On July 1st, 2020, I published the very first episode of this podcast.

Since then, it's been quite a journey.

Some of you have been along for the entire ride, some of you found me along the way, and some of

you are brand new.

I've done some special episodes in the past

about how I started this podcast but in this anniversary episode I want to do

something a bit different. Learn more about why this podcast exists and who was made for on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. The short version of why I decided to do this podcast is because this is the

podcast I wanted to listen to and nobody else was really doing it.

There are other educational podcasts out there and I don't want to disparage them.

They're fine but it wasn't what I was looking for.

I didn't want to hear an over-produced public radio clone podcast with two hosts talking to each other

expressing their fake astonishment after learning some fact they probably knew before they

started recording. I wanted something that was tight and to the point. So I sat down

and figured out a format for the show and so far 725 episodes in I haven't changed a thing. Creating a show

that I wanted to listen to would certainly satisfy myself but the big question

was how many other people were out there? I knew there were others but I had no

clue how many or how to reach them. If there is a central theme to this podcast, a

podcast that is literally about everything, it's about having curiosity about a wide range of subjects.

Curiosity is really the key. If curiosity is the general theme of the podcast,

there are several underlying principles that are behind

the podcast that I'd like to go through. The first is that I am a firm believer that learning

is ultimately up to the learner. If you don't want to learn, you will not learn. You can put

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