Hello and welcome to another ancient warfare magazine podcast.

Earlier in the week, Yasper published a blog on the ancient warfare website.

That's ancient dash warfare.com.

And the title was Why I Love Ancient Warfare.

To discuss why Jasper loves ancient warfare, I'm joined by Jasper Otage, Mary Dame,

Mark McCaffrey and Mark DeSantis.

Jasper, it's your blog article. We're going to be talking about, tell us about it. What did

you hope to get from it? I don't know. I guess I was just inspired to write that blog

because I get asked this question,

you know, with some regularity. Why, you know, why does somebody who seems otherwise sane of mind,

obviously they don't know me very well, get so invested in this topic from so long ago,

and it's, you know know it's not just civilization

it's very military i'm you know i people who know me really well will know that i'm deeply

interested in in in the military history and um have to put in some effort to show an interest in

anything else.

So I thought I'd try and do it right up about what was, you know,

what might have caused this.

I'm not sure I got very far.

So what do you think might have caused it?

I don't know.

As I said in the blog, my interest in military history has always been there.

I have a family.

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