Welcome to Episode Zero of History on Fire podcast.

Since some people may want to jump into an actual episode right away

without hearing introduction with all the info regarding future plans for the podcast and other issues,

I created a separate episode zero. I'll keep it short and sweet so that you guys can find out this information.

And if you don't, instead, you can just jump into episode one right away and get a feel for what the actual podcast will be about.

Those among you want to find out about the structure of the podcast, its philosophy,

how often I will be releasing episodes, and all of

that kind of stuff, this is for you. Episode zero. Here we go. Right off the bat, I want to

give credit where credit is due. History on Fire podcast is largely born from my admiration for

Dan Carlin's work.

His podcast, Hardcore History, is a masterpiece.

Anybody who's listening to like podcasting and was interested in history should check it out because it really doesn't get any better than that.

Dan is the undisputed master of this genre of historical podcasting.

I have nothing but love and respect for Dan,

not only because he's a master storyteller,

and he's so fun to listen to,

but also he's a really wise human being.

He's a very pleasant human being.

I like him as a person, first and foremost. I'm proud to call him my friend and to have his support for this project. So I just want to clear that off

the bat because in some way, right when I decided I was going to do this, I felt oddly guilty because

I felt like I was stepping on his turf.

I felt like maybe this could be, if nothing else, perceived as competition. So I called

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