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Music lottery, rules and procedures apply, players must be 18 or over. Hello and welcome History Friends, Patrons all, to a very special collaboration episode. The first

collaboration episode that I've done outside of five weeks to run wild. So it's quite special in and of

itself. I really, really love this concept. I love doing collaboration episodes, not only because

it's fun for me to do, but I love bringing

these, like, a different side to the podcasters that you might not be, well, expecting.

Maybe you don't know the podcaster that well, or you don't really know maybe how they got

into podcasting or why they love podcasting so much, what it is that they love, their interests

in history, how they got into it,

all different individual and interesting stories and all stories that deserve to be heard.

And honestly, in an ideal case, I'd love to do one of these a month, but we'll see what happens.

I've a few of them lined up, so don't worry too much. It should be a fairly safe formula for the next

few months or so, but yeah, Danieli Bellelli, I thought it was only right to start off with a

pretty well, well-known, respectable, reputed historian podcaster, and Danieli Bilelli fits the

bill in so many ways he's a professor. He's in academia, even though he's not a big fan of academia. He's an author, a successful author of several books, which, believe me, having written one book and having two more on the way I understand what that is like. Yes, indeed, I do. And of course, he's a podcaster, which is probably how most of you guys would know him

he is it should be said the very first guy I've ever had who has his own Wikipedia page

that's how you know you're making it big that is how you know guys that your history

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