Home Brew History

“Home Brew History” A passion turned into a podcast

A podcast that began as a joke on World War II and has a podcast that between two friends has evolved into an was the main inspiration for Ricci and avenue for them to interview well-known Trisler’s. Another guest of the podcast and respected historians from around the was Dr. Jeremy Black, also an English world. historian and author who has covered

Joseph Ricci, a graduate student of topics such as 18th-century British the History program, runs the history politics and international relations. podcast “Home Brew History” along Both Ricci and Trisler reach out to with his friend Riley “Bo” Trisler, a recent master’s graduate from the Department of History and Political Science.

The podcast fi rst started back in March of this year, and according to Ricci, the idea began a few years ago when they were undergraduates and has since evolved into a regular commitment.

For “Home Brew History,” Ricci and Trisler utilize Zoom to speak with guests. Each episode has its own outline.

“We have outlines and they all start with an introduction, general housekeeping Joey Ricci and Riley “Bo”Trisler rules and what we’re going to talk about with questions and comments and things potential guests through social media like that,” said Ricci. “If not, they send outlets such as Facebook and Twitter. us an outline and it’s up to us to do the Ricci explained how it has become easier research, so we’ll get online and try to to reach out to potential guests during the fi nd books that we can do sort of a crash pandemic. course in whatever topic they’re going to “It’s made life so much easier talk about.” because if you want to get in touch with

Guests of the “Home Brew History” somebody, they have nothing else going podcast include experts such as English on, so it’s easier to get in touch and set up historian and author James Holland, who a meeting,” said Ricci. has written over 30 books When it comes to the subject matter 22

for each podcast episode, they are both autonomous in choosing the guests and planning the outline. By doing research prior to choosing their guests, the two hosts have a general idea of what their guests will talk about.

Ricci and Trisler both have a deep love of history that stems from different people in their lives. For Trisler, his inspiration came from a high school history teacher. “For me, it was my 11th grade American History teacher,” said Trisler. “He sat everybody down on the fi rst day and basically said forget everything you know about American history that you were taught because it’s probably expletive and wrong. He taught a lot of different topics and they made much more sense to me than what I was taught at a younger age.”

Ricci comes from a family that is actively involved in history, with his mom being a curator for the Civil War museum in New Orleans and his dad studying and reading history from a young age.

Episodes of the “Home Brew History” podcast are available on iTunes, Google Podcasts, Speaker and Listen Notes.