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Speaker 3: Oh hi, so pod dad here, Okay, I wanted to
Speaker 3: make you a little miniso to tell you some things
Speaker 3: that are changing with ologies. It's all very exciting. Okay,
Speaker 3: let's have that minisod theme, shall we.
Speaker 4: So?
Speaker 3: Okay, here are some upgrades to the podcast. So forever
Speaker 3: y'all have been asking me if I have any transcripts
Speaker 3: of the episodes for people who are hearing impaired, or
Speaker 3: who are writing papers, or who just want to read
Speaker 3: the information and not take notes. And forever I've been
Speaker 3: like rely rely no. So starting in about a month
Speaker 3: or two, I will have transcripts for pretty much all
Speaker 3: the episodes. There's an amazing listener named Emily who is
Speaker 3: a professional transcriptionist who is working with a team of
Speaker 3: volunteers who are listeners to head up sorting them out,
Speaker 3: distributing them and everyone's taking a couple or one or
Speaker 3: more than one. It's an awesome group. Also, if you
Speaker 3: ever need a professional transcriptionist, hire Emily White. That's her email,
Speaker 3: Hire Emily White. She has been amazing and the work
Speaker 3: that she's been doing to help make this podcast accessible
Speaker 3: is just it's gorgeous and astounding. The first transcript she
Speaker 3: sent me, I was like, oh my god, it's all there.
Speaker 3: So hire Emily White. If you need a transcriptionist, hire
Speaker 3: Emily White at gmail. Okay. The other thing that is
Speaker 3: going to help with some accessibility is getting versions Bleeped
Speaker 3: available for download for anyone who wants to listen with
Speaker 3: kids or wants to listen at their school, but their
Speaker 3: school won't allow them to hear the word fuck and
Speaker 3: shit and whale dick and stuff around kids. So I'm
Speaker 3: hiring a few extra editors to go back use the
Speaker 3: transcripts we have and bleep episodes, and those will be
Speaker 3: available for free, as will the transcripts through myite aliwar
Speaker 3: dot com. They're not up yet, but we're working on it.
Speaker 3: So all of these things take more time and more
Speaker 3: people and more money, but they are upgrades I've really
Speaker 3: wanted to do, and things that I wanted to have
Speaker 3: available for people so that more people can just enjoy
Speaker 3: the Ologists and all of the knowledge. So those are
Speaker 3: things I've been working on. The other thing is some
Speaker 3: people have been worried that I won't be able to
Speaker 3: keep doing this podcast. I'll just burn out because it
Speaker 3: is a ton of work. It's just a fuck boat
Speaker 3: of work, and I have a couple other jobs that
Speaker 3: I do. But good news, I just sign a contract.
Speaker 3: I'll be doing fifty episodes this next year. So fifty episodes, guys,
Speaker 3: that's pretty much once a week you'll be getting a
Speaker 3: new Ologies episode, a million dj air horns. So exciting,
Speaker 3: So I can't burn out. I'm contractually obligated to keep
Speaker 3: making them. And I'm contractually obligated because I did sign
Speaker 3: with a network. So I joined the mid Roll Company
Speaker 3: and they produce and run ads for some of my
Speaker 3: favorite podcasts, Oprahs and WTF and a lot of really
Speaker 3: great ones Getting Curious and so it's been a long
Speaker 3: time in negotiating with them because I wanted to make
Speaker 3: sure that I had the opportunity to pick the advertisers
Speaker 3: I wanted to work with that made good stuff and
Speaker 3: there were products that I thought you guys would like
Speaker 3: and actually use, and so they've been rad and so
Speaker 3: I start advertising with them starting this next episode with Cats,
Speaker 3: and so I'll be telling you guys about stuff that
Speaker 3: I've been using and when I think of it. And
Speaker 3: I could have just done regular ad reads, but I
Speaker 3: decided to make a little bit more work, but make
Speaker 3: it a little bit more fun. And I wanted to
Speaker 3: let all the patrons know, who've been supporting the podcast
Speaker 3: since literally day one. I would not be able to
Speaker 3: make this podcast without you guys. Honestly, the support that
Speaker 3: you've allowed me to give editors and paying myself a
Speaker 3: bit to do this as a job has been It's
Speaker 3: been irreplaceable. So to patrons, you know that I'm just
Speaker 3: thirsty for your love and I love you very much,
Speaker 3: and so I wanted to include patrons with the ads,
Speaker 3: just to let them know that they have a really
Speaker 3: big voice in the show and they're really part of
Speaker 3: the making the show. So I started just calling patrons.
Speaker 3: I asked them. I was like, hey, give me your
Speaker 3: phone numbers, and then some of them did, and then
Speaker 3: I just called them and I did ads to individuals
Speaker 3: and I recorded them and you can hear them there'll
Speaker 3: be in the break before Patreon questions. So my ads
Speaker 3: are in the form of just marketing to one individual
Speaker 3: at a time. Then we had a chit chat for
Speaker 3: a while off air. It was great. So if you're
Speaker 3: a patron, especially the Ologies, BFF tire, I see you.
Speaker 3: I may be calling you soon. Maybe I'll talk to
Speaker 3: you about vitamins or a really cool lecture course and
Speaker 3: then we'll shoot the shit about your bird in the background. Anyway,
Speaker 3: So those are some of the things that are changing
Speaker 3: with ologies. The other thing that having ads is going
Speaker 3: to allow me to do, other than pay myself a
Speaker 3: wage that is fair for the amount of work I
Speaker 3: put into it. Is every episode I'm going to be
Speaker 3: donating to a charity that's relevant to the ology. So
Speaker 3: I've been asking the ologists like and then having them pick,
Speaker 3: and then I'm donating being part of the AD revenue
Speaker 3: to them because I think a lot of us listen
Speaker 3: to these episodes are like, I want to help, I
Speaker 3: want to do something.
Speaker 2: I want to help.
Speaker 3: So I want to know that if you're listening to ads,
Speaker 3: if you're supporting on Patreon, a fraction of what you're
Speaker 3: supporting is going to help these causes and these ologists
Speaker 3: in these fields of science directly, so that money goes
Speaker 3: through me and into the charity. This will also allow
Speaker 3: me to hire more people to work for me. So
Speaker 3: I just hired a very very part time assistant to
Speaker 3: help me get a lot of my Patreon rewards in
Speaker 3: order and just help me organize spreadsheets and reach out
Speaker 3: to different ologists so that I can spend more time
Speaker 3: actually writing and recording the show and I can do
Speaker 3: more travel. So I'm planning to do some travel to
Speaker 3: introdew some really great ologists in Minnesota and South Dakota
Speaker 3: and North Dakota later this spring, and so I can
Speaker 3: take some trips to go do that and I've steadily
Speaker 3: been giving raises to people who work on the show,
Speaker 3: and so I was able to give them a big
Speaker 3: bump because I'm doing ads, which I'm really excited about.
Speaker 3: So you'll be hearing some ads and ologies, and you'll
Speaker 3: also be hearing some patrons talking to me about ads.
Speaker 3: If you want to be one of them, you can
Speaker 3: always sign up on Patreon. You guys know that this
Speaker 3: is a really big passion project for me. I was
Speaker 3: really hesitant to do ads for a long time because
Speaker 3: I didn't want to say fuck less. I didn't want
Speaker 3: to change the tone of the show, and I didn't
Speaker 3: want to take money from companies that I didn't believe in.
Speaker 3: So luckily, with Midrol, they've been awesome. I don't have
Speaker 3: to change the tone or the content of the show.
Speaker 3: I advertise with people I want to advertise with, and
Speaker 3: the money I make gets to help charities, give people raises,
Speaker 3: help some people in my life, and then also let
Speaker 3: me build a little bit more of an est egg
Speaker 3: and maybe I won't always be recording in my closet.
Speaker 3: So twenty nineteen, I hope this year all of you
Speaker 3: are making lists of what you want to do in
Speaker 3: twenty nineteen. Perhaps some of you out there listening are
Speaker 3: ologists I'm going to interview in the future. Who knows
Speaker 3: we may meet. Thank you for having an interest in
Speaker 3: eating crickets and the apocalypse and gut flora and volcanoes
Speaker 3: and chimps on birth control. I'm very glad to have
Speaker 3: found my people out there, So thank you for listening,
Speaker 3: and thanks for supporting. And if you have any feedback
Speaker 3: on how the ads are or what you do or
Speaker 3: don't want to hear about, just tell me, because you
Speaker 3: know I'm all ears, Okay, And for the customary secret
Speaker 3: at the end of this, I do want to tell
Speaker 3: you if you are making to do lists and you
Speaker 3: need a little bit of extra incentive. When you're making
Speaker 3: a to do list, make this to do list on paper,
Speaker 3: but then buy yourself, treat yourself to like a gold sharpie,
Speaker 3: and then when you cross things off your list, you're like, oh,
Speaker 3: look at that, Look at that gold. And then it
Speaker 3: also makes it opaque, so you can't even see the
Speaker 3: thing you just crossed out. It's like you obliterated it completely.
Speaker 3: And then at the end of the day you just
Speaker 3: have a bunch of gold lines on a paper and
Speaker 3: you're like, look at what I've done. Look at this
Speaker 3: majesty so gold Sharpie's twenty nineteen guys, It's my strategy
Speaker 3: for getting shit done. Okay, I love you all.
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Speaker 2: I love you this much.
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