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Studies Abroad edition.

That's right and we you know this is about the Hillsboro disaster which was the very unfortunate and super sad and somewhat infuriating, deadly crush that happened at a English

football stadium in 1989. So we enlisted Kyle, our one writer from the UK, to put this together

for us. And he did a great job and used all the appropriate letters and terminology

and his spelling and stuff, you know?

Yeah, I was going to say no Zs throughout. They were all S's. Yeah.

Yeah, he did a wonderful job with this, summarizing like a really big, giant story that had we

done this episode, like, when when we first started it would have been

totally different because around 2015 the the public opinion the entire basically

worldview of what happened at the strategy completely flip-flopped and the truth finally

came out.

We'll get to all that, but let's, I'd say we kind of give everybody some background about

what's going on here.

The whole thing took place, like you said, in 1989 at Hillsborough Stadium.

That's in Sheffield, which is in South Yorkshire, which is a county in Yorkshire.

And normally, this is the home of Sheffield Wednesday Football Club.

That's where they play at Hillsborough.

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