If everything was working correctly, about 80% of you just heard a radio quality ad read.

Now, I've been searching for sponsors for the show for three or four months now, but unfortunately

it's been difficult to find regular sponsors, sponsors that are willing to come back week after

week and really support the show and help us grow. In the spirit of full transparency, I wanted

to make sure that everyone here knew that we have joined Spreaker Prime. They will be helping us by providing inline ad reads like you just heard. I just wanted to briefly tell you how this will affect you in your podcast listening experience. We're still going to do our best to keep our ad to content ratio at 1 to 20. That means for every 20 minutes of content, you have one minute advertisement.

Now, what's changing here is most of these advertisements are only 30 seconds long,

which means we'll be increasing the frequency of the ads, even though the total duration will

not change. So you should be expecting one of these dynamic ad reads every 15 minutes or so.

Another aspect of the show that will change is the ads will not be

written or read by me. This might not be a big deal for you because you probably already

skip them anyway, but I just wanted to let you know that that is an expected change.

And last item that's likely going to change is how the ad feels inside the episode.

Now, unfortunately, I can't go through and specifically pick which advertisements go where.

The speaker system just automatically figures that out while you download the episode.

So unfortunately, I can't stop a Toyota commercial from playing in an ad break right between

our Tesla content. And I also can't stop a Google Pixel ad from playing right in the middle

of our Google Pixel rant.

So if you hear awkward transitions and weird advertisers and weird places, just know that that

wasn't manually placed there by one of us. It was placed there by an automated system that

hadn't listened to the episode. Just as a reminder, though, there should be still a chime

at the beginning and end of each ad read, and you're still definitely encouraged to skip. I truly appreciate

your time and attention, so let's start this show.

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