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🗓️ 20 October 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Noah Botkin just got back from a little light tourism in Switzerland, the Czech Republic, and the UK, so he's joining the podcast to discuss a few observations. Learn what Cambridge professors think of the American War for Independence, how the British Museum demonstrates power, and how a crazy Czech general invented tank warfare in the 1400s.
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0:00.0 | Obviously, America is the greatest nation in the entire world, but other countries actually have a lot going for them when it comes to history and cultural stuff, and we're going to get into it. |
0:17.0 | So, welcome back to another T-R-X talk. |
0:23.4 | I have with me a guest. |
0:25.3 | I don't think you've ever been on the podcast, Noah. |
0:27.5 | I don't think so. |
0:28.3 | We've recorded a couple of random test experimental podcast that we've never published. |
0:34.5 | But for those of you who are curious, Noah Botkin is our software developer, |
0:40.4 | runs the software developer team at T-Rex. But we're not going to talk about that. Probably |
0:45.2 | not going to talk about that in this episode. You just got back from Europe. Yes, yes. We went to England, Switzerland, and Prague, which was sort of an |
0:57.7 | interesting speed run of different European countries with different histories. |
1:02.3 | And since you did a speed run of different countries over a real short about a time and only |
1:07.2 | looked at tiny swaths, you are in the perfect position to definitively and authoritatively say everything that is good and lame about those countries. |
1:16.1 | That's right. |
1:17.1 | That's the topic for today. |
1:19.6 | As an American, I am unusually qualified to make these statements. |
1:24.1 | Well, it should be noted that in addition to being an American, like pretty |
1:28.1 | pretty American Americans, I would say. We have also lived in New Zealand and you have also |
1:33.0 | traveled other places. Yeah, this is actually my fifth time to Europe. Yeah, but it's crazy. |
1:40.0 | I would say a good American foundation, but also have seen a thing or two. |
1:45.1 | So you know a thing or two. |
1:46.5 | So what were the first things you noticed that were a difference of this trip? |
1:51.4 | Like if you had to squeeze into a podcast episode, just hypothetically, |
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