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SEPTEMBER PROGRESS REPORT
🕑 Added 2022-09-30 21:02:00 +0000 UTCHELLO EVERYONE, what a long week/month/multiple months it has been.
WHAT HAS HAPPENED?
The health insurance video is officially done and out in the world and—although I was not expecting it—it is doing better than any other video I've made this year. Maybe in multiple years. Who knew so many people were passionate about Health Insurance Terminology?
For real though, I'm extremely grateful that people seem to be connecting with it, and for all of you who have watched and shared it. I'm also so grateful that you patrons were able to give me the time to essentially not produce anything for three months just so I could do the best job I possibly could with this video.
A lot of people want more videos like this, and to that I say OH NO PLEASE IT TOOK SO LONG. But it's a good problem to have! I don't expect that I'll be able to make another long explainer for a bit, but I did like doing it, and if there's any specifically terrible piece of being an adult in this world that you think would be a good thing to focus on, please let me know! I might start mulling it over.
But not for another few months because...
WHAT'S ABOUT TO HAPPEN?
Next month, the vampire returns. It's a spiritual successor to AAAH!BBA, but with a different disco band.
Because of the health insurance vid, Jonah and I have only been able to work on two songs, but they're gonna be fun, and as the picture above shows, I've already started collecting my new costume pieces.
WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN AFTER THAT?
I've got ideas for November and December! November is probably a short little weird song vid, and December is most likely going to be a standard ol' cooking video, like Ice Creams and Pepcorn.
WHAT ELSE HAVE YOU BEEN DOING?
Karen and I have been pitching a show A LOT in the past month. It's been weird and fun and exhausting and exciting, but mostly it has been taking up a lot of time and energy and I'll be happy to have a little more free time in maybe a few months!
ANYTHING ELSE?
No.
YOU SURE?
OH YES I forgot, I've changed my Patreon billing to be on the day you subscribed! They just set this up, and it means that instead of getting billed once during the month you start up and then again on the first of the month, it should just bill you on the same day every month! It should be set now, so if you just joined, I don't think you'll get billed again until the same day next month!
OKAY GOODBYE.
Thanks for reading, I'll see you all in October. Tonight I get to watch RRR in IMAX and the director S. S. Rajamouli will be there and I've never been more excited for anything in my life.
Comments
Nic Stull
Gingerbread house making for December??
Rumikub
That is definitely going to top titanic
Claire Lovell
I joined this patreon after your health insurance video! I'd been following for a while, but that video helped remind me that you spend a lot of time and effort making top-quality content, and I want to respect that.
Luna
Ice cream and pepcorn are some of my favorite vids tbh. The egg moment in the ice cream video lives rent free in my mind lmao
Vincent Briggs
YAY I'm so excited for more vampire disco!! I joined this patreon in order to financially compensate you after I downloaded the AAAH!BBA songs and put them on my i-pod, and then didn't want to leave because I like the behind the scenes videos and progress posts.
um yikes
For your next explainer vid you should give legal advice that i can reasonably rely on
Kristin Carnahan
RRR will be so fun! Good for you! Looking forward to your upcoming stuff.
Stoked for more Halloween music!!! Wanting to listen to "Gimme Gimme Gimme" in the car is the reason I signed up for Patreon. Excited for the other stuff too!!!
Erika & Luke "Faster"
Gentle reminder to iron the vampire cape! (if said vampire feels like wearing a cape).
Kit Brogden
hope your pitches have been going well!! fingers crossed - the market is weird as hell right now but people are still buying!
Helen McAvoy-James
Also I hope you love RRR!!
Helen McAvoy-James
I am so excited for more music, Gimme Gimme Gimme is on my year round playlist.
rionsanura
I hope the teeth are easier to deal with this time around. Really, really looking forward to October Project!
Lizzy H
very excited for your RRR imax experience! i’m holding a remote movie night of it for my partner and some friends tomorrow as it happens, because everyone needs to see that movie. if you’re serious about another explainer vid topic, taxes. specifically, self-employment taxes. they are the worst and i’m sure you know this by now lol.
rionsanura
OH MY GOD RRR WITH THE DIRECTOR IN IMAX HAVE A GREAT TIME
