Hey, Justin here. I've got something very exciting to tell you before this episode. Today, the day

this very episode drops is the Holy Ghost Stories Patreon launch. If you don't already know,

Patreon is an online platform that allows people like you to support the creators they appreciate

to become patrons of that work. Now, you're listening to Holy Ghost

Stories right now, so here's what I know. There's a good chance you've listened before and you

like what this podcast does. I love that so much. I don't have to explain to you what Holy Ghost

stories is or what I'm trying to accomplish with it because you know. Here's what you may not

know. There are two reasons more things like this podcast don't exist. Number one, it's demanding.

Every one of these episodes requires loads of research, story outlining, painstaking writing,

editing, rewriting, precise recording, sound editing,

musical scoring, mixing. Each episode is over 60 hours of work. And there's no team,

there's no research assistant, it's just me, and I love every bit of it. But this is a full-time

endeavor. It requires a concentrated devotion of time and energy.

Holy Ghost Stories exists because I've made it my job.

There's not a lot out there like this podcast because it's just very demanding to create

something like this.

The second reason there's not more like this is that it's dangerous.

What I mean is this.

In order to devote the time and energy I just talked about, I had to quit my job, rent out

my house, and start eating a lot of rice in order to live for a while with no income.

And apparently, that's just not a super popular thing to do.

Not many people want to change their lives and risk everything, hoping,

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