For over 20 years now, PLA has entertained weirdos like you with music, text files, articles, books, prank phone calls, albums, podcasts, live shows, videos, and just nonstop hilarity in general. Imagine how much more could be done if PLA were funded - if I had hours each week to create things and money to drop on related expenses. There would be more live shows, more videos, more podcasts, more content on the website, more music, and if enough monthly money were earned through Patreon, I might even bring back Telephone Falls or make new shows or just create things that you people would enjoy.

The more people that support PLA through Patreon, the bigger and better PLA is going to become. This will slowly go from being something I do in my spare time to something I'm putting hours every day into. My goal is to just do a lot more with PLA than I've been able to do these past couple of decades. I really have no idea which direction that will go in, but I'm 100% positive that it will be awesome for both me and you.

So donate the minimum. As it is now, $1 per month is getting you 8 podcast shows a month and about a dozen prank singles on the main YouTube channel. And maybe 1 original phone-related song per year and a half-assed attempt at an animated show. $12 per year isn't too bad of a price for all that, right?

"Come on, PLA doesn't take up that much of your time, does it?"

Right now I do at least 1 weekly show. After the show is done, I edit the entire thing, shaving off as much boring stuff as I can for the podcast listeners and making show notes for phonelosers.org as I go along. This usually takes another 2 hours. Then I turn the entire show into a YouTube video, which takes a little more editing, but not much. Throughout the week, I jot notes into a notebook, to use during the shows. And when I do actual show prep work, where I collect a bunch of phone numbers to call, that can sometimes take hours. In all, I'm sure I put at least 5 hours into a 2 hour show.

And that's just the podcasts. I make the smaller videos for the main YouTube channel, which can sometimes take anywhere from 30 minutes to several hours to put together, depending on how much effort I put into them. When I "quick draw" a video, that's hours. When I just slap a few images that I find on Google onto a prank call, that's more like 30 minutes. Some of those seemingly simple videos take a really long time to create.

Then there's email. I get a lot of it because of PLA and I try my best to answer them all. And the Facebook messages and the private messages, and snail mailing things to people. I feel like I'm complaining about all the time I sink into PLA, but I'm not. I love doing all of this stuff and I'm thrilled that people enjoy the things that I love to create. My point is that even having double the time I have now to do all of this would make a huge difference in the amount of effort I'm able to put into things and would allow me to do much more of it.

"Are you charging for content now?"

Nope, I am not charging for the live shows or the podcasts or really anything else that I've created. Pretty much all the content on phonelosers.org has always been free. Patreon is simply a way for people who've enjoyed PLA things to contribute money to keep those things happening as frequently as possible. Please don't feel obligated to pay anything. If you can't afford it or if you think it's a dumb idea, then keep enjoying the stuff I make for free. I'm just happy to have an audience.

"I don't want to sign up for this dumb Patreon thing."

Another way to contribute to PLA is to sign up for the Elite Cactus Squad through the PLA website.
I've also set up a page at phonelosers.org/donate where you can donate in ways that Patreon doesn't support, such as with Bitcoin. If you choose to donate either of those ways, I will still honor the various donation level rewards that you see on Patreon, but you'll probably need to remind me.

"I'm broke. How else can I help?"

There are many other ways that you can help PLA without spending any money at all. I've made a list of things you can do to support PLA at phonelosers.org/help. The best way you can help, though, is to spread the gospel of PLA. Tell everyone you know about PLA and force them to listen to our material.