Okay.

Welcome to Giants of History.

This is J.T. Fusco.

Some brief updates on the show before we begin,

as it's been just a bit longer than normal between this show and the last one that I published

and you all deserve to know why. And so the short version of the story is that my laptop

crashed one Sunday early in June and along with that extremely unfortunate

event went all my recent work including the notes research the outline for what was to be this show.

And so basically I had to start from scratch with this whole episode

and a few others that I had began outlining as well.

So that is the reason for this slightly extended publishing schedule.

And I appreciate all of your patience through this little hiccup. And then the last thing to share here is

that this show celebrated its four-year anniversary a few weeks ago on July 1st.

July 1st 2015 was the day that I released the first Theodore Roosevelt episode and then it's

crazy to think that six months after that my youngest son was born who will be four this December.

So I only mentioned that. I don't know why I mentioned that, but it just occurred to me that the show was actually launched prior to my youngest son's birth.

And it just put time in perspective for me.

And as a postscript here, last time I checked, the show had 666 total reviews in iTunes, the vast

majority of those being five stars. Now, while I'm not a superstitious man and have even ran with the devil a time or two during my life,

666 has never been a number that I'm comfortable with.

So if you haven't yet done so and you've been listening to

the show for a while, kindly hit iTunes and maybe B review number 667. I would appreciate that.

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