Hi friends, a few announcements that you're going to want to hear before we start.

First, we are more than halfway through season one, and I really can't believe it.

This project has honestly been so incredibly rewarding. I'm so grateful for all of your support.

It's been amazing. Our plan for right now is to release the 10 episodes that we have planned

for season one before we take a longer break and prepare for next season. I love putting out

weekly episodes. It's like if it was up to me, I would put out weekly episodes every week

forever, but these babies take time to make, especially to make at a quality which we think is good,

right? One that is well researched and where we do our due diligence of reaching out to folks

and things like that. So it's really hard for me and my team to uphold that week-by-week schedule

when we all have jobs outside of the podcast, and they just take so much time to make. So

we're going to take this small break after 10 episodes, and then of course we will be back

as soon as possible. Next, I want to thank everyone who has supported True Crime on Patreon.

In full transparency, Patreon support really really makes a difference in the time and resources

that we have. And ultimately, that's going to affect how quickly we can come back for season two.

For those of you who haven't heard me talk about Patreon, hear me out for just a sec. Patreon

is a membership service where for as little as $5 a month, you can support everything that goes

into making an episode of True Crime. From the time it takes to research and write each episode,

to the production equipment, and the editor who makes each episode sound really good and honestly

shy out to our editor. For example, today I am recording in my closet during a Minnesota heat

wave. It is almost 100 degrees. It has been that way, and I have no air conditioning in this closet,

and I'm probably going to be making frequent breaks to drink water. But our editor makes a sound

amazing. And of course, there's other things to the marketing materials that help us spread the

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