Welcome to Strong Songs, a Podcast About Music. I'm your host Kirk Hamilton and as always I'm so glad that you've joined me to talk about the achelerandos and Rolandandos that make up magical modern music.

It's a listener question episode this time around and we have a ton of really good questions

to get through.

I'm excited for that.

But before we do it, a of quick acknowledgments and announcements.

First of all thank you so much to everybody who's back to the show already on Patreon.

Seems like it's going really well.

We've got more than 100 backers which is really cool and means a lot to me.

I definitely want to get more people backing the show, so if you haven't looked at the

Patreon page yet, I hope that you'll go over there and check it out.

It's at PatreonPatreon.T-O-N-G-Songs, and you can rest assured, there will be a link for that in the show

notes of this episode. It's a very vulnerable thing to ask your

listeners to support your show directly, even though I knew that was what I wanted to do I don't

want to sell the show I don't want to sell ads it seemed like the way to go it's still

kind of a it was surprisingly a vulnerable feeling for me so it was really meaningful that people

have been stepping up and telling me

they're gonna back the show that's really cool and yeah I hope that if you haven't

backed it yet you'll at least go over there and consider it. To that end I am

instituting my first Patreon goal.

If we can get to 150 backers, 150 people backing the show, I will compose new theme music

for strong songs, specifically written for strong songs, which the current music was not. So 150 backers and we get

new music. See if you can get it done. I also really completely understand that

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