Welcome to another edition of Geopolitics and Empire.

If you're listening to the audio on Apple, Spotify, or another podcast player,

you may have noticed ads.

Yes, I have switched podcast hosts, and now I have ads inserted.

Please bear with me.

You know, the podcast has been trudging along financially, economically speaking,

and it's not fully sustainable the way things are going.

And inserting these ads now is going to generate me a considerable sum of revenue.

So please bear with me.

Don't complain.

If it's too much for you, stop listening.

But a lot of the podcasts that I enjoy, Art of Madliness or whatever, they've got ads,

I power through them because I know that that's the only way that they can bring these podcasts to the table.

You know, we can't, we can't do this for free.

It takes a lot of work and time.

So just giving people a heads up who listen through to the audio only version of geopolitics and empire on any of the podcast players,

you'll be hearing ads now.

And that will be generating that in combination with my other sources of revenue,

substack and whatnot,

will hopefully give me a full time full time full time for the first time doing geopolitics and empire.

So please learn to live with the ads.

All right, joining us coming back to the podcast.

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