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Well, hi everybody and welcome back to Who at What Now, the history podcast that is not your history class, with me, your erratic host, Katie Charlwood, Aaver and reader of books Well

Tis Shrove Tuesday

And yeah

So it's about Easter is about to happen

And

Well is it Easter? No, that is incorrect. Lent.

We are coming up to Lent.

Lent, if you don't know, is a Christian holiday.

I think it's, is it only Catholics who do it?

I don't know.

Anyway, so, yeah, this goes back to when, like, Jesus, you know, they did with the beard, kept turning water into wine, you know the fella.

He spent 40 days and 40 nights in the desert, apparently, and resisted temptation.

And yes, he apparently had no food or drink for, like, however many days, 40 days and 40 nights,

which I don't know, either this dude was like some super survivalist, because the body

can only last like three days without water, but like whatever.

I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna get into this little fandango.

Now and if everyone around me is giving up stuff, like chocolate and booze and joy.

And I'm here like, um, no.

I'm like, listen, if you all are going to do it, I'll do it too.

But like, um, just because it's, it's, maybe I should like stop buying books for Lent.

Because I swear, I went to the secret bookshop and I bought like a ton of stuff.

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