This is the Friends History Debating Society. I'm John Batcheworth, my good friend Jeremy Zackis. He's in New South Wales.

Now we're speaking of something really important, which is the trash talk for Ashes.

Now, Trash Talk ordinarily is very polite. Every once in a while, it gets a little rough when they start picking on particular performers.

But Ashes is coming up later in the year.

You would think that there's not much to say until summer.

There's everything to say because the ticket sales, early ticket sales, have gone out.

And I believe there are five five tests five different cities i

believe and that means there are tens of thousands available some of them are available for the

english team as well germany's what have we learned is it sold out yet in all five cities

well john this is the most amazing part.

What we've learned is that this ashes coming up this December and January

is the most popular ashes ever based on ticket sales.

So what happened was on Thursday,

the tickets went on sale in both here in Australia and the United Kingdom.

And that was basically an early sale.

And what happens is typically there's no, there's still tickets left over after the early

sale.

They'll go on general sale and everyone can pick them up as they need to.

But what happened, John, during this early sale was there was such a rush on tickets

that not only did they sell out, 160,000 people were still left in the queue

waiting to buy tickets online. And now for that to happen, it means that all 311,000 tickets

that were issued in that early sale had been sold. And what that means is that this Ashes

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