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We started off this episode discussing the Imperial Walkers in Star Wars and how they hearken back to war elephants on the ancient battlefield–the animators even [...Read More...]

Credit Corinne Alexes Hall and Jayel Draco Genn and I were devastated to learn today of the death of Jack Schell, the Soundweaver—the multidimensional musician, composer, [...Read More...]

We opened this episode with a passage from Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien. And here’s an awesome clip of his Oliphants in action in the movie [...Read More...]

So…yeah. Sometimes Genn and I will look at each other after an episode ends and go, “did all that actually happen?” This was definitely one of those. Our [...Read More...]

Thanks for listening! We hope you enjoyed that story as much as we enjoyed putting it together. We relied pretty heavily on Ross Cowan’s Roman Guardsman: 62 BC-AD 324. [...Read More...]

  First off, here’s a little Monty Python goodness. One imagines that the siege of Aquileia went down more or less like this (although historians are mixed as to [...Read More...]

Hey, thanks for listening! We hope you enjoyed the episode! First off, here’s what these people looked like: Caracalla Elagabalus They look so different. Elagabalus is [...Read More...]

This episode was really intense–both to research and record. If you’re now as obsessed with the human experience of ancient siege warfare as we are, we have a lot [...Read More...]

NOT THE CLEANERS!! …Sorry, we had to do that…   This episode was a lot of fun to research and write. Our biggest source for this was Appian’s The Civil [...Read More...]

Who are you people? Are you historians? Jenny: Nah. As the great Dan Carlin has been known to say—we’re history fans, not historians. That said, we do watch a lot of [...Read More...]