Hello, podcast listener friends. What a year we've been through together.

Thank you for helping us make season six such a fantastic season of this podcast.

If it weren't for your questions, we would not have had the

rich conversations that we were able to have this year. I also want to thank you

for putting up with the journey my voice has been on. It was a year ago that I was

prepping for surgery in early January so that I could correct the lesions that were a part of my vocal cords that had really hindered

my ability to broadcast. It's been sort of a up and down journey this year, but I am finally in the healthiest place my voice has been in the last, I don't know, 20 years.

So thank you from the bottom of my heart for putting up with episodes that sometimes lacked inflection and clarity.

Thank you for caring more about the content than how that content sounded over a microphone.

We also want to thank you for the five star ratings

and the beautiful reviews that you've posted all over the place.

This podcast has had over 2 million downloads and

we are so grateful that it is making such a difference in your lives. The whole team is grateful

to you for expressing your gratitude and what you get out of this show.

It was two months ago that I received an unusual email, someone asking to be interviewed on this very popular show.

When I saw who it was, I knew immediately that I wanted to have that opportunity to share him with this audience.

That person is today's guest on this podcast.

Stay tuned. Today's guest on our podcast is none other than award-winning playwright and best-selling author Ken Ludwig.

His book How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare is the subject of our conversation today.

It is a bestseller published by Penguin Random House and hugely

popular with homeschooling families. But Ken is also known for being this award-winning playwright. In fact, his current play, Dear

Louise, is the 2020 winner of the Helen Hayes MacArthur Award for Best New Play of the Year.

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