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Oh, damn, look at you. Before we continue my first ever journey through the Harry Potter series,

just a few quick announcements. First, it is the first episode in January, meaning that it is donation time here at Potterless.

We donate $1 for every patron that we have over at our team at patreon.com slash potterless.

And at the time of recording, we have 642 patrons, meaning that we are giving $642 to hope for the day.

Hope for the day is a charity that through outreach,

education, and action is trying to break the silence around mental health because suicide completion rates have surged to a 30 year high. I get a lot of messages saying that

Paderlis has held people through tough times, but a funny podcast can't always be enough. So

Hope for the Day is a great charity. Their message that they're trying to spread is that it's okay not to be okay. They're raising awareness, support, education, all these other great things. Shout out to listener Lorelei, who suggested this charity to us. And if you want to learn more about Hope for the Day and the amazing work that they're doing, you can go to hFTD.org. In live show news, grab your weatherproof north face because Potterless is coming to the Pacific Northwest in winter. I'll be part of the Multitude live shows on January 17th and 18th, and I'll be on two panels at Podcon if you're going to be there. And then February 17th, Potterless will be doing a live show as part of Portland's Listen Up Festival.

If you want to get tickets and find out more information about all of these shows, you can go to Multitude.commodicions slash live. And while I are at Multitude. Dot Productions, why don't you check out some of the other Multitude shows? There are so many other great podcasts. And there's resources if you want to learn how to start your own show. So that is all available at multitude dot productions.

Also, a few weeks ago, Paterall was past 10 million total downloads, which is ridiculous.

I cannot thank all of you enough for listening to the show, for telling your friends and

family about the show, for supporting the show on Patreon. It is so much. 10 million downloads

is nuts. I cannot believe it. And I'm just excited to see where this podcast can go in the future. And speaking of wonderful things, we have new patrons. So welcome to the team. So shout out to Mia Gray, Barry Brooks, Brie Contraeus, Laura Gold, A pen, Zoe, Lauren Prunner, Andrew Wynette, Andrew Hussie, Infield Bolerangin, Anthony Charley, Warren McKnight, name and loss, Tyler Nackie, Ellicoie Vamaki, Sophie Marysham, King Eclis, Amy Barnard, Sam Jackson, Gemma Wilde, Hayley Edwards, Martin Farrow, Karen M., Sierra, Crayham, Cray, Sarah, Lauer's, a pronunciation correction for Louisa del Judice, and I'm sorry if I messed that up again.

Shout out to Georgia Davis, Emma Foreselius, Megan Kirby, and Wizard Tusser 85, who all upgraded their pledges, and a huge shout out to a newest producer-level patrons, Harper Caldwell, Liz Bigelow, Maria Noah, Brandon Pickens, Vittorio Nicoletta, and Sarah Enslin. They joined the ranks of Leanne, Vicky, Aaron, Erica, Calvin, Sadie, Jesse, Natalie, Deborah Clow, Alex Frank Marchismo, Tori, Samantha, Juan, Jenna, Kieran, Rebecca Abede, Caitlin, Caitlin, Rosemary, Rousamary, Lisa, Arna, Gilmarie, Lisa,

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