Al Murray

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Welcome to We Have Ways of Making You Talk with me, Al Murray, and him, James Holland, your Second World War podcast for all your Second World War needs.

And we're war waffling today, aren't we, Jim?

Is there any other kind of German coastal emplacement that isn't, I mean, they're all ludicrous, right?

The Channel Islands.

You swerved that very well, James.

I mean, it's so mad.

The thing is, Jim, we've often talked about...

You know, what war's about is about waste and redundancy.

If you're going to win it, right?

And so let's say you make, what is it, 45,000 Sherman chassis.

You're going to use 20,000, but you need to make 45,000 to be able to have 20,000 to deploy or whatever.

You know what I mean, right?

Or you've got to make 10,000 Spitfires to be able to use 5,000.

Waste is a fundamental part of how you go about war and how you win it.

But not like that!

Yeah, it's like they got the memo.