Hey everybody, Alden here. I just wanted to give you a quick non-Durf update on a project that we've been working on here at Mission to Zix, which is very close to my heart.

As of this very moment, we have completed and uploaded full transcripts of all 135 mainline Mission to Zix episodes to make our show more accessible for the deaf, hard of hearing, non-native English speakers, listeners who might have specific cognitive or attention needs, listeners who might just like to read along as they listen to see bits of

dialogue or catch jokes that they may not have heard on the first listen-through, and of course

the countless millions of us that prefer our podcasts exclusively in text form because print

is the future. All transcripts for these episodes are available in three places. First, they're embedded in each episode page at mission to zix.space. Second, they're available as transcript files on our show page over on maximum fun.org. And finally, we've uploaded and embedded those transcripts into the episodes themselves over on our YouTube channel where every episode is available now as well.

Now, this was a huge effort for a lot of reasons.

One, obviously, it's impossible to take a show like Mission to Zix and feed it through a speech-to-text

algorithm and get anything usable.

There are so many made-up names and insane sounds that don't register

on apps like that, not to mention the hundreds of terrible accents we were constantly doing.

So it was something that really needed to be done by real people. And ideally, people who

listen to the show and understand all the nonsense that's happening and how to parse all the different characters out and all of the various nuances that make our show interesting to listen to.

So years ago, we started this project and initially, because it seemed like such a big lift, I was sending episodes of the show to professional

transcriptionists, which was fine and worked, but understandably, we ended up with a lot of episodes

that needed some fixing, whether it was for spelling or continuity stuff or just context.

Ultimately, I decided maybe the best way to do this was to pass the project off to listeners of the show who might have a good time going through re-listening and coming up with fun ways to describe and transcribe all of the things that happen in the show.

So with the help of numerous amazing contributors on our Mission to Zix Discord. For the last four years now,

we have been dissecting episodes, trying to unpack dialogue, trying to figure out how best to

communicate certain passages that might not be easy to understand in text form. And not only

are these episodes fully transcribed but our

transcriptionists have added sound design notes and stage directions and

performance notes to really bring out the details and the nuance of every part of

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