Hello and welcome to the When Diplomacy Fells Special on the Thirty Years' War, episode 25.45 talk.

Kind of spur of the moment, folks, but I recently sat down with Sean and we ran through a few of the issues that you may or may not want to hear covered in some more detail on the Thirty Years War.

The episode, as you can see, is a bit long.

I didn't intend it to be this long, but hopefully you'll be able to gain some good out of it.

That's my intention anyway.

So please, put your feet up and relax as you listen to two some good out of it. That's my intention anyway. So please put your feet up and

relax as you listen to two very good friends talk about a really, really interesting period

in history. Back on the podcast and my guest as always is Sean. Say hello Sean.

Hello. It has been so, so long since we've done one of these. But I'm really excited because last time for the World War I special we made the mistake, well, debatable mistake of saving the talk episode to the very end, which was why it was two hours long.

And some people didn't really have the attention span to stick with it.

Or the patience for it.

Yeah.

So I think we should start.

We have a good bit of stuff to get through.

A lot of it's covering the last episode I just did recently and the episode before that in

October.

So it kind of condenses the most important

parts of it before so if you have missed out on those this is where you can come and just hear

some of the little parts yeah and also little you up to speed exactly and little anecdotes as

well to kind of fill in the gaps you love us come on yeah you just enjoy hearing us have banter

okay so be fit gaps. You love us. Come on. I admit it. You just enjoy hearing us have banter. Okay. So,

be fit. It's been so long since I've actually done be fit. Just, what was the before?

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