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If you care about bravery, wisdom, passion, larger than life characters and some of the most

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Danielle E. Bollelli's a university history professor, a writer and a martial artist,

he shall be your guide in adjourning to the place where history and epic collide.

Let's go see History on Fire.

Okay, the men himself join us today, Mr. Duncan Carlin. Very, very welcome. How are you done?

I'm okay, thank you for having me on, pal.

It's always a pleasure to chat with you. So, Duncan Carlin, the author, check that out, writing books now.

Tell us a little bit about this book. Let's just cut to the chase and jump into it.

Everybody, you know, there's been lots of people who have been wanting to see your work in print,

now it's happening. What is this work looking like? What are the chapters about?

What are the main topics or anything else you feel like add into that?

Well, you're right. People have been asking for just straight-up transcripts for years

or to translate the transcripts into other languages. So, hopefully this is better than straight-up

transcripts. We were talking with some publishers a while back about books and people have been

bringing this up for a long time. And they said, you know, you must have a lot of material

to work from. I mean, it should be pretty simple to put together something. And then they said,

well, what are you interested in? Go look at the material, see what you've kind of talked about.

And are there any recurring patterns in your subject matter? And it became like an ink plot test

to try to figure out, yes, what really am I interested in? And I find out I'm interested in like

the destruction of civilization, the recurrence of horrible. I mean, it was one of those ink plot

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