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Now, on to today's episode.

What's up, LearnJS Standards podcast listeners?

Just wanted to make this short little episode, I guess more like an announcement to say that,

you know, we just hit a really cool, fun, important mile marker in the Learned Jazz Standards

podcast. And I wanted to share that with you because it's really you guys, the listeners that have

made this happen. And so I'm really proud to announce that the Learned Jazz Standards podcast

has recently passed the one million downloads marker for all total episodes, which is super

awesome. And this is so fun because it comes on the three-year

birthday of the podcast that we hit this mile marker. And I actually discovered it by accident.

You know, I looked at the stats to see where things at, but I was actually at Podfest

Multimedia Expo in Orlando, Florida this last week, which is a conference for podcasters, content creators like me. It was a lot of

fun, great conference. And I was, you know, looking up some stats just to help share with

someone who was asking me about them. And that's when I saw that we had over one million.

In fact, we have 1,018,000 total downloads. And that's over with four episodes per

month, right? Because if I had eight episodes a month, then it would be maybe 2 million, right?

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