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Cheers! Cheers to you too! Welcome to the History Chicks! Today we're going to do something different, something we've never done before, although really we should have, I know, a long time ago.

This is our Q&A episode where we kind of catch up on a lot of input we've gotten in the past five years. And why we might have answered someone personally, we may not have answered globally, you know, the questions in everyone's mind.

Yeah, and Nick, we also put it out on our social media, so if you don't follow us on our social media, you're out of luck.

But, you know what, every time I have a question about something, somebody else has it in the room, so in the interest of full disclosure, you should know I've been sick for about four weeks. So if you're any quickiness in my voice, your surprise level should be awful low. Probably why you haven't heard her voice since four weeks ago.

Okay, so let's just start off with Facebook, where, okay, so the first time Susan asked, she posted a picture of a clock, okay, you know, blah, blah, blah. What do you have questions for us? And she got six responses.

And then I posted a picture of a bar with the words last call on it, and suddenly, avalanche. That's hilarious. Yes, you are our people. So Amber asks, have you ever started researching someone and wanted to stop? Yes. Actually, it's happened several times.

You know the one though, I know we can't actually see the one because we are slugging through. I know Amber's not going to like that answer, but I have to say Jane Austen was hard for me because I approached Jane Austen for Jane Austen. I approached her with reluctance because I didn't want to do Jane Austen at all, because I thought I knew, oh, I did not know. I actually liked her quite a bit.

Yeah, so I have to say Jane Austen was hard to start, but once I started, I thought, well, now she's a bit of all right. I always liked, you know, the books and everything, but I thought, what am I going to find out about her life? Right. How much is out there? There couldn't possibly be very much. Yeah, I agree, except I went into a going after I accepted the fact that we were going to cover Jane Austen.

But like, okay, let's do this and see what's out there. I was kind of happy to go into it. So yeah, there's one that's coming that maybe it will come. It will come because she's requested quite a bit.

And I do want to cover because she is important. Let's just say that I have gotten approximately $30 in library finds because I've had those books so long that I probably just better go ahead and buy on. If I'm going to keep, I had quite a few for a very long time.

I had to return them because the library is like, you know, there's people that have hold on this particular book. And I was imagining some cute and Easter right a report. So I turned it back in. Susan's better citizen than me because it's still sitting in the front seat of my car one in particular.

And has been for, I mean, oh, I still have, I have two books still. Yeah. Have you ever cried while researching? Yes. Clara Barton. Oh, you know what? I did. Yeah, there was a point. I even cried. I'm going to answer for you.

You cried at Clara Barton and you cried at the Duffin Tarts for Maria and 29. Yeah, I had a soft spot for little boys. Yeah, I have one. So yeah, I've just said I cried during recording.

I must have cried when I wrote it down. I mean, I always take my notes in long hand and so does Susan. So we're, I don't know if we're throwbacks, but it makes it go in better. I think I do too because I really I take notes on everything I need. And then I compile them all like right before.

So if someday we should do a giveaway where we send some of our notes, we'll stay below and send them. I can't even read them. Have to find it.

It's like, oh, yeah, there's something up like up the side of the paper. Yeah, the famous countenance versus continents. Susan says one.

I think immemorialized for memorialized everybody uses the wrong word. I just did it. So yeah, cry for researching. There is a for those of you who haven't listened in the Clara Barton episode.

She being the only woman on site was called to the side of a dying soldier. I'm not going to kind of get up on this. But called to the side of a dying soldier who was asking for his sister and he wasn't safe.

I'm going to make it much longer and she's she'd been up for 60 hours. I mean, they were so apologetic and she absolutely went over and held his hand while he died and and he talked to her as if she was his sister and was so relieved. I'm so glad you're here.

I've been so scared blah blah blah. And in the morning, he said, I knew it couldn't be true. But I really thank you for helping me through the night. And then I got, yeah, oh, you know, got me to it. That one is when she went back to her house.

And just she broke down and just covered in blood and just crying and crying and sobbing when she had been strong for so long for other people. Yeah, exactly. So that was the part that right now. Look till.

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