Spark your creativity with the Sims. Sometimes you might feel like you're not creative

and you have to go in search of your creative spark again. Maybe this is catching up with creative

friends, experimenting with a new look or trying out a new recipe.

And thanks to The Sims, inspiration is just one game and one spark away.

Ready to spark something? Download the Sims 4 and play for free. Oh, Ladies and gentlemen, uh, can I please have your attention.

Can you, Diggas? Greetings their listeners, this is Jonah Goldberg, host of the

the Remnant Podcast.

Brought you by the Dispatch and Dispatch Media.

Super excited to have truly one of my favorite guests. He kept

trying to get away last time and I kept kept him here but we have a hard out on this

one so he's going to be able to make an escape. It's Brett Devereaux.

He is in many ways, if you had took me when I was 16 years old

during the golden age of science fiction in fantasy

and said you can have an academic career that looks like this and he showed me his stuff that's what I would want to do.

And he's done yeoman work on the warfare of Middle Earth and other and

Game of Thrones and all that but he's also a respected historian of ancient and

military he's ancient and military

he's ancient and military historian who currently teaches at the as a teaching assistant professor at North Carolina State University.

He has a PhD in ancient history from the University of North Carolina

Chapel Hill and we're having him here to talk about a bunch of different things.

I want to start by saying welcome back to the remnant.

Great to be back.

...