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Achtung, Achtung, Panzer! You are listening too.

We have ways of making you talk with me, Al-Mari and James Holland

and we are delighted to be joined by Nick Moran. Welcome Nick. Thanks for joining us.

Hello! Thank you! I have to say...

I got a heads up that you were talking to me and in your last podcast, I'm listening to it going,

oh my god he's bigging me up like nobody's business. I'm not that good.

There are actually people who know more about tanks than I do.

Well I don't know about that. You're in Texas.

I am. I'm in Texas.

In Palentonio, Alamo City, also known as Military City USA. Fantastic. So you live in...

You're surrounded by tanks, A.F.E.s at all times, yeah?

I wish. I was actually very disappointed. My other career I'm a reservist in the National Garden.

Texas used to have an armored division. There isn't a side of one training school.

There isn't a tank in the Texas Guard anymore. Very disappointing.

But there are a lot of that must be incredibly disappointing. Now I came across you on the internet and then...

And then said to James, you've got to check this guy out.

I think it's fair to say that you're part of...

Let's put it this way.

A new wave of looking at particularly Western Allied armour.

Another way of looking at this thing, this subject, that had become pretty much encrusted in its own sort of...

Histography, its own sort of tropes and memes and all that sort of thing.

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