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Hey everyone, Alex Sanfilippo here, host of Podcasting Made Simple, and I am really excited to today. I've got a close friend of mine, Lindsay Graham, joining today. Lindsay, welcome. So glad you're here. Good to see you. Thanks for having me. Absolutely, man. I've been looking forward to this for a long time because I know this topic is going to be really impactful for the podcast hosting guests that are going to be tuning in. Before we get started, though, I want to hear a little bit about your

background. And then I have a funny story on how we met because it's funny to me at least. I hope some other people find the humor in it as well. But just a little about what you do in podcasting. And yeah, why don't you go ahead and share that real quick here? Yeah, sure. So I am a podcast professional. I do it full time, and I've been doing it

full time for, gosh, almost eight years. Yeah. So I'm the host of several, you know,

history-focused podcasts, American history tellers, American scandal, history daily. I have a

podcast production company that does all the work for those shows,

but some other history shows, too, history that doesn't suck and tides of history, and then

all the other assorted business and work that surrounds that sort of stuff. But yeah, it's

been a long journey. I get called a podcast OG occasionally because we started so early in

2017, 2018, but I actually had my first podcast in 2005. So I will take the OG label.

You know, I didn't know that about you until recently. I was like, oh, no way. You like did something like early on there, took a bit of a break, came back with a vengeance, clearly.

I heard an episode of History Daily. I listened to it recently. I'm a little bit late here.

You sounded a lot like Ryan Reynolds. Can you just? It was so funny. Just tell everyone that

story real quick, because it made me laugh. I believe you probably listened to the April 1st episode from two years ago in which I somehow convinced the Ryan Reynolds to show up and narrate for us.

He was very generous and dropped into my DMs on Twitter one day just to say how much he

enjoys History Daily. Apparently, he listens on the walk home from dropping his daughters off at

school. And that's all he wanted to say, one creator to another, I guess, but I mean, once you get

Ryan Reynolds like in your phone typing at you, I was a little starstruck, but also needed to grab the opportunity.

And somehow I wrestled his arm and convinced him to do our April Fool's episode.

And by the way, it's so funny. I mean, I'm not going to spoil it. Everyone should go, like, find it.

You can find it pretty easily. The way he started off made me instantly like he has got a voice that if you've heard it, you know it, right? And it doesn't sound like Lindsay. But anyway, I'll leave that for another time. Now, the story of how we met. So this is going back years. This is probably 2019, maybe 2020. I'm not even sure the year. We were both in some sort of podcasting group. I

can't even recall where it was, but there was an opportunity for people to be a mentor and be a mentee. And so I signed for both. I'm like, I'd love to be a mentor, but I also love to Lawrence. I'll be a mentee as well. And I get this email. It says, you're assigned to Lindsay. you are going to mentor Lindsay.

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