Some would say time, talent, and treasure. Some would say lists should be avoided at all costs.

I recognize the following of equal and important value compared to financial support (I'm leaving a space with a mark for easy copy pasta, would you kindly respond with why you think money is of more value than what's listed).

In no particular order and incompletable, presented without commercial break...

V4V, The list:

Leaving a voicemail

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Sharing posts related to the material you publish

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Sharing your media with a friend, aka "passing the bowl"

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Texting in feet pictures

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Reaching out to someone in those rocky patches

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Mailing posters and letters snail mail style

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Making stickers

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Creating and maintaining a merch store

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Making gifs

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Making showart

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Troubleshooting updated rss feeds at 4am

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Panic calling a friend for node assistance

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Providing expertise as run crew for shows

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Producing Concerts

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Splitting you and 69 of your closest friends into a fat ass value split

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Hosting media and rss feeds for friends and family

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Writing music with one another

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Hosting movie nights

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Hosting game nights

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"Wine Gravy"

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Producing show notes

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Suggesting show material

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Hanging out in the chats

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Zeronode

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Zeronode

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Zeronode

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Gal, isobot, and the rest of the IRC bot gang

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IRCacophony

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"What new ways should we torture the gimp?"

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Maintaining art generators

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Traveling across countries to see and touch one another

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Sharing drugs with each other

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Making coasters

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Drawing avatars

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Running fediverse instances

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Teachable moments

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Creating jingles

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Sending in isos

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"Pro-Mom Channels"

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Boost Scoreboards

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Boost Alerts

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Contributing bug reports

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Suggesting features or enhancements for software

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Boobs on the ground interviews

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Sending in clips of podcasts to shows like ms. informed NAtion

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Requesting songs

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Curating playlists for music shows

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Morale support in times of tech woes

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Sending in volumes of encyclopedias

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Making buttons

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Writing you and memes around you into comic books

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Turning you into a meme

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Gifting tarot decks

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photos of Mothman with thick ass, keep em coming

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The "Mothman Blesseth the Tig Ole Biddies" iso, instant classic

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Programmers in general who share their technoalchemy

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Why fret over monetization and paying the bills when you can make a real bond out there with people that want more in life than just hanging out at Dave and Busters? As far as the radio mention is concerned, there was ample time to tune in being homeschooled. It didn't take a trip down to the crossroads to figure out it was all clear channel (at the time at least). Radio Nowhere etc etc. Empires come in, find "it", box "it", redefine "it", resell "it" to the masses.

I didn't start a podcast to pay the bills, I started a podcast have a hobby. Every week this is a money losing venture, and Hell yea brother hallelujah amen and awoman. If people wanna support you, it's not your responsibility to define what value is to them. Value for value is about making this the type of production you wanna hear (wherever terms may apply, see inside for details), pouring water into the things you want to see grow. Monetization, discovery, but how does it scale, nah. Those terms are ready and ripe for a good ole' scissoring right the fuck out of here. Snip snip.

/me plants pirate flag firmly, boldly but misjudges the angle of the pole, sending pointy end down puncturing the foot resulting in a realistic, bloody bizarre...and almost tragic depiction of a Tom and Jerry cartoon.

Fuck! I forgot to mention the Gal++ tattoo. As penance for the aforementioned crime of omitting something from a list, I'll share a bonus clip from the most important movie ever made in addition to the promised Bill Hicks drop.