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That's this day in history wherever you get your podcasts. Hello again. It's been another year and this time I think I'm going to try something a little different.

This is a podcast retrospective where I talk about the podcast, the past, the future.

This doesn't contain any actual history stuff, so if you don't really care about how the

podcast runs or where we've been or where we're going, feel free to skip this

one. This is almost just here for me and for people who care. So I'm not going to be upset if you do.

The end of the year is always a good time to sort of look behind and look ahead.

So in this episode I'm going to sort of talk about that. It's grown far longer than I expected it to when I started writing this.

But I think some of it's interesting, if at least to me.

One of the first thoughts I had when I started writing this and sort of looking back at the last year

is that I actually came pretty close to sticking to an episode list that I posted on the

Patreon page back in February, other than the fact that Versailles sort of expanded beyond all

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