MAJOR PODCAST ANNOUNCEMENT - SCHEDULE + PATREON CHANGE (Patreon)

Bow down and listen to what I have to say, with your eyes.

First of all, I want to thank you for supporting and believing in this podcast. If it wasn't for your support, Dancing is Forbidden wouldn't still be around. If it wasn't for your support, all of this wonderful information we've unearthed might have gone lost to time. I know, it probably feels like an empty platitude to read that, but it's true. I couldn't, and still can't, do this by myself. 

Anyways, on to the bitter-sweet news:

The podcast is going from weekly to every-other-week. 

That's the bitter part. It sucks, it's not what I want, but I'm out of options at this point. I'll spare you all the details. It just feels like the best move for the podcast, and for my life. 

The deep dives are way more involved than when we started in 2021, and I have less time than I did back then.

I want to be more consistent and this is the best way right now. Which brings me to...

There is some good news: the idea is to have an ATHF episode deep dive every other week. 

Now, if you're some sort of mathematician or Wayne The Main Brain or something, your calculations will show that we've basically been averaging 2 deep dives a month anyways. Sometimes less, even. So, realistically not a whole lot should change. 

Not only that, but having two full weeks to prep and create a deep dive will give me a great amount of time to do research, reach out to the guys, think of cute little things to say on the pod, etc.. I'm actually excited for it. 

The deep dives are by and far the most popular episodes I put out. Even more popular than the cast & crew interviews. Certainly more popular than any other episode I try and make. So it's like... why not focus on those, huh? Ya know, the reason this podcast exists? Big brain shit right here. 

"S-so Ronnie, senpai, you're not going to do interviews anymore?"!

Hellll no! We'll still do interviews! I'm actually excited for this schedule change cuz it will give me more time to put them together. Interviews will be released whenever they're done, on a Monday that there isn't a deep dive. Maybe even on the Patreon first. Like a lil surprise. Or like an Aqua Teen villain showing up on your door step. When you least expect it. In the night.

ありがとうございました！しかし、Patreon についてはどうですか？あなたはとてもセクシーで、大好きです! *鼻血*

Huh? English please!

What about the Patreon? How will that work?

I... don't entirely know. That's the biggest problem going every other week. 

It doesn't make sense to say "Yeah I'm going every other week... but also doing a Patreon episode the last Monday of the month" cuz then I'm still doing 3 episodes a month, on a schedule. If you're crunching the numbers, put that calculator down: that's only doing one less episode a month, which kind of defeats the point of this all.

So, I don't know. Because I love doing episodes here. I always wanted to be in a position to do more here, not less. Unfortunately it hasn't panned out that way.

Non ATHF-episode coverages will always exist here-- for example, we'll be covering Aqua Teen Hunger Force Zombie Ninja Pro-Am here this year. And Aqua Teen Forever Plantasm whenever we get to that. The free feed will continue to be Aqua Teen episodes. 

(I'm actually planning to move the AquaDonks here, and do the last 2 we gotta cover + the ADSP recap here, too).

I will make a post here later to figure this out, cuz I have a lot of ideas for the Patreon. I want to hear from you on this. But it's too much to put here right now.

I could be wrong, but my gut tells me you're on the Patreon because you love the ATHF episode deep dives. And that is where my brain lives… with my gut. They's roommates. 

It's totally possible you'd rather me just do ATHF deep dives than talk about other [as] shows and tertiary Aqua Teen content. I can't see the Patreon podcast stats but I highly doubt every Moon Master listens to the Patreon eps.

To be clear, I love talking about that stuff. I love deep diving the other [adult swim] shows. We'll keep doing those, I just can't say how often.

TL;DR: Podcast going every-other-week (boo!), but they'll be ATHF episode deep dives (yay!). Will still do interviews, they'll drop whenever they're ready. Can't promise monthly Patreon episodes but adding other rewards + will do Patreon episodes when I can.

I want to end this by saying 2023 was a HUGE year for the podcast. I know this all sounds like things are going badly but that's not the case. Listenership and Patreon support is at an all time high. Things are moving in the right direction, just not as quickly as they needed to for me to sustain weekly. And that's my fault for not marketing the podcast better. I'm definitely gonna be focusing more on that in 2024, and hopefully we can go back to episodes every week.

Anyways, that's it. Thanks for reading. Truthfully I've been scared to do this. I'm afraid you'll ditch the Patreon and stop listening to the podcast. I know all these fears are fucking stupid, just like Dumbassahedratron. But I never claimed to be a Wisdom Cube. 

I'm happy to answer any & all questions here... except if you want to know my social security number. Because I don't remember it.

-Ronnie

(PS: Still planning on 12 Oz Mo coverage next Monday. Slight chance it won't be done on Monday but it will be out ASAP!)