You nailed it. Rhabdomyolysis is no joke. It’s not like “whoops, I asked them to do 20 pushups when they could only handle 18. My bad.” rhabdomyolysis occurs under extreme strain, the sort of trauma that trained strength coaches know to avoid because such traumatic stress is ultimately counterproductive. You build…

This really is an amazing podcast. The depth, the detail—you really can lose yourself in this podcast. I did the first 9 episodes over two days at work, and I can’t tell you how empty I felt going to work after that, with nothing like it to listen to. So I started it all over again.

I always get excited when I see this post before realizing it releases to my podcast feed early and getting disappointed I’ve already listened to it. Really am loving the series.

Seconded. I started listening recently and I’m only through 3 episodes. So far it’s great. Yes, you will hear an occasional cough, or a moving chair, but the substance is phenomenal.  Thanks, Patrick!

Mithras, God of the Morning, our trumpets waken the Wall!

I was wondering why articles kept showing up on the same topic as the Fall of Rome podcast that I was listening to, and then I finally saw the author name. Great job Patrick, very well done podcast despite some of the roughness (hope the cough gets better!)

This is splendid. I am taken right back to a school trip to a rainy windy Hadrian’s Wall. And this poem..

Been listening to this podcast for a while now, and I have to give it up a genuine plug. Patrick does a fantastic job bringing the subject matter to life, keeping some fairly complex historical theories understandable for those us without a PhD and generally tells a good story. If you are looking for production…

I wonder why Jon Chait didn’t get that same sense of welcoming from his women friends.

One of the enduring frustrations of visiting the Seattle area, for me, is taking a photo of Mt. Rainier, showing it to someone who’s never been there, and trying to persuade them of how huge and monstrous it looks on the skyline. In photos it just looks like the horizon has a nipple.

No you don’t. Trust me.

Whatever this period has been spanning the Bush years until now has been characterized by people who are extremely bad at their jobs doing very, very well despite (?) that fact. No one has been so committed to not only being bad at their job, but somehow, despite being on the front row for most of the essential…

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The best way to “use sports to talk” to someone is the following technique, since it shows your vast knowledge of baseball, one of the sportiest of sports. Feel free to explain what you’re doing each step of the way.

Fantastic. I think you nailed it with GvB, and “he can lick my ass” is the rightful predecessor to “Kobe, tell me how my ass taste”.

Can I assume that Episode 16 will be premiering long after Episode 32?