Hey, it's Yo-A. I'll make this quick.

If you've been following our membership campaign, you know that we've been trying to reach

1,500 paying Patreon members by October 9th to get an additional 25K from a generous listener

and cover the costs of making Year 2 in a sustainable way.

And as of this recording, a few days before October 9th, we are at 743 paying Patreon members.

That means we've basically doubled the number of members we had, which is amazing, but still far from our goal.

The good news is that our generous listener has generously agreed to lower the goalpost and extend the deadline.

So now we have to just get to 1,000 paying Patreon members by October 31st to get the additional 25K.

It's still a stretch, but it's definitely within reach. We're three quarters of the way there

already. So if this show means something to you, if you believe in emotional investigative

journalism, if you believe emotions rule or world, and we need to rigorously report on them,

go to patreon.com slash proxy podcast to sign up. You know the Brownies by now.

When you become a Patreon member starting at $5 a month, you will get exclusive premium episodes,

ad-free episodes, access to the chat. Plus anyone with an annual membership will get an

original magnet made by me. Annual memberships

really help us because we avoid monthly credit card fees. Thank you to everyone who has signed

up, who's been listening, sharing, writing in. Seriously, that has been the most amazing

thing about this campaign. It makes me feel like we can do this,

and there's a point to doing this. And even if you can't sign up right now, we still love you

and totally get it. And we just feel very lucky to make this show for you. Okay, no more campaign

update. Enjoy today's episode. Hey, everyone, it's YoA. I'm here to tell you

about a brand new show in the Radiotopia family, a partnership with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

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