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Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh, and there's Chuck and Jerry's here, too, and we're going on over to foggy Copenhagen Town.

Yeah, for this episode of stuff you should know.

That's right, because we were talking about a little sort of village neighborhood, anarchist commune in Copenhagen, Denmark, called Freetown Christiania, which was founded in 1971,

and it has a pretty interesting story.

Well, yeah.

You had me an anarchist squatter commune.

So it is.

I think there's something like 800, 900 residents there depending on who you ask. And

they just basically showed up. They set up shop in this former military base and they said,

we're not leaving. This is a free, free territory. And in fact, when you walk into Christiania,

I just want to say Christiana so bad. I know,

me too. That extra eye just throws me off. But it doesn't matter because I'm foreign to this.

I'm foreign to the people of Denmark. So I will say, I will just deal with it, right? That's right.

At any way, when you walk into Christiania, there's a sign that says you are now leaving the European Union.

Yeah, pretty cool.

So the backstory here is in the 17th century, that's the 1600s, by the way.

And Copenhagen, they built a big fortress and some ramparts there to, you know,

as protection, obviously, because that's what ramparts are.

And in the 1830s, they built in our artillery barracks there.

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