Hello and welcome to today's episode of Thin Air Podcast.

Today's episode marks a first.

This episode will contain paid advertisements from a new sponsor.

The decision to include ads is not one that Daniel and I take lightly and is one that we have thought a lot about.

We started this podcast because we love these stories.

The unique way that telling the stories of the missing helps to give a voice to what can feel like forgotten cases and sometimes people.

We are truly passionate about connecting the families of the missing with listeners like you.

This year has been a big year for the podcast and in our lives personally.

Jordan, that's me, has been living in the Czech Republic finishing up a Fulbright grant and Daniel is finishing

up his first full year as a high school English teacher.

The podcast has grown enormously more than I think Daniel and I ever thought that it could.

And with the craziness that is our busy lives,

we've had to make decisions based on what's really important to us

in the future of our podcast.

And what is important to us is creating the best podcast we can with as much

content as we can, because this work is so important to us as writers and creators. So far, we have only been limited by what we are able to do financially.

These ads mark the beginning of a better podcast.

Ads will allow us the freedom to expand, to have a staff of people to help us with research,

recording and mixing, to get more stories and contact more people in each case

and dedicate ourselves full time to the podcast in order to achieve our long time goal of weekly episodes,

which is what we've wanted since the very beginning.

So before we do this, we want to say thank you.

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