wellRED podcast - ANNOUNCEMENT RE WEEKLY SKEWS

Episode Date: March 29, 2021

Hey y'all, even though I've posted about it elsewhere, it was astronomically stupid of me to have not posted on this feed until now to let y'all know that THE SKEWS HAS MOVED TO ITS OWN PODCAST FEED. So please use whatever podcast service you like to subscribe to WEEKLY SKEWS, with me and Smart Mark. That is all. Love you. 

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It's just like you can just, it makes it easier to lose count of, well, your count, the count every month, how much you're spending. A lot of people don't even know how much they spend on a per month basis. I'm not going to lie. I can be one of those people. Like, let me ask you right now. Skewers out, whatnot, sorry, well-read people. People across the ske universe, I should say.

Do you even know how many subscriptions that you actively pay for every month or every year? Do you even know? Do you know how much you spend on takeout or delivery? Getting a paid chauffeur for your chicken low main? Because that's a thing that we do in this society. Do you know how much you spend on that? It's probably more than you think. But now there's an app designed to help you manage your money better.

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practicing any Spanish for, you know, pertinent two years now or something like that. Also, a fun one I'd said it before, but I had a, I got an app, lovely little app where you could, you know, put your friends' faces onto funny reaction gifts and stuff like that. So obviously I got, I got it so I could put Corey's face on those two, those two like twins from the Tim Burton Alice in Wonderland movies, you know, those weren't a little like the cue ball looking twin fellas. Yeah. So that was that in response to? What was that reply I give for just when I did something stupid. Something fat and stupid. Something both fat and stupid. But anyway, that was money well spent at first, but then I quit using it and was still paying for

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Trezy, Tray Crowder coming to you live. Wait, I'm not live. This isn't how I talk either. Hey, y'all, what's up? This is Trey. Sorry about I just wanted to do the voice. It's ever since I got this new. microphone makes me feel like a radio man listen i just have a really quick announcement this is for

the weekly skews listeners so if you are a exclusively well read listener that's okay i still love you too and um yeah you could check out now this is for my skews people out there so it occurred to me this and i it is hilarious that it only just now occurred to and i say it occurred to me i got a text message today from someone who listens a friend of mine who listens to the show on audio only And if it weren't for that text message, it never would have occurred to me to make this announcement, which is so stupid. It is incredible how stupid I actually am. But anyway, here's why I'm getting it. I have posted about the fact, and we've talked about the fact on many recent episodes that we were making some changes to the format of the show.

We were going to once a week. And we also had mentioned that the audio version wasn't going to be posted on the well-read page anymore. It was going to have its own page, right? but what I didn't think about was if you only, if you only listen to the show via the audio version, you're not going to hear us or see us make those announcements in like the video version. And you may not happen to see my Twitter posts that I've made about it or whatever, right? So how would you know?

So of course, I need to post an announcement to the well-read feed where the show has been since its inception. and just sort of let everyone know weekly skews has its own podcast feed now. If you didn't know about that, it's my fault 100%. I'm sorry, but all you got to do is just go to, I said at the very beginning, I didn't want to just keep spamming the well-read feed. I mean, I did it for months anyway, but I didn't want to just keep doing that in perpetuity. So we made a separate podcast feed just for the skews. So all you got to do is just whatever podcast service you use, look up weekly skews on it and subscribe, and you'll get them there.

Producer Matt, post them now, not my sorry ass, which means they go up every night right after the show much more quickly, much more quickly available to you. So, yeah, it should be a better experience all around. Also, the last thing I'll say, if you've been listening or watching the show the past few weeks, the video shows, nothing has changed, really. They're still in all the same places, and that's all fine. It's just the audio version of the show has changed homes. That's really it. The other thing I'll say, if you have been watching lately, and if you have you probably not listening to this,

what is wrong with me? I'm still going to say this anyway. We've had more technical difficulties than recent than normal recently, and I know you're thinking, well, that's not possible. You guys have more than anyone in the game, and you're right, but it's been even worse lately. But I really do believe that we've got it cleaned up now. it all comes from trying to make improvements.

If that seems like bullshit, I promise you, it's not. It's our heart's in the right place. It's us trying to make things better. You know what they say about the road to hell, baby. I don't know what else to say about it. But I do think we're hiring out some kinks and everything now. And yeah, it should improve. But anyway, the major takeaway is audio version of the show,

weekly skews on all your podcast services. find it there and that's where we'll be the well read podcast will continue um as always um except maybe we'll bring mr butt bat and have some more farts i don't know we'll see but it will every wednesday same deal same dumb time same dumb channel so anyway that's it for my announcement thank you all for uh suffering my ongoing incompetence with patience and virtue thank you love you see you bye