Welcome back to another episode of Finn versus History. I'm here with Horatio Gould.

And today we're talking about Northern Ireland. Yes. The troubles. And I'd like to start this by saying that I do still want to sell tickets in Belfast. Right. I'm not doing that on the tour. Aren't you? Oh, you're fine. I'm fine. Unless they have a short memory, which actually they don't. I think famously they have a very long memory. I think that is the problem.

It's also probably the closest thing to a live issue we've dealt with. Yeah. Will it ever feel like it's not live to us? Because that's what I love about... Or in our lifetimes. Yeah. What I love about this... I mean, first of all I've got to say that I'm coming in hot because one of my favorite... Top 10 history for me. Troubles.

Yeah.

For what reason?

Right.

It's... Yeah, what places is why this is a good topic. Okay, so top 10, obviously Nazis, Hitler, World War II, Holocaust. 9-11. 9-11. Blair Iraq. Slobodan Milosevic, disintegration of Yugoslavia. We get it.

You're straight.

I'm a straight man. Brookstrift, Anglo Zool. Scramble for Africa. Big yes. Yeah. The troubles is, so 9-11, what, 3,000 people die? Well, I imagine your scramble for Africa is similar to, I don't know, you're in a long-term marriage and you remember that one crazy one night stand you you know you had in your youth

that it's sort of like an escapism, right? It's a feral, yeah, six guys, the German, a French, an Austrian, and we all have a very big meeting about all. You were young, you had no responsibilities, you know. Yeah, that's scandal for Asks. Those are the days. That's the peak of the British Emmys, all that sort of stuff.

Oh, the Raj as well.

The Raj. abilities, you know. Yeah. That's Scramble for Africa.

Those are the days. That's the peak of the British Amos, all that sort of stuff. Oh, the Raiders' top ten. Anyway, the troubles. So 3,000 people die in 9-11, I think. Charlie, can you just confirm how many people die in 9-11? I think around that. It's around 3,000. I think you ballparked it. What's the death told of troubles?

I think it's about 3.5,000.

So it's, it's 9-11 over 30 years.

Right.

So that's what you...

Okay. It's like test cricket. 9-11. It's slow. It's drawn out. There are periods of intense. Yeah. The whole thing is fucking chaos. What I love about the troubles. Then it slows down. It slows down. You think, oh, this is a bit boring. Yeah. And then it heats up. And then just wait. The fast bowler's coming back on. McGuinness is. Bobby Sand comes. New bowler from the pavilion and Martin McG mcginnis fuck mcginnis had entered

Bobby sand in the crease what what's this what's he doing he's smearing his shit

he's shitting on the creek that's not cricket he's shutting on the crease

I've never seen anything like this in my life he's smearing his shit on the stumps

that's got to be ight um it's basically there's also the accents right so 9-11

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