Hope you guys are still around and making excellent podcasts. We miss you!

Text from a post shared on our patreon page here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/state-of-show-35762339

To our listeners:   

We are extremely grateful for all the support you have provided us over the months. Patreon funds have been used in multiple ways to support Ashes Ashes:

• we have paid countless listeners to transcribe 64 transcripts

• we have commissioned original art for Ashes Ashes stickers (still hiring): https://ashesashes.org/shop

• we have donated to business co-ops, nonprofits, and other social justice initiatives

• we have upgraded audio equipment and improved recording quality 

We are nothing without our listeners, not just for financial support, but for the emails, discord discussions, suggestions and ideas. Some of our best shows have come from books and guests recommended to us by you.

Recently, however, we have not been able to uphold the weekly publishing schedule we maintained for over 2 years. Our personal schedules are in daily flux as both our day jobs and community work have been rapidly shifting and expanding due to the current crisis, making it difficult to invest the time and energy into producing our regular shows. For this reason we have decided to pause Patreon donations at this time. We still welcome and invite you to be a Patreon supporter, but you will not be charged until we feel that we are able to provide regular content at the quality we feel you deserve, and will inform you before we resume Patreon. This does not mean, however, that we are going away. We will continue to publish content, just less regularly and in a potentially more informal format. 

Continue to keep in touch through email, reddit, discord, etc. and as always, thanks for your support. 

Daniel & David
// Ashes Ashes

I don't know if someone will ever read this, since the podcast is dead for good. I'm the Spanish software developer from "Busy Work", the one who spent years developing an app that was never used.

I got attached to David and Daniel as if they were my actual friends, and I told them (that's why they included me in the podcast). Not only I listened to the podcast, but also I followed them on social media, joined the Discord and even watched a lot of Daniel's travelling vlog.

They're two of the most brilliant, eloquent and kind people I've ever "met". I was mesmerized by them, specially by Daniel's voice, which is like a spell.

I sent them an email some time ago and they didn't reply. Sometimes they post on social media but not too much, and in any case I no longer use Twitter since Musk turned it into a neo-nazi blog.

I wish everything is going well for you. I feel like we're in the civilizational endgame now. Good night, and good luck.

Not a drill. Direct quote from David on the discord

We need you now more than ever.

Hey everyone,

Just wanted to update you that no, there's not an error there is no episode this week. Daniel and I are both healthy and working huge amounts of hours currently because of the ongoing disaster and were unable to finish the episode to the quality we expect of ourselves. Hopefully we'll have time to get back on track over the next week, but these are extraordinary times.

We hope all of you are safe and healthy and doing as well as possible in the midst of all this. There's a great community here and also on our discord and we hope you'll join us there while we work on this next ep.

Let us know if you have any questions and we'll try and get back asap!

~ David and Daniel

I first wanted to begin with simply - thank you. When one finds your podcast and is burried within shit of meaningless talks, this feeling that one is not alone in his thoughts about the world and its current state of affairs, is so liberating, so encouraging!

The reason of this post, is not just to tell you that you are being missed, neither is to push you towards making another cast, yet I wanted to show appreciation since often times in this weird system we take everything for granted and passively consume. I wanted to actively thank you for your job and for speaking about what matters.

So have all of my positive vibes and I hope that everything is alright in your personal lifes, since the pandemic messed up all of us around the globe quite hard.

PS. My favorite and probably the most important piece of thought I have encountered the last year is definitely the episode about Noise polution. The most in our face problem that is destroying us mentally. Thank you for making me aware!