Welcome back to Finn versus History.

I'm with Horatio Gold.

And listen, this is part four of our plunge into the Russian Revolution.

Our cold plunge.

Our cold plunge.

It's very cold.

We've been bad.

Our punishing Russian cold plunge into the revolution.

But because the only way we're going to reach enlightenment is by punishing ourselves.

Exactly.

Because the Russians...

There's only truth in pain.

Peg yourself to death for salvation. To be honest, this couple of years is a bit of a holiday in Russian history. This is some of the least painful years they have. They look back at this as a golden era. This is the golden era of Russia. Only 15 million people died in four years. Oh, Halcyon days. They're eating horses raw. Do you remember those beautiful days? You don't know, you're born. If only. You don't know, you're born. What's that? Cueing for bread, I wish. We have done a rough history of Russia up to this point. We've explained a lot of the key characters, but we are now... I'd like to just... I'd like to just... We have to remember at all times that our audience are very, very, very, very fat. Yep. But also, they're thick. Ungrateful. They're ungrateful and they're thick. Yeah. And this, I think, what we're about to delve into, 1917 in Russia, we're bitten off more than we can chew.

Definitely. Now, above our pay grade. People might think you don't really chew much on this show. This is liquid food history, which is what our listeners want. Because many of them are in care homes. Wide gullet all the way down. They don't know that this is playing on the TV. They can't stop it. So we need to be aware that they're there. this is mainly for their carers, this show.

When we talk about

1970, this is playing on the TV, they can't stop it. So we need to be aware that they're there. This is mainly for their carers, this show. When we talk about 1917, there's a, I texted you yesterday, it's essentially, the amount of stuff that happens in this year in Russia, it's like the entirety of the troubles in six months. Yes. But if before every bomb or protest, they have a 10-hour committee meeting about it.

It's a blend. It's incredibly exciting. It's 9-11 decided by local council. Yeah, it's so exciting. Every inch. It's exciting and it very boring. It's true. Yeah. It's both. It's actually, I don't think any event's been more like that in history where it's so unbelievably boring and exciting at the same time.

Yeah, simultaneously.

Something so truly exhilarating and historic and it feels like the whole of human history is turning on a knife edge in one day and then you'll have a 15 hour meeting where nothing gets to slide and it's so boring. Should we fly the second plane into the tower? Right. First Congress, now in session. What do you do about the second plane? And it takes 20 hours to decide. Well, I guess on a sort of 9-11 scale, when 9-11 happens in what, a morning, right? In space about 20 minutes. 20 minutes, 9-11. And then it's Titanic, which is like 9-11, about five hours. Yeah. Right. And then you have, I guess, the Russian Revolution where it's 9-11 that happens in about six or six or seven months. And then you have the troubles. So you should probably have a sort of scale with stretching out on 9-11. So 9-11 is T-20. And then the Titanic, I guess, is... ODI or the 100? The hundreds. And then what was the other one you said? Well, it would be Russian Revolution. Revolution is, I guess, Cup one day World Cup right right six hours about six weeks and the troubles is test cricket yeah the ashes yeah the highest form of the game the troubles but then you can also view it as like the whole of Russian history is an ultra test cricket you know because it is just the whole thing is a nine that whole history is nine long the whole thing is an ultra test cricket, you know, because it is just the whole thing is a night, the whole history is an ultra marathon, isn't it? Russian history is an ultramarathon as is reading any of their books. It's a really tough mother. Yeah, yeah. It's like, like, extremely tough, actually. Yeah. It's like a tough mudder, but you die at the end and you get beaten by Cossacks. It's a fuck mother. Yeah. And then you have to eat the Cossacks. You know, tough matter that you do with your recruitment team? Imagine that you get raped by Cossacks,

basically.

Yeah. and you get beaten by Cossacks. It's a fuck matter. And then you have to eat the Cossacks. You know tough matter that you do with your recruitment team?

Imagine that you get raped by Cossacks, basically. Yeah. And also, you're not doing it on your weekend. That's your working week. So look, let's just try. In 1917, I think it's, we must remember the people are listening. To place it. So to place 1917, first of all, this is before England won the World Cup.

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