If you've ever looked at our Patreon page, patreon.com slash ancient warfare podcast,

you'll see a reference to us often recording hours of content that never sees the light of day

due to it being off topic. Well, this is one of those discussions. If you look at our goals on

Patreon, we'd love to make more of these off-topic conversations available. If we reach a target of

$500, we will. There's nearly 20,000 of you. So it only takes a dollar from 500 of you for us to reach

that target. In this instance, the guys turned off their local recording, so I was only left with the mixed feed to edit from.

Hopefully, the average audio quality in this instance is made up for by, certainly, what I felt, to be very interesting conversation.

So when we'd finished with the year of the Four Emperors recording, I put to the team a query

posed to us by one of our patrons of the show.

Thank you, Philip, for sending us the question.

So here you go.

I have a suggestion as well, come from one of our Patreon listeners for an in-betweener.

I don't know if anyone...

I know everyone was frankly keen to look at Spartacus next time out.

But he suggested...

It concerns the history networks Barbarian Rising.

Never seen it.

Over the past few...

We've been critical of Hollywood's portrayal of Romans

and the ancient world in general, and rightfully so, but even worse is when a channel which

actually claims to be more than entertainment and actually educational does something of the same

thing. I'd love to hear the groups take on this and any of the documentaries they'd like to throw in.

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