Hey, everybody, I'm Will.

And before we get to story time, I just have a couple of podcast housekeeping things that I've been neglecting for a long time.

And I'm going to take care of them now at the top of the show before we get into it.

If this is your first time, I'm so glad that you are here.

Thank you.

I hope that you enjoy our time together.

If you are coming back, thank you.

I am so grateful that you choose to keep giving me your time and attention. And I have a small favor to ask.

Would you please rate and review us wherever you get your podcasts? It really helps the show grow.

It pushes us up in the like algorithms and just brings us across the event horizon of somebody who does not yet know

that this is their new favorite podcast.

And I would love for your help in doing that.

You know, I can only do it so much before I start to feel really weird and self-conscious.

I thought that you would also like to know that we have a Patreon that in addition to offering a feed of the show without any ads at all, we also have a lot of extras that I am very excited to share with you.

A lot of behind the scenes extras that show you and demonstrate for you how this podcast comes together. We give you some of the marked

up scripts. We give you some of our behind the scenes audio while we're finding a character

or working through a beat that's particularly challenging. And I'm even working on finding

some short stories too short for the full regular podcast that are terrific Patreon extras. If that

sounds interesting to you, you can find out everything you want at patreon.com slash storytime.

Finally, there is a page that lives on my blog that tells you everything you need to know about the

podcast, and that is will weaton.net

slash podcast. All right. Thank you so much for sitting through all of that. You're going to love this.

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