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consistency as critical to building an audience and being respectful to their time and advises every podcaster to set a deadline and stick with it. "If you can get (people) on a routine and looking forward to (the podcast), they'll stick around".
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was published. The book is a collection of edited transcripts from the first 46 episodes of the podcast, covering the time period from the founding of the Roman
Kingdom through the breakdown of the Republic.
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of the 2nd
Century BC, a series of bloody conflicts largely unmentioned in the main series. Both sets of appendix episodes are currently locked behind a paywall on his
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at the time. He enjoyed many of the historical episodes he encountered in the book, but realized that much of the public knew little about Rome outside of
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time. One of Duncan's motivators for creating the podcast was to make the whole of Roman history attractive to the public through the form of a podcast.
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episodes that covered topics he had not been able to properly address in the main series, and which he had learned a lot about through the research for
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of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be
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Duncan came up with the idea of THoR during a plane flight and subsequent vacation. He was impressed by 12 Byzantine Rulers, a podcast by
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throughout the week. Duncan would aim to keep his episodes at around 4000 words. When recording, he would run two parallel tracks in
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to preempt any errors, and would do a preparatory reading beforehand. He finished each podcast with a celebratory beer.
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