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Let's hear it for the man, the myth legend Mr. Max Williams.

Hello. Hello, hello sir. I am Bim Bullen. That's Mr. Noel Brown here as well.

It is time, gentlemen, for us to explore once again

micro nations or microstates. Noel off-air Max and I were talking a bit about this concept. I have an old professor who's been off the grid for some time who wrote to me and said, hey, and I hadn't heard from for years, he said, hey, there's a difference

between a micro nation and a microstate.

Oh, what's the difference?

The difference is international recognition.

So a micro state is recognized by other countries and international bodies.

A micro nation may not have the same international credibility.

So that's the difference.

Got it.

Got it. Well, you know, I mentioned off air as well that in the original, not the original, but

the first Tim Burton Batman movie,

there's a scene where Vicky Vale is at a party at Bruce Wayne's house

walking around with her buddy from the newspaper,

looking at his like Bruce Wayne's collection of artifacts from around the world and there's like this you know kind of tribal outfit that's on display and he says something about the wicker man and then Bruce Wayne shows up and says yeah I like it I bought it and he points out to Vicky Vale that he enjoyed her photojournalism from the Corto Maltese.

And for the longest time I thought this had something to do with the Micronation of Malta.

But in fact, upon a cursory Google, the Court the

courto Maltese is a fictional South American country

that exists exclusively within the DC extended universe.

So no connection at all.

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