This is Acid Man.

Hello and welcome to ACFM, the home of the weird left.

I'm Jeremy Gilbert, and today this is one of our microdose episodes, a supplemental episode,

and I'm joined only by my good friend and comrade Keir Milbert.

Hello.

You can probably guess, given it's just me and Keir today, we're going to geek out a bit

today.

And we're going to be talking about a theme which Keir proposed, which is, well, is it weird

Britain or is it new British weird or is it New Britain weird?

What are we calling it?

Let's decide that at the end, I I think if we want to put a question

it would be something like is Britain getting weirder is there a weird a weirdness revival in the UK

at the minute if so how long has it been going on one of the qualifications of that would be

isn't it's just something that's quite continuous something that's been going on for quite a while

or is it something that that has of revival, etc., is Keir just very susceptible to the hype

cycle, which is may well be true, as Jem has suggested in the past, etc. So I think that's

that's sort of what I'm sort of interested in. And if you want to do

that, there's a couple of tasks, one of which is to sort of lay out some of the evidence that

there's something going on at the moment and then perhaps to go through the history of what we

might call British weirdness, specifically British weirdness, British sort of folklore, etc,

these sorts of things,

in order to come back at the end and then assess whether this is new, how much of it is a

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