Hello and welcome to this special episode of Epochs where I'm going to be talking all about one of my favorite things

Castles and I am joined by

Youchiver and author Shad M Brooks of Shadity fame. How are you there?

I'm doing great. It's a pleasure to be here and any excuse to talk about

castles is wonderful. I'll talk about it for days. Yeah, me too. I don't know about you,

but I don't know how many times you've been at a party or a barbecue or something.

You try and talk about castles or star faults or hillfaults or something and people just don't want to know they don't care.

So when you find the kindred spirit, it's great just to have a chat.

Well the key is you said try.

I just do that.

They can listen to me or not. or I just try and force the conversation

put it online one or the other I don't know how many times I was you know try and

talk about medieval times or ancient times and people just like wait for you to finish and then

start talking about reality TV. So I thought what we do because obviously

you're obviously everyone who knows you know you're a massive history fan and big fan of all sorts of weaponry and castles and things.

But what I thought I'd do is do about nine or ten castles, some of my favorites.

Wonderful.

And I know that at least two or three of them

are among your favorites as well.

Yes, I did a video on my top 10 favorite castles.

And some of them are sort of obvious

picked you know like when people do top 10

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