Hello delicious friends and welcome to Who Did What Now, the History Podcast that is not your history class, with me your host, Katie Charlwood, History Harlet and Reader of Books.

And welcome one and all to the very first episode of 2026. Oh yes, I very nearly said the

2026 season, but that is incorrect because I like my ass just don't quit. So yeah, I am really

excited for this year. I've got so much more plans and I'm better

organized this year. So those of you who are relatively new to the podcast, if you have

joined in recent months, first of all, you may be wondering, what was that music? That, my friends, as long-time listeners know, was the original theme song for the podcast.

I really wanted something a bit older, and initially I had also considered a variation of green sleeves, right?

But every version I found of it just kind of sounded really sad and I couldn't get it to work with how I wanted it to go because I did not want

this to be a very depressing history podcast. But that being said, I managed to find this sort of 1920s song that I was really, really excited about

because I really love 1920s as a whole because from a sociological and historical standpoint,

it is this beautiful pocket, this interwar period,

which is very exciting and odd and there's art and there's just so many weird and wonderful

things happening in this like pocket of time.

And you have music and art in fashion and a whole load of like social change

happening and it's wonderful and also awful but I just don't really love it as a general as a general

rule and I found this song by the Rhythmic 8,

and I loved it because it was called Kansas City Kitty,

which I'm fairly certain is a euphemism for something,

but I really, really enjoyed this song.

And I mistakenly assumed it was in the public domain.

It was not.

It is, however, now in the public domain.

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