It's 1938 and we are doing our first remote episode over the internet as Bobby's studio is a breeding ground for coronavirus and Red is terrified it's going to ruin his 6th attempt to go to Thailand since the pandemic. To help us we have the brilliant and young comedian Finlay Christie who despite being 22 years old we find out has been doing comedy for as long as Bobby has. In 1938 however, Sigmund Freud, founder of psychoanalysis, arrives in London, the minimum wage is established in the USA, the first Beano comic is released, gas masks are issued to the British population, Howard Hughes completes a 91 hour plane flight around the world, and politician John Prescott is born. Also the Dick of the Year for the very first time is someone on the pod!

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