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All right, Stu Piracy fans.

Welcome back to the podcast.

It peels back the layers of history and gets into the weird, wild,

and often unbelievable truth. My name is Riz,

and as always, I'm joined by my partner in historical crime, Tim McCartan. What's up,

Riz? I can't wait to hear this one. I can't wait to hear what you got here. All right, so Tim,

before every stupiracy taping, I have a little pre-shirt ritual. I drink a, a pure leaf no-sugar iced tea.

I see that. Yeah, you take the edge off right before we get underway.

Take the edge off. Well, you know, pre-show rituals, pre-war rituals, you know, long and bloody history.

And today we're diving deep into a topic that sounds like it's ripped from a heavy metal

album cover, the history of soldiers getting absolutely blitzed on drugs before heading into battle.

We're calling this episode battle hardened and buzzed

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