Good evening. You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zakney.

With me tonight is our friend, freelance writer, and quarter to three blogger, Tom Check. Tom, welcome to the show. Thank you, Rob. Glad to be here. I've gotten everyone coffees I did not wait to ask. So, Rob, there's yours. Here's mine. Let's rock and roll. Yeah, so it's just the two of us here on a Sunday night. You know, I don't feel this podcast is really done.

There's only the two of us here on a Sunday night.

You know, I don't feel this podcast is really done.

There's only the two of us.

We don't have a totally firm plan yet.

So what I was thinking is, let's call this a beta.

And you at home can give us $30 for early access to this episode of the podcast.

And in a month or two, or longer, who really knows, we'll deliver you the final version of the podcast, hopefully with a full panel.

But for now, we're just going to have a sort of beta discussion about, well, sort of this very thing that we just, we just illustrated.

And wait, Rob, Rob, are you offering any guarantees here? Is this a sure thing? Is it an investment? Is this something that people can count on? Is there any risk involved here?

Well, obviously, podcasting itself is a risk.

It's a creative process.

It's full of risks.

But, you know, we're very passionate about our podcasts here.

And certainly we, obviously, you are not an investor, but we want you to feel invested.

So I think this is a great project for you to support.

So they're kind of having to take some of it on faith, but they're going to trust that we have the passion, and that we'll follow through and finish it up later.

So this is kind of, so this is their early access.

I think that's a great idea, Rob.

Well, it certainly seems like it's a great idea.

Judging from all the people who've sort of adopted this as a model for how you market and

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