the show. Even though it doesn't always show, I do spend several hours a week on the show.

Our awesome engineer, Grace Harper, works really hard on the show behind the scenes. And everyone at

Headgum has to devote some portion of their working hours every week to the show. So this will

help justify that and make sure that everybody gets paid a good

wage. Yeah, the show does look good

especially when you remember to hit record

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