5 Years and Hundreds of Historic Locations | Celebrating 50k subscribers

Walk with History 50k Live Stream

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Celebrating 50K Subscribers

Jenn: Okay, so 50 K. 

Scott: 50 K. Yes. Thanks folks for, again, for joining us. So gosh, where do we even start? Yes, thank you, Larry, for sharing that. I totally effed that up. Just 50,000 subscribers and I’m still figuring stuff out. 

Reminiscing Past Milestonaes

Scott: You know, I think we’ve done this, did we do this at 20 5K? I think we did this at 20 5K.

Yeah, I think we did this at 

Jenn: 20 5K. We haven’t done alive in a while. Wasn’t that 

Scott: long ago? It was about a year ago. 

Jenn: Yeah. 

Scott: Um, maybe a little over that, but. We started in 2021. 

Jenn: Yeah. 

Scott: But one of the first things, I’m gonna wait till some more people jump on, but I, ’cause I have questions for you. 

Jenn: Oh, thank you, Jeannie.

Right?

Scott: Oh, thank you. 

Jenn: I miss you. 

Scott: Yeah. 

Jenn: Hmm. 

Scott: Jeannie, actually, you’re. Bedspread is on our guest bed, right behind the camera over here. The, uh,

Jenn: it’s a wonderful 

Scott: life. It’s a wonderful life one. So we actually have that right over here, and we use it all the time. So for those other folks on the chat, so I’ve known Jeannie since [00:01:00] before I can EI could even talk.

Uh, she knew my parents and so lifelong, uh, family friend there. So great to see her on the live stream. And 

Jenn: I would do Turner Classic movie weekend with her. We love old movies, Jeannie and I, and, uh, I miss it. She still goes. I would love to be able to go. I would love to be able to someday get back into that and go again.

’cause I really love. Those weekends and they bring in people who were connected to the movies and they talk about making the movies, and I just love that. Plus, I love to see some of these old movies on big screens that you don’t get to see like that. Yeah. Yeah. So super, super cool. Yeah. If you ever get a chance to do that 

Scott: party at a hundred k.

Agreed. Well, maybe, we’ll, we’ll do an in-person party or something like that, so. Oh yeah. Thanks so much, Jeanine. So we’ve been doing this since 21. Mm-hmm. Um, so I have some questions for you. 

Jenn: Okay? 

Scott: Okay. And so as you can, you can tell how prepared I was for this live stream. Jen is probably not prepared for the questions I have, although this one we did talk about. 

Favorite Locations Visited

Scott: So, favorite location that we visited over the course of the channel, [00:02:00] now we started the channel in 2021.

This was February, March of 2021. So we’ve been doing it for a little over four years now in favorite location. Now I have probably two in my head, but it’s gonna be for a very different reason. And if you guys in the chat have a favorite location that we visited, please put that in the chat and I’d be curious to see what, what one of your guys’ favorite ones was.

Maybe it was personal because it’s just you had visited there before, or maybe it’s close to home. Um, so what’s one of your favorite locations? Favorite 

Jenn: location? You know, the one that always pops up is Bighorn. ’cause I loved going to, that was one of mine be, I love Big Horn. Big Horn. I loved being out there.

Yeah, we were very close to the anniversary. June 25th. So it, the weather felt like what it would’ve felt like when they were, you know, fighting that day. And to be out there and to imagine the story, like imagine Crazy Horse and Custer and, and, and [00:03:00] everybody reno out there. Um. And it was neat to see the spirit tree with all the little cloths tied on it and stuff.

I don’t know, I just felt like that was super cool. Oh, 

Scott: okay. So Pete said, um, so he had his, uh, favorite location, he said the Lincoln Assassination trial site. 

Jenn: Yeah. That was cool. That, that

Scott: was a neat one. That special access that was, that one’s unique because not too many people can get to that. 

So that was actually one of mine. 

Purely just because I actually have family in Montana, and so in my younger years I went up there a few times and I’ve always loved going up there. I haven’t been up there much over the years, but that was one of mine just because we were so far out there.

Yeah, we were. Thousands of miles away from home. It was also the first time you got recognized. First time I was 

Jenn: recognized, 

Scott: she, first time she was recognized in public was actually at the Battle of Little Bighorn in the farthest out parking lot, in the farthest out parking lot. So that was pretty neat.

Oh, it’s neat. Um, let’s see.

Memorable Historical Sites

Jenn: So I see that the Lincoln assassination site, you know what was so neat about that is to go, is to look out the window. Yeah, and see where they were buried, you know, where they, where they actually were hanged, and then where they were buried right there by the, the [00:04:00] tennis court.

So

Scott: for folks who haven’t seen that video, you can find it on our channel and so you’ll see, um. Where the Lincoln conspirators, the Lincoln assassination conspirators were tried mm-hmm. Is on Fort McNair. Uh, so Fort, no, it’s not Fort McNair. Yeah. What’s the name of the fort? 

Jenn: It’s Leslie McNair. Yeah,

Scott: Fort 

Jenn: McNair.

So

Scott: Fort McNair, this is in Washington DC 

Jenn: mm-hmm. 

Scott: And so sometimes public can get access to it. It’s a couple times a year. Mm-hmm. Um, and in fact, even, you know, our, our friend jd, we had actually met him out there. We were gonna tried to get, we were him, we were gonna try to bring him on sometimes from 

Jenn: History Underground.

Scott: From History Underground. Mm-hmm. So we had tried to bring JD on. ’cause usually you can bring. Military, right. I’m active duty. Mm-hmm. And she’s former, can bring folks on base if you’re just driving around. Nothing secret or anything, but that day it was like military or nothing. And so I, I, I felt bad.

And we went to Arlington, I know, and turned around with a, we made an Arlington video 

Jenn: with him, but there was a. But a baseball game that day or football game that day. Yeah. And they thought people were coming onto the base to try to park, to try to park, to go to the game. And so they weren’t letting people on who weren’t military.

I thought that was,

Scott: but that is the location where the Lincoln conspirator were actually [00:05:00] tried. And so in the third floor, I think it was second or third floor of this building that still exists, um, they were tried there. And so there’s pictures kind of hand drawn pictures of, because you 

Jenn: can get a pass of 

Scott: what happened.

Yes. You can get a pass. Absolutely. Um, I think in that video we put a link to the website. Mm-hmm. So if you’re curious, go look up kind of Lincoln conspirators on our channel. Um, but you can see the pictures and then you can see Jen there. Yeah. She’s standing and they’ve redone it, um, the, a few years back, um,

Jenn: to look like what it did during the trial to look, to

Scott: look like what it did.

So, um,

Jenn: yeah, that was super neat. And then we. To coincide with that. We do a kind of like the Night Lincoln was assassinated, we walk you through DC Yeah, that was a, it was earlier video. It was earlier video. But that was like a whole thing they were trying to kill. They were trying to assassinate three people in one night.

Yeah. Um, and they only were successful with the president. So, let’s 

Scott: see. So I think Stanley, am I reading that right? My eyes are going. Yeah. Lakeview folks. Lakeview Cemetery. Was that the one in Cleveland area? 

Jenn: Mm-hmm. Yep. That was Cleveland. That was uh, that was a 

Scott: neat one. 

Jenn: Garfield Rockefeller. Yes. Right.

There were some neat ones there. There were some neat ones there. Um, um,

Scott: Larry said Las Vegas with Elvis. Yeah, they, Elvis is a popular topic on our channel. 

Jenn: Po. We’re gonna do more Elvis. Yeah. Don’t worry. Elvis is not going [00:06:00] away. Elvis is friendly to the channel. We love Elvis. Um, Elvis in Vegas was fun to do, especially ’cause Viva Las Vegas is probably one of the biggest movies that he made.

Yeah. And, uh, plus he, he was one of the first people to do that long residency there and make it so famous. So, yeah. So that,

Scott: that was a neat one. Um, gene said Arlington with Mar O’Hara. 

Popular Videos and Their Impact

Scott: Yeah, that was, so for us, that was our first big video. That’s when we got the early signal. I think that was literally video number 10.

Mm-hmm. And we had for all of 10, and then all of a sudden we got like 50,000 views on a video and we were just shocked. And

Jenn: you’re like, wow. We’re like, oh my gosh, this 

Scott: works. Um, but Jen was one of the first ones to feature Mar O’Hara who’s buried at Arlington because her husband was a Air Force Brier general.

Jenn: Yes. Mm-hmm. 

Scott: Um, look at how much history. I know. 

Jenn: I know. 

Scott: And, uh. So Jen was one of the first ones. We were one of the first ones to make a video featuring her. I think we were the first ones. Think that’s, I think that’s why that one got picked up, um, by the algorithms. So that was, that was pretty fun.

Um, let’s see. I

Jenn: still tell people that she’s buried there and they’re surprised. Yeah. And I point, I tell, and I now more YouTubers have made videos from her grave [00:07:00] and stuff, but I, I was really proud to do that. Yeah.

Scott: So you wanna know one of my favorite. Of course. Favorite locations. Yeah, so one of my favorite locations is purely just from like my kind of videography, and that was, uh, the ruins of president’s.

Oh, 

Jenn: uh, the bus 

Scott: president’s parks. 

Jenn: Yeah. The big, huge bus. So 

Scott: these, there’s these 20 foot tall busts of 43 of the presidents. 43 43, because I think they did up. 

Jenn: Up to Obama. They don’t have Obama a little, they don’t have, they didn’t have

Scott: Obama because they ran outta money, or they didn’t, they weren’t, yeah.

They had, they had a small model that they were gonna use to build a bigger one, but then they ran outta money. But if you haven’t seen that one, so it’s, it’s the ruins of President’s Park. 

Jenn: Mm-hmm. 

Scott: And that one is just fascinating. Purely just because it just looks so cool and it’s so unique. Yeah. And so 43 presidents are there all lined up.

Kind of in three or four rows with three up front. And there’s Andrew Jackson with his big hair, and there’s George Washington. And then they have, um, like who else is up front? Was it Teddy Roosevelt? So, no,

Jenn: the three front were [00:08:00] George Washington, Lincoln and Jackson. 

Scott: That’s 

Jenn: right. Right. So their big question was why, why those three?

Right? Yeah. Why those three? And I didn’t listen to what he was saying beforehand ’cause we were making the video, so I was like, oh, why those three? Well, of course. President, the first president, right? POTUS one, George g Dubs Lincoln, probably the most loved president. He’s up there. Why Jackson? Right. And I was looking at him and I said, well, I have never seen him look so good.

And he goes, that’s why. Because when you look at Jackson, his hair is all flowing and he has these huge ettes on his uniform. So he actually looks detailed. Very attractive. Yeah. And so that’s why they

Scott: put that there. Yeah. And the, and the guide wouldn’t answer on camera. He wouldn’t give us the answer on camera.

’cause that’s like one of his trivia questions to me. That was, that was one of my, my favorite locations. 

Jenn: Yeah. 

Scott: Um, and then Pete’s saying he loves all the Civil War sites. Civil war sites are cool. We don’t do those one quite as much. We’ll do more, um, we do some, 

Jenn: we’re hearing. The thick of some of the stuff here.

Yeah. I mean, 

Scott: we’ve done Shiloh and we’ve done mm-hmm. You know, some Gettysburg stuff. Actually we’ve done a fair amount, but

Jenn: we’ve done it. We’re gonna, we’re gonna do some Donaldson, uh, we’re gonna do some, um, Gris and Raiders. We’re gonna do some horse soldiers. Oh yeah. Stuff I just did Woodlawn. So that video hasn’t aired yet.

You’ll see it. Woodlawn was Sherman’s [00:09:00] headquarters for Shiloh and outside of Memphis. And there’s a house. That you can visit where, and it says Sherman slept here. So I made a video from that house. Uh, and yeah, it’s called Woodlawn. And so yeah, we’re doing more civil war stuff. You can’t not do civil war stuff when you live where the Civil War took place.

Yeah. So, yeah. 

Scott: Um, let’s see, what was my so favorite video, not necessarily favorite location, but your favorite video. 

Upcoming Projects and Plans

Scott: And this can be walk with History, this can be talk with history, this, so what’s one of the ones that kind of comes. Comes, comes to mind for you for your favorite video. I will say for mine, I love the ones where I, I tend to really get to tell a story and I get to spend a little bit more time.

So one of my favorite recent ones was our Robert Johnson video. Yeah, I love that because that was a fun story. I loved doing the Hatfield McCoy video. Yeah. That was really fun for me, just as the editor, right? Because I’m a lot of times, which. Where it all comes together is we have the story, we talk about the story, we do the filming, and then that kind of final bit, right?

You gotta put it all in the oven, you gotta bake it, and then it’s, it’s baking it right? That gets it, and then get it out of the oven. So that’s just right. [00:10:00]

Jenn: I really, you know, my favorite video, it’s hard. I like the ones that you really like invoke emotion and the, the, where Elvis was originally buried. You and I know we have a lot of controversy with that video with the music, but I love the music in that and I love the way Walk with History comes in and we tell the story of El Elvis died.

It shock the nation. Right. And everyone was like, and that’s why he’s buried in this mausoleum so fast because he’s 42 years old. And people were like, well, we don’t know what to do with Elvis Presley. Right. Yeah. And,

Scott: and you guys, and Larry said the bomber jacket, art video, that one was really cool. I’ll talk about some talk with history here in just a little bit.

Yeah. Um. For that one specifically, people may not realize this is one of our big, bigger videos, but we don’t make any money from it. 

Jenn: Yeah. 

Scott: Because the, the clip that I use up front to demonstrate what’s happening at the time I didn’t realize was from like a documentary. Mm-hmm. Um, I thought it was just another YouTube clip and I got hit with a, it wasn’t a copyright strike, but just like a copyright kind of heads up.

More than anything else, basically saying, Hey, you can’t make money from this. The copyright holder will. So a little bit of a bummer for us. But that, ’cause that was a big [00:11:00] video, but I liked that one a lot because again, same thing. I, I always try to find that music that will invoke emotion. Yeah. Um, to make you feel a little bit more.

And it seemed to work, ’cause that video’s done relatively well. 

Jenn: Yeah. And, and like Scott said, like there’s. Some videos that we make and we, you know, we get surprised like that you’re not gonna make any money on this. We don’t care. We’re, we’re putting out the history and that really is enjoyment for us.

Uh, Normandy. Yeah. There were some places in Normandy, Larry, that I stood and I was in, and I was just, yeah. Overcome, like, thinking about what happened there and what that looked like for people. Uh, during D-Day, like to stand on Utah Beach, to stand on Omaha Beach was just, and when I went to that American Normandy Cemetery and I was able to put the sand in Robert Wagner’s, um, or Harry Wagner, the tombstone, like that was an honor for me.

On the 80th anniversary of D-Day, that was the building at Penn State that. All Razi cadets [00:12:00] and students go study in is the Wagner building, and it’s named for him. He was a Penn Stater who died on D-Day and uh, and so I was able to put the sand in his, uh, stone in his monument at the American Normandy Cemetery on the 80th anniversary of D-Day.

Like that was such an honor. I, I just remember just being overcome by, by emotion to be able to do that. So yeah, that means a lot to me too. Um, the interviews, we love doing the interviews. The interviews

Scott: are so much fun. Mm-hmm. They’re, I’ll be honest, for me, the interviews every now and then, just getting everything prepped and all that stuff is like, it’s a little bit of stress there, but once I get into the interview, they’re so, we’ve been so lucky with our guests.

We’ve had some amazing guests now. I’m gonna ask the question and everybody should know the answer, if the chat can, can answer this. Um, who do you guys think that Jen’s Pro, probably the guest she was most excited to interview. If you guys were gonna guess in the chat, what would you guys guess? And [00:13:00] surprisingly what This one didn’t get as many views as I expected.

No, 

Jenn: it still hasn’t gotten many views. It still hasn’t gotten many views. I just don’t think people know it exists. 

Scott: Yeah, 

Jenn: you have to find it. 

Scott: So, so for, um. Jen, what was, who was the guest you were probably most excited to interview? Chris 

Jenn: Jackson. 

Scott: Chris Jackson. Now, who’s Chris Jackson? 

Jenn: George Wa the original George Washington from Hamilton.

Scott: That’s right, that’s 

Jenn: right. That was, uh, an honor. And even now I say if, if I can ever give that back to him, if something ever happens for us where we make it. Bigger. Yeah. Or we ever have the opportunity to pay it back to Chris Jackson because he did that for us. That was really such an honor that he gave us the time and the interview and, and,

Scott: and it was just such a random, like completely out of the blue.

Jenn: Mm-hmm. 

Scott: Mm-hmm. You had done posted some Instagram reels from, where was it? For necessity? Fort necessity. Mm-hmm. Talking about, and, and you had posted ’em and then, you know, a week or two later. We’re driving in the car somewhere and she just says, oh my gosh, Chris Jackson just messaged me. And I was like, who the heck is that?

Um, ’cause I think you had. Dated someone like I did in high school, Chris 

Jenn: Jackson. 

Scott: And I was [00:14:00] like, okay’s, good for you. 

Jenn: Yay. 

Scott: Um, and then she said, no, no, no. Like the Chris Jackson from Broadway play Hamilton, the original George Washington who played opposite Lin Manuel Miranda. 

Jenn: Mm-hmm. 

Scott: And good friends. I was like, oh my gosh.

And so he just said how much of a fan he was of hers, and then he follows her and stuff like that. Yeah. And so then she just decided to go for it and said, Hey, would you be interested in, come on the podcast. It took us a while to get things set up. He had an assistant. We were working with things, got delayed.

He’s a very busy man. 

Jenn: Yeah. I mean he’s on that Sex and the City show. Yeah. And just like that. Like he plays the husband on there 

Scott: and then eventually some time went by, we tried again. And said, Hey, you know, our hundredth episode is coming up. We would love to have you on. And he said, Hey, I’m sorry I’ve just been very busy and traveling.

And he made it happen. He did. And it was a, he gave us like an hour, 

Jenn: took time away from dinner with his family. Yeah.

Scott: I mean, he, he ran down, he has like a little kind of camera set up in, in his studio, in his home, I think in New York. 

Jenn: Yeah. 

Scott: Um, and was just incredibly gracious and super fun. And he answered, you know, some questions that I’m sure he is answered a, a bajillion times and then some questions that I, I would think that we ans that we asked him that.

He probably hasn’t been been asked, ’cause [00:15:00] we asked some kind of like, you know, personal history questions and stuff like that. Mm-hmm. So it was a super fun super.

Jenn: Yeah. That was super fun for you. So Scott, yeah, what was your favorite talk with History podcast? 

Scott: Uh, my favorite talk with history podcast. Um, I’d say my, my favorite ones tend to be the interviews, kind of like what Pete was saying.

Um, mostly because some of our guests are so dang interesting. Yeah. Um, you know, we’ve had. Someone who survived and escaped, um,

Jenn: Iran. 

Scott: Iran, someone who survived and escaped Viet, uh, Vietnam in the seventies. Mm-hmm. Right. As a kid. He’s, he’s, um, Saigon. He, he escaped Saigon. Like he, he left that day. Yeah. Um, we’ve had, we interviewed a guy from Australia, in fact, actually I’m due to set up another book interview with him.

You know, all these guys are writing books and we’ve just been very fortunate. Um, I don’t know if I can pin down a favorite talk with history. 

Jenn: I know 

Scott: that’s really difficult. I loved interviewing my fellow Scott. The author from Australia, ’cause he was just a delightful human being. He was

Jenn: delightful 

Scott: and he’s Australian and he’s just so easy to talk [00:16:00] to.

And he’s writing this whole book series on kind of like, essentially like the history of the world, but adding some humor to it. Mm-hmm. Um, but he calls ’em light bulb moments in history and. You know, so like when writing was first invented or when the printing press right. Things like that. But he adds some humor in there.

He was a ton of fun. He was of fun to, to interview. So it’s called Light Bulb Moments in History. And um, he was a blast to interview and actually he reached out to us ’cause he just wrote another book. It’s a little bit different. Um, so I think he was pretty fun. He was one of our earlier yeah, interviews.

So how about you? 

Jenn: No, I would say that’s, I like, I love doing the bomber jacket. That was super fun for me. I loved, that

Scott: was a neat one. 

Jenn: And I love having, I love looking through that book. It’s, it’s a beautiful book. Um, but yeah, no, I’m trying to think, uh, we, we have a interview coming up, so you guys might have seen, we’ve, one of our, our bigger videos that we just.

Posted recently about Beaufort Pusser and Walking Tall. Uh, we live close. And so if someone had asked me to go out there and go to the museum [00:17:00] and I watched the movie before I went out and then went to the museum, and so we make a video based on the movie and the museum, like, this is who he was. This is the museum.

This is, and I’ve been bombarded again with people who. Know another story of Beaufort Pusser and have done some research and looked into his life and just know different things about him. And so one of the leading people in that crusade is going to be on our, our show. We’re gonna do an interview with him and talk to him about the conflicting facts and the duality of these two stories because the, the hard truth is the.

Museum story and the movie story are very strong stories. They haven’t really been discredited. Now as much as he has other research and other things to say. Um, there is like more coming out about him. And so, but it’s not as main stream or understood. And [00:18:00] so we’re gonna talk about that and why.

That hasn’t happened, so it’d be interesting. 

Scott: Yeah. Um, that one received more attention and feedback than I, than I initially expected. We didn’t know

Jenn: all the controversy around here. We, we 

Scott: didn’t know all the controversy ’cause there’s nothing really that’s been truly proven 

Jenn: and they don’t talk about that at the museum.

Scott: Yeah. Um, and there’s claims from folks who claim to know the other story that some of the stuff that the museum says is false. So, and that’s interesting. And, and so I’m looking forward to that. I mean, we’re actually gonna have that chat tomorrow. Mm-hmm. That podcast will come out in a couple weeks. Um, but I’m looking forward to, to having that.

’cause one of the things, and, and our folks know this, that, that we always try to say is that, you know, history doesn’t change. There’s just new facts that, that come, that are, that are surfaced. And so that’s one of the important things to remember and that’s what a good historian will do is. Take those new facts and say, Hey, we’ve discovered new facts.

Mm-hmm. They’re true or not true. And if they’re true, well then that may or may not change the narrative. 

Jenn: Yep. And I want people to understand too, that histography, so how history is [00:19:00] written. That doesn’t change either. So whatever the Beaufort er, and we’ll use him an example Beaufort ER’s story was, and if it does change what it was still has significance, what it was believed for a very long time.

And if it does change and if there is more facts that come out and things are discredited, then that is part of the story. It’s part of the timeline of the story. So. It’ll be an interesting conversation, but it’s one of those things like when you do history, when you talk history, you have to be prepared for people who have learned stuff different or have seen something else, or read something else, or watched something else to, to be a little, uh, disagreeable, combative or whatever.

So we’re, we’re pretty, we love that. We love, you know, when people are saying, well, I didn’t hear it that way. I heard this and let’s have this conversation 

Engaging with the Community

Scott: and, and if the chat, if the folks on the stream, if you guys have questions for us, please feel free to drop ’em in the chat and we’ll, we’ll try to answer those questions.

Jenn: Jimmy Stewart’s hometown and museum as well as IL Walls. Yeah, that was fun for me. Yeah, 

Scott: those are super fun. Those are [00:20:00] early, early channel. I 

Jenn: stood on his. Porch. 

Scott: Yeah. Yeah. So with that, so what’s one of, with the beef puer, right? Being one of our more recent, um, videos that’s received some, some attention, um, what’s the biggest surprise to you on a reaction to a video for us on one of our videos?

Jenn: A reaction 

Scott: for me, I will say it was probably the Elvis one. Um, where his 

Jenn: original grave, where his original 

Scott: grave was, I was not expecting that one to take off as quickly as it did. We made the video and I’ve been, we’ve been trying to up our production and I did the, I was having, actually, I was actually having some.

You know, a little behind the scenes here. I was actually having some issues with audio, remember that. Um, so I had to really work, work extra on that, but then the video just took off and I was, I was very surprised at how much attention that video got. Um, Steven Ambrose, Pete, that’s a good one. Yeah, we expected that one to, to pick up some steam.

I think it’s had some more, um, some more a attention mostly because we know that World War II is super pop popular topic. Um, so we, we expected that one a little bit more, but I agree with you and we’ve definitely [00:21:00] had some back and forth with folks as you guys have probably seen. Um, and the, the World War II Stephen Ambrose video, um, because a lot of people didn’t know, you know, that he had.

You know, he had plagiarized. He had plagiarized and that had been identified, you know, a few years. Yeah. I, I don’t know, five or six years, maybe 10 years before the end, end of his life. And he had been confronted a couple times when he was still living, but it hadn’t really surfaced as much as it did after he passed.

Yes,

Jenn: yes. 

Scott: So that was a tricky one because I thought you did a good job of saying, Hey, we’re not trying to bring down what he did. We’re just saying he’s a starting point, but you can’t take it all as a hundred percent ground truth. 

Jenn: So I try to distinguish historian and historian work with what Steven Ambrose did with really, um, bringing stuff to the public and making it so, uh.

Popular. Yeah, right. With the public, like Bandy brothers, he’s a good writer. He’s a good writer. Like, and Undaunted courage, like he did so many things that really brought it to people’s attention, and that is great. People love that. Um, and, but as a historian, right, he’s not a, he’s not a playwright, he’s not a [00:22:00] screenwriter, he’s a historian.

So the issue is. You can use other people’s work all day and every day you just have to cite it. And he didn’t do that. And so that kind of, that’s where the things got kinda, uh, you know, un mixed up. Yeah. Unethical. Yeah. Um. What I was most surprised, I will say the biggest surprise for me was on Instagram when I posted the coal mine.

Mm. Where Loretta Lynn’s father worked and I talked about shoveling coal for poor man’s dollar, he would make 25 cents a ton and a ton is 2000 pounds. So he would make 25 cents a ton shoveling coal and that van Leer coal, coal mine and I took you there, I took you to that coal mine. I show it to you. Uh, that just.

Blew up. 

Scott: Yeah. That That reel or short? Mm-hmm. Or whatever it was on Instagram. We were just. Flabbergasted. We’re like, why is this receiving so much attention? And I 

Jenn: made him stop. He was like, I don’t wanna stop here. And I’m like, stop. I wanna, 

Scott: well, we were, yeah, we were already filming there for the, for the larger video too.

So that was an interesting one. So Gene asks, um, anything near the Lynchburg, Virginia area coming up now? Right now, Lucy, [00:23:00] we don’t 

Jenn: live in Virginia anymore. Yeah, we’re out 

Scott: in Memphis now. So that’s a little bit of a haul. Although Jen was out there to do some Virginia stuff. Couple months ago, um, with uh, uh, 

Jenn: VA two 50.

Yeah. 

Scott: For Virginia two 50, right? Mm-hmm. Kind of 250th anniversary. Um, so she was out there with a friend and, and we’re still friends with one of the reenactors out there, um, who does Lafayette? Lafayette, mark, um, and, um,

Jenn: my friend Kat, 

Scott: so she had gone out there, gone out there for that. But no, no videos coming out out there right now.

’cause, I mean, that was one thing we took advantage of while we were in Virginia. And that was all the history that is, that is out there is. I mean, all the history is there. 

Jenn: So I mean, so what’s coming up is like, we live in Memphis now, so be expecting a lot of Arkansas be expecting a lot more, maybe Johnny Cash a lot of, yeah.

Um, mark Twain 

Scott: there, there’s one that I wanna do that people don’t know much about this topic ’cause I had never heard of it. But the, just the name of it is interesting and that is, that is what is known as the sundown town. 

Jenn: Mm-hmm. 

Scott: And so if you’ve ever heard of a sundown town, I’d be interested to hear, hear folks in, in the chat.

Um, but this is essentially like, well, why don’t you tell us what a sundown town is? 

Jenn: Yeah. So we have a bunch of those kind of [00:24:00] scattered around us, and I was gonna do the history of those. So a sundown town was essentially a white town and. African Americans could drive through those towns, but they had to be out of those towns by sundown.

And if you were caught in a sundown town after sundown, uh, bad things could happen to you. 

Scott: Yeah. So, so I just think that, I mean, it’s a darker part of our history. Mm-hmm. But it’s an interesting story to tell ’cause it’s something that I had never heard of. And again, it’s for me is like the, the kind of storyteller.

The, the story behind that is like, incredibly interesting. So I’m, I’m excited to, to film that, that one. Yeah.

Jenn: And there’s gonna be more like, um, if you ever saw Mississippi Burning, that’s Meridian, Mississippi. Those are those three civil rights workers who were, uh, getting African Americans signed up to register to vote, and they were killed by the Klan.

And then hidden. And the FBI comes down, comes down through Memphis. Uh, there used to be an FBI, uh. Is it like a, a play, a pe, a building, uh, in Memphis, Tennessee? They’re bringing it back, [00:25:00] but it was gone for a while. Thank you so much, Larry. Thank you Larry. Um, and that was the name of the file, Mississippi Burning.

That’s what the FBI called it when they went down to investigate what happened with that. So we’ll do that story too ’cause I found that so interesting. Yeah. 

Scott: And, and, um. We would love to get back up to the Cleveland area ’cause there is lots of history up there. It’s in the Green 

Jenn: Book, Jean. Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Scott: So, and Sundown towns are in the green book.

Mm-hmm. Um, so Larry, thank you so much for, for the super chat. Um, we, we really appreciate the support that you guys give, um, give to us and Jean, you mentioned Mark Twain. We absolutely wanna do some Mark Twain out in this area. That would be super, super fun. 

Jenn: So Cleveland, Larry, we loved Cleveland and unfortunately we happened to be there when.

COVID was happening, so we couldn’t do as much as we wanted. So, um, but there’s so much more to do in Cleveland. One of the things about Cleveland that we’ve done, Larry, and you probably saw was the Cleveland Torso Killer. Yeah. And that video. Was probably one of our most ambitious videos that we have ever done.

And I have learned my lesson. Yeah. Because I wanted to go to each and every spot. The, the Cleveland Torso Killer had 13 [00:26:00] victims. I wanted to go to each and every spot where these victims were. And Scott was like, uh, and you can imagine Cleveland has changed demographics. 

Exploring Cleveland’s Sketchy Areas

Jenn: Some of the areas weren’t the greatest areas.

Um. And so I was really ambitious in telling that story, realizing that maybe you don’t need a clip of each and every alleyway. And,

Scott: and, and we, we drove all over Cleveland that day and there was a couple times when like Chin would be out filming. She’s like, she, she told me like, you stay by the car. I’m gonna go over here and film.

You. Just keep an eye out. And if you see anything, let me know and we’ll jump in the car and we’ll drive away. And it was, we drove into some sketchy areas that was still relatively early in the channel. Thank you, Jeanie. Um, yeah, thank you so much guys. 

Celebrating 50K Subscribers

Scott: We, we really do appreciate the support and, and this is, we wanted to do a 50 K live stream, not to talk about.

Us, but to talk about what we’ve shared with the audience, with, with, with you guys, right. With and

Jenn: how much we appreciate you. Yeah.

Scott: Because this is what makes it fun, right? Is, is the community. So it’s folks like Larry and, and Jeannie and, and Pete and, and all the folks who are, who are dialing, and even the folks that, that are relatively new to the channel.

Um, I, I love when somebody [00:27:00] comments and says, Hey, I just found your channel and I’m watching a whole bunch of videos now. Have you done this, that and the other? We love that kind of stuff. 

Jenn: Yeah, we love that. 

Scott: So it’s, it’s super fun. And, and, you know, our, our mission, you know, is to inspire other folks to get out and see more history and try to get out there and for folks who can’t, because sometimes we have folks that say, Hey, you know, I’m, you know, stuck in the hospital, or whatever that is.

And they’ll say, Hey, I can, I, I don’t think I’ll ever be able to get there. Thank you for going there and, and showing it to me. Yeah. And so we always appreciate feedback like that. 

Jenn: I love that. 

Haunted Locations and Spooky Stories

Jenn: , Needs to check out the prison in, in Mansfield. Yeah. I, I like the prison stuff. Scott’s not as big a fan as anything haunted, and he’s not a fan of prison things sometimes.

Uh, who’s this Wild Wolf? Angel Wolf, angel. 

Woodlawn and Confederate Ghosts

Jenn: So we, I just filmed Woodlawn. Okay. So I’m at Woodlawn with this, this lady who just bought Woodlawn, which, and, 

Scott: and Woodlawn is the former headquarters of General Sherman, general 

Jenn: Sherman, big Antebellum house outside of Memphis, Tennessee, right? It’s [00:28:00] in La Grange, Tennessee. And if you know La Grange, it’s where, uh, it’s where.

The, the Geron Raider Raiders leave from for the gr for the Eson raid. Uh, and so Sherman’s out there with all of his, his troops, he’s in this huge Antebellum house. All his troops are in the lawn, sleeping in the lawn, right? And, uh, and so she, I’m alone in the house with her and I’m, I’m filming and she goes.

This is the room where I saw the Confederate soldier ghost. And I’m like, what? And she’s like, I was playing the piano and I look over and there was a confederate soldier sitting there listening to me play piano. And I look back at the music, keep playing it. I look back and he’s gone and she goes, well, I’m gonna go now.

So you have fun. The house is yours and it’s a huge house and free reign. And then she also told me the house was used as as a hospital for the confederate and the union side. And the upstairs bedroom is a huge bedroom where they had a ton of. Beds for the sick, and she has dolls in there. I hate dolls.

And she has porcelain dolls in there. And she goes, these dolls have a mind of their own. They just love to change position and they love to put themselves here and they [00:29:00] love to go over here. And I’m just like, thanks. And then she’s like, and I’m leaving. So have fun. And I’m thinking, here I go. So I made, so I was at, I worked alone at the James Garfield house.

Um, and I never saw the former, the 20th president. The

Scott: Myrtles was anothers haunted location. The haunted location. 

Jenn: I wanna say 

Scott: a quick hello to Angie Meyer. So that’s Larry’s wife. So hi Angie. It’s nice to, nice to meet you virtually. And she said thank you for the T-shirt. So, Aw. Um, they just got some t-shirts from our gift shop.

Um, we don’t advertise them too much. This is one of ’em right there. Um, but if you had to walk with history gift shop.com, you can find shirts that we’ve made and stuff like that. And in general, I think I like ’em. Yeah, right. I, I wear ’em all the time. Yeah. Um, they’re comfortable. And, uh, they get that little represent, they get that little worn look.

But yeah. Hi Angie. It’s nice, nice to meet you. And thanks for, uh,

Jenn: thank you. 

Scott: Thanks for, you know, helping Larry get back into, into history as well. Um, um,

Jenn: so I would say I told the 20th president I was working alone in his house. Sir, if you show yourself to me, I’m going to walk out the door. I will. I said, but if you want me to know something.

Leave it out, leave it out for me and I will look at it. I will investigate it. I will be like, what’s this? Why is this out [00:30:00] here? What’s going on here? So if you have a message you want me to get, that’s a better way. Um, I saw no ghosted Woodlawn. I did a lot of filming. So Scott hasn’t looked at that footage yet to see, oh, why is there person in the window?

He hasn’t said anything like that to me. Um, I make it very clear. I’m like, listen, I want positive energy. I told them, I said, if you want people to visit this house, ’cause that’s what I’m doing. ’cause she just bought it. She wants to make an Airbnb and she wants to make it a place where people come for weddings.

I said, if you want more visitors to come visit you in the music room, then let me make my video in peace. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Scott: So, no, it’s Jen. Jen always gets a kick outta going to those places. Lizzie Borden was another place, Lizzie Borden, it’s one of the top haunted houses in the United States. And

Jenn: so I stood like with a mother.

Right with a mother and people say like they feel stuff. And I have a friend who actually stayed the night there. Uh, I didn’t sit on the couch. It’s up

Scott: in Massachusetts. It’s a, 

Jenn: yeah, fall, fall river. I try to be respectful when I’m there. There are people who I think tempt things. I don’t do that. So, um, and I, I made the video, so, yeah.

Scott: Yeah. So those are, those are always entertaining. Always fun. Um,

Presidential Sites and Historical Visits

Jenn: any presidential sites in Tennessee to visit. [00:31:00] So definitely, um, the Hermitage. 

Scott: Oh yeah. So we need to do the Hermitage. Is that Knoxville? 

Jenn: That’s Nashville. 

Scott: Nashville. 

Jenn: So that is Andrew Jackson’s home. And Polks house. We’ve done Polks house. We, there’s not a lot of interest in Polk, but although

Scott: speaking of Polk, um, we didn’t actually make a full video from there.

We visited. Mm-hmm. We never made a full video from there. So, um, and actually that’s one of the things that we were gonna talk about. 

Unmade Videos and Missed Opportunities

Scott: So what’s one of the videos that you wish we could have made but we never did? Whether it’s we didn’t get a chance to visit the location, or we did visit and we did film, but.

Either I messed the footage up or you messed the footage up, or whatever. Whatever it is. And you’ll never admit to messing anything up, 

Jenn: but it happens. I so I know Valley Forge. 

Scott: Yeah. 

Jenn: I made an entire video from Valley Forge. 

Scott: Yep. 

Jenn: And you were like, the sound is off. 

Scott: Yeah. I think like her mic turned off and so like she didn’t realize that the mic had died or something like that.

And so she made this whole video from Valley Forge. And I think it was also like a super windy day. 

Jenn: It was a very windy day. 

Scott: And [00:32:00] so she had all this, all this footage. In fact, for those of you on the live stream, um, 

Jenn: the Hunley CS Hunley, I need to do the Hunley. Where

Scott: is that? So

Jenn: that is in South Carolina and they are.

So they have the hunley, they’ve dug out the hunley, which they found the bodies in the Hunley. Um, and what they’re doing right now is they have the hunley kind of still in water because they wanna preserve it, and they’re making a replica hunley. So is that, is that

Scott: like a Ironside ship? 

Jenn: It’s a, the first summer.

Oh, it’s the competitive submarine. See, there you go. Um, and so you can walk through that, right? So you can walk through Oh, that’s cool. The recreation. And so that’s what I wanna do. I wanted, ’cause what do they have, like eight men in there. And so you wanna see like how these eight men sat and cranked and, right.

And so, um. I do want to walk through that, so then you’ll, you’ll see the actual hunley submerged in water to preserve it, and then you’ll see. That’s pretty neat. Yeah. Yeah. We have

Scott: done some monitor stuff. 

Jenn: Yes. So we’ve done the monitor. [00:33:00] Uh, the Battle of the Ironclads. 

Scott: Yeah. What was that Fort? That was right there.

I don’t remember where it was, but it’s Fort Norfolk. So Fort Norfolk, is that the name? The Fort 

Jenn: Monroe. And then Fort Norfolk is where they got the ammunition from. Yeah, yeah,

Scott: yeah. 

Jenn: Uh, and then the monitor sank off the coast of Hadis, and so we go to the graveyard of the Atlantic and show you some of the artifacts.

It’s still an active site. Yep. And then they’ve made a recreation of the monitor. It’s not the monitor, but they recreated it. Yeah. At the maritime. Park in Newport News. Okay, so the, if you wanna see an actual ironclad, the only one that you can actually. Walkon is the cao and that is at Vicksburg. Yeah.

Which, and so we have an entire video from there is 

Scott: super cool. Mm-hmm. Vicksburg, you know those, those more famous battlefields like Shiloh, Gettysburg, obviously everybody knows Gettysburg, but Vicksburg, I was, I’ve always been super impressed every time I go to those like Vicksburg, if you have the opportunity, you should go.

If not just for like the driving tour of the battlefield, the 

Jenn: Cairo, 

Scott: but they go to see the Cairo is, so it’s your

Jenn: only opportunity to stand on an [00:34:00] iron cloud. Like they

Scott: actually rebuilt, you know, and use some of the timber from whatever they could salvage and rebuilt this. And then they, they had all the little memorabilia from, you know, the artifacts from inside and the museum.

It was really, really neat. The kids loved it. I I was pleasantly surprised. Yeah. By, by, by Vicksburg. Um, but I wanted to show some folks on the live stream, some of the footage. ’cause we actually do have some of the footage from some of these places that we recorded videos, but never made videos. Right. Um, so this one here, I’m gonna see if I can show this to you guys.

That is, that’s, you’re seeing my face. It’s not So this 

Jenn: is Mount Rogers. 

Scott: This is Mount Rogers, but I wanna show you

Jenn: that’s the highest mountain in the, in Virginia. 

Scott: Let’s see, valley, that is Mary 

Jenn: SRAs grave. 

Scott: That’s Cheyenne. 

Jenn: That’s Cheyenne. 

Scott: Do we have Valley Forge in here? 

Jenn: There’s Valley Forge. Where when more up?

Was I on it? Right there? That’s Valley Forge. So, so

Scott: this is Valley Forge. And so if you guys are looking here, I’m trying to find a good one with Jen’s. So here she is walking through, through Valley Forge, right? But at 

Jenn: Valley Forge today, and

Scott: some of the, I’m here in the middle of December, see here,

Jenn: which is very fitting because it was December 19th, 1777.

So she, [00:35:00] she’s there in December. Washington first said foot here, but you hear that microphone, 

Scott: something was happening with the microphone. I think it was dying and it was windy. Um, but she had all this footage from Valley Forge, so she’s all over the place. She’s coming through here, um,

Jenn: initially with the troops here 

Scott: and maybe they can make something else.

Be surprised they tried

Jenn: to get here, would get stuck along the way. So what meant a lot to me at Valley Forge is I went to Washington’s headquarters at Valley Forge and Washington turned 46.

In, uh, that house and I had just turned 46. So for me it was to be in that house with Washington, had its headquarters of Valley Forge and Washington. Walked up and down those stairs, nothing had changed. I touched the banister, like Alex Alexander Hamilton was there with him. Lafayette was there. People would come in and visit, like he was at Valley Forge for a couple months in the encampment.

And, uh, to be in that house, I had it all to myself with just two [00:36:00] other, uh, uh, the National Park Rangers. Uh, and I could ask ’em any questions I wanted. They let me just have free reign to walk around. Like that was so, uh, moving for me for my 46th birthday. So I I liked being there in Valley Forge, but Yeah.

You never made that video. 

Scott: Yeah, we never, never had the chance. ’cause the audio got all messed up. Which was partly your fault. Partly not. So, um, some other ones you, you saw on there. So we had actually intended to make a video about Gene Kelly. 

Jenn: Jean Kelly. You would’ve liked that gene. So

Scott: Jean, you would’ve loved that one all

Jenn: through Pittsburgh, 

Scott: because Jean Kelly was from Pittsburgh.

Jenn: Mm-hmm. 

Scott: Right. And so we had made one, one spot. So if I pull this back up here. If we, uh, gene Kelly. So this was outside of his studio? Yeah. One of his dance studios, 

Jenn: or he’s not making ends meet and he’s hired to do a show here. So he comes back to Pittsburgh and he is hired to put on and choreograph a dance called Hold Your Hat.

So now this is Gene Kelly 30 early Gene Kelly. So this time he’s 26 years old. He’s thinking, I made it try to New York. I didn’t make it. I’m coming back to my hometown of Pittsburgh. I’m gonna put on this show at the Pittsburgh Playhouse and. This might just be what my career is. It’s at this show that he’s discovered.

It’s at this [00:37:00] show that he goes on to Hollywood and has his Hollywood career. So hold your hats in Pittsburgh in 1938 at the Pittsburgh Playhouse is what makes Gene Kelly’s career. 

Scott: Yeah. So I, I just thought that was, that would’ve been such a fun one if we had ever had the chance. To make it, but I don’t think we ever made it back down.

It was partly during COVID and, and all this, that and the other. 

Jenn: We were gonna do more with him. Um, ’cause there was, there was a little plaque to him somewhere in Pittsburgh as well. And so it was gonna be more, and I think his parents’ grave, so I think Gene Kelly was cremated and his third wife has his.

Ashes so no one knows where he is. But, uh, his parents are in the graveyard of Pittsburgh, so we were gonna go to his parents’ grave as well, but never got a chance to make it. 

Scott: So there, there was one other one that I, I wish I could have made a video of, and I, I just labeled it. I labeled it battles through the ages.

Battles Through the Ages

Scott: Mm. And that was, you went up and visited. Mark. Mark, our friend who plays Napoleon and he plays Lafayette. He’s professional and he was Napoleon for this, he was [00:38:00] Napoleon for this, but they had, um, basically reenactors from all eras of like warfare effect, military, essentially. 

Jenn: Yeah. 

Scott: It was really neat.

Jenn: Militaries of the world. It was really neat.

Scott: And so I’m gonna, I’m gonna show you guys a couple of those because the, just the, the scope of it, and there’s Jen Cowboy hat. 

Jenn: I know it’s Wyoming. 

Scott: Is that, that’s Valley Forge. That’s Valley Forge battles through the ages. So there, there was a lot here. So that’s Mark, right?

Yeah. So this, this is Mark and he was, he was taking Jen on a tour through this 

Mark: poll wars. Uh, so the type of unit was around since the 17th century. It’s using the last vestiges of the, uh, medieval period. But this armor will actually be test. At a hundred meters with a musket ball. Oh my gosh. And typically you would see some sort of indentation somewhere in the originals to show that it had been proofed.

It had been tested. 

Scott: Unique thing, French win, what I wanna say about Mark, 

Jenn: so much knowledge. 

Scott: He’s so knowledgeable and the stuff that he’s talking about, like he’s literally like he’s done some of this, um, some of this stuff himself. Mm-hmm. In person. Like he’s actually physically done some of these things ’cause he is worn the old outfits with the old swords.

Mm-hmm. In [00:39:00] France, in all these places over in Europe. ’cause he speaks fluent French. ’cause I think his mother was French. 

Jenn: Yeah. So he plays Napoleon in France and 

Scott: he’s, and he’s an excellent horse rider. Um, just an ama just an amazing guy. And he’s like, he’s so nice. Yeah, he’s so super cool. He jumped on us and talked about the Napoleon movie with us.

But he’s, he’s taken Jen all throughout these different battles. And I wanna show you some, some of the other ones. It was just, it was just a neat concept. Right. So we’ve got. Folks here, I’m gonna show you guys this. We got folks here in old chain mail. Like I don’t remember exactly where this was.

This in Virginia? 

Jenn: It was in Virginia. It was at, um, Jamestown. 

Scott: Yeah. 

Jenn: But not the original Jamestown fort. It was at the Jamestown Museum where they recreate the Jamestown fort. And yeah, it was super fun.

Scott: Yeah. So it was just so neat, um, seeing this footage, the hard part for a YouTube video, right? See, look here is making it a story.

Is making it a story. And there just was no story here. This was, we, we tried to like make it a show and tell, but Jen got so much footage, oh, that’s. 

Jenn: So much. 

Scott: She got so much footage and Mark was [00:40:00] taking her all over the place and like they had folks like this that were just the 

knight or noble. You would have one talking about their era in their, the town guard.

You put 25 people sleeping in a circle around the Ah,

Jenn: gotcha. 

So the style of tent certainly crosses over. 

Jenn: Very interesting. Now a night. Would have the sword, right? It’s only a night that gets the sword. Is that correct? 

By 1215 if you, if your job involved some kind of fighting, you could probably afford a sword and you probably have sword.

Okay. Uh, in terms of what would distinguish a night in 1215, a couple of. Things to look for. One would be spurs. Ah, because the night rides course. Yep. 

Scott: So it’s that kind of stuff. It’s just so interesting. 

Jenn: I know. It was super neat and it, there was just so much there. There was, there was so much there. But that’s why I met Grant.

So that’s where I met that the Reenactor who plays Ulysses says Grant. Oh 

Scott: that’s right. We need to have him on the show. On the show. And he was super 

Jenn: nice and he, we, we took pictures and we talked about him. We talked about him. He goes to places where Grant has photographed. Had been photographed and he photographs at those places and stuff, and he’s, he’s a very good.

[00:41:00] Reenactor of Grant. So he was very nice to meet. 

Scott: Yeah. So that, that was another one that we just never got to make. Um, another one I’ve tried these little ones that have just totally, completely flopped. Um, I, I called ’em hike with history, right? So we try to be me, me on me on camera. Um, you know, I think we talked about one area somewhere in Hadis.

We tried to do Mount Rogers. Because I, you know, my, for that, my passion when I was, you know, in my, in my twenties was getting outside and rock climbing and stuff like that. So I was trying to merge the two never really worked out. Um, so we’ll see if we ever kind of try to, try to do another hike with history.

But, um, that was something else that, that, that we had tried. Um, 

Jenn: It’s a labor of love. So sometimes, you know, 

Scott: it absolutely is. You have

Jenn: to keep your motivation and stuff and, 

Future Projects and Collaborations

Scott: and one of the things that’s been fun as we’ve grown is the opportunity to start working with sponsors.

Mm-hmm. Right? So we got to work with American Battlefield Trust a couple times. That was awesome. We just recently, and we’re wrapping up, you know, some work with the Mount Vernon Ladies Association. Mm-hmm. So this is a nonprofit, you know, organization , um. Hello. Put, put God first. How are you?

Thanks for joining the chat. Um, and I, I love the channel name, I love the, the YouTube name. Um, we were working with them kind of helping talk [00:42:00] about Mount Vernon and advertise Mount Vernon. They’re offering something similar where you go to the website, you use our link. And you can get it like a free Mount Vernon magazine.

Yeah. You know, it’s, it’s completely free. So if 

Jenn: you click on our link in our Instagram, you get the magazine for free. And it’s a great magazine. Yeah.

Scott: Or they call it a complimentary magazine. Mm-hmm. Um, but, uh, but yeah, so we’ve had the opportunity to do that and we’re hoping to slowly continue that.

Um, one other, the thing that.

Documentary Plans and Historic Markers

Scott: We’re trying to work on. In fact, we were just filming, we’ve been busy this week. We are filming some, uh, some early stuff for this on Monday is we wanna make a documentary. Mm-hmm. Um, so we want to make a documentary. I talk it. I I, my elevator version of this is how do we in America remember history?

Mm-hmm. What are the different ways that we remember history? And one of it is we’re gonna try to document the creation of a historic marker, because that is one of the things. We have a bumper sticker on Jen’s cars as I break for historic markers. I do. Um, and, uh,

Jenn: you can buy those if you’re interested.

Scott: We can, there’s not many of ’em and they’re tricky. They might still be on the gift shop, but, that’s gonna take some time because the marker process is not fast [00:43:00] at all, but the research has been done. Mm-hmm. The marker generation has started, so I’m actually going to be working and doing some filming with the organization that Jen volunteers with, which is Lynching Lynching Sites Project.

Mm-hmm. Um, talking about this, what was it, 1890? 1 2 

Jenn: 18 92. So

Scott: 1892. People’s Grocery Lynching. 

Jenn: People’s Grocery Lynching. So I, and and it’s funny ’cause this is Ida B. Wells’ birthday is today. So people know who Ida B Wells is, but they don’t know why Ida B. Wells is who she is. So, Ida B. Wells had a best friend named Thomas Moss.

Thomas Moss was a. Upper class black man in Memphis entrepreneur. Yeah. Shop owner started his own business. Uh, that business was competing with a white shop owner, so of course, conflict happened. Thomas Moss eventually lynched. He was pulled out of a jail and lynched and, uh, she begins writing her free speech.

Anti-lynching campaign articles from [00:44:00] Memphis. She’s run outta town. That’s when she moves to Chicago. She’s, she starts printing out more anti-lynching stuff. She goes worldwide with her campaign. Uh, and she’s talking about equality and things along that nature. But, uh. This incident that started everything with Ida B.

Wells is what we’re putting the marker up for. So it’s one of those things like, it, it’s, you’re commemorating at a historic events that really spurred a a, a hero of history. A history maker. Yeah. And, uh, and

Scott: so we’re gonna, we’re gonna, I’m, I want to go to like where they make. The historic markers. That’s what I’m, I want to do.

Mm-hmm. I like actually like want to go to the factory and film how they make a historic marker. What does that look like? What does it look like before it goes into the thing, and then after it comes out of the thing, whatever that thing is, and what 

Jenn: other markers are being made, what other

Scott: markers are being made.

And I want to talk to the people at the factory that help make these historic markers. Mm. Or the people that run this. You know, so I just think that’s a kind of an interesting part of, of what us as history nerds and history fans and history buffs. What history travelers. ’cause we, we see these markers all over the nation.

Jenn: [00:45:00] Yeah. 

Scott: And these are made in different spots. And so I wanna create a documentary. That documents, that process, how do 

Jenn: you decide location, how do you decide, locate who pays for that? Yeah. Interweave 

Scott: the story of the event with the story of the creation of this marker. Mm-hmm. And so I’m gonna get it a shot.

Jenn: Yeah. 

Scott: So I think that’ll be really fun. Um. We’re 

Jenn: trying, just

Scott: trying to challenge myself because 

Jenn: you’re like Ben Burns. You’re not Ken Burns. We’re trying, I mean, Ken Burns had a start somewhere too, right? Yeah. Like we, you gotta start somewhere. His 

Scott: start was pretty dynamic with the Brooklyn Bridge and an Oscar.

So, um, once in a lifetime, you know, kind of generational talent right there. But, um. So, yeah, we have guess that’s some of the future of the channel. Mm-hmm. So if we’re talking future of the channel, we’re working projects like that. We’re hoping to work with more sponsors. Um, we had tried and, but we weren’t able to work our scheduling to work with National History Day project.

Jenn: I know we tried, 

Scott: um, we were gonna film some kids doing essentially like, it’s like at the National Science Fair, but it’s for history. So that’s what National History Day is, and we were gonna document some kids. Doing a local competition, then a regional state [00:46:00] competition, then a national competition just didn’t end up working out.

We may try to do that next year if we can work mm-hmm. The scheduling out ahead of time. Um, but, but we, we were also full-time parents, full-time, Navy, um, you know, all the stuff. Awesome. 

Jenn: And then they canceled the local competition. That’s kind what happened. We had a 

Scott: ice storm blow through. Mm-hmm.

So. 

Jaws Filming Locations and Trivia

Jenn: If you like Jaws the movie Jaws. Yes. I’m gonna be going to Martha’s Vineyard here soon and I’m gonna be filming some locations of Jaws and we’ll talk about the impact of that movie and the impact of Steven Spielberg and why he filmed in, uh, Martha’s Vineyard, even though the movie is set in Long Island.

What was the, um. What was the pool of Martha’s Vineyard? What was it like to film there at the time? And then I’ll take you to some of those locations and talk about, as we know, all the problems that St. Steven Spielberg had and how he pivoted and uh, and it ended up being a classic. So that’ll be coming up here sometime.

And we

Scott: may even try to do like a full history behind the. Watch the movie with us type thing over on History Road trip where we do our newsletter stuff and some, some kind of, uh, community exclusive things. Yeah. Need a bigger 

Jenn: boat. You know what’s funny, my Larry [00:47:00] about that is he ad-libbed that line, he ad-libbed that line.

So it’s like he, they had been on that boat for days. They were so stir crazy from being together in such close quarters and then they. He sees the size of the, the shark against the boat, which is what, what it’s supposed to be. And he backs up and says you’re gonna need a bigger boat. Like he Yeah, he ad-libbed that.

Scott: Yeah. So that’s what’s been going on and um, you know, again. 

Community Engagement and Gratitude

Scott: We’re so incredibly grateful to, to you guys, to our community. You know, our live streams, they are sporadic. Yeah. And there’s a few people who jump on and off. Um, but we, we love when people join in the chat, whether they’re new to the channel or they’ve been around since the earliest days.

Um, I think Jean May be one of the earliest ones that, that jumped on this chat. And I remember when we were trying to get our first hundred subscribers. Yeah, we were trying to get our first a hundred subscribers because we wanted to secure our name, our URL name, and there was some other walk with history out there.

And so we were pumping our friends and family on Facebook real hard. And, uh, I think Jean was, was, uh, Jeanie was, was one of the first. So, um, it’s been super fun. And then we’ve got the chance to meet folks like Larry and Pete and, um, you [00:48:00] know, Carla, my daddy’s green eyes and yeah, we 

Jenn: consider all of you friends like Rick 

Scott: Wiles and Greg and just all these folks that have joined in all the channel members.

Yeah, right. That, that are get early access to some of our videos ’cause like a couple bucks a month. So it’s, it’s super fun. 

Reach out to us anytime and continue to, to comment and, and drop us some recommendations. Um, there’s a new community tab where you guys can post. So if you guys go to a historic location, you guys can actually put the picture there.

We’ve had a couple people do that. I think Pete put a picture there. Um, I think from Antietam or something like that. It was like a bridge from Antietam. Yeah, we should do anti, um, so we have a community post there, so if you guys want to just engage with each other, you guys can do that. Um, and, uh, you know, we, we, we love just fostering, creating this community of, of history lovers and history travelers, right?

And that, and that’s what we wanna do. And so.

Concluding Remarks and Future Goals

Scott: Our goal is not to slow down. Um, our goal is to keep charging ahead. And, and the joke between us, uh, it always is, is that we’re, we’re only like about 10 or 11 million away from catching the History channel. 

Jenn: We’re coming for History Channel, we’re coming for your 

Scott: history channel.

Like you, you [00:49:00] guys better watch out ’cause history. Channel it, it better they’ll, they’ll know, they’ll fear the name. Walk with history. 

Jenn: Someday we’ll be on the History Channel. We’ll tell that joke. And we’re,

Scott: we’re gonna say, we like, Hey, we’re coming for you. History Channel. We’re only like, probably 12 million plus, you know, subscribers away from catching up.

So, um, but, uh, yeah, again, we always appreciate, um, our audience and you guys and, uh,

Jenn: yeah, we’re thankful. 

Scott: Yeah, we’re, we’re thankful. So thank you. Thank you for 50 k. Thank, thank you again. Thank you for 50 k. Um, you know, we’ll, we’ll do the live stream. We’ll try to be, you know, maybe we’ll try to do these live streams a little bit more often, maybe once we hit 75 and maybe, hopefully that’ll happen quickly.

We’ll see. Yes. Um, all right. 

Jenn: Thank you. 

Scott: Thanks guys. 

Jenn: Onto our next walk with history. 

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