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Music Hi everybody and welcome to How'd and What Now, the History Podcast. That's not your

history class. With me, your host, Katie Charlwood, History Harlot and Reader of Books. Welcome back,

friends, Romans, Countrymen. But if you are new here,

this is your disclaimer. Here on this show, I like to use language which somehow referred to as

as colourful as Belfast Street Art. So you might want to brace yourself for a right that may not be

suitable for delicate ears. If you do happen to be easily

offended by the occasional expletive, then this may not be the podcast for you. If however,

you're not worried by the words shit piss or bollocks, then salutations and welcome to the Guild

of Historical Descent. Now before I get into anything else, I want to thank you so much for your five-star reviews.

I've been getting them on Spotify, on an Apple Podcast.

It helps so much. You have no idea.

I was number 18 in Croatia.

Croatia. I was in the 30s in Pakistan. Who is listening to me in Pakistan? How do you understand my accent? Now nobody's got an excuse. I'm sorry. Croatia and Pakistan, you are, you can understand me. Nobody has an excuse now. Nobody has an excuse. I don't care, right? If you get it, granted, I am still impressed that people are listening to me in Ukraine.

Because I like to go through the analytics and see where, you know, the majority of my audience is from.

I like to see where I'm ranking in different countries. And it does take me a lot of time and sometimes I'm not

even ranked but I spend a lot of time just going through and it's amazing to have all this reach

and have people like listening to me across the globe like I don't know how else to to explain how

weird it is.

I mean, it's fantastic, but it's really, really humbling actually, because, like, little

with me, you know, in a bedroom in rural Ireland, and there are people in like massive cities in war zones and you know the back end of

nowhere as well in other spaces and they're listening to me you're listening to me like there's

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