Hey y'all, before we get to the actual start of the episode, we wanted to let you know

that we're making a big change to the membership program.

Yep, you see when we first started the straw foot brigade, we put together a WordPress

website ourselves and found a membership plugin to use with it.

And although both have performed Yom and duty up to this point, they're beginning to

show the strain as the number of members continues to climb steadily.

A growing membership is a good problem to have, obviously, and we think we've hit upon

the best solution to address that challenge as we continue to move forward with the podcast.

What we've decided to do is move all of the members' episodes to a proven membership

platform named Patreon that is already used by thousands of other creators, including

many of our fellow podcasters.

Our page there is all set up and ready to go.

So you can check it out right now at www.patrion.com backslash civil war podcast.

And we'll put that link up on the website and also on Facebook and Twitter.

Although we think this is the best long-term solution for us as we move forward with the

show, we realize that there may be some short-term disruption, since, unfortunately, there's

no way to simply transfer all of our current members to Patreon.

That means current members will have to close out their existing membership through PayPal

and then open up a new membership through Patreon.

To help ease this process for current members, we're going to plan for a transition period

of about six weeks, during which we'll leave all of the membership episodes up on the

website.

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