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Hello and welcome to the History Chicks.

You have either downloaded or stumbled upon our 100th show anniversary celebration.

It's also our 7th year anniversary celebration, so it's kind of like a two-for-party.

Although due to the fact that we did not think ahead, this is actually episode 144.

And who was the 100th episode?

The 100th episode was actually in April of 2016, and it was an episode entitled Zelda Fitzgerald.

Oh my gosh, I loved that episode.

Oh wow, that was a surprising one.

Good, I'm glad she was 100. That was monumental for me.

It was a very contentious episode, as I recall, because we even put a disclaimer at the front, like, look,

either you'd like F-Scott or you'd like Zelda and never the Twain shall meet.

And we still did get some agitated feedback, but we did tell you that we were leaning towards Zelda.

Yeah, it was warned.

It's kind of like a consistent through all of our episodes.

We are always going to be more sympathetic to our subjects. It's just the way it is.

And it's funny because you can study things like Mary the First, and then the polar opposite of her,

Elizabeth the First, and you feel their side during the time that you're studying them,

even though they were antagonistic toward each other.

I kind of love that. That's a surprise thing with this whole project, things like that,

where you can see both sides of the same discussion. I loved it.

We thought that we would give you for this episode a little bit of a backstage pass

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