Hello everyone, I'm very excited to announce that I've teamed up with Knitt and Sil, the

man behind the Flashpoint History YouTube channel. To turn, some episodes of the history

of Byzantium into YouTube videos. One of them is live right now. I'm so excited by this,

it is very surreal and fantastic to see the podcast come to life, to see my words accompanied

by brilliant maps and illustrations and even some footage that I took from my trip to Istanbul.

I absolutely love the videos and I would love for you to check them out. As you can imagine,

we have gone all the way back to the beginning and the first video is about the rise of Justinian.

So go to YouTube now and check out Flashpoint History to see the video and of course to see all the

other brilliant videos that Knitt has created. If there's anyone in your life who is much more

of a visual person than an audio one who just wouldn't check out the podcast but might click

on a YouTube video, then this could be a good time to recommend the history of Byzantium to them.

If you really want to help us out, then hit that subscribe button, hit that like button,

give the video a watch and enjoy. I never thought I'd see the day when I heard my voice and saw

amazing high quality documentary style images flying across the screen. Very exciting,

check it out Flashpoint History on YouTube.