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is that the one that you liked from like

yeah the one that sounds like National

Treasure yeah

okay so this is the Taco History Podcast

yes so this is our very first one and

this is an introduction yeah uh so my

name is Scott I will be the host of this

podcast and my name is Jen your name is

Jen Jen tell us who you are

I am the host of walk with history on

YouTube and this talk with history will

be more of a

personal in-depth look to those episodes

so we will talk about

just the research and the thought

process and the history that goes into

making each of those videos Okay

um now tell us about yourself so I'll

introduce myself since I'm the host yes

uh Scott I am from California I'm a

California Kid

and if people don't know already you and

I are husband and wife yes

so um 15 years 15 years we got married

15 years 15 short years ago almost 15

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

one who remembers when our anniversary

is and the year that we got married

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

on the walk with history YouTube channel

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

just go ahead and say that I do the

heavy lifting when it comes to the

production side yeah I will tell

everybody here that Jen does all the

research all the outlines

she finds the topics she basically she

finds and seeks out the content

and I do all the basically the back end

stuff so we've actually made a really

good team and I joke with a lot of

people and then I will turn it over to

you that we finally found something

after 14 years and change that we enjoy

doing together yes and that is the that

is the Walk of History YouTube channel

so after that we've

been doing we're coming up on 30

episodes here yes

for the walk with history

and we decided to start talk with

history so you just mentioned a little

bit about what talk with history is

going to be about who are you tell tell

someone who hasn't seen walk with

history who you are where you're from in

your background absolutely

so I am Jennifer I am a veteran

so I was in the U.S military for almost

eight years

and I was a Naval aviator you'll

probably hear me say that a lot it's a

running joke

um because Pilots like to tell people

that they're Pilots I flew helicopters

in the Navy and

after I got out of the Navy I decided to

go back to school and I used the GI Bill

the post 911 GI Bill and I got a

master's degree of American history from

the University of Memphis and I got a

graduate certificate in museum studies

from the University of Memphis

but being in a military family we move

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

that's kind of stationary and once covet

happened

I started watching a lot of YouTube

channels

about history and I was noticing that

people just

were barely scratching the surface of

some things and they weren't giving

they were showing some information some

locations but weren't really relaying on

why that would matter to me or what was

interesting to maybe the viewer

so I thought and I brought it up to you

what if I did a YouTube channel what if

we started a YouTube channel and we

could go to the historic places and

locations and talk about their impact of

history and history makers and the

influence people will feel from them

today that they might not even notice or

what has what these people did that

actually changed the course of history

and just kind of make it fun and

because history can be fun

and just try to connect it to today to

have a better future for people so

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

and I really enjoy it yeah so I joke all

the time and this is for anyone who

doesn't know us but I joke all the time

to Jen that she's a 65 year old person

trapped in a smoking hot 40 year old

body I think so and uh and to to those

listening who are curious about this

this podcast

um I am not a history fan like you are

but one of the things that I've learned

that you've taught me is that all this

stuff that I learned in high school

there's a whole lot more to it all the

stuff that I learned in college there's

a whole lot more to it and I have grown

to become more interested

in these interesting tidbits that you

pull out because the one thing that I

will say that you do well on the walk

with history YouTube channel and I think

that you'll go in more depth here

because you do a great job of talking

about the impact

of a historical event that we've all

heard of and how that has impacted our

lives and continues to impact our lives

today so I'm I'm excited to

continue to let you kind of dive deeper

into those walks with history because on

a YouTube channel on a 15 minute video

there's a lot of information that we

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

podcast for someone who wants to dive a

little bit deeper I think yeah

absolutely I think

you saw the

example of that come to fruition with

our Arlington video because I had really

stressed that I wanted to go to

Arlington and film Maureen O'Hara's

grave and I think at first you weren't

even sure who Maureen O'Hara was and I

had to kind of explain who she was and I

was just so excited about her I had

grown up with John Wayne movies and we

had actually at one time gone to Ireland

and we had gone to Kong Ireland where

they filmed The Quiet Man and I

basically drug you all around Ashford

castle and where they filmed The Quiet

Man and the cottage and it was such a

great experience and I know you liked it

after we were there

and Maureen O'Hara is actually buried in

Arlington and most people don't know

that because her husband was a brigadier

general and he was a pilot

and he had died and you if your spouse

of someone who is buried in Arlington

then you can be buried in Arlington and

she she always wants to be buried there

with him and she passed recently I'd say

in the last three to five years and I

had tried to find someone going to her

grave in Arlington and there was nothing

on YouTube about her so I wondered if

people even knew she was there so I had

really stressed to you that I wanted to

do that video and you really you weren't

sure you were kind of like okay and and

then when I did it that video was the

one for us that has really taken off had

a lot of viewers and I'm really thankful

since I have done it more people have

filmed her grave at Arlington but I

think we do a really good job of

telling people who she was especially in

reference to John Wayne and because she

was one of his biggest co-stars and who

she was just as an actress and so I

think

those are the things I try to relay

different

movies that she did and Leading Men that

she had worked with and then people and

I I also you know I tell people how she

was with Lucy the first time she met

Desi Arnaz so just Lucio ball Lucille

Ball yeah yes so those are the kind of

things I try to connect for people that

that these stars are kind of all

influencing each other and working

together and building

that part of you know media together but

yeah mourin O'Hara I know Scott is

coming to realize a little more but

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

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

Turner Classic Movie fan and I've gone

to the Turner Classic Movies weekends in

La when we lived in California

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

people who like Classic Movies so I was

very

proud and privileged to have showcased

her grave at Arlington and that's still

to this day is our biggest video on

YouTube yeah that was uh one of the

surprising things for me was that you

know it took I think three or four weeks

and then all of a sudden we just started

getting like hundreds and hundreds and

hundreds and thousands of views and that

that video is at close to 50 000 views

now yes

um so for a brand new YouTube channel

that was that was pretty exciting that

that was someone I've been doing YouTube

videos for a few years just kind of for

family stuff and things like that but

um one of the other things

for walk with history and talk with

history is when you find a niche that's

interesting that people are interested

in that you're passionate about and

that's what excited me about this about

not only the YouTube channel now doing a

podcast and us getting to to talk more

about it you getting to talk more about

it because there might be people out

there who want to hear more about the

video but there also might be people out

there who don't watch YouTube as much

and they do lots of podcasts yeah so

um I think this is an exciting

opportunity for us and I'm happy that we

get to to start this yeah start this

together it'll be really great I think

this will be good for anyone who you

don't have to watch the walk with

history videos if you just want to hear

about what it

how a historian is thinking and how our

historian is trying to give you the

information

in the most researched

I wouldn't say non-biased because you

always have to be aware of your personal

bias but you're trying to do all the

research and cover all the bases and

present all the facts that are out there

and try not to have an agenda when you

present the facts just present the facts

and The Listener or the viewer can

decide for themselves

I do believe my subscribers and my

audience are

educated and smart people and they can

decide for themselves how they feel

about something I'll just give them the

information and I think a good historian

does that I'm not trying to hide

something from you so you think one way

or another I'm trying to give it all to

you so you understand who this person

was and or this event was

and then it's entirety because I think

that is how I build trust and how you'll

come to

just know that the information I'm

giving you is reliable

yep yep so I think um again so this

podcast is really a couple things right

it's a little bit of behind the scenes

of walk with history how do we get there

interesting things we saw there that

weren't really relevant to the video

what it was like driving around in the

Mississippi Delta trying to find

different historical sites so it's

behind the scenes it is a deeper dive

into some of those videos if you watch

the videos and you've come here to the

podcast

and it's also what you said about

talking about how historians think and

research and how they try to remove like

you said their personal bias so I think

those three things for those anyone

listening

if you're interested in that kind of

stuff behind the scenes videos of how to

how to film

videos like this on YouTube

for research based insight into these

historical events as well as how a

historian thinks researches and what you

think as a historian I think this is the

podcast for for you the listener so

yeah thank you again for those who

downloaded and listened please feel free

to kind of continue to subscribe in

whatever podcast player that you guys

are using yes and we will talk to you

guys next week yes thank you thank you

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