WDF 7th Birthday Bash: Huge News and Q&A

When Diplomacy Fails Podcast

Zack Twamley

Phd, International Relations, Korean War, European History, 17th Century, 18th Century, Politics, 20th Century, Thirty Years' War, History, 19th Century, War, First World War

4.8 • 773 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2019

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Are you ready for this? After a long time teasing you all, it's time I dropped some incredibly exciting news on the world. This news has the potential to change history podcasting FOREVER...sort of, but first and foremost, it means big changes for you and I. I hope you'll have a listen to the first half of this show to hear my news and get to grips with what I'm all about. Pat yourself on the back and say a huge thankssss with me, for seven wonderful years of history podcasting! Who would have thought that after seven years of talking to myself, you would all still be listening! Happy birthday to us, and thankss for being the best history friends a guy could ask for [self hug]

Here are the questions I cover in this episode:

What’s a typical day of work for you with the show? How are you managing to do all this? What black magic are you using to make days last 48 hours etc.? How is teaching? Do you think you’ll revisit BGTW again? How do you get through sources so quickly? Do you see Sean anymore? What’s your favourite junk food? If you had one piece of advice for someone starting out in history podcasting, what would it be? What is your recording studio set up? Will you cover any examples of when diplomacy succeeds in the future? What’s a pet peeve you have with history podcasting? How do you construct your scripts for each episode? You came to the US in November 2018, what was one thing you liked and one thing you didn’t like about our country? Did you expect this series to be so massive? Most surprising fact about my research for it? What’s the weirdest error you’ve made with the project? What’s your favourite subtitle you’ve given to an episode of the series? Where do you begin with big projects like the VAP? Whose diary do you wish you had for the VAP? What are you reading right now aside from all the VAP/1956 stuff? Any books that you stopped reading out of frustration? Name and shame! What famous hair or beard style do you wish you could pull of today? Favourite female diplomatic leader? You get to ask one question to one historical figure, they must answer honestly, who will you ask and what question will you ask? What do you think of historians that allow their ideology or opinions to affect their work?

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome history friends patrons all to a very special episode.
0:16.6	Happy birthday everyone and thanks so much for stopping by.
0:21.5	Today, seven years ago, a very nervous and clueless 20-year-old first-year college student
0:27.9	released his first episode, examining the Franco-Prussian War.
0:32.8	Since then, thankfully, you've forgiven me for that audio atrocity, and you've struck with me ever
0:38.9	since. For those that have been here since the beginning, and I know that there are a good
0:42.9	few of you, this must be a very special day indeed. For those that have just joined, maybe a few
0:48.6	months or a few weeks ago, count your blessings. In all seriousness, though, thank you all so much for making the last
0:56.0	seven years of podcasting so enjoyable and so rewarding. I never imagined that when I first
1:01.2	started spitting into my blue snowball all those years ago, that I would have all of this around me
1:06.6	seven years on. Mercifully for you, we're not going to do what we did for our fifth birthday.
1:11.4	There will be no 7 weeks to run wild.
1:14.1	Instead, we've got a birthday Q&A to occupy us today, sandwiched, as this episode is between
1:19.9	episodes of the Versa I Anniversary Project, of the Delegation Game, and of 1956.
1:25.9	Sorry about that.
1:26.9	Our schedule's never been so packed, but that doesn't mean
1:29.9	that we don't have time to make this episode a very special one indeed. And I think I should start off
1:34.9	by dropping this huge news I've been hyping up for so darn long. I should clarify that if you've been thinking about what this news could possibly be,
1:48.4	if you're really tying yourself and not thinking about it, you may have overthought it a little bit.
1:53.7	Now, I'm not saying it's going to be as disappointing as season 8 of Game of Thrones, too soon,
1:58.6	but I am saying that this announcement won't fundamentally change your
2:02.5	universe. All this hype and build-up, Zach, just get on with it already. Okay, fair enough. But before I do
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