#239 The Best History Stories You've Probably Never Heard w/ Greg Jackson
The Road to Now
Benjamin Sawyer
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2022
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
One episode. Two historians/podcasters. Four stories from American history that you've probably never heard. And an unknown number of listeners that we hope will find these stories as fascinating and surprising as we do.
Greg Jackson is the creator of History That Doesn't Suck and a Professor at Utah Valley University. Ben Sawyer hosts this podcast and has been teaching history at the university level for over a decade and a half. You might think that at this point they've heard it all, but when you keep digging into history, it just keeps surprising you. In this episode, Greg and Ben each share two stories that they discovered in the last year that they found to be the most fascinating. Enjoy!
This episode was edited by Gary Fletcher.
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| 0:00.0 | I enjoy a good round of golf. |
| 0:07.0 | My grandfather was a great golfer, but it never caught on with me when I was a child. |
| 0:11.0 | So I picked up the sport a few years ago. |
| 0:13.0 | I threw my clubs in the bus, and I play as often as I can when I'm out on tour. |
| 0:18.0 | One thing I've come to appreciate is a great fitting, great looking polo shirt at the |
| 0:22.6 | right price. After trying a few different brands, I came across cricket that spelled C-R-I-Q-U-E-T. |
| 0:29.2 | I immediately fell in love with their timeless designs. All cricket shirts are made from super soft, |
| 0:35.1 | top-of-the-line fabrics. My personal favorite is the top shelf player's shirt. |
| 0:39.8 | It's got a four-button placket hard collar with removable collar stays. It reminds me of the |
| 0:44.9 | shirts my grandfather used to wear. I feel as good wearing a cricket shirt on stage or a night |
| 0:50.3 | out with my family as I do on the golf course. Go to cricket shirts.com. |
| 0:55.7 | That's spelled C-R-I-Q-U-E-T-Sirts.com. |
| 1:00.0 | Put in the discount code Road to Now for 20% off your first order. |
| 1:04.3 | You're going to dig these shirts. |
| 1:08.3 | I'm Ben Sawyer. |
| 1:09.9 | I'm Greg Jackson. Surprise. This is the road to now. We're doing a Patreon live. As you guys know, Greg and I have gotten to be friends through the podcast. I'm a big fan of his work. And he tolerates mine enough to be on the show sometimes. Please, man. Love right back at you. You know that. My goodness. You're one of the |
| 1:29.1 | most positive people. Greg Jackson is sunshine on cloudy days. Let me tell you. And so we're recording |
| 1:34.5 | this as a crossover, live recording on Zoom. We invited Road to Niles patrons and History of the |
| 1:40.8 | Doesn't Sucks patrons all here. And we got some folks in the room. Austin LeClair, she says thank you for hosting this guys, bringing fun to my Monday. Hey, thank you for being here. Bringing fun to ours as well. Greg, I think that's one of your patrons, huh? I believe so. Austin, good to see you. Heck yeah. Ah, Durante. Good to see you as well. Heck yeah, you guys are awesome. And let me just say this. I just appreciate that any of you guys work a little bit of your time, that money you can spend on other things and you help us make these shows because I can tell you from both from my end and from talking to Greg a lot about it. There is so much that goes into this, into creating a podcast. And it's just like amazing that people go, |
| 2:18.1 | I'll go to work a little bit every month and help you guys keep going on your end. So thanks to |
| 2:22.6 | all our patrons on both ends. It's amazing. Absolutely. We've brought you here today. We've brought |
| 2:27.9 | you here today, folks, because Greg Jackson is a master storyteller. And we were shooting back and |
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