Hello there. My name is Zach Twomley and you are about to listen to the latest installment of the Franco-Dutch War.

It's a pretty interesting conflict and we hear when diplomacy fails have been covering it fairly extensively for the past few weeks.

So if this is your first time listening to the podcast, make sure to bring yourself up to speed by listening to the previous episodes.

If you don't care either way and if you're a regular listener, well, it's good to have you.

Thanks for listening to the latest episode.

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I've been very, very busy.

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