Trevors personal experience with both Persian history and podcasts began with a college extra credit assignment to listen to the first Hardcore History history episode on the Achaemenids. He was instantly enthralled with the stories of the Kings of Kings and came a little late to the party, started listening to podcasts. He started heading down the road toward PhD that will let him study ancient Persia for a living. As He binged his way through both the History of Rome and early episodes of the History of Byzantium he was always excited for the episodes dealing with the Parthians and Sassanids. To his surprise and disappointment he discovered that there was not a similarly dedicated podcast dealing with the great empires east of Rome. Trevor decided to personally create that dedicated podcast.