Revolutions - 2018 Revolutions Fundraiser Announcment

Episode Date: April 30, 2018

Phone Lines Now Open! Link: revolutionspodcastfundraiser.com  

and welcome to revolutions. 2018 fundraiser announcement. Hello, this is your official 2018 fundraiser announcement. If you've been around, this is the third one of these fundraisers that we've done, and it's all going to be working exactly the same way. If you're new, well, you've probably heard me talking about it before, and now's your chance to get in on the action. This fundraiser will run from tonight, April the 29th,

9th to Sunday, June the 9th. So for just about six weeks, it's going to close up on June 9th. So the phone lines are now open, and man, is that ever an anachronistic way to put it? Did the kids even know that phrase? I don't think they do. This year, we feature four unisex t-shirts. We have two new additions to the family and two re-releases, shirts that are backed by popular demand. The two classics are the Olivia Did It shirt and the gentleman Johnny's party train North American Tour 1777 shirt. Now, these guys are both printed on slightly different colors this time around to distinguish them from the original run, but now is your chance to snap them up.

And when I went on the book tour, one of the most frequently asked questions was when and how can I get Olivia Did It shirt or a gentleman Johnny's shirt. Now is your chance. Now added to the lineup is two new shirts. The first is to the barricades, because duh, it's not like there wasn't going to be a shirt about the barricades. And then finally, there's one that is drawn from the Cato the Elder quote that I used to open chapter one of the storm before the storm. Thieves of private property pass their lives in chains, thieves

of public property in riches and luxury. All of the artwork is done by my good friend and occasional collaborator Jason Novak, who I must mention also has a book of his own coming out on June the 12th. It's called Et tu Brutei, and it illustrates the death of every Roman emperor. Actually, I blurted it for him, and I called it a witty and delightfully morbid book that will make you wonder why on earth anyone would want to be a Roman emperor. But getting back to the fundraiser, each t-shirt is $35. And please remember, I will post one giant bulk order after all the orders have been taken. So around the second week of June, I will place the order, and then they'll start shipping after that.

So in addition to the t-shirts, there is also now Appendix 2 of the History of Rome, a collection of five new History of Rome episodes covering Roman adventures, or more accurately misadventures, in Hispania during the second century BC. These episodes are doing double work for me, because for one, I was still in the relatively early days of the history of Rome when this time period came around, and I moved pretty swiftly from the Second Punic War to the Third Punic War to the Groghai Brothers. And then when I finished the history of Roman look back, the Iberian wars were a rather gaping hole in the narrative.

And I was reminded of this again when I started working on the storm before the storm, because the Roman campaigns on the Iberian Peninsula had a lot to do with setting up the beginning of the end of the Roman Republic. But when it came time to actually write the book, all of that material I had researched had to get compressed into about 250 words in the prologue. So, I am presenting it all to you now. Each episode is about 25 minutes, and you can either buy them individually for $5, or get the whole set for $20, which, to be honest, is what you should do. It's about two total hours of new history of raw material. It's a steal. And of course, while I'm here, I must mention that

Appendix 1 is still available. That, remember, is five episodes covering the history of the men behind the histories upon which all the histories of Rome are written, not just the history of Rome. So I talk in general about Roman and Greek historiography, and then move on to individual episodes that cover Cato the Elder, Polybius, Solist, and Pliny the Elder. So if you haven't picked that up, now you've got like four new hours of History of Rome waiting for you, and that's darned exciting. Okay, so the next thing is that if you've listened to episode 7.33, ready, you know that Mrs. Revolutions and I have embraced the rather madcap scheme to move our family to Paris. This means moving into a very tiny apartment, and we're taking this opportunity to

massively downsize, and I'm moving on from most of my physical library books. So I thought that it would be cool. If you wanted to own a piece of the show and support the show, then I would do the same thing I did in the first fundraiser, and put autographed copies of the books that I used to write the Revolutions podcast up on the blocks. So I have curated a collection of my favorite books from each series and would be thrilled to move them onto a home where they would be loved instead of just having them wind up in some goodwill bargain bin. So it was a sort of bonus prize for donating at $100. You get to pick out one of these books and it's all yours. Finally, after the storm before the storm landed on the bestseller list. The publisher did a limited print run of copies that trumpeted on

the cover, the fact that it was a New York Times bestseller, and they sent me 10 copies. So, if you spend more than $40 in this fundraiser, you are automatically entered to win an autographed copy of one of these books. And like with the T-shirts, I'll wait until June the 9th, and I'll pick 10 winners. So that's the pitch. Four new shirts, five new episodes of the history of Rome to go along with the already existing five new episodes of the history of Rome. You can help support the move to Paris by buying up a piece of my library and letting it go live in a better home and possibly win an autograph copy of the storm before the storm. Love you guys. Merci Bucco.