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Season 3 is here! In our 2022 kickoff episode, we hang out with the Administrator of the Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum in Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, Josh Nonnemocher! Josh was a fantastic guest who took us through some of the coolest known and unknown stories and histories associated with one of the United State's most favorite vacation destinations, the Outer Banks!

So if the winter doldrums are getting you down and you are longing for a nice warm beach, JOIN US this quarter as we get you prepared for you summer excursions and perhaps inspire you to take one if you weren't already... seriously... take a vacation everyone... you have earned it!

From the islands founding, to the Golden Age of piracy and perhaps its most favorite pirate Blackbeard, to the American Civil War, lighthouses, the RMS Titanic, both World Wars, plus numerous technological advancements such as radio and the first flight by the Wright Brothers, come find out how the Outer Banks has a fingerprint on some of the worlds biggest stories from history! Also be sure to check out the Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum when you visit the island and let Josh know what an amazing job he did on the show!

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That is a wrap for the second season of The History Things Podcast! What an incredible year we have had! Between our amazing guests, the stories they told, the experiences we had on and off mic, 2021/Season 2 was definitely one for the record books and we could not have accomplished it without both our listeners and guests alike! As we do every 6 months, we stop to reflect on the state of the show and how things have gone, as well as where we are going (perhaps boldly going lol)! In the year end review for Season 2, we take a look back at the epic journey of 2021 and even foreshadow a bit of what Season 3 looks like! 

So for Pat and Matt as the holiday season sets in and yet another new year quickly approaches, we offer you this fun and relaxed look back at our second season and we thank you all for tuning in! For our guests, for our Co-Host Matt Borders, for our Co-Host Pat McGuire, this has been Season 2 of The History Things Podcast, we will catch you all January 1, 2022... LATER, HAVE A GOOD NIGHT!

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Welcome back to another BONUS edition of The History Things Podcast! In this episode we sit down with Brandi Ahmer, video game collector, to discuss the long evolution of home console gaming and its place in our own personal histories! This was an incredibly fun and wildly nostalgic conversation, so grab your controllers and have some fun with us because: READY PLAYER ONE! 

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In our Season 2 Quarter 4 follow-up installment of the History Things Podcast, Matt and Pat hang out once again with author and historian Johnathan Bracken, who takes us through the tumultuous and violent years of 1916, 1917, & 1918 as the 151st French Infantry Regiment endured them. 

Want to experience the full magic of this episode? Join us over on YouTube beginning on Friday November 26, 2021 as we launch our channel with a dramatic visual version of Johns presentation on the young and old men of the Verdun Regiment, who were thrown into the furnace of the First World War. 

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In our Season 2 Quarter 4 installment of the History Things Podcast, Matt and Pat finally take the show to the Western Front: 1916, specifically to Verdun! In this episode we are joined by author and historian Johnathan Bracken who takes us through Part One of an amazingly detailed and at times horrific experience that the 151st Infantry Regiment of the French Army endured throughout the war and during the famous and terrible 11 month Battle of Verdun.

Want to experience the full magic of this episode? Join us over on YouTube beginning on Friday November 26, 2021 as we launch our channel with a dramatic visual version of Johns presentation on the young and old men of the Verdun Regiment, who were thrown into the furnace of the First World War. 

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In this special presentation by The History Things Podcast, co-Hosts Pat McGuire & Matt Borders take us back to that awful Tuesday in September 2001 with a haunting timeline of the events of that day. Additionally Matt & Pat engage in a discussion with each other about their memories of the days, weeks, months, and years that have followed in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in New York City, Washington D.C., and Somerset County, Pennsylvania. This conversation features audio clips of news broadcasts of the events as they unfolded as well as audio clips from several friends, family members, and colleagues. The opinions expressed in these audio clips is their own. 

This episode is dedicated to all those who lost their lives on that day, as well as in the coming years and wars to follow. 

We will never forget. 

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It's time for the follow up episode for Quarter 3's "One Fort, Three Wars" with Maryland Park Ranger Rob Ambrose. Rob takes Pat and Matt into the 20th century history of Fort Frederick and how it developed into the state historic site it is today. 

From the CCC and the Maryland Park System, as well as listener questions, this is a great conversation. Check it out!

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Keeping with our episode 3 theme of colonial and revolutionary history, The History Things Podcast has a bonus episode for you! Pat and Matt speak with author, historian and podcaster, Marie Williams about her book, The Revolutionary War in the Adirondacks: Raids in the Wilderness. This was a great conversation looking into one of the lesser known theaters of the Revolutionary War, upstate New York. Come to find out, there was a lot more happening there than just the 1777 Saratoga Campaign. 

So checkout Marie's work with her podcast The Half-pint Historian and look for The Revolutionary War in the Adirondacks wherever books are sold!

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The second half of Season 2 gets under way with a great conversation with our very good friend, Rob Ambrose. Rob is a Park Ranger who wears many different hats for Fort Frederick State Park, which is the site of the French and Indian War era stone fortification known as Fort Frederick. About 20 miles west of Hagerstown, Maryland and just a mile off of the Rt. 70 exit at Big Pool & Indian Springs, is the location of one of the coolest historical sites you likely never have heard of... well... WE ARE ABOUT TO CHANGE ALL THAT!

Rob was gracious enough to bring to podcast life his living history program that he puts on annually known as "One Fort, Three Wars." Built by the English during the mid 1750s, Rob takes us through the old stone forts history and its experience as  "edge of the world," fort through the French and Indian war, its use as a prison (think Andersonville from the American Civil War) during the American Revolution, and as a place for Federal soldiers to loosely use and harass Confederate troops and cavalry across the Potomac River on and off during the American Civil War! 

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BOOM! And just like that we have made to the halfway point of our Season 2 adventure here on The History Things Podcast! Here at our second midyear look at the show, Pat and Matt take stock of subjects they have covered, updates and upgrades to the production of the show itself, as well as updates from some of their personal endeavors! The fellas also reflect on the guests they have been honored to have had on the show along the war thus far into Season 2! Lastly, the mid year review closes out with a look ahead at what's to come with the monumental second half of season, so make sure you stick around, because there is plenty more coming from The History Things Podcast in the very near future! 

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