Hello, everyone. I'm Stephen West. This is Velasa Fies. There's gotta be honest with you. I had no idea

how any of you would respond when I made the Patreon page. I thought, you know, part of me,

the back of my mind expected $2.75 to be pledged. But to the 153 people currently contributing per

episode and of course all the people that donated over PayPal this week, people that bought a book

this week or coffee mug or something, thank you. I mean, I don't know how else to say it. You people

truly make this show possible. And I guess the exciting thing is you're making other things possible

as well. The website is being redone. I'm able to hire an audio engineer to make sure that each

episode is mixed mastered and leveled well. I've been talked with a few people right now just

doing some price comparisons to keep you posted. Just know all of your generosity goes directly towards

making this show a better thing. I mean, we are honestly in a place right now where we are very

close to you guys never having to hear another ad on the show again. Like that is a feasible milestone

that might be reached on Patreon. Anyway, that said, we still don't have sponsors for this month or

next month. So if you want to contribute to the show, if that's something that you're interested in,

go to patreon.com slash philosophize this or you can just go to philosophizethis.org. There's a

link on the very front page, the very first page you see. Couple quick things on that same note for

the people that donated on patreon that will be receiving t-shirts, stickers, pens, etc., all the

perks. Fun fact, I got so many contributions that I had to reorder t-shirts and stickers.

UPS when I go to their website and talk to them, they swear to me that they are out for delivery.

Even though it's 7.25 pm right now, but rest assured as soon as I have them, I'm sending it out.

You're going to have yours. As far as doing 150 shout outs on the show today, yeah, it's not going

to happen. Again, I'm humbled by your generosity. I'm going to have to adapt. I think I'm just going

to do five per show until we knock them all out. So it's not too intrusive upon the show.

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