Hey, everybody, and welcome to classical stuff you should know.

We are a podcast that aims to bring the classical world to you in as painless a way as possible.

So we talk about old philosophies, old books, old things, and try to make it fun.

And my name is A.J. Hanenberg, and I'm here with my compatriots, Graham Donaldson.

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And Thomas Fletcher Magby.

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And today, we get to talk about a famous instance in England when a fellow named Henry

got a little too drunk on a fifth of vodka, and he wandered home through someone else's garden

and trampled all over their plants.

That's unfortunate.

So the next day, that man who happened to be a Frenchman

got some gasoline out of his car

and poured it all over Henry V's garden

and then lit it on fire, burning all of his plants,

and thus began the War of the Roses,

which would continue a prank war between these two guys for a couple of years. burning all of his plants, and thus began the War of the Roses. True.

Which would continue a prank war between these two guys for a couple of years.

For years and years.

And it became a mesh in history forever.

Yeah.

That's right.

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