Hey everybody, I just recorded a super long intro, so long in fact that I've decided to put it

in the outro. I got you guys all up to speed with everything going on in my life, new projects,

upgrades on the show and the one main little takeaway. There's lots of exciting stuff that I

covered, but I'm going ad-free with the here we are podcast back to the roots like I always kind

of meant to do in the beginning and I did for the first few years and I've experimented with

with ads over last few years and I want to experiment again with not doing ads for a while and

relying on patreon because having now been a year since I've done live touring and

taken this time to explore various ways of getting crowd support and monetizing. I just

I don't as a consumer. I don't like ads. I'd rather pay to support people. I'd rather get the

subscriptions and I'd rather get the, you know, everything's kind of almost pay per channel

now on TV and everything and I just think it's a better model than old days of getting the

big cable package and then seeing commercials every few minutes breaking up your shows. I

I love the idea of subscribing to specifically what you want and not having a bunch of crap

peddled to you all of the time but also new comedy podcast coming gosh so many incredible

announcements guys so many. I hope you listen to the end but I didn't want to blab for too long.

It's kind of not fair to my guest who's maybe excited to share this with some people so I know

I know a lot of you listeners are used to me blabbing for a while and being kind of

long-winded and I'm sure you're used to it because otherwise you would have left.

I imagine people do sometimes so those who that stick around are just into get the way that I

express myself and speak in these kind of long essay forms and meander a little bit so I just

wanted to do a short intro to let you know to listen to the end on this one especially just because

I share it on a stuff that I have going on and I think if you're a fan of this show

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