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I am Adam McKay, and I'm Adam Davidson.

This is the podcast where we take a subject that seems very boring, very lame, and and we try and make it awesome we try to reveal

its internal awesomeness that has been hidden and locked away behind a kernel of

boring that's it and today's subject which you do not know.

Is that correct? I do not know. I'm not even going to say it. I'm just going to say

today's subject is. So yes that is our time.

So yes that is our topic tub thumping by the band Chumba it was a big hit in

1997 the band Chumbaawamba in American culture has sort of been

categorized as a one-hit wonder and that's a song that got played to death

for about six months.

Reactions please.

Okay.

All right, so initial reaction is,

I mean I obviously remember that, I think everyone remembers that song. It's yeah, it's a nice song. I mean it's it's or it's I enjoy listening to it.

All right, well what if I told you that tub thumping the song that everyone remembers as a what silly feel good pop song

was actually the work of an anarchist slash socialistic collective and it was part of their

deliberate 30-year strategy to empower the working class and

to overthrow the status quo of England.

I honestly don't know if you're doing a bit right now.

I mean it seemed like I could imagine they said that in an interview or something, but I'm skeptical.

So the first thing you've got to get straight is that Chumblewamba is not the silly ridiculous one-hit wonder. They're not Baja Men, they're not

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