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Music Good morning history Tards.

It's the start of our biggest series yet.

Wow!

I'm here with the ratio of Gould. This is Finn versus

history and today is episode one on a month long trudge. Trudge. It's a long, yeah. A trudge

through post-war British prime ministers, 1945 to 1979. Relentless. An audio portrait of managed decline that's what this podcast was sort of set up for it is the embodiment of what we stand for it's a test cricket match this is a test cricket match in an audiovisual podcast form that ends in a sort of yeah a loser's loser's draw. Three days get rained off. Yeah. This will be epic. Is it testing patient? Testing the algorithm. We're really going to test the algorithm out with this one. We thought, you know, we just did a live show in Edinburgh Fringe, which is very great for everyone who came out, but we do want to start cleaving off to our audience. Whittle them down. Do you know what I mean? We looked out there and we're like, we could probably make this a bit more of an elite group, I think so. An elite's not the right word. What's the opposite of the elite? Well, extreme. Yeah, extreme elements in terms of smell, in terms of throat beards, in terms of employment prospects. Yeah. By which I mean they have zero. Yeah, like a white al-Qaeda? Yes, exactly. The, um, the jihadi, the jihadi, uh, Jihadi John, the Beatles, the Fab Four. But they're just John. Yeah. Yeah, Johnny John. So today we are, we're essentially looking, you know, this is a British podcast.

And rather than trying, famously British, rather than trying to gain new listeners from overseas, we're just doubling down on why is this country like it is?

You know, you can't understand Britain without Thatcher and you can't understand Thatcher without the 70s, and you can't really understand the 70s without understanding the system that the 70s, that collapses in the 70s.

Yeah, and people from other countries when they read about how big the British Empire was, and they see Britain now, and they realize it really wasn't that long ago.

Yeah.

It doesn't quite make sense how that it happened.

Yeah.

How is that country that thinks it's that, actually that?

And it might be one of the funniest declines of an empire because normally when an empire

declines, it collapses.

It's, you know, explosions everywhere.

There's fucking famine.

There's death.

This was just quietly packing up. Yep.

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