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Welcome back to practical stoicism. I'm Tanner Campbell, and this week I've got the news I couldn't share with you last week.

This podcast is being acquired by Glassbox Media, which means a few things. Number one, it means I can now focus on this project full time, which is if I had a sound effects with, you know, like party poppers from New Year's and fireworks and cheering crowds, I would be playing that right now.

Number two, it means I have time to add interviews and deep dives, which are things you guys and gals have been writing me nonstop really since the show started asking for

these things. I can now add these things to the weekly lineup because I can now write and

prep for those things during the week and weekend. And number three, it means I have to make a

change to the promise I made you about ads. I have to make a change moving forward. I know that hearing those items, all of you are

going to be really happy because it means more content from me more frequently, and that's a win-win.

But I also know that most of you, if not all of you, are going to cringe a little bit at the idea

of number three, which is me making changes to the number of ads that appear in this show. Nobody likes ads.

The reality, unfortunately, is that the ads are what is generating the revenue that's allowing me to go full-time,

so they're a necessary annoyance. However, during my negotiations with Glassbox, who, if you care,

are a really great group of people. I found them to be flexible

and very understanding, especially of my fears and concerns of becoming a quote-unquote network show.

I think that most of us, and maybe you're a creator in your own right, maybe you're an artist

or a musician or something, we don't generally feel comfortable selling out, right? If I could reference the real big fish

song, that's what I think of. Whenever I think of something like this, I feel like I'm selling out.

We're kind of uncomfortable with that, but at some point as we get older, we have to kind of

square our impractical, youthful ideas about how the world works with how the world actually works.

And sometimes that means you

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