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Hello, my friends, like you here, and this is actually going to be a little bit different than what I

normally do for a lot of the podcast episodes.

So, just as a heads up from the very beginning, what is happening here is that this

is the audio for a YouTube video that I actually put out this week on the history of the

AK-47 and how it came to absolutely dominate the globe.

The reason I'm doing this here now is because with everything that began to launch on the

first from my Mongolia trip, from my merch, from the War the Barons event that I'm doing

for LARP, a lot of things ended up happening on November 1st that because of how I've had to

focus on these things, it meant that I could not get an episode

prepared in time specifically for the podcast. So even now, I'm releasing this late. I do

apologize for that in the first place, but this is still an amazing episode. And on that note,

if you want to check out my YouTube page, make sure to check out the History of Everything

podcast YouTube page. It is so much fun, and we dive into all different kinds of things with geopolitics,

weapons, tanks, and more.

For this week's patron exclusive episode, we're going to be doing a listener special.

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