Stump the Patrons!

As you may have heard, hosting a podcast isn’t free anymore. When we first started podcasting over a decade ago, you just recorded some audio, uploaded it to the Library of Congress and posted a link on MySpace or the Community Bulletin Board (Remember those!?). To make sure the show can be heard on a variety of platforms at the same time we needed to pull together some scratch every month. As more of you began listening we needed to get more bandwith, yada yada yada, it got expensive for a couple of civil servants telling war stories. Instead of charging a subscription to listen, we decided early on to let you the listeners decide what you want to send to the show to keep it going. These folks are our patrons.

From time to time we post comments, photos or videos to the patron website and have recently enjoyed doing a live chat with as many as we can get to just sit down and have a talk about what’s going on in our lives.

However, we decided there needed to be something else, something more, to give our patrons other than just our remarkably clever phrases and humor: Doubloons.

This week, we turn the WYE Radio gameshow Stump MC on it’s head and turn the microphone to our patrons for some listener competition!

Justin has pulled 3 headlines from the WYE universe and let’s see how careful our patrons are paying attention to the world around us all!

It’s 2023, so make sure you’re subscribed and do us a favor and drop a review wherever you get your podcasts. That can be your gift to us. Unless of course you’d prefer to buy us a beer or subscribe to our Patreon.