A History Based YouTube Journey and Introduction to Talk With History

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is that the one that you liked from like

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yeah the one that sounds like National

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Treasure yeah

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okay so this is the Taco History Podcast

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yes so this is our very first one and

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this is an introduction yeah uh so my

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name is Scott I will be the host of this

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podcast and my name is Jen your name is

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Jen Jen tell us who you are

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I am the host of walk with history on

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YouTube and this talk with history will

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be more of a

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personal in-depth look to those episodes

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so we will talk about

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just the research and the thought

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process and the history that goes into

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making each of those videos Okay

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um now tell us about yourself so I'll

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introduce myself since I'm the host yes

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uh Scott I am from California I'm a

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California Kid

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and if people don't know already you and

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I are husband and wife yes

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so um 15 years 15 years we got married

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15 years 15 short years ago almost 15

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years you don't even know hey I'm the

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one who remembers when our anniversary

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is and the year that we got married

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um so I'm I'm the host I work with you

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on the walk with history YouTube channel

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I would say work with you but I do I'll

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just go ahead and say that I do the

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heavy lifting when it comes to the

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production side yeah I will tell

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everybody here that Jen does all the

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research all the outlines

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she finds the topics she basically she

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finds and seeks out the content

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and I do all the basically the back end

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stuff so we've actually made a really

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good team and I joke with a lot of

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people and then I will turn it over to

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you that we finally found something

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after 14 years and change that we enjoy

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doing together yes and that is the that

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is the Walk of History YouTube channel

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so after that we've

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been doing we're coming up on 30

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episodes here yes

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for the walk with history

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and we decided to start talk with

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history so you just mentioned a little

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bit about what talk with history is

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going to be about who are you tell tell

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someone who hasn't seen walk with

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history who you are where you're from in

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your background absolutely

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so I am Jennifer I am a veteran

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so I was in the U.S military for almost

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eight years

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and I was a Naval aviator you'll

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probably hear me say that a lot it's a

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running joke

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um because Pilots like to tell people

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that they're Pilots I flew helicopters

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in the Navy and

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after I got out of the Navy I decided to

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go back to school and I used the GI Bill

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the post 911 GI Bill and I got a

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master's degree of American history from

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the University of Memphis and I got a

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graduate certificate in museum studies

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from the University of Memphis

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but being in a military family we move

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around a lot so it's hard to find a job

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that's kind of stationary and once covet

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happened

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I started watching a lot of YouTube

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channels

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about history and I was noticing that

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people just

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were barely scratching the surface of

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some things and they weren't giving

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they were showing some information some

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locations but weren't really relaying on

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why that would matter to me or what was

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interesting to maybe the viewer

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so I thought and I brought it up to you

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what if I did a YouTube channel what if

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we started a YouTube channel and we

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could go to the historic places and

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locations and talk about their impact of

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history and history makers and the

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influence people will feel from them

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today that they might not even notice or

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what has what these people did that

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actually changed the course of history

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and just kind of make it fun and

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because history can be fun

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and just try to connect it to today to

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have a better future for people so

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that's who I am it's what I what we do

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and I really enjoy it yeah so I joke all

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the time and this is for anyone who

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doesn't know us but I joke all the time

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to Jen that she's a 65 year old person

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trapped in a smoking hot 40 year old

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body I think so and uh and to to those

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listening who are curious about this

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this podcast

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um I am not a history fan like you are

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but one of the things that I've learned

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that you've taught me is that all this

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stuff that I learned in high school

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there's a whole lot more to it all the

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stuff that I learned in college there's

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a whole lot more to it and I have grown

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to become more interested

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in these interesting tidbits that you

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pull out because the one thing that I

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will say that you do well on the walk

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with history YouTube channel and I think

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that you'll go in more depth here

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because you do a great job of talking

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about the impact

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of a historical event that we've all

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heard of and how that has impacted our

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lives and continues to impact our lives

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today so I'm I'm excited to

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continue to let you kind of dive deeper

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into those walks with history because on

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a YouTube channel on a 15 minute video

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there's a lot of information that we

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just can't get all in and so this is the

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podcast for someone who wants to dive a

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little bit deeper I think yeah

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absolutely I think

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you saw the

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example of that come to fruition with

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our Arlington video because I had really

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stressed that I wanted to go to

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Arlington and film Maureen O'Hara's

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grave and I think at first you weren't

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even sure who Maureen O'Hara was and I

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had to kind of explain who she was and I

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was just so excited about her I had

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grown up with John Wayne movies and we

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had actually at one time gone to Ireland

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and we had gone to Kong Ireland where

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they filmed The Quiet Man and I

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basically drug you all around Ashford

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castle and where they filmed The Quiet

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Man and the cottage and it was such a

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great experience and I know you liked it

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after we were there

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and Maureen O'Hara is actually buried in

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Arlington and most people don't know

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that because her husband was a brigadier

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general and he was a pilot

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and he had died and you if your spouse

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of someone who is buried in Arlington

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then you can be buried in Arlington and

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she she always wants to be buried there

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with him and she passed recently I'd say

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in the last three to five years and I

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had tried to find someone going to her

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grave in Arlington and there was nothing

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on YouTube about her so I wondered if

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people even knew she was there so I had

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really stressed to you that I wanted to

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do that video and you really you weren't

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sure you were kind of like okay and and

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then when I did it that video was the

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one for us that has really taken off had

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a lot of viewers and I'm really thankful

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since I have done it more people have

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filmed her grave at Arlington but I

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think we do a really good job of

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telling people who she was especially in

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reference to John Wayne and because she

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was one of his biggest co-stars and who

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she was just as an actress and so I

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think

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those are the things I try to relay

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different

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movies that she did and Leading Men that

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she had worked with and then people and

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I I also you know I tell people how she

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was with Lucy the first time she met

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Desi Arnaz so just Lucio ball Lucille

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Ball yeah yes so those are the kind of

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things I try to connect for people that

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that these stars are kind of all

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influencing each other and working

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together and building

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that part of you know media together but

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yeah mourin O'Hara I know Scott is

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coming to realize a little more but

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she's a big deal she's a big deal when

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it comes to movies and I'm a I'm a big

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Turner Classic Movie fan and I've gone

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to the Turner Classic Movies weekends in

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La when we lived in California

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and she's a big she's a big star to

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people who like Classic Movies so I was

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very

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proud and privileged to have showcased

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her grave at Arlington and that's still

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to this day is our biggest video on

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YouTube yeah that was uh one of the

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surprising things for me was that you

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know it took I think three or four weeks

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and then all of a sudden we just started

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getting like hundreds and hundreds and

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hundreds and thousands of views and that

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that video is at close to 50 000 views

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now yes

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um so for a brand new YouTube channel

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that was that was pretty exciting that

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that was someone I've been doing YouTube

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videos for a few years just kind of for

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family stuff and things like that but

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um one of the other things

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for walk with history and talk with

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history is when you find a niche that's

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interesting that people are interested

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in that you're passionate about and

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that's what excited me about this about

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not only the YouTube channel now doing a

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podcast and us getting to to talk more

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about it you getting to talk more about

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it because there might be people out

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there who want to hear more about the

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video but there also might be people out

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there who don't watch YouTube as much

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and they do lots of podcasts yeah so

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um I think this is an exciting

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opportunity for us and I'm happy that we

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get to to start this yeah start this

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together it'll be really great I think

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this will be good for anyone who you

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don't have to watch the walk with

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history videos if you just want to hear

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about what it

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how a historian is thinking and how our

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historian is trying to give you the

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information

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in the most researched

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I wouldn't say non-biased because you

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always have to be aware of your personal

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bias but you're trying to do all the

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research and cover all the bases and

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present all the facts that are out there

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and try not to have an agenda when you

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present the facts just present the facts

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and The Listener or the viewer can

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decide for themselves

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I do believe my subscribers and my

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audience are

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educated and smart people and they can

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decide for themselves how they feel

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about something I'll just give them the

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information and I think a good historian

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does that I'm not trying to hide

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something from you so you think one way

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or another I'm trying to give it all to

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you so you understand who this person

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was and or this event was

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and then it's entirety because I think

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that is how I build trust and how you'll

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come to

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just know that the information I'm

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giving you is reliable

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yep yep so I think um again so this

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podcast is really a couple things right

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it's a little bit of behind the scenes

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of walk with history how do we get there

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interesting things we saw there that

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weren't really relevant to the video

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what it was like driving around in the

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Mississippi Delta trying to find

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different historical sites so it's

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behind the scenes it is a deeper dive

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into some of those videos if you watch

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the videos and you've come here to the

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podcast

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and it's also what you said about

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talking about how historians think and

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research and how they try to remove like

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you said their personal bias so I think

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those three things for those anyone

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listening

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if you're interested in that kind of

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stuff behind the scenes videos of how to

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how to film

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videos like this on YouTube

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for research based insight into these

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historical events as well as how a

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historian thinks researches and what you

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think as a historian I think this is the

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podcast for for you the listener so

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yeah thank you again for those who

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downloaded and listened please feel free

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to kind of continue to subscribe in

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whatever podcast player that you guys

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are using yes and we will talk to you

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guys next week yes thank you thank you

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