Hello and welcome to another episode of the Ancient Warfare podcast.

My name is Jasper Ortiz, and I'm the editor of Ancient Warfare Magazine.

And with me tonight are Mark DeSantis and Murray Dam, who is the assistant editor of ancient

warfare, and both of which you are very used to.

And we have a guest today as well. And that is Mark Bierman. So to make our lives more easy, we have two marks as usual.

We can't even distinguish them now by asking for Mark C or Mark K with a K. But I guess in this case, our guest Mark,

we'll have to just assume that all questions are directed at him.

You might not recognize his name,

but you may subscribe to his YouTube channel,

which is Imperium Romanov.

He's a channel with,

seeing about 46,000 subscribers, which is a pretty good start,

because I don't think you've been at it for a very long time, and there's not a ton of videos.

Usually you see people having to put out dozens and dozens of videos before they get anywhere,

but you seem to have taken off very quickly.

It's a channel that does, you know, as the name suggests, a lot of Roman history with a lot of high quality reenactment in it,

which we thought might appeal to our listeners and worth the chat. So welcome, Mark. Thank you. Very happy to be here.

Can you tell me maybe to start off, how did it come about? Did you just decide, oh, you know,

we got some iPhone cameras here and we're at a reenactment event. Let's go record something.

I wish it was that easy. No it was a a friend of mine the other

guy that presents a lot of the videos flores uh i've known him for like 30 years since since kindergarten

and we've always been into history and i'm you know like this uh enthucic guys oh we should go

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