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Jacob Melancon - Interview

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In this interview, I talked with Jacob Melancon. You may know him as a worship leader with Encounter Church or elsewhere, the History Teacher at Bridge City High School, the writer behind the " Worldwide Wonder " blog, or perhaps the guy who sits across from you at the Dungeons and Dragons table. We had a great conversation examining his endeavors in worship leading, teaching, entertainment, and several things in between. Enjoy.     So you’re a very well-read historian as well as a history teacher, what’s one historical event people focus on too much and what’s one they don’t focus on enough? The too much, what I’m gonna say is gonna sound real bad, but just hear me out. I think “too much” would be the Holocaust. Not that we should not study it, but that people are desensitized to it. A bunch of my friends, whenever I was in Undergrad, took “Holocaust & Nazi Germany” in college. Professor was a guy named Mark Mandrake, a brilliant historian of Nazi Germany and the Holocau

Honza Interviews - My Interview Philosophy

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Hello, my name is Ethan Honza. If you'r e r eading this, chances are that you know me or one of the amazing people I've gotten the chance to interview. This interview blog was started as a personal project of mine inspired by many different pieces of media. My interviewing style takes great inspiration from First We Feast's " Hot Ones ", CBS News' " 60 Minutes ", Critical Role's " Between the Sheets ", and Smosh's " SmoshCast ". This project began after a good friend of mine, Dylan Newton, interviewed Rachel Honza (my sister) about her song " more time " which had released around that time. I saw that interview and discovered that I had always wanted to interview some of my closest friends, but had never done it. So, I decided to do just that. My interviewing philosophy is to ask 3 types of questions:  1) questions I don't know the answers to - these are subjective to myself and my experience with whomever I