Before we start today, I have some pretty exciting news.

About a month ago, I was contacted by Tim Wittenburg, who knows his way around a computer, and

offered to convert the sound files from the podcast into written transcripts, using automatic

voice recognition.

Obviously, the scripted episodes, like the one you're about to hear, already exist as

text, but I realized this was a chance to produce transcripts for the interviews, and

that is what Tim did.

The results needed quite a bit of editing, so I appealed for help on social media, and

got a small army of about 20 listeners who were generous enough to offer their time.

They've been going through all the interview transcripts.

There are well over a hundred of them, and preparing them to put on the podcast website.

So many thanks to Bartvoss Benjeman, Chandler, Dan, Darius, Dave, David, Diana, Faizan, Felix,

John, Carl, Collier, Miguel, Norina, Ray, Susan, Wang, and Sava for their help, and

I hope I got everyone there.

Also thanks to the many wonderful interview guests I've had over the years.

I contacted them to let them know we were doing this, and no one had any objections.

Some even offered to proofread the transcripts of their appearances.

Oh, and I shouldn't forget to thank my website designer, Julian, who figured out how to

present the transcripts on the website.

What this means for you is that you can now go to the website, in particular to www.historyoflowsvy.net

forward slash transcripts.

There's also a button marked transcripts at the bottom of the page to see a list of

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