One of my favorite podcasts is Mike Duncan's The History of Rome (iTunes link). Duncan's essays and delivery are clear, concise and entertaining, and I just can't get enough.
But here's a fun story. Lori is also a student of history, so while Veronica slept on the way back from Lori's parents' house in Georgia, I put on Episode 17 of The History of Rome, about Pyrrhus of Epirus' struggles with Rome in the third century BC. So we get to this part, describing the setup for the battle at Asculum in 279 BC:
When the two sides met near Asculum, they fielded equal armies of about 40,000. The Romans were led by Publius Decius, son of the hero of the Third Samnite War, and grandson of the hero of the First Samnite War, who brought with him new devices to deal with the war elephants, including chariots that would circle the legs of the huge beasts with rope, and bring them crashing down.
I hit pause on the iPod here and said, "Just like the snowspeeders did to the AT-ATs in Empire!" I may have cackled it, actually. So I hit play, and the podcast resumes with:
It was the same tactic that had served the Rebel Alliance so well against the Imperial Walkers during the battle for Hoth.
This gave me great joy. Subscribe and listen to The History of Rome.