Martin has been committed and passionate about running this podcast since November 10, 2011.
He has ponied up many thousands of dollars over the years to keep things going and still is.
The average listens to the audio segment is 150k per month, currently only 107 people out of all of the listeners helps support the show, that is .7%.
Patreon support pays for graphics for the show that cost about $400 per month.
Other expenses include, bandwidth use, website maintenance, streamyard for live-streaming, paying blog & audioblog author, Charles Lear. Producer expenses, travel & hotel expenses to events as well event attendance.
Even though Martin did not want to run ads on the podcast, it seems like it will be inevitable.