Welcome to the History of the Americans podcast episode 75, three quarters of a way to 100.

I'm your host, Jack Heneman, and I'm recording this on D-Day, June 6th, 2022, in Austin, Texas.

If you are new to the podcast, we are telling the history of the lands now encompassed by the United States from the beginning without presentism.

This episode is the second in our series on the road to Plymouth, John Smith's invention of New England.

My muse went a little ADD in the writing of it, though, so we take several frolics and

detours, including an actual new item concerning Sir Francis Drake. Sometimes I can't help myself.

First off, the podcast schedule is going to be goofy for the next couple of months

because I have a long run of commitments in the middle of the week this summer,

which is when I would be writing, recording, and editing the week's episode if it were

coming out on Thursday or Friday.

I do expect a fairly normal number of episodes around four a month,

but as things look, they will come out at irregular intervals for much of the summer.

I will be doing a bunch of fun stuff, however, including attending the Heterodox Conference

in Denver next week and a convention in Vegas in mid-July.

I might even record an episode in Vegas, a city in need of more history if ever there

were one.

I'll try to keep people informed on Twitter and the Facebook page for the podcast, so follow

along on either of those toxic websites for updates.

Emails from listeners are always, or at least almost always, fun for me, and they keep me on the straight and narrow.

Listener Ryan from Oregon hopefully corrected my pronunciation of Will Lammett, pointing out that he was nipping a future problem in the bud since I'll have to say we'll lamb it a lot

when we get to the early history of the Pacific Northwest.

I also have a recommendation.

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