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The Ripple Effect Podcast

The Ripple Effect Podcast #121 (Kent Masterson Brown | Bourbon & Kentucky: A History Distilled)

The Ripple Effect Podcast

Ricky Varandas

Bryan, Callen, Dave, Bill, 6, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Carlin

4.6603 Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2017

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Kent Masterson Brown is an attorney, historian, author of books like Cushing of Gettysburg: The Story of a Union Artillery Commander, editor of the national magazine 'The Civil War' & founder of the documentary film production company Witnessing History, who's work includes Daniel Boone - The Revolutionary Soldier and Bourbon & Kentucky: A History Distilled, the film that brings together two of my favorite things, which is what we talk about on this episode, whiskey & history.

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0:00.0

believe in the ripple fact

0:25.6

The ripple fact I'm a host, Ricky Brandis.

1:10.1

Today we have a very

1:11.0

interesting and exciting show for you it's a show that i've been meaning to do for a long time

1:17.8

but i haven't found the right guests and today i have kent masterson brown who is an attorney

1:22.6

he's a kentucky native he's a historian and founder of Witnessing History, which is a film and media company.

1:30.5

And I ran into his documentary called Bourbon and Kentucky, a history distilled on Amazon Prime.

1:35.8

So if you have Amazon Prime, you can watch for free.

1:38.9

If you don't have Amazon Prime, I don't know what the cost is, but for very little money, you

1:43.6

could rent it and watch it but it

1:45.2

is a document that brings together two subjects i absolutely love bourbon and whiskey and a lot of

1:51.8

things that you see on labels like straight whiskey and straight bourbon or bonded bourbon all

1:57.4

these things and names of bourbon companies like Woodford Reserve or Elijah Craig

2:02.7

or, you know, all these companies, Evan Williams, you see the history of these families

2:10.9

that create these companies and where these names came from and where the word bourbon came

2:17.3

from. So it's really interesting. It was a great and

2:20.6

fun conversation we had. We talked about this film, Bourbon and Kentucky history distilled.

2:27.2

And we also talked about a little bit about some of his other work that seems really interesting

2:31.4

that I'm going to have to dibble dabble in and check out also

2:34.3

and hopefully I'll have them on again to talk about history because he's just a ball of knowledge

2:38.6

and really enjoy talking to him but I won't hold you guys up too much enjoy this podcast if you

2:44.9

like podcasts like this check out my other one I did with delisa the cigar vixen on cigars and

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