In 2022, I set the show aside for what I thought would be a quick two-week break. Then life happened. I had a lot going on at that moment, and the pause stretched longer than I intended. The show never quite got picked back up, even though it never really left my mind. I’ve thought about returning to it often. I’ve just been waiting for the right time. And I think that time is now.

There's a saying that you should never meet your heroes. Well, as I recently found out, you should never research them either.

From now on, all Kings will be given a simple number, a W.A.R., to allow us to understand their strength as a ruler in their own time.

I'm trying to develop a single number that will compare the Kings and let us know who was good, who was bad, and who was just replaceable!

The final thoughts I have for Season One, what surprised me the most, is the sheer number of civil wars fought amongst the Merovingians...

I never would've imagined the ways in which Merovingian women were a part of the history, or the wide-ranging impacts of their interventions

A few thoughts on what I've learned after a year of podcasting about the early French monarchy and the Merovingians, starting with Arianism.

Brunhilda is dead, and it feels like my world is crumbling. Okay, okay, Brunhilda has been dead for – checks watch – 1,407 years now, so...

In the past few days I have had the privilege of talking with David Cot of The History of Spain podcast; he and I have quite a bit of...

NOTE: The only source used for this episode, outside of the direct quotation from Moby Dick, was Procopius's History of the Wars. For...

I've been daydreaming recently about ditching everything to chase my goal of being a full-time podcaster. So what would it take to do this?

Four kings stand against one another in a battle for a kingdom that only one can win. What happens on this day will change the world...

Phoebe Waller-Bridge said on the television show Fleabag that, “Hair is everything.” She was right, historically-speaking.

Human nature remains constant, whether it's 511 or 2019.

Some thoughts from the first thirty days of T+M (plus a few years of listening to podcasts before I made the jump to making one myself).