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…Which is to say you also did another series on the Normans, who no longer had the benefit of being first and were still nevertheless very good, so… Oh, I appreciate that. Thank you. It was… But I think podcasting in a way democratizes learning. You know, it unlocked the potential of all these armchair historians. I’m one of them who’s like, “Hey, this is really cool. I’m passionate about this. ” You know, anything that allows you to tap into your passion, I think is gonna be great. And the Byzantine Empire’s an interesting one. I don’t understand maybe… And you articulated this well, but it doesn’t get like the love that it maybe deserves in history. I think the framing of the book you wrote on the topic is the reason we have Western civilization as we know, or European-based Western civilization. In a sense because you have… They… Let’s see, maybe you can articulate the different ways they connected the thread, but one of them is they preserved the knowledge when the West was—when Europe was going through a dark period; they protected Europe in all those ways.…

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