Christ, didn’t take you boners long to prove his point... Read more

Am I the only one here who reads “Tom Landry” and hears Hank Hill’s voice in my head? Read more

This is extremely interesting—it actually matches very closely to recent research by Japanese historians into the reasons for Japan’s extended civil war period from late 1400s - 1600, the Sengoku Jidai. One recent theory advanced by Professor Yasushi Tange of Yokohama National University and others that the Spörer… Read more

I ended up buying and reading the book after listening to your podcast. I loved it, especially his writing on the Plague of Justinian (which now comes across as almost a Black Death level of calamity, albeit with less written evidence). Read more

Patrick, I read this article in your voice. I enjoyed the Fall of Rome podcast immensely. Looking forward to listening to some of your other work. Please keep them coming! Read more

It’s worth adding that deforestation and over-cultivation played its part. The harbors of Ephesus and other cities silted up when upstream forests were cut down and fields adjoining streams and rivers were plowed. Dredging couldn’t keep up and the economic problems of the loss of the harbor added to other pressures to… Read more

I’m Ngannou argue with you. Read more

A good thing to see after reading/hearing all of these brave, gruesome statements: Read more

Rebekahzula Mercer: I can see your whole history in your eyes. You were born with nothing. So you’ve had to struggle and connive and claw your way to power. But true power, the divine right to rule, is something you’re born with. The truth is: they don’t know which one of us is going to be sitting down on that throne,… Read more

I had Latin in high school and didn’t know 90% of what I just learned about how the language saw used, spread and grew. One thing that I have always wondered about and this sort of touches on is how the language sounded. We were taught to only use the hard sounds. So ‘Ceaser’ gets pronounced ‘KI-zar’. That informed me… Read more

They’re not supposed to be accessible to the general reader - they’re the major technical works I used to put the episode together. Read more

Left out, of course, is Pig Latin, which is the language of dying alone and your body not being found until your neighbors complain to your landlord about the smell. Read more

The same reason people talk about the storylines in Game of Thrones. Read more