Hello and welcome to another episode of the ancient warfare magazine podcast. My name is Jasper Ortiz,

and the editor of the magazine. And with me is the almost usual team today. We have Mark

DeSantis, Murray Dam, Mark McCaffrey, Lindsay Powell, and special guest Joe Ball. Welcome,

everyone. We have a, we're not discussing a latest issue of the magazine today, so we have an in-betweener, as we call them, and we thought today we would, or over the last couple weeks, most of us have watched the new show Barbarians, and we thought we'd discuss it. That means that there has to be a spoiler warning, so be warned.

They're going to be spoilers, very probably.

But to spoil the story, the actual story, I would ask Lindsay to introduce the dramatist

persona, as we said before we started the show to us,

so that we sort of are all refreshed on what the actual story is and what we know about the

people who are featured in it.

Well, thank you for that.

It's an interesting introduction there, yes, but that means I'm the spoil sports.

Well, but we know the history.

Yeah, I know, I know.

So I was going to start with this famous quote, Quintili Valle legiones ready.

Quintes Vars, give me back my allegiance.

That's got to be a great sort of campaign slogan, isn't it?

So what are we got?

We've got a very, very infamous event in Roman history.

Of course, if you are a German around about the sort of 1800s, 1900s,

in fact, this is actually a great source of inspiration.

So you've got a story of goodies and baddies, effectively,

and it's a question of which side you're on

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