Hey everyone, Sebastian here.

Before we get started today, I just wanted to let you know that today's episode has a

bit more sexual content than is typical for an episode of our fake history.

So if you're listening with your kids and you think they might not be ready for a very

frank discussion of sexuality, then you may not want them to listen to this one.

Just thought I should give you a heads up.

Alright, enjoy the show.

It was a brisk London morning in November of 1872, when somewhere deep in the British

Museum, a lowly assistant curator, started getting naked.

The stripper was a man by the name of George Smith and were told that this spontaneous act

of disrobment was born out of pure elation and excitement.

You see, George Smith had just made a discovery, a discovery that he knew would define the

rest of his life.

Now in many ways, Smith was an unlikely character to be laboring as a researcher in the British

Museum in 1872. At the time curatorial work was done by Upper Crust Gentlemen, who had

been educated in Britain's finest universities.

These were aristocratic types who spoke proudly of their time at Oxford or Cambridge.

But George Smith came from a decidedly different background.

Smith was a working class guy, the father of six kids, who came from the thoroughly working

class-lended neighborhood of Chelsea.

But in many ways, Smith was a pull yourself up by your bootstrap success story.

Even though his formal education had ended at the age of 14, Smith's family had taken

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