Whether you like history or not, if you care about bravery, wisdom, passion, larger than life characters and some of the most emotionally intense moments in human experience, you have come to the right place.

Danielle Bellelli is a university history professor, writer and martial artist, and he shall be your guide in a journey to the place where history and epic collide.

The place where history and epic collide is the place where history and epic collide.

Welcome to episode 30 of History on Fire. If you absolutely cannot stand ads or you want to get episodes delivered to you early,

there are a few options for that on my Patreon page. I'll put a link in the episode notes if you'd like to check it out. That would be very sweet.

But if you do stand ads, let me give thanks to the sweet folks who keep us in business.

Let me start out with Flavia, huge thanks to Flavia for sponsoring four episodes in 2018.

Flavia is the world's largest online club of spirits and toosists.

Members get a themed tasting box that lets you try different spirits before buying a full-size bottle, so you get to try things first.

A digital homebar, access to their vault, which holds a selection of rare and hard-to-find spirits available to members only.

Exclusive Flavia private bottlings, access to live events, the Flavia app, which is basically considered like the IMDB of spirits.

Normally they have a fairly long waiting list, but they have a range priority access for history on fire listeners.

So if you'd like to check them out, please go to Flavia.com forward slash exclusive and use the coupon code history.

That is flav.org.

I tried one of the tasting boxes they sent me. It's awesome. I really, really like it.

So if you like spirits, check them out. They are sweet folks for sponsoring and they produce really good stuff.

Let me also give a gigantic thank you to Blueper. Blueper on the side to sponsor us for the whole year.

I have a sneak in suspicion that the reason why you're getting so many episodes, you know, now we're doing two episodes a month in January, two episodes a month in February,

we'll go back to one episode a month for most of the rest of the year, but you're still getting like 15 episodes and really that's thanks to Blueper on.

But what I say about my sneak in suspicion is the fact that I think actually producer and editor of the podcast, Savannah, I'm just conspired with Blueper on to increase the workload because we get more coupon codes for some of their meals.

And Savannah is just 100% addicted to Blueper on food. So the reason why, you know, once you know why I'm like I'm working too hard, we're producing too many episodes.

She's like go back in the dungeon just, you know, how did you get away from your chains, just work hard and get me my Blueper on food and shut up.

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