Hello and welcome to an unnumbered episode of Effectively Wilde.

Are we allowed to make those?

Wouldn't even call it an episode.

More of a PSA.

But I am, as always, Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer, joined by Meg Reilly of Fangraphs.

Hello, Meg.

Hello.

Everything's fine.

Yes.

Don't worry.

Don't freak out too much.

Everything's fine. Important to state that right up front because people see a programming note, they see

an announcement, uh-oh, the podcast is ending, someone's leaving.

No, none of those things happening.

So for once we won't banter around the bush here.

We will just get right to it and say that the podcast itself is not changing at all, in fact.

But what is changing is the delivery system, the distribution of the podcast.

The show itself, same host, same schedule, same content you know and hopefully love,

but what is changing is the way that people can support and access it. So the upshot is that we

are going to a partially subscriber only model. I guess you could call it freemium. Effectively freemium.

Essentially, we will be making one of our three episodes a week for our Patreon supporters.

And the other two we will continue to make and deliver as we always have.

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