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Welcome to the History of the World Podcast.

My name is Chris. And this is the history of the world unscripted. Oh, Welcome to this special episode of the History of the World Podcast. This hasn't been written in

any way. This is just me being kind to those of you who are going to miss me for the next

couple of weeks. so I've decided just to put

together some brief podcasts just to keep you going and just to let you know I'm

still alive. The reason why there's no new episodes at the moment is just

because I have had to take a break from writing, I've got other things going on at

the moment that have taken me away from the podcast so this was somewhat planned but it's

like a break if you if you like and what I'm doing now I'm just filling in the gaps with a little bit of

information I've not written so something a bit off the cuff that I can just

put out there quickly. Well you may have heard me say during the last podcast that the History of the World Podcast has

had 11,000 listens.

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