Empire: World History · 2025-06-25 · 43 min · 8,289 words

267. Colonising Canada: Kidnapping, Scurvy, & Fool’s Gold (Ep 1)

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Hello and welcome to Empire with me, Anita Arnan. And me, William Drimple. Why are you so perky, Anita? I'm perky. I'll tell you why I'm perky, because we're doing Canada.

And because, of course, thank you very much for all of your kind wishes. As the new Foreign Minister. The new Foreign Minister of Canada. I'm very, very pleased uh that we're doing Canada. I'm not the Foreign Minister.

I always thought you should have got the job of job of Prime Minister, but um Really? Did you? Uh can I just say William is really stirring the pot with this? There are two Anita Arlins. I am not the one who's running Canada or her father.

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