It’s a history/anthropology podcast series that focuses on a narrative telling of the story of a specific historical civilization/empire/society whathaveyou. The episodes are multiple hours long and it goes into in-depth detail for the culture and factors that made the civilization unique and helped them rise to a level of prominence. It then attempts to analyze the factors that resulted in their fall from this prominence. It’s pretty extensively researched and it staddles the intersection of interesting, accessible, and informative amazingly.

It’s structured in a way where it’s told from the perspective of a storyteller so it’s not just someone dryly listing facts - it’s someone telling a story. I am not a podcast enjoyer and it is literally the only podcast I will ever be excited to hear that a new episode released.