Hello, and welcome to the Duncan and Co.History Show.I'm Mike Duncan.
I'm Alexis Coe, and this is our show, finally.Finally.It's been two eventful years since we announced the show.
I announced that we were doing this at the end of Revolutions, which was in December of 2022, an announcement that I made very confidently because we had been talking about this constantly.
We never stopped talking about it.
And that's the thing, that never changed.We've always loved talking about history together, far beyond just history books.
The original conceit of the show, the whole reason we're doing this.
And so we've been talking about it nonstop.
But in all that time that we were talking about it, we weren't talking about the thing that was getting in the way of us actually doing it, of just putting dates on the calendar and recording.
Right.Because a very big thing was happening in my life.
And a very big thing was happening in my life.
And they were the same thing actually.
Which we never discussed.We, we were not discussing it.
We never discussed it.We didn't talk about it for, I would say an absurd amount of time and until we did.
Right.And the thing was that I was getting a divorce.
And the thing was, I was also getting a divorce.
which was very difficult.
I would say devastating and really time-consuming.And so when we finally talked about it, we realized that it was not the right moment to do the show.
And so what we would do is do the show in the future, but we would take a little break to work out some things in our lives.
Right.We were going to take a little break, not a long break, but then it kind of became a long break and it was getting too long for my tastes.
And then one day back in the spring, I was just like, you know what?We hadn't talked about it for a little bit.I was just like, I'm just going to send her a text message and say, we should do this thing.
We should get back together and start working on the show.
And at that exact same moment, I, in a DC airport, for whatever reason, was also thinking about you and texting you the same thing.
Yeah, this is a banana story.This is true.We're not making this up.
When I texted her out of the blue, it was like a bell had gone off in both of our heads simultaneously to say, we need to reconnect with the other because as I was texting her, she was texting me.
Right.And I didn't even so I just called you and we talked about how ridiculous that was and that it was yet another sign that we should just be doing this show.And so how could we do it in a way that made sense to us right now?
And we figured that out.And I'm just going to lead by saying that it is extremely frightening to me that this is the first time I have made a podcast without a team of like Peabody winners behind me.We have no producer.We have no budget.
We don't even have music.
We don't have music, right?And I've done those things, right?I've never had a producer.I've never had a budget.But I've never done an unscripted show like this before.But we have been recording ever since the spring.
We've been putting episodes in the can and calling it season zero of the Duncan & Co History Show.
And that's the big news.It's coming out.We're releasing them on Wednesdays.
Right.So we're going to start dropping episodes, but not necessarily in the order that we recorded them.
No, we've all along the way, we have done what we call a formative episodes.We've been doing topics that we always knew we were going to do from the very beginning.And then we've been adding things along the way as we've been inspired.
Right.And it's season zero.And so things are just going to be coming out in the feed.
And some of the early stuff is just us interviewing each other about work that we've been doing, things that were formative in our own careers as historians, and just chatting.
Right, because we were used to talking about Washington and Lafayette, but now we talk about everything to do with history.We're just like two history buddies hanging out, shooting the shit kind of all the time.
And that's what this is going to be going forward.Episodes as they come out are going to be anything that has to do with the intersection of history and culture is going to be fair game for the Duncan and Co.History Show.
Oh, and not only that, Mike tells me that all good podcasts have Patreon accounts.And so we're going to have that.
We're going to release bonus content there, including my favorite episode so far, which is about a black tie dinner we went to recently.
Yes, yes, yes, that black tie dinner, where if you subscribe to the Patreon and hear this, it will be me getting roasted by Alexis for some things.
So beyond the Patreon, we also want to grow this out, and especially we hope to do live shows, like joint events together.
We both love being out on the road, doing speaking gigs, and we're going to do those together, and then hopefully build a little history community here between the two of us and between all of you listening out there.
And that starts now with season zero of the Duncan and Co.History Show, which is available now.And you can expect new episodes every Wednesday.
Yep.New episodes every Wednesday, which means next Wednesday, too.So we will see you then.This was the Duncan and Co.History Show.I'm Mike Duncan.
I'm Alexis Co.This was our show.
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