Hey everybody, Alden Ford here. Happy Back's fun drive.

There is just one more day to go before the end of the drive and we were really really hoping to release

520 this week to help celebrate the drive, but I don't know if you all know the show

Very well, but we tend to sort of over commit ourselves a little bit and we are still working on sewing it up

It is going to be absolutely crazy and

Really really funny. It's been so satisfying for us to finish this story

In a way that is on our terms and we cannot wait for you to hear it in light of the end of the show

Mission to Zix is actually sitting this max fund drive out. That's right. This is not a plea for money

We got it already. We're out of here. Why am I even talking right now?

Well, it's because I still want to say something about maximum fun and you know

I mean it because I have literally nothing to gain by saying this you couldn't give us money right now if you wanted to

So when we started this podcast we had no idea how much it would come to dominate our lives

How ambitious we would be in making it bigger and better every season and how

truly fulfilling

Inspiring and humbling it would be to see our listeners ship

coalesce and grow as we built the world of mission to Zix with and for you

We've said it a lot of times before and it's been true every time

Making the show at the level we make it without listener support would simply not have been possible

When we joined maximum fund in season three we did it with two

Fund but in retrospect relatively simple seasons in the can a really great listenership and a modestly

successful Patreon that really helped us through our second year of work

Could we have kept our patreon going and funded the show that way independently?

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