The Best Stories You've (Probably) Never Heard w/ Greg Jackson
The Road to Now
Benjamin Sawyer
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2024
⏱️ 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 is a rebroadcast of The Road to Now #239, which originally aired on June 27, 2022. This episode was edited by Gary Fletcher.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Ben Sawyer and this is the road to now. |
| 0:09.0 | Today we offer you something a little different than normal. |
| 0:12.2 | This is a conversation between Greg Jackson of History That Doesn't Suck and me, |
| 0:16.6 | where the two of us just decided to sit down and tell our favorite stories we had learned recently. |
| 0:22.6 | And it's just a blast to talk to Greg. He's the host of history that doesn't suck. We had the |
| 0:27.9 | honor of having him on the show a long time ago when his show first started. He is a wonderfully |
| 0:32.5 | sunny and incredibly polished, very knowledgeable young man who brings history to life on his show. If you have |
| 0:39.0 | not heard history that doesn't suck, go check it out. And this was a fun opportunity for both |
| 0:43.2 | of us because we recorded this in the summer of 2022 as a live thing that we did for a crossover |
| 0:49.6 | audience. For patrons of History That Doesn't Suck and the Road to Now, we just brought everybody |
| 0:53.9 | together. |
| 0:54.6 | And then Greg and I went back and forth and told each other the best stories we'd heard recently. |
| 0:59.0 | It was so much fun. |
| 1:00.7 | This reminds me right now to say to all of you patrons who keep this show going, thank you. |
| 1:06.9 | Not only do you keep the funding for this show going but you create opportunities for episodes like |
| 1:12.5 | this and conversations like this and any chance to hang out with greg jackson more and talk to him |
| 1:17.1 | that is a gift so thank you for all of that if you want to support the show going over to patreon |
| 1:22.6 | com slash the road to now now some of you be thinking, I thought you said there was a new |
| 1:29.9 | episode this week and last week's episode. That's fair. I did say that. Jeffrey Rosen, we recorded |
| 1:35.0 | with him. He's got this incredible new book out called The Pursuit of Happiness. I made a mistake |
| 1:41.3 | with the scheduling. I know that we wanted to air it the week before the book came out, |
| 1:45.7 | and I thought that was this week, but it's not. Strangely enough, Bob and I have about five or six |
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