The following is an archived podcast presented by the Branson and Hudson Foundation for Podcast Recovery.

This podcast is entitled The Epic History Podcast, USA Episode.

It is the first and only episode of the podcast.

Welcome to episode one. Greetings, ladies and gentlemen and pirates and ninjas and samurai and Viking and Nazis.

Well, okay, not zombies.

Not yet anyway.

Welcome to Epic History, the most amazing baconated hour-long podcast dedicated,

yes, you guessed it, epic history. I, of course, and Parker Bean, joined every week by my co-host

Griffin Fester. Griffin, say hello. Uh, greetings, greetings, greetings. Everyone, how are you?

Doing, doing well, Griffin. I'd like to say we are two both fans of history and participants in it, hopefully, and

I am more of an amateur historian, a writer for Upworthy, kind of a culture writer, things

like that, that kind of teaming up here with the actual historian Griffin to kind of pleasure

you guys every week's of entertaining epic things about history.

Griffin, tell them a little bit about your educational background.

Oh, sure.

Well, like you do yourself dabble into history.

I would be more described as a gentleman and a scholar, if you will.

I'm an assistant professor of history at James

Franco Technical College, and you know, I just love history. We've been talking about this

for a long time, and we're finally here, so let's dig right in. Yeah, I can vouch for the

scholar part, not so much the gentleman one, if you will. Well, I'll prove you wrong yet.

And we are joined today, and I know you're excited about this, Griffin, with an amazing

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