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Hi, my name's Greg Jenner. For the past decade I've been making history funny for kids

on the BBC's award-winning horrible histories, and now I'd like to do it for you.

Your debt to me is a new history podcast for people who don't like history, or at least

people who forgot to learn any at school. In each of our episodes I'm joined by a top-notch

comedian and an expert historian to rummage through the most fascinating things that you

should know about the global past.

You've got a law here saying, which is can do things with this power of theirs. They can kill,

they can harm. Was there some way that women were becoming more powerful, that that made

that patriarchy sassy panic? She should be a historian, I'm sorry.

There's certainly a period in which the patriarchy is becoming very anxious.

There used to be a village, and there was a pig's blood. It's always a pig's blood.

And every, like, May, I don't know, bank holiday, a pig's blood gets thrown into the town centre.

Did you sit like this in like, on the town square, a one half of the village wrestle for

it against the other half of the village, and it's like, and then football was born.

I think that was enough for me. I was like, oh yeah, pig's blood, and the town square.

And like, as like a nine year old you'd be like, and that makes sense. And then that's kind

of where my brain stopped, and then suddenly it's Italian 90. You're going to go, you're

going to go, the pig's blood, we win the World Cup in 66, and then it's Italian 90.

Okay, let's go.

You missed a few steps, step.

But it's not bad, it's not a bit of a thought.

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