Exciting Announcement - BAOTD

Welcome back to your favorite Supernatural rewatch podcast, Be Afraid of the Dark! We have some very exciting news: we’re starting a Patreon! Please check it out and let us know what you think. More tiers to come! In the meantime, buckle up, grab your rock salt, and remember…you know what’s out there. Be afraid of the dark 👻

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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Welcome back to Be Afraid of the Dark. I'm your shotgun, Breck. This is your driver, Spencer.

SPEAKER_01 0:04

This isn't normal.

SPEAKER_00 0:05

And this week for the podcast asking the big questions like how much does it take to fill a baby's tank? What is our pie fund like? And do we have some very exciting news to share with you? Who this is Be Afraid of the Dark.

SPEAKER_01 0:19

Hey yo, big questions. And the answer is uh this is just a little announcement. We are opening a Patreon. Very exciting. The community for this podcast rocks. Everyone is super nice in the comments. Um I assume y'all have been sharing it because we've been growing at a pretty steady rate and we've been staying really consistent. It's nice, it's cool. And to continue that, I mean, this is a lot of work to do this podcast. I mean, we're recording, watching multiple episodes of TV, recording episodes, editing, writing up the posts, making sure everything's going on. So it's a lot of work.

SPEAKER_00 0:51

On top of our regular daylights.

SPEAKER_01 0:53

On top of our regular struggle to live. Um so we are opening this Patreon to grow this, uh, to make something very clear up front. Nothing's changing, nothing's nothing currently coming out is being put behind a paywall. Yes. Uh the regular episodes will come out, the special presentations will come out, the TikTok, YouTube short. However, you watch us currently, we'll still be available and unchanged.

SPEAKER_00 1:16

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 1:17

Um, we just wanted to throw in a couple of incentives to try to make this easier for us, but also to make us uh to help us make it better, you know. I dream of one day having a different camera set up for us and and stuff like that, being able to um upgrade our background and and do stuff like that. That's it's uh we have a lot of ideas and a lot of plans.

SPEAKER_00 1:38

We'd love to be able to, you know, make merch and do fun things like that.

SPEAKER_01 1:41

Yeah, so and and to do those things, it just it's and we want to grow. That's the big thing. So nothing is changing, but we're just gonna add some incentives, uh, some extras you can you can join in and be a part of.

SPEAKER_00 1:53

So uh and you can say you were there first. And you can say you were there first before we hit it big or manifest.

SPEAKER_01 1:59

Which by the way is the biggest flex you can have on any given. 100%.

SPEAKER_00 2:03

You'd be like, listen to be afraid of the dark before they had Padelecki and knuckles on it.

SPEAKER_01 2:07

If you were in on the the ground floor of anything, you're pretty cool.

SPEAKER_00 2:11

You also get our eternal love and respect.

SPEAKER_01 2:14

We're opening one tier for the first few months to test the waters to see your level of interest in something like this. That first tier is just called gas money. Uh, we're trying to fill up, baby, and keep it going. It's a lot of driving we have to do to record this podcast. Anyway, so that is the first tier. The incentives for that tier, it is a three dollar tier. And what you get from that three dollars for now, we may reevaluate this and change this as we go. Uh, but you will get your name in the description of every video uh from moving forward, so season three on. I may go back and add them in the other ones. I don't know how difficult that will be. We'll find out.

SPEAKER_00 2:49

We'll figure it out.

SPEAKER_01 2:50

So you get that, and you will get a special thing each season. You will be able to vote. If you're a member of the $3 tier, you will be able to vote on what our special presentation episodes would be, the in-between season two special episodes. So uh we have a couple options for this first one. That post will be up, if not now, in the next couple of days. So you can start voting on what you would like to see in between seasons three and four. Uh, very excited about those. We have a lot of fun doing the special presentation. That's very fun. But we want to know what y'all would be more interested in. Uh, so we try to keep it very supernatural related. But that is the thing. That's the case for now, is just a $3 tier with two incentives. We want to upgrade to a middle tier and a and a larger tier. Yep. The larger tier getting things like the entire season upfront and early. Yes. Um, you know, all the benefits you add free if we ever get ads. And we will. And we will. Um, so yeah, you you'll get uh though that incentive for a bigger tier, that's way down the line. We don't know when that's gonna happen. But we want to open in the next couple of months a middle tier that we are calling our pie fund. Um, and that would involve us doing any number of things, and we'll probably post a poll on here of of asking you what you would want to again gauge your interest. But that would involve uh a bonus episode once a month on a votable topic.

SPEAKER_00 4:07

Possibly, you know, creating a Discord thing.

SPEAKER_01 4:10

Creating a Discord, a monthly live. Yes, um, uh uh early access to specific episodes. So instead of our episodes coming out on Monday, you could get them on Friday or something like that, depending on what you wanted. We want this to be tailored to you guys, to what you want from a Patreon thing. Um, and we want to cultivate a good reputation for a supernatural community, which is why a Discord could be an option. Yeah. Because you know, the supernatural community gets some flack for fandom. And I I think that's that's there's a quiet minority that is not as fun to talk about supernatural.

SPEAKER_00 4:43

We are normal.

SPEAKER_01 4:44

We are normal. No, no, no, we're very smart.

SPEAKER_00 4:47

No, no, we're very smart. But you guys are all just so lovely in the comments, always and everything. I think it could be, you know, a pretty good idea. Obviously, we would, you know, but we just really want to know what you want. So obviously, please comment on, you know, if you're watching this on TikTok, YouTube, wherever you're watching this particular clip, please just comment, you know, things you've liked from other Patreons that have really worked out well for you, or things you hated, if there's things that you're absolutely like, do not do this, it will irritate everybody. Let us know. That's also something you're doing.

SPEAKER_01 5:13

Your interest in a second tier and a larger tier with more benefits. Uh the reason we're not just jumping straight into that is we don't want the main show to hurt based on us adding more work. Yes. If that work isn't benefiting um everyone, benefiting, you know, getting us a little bit of money to improve the show, to spend more time on it. Um, yeah, we just don't want that to happen. We don't want to hurt the main show in service of the Patreon. So we're taking it very slowly. But if a bunch of people sign up for the $3 tier and comment on our post saying we want a bigger tier with bonus episodes, early access, Discord live, whatever it may be, then we will do that sooner rather than later. Yep. If not, uh then we won't. And if you don't want to sign up for this Patreon at all, totally fine. Totally get you. Keep watching the show. Uh, like I said, none of the main show will change. Nothing you have currently will be going away or changing or being put behind a paywall. We don't want to do that. That's lame.

SPEAKER_00 6:08

It's lame and dumb.

SPEAKER_01 6:09

It's lame and dumb. We we we first and foremost want, again, like I said, a cool community to talk about supernatural with. So that has been the announcement. Did I miss anything? I feel like I missed something.

SPEAKER_00 6:20

I don't think so.

SPEAKER_01 6:21

See, this is season three starts in a couple of days. So this is coming out on uh the last Wednesday of April. Yes. And um the season three May already? Yeah, season three premiere comes out on Star Wars Day, I think. They're gonna be. So yeah, we're starting season three. We're very excited about that. Uh, we'll try to be active on the Patreon, but reach out. Let us know if you want bigger tiers, let us know if there's a demand for this, let us know if you want merch. Let us know the whole thing. That's the point of the Patreon is to uh help us grow to what you guys want us to be doing. We really want to do merch. We make lists of stuff.

SPEAKER_00 6:56

We have lots of ideas.

SPEAKER_01 6:57

VID, very important, demon, is maybe the number one shirt I want.

SPEAKER_00 7:01

We're very smart.

SPEAKER_01 7:01

I just need a hat that says, Yeah, no, no, we're very smart uh with the logo, would be a great one.

SPEAKER_00 7:07

Or, you know, our our fun library shirt idea.

SPEAKER_01 7:10

So we we have a ton of ideas for shirts, ton of ideas for special episodes, lives, all kinds of stuff. If you would like to sit with us while we play Monopoly on Live.

SPEAKER_00 7:18

Oh, yeah, we got Supernatural Monopoly.

SPEAKER_01 7:20

We got Supernatural Monopoly up in here. We will do the place if you want us to go through these books we have here, these supernatural-based books, and just read fun excerpts and talk about it on a live. We will do that for you.

SPEAKER_00 7:32

If you want us to show our journals and show you our notes.

SPEAKER_01 7:35

I will never do that.

SPEAKER_00 7:36

I'll show mine.

SPEAKER_01 7:37

There is there is not a world in which I ever do that.

SPEAKER_00 7:40

My handwriting's cute. I'll show mine.

SPEAKER_01 7:42

My handwriting is garbage from a toilet. I will not be doing it.

SPEAKER_00 7:47

Just any, but again, anything fun that you would like to see, anything you would absolutely hate to see and want to keep away from as much as possible. Any any information you want to give us, any thoughts, comments, concerns, feelings.

SPEAKER_01 7:59

Yeah, anyone who signs up, we are eternally grateful. And anyone who doesn't sign up, that is not a problem at all. Eternally grateful that you would even take the time to watch this weird announcement video where we ramble. So at the end of the day, just share the podcast regardless. If you like the podcast, share it. There's no obligation to sign up for this Patreon. We just want to improve the show, and that's a good way for us to do it as the the creators and the sole people who work on it. Everything that happens is coming from us. Yeah, we don't have an editor. I I do all the editing, you do all the copywriting. It's a lot of work behind the scenes, but we love doing it. We love the show and we want to keep going.

SPEAKER_00 8:37

It I look forward to making this podcast very much.

SPEAKER_01 8:40

So we are super excited to get started on season three and then uh start season four. Oh yeah. Lots of great stuff coming in the supernatural world. Uh sign up for the Patreon. We would love it if you did. If you don't want to or can't, do not feel obligated. Um, and meet back here in a couple days for the opening of Be Afraid of the Dark season three. But between now and then, you know what you have to do. You gotta look into the Patreon, you gotta watch this podcast, you gotta watch Supernatural, you gotta hit the road, you gotta get your journal, but remember you know it's out there. Be afraid of the dark.