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Hello, welcome to the REST's history. Where does history start and end? Are the 1990s

two recent encounters history? Well, this is our podcast, so we make the rules. Welcome to the

REST's history, the podcast that refuses to be bound by convention. And today we're looking back

at the decade that gave us a racist and blur, Boris Yeltsin, the death of Yugoslavia,

Monica Lewinsky and Mr. Blobby. Tom Holland, do you remember the 1990s? I mean, you was to be

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