We finally arrived at our high holy season. New episodes begin September 15th and roll through October.

We seem to have shifted to a chaotic seasonal model for the show and I intend to release six or so installments this chaotic season.

In addition to a couple of traditional neighbor interviews, I'm happy to finally tell Biddy's story,

a case that spooked her and me so badly, it's taken time to wrap our heads around it

enough to share it and it'll take several installments to tell which should be fun

slash scary. Now one day in late August after a particularly stressful move and weeks of

summer momming I had a random idea. The intro's and outros to get the episodes, while necessary at the time of release, feel bulky and clunky years later.

So what if I took them out?

Cleaned up the audio a bit and re-release the clean versions to

Patreon so listeners could pop right into the stories without all the fluff. To clarify,

the originals will remain in all their brilliant messiness on the

podcast feed wherever you listen, while these

fluff-free versions will live on Patreon. Sounds great, right? And it started out great.

Predictably, it swiftly went off the rails.

I had the first four episodes cleaned up and uploaded onto Patreon

when I realized I couldn't find the original file for number five, but then six wasn't there either or seven.

All told the files for episodes five through 30 fucking 4 have disappeared into the ether.

We both know damn well that user error most likely came into play in the random deletion but indulge me for a moment as I scream into the abyss.

In my defense the computer is eight years old and it's been carded to four different houses in that time.

The thing's considered vintage at this point, but a new computer is on the way and let's just hope that this one lasts until September 11th. Now, as for my little fluff-free Patreon episode idea,

I just plowed ahead and uploaded clean versions

of the audio files that I do still have.

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