Hello, friends, and welcome to the Bikes for Death podcast. As always, my name is Patrick, and I'm your

host. And we're back after a week off. Last week, I was at the beach with the family. So I apologize

for missing a week there, but hey, got to take vacations every once a while and hit that reset button.

But I'm back in the hot seat and ready to

bring you hot fire podcasting content just for your earbuds, your mind, and your soul.

But before we get to today's episode, let's give a special shout out to all of the newest patrons

that have stepped up to be sustaining members of the Bikes for Death podcast.

As we learned recently, I can't do it without you.

And so your support is critical to producing this show.

So let's go ahead and give a big, warm welcome to the newest patron starting with Christopher Barata, Carrier Dennis, Miles Camp, Brian Farren,

Mike Zandi, Timothy Default, Ryan Gilmore, Ryan Zimmer, Katie McGuire, Bradley Ortega,

Lars Smith, Martin Holdridge, Johnny DeMartin, Brent Young, Gwynnevieve Birch, Kevin Emery, Blake Kingfisher, Kristen Wiley, Andrew Cullen, and Kevin Killets.

Seriously, thank you all so much for signing up.

Make sure you join us over on the private Bikes for Death Patreon page over there on Facebook,

get in on the conversation and find out some behind the scenes going on over here at Bikes

for Death.

We got a great little community over there, and I would love for you to join us online.

Also coming soon for patrons only is the next Bikes for Death after party episode going to be

with Claire Panisha, who I interviewed while I was up in Stillwater, Oklahoma a few weeks ago.

And due to the content of this episode, we've decided to take it off the main

airwaves and make it available to patrons only. So if you're interested in having access

to that exclusive content, get in on the conversation over on Facebook. And of course,

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