Episode 23: The Battle of Gettysburg Fantasy Draft!
The Battle of Gettysburg Podcast
Jim Hessler and Eric Lindblade
4.8 • 950 Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2020
⏱️ 165 minutes
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Summary
To close out Season Two and to celebrate the first anniversary of the show, Eric and Jim are joined by some of their friends and colleagues for The First Annual Battle of Gettysburg Fantasy Draft. While the theme of the show is somewhat lighthearted, this almost three-hour episode is full of great insights from Licensed Battlefield Guide and, at times, some spirited debate that you will not want to miss!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome everyone to the Battle of Gettysburg Podcast. I am your co-host |
| 0:04.3 | licensed battlefield guide Eric Lindblade and as always I am joined by my |
| 0:08.1 | co-host licensed battlefield guide Jim Hessler and Jim what's this special episode tonight all about? What's cause in all |
| 0:16.2 | this? |
| 0:17.2 | Well, Eric, and to let the listeners behind the scenes a little bit, we are recording |
| 0:21.2 | this on the evening of July 21st, 2020 and it is exactly |
| 0:27.3 | one year to the day we unleashed our first Battle of Gettysburg Podcast upon the world. |
| 0:35.0 | A year ago tonight, the world was introduced to Introduction to the Battle of Gettysburg Podcast. |
| 0:41.8 | So we thought we would come back with a special first anniversary episode. |
| 0:47.3 | And Eric and I spent a lot of time trying to think of, |
| 0:50.3 | you know, what would be a great topic for our one year anniversary episode and we finally |
| 0:56.3 | decided on a topic that would basically give Eric and I as little preparation as possible. |
| 1:03.7 | So we're going to do the first annual Battle of Gettysburg Podcast fantasy draft. |
| 1:10.7 | And to celebrate this special occasion, what we did was we decided to invite some of our licensed battlefield guide friends of the show to the show and have them draft mock Gettysburg Fantasy team. |
| 1:23.8 | So we're going to let some of the experts speak, so to speak. |
| 1:26.8 | Ah, so that's going to be the topic for our first anniversary show. |
| 1:30.2 | We'll go over the ground rules and the details in a few moments. But before we do that |
| 1:35.4 | Eric, let's should we take a moment to kind of pause and reflect on our first year? Do you have |
| 1:40.4 | any stats? You know we can kind of talk about how things have grown over the past 12 months? |
| 1:45.8 | Well, you know, I went back and looked at our stats and the first week of our show we had 540 people listen to the first. The first |
| 1:55.0 | episode in one week, 540. This week, we have just gone over 100,000 listens to the podcast. |
| 2:04.8 | We are now averaging around 8,500 listeners a month |
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