Hello beautiful nerds I have a big announcement after 10 years of being an independent

production with our 10th year probably being our biggest ever putting out three special

project spin-offs in a best-selling book I've decided to sell the show to Sirius XM, specifically

to Stitcher, which is their podcast company.

The same 99PI crew are going to make the show, I'm still going to host it, we're our own

editorial unit. It'll still be available

anywhere to everyone. If you're subscribed now, you will stay subscribed. It's the same

show. Someone else just collects the ad money and guides the business stuff.

You'll never notice the sound of anything different, except I get to be involved more.

So much of my job has become running a business and not making a podcast. I desperately needed that to change. I chose Stitcher

as my new partner because I already knew trusted and respected everyone there. The ball got

rolling when I called Colin Anderson.

He's the VP of Comedy at Earwolf, they're part of Stitcher.

I literally signed his paperwork a decade ago for him to work in this country.

He was on furlow from the comedy production group at BBC Radio and I signed the paperwork for him to work at KLW in San Francisco.

And then he hooked me up with Natalie Moelum, the VP of Business Development, and she and I hit it off right away because she also

happens to be the sister of John Muallum who wrote and performed the amazing song

story collaborations Wild Ones and Genie Chans which are like our best episodes ever so

talking to her was like talking to a cousin.

And the person who will be my boss is Peter Clowney. He's the head of original content at Stitcher.

And he was my editor 15 years ago. We worked on pilots for public radio,

and it seemed to say that if Peter hadn't

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