This is the History of the World

podcast Illuminati De Brief. A quick episode at the end of our main episode where we talk a little bit about the

episode that you just listen to. Firstly though I'd just like to make an apology this episode is a few days late I'm sorry

about that I suppose I did have it written and then I just needed to make time to record it really but I'll tell you something

It hasn't helped with the Olympic Games at the moment.

It's been a major distraction for me and I'm guilty of procrastinating sometimes.

So, you know, sometimes if I if I've got something to do I can get

easily distracted especially if I've got to concentrate and certainly this episode was one that I really had to concentrate on it was a tough

episode to write very reminiscent of some of the earlier societal episodes so like from volume two for

example where there's a lot of speculation and supposition and I'll get to that in a moment.

In terms of the books that I've used for this episode,

once again, I don't have a huge amount in my library so I'm sort of

I'm challenging myself a bit by taking on the Southeast Asian societies because I

don't have an extensive library on these subjects.

I'm very much dependent on Arthur Copterals history of Southeast Asia and a lot of my Asian episodes of lent heavily on

Arthur Cotrell's work so I suppose I have to demonstrate an eternal greatness or an eternal

gratefulness I should say to Arthur for his work. However I'm also blessed with the wonderful world of AI now which I have

utilized this year. I never used to use it, of course, it's not really been a big thing until recently

and I've used it quite a lot on my more recent episodes and it's enabled me to find web links that are highly useful

for writing these episodes and I must admit that it really did help having co-pilot point in the right direction for certain things and

it's quite a powerful tool so I was very very impressed with

what it was able to do for me on this particular episode.

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