Hello, everybody. This is Jennifer Matarise and professor in the background eating dog biscuits

really loudly. I just wanted to do a really quick announcement for everybody who listens to the

podcast. Obviously, this is not an actual episode, but if you don't follow the social media accounts,

you won't actually know that I posted this earlier on today.

And so I just wanted to make sure that everybody heard that for the moment,

I will be pausing paid requests.

Now, if you have sent in a paid request and you haven't heard back from me,

that is not unusual.

I'm absolutely terrible about responding to things, as I've said many, many times.

So what I would recommend is to go to the Facebook or Twitter accounts for the podcast and just

kind of go through that list and make sure that your request is on there. If it is not,

give me a heads up. I'll make sure to add it to that. If you have a request

that you have been waiting to send in, but you've already been paying through Patreon for the

chance to have your own paid request episode, then you don't have to worry about that. You, you know,

go ahead and send that request in. You guys are still covered as well. But when it comes to,

say, PayPal, Venmo, cash app, all of those that for right now, if somebody sends me any

requests through there, I'm just going to send that back

and say, you know, thank you. Please hold on. I have a list of 76 disasters to go through,

and it's a lot. So I don't think it's fair to take those requests when there are so many others that I have to finish first.

So at least until I have made a dent in those, I'm going to be holding off on paid requests.

But like I said, if you are a Patreon supporter and you have paid for a request and you haven't sent it to me yet or anything like that,

just go ahead and send that whenever you can.

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