Gary Lineker
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And he thought, well, he said, I'm going to find a podcast about World War II.
Couldn't find one.
He said, why don't we do a podcast about World War II?
I went, we'd always just done sport.
He was working with me at the BBC Sport years ago.
And he went, yeah, yeah.
And we ended up getting...
James Holland, Tom Holland's brother, who does the rest of his history, and Al Murray, the comedian, who's absolutely wacky about, knows everything about World War II.
And that's still going to this day.
It has World War II Festival, which we have late summer every year.
It's hugely popular, does really well.
And from that... What's it called?
It's called We Have Ways of Making You Talk.
So then they had the idea of James's brother, Tom Holland...
to do one on all history.
And Tom, it took months to try and find his partner to do it with.
And in the end, I think Tony sat him down and said, if you were in a pub and you were with all your historian mates, who would you want to sit next to?
He went, Dominic.
And I think we can say the rest is history.
It's the biggest pub in the world.