Hello everyone and Happy New Year. The sun's shining through my window.

I hope wherever you are, the sun is shining on you and all of the thought of sunshine, literal and metaphorical.

It's good to be sending out these wishes as early as possible.

I hope you had a lovely Christmas period and I hope that 2026 gets off on the right foot for you.

Whatever happens, we can contemplate it together.

I love having you around.

I love having you with me.

This is about the history, which is the bedrock of the channel.

It's the history that shapes us and lets us prepare better for the present and the future.

But before we get started, let me invite you to support this podcast directly.

And to do that, go to patreon.com, find me by name, Neil Oliver, and sign up.

As soon as you become a member, you get exclusive access to lots of stuff.

Fantastic content.

A lot of history, many more contemplations

besides.

You also got an exclusive question and answer session, which is the next best thing to chatting

to me over the phone.

Anyway, early access to everything, competitions.

So come along, join me, join the family, Because you can interact with everybody else that's there too.

The links in the notes down there.

It's also on my website, nealover.com.

I'll hope to see you there.

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