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Acton, acton. Welcome to We Have Ways of Make You Talk with me, Almarie and James Holland,

your Second World War podcast, fully afflicted and all those blighted by an interest in the second world war.

Have you, do you know what, the best lines ever was that one that Robert Harris came up with.

Yeah. When he said, people always ask me why you served as the Second World War and I was

like, why wouldn't you be a the Second World War? Do you know what, that just made me feel a

whole load better about myself. You know, actually, yes, if we're in sort of confessional mode here,

I know, yeah, absolutely because it was like I was the lonely man in the flat all on my own

and I didn't realise that I had a whole load of friends out there. And now I realise that I'm part of

a global community of fellowship. But the thing is though, when people ask me about why I'm

interested, I say, well, because obviously the assumption is, you're brother the other day

when we're at the podcast show. He sort of did a like a mocking thing about, you know,

how day I know and I'm thinking, well, you're you like the Romans. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Romans is

so long ago who cares? You're right. Whatever. Yeah, Romans, whatever. Anyway, but the but the

but the point is is, you know, it's about Rome, maybe larger than my garden, but my machine gun is

much better than your pilot, whatever the abstract slide is. But it's about, but it's because

you we could we could talk about this for a year without talking about one battlefield instant.

You could talk about technology. You could talk about medicine. You could talk about signals,

signals, social politics. You could talk about, for near-order days, for near-year disease,

exactly. You could talk about STI. STI, as they are now. You could talk about refining uranium.

You could talk about absolutely anything. Talk about junters in, in Argentina. In Argentina. Exactly.

You don't have to. It doesn't have to be, although that is exciting, some of the exciting stuff is

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