The American History Podcast, Season 2, Episode 27, The Battle of Buena Vista, Part 1.

Welcome to the American History Podcast,

hosted by Sean Worswick All right, welcome back.

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And finally, if you haven't noticed, the sound has improved big time.

Again, that's thanks to this new microphone that I'm using, but also mostly due to my sound editor.

He suggested a new mic which works with my iPhone, and the results have been amazing.

So I've been using a, I had been using a very nice microphone in the past and garage band,

but for some reason garage band apparently did not like me.

But anyways, if you need some sound editing, you can reach him at mattomedia at gmail.com. And his website is madoctopusmedia.com.

Okay, so enough of that.

This episode represents kind of a transition

from the first half of the war

to the second half of the war.

I'm really excited to get on with it, so let's get started.

First, however, is the song of the week.

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