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Maybe thank you, Katie, for writing this episode.

I'm Simon.

I've never read this before.

That's the format of the show.

Welcome, welcome, welcome.

Let's just jump straight into it, shall we?

As we always do.

If you thought you'd heard of all the conspiracy theories that were out there, you might not have heard of this one. Indeed, I haven't, Katie. I already mentioned that. The Tartarian Empire idea

branches off into two strands, one of which is quite complicated and more interesting to history buffs

and map geeks, and the other of which is more interesting to people who like pointing and laughing in a superior fashion over totally whack job ideas.

Laughing in a superior fashion is basically my thing. So, like, in the dictionary next to that,

be me, my smug face. Very, very punchable. Who will be covering all aspects, but guess which branch will be spending more time?

On correct, it's the second one.

Yes!

Mainly because it's become known as the Q-Anon of Architecture.

All right, but also because it talks about giants.

What is this episode?

A real history of the not-reel Tartaria. Tartary, Tartaria and Tartars may be somewhat familiar

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