Hey folks, a couple of things before we start this episode.

In the past couple of months, we've seen our support on Patreon drop off pretty drastically.

I know times are hard, people are cutting back on what they're spending on, and I get it.

Right now, the show is making barely enough to keep going.

And I'm unemployed. I don't have any extra money that I could throw at the show to pay for our bills, you know, hosting all that stuff.

So what I'm asking you to do is if you like the show and if you want us to stay ad free,

please do me a favor. Go to patreon.com slash the beerists.

Even a buck an episode is an enormous help. I love doing the show. It's the reason I've

been doing it for, what, 13 years now. And it's specifically designed so we don't really

make any money off of it. We just make enough to keep it going.

And right now, even that is kind of hard to get.

You know, I'm not really comfortable asking you guys for this,

so I appreciate any help you can give us Patreon.com slash the beerists.

The other thing I want to talk about is you guys for the longest time have been asking

me to put shirts out for the show. And as you know, Grant and I have another podcast called Hello

Crawlers. It's a read-along podcast that we do for the dungeon crawler Carl series of books.

We're covering the audiobooks over there, listening to it book by book in chunks.

So if people want to follow along, they can.

It's a big fun time, and it's me and Grant and another friend of ours, Martin.

And if you're looking to join a book club, hey, there's one.

We're on YouTube.

It's a video show.

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