Hello everybody, this is Brett O'Shea from RevLeftRadio.

So today I have an announcement and this is just basically an announcement about where RevLeft

is going to go in the future, going right now.

So it changes I'm going to make basically.

And this is going to be mostly centered on the Patreon but also a little change or two for the public feed.

And I just wanted to announce this to make this very, very clear and just to announce to everybody

who may enjoy RevLeft, may support RevLeft, but might not be on the Patreon or might not think that

one bonus episode a month is enough to justify tossing us a few dollars for the Patreon.

So the first and biggest announcement is that I am going to triple my Patreon output every month.

One of the problems I've run up against recently is that I don't have a consistent outlet to keep up with the news.

And my scheduling for RevLeft has often because of various factors and because you want to give guests enough time

and work around schedules.

I usually plan my episodes a month, sometimes even as far as two months out from the agreement to come on.

And then of course there's the editing process that can sometimes take up to a week or longer.

And sometimes we have backlogs making it even longer before those episodes get out.

And one thing this makes it difficult to do is to keep up with issues in real time, events that are happening in real time.

And even if an event pops off to find a good guest for that event, quickly is often very hard to try to schedule it right away

so that we can cover the topic while it's still in the news.

And it's incredibly hard with trying to get my schedule and that person's schedule quickly on the same page, etc.

And so one of the things that has happened is we're putting out a lot of episodes as always.

But sometimes we'll miss some of the very important stuff that's happening right now with the Atlanta Forest and Cop City,

with the murder of Tyree Nichols, the Iranian women's protests that have happened a few months back.

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