Welcome to Words Matter with Katie Barlow and Joe Lockhart.

This is the Words Matter Library.

Lizzie Graham, welcome to Words Matter.

Well, thank you.

You describe yourself as a history buff.

Before we talk about American History Tellers and your latest podcast, I wanted to just

get a little bit from you of your background, how you got into this and why history.

Sure.

How I got into this and my background have largely nothing to do with podcasts or history.

I became a podcaster by accident.

I've always been interested in audio, mostly in the music space.

So you pick up guitar in high school and you get enamored with it.

But quickly I realized that I wasn't the greatest musician or fantastically suited to

the stage.

But I was in love with recording.

And so even from a very early age in college, I was recording other bands.

And that passion continued, still continues.

And so I had about me a bunch of recording equipment and prowess and experience, twiddling

knobs.

That also led to composing and editing and then soon doing sound design for small projects

here locally in Dallas.

And then that ultimately led to an attempted career, attempted small business that focused

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