Two Hearts and One Braincell: Cassidy Carson & JT Hume Amateur Hour Cassidy Carson and JT Hume

Episode 173 of our writers podcast has us talking about ingenuity and grit of travelers along the 19th Century road known as the California Trail.

CC is writing a historical novel, and it was our good luck when we stumbled upon the California Trail Interpretive Center on the first day of our Big A** Trip across America. This Harry Reid project sits along Interstate 80 (exit 292, to be exact) west of Elko, Nevada, and it provides visitors the in-depth historical look at the mass exodus to California via Nevada.

As writers, we talk about our visit, and the mass amount of materials accumulated by the center, to illustrate the importance and fun of doing research for historical fiction. Like our old friend and one-time Nevadan Mark Twain reportedly said, “It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.”

Check out this podcast and other podcasts at our website www.carsonhume.com TIA LYL!



Link to the center: https://www.californiatrailcenter.org

Episode 172 takes us back to our Big A** Trip and what we learned from having our “boots on the ground.” For this podcast, we talk about the surviving remnants of an American-built extreme clipper ship, the Snow Squall. Clippers were cargo ships built for speed over capacity, and extreme clipper ships were especially fast, though their construction era in America was relatively short (1845 to 1855).



There is only one surviving piece of an American extreme clipper, and the Maine Maritime Museum has that piece of the Snow Squall contained in its own building on the edge of its beautiful campus. We explain why we think they did this.



For more reading:

Maine Maritime Museum Link: https://www.mainemaritimemuseum.org/exhibition/snow-squall-an-american-clipper/

Wikipedia Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Squall_(clipper)



We also talk about our current projects (Space Epic, Zoey, BAT Book) and easing into retirement.



As always, check us out at www.carsonhume.com and let us know what you think. TIA LYL!

Episode 171 has us home after twenty days and 7500+ miles on the road. We’re doing a bonus podcast to give our quick impressions of our writers research trip:



-What we expected versus what we saw.

-What we saw on each side of the Continental Divide.

-The number of states we traveled through (plus one province).

-What we learned in Green River, Utah.



Really, there’s too much here to unpack in a thirty-minute podcast, so we hit the high points. We’ll be organizing our brains for weeks.



We’ll be back to our regular writers podcast on Sunday.



Have a listen and check us out at www.carsonhume.com TIA LYL!

Episode 170: Yes, you read that right. This is both Episode 170 of our writers podcast and Day 17 of the Big A** Trip.

Happy Mother's Day from Oak Grove, Missouri to all who celebrate. This is a quick and short podcast because we're getting on the road. Again.

We share some quick impressions about how different and common things are across America, and we talk about the people we are versus those kids from 40+ years ago. Since this is a writers podcast, we also talk about doing in-person research of the places we've written about and will write about.

Please continue to follow along at our hashtags #ccandjt and #bat2024 as we drive down the home stretch. The daily updates are on my Tumblr at ⁠https://jthume.tumblr.com/⁠

Check us out at ⁠www.carsonhume.com⁠ and all of the major social media platforms. TIA LYL!

Episode 169 of our writers’ podcast has us bouncing between the Maine cities of Bath and Portland to do boots-on-the-ground research for future books.



We did stops at the Maine Maritime Museum, the Maine Historical Society, the Golden Lotus restaurant (yum!), and my paternal grandparents’ house. We traveled 3300 miles to do this research and we were not disappointed.



A reminder that you can follow along on our Big A** Trip with the hashtags #ccandjt and #bat2024 



The daily updates are on my Tumblr at https://jthume.tumblr.com/



Our regular website is still www.carsonhume.com where you can find our books.



Have a listen and TIA LYL!

This is the Day 6 update of the #ccandjt #bat2024. You can access the rest of the updates at https://jthume.tumblr.com/



Episode 168: Hello from Canada, and the CC and JT Amateur Hour is now an international podcast. Woo. We're giving our loyal listeners an update from the ninth floor of the Holiday Inn in London, Ontario, Canada.





We talk about our journey and, because this is a writers podcast, our takeaways from almost 3,000 road miles so far. This is quite the adventure as we travel from Nevada to Utah, Wyoming, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan.



Tomorrow, we're off to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. Looking forward to that adventure!



Have a listen and TIA LYL!