Final Episode- Adieu Mes Amis

Hello, and welcome to Revolutions. The final episode, Adieu Mezami. I published the first episode of the Revolutions podcast on 09/15/2013. By the time that first episode aired, I had known about the show for about two years. I conceived of the idea while taking a class at the University of Texas, a story I told back in appendix one. When I did my year of grad school at Texas State, I took a course on the Mexican Revolution my first semester because I already knew what I was going to do after I graduated. My plan was to get a master's degree in public history, and then go off and do this podcast about great revolutions. Instead, less than a year later, Mrs. Revolutions was offered a great job in Madison, she took it, I dropped out of grad school, and we moved north in the 2013. This advanced the timeline of when I thought Revolutions would happen, but Revolutions was definitely happening. And when we moved, it was time for it to happen. Now when we moved, we decided it would be okay for me to not go look for another day job. I had always had day jobs while working on the history of Rome. Advertising had entered the picture way back in 2009, but I always clung to the security of keeping a real job. But when we moved from Austin to Madison, we decided that I should not go out applying for jobs, that instead I should take a crack at podcasting full time. We looked at the revenue I would need to be able to generate to make up for those missing wages, and agreed that I could have one year to try to replace that income, just to see if it could be done. If, after a year, I was not successful and I wasn't making up the wages, then I could just go find another job. But if it worked, then I could do this thing where I get to podcast full time. Now, this was not a small thing or an easy decision to make. Our son was just turning one at this point. This is not the most sensational time to decide, oh, I'm going to abandon financial security and go chase a dream. But the dream at least seemed plausible. After all, the history of Rome had been quite successful. So there I was in the 2013 with this utterly helpless baby bouncing in my lap, and I was just saying, well, okay, here I go. Let's go work without a net. This is a great time to be doing this. I spent the 2013 as a stay at home dad, reading voraciously about the English revolution during nap time and in between trips to the park and the children's museum. Now this was a stressful period obviously and full of uncertainty, but I believed I had a good idea with revolutions. Somewhere buried in the bins of my …