Welcome to the History of the Americans podcast episode 39.

I'm your host, Jack Heneman, and I'm recording this on September 18, 22, in Austin, Texas.

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we are telling the history of the lands

now encompassed by the United States

from the beginning without presentism.

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of this episode comes from the cigar vault in Buda, Texas. If you're over in the area,

check it out. So a few announcements for those of you listening

along and close to real time. Those of you listening months and years in the future probably

won't care. The first is that this podcast cracked 300,000 aggregate downloads and listens

just a few days ago.

The especially cool part is that new people are listening along from the start,

which I find incredibly motivating.

For example, in 87 of the last 90 days, somebody out there has listened to episode 22,

a stebbin and the prelude to the Coronado expedition, just to pick an early episode at random.

And as some days, as many as a dozen people have listened to that one.

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