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Jun 2025
44m 49s

Are More People Making a Living with Art...

Amie McNee and James Winestock
About this episode

Hello friends! Today we're talking about the rise of the middle class artist. Based on Amie's substack post.


Buy Amie's book for F***'s sake!

ALSO you can pre-order Amie's queer Elizabethan detective novel, To Kill a Queen!


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Hollywood is Broken. Can YouTubers Fix it? Colin and Samir interview Max Reisinger.

Brandon Sanderson podcast about AI

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