Hello Heaton here. Good news everyone. We have hit and surpassed the 500 patron

goal on Patreon. The political orphanage soars ever higher. Born aloft on the wings of listeners. I am so excited at the response

the show is getting from Judge Week which is crazy. In the current media

landscape I said, hey, you know what I'm going to do in the last

month of the election when everybody's flipping out and like sharpening their dives, do you

what I'm going to do? I'm going to do the opposite of drive by punditry and instead

I'm going to put together an entire week of high-octane jurisprudence from legal scholars assume my audience is intelligent and

provide information to people with robust attention spans. I bet people will like

that sort of thing. And I was right! I was right! 500 patrons! Hell yeah! So thank you, gorgeous new patrons of this program. Your

support allows me to dedicate time and effort to put things together like Judge Week.

And honestly, it just makes me feel really good, so thank you.

If you want to support the show, go toreon dot com slash Andrew Heaton this week for

judge week I am randomly drawing a name from all the new patrons and whoever I

draw will be the official 500 patron I will mail you a gavel and

conversationally and professionally henceforth refer to you as judge.

Even if we get married.

In the middle of a fight, I will have to refer to you as a judge. I've made that commitment.

Now if you're already a patron of the show, you've been a patron of the show, you might think, hey, why do these Johnny come

lately's get a crack at a cool political orphanage gavelin honorary title when I supported

the political orphanage before it was cool.

That's fair.

So tell you what I'll do.

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