What Happens Next

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What changed for the team today?

It was the new game day, Scratchers, from the California Lottery.

Play is everything.

Those games sent the team's energy through the roof.

Are you saying it was the off-field play that made the difference on the field?

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That's all for now.

Coach, one more question.

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Hello everyone, I hope you enjoy the final episode of the narrative.

I'm here to answer the question that people have been asking me for about ten years now.

So, what are you going to do after 1453?

Well, as I mentioned a while ago, the history of Byzantium will continue.

I will take the narrative on a little bit further.

We'll rejoin the siege and find out what happened to all the characters in that story, and talk about the fate of the citizens of Constantinople and what Mehmet did next and what happened to the Peloponnese.

We'll follow the Ottomans to see how they managed to get the Eastern Mediterranean back under one empire.

Though obviously not in the detail that I've covered the Byzantines.

We'll finally catch up with Trebizond.

We'll talk to Anthony Caldellis one last time, and then I have a bunch of Byzantine stories that I want to get to.

However, all of that will probably have to to wait until 2026.

I am going to go and lie in a heap on the floor for a while.

I probably won't touch the podcast till after my next tour to Turkey, which is in early October.

So that gives you a couple of months to get your questions in.

You can now ask me anything.

It can be about the last century of the narrative or about what happens next.

It can be about anything really.

It can be about me or the podcast itself or something that happened in 867 or in 1467.

I will feed all these questions into the episodes I produce.

It'll make up like a little mini end of the century slash narrative tour, I guess.

Send your questions to thehistory of Byzantium at gmail.com.

If you would like to hear from me sooner than that, then this Sunday, the 20th of July, I will be hosting three Zoom calls for patrons.

You can sign up at the $1 level and still get on the calls which will be at one five and nine p.m.

UK time I'm happy to do more Patreon calls down the road

so if you want to hear about those don't

delete the podcast from all your devices keep the free podcast subscribed so you can hear updates for things like that I am also going to be doing an AMA on Reddit this weekend.

I will post the details at thehistory of Byzantium.com as soon as I have them.

So lots of ways that you can ask me questions and get them answered in the next seven days.

Yeah, yeah, Robin.

But what are you going to do after all that?

That's what we really want to know.

Well, I'm still not sure.

Most likely going back to the earlier Roman Empire in one form or another, but I have learnt at this point to not look too far ahead.

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I look forward to seeing some of you on Sunday and writing to some of you over the weekend.

And as ever, thank you for listening.

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Talk about refreshing.

You know what else is refreshing this summer?

A brand new phone with Verizon.

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Coach, the energy out there felt different.

What changed for the team today?

It was the new game day, Scratchers, from the California Lottery.

Play is everything.

Those games sent the team's energy through the roof.

Are you saying it was the off-field play that made the difference on the field?

Hey, a little play makes your day, and today it made the game.

That's all for now.

Coach, one more question.

Play the new Los Angeles Chargers, San Francisco 49ers, and Los Angeles Rams Scratchers from the California Lottery.

A little play can make your day.

Please play responsibly must be 18 years or older to purchase, play, or claim.