Hello and welcome to the Restless History, Dominic. Have you heard the latest exciting news about our live tour?

I have, Dominic. It's actually shocking news. It's shocking but also heartening. But just to remind you the listener, the rest is history is going on a nationwide tour at the end of April 2023.

I say tour but it's for three nights only. We'll be in London on the 25th of April and the historic Drury Lane Theatre. Then we'll be able to Edinburgh the following evening on the 26th of April to play at Usher Hall.

And we will finish on the 30th of April at the Larry in Sulford Greater Manchester. But Tom, the listeners are gacking to know about this shocking news that you have for them about the tour.

Ladies and gentlemen, I can announce that our London live show has now sold out. I repeat, all 2000 seats, yes 2000 seats at Drury Lane Theatre are now sold out.

So not even frozen the musical. The show that we are of course replacing at Drury Lane, not even frozen sold out that quickly.

I can imagine Elsa listening to this right now, fuming at the very thought of the rest is history stealing her snowy thunder. But Elsa, all I will say to you is let it go.

People can go to both shows. But just to emphasize, that's our first live date already sold out. And tickets are selling incredibly quickly for Sulford and Edinburgh too.

So if you do want to come, please buy your ticket right now to avoid disappointment. Now, if you've never been to one of our live shows, what a treat or wait. So we have an incredibly inventive approach.

Tom will take the first half and he will be running through his repertoire of Marilyn Monroe songs and I do be the do thanks for that. And I will be picking up after the interval with the PowerPoint presentation on the economic policies of Stanley Baldwin.

It's an absolute riot.

It's fun for all the family. So these are our first ever shows outside London as a podcast. So we'll be putting on a tour de force. I think Dominic is the only word for it in both greater Manchester and the Scottish capital.

So they'll be impressions, perhaps a Mureguin pipe music and plenty of absolute lads from history. Here is how you can get tickets. Just go to rest is history pod dot com. It is very, very, very straight forward. That is www dot rest is history pod dot com by your tickets now to Sulford and Edinburgh before it's too late.

Old Silicon Valley really was the world west. Valleyites stole one another's product designs, one another's wives and one another's employees.

They fought to the death all day and went out drinking together at night and deals that would one day be worth billions were often made with a handshake.

That was Michael Esmerlone in the big score, the billion dollar story of Silicon Valley, which he wrote in 1985. Dominic, since 1985 Silicon Valley has gone from strength to strength.

In fact, you could almost say that it's probably in terms of today's economy, culture, civilization, probably the single most important place on the face of the planet.

Yeah, I think you can you can say it's probably the most important place in our lifetimes. So 1985 was the year that Max Soren, the villain and a view to a kill try to destroy Silicon Valley to give himself control over the world's Silicon chip sort of industry.

And that was the first time I was ever going to the bond film was was ever aware of Silicon Valley and obviously since then.

And now working lives the way we interact with the fact that we're Tom, we're doing this, you know, we do all our podcasts. Yes, you know, on zoom.

This may imagine that we're meeting up and doing this in a studio. We're not. Yeah, I've never I've never seen Tom Holland in the.

Yeah, but this is a massive world historical phenomenon, isn't it? And absolutely worth discussing an age tree podcast, I think.

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