My dear brothers and sisters of all colors, I want to salute you in regard to your marvelous support of my dear sister, Tricia, and I over this past year.

But we are now at a fork in the road.

We have got to shift.

We've got to move now to patreon to maintain our freedom our freedom from

corporate influence and a whole host of other external influences and we hope that you come

with us and stay on this love train yes Yes, we do.

We really need your help and support and we're really excited about the future and what

we're planning.

So we want to just remind you that to access the full episodes going forward,

please go to www.

Patreon.com backslash the tightrope pod and become a member of our Patreon

community if you aren't already one. We have several subscription tiers to make the show accessible.

It's affordable and there's lots of opportunities for community building.

But we really need your help.

Our goal to keep our show going in a really smooth way and to know we can depend on the next week and the next week is about 3,000 members on Patreon.

That's our goal for the year.

If we can get that goal met as soon as possible, we can keep the tightrope alive and well and flourishing and keep you with us in conversation. So we look forward to your support. We hope you do do what you can. Spread the word. Talk to talk about the tightrope on your favorite platforms.

And we just are grateful, grateful, grateful for all you've done to make this show a reality and to

send us so much love. And we have to mostly thank Cornell for his, his wisdom and genius.

And we just look forward to seeing y'all soon.

Hi, I'm Father Mike Flager from Chicago, and I'm on the tightrope.

We are witnessing America as a failed social experiment.

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