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Hey, it's me, your dad. Before you go and have fun in the sun here on Labor Day weekend,

make sure you put sunscreen on and queue up an episode of this podcast.

Before we continue my first ever journey through the Harry Potter series, just a few quick announcements first.

It is the first episode of Potterless in September, meaning that it is donation time.

Here at Potterless, we donate $1 for every member of our team over at patreon.com slash

potterless to a different charity, and at the time of recording we have 867 patrons meaning

that we'll be donating $867 to the rainforest trust so obviously if you've been watching the news

there are some wildfires going through the amazon rainforest and though rainforest wildfires

happen every now and then some of these are manmade and it is far more so than usually happen

so donating to the rainforest trust just made sense for this month.

Since 1988, they have saved over 23 million acres of land, and in 2018 alone, they

protected 1.28 billion trees, 125 threatened mammal species, and 79 threatened bird species.

If you want to learn more about this charity, you can add on over to RainforestTrust.org.

Also, we're only about a month away from Potterless and Multitude live in Boston. On October 10th, Multitude will be doing a live show at CitySpace in Boston. If you want more information about the show and get tickets, you can head to Multitude. Dot Production slash live. And that weekend, Friday through Sunday, immediately after I will be at LeakeyCon Boston. It is official. There's going to be Potterless Live. It should be on Friday unless the schedule changes. So if you are planning on going to LeakyCon for just one day and you want that day to be the Potterless Day, Friday is your day. But ideally, I will be doing events throughout the entire weekend. Those haven't been announced yet, but I'll be sure to keep you posted in future podcast intros. And speaking of bright futures, we have new patrons to welcome to the team. So shout out to Massas 95, Selena Ellermann, Cassie 10 Kate, Ashley Jade, Natasha Slatton, Josie Appleyard, Inbar, Lorber, Oara, Miranda, Sarah Heath, Zoe Jones, Helen Fredstom, Rachel, and someone who made their patron name something that is so offensive that I can't bring myself to say it, so instead I will just say, quote, I love basketball.

A name correction for Carbon Corvid, a pronunciation correction for Leor Nahum, shout out to Callie Boldler and Laura Vorwald, who upgraded their pledge,

and a producer correction for Ashton Gabrielson, whose name I forgot to say the past couple weeks. Shout out to our new producer-level patrons. Courtney, Victoria McCormick, Hannah Zedars, and Marique Rieger. They joined the ranks of Vicki, Erin, Jesse, Natalie, Natalie, Natalie, Clough Frank Marchismo, Samantha Juan, Abede, Rosemary,

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