Welcome back to Finn versus History.

Beside me is Serat.

He's gone early.

I've jumped the gun a little bit there

with a big long high. Horatio, that's Horatio Gould. And now, listen, we've had a lot of fun

on this podcast recently, but that has to stop. Yeah. It stops. It stops today. This is serious.

This is serious now.

In the last few weeks, you've had Iranian Revolution, you've had scientific racism,

you've had a fortnight on the Nazis.

Stop messing about.

Stop messing about.

This is a serious show.

Lives are at stake with this one.

This one is serious, which please stop joking around.

Today we're talking about the Renaissance.

A little bit less lighthearted than last week.

Yes.

You know, none of this kind of Holocaust frills.

Can you really make jokes about the Renaissance?

I don't think you can.

I think it's too heavier topic.

And I think the whole, I think this whole podcast will crumble this week. The Renaissance, just too many people care too much about what happened during the Renaissance. You know, it's not like the Holocaust. I don't think the Renaissance happened. You're a Renaissance tonight? Really? What Renaissance? I reckon it was like three paintings. Yeah. I reckon. I only about three paintings. Listen, if the last few weeks we've been throwing red meat to the base, the fan base, this week, it's time to eat some tofu. All right. Really, really grim, wet, slimy tofu. We've gone through the rust belt and now we're going to the swing states. Yeah. And we're just trying to, what, well, maybe go to the, you know, the states are against us. Yeah, exactly. We know we're not going to win, but we've got to go there anyway. We can't give up on democracy. We're talking about the Renaissance. This is perilously close to art history, which is, you know, to give it its proper name, lesbian history. Interesting. So not gay history.

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