Hi y'all. Before we get to the episode, we wanted to take a couple of minutes

here at the beginning of the show to do two things. First, we want to say thank

you for your many kind words while we were sick with COVID and recovering. We

appreciated those so much. And then the second thing we'd like to do is engage

in a bit of shameless self-promotion. There might be some of you who are just

starting to listen here as we kick off the Chica Maga story arc. So we want to

let you know there are several ways for you to help support the podcast if you

feel so moved. But there's our tea public store front where you can purchase

t-shirts and other stuff or you can make a one-time donation through the

website or you can support us on a monthly basis over at Patreon by signing up

for the straw foot brigade. There's a link on the podcast website that will take

you to our tea public store front and hey with it being summertime and people

being out and about what better way to show your fan of the show than with an

official podcast t-shirt. Then those one-time donations are always

appreciated and you can make a secure donation by going to the podcast website

and following the prompts to do that through PayPal. And no you don't actually

need to have a PayPal account to make a donation since we've had some of you

ask about that. And that brings us to the straw foot brigade and that's just the

fun name we came up with for the folks who support the podcast on a monthly

basis over on Patreon. Your financial support helps us out and you get access to

tons of members episodes. In fact we just recently released three members

episodes about Confederate cavalry commander John Hunt Morgan's great raid

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