There are moments in life where, once they’re done, you sit back and reflect on just how it was that you arrived at that moment in the first place. For me, I had one of those moments a few nights back when I had the chance to sit down and talk with Marco Cappelli from the Storia d’Italia podcast.

You see, I could go way back in my life and talk about how I grew up as a kid in Wisconsin, not too far outside of Milwaukee. My life was possibly as local as any one kid’s life could be at that time; I remember watching Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and watching them run all over Chicago and thinking that felt like a different world to me – in reality, Chicago was less than 100 miles away. I tell you this not to give away my age and let you know that I can remember when Ferris Bueller was in movie theaters, but to give you an idea that if Chicago felt far away to me, then Italy may as well have been the moon. Fast forward a few years and I’ve had the chance to travel around someSd, but I still have a special place in my heart for the connections I make with people who I never, ever would have dreamt of having a reason to intersect with when I was a kid.

Well, jump forward 30 years and now I’m a real boy, living in England and producing this podcast. And it’s through that production that I ran into Marco; we share a love of medieval history, and we both happen to be talking about the 6th century right now! One key difference between the both of us is that he’s talking about it in Italian, which I think is just showing off really. But seriously, he’s 55 episodes into his show and he’s the number one history podcast in Italy, so it was a tremendous privilege for me to get to steal some of his time and talk about the Goths and the Franks and the Lombards and podcasting and Italy and a whole bunch of other stuff. It was a fun conversation and his perspective literally helped me to see things in a new way during our talk.

All of Marco’s social media info is below and also on the Recommendations page of ThugsandMiracles.com. Alright, without further ado, here’s a conversation about medieval Europe, Gaul and Italy, as told between an American guy living in England and an Italian guy living in Belgium. What can possibly go wrong?! Enjoy!

Storia d'Italia Info

Storia d'Italia - https://italiastoria.com/

SdI IG - https://www.instagram.com/italiastoria/

SdI FB - https://www.facebook.com/italiastoria

SdI YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Vrv6OOwLNc&fbclid

SdI Twitter - https://twitter.com/ItaliaStoria

SdI Contact - https://italiastoria.com/contatti/

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