Announcing Pledge Week 2025

Andrew Hickey· Host0:00

It's that time of year again, the time that regular listeners have come to know as pledge week, where for five days, this time from Tuesday through Saturday, because I had a migraine yesterday when I should have been recording this intro, I post five old Patreon bonus episodes to the main feed as a way of persuading some of you to sign up to become Patreon backers. I say at the end of every episode that every week there's a 10-minute bonus episode, and that's no longer completely true, and I'll be refreshing the outro on the podcast soon to acknowledge that. Instead, there's at least one bonus for every main episode, plus other ones as frequently as I can release them, which seems to average about once a fortnight overall. But the bonuses are also a lot longer than 10 minutes now. At the shortest, they tend to be 20 minutes, and some of them can stretch to 90 minutes or longer. And you can get access to all of them, around 200 currently available, plus the new ones, for $1 a month at patreon.com/andrewhickey. You could, if you wanted, sign up, pay your $1, download the 200 or so episodes that are there, and then cancel. Though, obviously, I'd prefer you stick around a while. As always when I do this, though, I want to make something clear. While Patreon is the only way I make my living, and my Patreon supporters are the only way I am able to keep doing what I'm doing, I do not want you to sign up to my Patreon if you're short of money yourself. I am currently making a very comfortable living. I could always do with more, and I need