You ready?

I was born ready.

Welcome to the Advisory Opinions Podcast. I'm David French with Sarah Isger and this is

episode two of Nerd August and this one is a real treat. This is a fascinating topic with a

fascinating guest. Sarah, do you want to introduce Kevin Stroud?

Well, I found it really funny because in our episode one of Nerd August, I mentioned the history

of stirrups and we had a few listeners calling me out that I had gotten this from a podcast called

the History of English podcast that is hosted by Kevin Stroud and they are exactly right.

It was kind of a little Easter egg of what was going to come for episode two because we have

Kevin Stroud here. This podcast is incredible. He's been doing it since 2012. There are 160 episodes

and David, he's a lawyer. So I thought we'd talk a little even though it's Nerd August,

a little law but more etymology, more history. History of the English podcast is the name. He has

bonus episodes. He even has an audiobook on the history of the alphabet. I eat it all up. This

is what I do in my car all the time. I like go take drives now intentionally. So I was really

looking forward to this episode. All righty. Kevin, thank you so much for joining us. It's weird

because I just got out of my car and we were together. You didn't know you were there but you were

with me as you are in every car trip I take and here you are. It's very exciting. Thank you.

Well, that's how podcasting works. So I'm told anyway. And you normally podcast alone, you said.

Yeah, it's just me. Every aspect of the podcast is just me from the concept, the research,

the writing, the editing, the fixing the website. Yeah, it's a lot. It's a lot. That's incredible.

And you started this back in 2012 and you've been releasing about a pod a month.

Yeah, it started off a little more frequently than that. It was actually about every other week.

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