Hey, hey, hey, friend, welcome to the Renaissance English History Podcast, a part of the Agora Podcast Network, and the original Tudor History Podcast.

You guys, it is this weekend 15 years ago that I started the Renaissance English History

podcast.

It was Labor Day weekend.

It was a three-day weekend.

I really wanted to start a podcast, mostly because I wanted to be able to train libraries, because many of you know

my actual work is in library land. I wanted to be able to train libraries on how to create

podcasts because I thought they were going to take off. I was like, this podcast thing, that's going to

take off. And libraries need to know how to do that. And interestingly enough, these days,

I actually do train libraries on how to podcast, which is super cool. And so anyway, I was thinking it was 2009. I was like, what should I do a podcast on? Because I mostly just wanted to learn how to do it. And I thought, well, I love tutor history, right? And so I was like, I'll do that. And the tutors were on TV. It was the 500th anniversary of the reign of Henry the 8th starting. And I was like, I'll do something on Tudor history. And this podcast was born. I remember stopping at a Best Buy on the way home from my office in Monrovia, California. I think I stopped at a Best Buy, maybe around Rancho, Cucamonga, and I bought a cheap, the cheapest USB mic we could find, I could find, and put out my podcast.

I had to figure out, like, how to use audacity and, like, where to host it and like all the different things.

And finally, by the Monday night, the show went live and was up on iTunes.

I was so excited.

And one of the first comments I got was

about my sound quality. And it was saying that I needed to learn how to use a pop filter.

And my sound quality still is not the greatest because I am a big fan of the quote that, it's a very

famous quote about not letting the perfect be the enemy of the complete

because I could 100% put out an amazing best podcast quality sound ever ever ever would sound

like NPR. I could have a whole studio. I could like rent a studio. The co-working space I work

at sometimes they actually have studio space that I could rent would be amazing. And you know what? I would probably put out one

episode a month if that, if I did that because I just, you know, who has the time to rent studio

space and stuff. So I put these out as I get the time and I don't let the perfect be the

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