#PenumbraParty: We need your help (not $$) to keep the lights on!

The Penumbra Podcast

Harley Takagi Kaner and Kevin Vibert

Fiction, Performing Arts, Arts, Comedy, Science Fiction

4.9 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

#PenumbraParty To keep the show running, we need your help! In lieu of our yearly Patreon funds drive, we're excited to launch an initiative so all our fans can support us in making The Penumbra Podcast possible -- even if you can't spend money on Patreon or merch right now. By promoting the show, you’ll also unlock awesome prizes for all Penumbra fans. We're challenging fans to spread the word about our show on Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook or Instagram in one of three ways: 1. Leave us a review on iTunes. Make sure to take a screenshot of the review before you submit it (iTunes likes to eat reviews sometimes, but we won’t hold that against you!) and post that screenshot to your social media using #PenumbraParty and #ThePenumbraPodcast. 2. Make a social media post using #PenumbraParty and #ThePenumbraPodcast about why you love the podcast, your favorite characters or your favorite episode. If we see something super creative, you might get a shout-out in the credits of an upcoming episode! 3. Host a listening party (in person or virtually) with at least one person who has never heard the show before. Post a picture/screenshot of the party (a text thread or Discord counts!) to your social media using #PenumbraParty and #ThePenumbraPodcast. It’s helpful if you tag us on social media, too—and yes, you can make multiple entries! Post before 11:59 PM EST on February 10 to unlock awesome bonus content and prizes. The more tasks you do, the better chance you’ll have at winning THE GRAND PRIZE. What can you win? At 200 entries, EVERYONE gets access to all blooper tracks that we’ve released on Patreon. At 500 entries, EVERYONE gets the Season 2 Live Q&A video. At 1,000 entries, EVERYONE gets a full Juno Steel Mystery in found texts (aka The Case Files of Juno Steel). These prizes will all become available at patreon.com/thepenumbrapodcast, but you will NOT need to be a Patreon supporter to view them. THE GRAND PRIZE: One lucky participant will be selected to receive FREE early access to episodes for the rest of Season 4! We can’t wait to see you at #PenumbraParty. Thank you so much to everyone who supports the show! Note: We know that even though we said “this is not a guilt trip,” some of you are probably going to feel like you need to rush to the Patreon. We really appreciate your kindness, but unless you genuinely think you have the funds to continue supporting us for the foreseeable future, we ask that you not do that; though we understand this is very well-intentioned, it actually hurts us when people pledge to the Patreon and then drop their pledges soon after. The Patreon is our only way to plan ahead for our expenses and income, and if it’s artificially inflated we could end up in the hole. If you’d like to donate just once, we ask that you please use https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepenumbrapodcast

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0:00.0	Hi travelers. This is Harley-Takagi Caner and this is Kevin vibrant and we need your help
0:06.8	We do so we hope you'll listen to this if our show has done anything for you over the course of the past couple really tough years
0:14.7	I promised that the way that we're gonna ask you to help us is totally free won't cost you anything
0:19.6	But we are in dire straits and we need your help right now
0:22.2	So our current financial situation is just not sustainable and we totally understand that from an outside perspective
0:30.6	We've been around for a while now, so you probably think of us as being an institution that is safe and
0:37.5	stable
0:38.4	But we've truly taken a serious hit to our patreon
0:42.6	Which is how we make most of our income as well as to our merch store the idea that we could be struggling might be
0:48.2	Kind of hard to swallow but the thing about all of our income being public is that you can actually figure out quite quickly
0:53.8	How much we make in a year if you take a look at how much we're making on patreon right now
0:57.7	It's a round $7,000 episode which definitely sounds like a lot
1:01.8	Last year we had 11 paid posts, so you multiply
1:05.9	7,000 times that 11 acknowledged the fact that between state and federal taxes
1:11.0	We lose about a third of that and then between paying the actors and paying all the creators that we work with
1:17.0	What remains is split about 50 ways?
1:20.7	so it's extremely expensive to keep the show going and
1:26.3	We've been hurting to be honest. We don't have enough to make it by at the moment and I won't
1:31.7	Speak to anybody else's income and I'm not gonna say on the feed exactly what I'm making
1:37.9	But I can't tell you that currently my yearly income is
1:42.3	About the same maybe a little less than it was when I had my first full-time job out of college
1:48.9	At a time when my rent and my groceries cost about half what they do now
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