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Episode 4, Revenge of the Shah. Before we start in today, I feel compelled to explain to those of you who haven't tuned in since last week the sudden change in intro.

Suffice it to say that a month ago, when I began this project, I was making it for, at most,

a small circle of interested parties.

So imagine my surprise when within a week it blew up to more than 3,000 subscribers.

Wow, thank you.

This increased exposure has blown me away and has also blown me through two podcast hosting sites on my way to the history of China's current home

on SoundCloud.

They helpfully informed me that the music I was using was licensed and either wanting to pay a royalty nor get sued for not paying it, I opted to find a different theme.

So I was all set to apply this new theme to my old recordings of episodes 1 and 2, but I agreed with those of you who commented on the poor sound quality, and I just couldn't bring myself to re-upload such an inferior product, given that I now have a mic of reasonable quality.

Thus, I have since re-recorded episodes 1 and 2, along with streamlining them a bit.

And while they're by no means perfect, I hope any of you who care to give them a re-listen will

agree that it's a vast improvement in audio quality at least, if perhaps not narrative.

And to those of you who did not start listening until after this

revamp, don't worry.

You really didn't miss anything other than a different theme

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