Hello and welcome to When Diplomacy Fails and the latest episode of the Franco-Dutch War, my name is Zach, and if this is your first time listening to us, I hope you'll stick around. In fact, I hope you'll stick around so long that you'll listen to the other 19 episodes that came before this 20th episode. Maybe you'll check us out on social media, follow us on Twitter at WDF Podcast, like the Facebook page under the same name,

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I was feeling in need of the four shots of coffee, went into Costa Coffee. Now, I have worked

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years, but I stopped working there because I got a new job. You all know this, etc., etc. Why am I

telling you this? I don't know, but it reminded me how expensive coffee was, and I asked for a large

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