Good morning, history fans. I just want to let you know that my brand new stand-up special

Ask Your Mother is out now. You can watch the whole thing for free on Spotify if you click the

link in the description or search Finn Taylor Ask Your Mother. Here's a little excerpt that I know

you History Hogs will love. And listen, you bring up left and right now everyone immediately assumes nowadays you're talking about the extremes.

I'm not, I generally mean the middle, but I think if you're attracted to the extremes of either, you're probably not very mentally happy.

That's my hot take.

The extremes seem to attract the most mentally unhappy people.

Like, when you think about it, there's no one would lower self-esteem than a Holocaust denier when you, like, dig into it. I'm trying to prepare you as best I can for this bit. It has to go here. We're only halfway through. Imagine where we're going. There's no one with lower self-esteem than a Holocaust denier. Because if you think about it, if you're a Holocaust denier,

right, you are a far-right racist,

which means that you should like the Holocaust,

you should love the Holocaust, except you don't believe it happened

because you don't think you deserve good things?

Like, what's the...

What Holocaust? My dreams never come true.

Knowing my luck, it's probably a hoax.

Six million. What was it, my birthday? Fuck off, man.

I reckon it was 200,000 max.

That's one for the plus ones, that one.

I try and find the news interesting, yeah?

I try and detach myself emotionally. I think getting too worked up about it from either angle, not good for your mental health. I try and I find it interesting, you know? I watch the news, it makes me think of little things in my own life, you know, like I was watching the news recently and it made me think, you know when you're moving house and you think you found somewhere nice, but before you sign for it, you think, oh, we'll just meet the neighbours.

We'll just see if they're friendly, right?

We all do this.

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