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Your weekly reminder that when there's bad things happening, there's people trying to do good things,

including sometimes a lot of the bad things happened a really, really long time ago.

But there were still people trying to do good things in the face of the bad things happened a really, really long time ago. But there were still

people trying to do good things in the face of the bad things a really, really long time ago.

And you've probably noticed that because for the past month or two, that's like all three months.

I don't know. I've been obsessed with antiquity for the first time ever on this show since

I decided to deep dive the

druids for Halloween. And here I am three months later into this hole. And what I decided to do

for the very first time was bring on an actual historian and just ask that historian

and questions live. I don't know the answers to these questions yet, but I'm going to

ask our guest, Christopher Zeichmann. Hi, how are you? Great. Thanks so much for having me today.

Yeah, I am very excited. So anyone who has been listening to the last couple episodes,

you know, we did an episode recently about Spartacus and the third servile war, and it was one of

the first times I got to say, wow, this was actually cooler than I expected. And the point of that is that

you are the main source. Well, you have a book. It came out in 2025 from Pluto Press. It's called

Radical Antiquity. And that book is what made me decide to finally do a Spartacus episode and discover that they were way cooler than I thought. I'm glad to hear they could kind of open that door. I feel like it's sort of Spartacus, right? We see those movies in like the, what was it, like stars or something at a TV show, Spartacus a few years ago. I think they're like reviving it now, but like when you actually look at the data, then it's just fascinating, incredible stuff. I feel like scholars, even today, overlook quite a bit anyway. Yeah, and to just dive right into the Spartacus part of this. Yeah, yeah. I think it's the Braveheart effect, where we're all kind of burned out on movies like Braveheart,

or even Gladiator, which is on some level of retelling of the Spartacus story, right?

Where I just kind of, I just kind of expected Spartacus to kind of suck.

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