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One of the most popular history podcasters in the world, Patrick Wyman is the host of Fall of Rome and Tides of History, and is the author of The Verge: Renaissance, Reformation, and Forty Years That Shook the Worlds and Lost Worlds: The Rise and Fall of Human Societies from the Ice Age to the Bronze Age. He received a PhD in History from the University of Southern California and has written for The Atlantic, Slate, and Mother Jones. In a past life, he covered mixed martial arts for Bleacher Report, Deadspin, and the Washington Post.