we would like to welcome beckett graham and susan vollenweider of "the history chicks" podcast.hank you for being with us today. we want to ask them what their podcast is about.

we would like to welcome beckett graham and susan vollenweider of "the history chicks" podcast. thank you for being with us today. we want to ask them what their podcast is about. we will start with beckett. tell us when and why you started the podcast. guest: about 11 years ago, i read a book about the gilded age and meritocracy. it is the same book that inspired julian fellows to create "downton abbey." i had a job where i can listen to podcasts and i wanted to learn more. i was very surprised at how little women's history i found out. i felt this cold wash of dread pass over me and i thought that is a sign i have to create it myself. that is the origin story. that was about 11 years ago. i thought i wanted a partner and this woman i knew from an online forum, i had never spoken to her or met her in person, but i thought her style was intelligent and opposite of me. that was a good combination. so i called her. host: susan, pick up the story from there. guest: my husband answers the phone and he says get said i want her to do a podcast with me. beckett had to explain what a pod

we would like to welcome beckett graham and susan vollenweider of "the history chicks" podcast. u for being with us today. we want to ask them what their podcast is about. we will start with beckett. tell us when and why you started the podcast. guest: about 11 years ago, i read a book about the gilded age and meritocracy. it is the same book that inspired julian fellows to create "downton abbey." i had a job where i can listen to podcasts and i wanted to learn more. i was very surprised at how little women's history i found out. i felt this cold wash of dread pass over me and i thought that is a sign i have to create it myself. that is the origin story. that was about 11 years ago. i thought i wanted a partner and this woman i knew from an online forum, i had never spoken to her or met her in person, but i thought her style was intelligent and opposite of me. that was a good combination. so i called her. host: susan, pick up the story from there. guest: my husband answers the phone and he says get said i want her to do a podcast with me. beckett had to explain what a podcast is

later, beckett graham and susan vollenwider the cohost of the podcast "the history chicks," will be here to discuss what is going on in their podcast and what is going on in the new year. we will be right back. ♪ >> at least six presidents recorded conversations while in office, here many of them on -- hear many of them on the new podcast. >> season one focuses on lyndon johnson, you will hear about the 1964 civil rights act, the presidential campaign, the gulf of tomkin incident. not everyone knew they were being recorded. >> certainly johnson's secretaries knew because they were tasked with transcribing many of those conversations, in fact they were the ones who made sure that the conversations were taped as johnson would signal to them through an open door between his office and theirs. >> you will also hear blunt talk. >> i want to report on the number of people who were assigned to kennedy or me the day he died. if i cannot ever go to the bathroom i will not go. i promise you i will not go anywhere and stages behind the black gates. >> presidential recordings, find them on the c-spa

later, beckett graham and susan vollenwider, the cohosts of the podcast "the history chicks" will bee to discuss their podcast and what is coming up in the new year. stick with us. we will be right back. ♪ >> this year the u.s. supreme court took up two cases upheld the face of roe v raid -- roe v. wade. sunday on q&a, joshua talks about the complicated life and times of the woman behind the case. the activism of the court's position and the impact that her actions had on her and her three daughters. >> what is so interesting is that her life is a mirror and window into this whole big thing of abortion in america. and the pro-life wish to say, look at her and look at the cost of abortion. she never had an abortion. she actually is a fascinating sort of testimony to his the cost of adoption, she struggled enormously, emotionally with what it meant to have to relinquish her three children to adoption. >> joshua and his book sunday night 8:00 eastern onq &a, you can listen to all of that on our new podcast -- on the new c-span now app. >> when roosevelt arrived the united states for the