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379 – Everybody Is Killing Everybody Else And Nobody Is Talking About It: Part 2

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Harold's War With England

In the eleventh century, a band of english traders who sailed up the welsh river usk. They were told by welsh officials that if they wanted to do any business along that waterway, they would have to pay a toll. However, when the welsh officer approached the traders and requested the toll, the English traders said: 'We're not paying your stupid toll either' And so reared the nephew of king griffith of wales, got involved and presumably said the eleventh-century equivalent of what seems to be the problem here. It's been a long day, so either pay the toll or leave. No, well, then you're going to have

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