Friends,

If you watch the channel, you know how I work. Every video sits on top of weeks of reading and cross-referencing, late nights reconciling one source against another until the picture finally comes into focus. All of that has lived behind the curtain. Today I'm pulling it back.

I launched a Patreon. Here's what you actually get.

Comment sections vanish into the void. This is a room where you talk to me directly, and I'm in there regularly, reading and responding. Want more of a certain series? Think I got something wrong and want to argue it out? Say so. You get a real, active voice in where this channel goes next, and I promise you, that shapes what I make.

This is the part I'm most excited about. When I build one of the long investigations, I'm working through anywhere from fifty to several hundred PDFs of source material. A ten or fifteen minute video is the tip of an enormous iceberg. On Patreon I'm posting those research tranches in full: the actual documents and primary sources I dug through to build each piece. If you want to check my work or go further than the video could, it's all there. Four full tranches are up right now, with more on the way.

And you can try it for free. Patreon's free trial lets you jump in, look around the chat, browse the tranches, and decide for yourself. No commitment. I'd genuinely just like you in the room.

Come join me: https://www.patreon.com/cw/drjoshcsimmons

The channel has always been a two-way street in spirit. Now it can be one in practice.