Required Taste Podcast

Yes emu...the bird. Leave it to Australia to go to war with them. This is the story of the Great Emu war and the crazy story of how it was faught. 

Hello everyone,  This week's episode is out of order due to a technical difficulty with the Cleveland episode we were going to be releasing today. Leave it to Cleveland to mess up something even all the way over here. Anyway this episode covers stories from Chicago that might not be as well known. 

Hello everyone,  This episode is the story behind how Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry received a German U-Boat after WW2. 

Hello everyone, With the holiday of Juneteenth being this past weekend we wanted to release an episode covering the history of the holiday and some other stories about African American history.  PS about half way through we had a technical issue sorry in advance. The episode does continue from that point though. 

Hello everyone,  This episode is about Balkanization, what is it? Why it's important to you and how it can impacts us today. 

Hello everyone,  This episode is just a brief update about what we have going on as far as the future of the podcast. A look at our numbers and a thank you to all that listen to us. 

Due to the overwhelming popularity of our first music episode we decided to do it again. This time we are joined by a special guest and friend of the channel Gio.

This weeks episode covers drugs used during war to keep them fighting and how it affected the world around them after war was over. 

Hello everyone,  This episode we take a dive into the history of women in the brewing industry. For this episode we have a special guest and friend of the channel Katrina Fanning (18 th Street Brewing) join us to provide insight on not only the history of women and brewing but what it is like being a woman in the industry.

We do a deep dive on one of our founding fathers. 

We take a step back from the more serious history topics and do a requested episode about some of the terrible jobs we have had. This is part 1 of a 2 part series.

One of our first episodes(released a little late) we cover a man known as the Irish Rasputin as well as the Dublin Whiskey Flood. 

We have our guests John and Ben back with us as we discuss Operation Paperclip. What the operation was and the moral dilemma of taking nazi scientist. 

He was a wizard Harry?

A deep dive into the making and history of cognac and it's impact on pop culture.

Our opinions on the decade of music that defined our high school careers, formed part of our music taste to this day and which was one of the coolest eras of music we lived through.

Hello Everyone,    This episode is a little special. We did a deep dive on President Woodrow Wilson and how his policies affect us to this day. But we also have 2 special guest Ben and John joining us for the first time on our podcast!

Hello Everyone,    This episode covers the adventures of two British soldiers during WW2 that can only be described as being straight up mad lads. Hope you all enjoy!

Hello Everyone,  This is the intro episode to the Required Taste Podcast. Thanks for listening stay tuned for new episodes.