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I created an extra bonus article today, the first of its kind, because to my surprise quite a few people decided to support at the $120 level, and I did so without any intentions of making anyone feel excluded or left out or that they weren't getting what they paid for as a Regular Joes bonus member. For sure not a single thing about the Regular Joes club has changed, it's still supporting the 365-400 free articles per year and getting the 3-5 bonus articles per week. I'm literally just one guy trying to make a living off of this and unbeknownst to me came folks who decided to pay $10 per month and I would just feel bad if I didn't do anything to say "Thank you" just the same as I feel bad if I don't write a free article every day and just as I feel bad if I don't give $5 subscribers a lot of bonus content too.

Certainly I don't see this as a doomsday move that will mean that by next week the entire website is $10 per month, there's a reason why I've created a free article for the last 1,536 days or whatever it is. I didn't intend to make anyone feel like they didn't get what they paid for or to feel bad myself, but still it makes me feel bad to read any comments from people who feel that way. I'm just one guy trying to do my best and as always I don't follow others footsteps, I carve out new roads, just as I did with this newsletter, which means trying things out and taking it from there organically. There's no diabolical plan behind the scenes to rip anyone off.

I respect anyone who feels like it's unfair that they didn't get to read today's Founding Members article and I ask that hopefully you can see it from my perspective and that I am just trying something out and that the only thing I know how to do as a reward or a "thanks" is to write more articles. It's the only thing I know how to do, so that's why that was written. That's it. There are certainly plans for the future to show what's behind that door and you can choose for yourself if it's worth it. As noted recently, this is still the cheapest substack on substack and with the most content. I'll work even harder to prove that to you and thanks for sticking around.

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Mcdude's avatar

Ok A 12 survey! Regular Joe, Super Joe, Cup of Joe or just Seaside Joe? May the 12s be with you and Go Seahawks!

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