This is 99% invisible. I'm Roman Mars.

Throughout its reign, the British Empire stole a lot of stuff, which means a show like

stuff the British stole has an almost unlimited number of stories they can tell.

But a lot of the artifacts on display behind Glass have the same story.

People with guns came on ships and took things that didn't belong to them.

And you can only tell that story so many times.

Mark Fennell and his team at the ABC-CBC podcast,

Stuff the British Stole now in its third season are geniuses at

taking the amazing premise of their show and evolving it to tell more riveting

stories of Empire Building and Thievery that continue to surprise and infuriate and delight,

forwarding the conversation they started in 2020 in cool new ways.

The episode we're going to play for you is about a tree of all things and it just

knocked my socks off. So we're going to play that one for you and then play a conversation I had

last week with writer, presenter, and creator Mark Mark Finel about the series and its ongoing mission.

Here's Stuff the British Stoll.

What does it taste lie? It's pretty gross. Like it's not it doesn't have a bad

taste. It's just really really bitter. Like you can try some if you want.

9 a.m. on a Friday feels like a weird time to be at a bar.

It feels like I've made bad life choices.

Don't get me wrong though, it is a lovely bar.

So it's a cocktail bar, very old world sort of feel. And Charlie, are you listening to here? He's a lovely bartender.

My name is Charles Kaspin and I am a bartender.

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