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This is Lightly Used with Adam and Karen.
We're nottogether this episode - it's weird!
You mean you've dumped me?
No, you're on the other side of the screen, we're recording remotely!

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I'm on my sofa, you're on your sofa, and the reason for that is because I've had a horrendous chest infection for the last two weeks and I'm absolutely buggered.

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Because it's nearly Christmas, we're being sensible and not poisoning anyone else with my dirty germs.

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Because I'm going to see my famiily in a few days - though my niece probably already has germs she's caught from school...
Kids are petri dishes! You can tell we're not parents!

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They're a breeding ground for germs! A drain on your resources! Elf on the shelf - fuck that!
Speakng of Elf on the Shelf - I did like Tom's video!
I told him some things I wanted to see in there.

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Tom's video was really good - I did text him afterward & tell him he's a psycopath though!
I told him some things I wanted to see in there.
While cheering on, oh, will he do this?

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Is this happening?

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Double tap.

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Have a look at the Studio:Channel 84 for YouTube channel

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for what we're talking about.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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It's only like two and a half minutes,

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but it's revenge on-

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Therapy for parents everywhere.

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Yes, very much.

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So therapy.

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And even for people who aren't parents,

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because I can't stand elf on the shelf.

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Before we forget to do anything this episode,

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I want to get this out the way.

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coming up today...

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Oh, right.

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I thought you were getting all serious then.

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I am.

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We've got 13 episodes in,

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and we've only ever said what's coming up on the show twice.

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Was that the first episode and the last one?

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Yeah.

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I think so.

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I'm trying to remember, did we even do it

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in the first episode?

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God knows.

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Johnny Turnip from Friends,

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encounter the Necromancer in Lightly Used News.

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We've got Tat in the Box,

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where we are going to try and remotely do this.

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We've exchanged items in a box,

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which are apparently gift wrapped.

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Yes.

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I've definitely gift wrapped mine.

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Yes, and I definitely-

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A bit too much in fact.

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I gift wrapped?

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Oh God.

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I definitely gift wrapped the one that's in my box.

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It's in your house.

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So we're going to try and work out what we're unwrapping

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from each other.

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We're not gifting them to each other.

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No, I want my back.

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Oh, they're treasured tat items.

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You're not having that.

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It's fine, you're not keeping it.

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We're going to take 10 minutes to try and play a game.

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It's a very lightly used game.

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That's all I'm defining it as today.

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It's definitely not charity shop sourced.

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I've had it for about a decade in a cupboard.

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And we end with lightly used book in Bibliotat.

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Before that though, you've got a festive new segment.

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I have got a festive news.

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Well, I've got a whole new segment,

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but we're going to start off with a festive one.

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So welcome to Karen's Factitious Corner,

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Random and Weird Welsh Christmas Traditions.

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Please forgive me for any Welsh pronunciation.

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Apologies.

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Gŵyl San Steffan or St Stephen's Day,

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most commonly known in the UK as Boxing Day.

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A previously common, but not so much now tradition,

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thankfully, is holly beating.

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So this is where young men and boys of the villages

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would gather holly branches and beat the arms and legs

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of young females until they bled.

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I'm not quite sure how the custom came about,

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What an idea of how it ended.

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and I could not find any meaning behind it.

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for boys who fancied girls to do the mean thing

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because that's what kids do when they fancy each other.

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They bully each other.

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That's how we show affection.

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Yes, we're mean to you.

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We like you really.

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Fact number two, at Wassling with the Mari Lwyd.

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Oh yeah, it's a good one.

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This is a good one.

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I like this one.

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It's my favorite one.

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So this is an ancient South Waelian tradition

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that has had a resurgence in recent years.

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I've not seen this around my neck.

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In other words, I'll be honest.

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Well, you don't really live in a village.

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I'm in a rural council area.

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I bet if you were more rural.

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I have a rural council in charge.

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I have to pay my taxes.

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Yeah, you have a rural council.

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Like I have a city council.

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There's a farm across the road.

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Yeah, there is actually.

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Yeah, I suppose you are like.

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You're just leaving me.

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You are edging rural.

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Rural edging.

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I don't like the sound of that.

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Is that a different thing?

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I believe it is.

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that is usually carried on a long pole

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by a person under a cloak.

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they will just use the gray horse and stick a sheet over it.

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with a gaggle of wassalers or wassailers.

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The wassalers knock on the doors in the villages

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between Christmas day and the 12th night.

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And they engage in rhyming ritual called pwnco,

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that's P-W-N-C-O, in exchange for food and beer.

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So you go around knocking on people's doors,

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challenge them to a rhyming ritual.

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And if you win, they have to feed and drink you, no.

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So it's like a battle rap from door to door.

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Christmas rap, battle Welsh style.

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Oh dear, right, okay.

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Last but one, so the winter swim.

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This is not something I am ever gonna partake in

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unless forced to.

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Polar bear sort of thing.

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you will find groups of absolute lunatics

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dressed as Santa or whatever they fancy festive.

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I don't know why.

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The water temperature around South Wales at Christmas time

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averages about four degrees,

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which I think probably gives you about 10 minutes

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in the water before you start getting hypothermia.

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So it's probably not the most sensible thing to do,

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but people seem to enjoy it.

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There's a massive one in Porthcawl every year and in Tenby.

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I never intend to participate.

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And then the last tradition is technically not just Wales.

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You know, lots of people like Mistletoe.

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Mistletoe was considered so sacred

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that it could only be cut or harvested by druids

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with a golden sickle.

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The plant represented peace.

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People who met underneath it were forbidden from fighting,

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even if they were mortal enemies.

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You can't, the tree said so.

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Yeah, yeah, the tree said, oh God, be nice.

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They said they were here.

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Homes decorated with it offered protection.

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you'll rarely find Mistletoe in a church.

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You have the Cliff Richard song.

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Yeah, well, I mean, Mistletoe and wine,

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I guess that is pretty Christmas.

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Christmas time, Mistletoe & wine
Children singing, Christian rhyme

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But I was also gonna say, Mistletoe is a parasitic plant.

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It does not grow on its own soil of its own volition.

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It hugs trees and eats their nutrients in order to grow.

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I think it's quite poisonous or toxic as well.

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Yeah, I definitely wouldn't recommend eating the berries

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or getting any of the juicy juice on you.

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It's not very good.

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Sure, we can pick a better plant for this in modern times.

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Ponsettia.

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That's come up so much in the last couple of years.

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From Mexico, you know.

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Yeah, I heard that recently, actually.

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Funny you should say that.

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I've heard that for the third time now in as many weeks.

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My mum used to get a Ponsettia every year.

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I don't know if she still does,

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but yeah, we always had at least one on the fireplace,

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bright red.

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Yeah, lovely.

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So that is the end of Karen's first edition

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of Karen's Factitious Corner or KFC for short.

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I wanted to chime in with some from the Metro.

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Quirky?

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So many articles at the moment doing this.

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Quirky Christmas traditions around the world.

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Yay, go for it.

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Overuse of the word quirky.

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It's just what they do.

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Christ, I'm Welsh.

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Quirky to the rest of the country.

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...and I think parading a horse skull around is fucking weird.

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It's not as fun as burning a big goat though, straw goat.

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It's not meant to be burnt, don't encourage people.

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I'm sorry.
...of Norway?..

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Anyway, give us your quirky facts, love.

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...or Sweden?.

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Sweden

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it's a witchy old woman who bestows children

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with gifts on January the 5th,

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like we're packing up the Christmas decorations

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ahead of 'epiphany'.

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I think it's just, look at the state of this place,

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the trees shedding needles, is that the epiphany?

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My fucking feet coming into the lounge.

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Let's get rid of this thing.

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I knew I was gonna research something, pronunciation.

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She's been referred to as the...Vecchia?. 
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How many Cs?

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C-C.

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Vecchia.
(Karen pronounces 've-chee-a')

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Vecchia?

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Vecchia, yeah.

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Old woman.

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The Stria - witch, and the Pasquetta - little Easter.

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Oh.

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Again, pronunciation?

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In Norway, hiding broomsticks in cupboards.

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Their folklore tradition.

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And Norwegian stories suggest that witches

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and evil spirits emerge on Christmas Eve to steal brooms.

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So Norwegian families hide them away in cupboards

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to avoid the witch's wrath.

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Witches can't open cupboards, obviously.

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I guess not.

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Or have, is it Alohamora to open the door?

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I don't know, I don't talk Harry Potter.

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That's one of the first ones in the books.

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Yeah, I think, or is that the films?

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Yeah, no, I think you might be right.

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One of my favorites, Krampus.

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Yeah, it's the scary German demon.

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Yes, love it.

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It's the German, Hungarian, and Austrian children.

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Ooh.

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This creature that, other than Santa,

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deals with naughty children, the devil-like Krampus.

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Frightens poorly-behaved kids.

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Sometimes throws them into his sack.

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In Austria, people often dress up as him in early December

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and scare children on the streets.

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Yes.

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There was, somewhere in Germany recently,

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a big Krampus street festival.

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Oh yeah.

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And they did like, you know, floats and stuff,

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and people all in their big demon costumes,

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and things, it looks amazing.

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I'd love to see it,

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but I think I'd probably have nightmares for a week.

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But I would also like to see the stats

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to find out if there are better-behaved kids there than us.

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There are definitely better-educated.

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Do we need the Krampus here?

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Maybe, we've got the Grinch.

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I did ask Tom and Rob to investigate for me,

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so their episode hasn't come out yet.

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Ah, that's true.

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We'll see how they got on.

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Why isn't he well popular here?

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Christmas cryptid information.

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Finally, for the Metro article,

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in Venezuela, roller skating to Christmas mess.

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Las patinatas...patin-atas?.

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Patinatas.

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It translates to 'the skating'.

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I should have,

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I definitely should have checked these translations.

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You should have gone to Google, yeah.

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Just play what that sounds like.

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I'll write the phonetic.

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Yeah, I read a story about that one

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when I was looking up my Welsh facts.

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It just came up in an article,

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and I was like, oh, that's quite cool.

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That's a fairly recent one, the skating.

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Dates back to the 1950s,

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involves people roller skating all night.

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They're making their way to church for a five or six AM mass

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from the 16th to 24th of December.

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I thought you were gonna say a five or six hour mass then.

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What do you mean, like, bloody hell?

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Throw that skating and be asleep.

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You're getting the early one.

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I also asked you to do a Christmasy thing.

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What's your earliest Christmas memory

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as my festive contribution to the show!

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Yeah, so I've been thinking about this really hard,

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and I don't actually know.

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So I've got two

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that are probably similar ages.

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So the first one was when I thought I was getting a pound puppy,

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but I got on My Pet Monster instead.

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That's an excellent trade-off.

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It is now.

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I guess, at least your heart was really, really set,

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I'm guessing.

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As a six or seven year old obsessed with pound puppies,

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there was a particular one I wanted as well.

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But to be honest, I made a massive mistake

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of not actually telling my parents

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and assuming they were psychic, it would know.

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But it was the year that My Pet Monsters came out.

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It was 1986 maybe.

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And I got the big blue one from the advert

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with the orange handcuffs.

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Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

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I made it in the middle of the race.

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He was a hand puppet as well.

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So you could make him say things

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as well as bite your smaller siblings.

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He had a big snaggle tooth, which I quite appreciated.

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And my sister and her friends had some pound puppies.

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I'm trying to which two there was.

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There was a sort of shaggy sheep dog,

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like the Jim Henson storyteller dog puppet

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with the gray wooly strand looking one.

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And I think there was a brown and white spotty one.

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Okay.

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There were only two pound puppies I can remember.

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I think my sister and one of her friends had one each.

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Yeah, they were very popular.

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I did love my pound puppies.

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But yeah, sorry, mum and dad.

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Initially I was really disappointed at the My Pet Monster,

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but I've come to love him over the last 30 odd years.

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And I am sorry.

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I was an ungrateful child.

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And my second Christmas memory is when I got my first camera.

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And it was a little red and black.

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I think it was a Kodak, although I might be wrong.

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I'm sure dad would be able to correct me.

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And the back opened out

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and it had like the binocular shaped reels of film in.

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Yeah, and I loved that.

343
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It was great.

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And dad was really into his photography

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and always has been.

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Winded up.

347
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Love the little wind down.

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And then it had an automatic rewind, which was very fancy.

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So yeah, and I loved that.

351
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I took hundreds of photos on that.

352
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Yeah, it was great.

353
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And those are my two kind of Christmas memories

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that really sort of cropped up.

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So your turn.

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I'm the one that's stuck with me.

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I can't remember if my sister was born yet.

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She's about three years younger than me,

359
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but we did move out to this particular house

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when I was about six.

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So we'll set that as a ceiling.

362
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I was six or less.

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Okay.

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I found my main Christmas present in my parents wardrobe.

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What were you doing going around sneaking

366
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about in your parents bedroom, you bad child?

367
00:15:35,340 --> 00:15:39,340
My sister and I, we were really nosy kids.

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It was a yellow pedal car.

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It looked like an AA Range Rover.

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Oh, awesome.

371
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Pretty sure.

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It had a little trailer with toy tools on it as well.

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I've got a memory of being told off for finding it,

374
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rightly so.

375
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Yes.

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Like you did.

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Yes.

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Well done, mum and dad.

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But my memory of being told off also includes being told

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it's not mine or it's for somebody else.

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And obviously a month or two later, it clearly wasn't.

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Like Mulder's poster...except about Santa.

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I want to believe.

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Yeah, Santa gave me that.

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Yeah, Santa put it in mum and dad's wardrobe

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three months ago.

387
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I was kind of compartmentalised

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that I saw it a few months ago.

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He just does early deliveries.

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There's a lot of children to go around to in one night.

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No one's that magic.

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And when I was much older, I think I was a teenager,

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or not quite a teenager maybe,

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one of my mates who lived in the other street from me

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saw my main Christmas present before I did.

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Because it was a mountain bike

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that my parents had kept in my grandparents' house -

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 - or in their shed - who lived round the other street.

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So my mate saw my parents going round,

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they're getting it out of their shed,

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taking it into their, loading it up into their car

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and then bringing it around.

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So he knew exactly what I'd be getting

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the evening before.

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00:17:06,700 --> 00:17:08,340
That's fantastic.

406
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He didn't tell me, obviously phones weren't around then.

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I was going to say, can you imagine,

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text message immediately.

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I was like, Adam, Adam, you've got a bike for Christmas!

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You're getting that snazzy mountain bike.

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00:17:19,420 --> 00:17:21,260
Although I knew what I was getting for Christmas that year

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00:17:21,260 --> 00:17:22,100
as well, to be honest,

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00:17:22,100 --> 00:17:25,060
because my parents took me to the bike shop

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to ask me which of these mountain bikes I would like
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Yeah, fair enough.

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Wasn't exactly a surprise.

417
00:17:31,180 --> 00:17:32,020
No.

418
00:17:32,020 --> 00:17:34,780
Well, it's still nice to get a bit of freedom,

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which is what wheels give you.

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Before we move on to lightly used news,

421
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not quite corrections.

422
00:17:42,420 --> 00:17:43,260
Okay.

423
00:17:43,260 --> 00:17:44,500
We just forgot to give a time

424
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for the Rubik's race last episode.

425
00:17:46,500 --> 00:17:48,660
It was one minute, one second.

426
00:17:48,660 --> 00:17:51,660
It took you one minute and one second to beat me.

427
00:17:51,660 --> 00:17:52,500
Yeah.

428
00:17:52,500 --> 00:17:53,580
I need a rematch.

429
00:17:53,580 --> 00:17:56,220
And also because this is an audio format,

430
00:17:56,220 --> 00:17:59,380
I completely forgot to show the shaker to the camera

431
00:17:59,380 --> 00:18:03,700
to show the pattern that we were meant to complete.

432
00:18:03,700 --> 00:18:06,700
Let's see, yeah, but I reckon if you'd have picked it up

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00:18:06,700 --> 00:18:09,620
and tilted it, it would have changed the pattern again anyway.

434
00:18:09,620 --> 00:18:11,300
So have you put the video up?

435
00:18:11,300 --> 00:18:13,500
Yeah, it's on the show blog as well.

436
00:18:13,500 --> 00:18:14,340
Oh, cool.

437
00:18:14,340 --> 00:18:15,180
Excellent.

438
00:18:15,180 --> 00:18:19,700
Oh, well, check out lightlyused.co.uk and YouTube.

439
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It's in the blog post for episode 12.

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00:18:21,700 --> 00:18:22,540
Yay.

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00:18:22,540 --> 00:18:24,780
And last episode's bibliotat,

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the My Little Pony annual 1990.

443
00:18:27,060 --> 00:18:27,900
Mm-hmm.

444
00:18:27,900 --> 00:18:29,900
Also not on the internet archive.

445
00:18:29,900 --> 00:18:30,940
You said we could find some books....

446
00:18:30,940 --> 00:18:31,780
No way.

447
00:18:31,780 --> 00:18:34,380
Books inadvertently I had on the episode that...

448
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I wonder if it's because it's incredibly racist

449
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and insensitive.

450
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It's not *incredibly*, it's just very specifically

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in one story.

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Really dressing a boy pony up as a cowboy

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living in a wigwam.

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The very least culturally insensitive.

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In this episode of Lightly Used News,

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00:19:02,180 --> 00:19:04,940
Abergavenny man claims he was spiked

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by a psychic called Steve.

460
00:19:07,300 --> 00:19:09,940
From Tim Butters, in the Abergavenny Chronicle

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on Monday the 27th of May.

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I'm laughing already.

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An Abergavenny man who just wanted to kill some pigs

464
00:19:18,660 --> 00:19:20,380
in the forest of Dean has alleged that

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the illegal hunt went sideways after he and his friends

466
00:19:23,140 --> 00:19:26,460
had their whiskey spiked with acid by psychic called Steve.

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00:19:27,580 --> 00:19:30,940
Originally, Indiana Jenkins told us Steve was a necromancer,

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explained semi-professional long distance runner,

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00:19:33,260 --> 00:19:35,740
Johnny Turnip, and that we needed his blessing

470
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to hunt wild boar or risk the seventh torment.

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Turnip added, to be honest, we thought Indy was a clown,

472
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but we were a bunch of Welsh boys in English forest

473
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and you know, funny they can get on that side of the border.

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We decided not to upset the natives,

475
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and get the boss wizard's blessing.

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Turnip revealed that as they approached the magic man's lair,

477
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things began to go a little pear shaped.

478
00:19:56,220 --> 00:19:59,220
Suddenly, I began talking all flowery like some sort of

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00:19:59,220 --> 00:20:01,860
perfumed ponce who'd  just necked a bottle of opium,

480
00:20:01,860 --> 00:20:02,700
explained Turnip.

481
00:20:03,700 --> 00:20:05,260
Big Tony had it worse.

482
00:20:05,260 --> 00:20:07,380
He started barking like a dog and cocking his leg

483
00:20:07,380 --> 00:20:09,020
on nearby trees.

484
00:20:09,020 --> 00:20:11,260
Meanwhile, Puerto Rico Paul began doing the river dance

485
00:20:11,260 --> 00:20:13,180
while reciting nursery rhymes.

486
00:20:13,180 --> 00:20:16,380
Indy was busting aggressive yoga moves like a new age mum.

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Turnip explained, maybe he'd warned us the necromancer

488
00:20:21,380 --> 00:20:23,380
would probably put some sort of weird spell on us

489
00:20:23,380 --> 00:20:26,380
as we approached his cabin and his prediction proved right.

490
00:20:26,380 --> 00:20:28,980
However, after downing half a bottle of whiskey

491
00:20:28,980 --> 00:20:30,780
to counter the magician's influence,

492
00:20:30,780 --> 00:20:33,580
I had that familiar feeling you get when a bad trip wears off

493
00:20:33,580 --> 00:20:36,780
and realized this was no spell, it was the purple haze.

494
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We'd been spiked, Turnip added.

495
00:20:39,180 --> 00:20:41,380
I quickly worked out 

496
00:20:43,020 --> 00:20:44,180
that Indy must have been in league

497
00:20:44,180 --> 00:20:46,380
with the necromancer

498
00:20:46,380 --> 00:20:47,780
and dropped a few tabs into the bottle of whiskey

499
00:20:47,780 --> 00:20:49,580
we shared the previous night.

500
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Thing is, the dozy tart had gone and spiked himself.

501
00:20:52,180 --> 00:20:55,580
But I suppose he had to for the scam to be plausible.

502
00:20:55,580 --> 00:20:58,980
Anyhow, I now had this David Blaine wannabe's number

503
00:20:58,980 --> 00:21:00,380
and leaving the boys to their trip,

504
00:21:00,380 --> 00:21:03,780
I knocked on the door of his cabin, ready to go to war.

505
00:21:03,780 --> 00:21:06,980
Turnip revealed that when the necromancer finally appeared

506
00:21:06,980 --> 00:21:08,580
from behind a cloud of coloured smoke

507
00:21:08,580 --> 00:21:11,780
and puffing on his vape, he instantly recognized him.

508
00:21:11,780 --> 00:21:15,980
This is no magi or High Priest of the Dark Arts, explained Turnip.

509
00:21:15,980 --> 00:21:17,580
It was Steve the Psychic.

510
00:21:17,580 --> 00:21:18,980
He's a run of spiritualist night

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00:21:18,980 --> 00:21:20,780
down at the Maerdy village hall every Thursday

512
00:21:20,780 --> 00:21:23,780
before he mysteriously disappeared like a thief in the night.

513
00:21:23,780 --> 00:21:25,980
Some say he'd taken out one too many payday loans

514
00:21:25,980 --> 00:21:27,580
to fund his online gambling addiction

515
00:21:27,580 --> 00:21:29,380
and needed to do a vanishing act.

516
00:21:29,380 --> 00:21:32,180
But if he needed to lay low in a place no one ever goes,

517
00:21:32,180 --> 00:21:33,980
why not choose Telgarth?

518
00:21:33,980 --> 00:21:35,780
Turnip explained that when Steve appeared,

519
00:21:35,780 --> 00:21:38,580
he was still very much into his necromancer's act

520
00:21:38,580 --> 00:21:41,180
and hadn't realized his ruse had been rumbled.

521
00:21:41,180 --> 00:21:41,980
He added,

522
00:21:41,980 --> 00:21:44,780
As the smoke cleared, I saw his weasel-like face

523
00:21:44,780 --> 00:21:46,580
smirk at Tone, Paul and Indy,

524
00:21:46,580 --> 00:21:49,180
who were valiantly fighting off the effects of their trip.

525
00:21:49,180 --> 00:21:51,580
I simply gazed at him, all cool and stony-faced,

526
00:21:51,580 --> 00:21:54,380
like Michael Corleone in The Godfather, and I said,

527
00:21:54,380 --> 00:21:58,580
I know it was you, Steve. It was always you.

528
00:21:58,580 --> 00:21:59,980
He just looked at me all haughty,

529
00:21:59,980 --> 00:22:01,980
like he'd never done tarot card readings for a fiver

530
00:22:01,980 --> 00:22:04,180
in a caravan at the steam rally, and said,

531
00:22:04,180 --> 00:22:07,180
Well, well, well, if it isn't Potato Bill,

532
00:22:07,180 --> 00:22:09,580
Portugal Polly and Little John.

533
00:22:09,580 --> 00:22:12,780
I just tried not to laugh, stood my ground and replied,

534
00:22:12,780 --> 00:22:14,180
You know our names, Steve.

535
00:22:14,180 --> 00:22:17,180
It's Johnny Turnip, Puerto Rico Paul and Big Tony.

536
00:22:17,180 --> 00:22:18,180
Turnip explained,

537
00:22:18,180 --> 00:22:21,180
He just pulled this tired comical expression and snarled,

538
00:22:21,180 --> 00:22:23,580
Because those names are a lot less comical, aren't they,

539
00:22:23,580 --> 00:22:25,380
my wandering anus?

540
00:22:25,380 --> 00:22:29,380
I ignored his pathetic attempts at humour and warned him,

541
00:22:29,380 --> 00:22:30,580
Laugh it up, dickhead.

542
00:22:30,580 --> 00:22:32,380
When Tone stops thinking he's a dog,

543
00:22:32,380 --> 00:22:33,980
you're in a world of trouble, pal.

544
00:22:33,980 --> 00:22:35,180
He's never liked you.

545
00:22:35,180 --> 00:22:36,780
He may forgive you for telling his missus

546
00:22:36,780 --> 00:22:38,380
the spirits said he was wrong un',

547
00:22:38,380 --> 00:22:41,980
but when you spiked his drink, you crossed the Rubicon.

548
00:22:41,980 --> 00:22:43,180
Why did you do it, Steve?

549
00:22:43,180 --> 00:22:44,980
What are you playing at?

550
00:22:44,980 --> 00:22:47,980
As I talked, Big Tony began making his weird whimpering sounds

551
00:22:47,980 --> 00:22:50,980
like my old bitch Kipper used to do every time there was a thunderstorm.

552
00:22:50,980 --> 00:22:51,980
To make matters worse,

553
00:22:51,980 --> 00:22:53,980
Puerto Rico Paul moved on from the river dance

554
00:22:53,980 --> 00:22:55,780
and was hopping around on one foot muttering,

555
00:22:55,780 --> 00:22:57,180
If both feet touched the ground,

556
00:22:57,180 --> 00:22:59,380
the devil and his legions would claim him.

557
00:22:59,380 --> 00:23:00,380
I shouted,

558
00:23:00,380 --> 00:23:01,980
Would you two tarts cut it out?

559
00:23:01,980 --> 00:23:04,180
Anyone would have thought you'd never done 'shrooms before?

560
00:23:04,180 --> 00:23:05,180
This is no spell.

561
00:23:05,180 --> 00:23:06,380
It's the purple haze.

562
00:23:06,380 --> 00:23:07,380
You're trippin'.

563
00:23:07,380 --> 00:23:08,980
This bastard spiked us.

564
00:23:08,980 --> 00:23:11,980
I said, well, pointing theatrically at Steve the psychic.

565
00:23:11,980 --> 00:23:14,580
Now get the whiskey from the bag and man up.

566
00:23:14,580 --> 00:23:15,580
Turnip explained.

567
00:23:15,580 --> 00:23:18,980
As the boys in Indy started necking the spirits and feeling better,

568
00:23:18,980 --> 00:23:20,580
I turned to Steve and said,

569
00:23:20,580 --> 00:23:21,780
I'll ask you again.

570
00:23:21,780 --> 00:23:23,580
Why do you put acid our whiskey, dude?

571
00:23:23,580 --> 00:23:26,780
That's a bit uncivilized, even for a necromancer.

572
00:23:26,780 --> 00:23:27,780
This time around,

573
00:23:27,780 --> 00:23:30,780
the Sturm and Drang seemed to leave Steve completely.

574
00:23:30,780 --> 00:23:32,780
He dropped his act and sighed.

575
00:23:32,780 --> 00:23:35,180
Okay, lads, he said.

576
00:23:35,180 --> 00:23:36,180
You've got me.

577
00:23:36,180 --> 00:23:37,980
I'm sorry it had to be this way.

578
00:23:37,980 --> 00:23:40,780
But after consulting with the arch wizard Earl Elderflower

579
00:23:40,780 --> 00:23:43,180
about the prophecy of the Three Unwise Men

580
00:23:43,180 --> 00:23:46,380
and confirming that Indy was indeed 500 years old,

581
00:23:46,380 --> 00:23:47,980
I had no choice.

582
00:23:47,980 --> 00:23:52,780
Men have been seeking the gift of immortality and eternal life since time began.

583
00:23:52,780 --> 00:23:55,780
And when I found the Hapless Three promised to end the curse,

584
00:23:55,780 --> 00:23:56,980
we're lost in the woods.

585
00:23:56,980 --> 00:24:01,380
I knew the gift of ages was but a stone's throw away.

586
00:24:01,380 --> 00:24:02,780
Turnip said,

587
00:24:02,780 --> 00:24:05,180
I just looked at him and tried to think of something clever to say,

588
00:24:05,180 --> 00:24:07,580
but all I could think of was...

589
00:24:07,580 --> 00:24:08,980
Oh.

590
00:24:08,980 --> 00:24:12,980
To be honest, I was dead on my feet.

591
00:24:12,980 --> 00:24:16,380
Lack of sleep, booze and acid had taken their toll.

592
00:24:16,380 --> 00:24:18,980
All I wanted was a pork pie and a place to rest my bones,

593
00:24:18,980 --> 00:24:20,980
but once again,

594
00:24:20,980 --> 00:24:25,780
I feared that somehow me and the boys were being called upon to save the world.

595
00:24:25,780 --> 00:24:27,180
To be continued.

596
00:24:27,180 --> 00:24:29,180
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Brilliant!

597
00:24:29,180 --> 00:24:32,180
It would now normally be time for...

598
00:24:32,180 --> 00:24:33,580
Tat in the Box.

599
00:24:33,580 --> 00:24:39,580
However, as we are doing this in a slightly festive way,

600
00:24:39,580 --> 00:24:41,780
I'm going to change the jingle.

601
00:24:41,780 --> 00:24:43,180
To...

602
00:24:43,180 --> 00:24:45,180
Wrap up your tat, wrap up your tat.

603
00:24:45,180 --> 00:24:47,580
Wrap up your tat, wrap up your tat.

604
00:24:47,580 --> 00:24:50,180
Wrap up your tat, wrap up your tat.

605
00:24:50,180 --> 00:24:53,180
Wrap up your tat, wrap up your tat.

606
00:24:53,180 --> 00:24:53,580
Wrap up your tat, wrap up your tat.

607
00:24:53,580 --> 00:24:55,180
Welcome to...

608
00:24:55,180 --> 00:24:57,180
Wrap up your tat.

609
00:24:57,180 --> 00:24:59,180
Welcome to... Wrap up your tat.

610
00:24:59,180 --> 00:25:02,180
So you have any claps at the end this time?

611
00:25:02,180 --> 00:25:05,180
No, I still got them wrong and do you know I was going through this in my brain last night?

612
00:25:05,180 --> 00:25:08,180
This was an original song so you can have as many claps in there as you like.

613
00:25:08,180 --> 00:25:10,180
That's true, that is true.

614
00:25:10,180 --> 00:25:11,180
But yeah, I was going through it.

615
00:25:11,180 --> 00:25:15,180
I was honestly trying to fall asleep last night and I was singing it in my head,

616
00:25:15,180 --> 00:25:18,180
time in the cup, and I still can't get it right.

617
00:25:18,180 --> 00:25:21,180
Honestly, it was going through my mind for like an hour.

618
00:25:21,180 --> 00:25:26,180
But also, and the reason why I was thinking about that is because yesterday

619
00:25:26,180 --> 00:25:32,180
and the day before, all I've had stuck in my head is 'four lights and a Cardassian disco ball'.

620
00:25:32,180 --> 00:25:36,180
I cannot get just about one particular line out of my head.

621
00:25:36,180 --> 00:25:42,180
So yeah, I tried to distract myself with a new jingle but I clearly didn't do any good.

622
00:25:42,180 --> 00:25:48,180
Well, I've still kept the tat in the box. I'm not taking it out yet.

623
00:25:48,180 --> 00:25:50,180
No, your tat is in your box.

624
00:25:50,180 --> 00:25:52,180
Oh, there's still tat in the box.

625
00:25:52,180 --> 00:25:53,180
There is still...

626
00:25:53,180 --> 00:25:54,180
You can do two jingles.

627
00:25:54,180 --> 00:25:56,180
Wrapped tat in a box, tat in a box.

628
00:25:56,180 --> 00:25:58,180
No, that's it, that's enough.

629
00:25:58,180 --> 00:26:00,180
Right, okay, no one...

630
00:26:00,180 --> 00:26:04,180
I'm going to have some fun this time without singing

631
00:26:04,180 --> 00:26:07,180
and without having to time the claps.

632
00:26:07,180 --> 00:26:09,180
Are you going to jingle?

633
00:26:09,180 --> 00:26:14,180
I have no sense of rhythm or pacing, not even on the ones and threes.

634
00:26:14,180 --> 00:26:16,180
Oh dear.

635
00:26:16,180 --> 00:26:19,180
Okay, should we go for it?

636
00:26:19,180 --> 00:26:20,180
You get to go first.

637
00:26:20,180 --> 00:26:21,180
I get to go first.

638
00:26:21,180 --> 00:26:22,180
Ladies first.

639
00:26:22,180 --> 00:26:24,180
You still have to close your eyes.

640
00:26:24,180 --> 00:26:27,180
Oh, but it's wrapped.

641
00:26:27,180 --> 00:26:29,180
Well, whilst you're unwrapping it.

642
00:26:29,180 --> 00:26:31,180
Oh, right, yeah, no, okay, fair enough.

643
00:26:31,180 --> 00:26:33,180
Christ heavy.

644
00:26:33,180 --> 00:26:34,180
Yeah, be careful.

645
00:26:34,180 --> 00:26:36,180
I'm not going to break it, am I?

646
00:26:36,180 --> 00:26:39,180
Don't put it down too... If you drop it, you will.

647
00:26:39,180 --> 00:26:48,180
Right, it feels like it's made out of pot, not weed - pottery, ceramic I should have said.

648
00:26:48,180 --> 00:26:54,180
Okay, so this is very nice white wrapping paper with red snowflakes and dots on it.

649
00:26:54,180 --> 00:27:00,180
I'll move it a little bit far away from the mic so you don't get too much crackly crackly.

650
00:27:00,180 --> 00:27:02,180
It's quite cold.

651
00:27:02,180 --> 00:27:10,180
It's quite firm.

652
00:27:10,180 --> 00:27:16,180
Some sort of base thing is going on there.

653
00:27:16,180 --> 00:27:20,180
There is definitely a way up at its stand.

654
00:27:20,180 --> 00:27:24,180
I'm probably going to open it upside down, but anyway, I'm going to go for it.

655
00:27:24,180 --> 00:27:26,180
On touchy feely in the paper.

656
00:27:26,180 --> 00:27:29,180
That's the right way up, you've got it there.

657
00:27:29,180 --> 00:27:30,180
Yes.

658
00:27:30,180 --> 00:27:32,180
Fat at the bottom, thin at the top.

659
00:27:32,180 --> 00:27:34,180
Just how everyone likes it.

660
00:27:34,180 --> 00:27:36,180
It won't break if you don't keep it that orientation.

661
00:27:36,180 --> 00:27:39,180
Oh, okay, and now I need to close my eyes.

662
00:27:39,180 --> 00:27:41,180
All right, okay, so I'm closing my eyes.

663
00:27:41,180 --> 00:27:44,180
As long as you're throwing it around towards the top, you'll be fine.

664
00:27:44,180 --> 00:27:48,180
Can you confirm over camera that my eyes are closed?

665
00:27:48,180 --> 00:27:50,180
Tilt your head forward a bit for reflection.

666
00:27:50,180 --> 00:27:52,180
There we go, yes, yes.

667
00:27:52,180 --> 00:27:54,180
Crunch closed.

668
00:27:54,180 --> 00:27:57,180
Unwrapping.

669
00:27:57,180 --> 00:27:59,180
Trying not to open my eyes.

670
00:27:59,180 --> 00:28:03,180
How many layers is this in?

671
00:28:03,180 --> 00:28:05,180
A whole roll of paper?

672
00:28:05,180 --> 00:28:08,180
I wish I had kept some of that for my niece's present.

673
00:28:08,180 --> 00:28:13,180
I'm still going with that it feels like it's made out of ceramic.

674
00:28:13,180 --> 00:28:15,180
It's very cold.

675
00:28:15,180 --> 00:28:17,180
Could be glass, I suppose.

676
00:28:17,180 --> 00:28:20,180
I know I have wrecked this bit of paper.

677
00:28:20,180 --> 00:28:22,180
No, that's okay.

678
00:28:22,180 --> 00:28:24,180
I've wrecked all the presents.

679
00:28:24,180 --> 00:28:25,180
Oh!

680
00:28:25,180 --> 00:28:27,180
That easy.

681
00:28:27,180 --> 00:28:30,180
That's disappointing.

682
00:28:30,180 --> 00:28:32,180
I'm going to be able to mix these two.

683
00:28:32,180 --> 00:28:34,180
Oh, darling.

684
00:28:34,180 --> 00:28:36,180
Right, okay, so.

685
00:28:36,180 --> 00:28:38,180
Have I got all the paper off?

686
00:28:38,180 --> 00:28:40,180
Yeah, right, don't fall apart.

687
00:28:40,180 --> 00:28:44,180
So, this is your...

688
00:28:44,180 --> 00:28:46,180
...Carling pump head.

689
00:28:46,180 --> 00:28:48,180
Ah, yeah, got it in one.

690
00:28:48,180 --> 00:28:51,180
Yeah, love it.

691
00:28:51,180 --> 00:28:57,180
So, this is what you would see on a bar if you were going to order a pint of beer.

692
00:28:57,180 --> 00:29:03,180
It's got a black base and it's kind of like a trophy sort of shape

693
00:29:03,180 --> 00:29:07,180
with a silver neck and then the white carling diamond with the big

694
00:29:07,180 --> 00:29:11,180
carling label, carling black label.

695
00:29:11,180 --> 00:29:13,180
Or is that different?

696
00:29:13,180 --> 00:29:15,180
I think it was 80s carling black label.

697
00:29:15,180 --> 00:29:17,180
Carling black label.

698
00:29:17,180 --> 00:29:21,180
So, yes, excellent tap, my love, and I've not broken it.

699
00:29:21,180 --> 00:29:22,180
Oh, thank you.

700
00:29:22,180 --> 00:29:27,180
Yeah, my second job was being a bartender at a new harvester that opened near my house

701
00:29:27,180 --> 00:29:29,180
when I was about 18 or 19.

702
00:29:29,180 --> 00:29:30,180
Right.

703
00:29:30,180 --> 00:29:34,180
So, I was one of the original staff at that harvester and a few years after opening,

704
00:29:34,180 --> 00:29:36,180
bar had a minor update from the brewery.

705
00:29:36,180 --> 00:29:40,180
They sent the new font heads, so updated styles and things like that,

706
00:29:40,180 --> 00:29:42,180
and changed a few bits around.

707
00:29:42,180 --> 00:29:46,180
So, my mate, who was also a bartender, said, oh, could I have one?

708
00:29:46,180 --> 00:29:47,180
And I asked for another.

709
00:29:47,180 --> 00:29:49,180
There were two going spare that looked quite nice.

710
00:29:49,180 --> 00:29:52,180
But ath the end of day my mate went, "do you want this as well?".

711
00:29:52,180 --> 00:29:54,180
Yes, please.

712
00:29:54,180 --> 00:29:57,180
So, no idea why, but yeah, he gave me his.

713
00:29:57,180 --> 00:29:59,180
I could happily take both of them.

714
00:29:59,180 --> 00:30:00,180
Awesome.

715
00:30:00,180 --> 00:30:05,180
One of my most fond memories from working there, because we were good.

716
00:30:05,180 --> 00:30:07,180
We had about five stars.

717
00:30:07,180 --> 00:30:13,180
It was either our first three or five Food Hygiene Bureau inspections.

718
00:30:13,180 --> 00:30:14,180
Oh, right.

719
00:30:14,180 --> 00:30:17,180
Clean sweep, five stars, the whole lot.

720
00:30:17,180 --> 00:30:21,180
So, the whole unit was treated to a day at Oakwood Park.

721
00:30:21,180 --> 00:30:24,180
Oh, my God. That's awesome.

722
00:30:24,180 --> 00:30:27,180
Staff from other harvesters covered our shifts.

723
00:30:27,180 --> 00:30:28,180
Ha, losers.

724
00:30:28,180 --> 00:30:31,180
At the time of the year that we went, we pretty much had the park to ourselves.

725
00:30:31,180 --> 00:30:34,180
It was just a work outing in the park.

726
00:30:34,180 --> 00:30:35,180
That is wicked.

727
00:30:35,180 --> 00:30:38,180
Later on in the day, some public did start coming in.

728
00:30:38,180 --> 00:30:41,180
But yeah, we were there by ourselves for a good few hours.

729
00:30:41,180 --> 00:30:44,180
We got to stay on rides about two or three goes.

730
00:30:44,180 --> 00:30:46,180
One of them was called Bounce.

731
00:30:46,180 --> 00:30:53,180
Now, this is sort of a big rectangular pole...scaffolding sort of thing.

732
00:30:53,180 --> 00:30:54,180
Yeah.

733
00:30:54,180 --> 00:30:56,180
With a square of chairs.

734
00:30:56,180 --> 00:30:57,180
Right.

735
00:30:57,180 --> 00:31:00,180
So, four rows of chairs, one round each of the sides of this square pole.

736
00:31:00,180 --> 00:31:08,180
And it gets hydraulically shot up like an air ram, then drop down, controlled then bounce back up slowly, back down.

737
00:31:08,180 --> 00:31:10,180
So, it varies speed, you're up and down, you know.

738
00:31:10,180 --> 00:31:11,180
That sounds.

739
00:31:11,180 --> 00:31:12,180
It's got a plunge. Yeah.

740
00:31:12,180 --> 00:31:13,180
That sounds horrific.

741
00:31:13,180 --> 00:31:14,180
It's called Bounce.

742
00:31:14,180 --> 00:31:17,180
But from the very top, you can see another one of their rides.

743
00:31:17,180 --> 00:31:18,180
It's a water slide.

744
00:31:18,180 --> 00:31:22,180
You sit on a sort of tea tray and it's a big vertical drop.

745
00:31:22,180 --> 00:31:24,180
And you go down and skim across the water at the end.

746
00:31:24,180 --> 00:31:25,180
Cool.

747
00:31:25,180 --> 00:31:27,180
Me and my bunch of mates were on Bounce.

748
00:31:27,180 --> 00:31:30,180
This is maybe our second or third go.

749
00:31:30,180 --> 00:31:33,180
And the guy that gave me his font head... we could see.

750
00:31:33,180 --> 00:31:35,180
When we got to the top, we could see this in installments.

751
00:31:35,180 --> 00:31:39,180
He was climbing up the stairs across the park, to the top of the water slide ride.

752
00:31:39,180 --> 00:31:40,180
So, we got there and saw it.

753
00:31:40,180 --> 00:31:43,180
Then, oh, he's about to go down the ride.

754
00:31:43,180 --> 00:31:44,180
We are down the bottom.

755
00:31:44,180 --> 00:31:46,180
Oh, we've got to go up, go, go, go, go, go, go.

756
00:31:46,180 --> 00:31:50,180
Thankfully, we got to the top and it lingered there.

757
00:31:50,180 --> 00:31:55,180
And there's slow descent, just long enough for us to see my mate on the tea tray.

758
00:31:55,180 --> 00:31:59,180
Go down the slide, skim, skim, skim.

759
00:31:59,180 --> 00:32:02,180
...Then, seemingly pause.

760
00:32:02,180 --> 00:32:07,180
Then, slowly topple to one side into the water.

761
00:32:07,180 --> 00:32:11,180
So, we were pissing ourselves on the way down.

762
00:32:11,180 --> 00:32:13,180
That's so funny.

763
00:32:13,180 --> 00:32:14,180
Did you tell him afterwards?

764
00:32:14,180 --> 00:32:15,180
Yeah, oh, yeah.

765
00:32:15,180 --> 00:32:19,180
When we got to him, he'd had to go to the merch shop to get entirely new clothes.

766
00:32:19,180 --> 00:32:23,180
So, he was decked out in theme park clothes from head to toe.

767
00:32:23,180 --> 00:32:26,180
Oh, my God, he was a full strip wanker.

768
00:32:26,180 --> 00:32:30,180
T-short - he had tracksuit trousers, socks, everything.

769
00:32:30,180 --> 00:32:36,180
And also, to top it all off, early in the day, he'd had his face painted like a tiger.

770
00:32:36,180 --> 00:32:40,180
He was like the guy from Phoenix Nights, except without the spray paint.

771
00:32:40,180 --> 00:32:41,180
Oh, my God.

772
00:32:41,180 --> 00:32:44,180
Yeah, that's my remaining memory of working at Harvester.

773
00:32:44,180 --> 00:32:46,180
That is absolutely hilarious.

774
00:32:46,180 --> 00:32:47,180
That day out in Oakwood Park.

775
00:32:47,180 --> 00:32:49,180
That's fantastic. What a story.

776
00:32:49,180 --> 00:32:53,180
That's made my cheeks hurt because I've smiled and laughed at that so much.

777
00:32:53,180 --> 00:32:55,180
My face aches now.

778
00:32:55,180 --> 00:32:57,180
Gwynn, you're a legend.

779
00:32:57,180 --> 00:32:59,180
Nice one, Gwynn.

780
00:32:59,180 --> 00:33:03,180
You're famous now, Gwynn from Harvester.
Sir!

781
00:33:03,180 --> 00:33:04,180
Right.

782
00:33:04,180 --> 00:33:08,180
Your turn, too.

783
00:33:08,180 --> 00:33:10,180
I'm just sitting back. There we go.

784
00:33:10,180 --> 00:33:11,180
I've told my story.

785
00:33:11,180 --> 00:33:13,180
Yeah, yeah, you just sit and chill, love.

786
00:33:13,180 --> 00:33:14,180
It's fine.

787
00:33:14,180 --> 00:33:16,180
I'll do the rest of the pod on my own.

788
00:33:16,180 --> 00:33:17,180
Don't worry.

789
00:33:17,180 --> 00:33:22,180
Yes, your turn, in your words, to caress and guess.

790
00:33:22,180 --> 00:33:23,180
Right.

791
00:33:23,180 --> 00:33:29,180
It's about the size of a little bit more than A5 size.

792
00:33:29,180 --> 00:33:33,180
It feels very fabicky inside.

793
00:33:33,180 --> 00:33:34,180
OK.

794
00:33:34,180 --> 00:33:37,180
It's soft, spongy.

795
00:33:37,180 --> 00:33:40,180
It could be a plush figure.

796
00:33:40,180 --> 00:33:43,180
There's some structure to it, I'm feeling.

797
00:33:43,180 --> 00:33:47,180
It's not just like a scarf or a pair of socks, I don't think.

798
00:33:47,180 --> 00:33:50,180
Right, let's unwrap this away from the mic.

799
00:33:50,180 --> 00:33:52,180
Eyes closed.

800
00:33:52,180 --> 00:33:54,180
Oh, yeah, I've closed my glasses.

801
00:33:54,180 --> 00:33:58,180
Yeah, I can confirm he's not wearing his glasses and his eyes are closed.

802
00:33:58,180 --> 00:34:01,180
I hope I'm looking towards the camera as it'd have been weird otherwise.

803
00:34:01,180 --> 00:34:03,180
No, turn right.

804
00:34:03,180 --> 00:34:06,180
I'm surprised you didn't hit your mic on the way back.

805
00:34:06,180 --> 00:34:09,180
I'm surprised I haven't hit anything at all.

806
00:34:09,180 --> 00:34:21,180
The wrapping commences.

807
00:34:21,180 --> 00:34:24,180
OK, I have access to the package.

808
00:34:24,180 --> 00:34:26,180
Excellent.

809
00:34:26,180 --> 00:34:33,180
It is a plush figurine of some sort.

810
00:34:33,180 --> 00:34:42,180
Oh, hang on.

811
00:34:42,180 --> 00:34:46,180
Right, there's a nose.

812
00:34:46,180 --> 00:34:49,180
Yeah.

813
00:34:49,180 --> 00:34:50,180
Is it a pound puppy?

814
00:34:50,180 --> 00:34:55,180
It is a pound puppy!

815
00:34:55,180 --> 00:34:58,180
Initially I was going to ask, is it one of the axolotls?

816
00:34:58,180 --> 00:35:00,180
But I remembered they're crocheted.

817
00:35:00,180 --> 00:35:02,180
They are crocheted and they're not tapped.

818
00:35:02,180 --> 00:35:04,180
I was trying to work it out.

819
00:35:04,180 --> 00:35:06,180
There's gills and legs and so many things hanging off it.

820
00:35:06,180 --> 00:35:09,180
You were holding him bum up to start with.

821
00:35:09,180 --> 00:35:11,180
I thought it was up the head.

822
00:35:11,180 --> 00:35:13,180
Oh, hit the mic.

823
00:35:13,180 --> 00:35:16,180
Oh, never mind.

824
00:35:16,180 --> 00:35:20,180
Yours was the brown with black spots or darker brown spots.

825
00:35:20,180 --> 00:35:25,180
Yeah, kind of like a beige-y colour with dark brown spots.

826
00:35:25,180 --> 00:35:27,180
No tag.

827
00:35:27,180 --> 00:35:29,180
No tag.

828
00:35:29,180 --> 00:35:32,180
So, what you have in your hands...

829
00:35:32,180 --> 00:35:33,180
Oh, there it is.

830
00:35:33,180 --> 00:35:35,180
There's an embroidered bit on his bottom.

831
00:35:35,180 --> 00:35:37,180
Oh, yeah, he's got a little tattoo on his bum.

832
00:35:37,180 --> 00:35:39,180
He's got his branding.

833
00:35:39,180 --> 00:35:43,180
Yeah, so what you have in your hands is my pound puppy Mini.

834
00:35:43,180 --> 00:35:50,180
And this puppy came out of a bin bag.

835
00:35:50,180 --> 00:35:51,180
It does smell like old dog.

836
00:35:51,180 --> 00:35:55,180
No, well, it smells old because he's about 40.

837
00:35:55,180 --> 00:35:58,180
Well, no, maybe 38.

838
00:35:58,180 --> 00:36:00,180
Don't sniff too hard.

839
00:36:00,180 --> 00:36:01,180
Sniffing a dog's bum.

840
00:36:01,180 --> 00:36:03,180
What are you doing?

841
00:36:03,180 --> 00:36:04,180
I didn't want to smell the face.

842
00:36:04,180 --> 00:36:06,180
That's the place where people would be kissing

843
00:36:06,180 --> 00:36:10,180
or touching it too much on the front.

844
00:36:10,180 --> 00:36:11,180
Oh, dear.

845
00:36:11,180 --> 00:36:12,180
There's a germy at the back.

846
00:36:12,180 --> 00:36:14,180
Yeah, fair enough, if that's what you think.

847
00:36:14,180 --> 00:36:15,180
30 or 40 years old.

848
00:36:15,180 --> 00:36:16,180
Really?

849
00:36:16,180 --> 00:36:18,180
In very good condition.

850
00:36:18,180 --> 00:36:21,180
Well, I looked after my favourite things

851
00:36:21,180 --> 00:36:25,180
because I was an anally retentive strange child.

852
00:36:25,180 --> 00:36:26,180
Here's my pound puppy Mini.

853
00:36:26,180 --> 00:36:29,180
As I said, he came out of a bin bag.

854
00:36:29,180 --> 00:36:33,180
And whilst that sounds bad, please remember this is a plush toy.

855
00:36:33,180 --> 00:36:38,180
It's not an actual puppy.

856
00:36:38,180 --> 00:36:40,180
He just came out of some paper wrapping too.

857
00:36:40,180 --> 00:36:42,180
Yeah, he did just come out of some paper wrapping.

858
00:36:42,180 --> 00:36:49,180
So the bin bag gift sessions, I suppose, like lucky dip,

859
00:36:49,180 --> 00:36:51,180
happened a couple of times when we were little

860
00:36:51,180 --> 00:36:53,180
because my dad worked away a lot.

861
00:36:53,180 --> 00:36:55,180
And I think he felt kind of guilty that he wasn't there.

862
00:36:55,180 --> 00:36:58,180
So every now and then on his way home from London,

863
00:36:58,180 --> 00:37:01,180
because he used to work at Euston Station,

864
00:37:01,180 --> 00:37:02,180
he would get us little gifts.

865
00:37:02,180 --> 00:37:05,180
I say us, me and my sister Ruth initially,

866
00:37:05,180 --> 00:37:07,180
because Ruth's the oldest and it's me.

867
00:37:07,180 --> 00:37:10,180
And then there's four years between me and my little sister

868
00:37:10,180 --> 00:37:12,180
and five between me and my little brother.

869
00:37:12,180 --> 00:37:14,180
So I don't really think they got the bin bag treatment,

870
00:37:14,180 --> 00:37:16,180
but me and Ruth definitely did.

871
00:37:16,180 --> 00:37:19,180
And these Mini pound puppies came in this bag.

872
00:37:19,180 --> 00:37:20,180
And Ruth had one.

873
00:37:20,180 --> 00:37:24,180
I think it was grey with the slightly chunkier chops.

874
00:37:24,180 --> 00:37:27,180
And I've got the one with the slightly flatter snout,

875
00:37:27,180 --> 00:37:31,180
more sort of retrievery than pug.

876
00:37:31,180 --> 00:37:35,180
I also had a standard size pound puppy that was dark brown.

877
00:37:35,180 --> 00:37:40,180
And I think I got that for Christmas in 1986.

878
00:37:40,180 --> 00:37:43,180
So the larger puppies came in travel boxes

879
00:37:43,180 --> 00:37:45,180
with an adoption certificate,

880
00:37:45,180 --> 00:37:48,180
very similar to the cabbage patch kids.

881
00:37:48,180 --> 00:37:53,180
And I think I still had the certificate from my big pound puppy

882
00:37:53,180 --> 00:37:56,180
when I went to university in 2000.

883
00:37:56,180 --> 00:37:59,180
I think it got lost somewhere after that

884
00:37:59,180 --> 00:38:02,180
because my bedroom swiftly got turned into my dad's office.

885
00:38:02,180 --> 00:38:05,180
You know, so those things happen.

886
00:38:05,180 --> 00:38:08,180
So I don't have that anymore.

887
00:38:08,180 --> 00:38:13,180
Pound puppies were designed by a gentleman called Mike Bowling in 1984.

888
00:38:13,180 --> 00:38:17,180
They were initially produced by Irwin just for the Canadian market.

889
00:38:17,180 --> 00:38:22,180
But Hornby then picked them up for production in the UK and the US markets

890
00:38:22,180 --> 00:38:25,180
between 1984 and 1986.

891
00:38:25,180 --> 00:38:28,180
So he might actually be my big pound puppy.

892
00:38:28,180 --> 00:38:31,180
He might be pre-86. He might be 85.

893
00:38:31,180 --> 00:38:35,180
Multiple companies have since owned the rights to produce pound puppies.

894
00:38:35,180 --> 00:38:39,180
Irwin and Hornby, as I've already said,

895
00:38:39,180 --> 00:38:43,180
but also Tonka, Galoob.

896
00:38:43,180 --> 00:38:44,180
I don't know who they are.

897
00:38:44,180 --> 00:38:46,180
Yeah, they've made toys.

898
00:38:46,180 --> 00:38:49,180
I think they had a license for maybe He-Man and stuff like that.

899
00:38:49,180 --> 00:38:52,180
Oh, right. OK. Oh, that would make sense, actually.

900
00:38:52,180 --> 00:38:55,180
It might make sense when I get to a fact in a minute.

901
00:38:55,180 --> 00:38:58,180
And then after Galoob, there were so many other names

902
00:38:58,180 --> 00:39:01,180
that I just put etc. because I'm lazy.

903
00:39:01,180 --> 00:39:06,180
The plush toys were so successful that they inspired an animated movie,

904
00:39:06,180 --> 00:39:11,180
cartoon series, Pound Purries, which were the cats,

905
00:39:11,180 --> 00:39:14,180
puzzles and games.

906
00:39:14,180 --> 00:39:20,180
And Hannah Barbera produced two seasons of the Pound Puppies animated show.

907
00:39:20,180 --> 00:39:23,180
The first season was called Pound Puppies

908
00:39:23,180 --> 00:39:28,180
and the second season, for reasons unknown, was called The All New Pound Puppies.

909
00:39:28,180 --> 00:39:35,180
And those, their style of animation was based on the Tonka 1985 TV special.

910
00:39:35,180 --> 00:39:40,180
There were 26 episodes in total, so 13 in each season.

911
00:39:40,180 --> 00:39:44,180
And the main characters, I've written a list down,

912
00:39:44,180 --> 00:39:48,180
Bright Eyes, who appeared in the 1985 TV special only.

913
00:39:48,180 --> 00:39:54,180
But then you've got Bratina, Nose Marie, Katrina Stoneheart.

914
00:39:54,180 --> 00:39:56,180
Well, one gets a surname.

915
00:39:56,180 --> 00:39:58,180
Yeah, Captain Slaughter.

916
00:39:58,180 --> 00:40:00,180
And a title.

917
00:40:00,180 --> 00:40:09,180
Holly, Cooler, Bruno, Howler, Barkerville, Whopper, Catgut and Squounder.

918
00:40:09,180 --> 00:40:12,180
Were some of those villains?

919
00:40:12,180 --> 00:40:15,180
They must have been. They must have been with some of the names.

920
00:40:15,180 --> 00:40:18,180
I didn't look into that too deeply.

921
00:40:18,180 --> 00:40:23,180
And if you go onto IMDB, Pound Puppies is rated seven out of ten,

922
00:40:23,180 --> 00:40:25,180
which is equal to the Wuzzles,

923
00:40:25,180 --> 00:40:29,180
better than Care Bears, who are rated 6.1,

924
00:40:29,180 --> 00:40:35,180
or the Snorks at 6.4, but below Muppet Babies at 7.5 out of 10.

925
00:40:35,180 --> 00:40:39,180
I thought Care Bears would have been more commercially successful.

926
00:40:39,180 --> 00:40:41,180
I thought they would have been too.

927
00:40:41,180 --> 00:40:43,180
They did a lot more movies and things,

928
00:40:43,180 --> 00:40:48,180
but note Pound Puppies are winning the popularity contest on IMDB still.

929
00:40:48,180 --> 00:40:49,180
So yes.

930
00:40:49,180 --> 00:40:50,180
Good research.

931
00:40:50,180 --> 00:40:51,180
Thank you very much.

932
00:40:51,180 --> 00:40:53,180
I like the stats at the end.

933
00:40:53,180 --> 00:40:55,180
I actually did some research.

934
00:40:55,180 --> 00:41:00,180
That's wrap up your tat.

935
00:41:00,180 --> 00:41:10,180
OK, we're still not back to the Crystal Maze yet due to technical reasons and germ reasons.

936
00:41:10,180 --> 00:41:13,180
Massive germ reasons now.

937
00:41:13,180 --> 00:41:17,180
We have got a stand-in game, very lightly used,

938
00:41:17,180 --> 00:41:19,180
not by me because I've never played it before,

939
00:41:19,180 --> 00:41:24,180
but I stole it about 20 years ago when I worked in a call center.

940
00:41:24,180 --> 00:41:26,180
It's called Urban Myth.

941
00:41:26,180 --> 00:41:30,180
And I think from the tagline it will give you an idea of how old this game is.

942
00:41:30,180 --> 00:41:33,180
The truth is in here.

943
00:41:33,180 --> 00:41:37,180
Essentially, we've got half the deck of the cards each.

944
00:41:37,180 --> 00:41:39,180
I think it's meant for six players.

945
00:41:39,180 --> 00:41:42,180
We're only going to be playing it for 10 minutes, which reminds me.

946
00:41:42,180 --> 00:41:43,180
Set a timer.

947
00:41:43,180 --> 00:41:45,180
I think this is how we play it.

948
00:41:45,180 --> 00:41:46,180
You've just read the rules.

949
00:41:46,180 --> 00:41:47,180
I'm just going from memory.

950
00:41:47,180 --> 00:41:48,180
OK.

951
00:41:48,180 --> 00:41:51,180
On the back of the cards is a true or false statement.

952
00:41:51,180 --> 00:41:53,180
We read them out to each other.

953
00:41:53,180 --> 00:41:57,180
If you get it right, you win that card.

954
00:41:57,180 --> 00:42:03,180
On the back of the card is a letter and they spell out either true or myth.

955
00:42:03,180 --> 00:42:04,180
Correct.

956
00:42:04,180 --> 00:42:08,180
And the first to spell out either of those words wins.

957
00:42:08,180 --> 00:42:09,180
Yes.

958
00:42:09,180 --> 00:42:15,180
And we've also got three wild cards, which could stand for any letter you want.

959
00:42:15,180 --> 00:42:16,180
Yeah.

960
00:42:16,180 --> 00:42:18,180
Is that roughly the gist of it?

961
00:42:18,180 --> 00:42:21,180
Yes, that is pretty much it.

962
00:42:21,180 --> 00:42:31,180
Yeah, so this is a game of trust today because obviously, as you guys know, we're not in the same room or the same home.

963
00:42:31,180 --> 00:42:32,180
County.

964
00:42:32,180 --> 00:42:33,180
County.

965
00:42:33,180 --> 00:42:34,180
Different counties.

966
00:42:34,180 --> 00:42:37,180
Same country.

967
00:42:37,180 --> 00:42:43,180
So, yes, we're going to have to trust each other on the letters that we've got.

968
00:42:43,180 --> 00:42:49,180
Do you want to take a note of each other's as we win them or do you just want to go on trust?

969
00:42:49,180 --> 00:42:54,180
I think if we go on trust, it'll be hard enough to keep track of our own cards.

970
00:42:54,180 --> 00:42:55,180
That's fair enough.

971
00:42:55,180 --> 00:43:02,180
We're on camera as well, so we can hold up the completed set of letters to each other to show that, yeah, we've got them.

972
00:43:02,180 --> 00:43:06,180
Although for our beloved listeners, we are only doing an audio recording.

973
00:43:06,180 --> 00:43:09,180
There will be no viditorial evidence of this.

974
00:43:09,180 --> 00:43:13,180
We'll have to remember to take a photo of our completed decks though, at the end of the game.

975
00:43:13,180 --> 00:43:14,180
Yes.

976
00:43:14,180 --> 00:43:17,180
So according to the rules, the youngest player goes first.

977
00:43:17,180 --> 00:43:23,180
So you pick the first card and I tell you whether I think it's a true or a myth.

978
00:43:23,180 --> 00:43:28,180
OK, 10 minutes starting now.

979
00:43:28,180 --> 00:43:30,180
Category is life.

980
00:43:30,180 --> 00:43:32,180
OK.

981
00:43:32,180 --> 00:43:44,180
The word handicap comes from the phrase cap in hand and refers to the disabled being forced to beg for a living in the 19th century.

982
00:43:44,180 --> 00:43:45,180
True.

983
00:43:45,180 --> 00:43:47,180
Oh, it's a myth.

984
00:43:47,180 --> 00:43:48,180
Oh, OK.

985
00:43:48,180 --> 00:43:51,180
You get to keep the R.

986
00:43:51,180 --> 00:43:53,180
OK.

987
00:43:53,180 --> 00:44:01,180
For a Y, Mr Court, this is a world category.

988
00:44:01,180 --> 00:44:03,180
No, dear.

989
00:44:03,180 --> 00:44:11,180
The potato was introduced to North America from Ireland.

990
00:44:11,180 --> 00:44:13,180
Myth.

991
00:44:13,180 --> 00:44:15,180
True.

992
00:44:15,180 --> 00:44:17,180
I get to keep the Y.

993
00:44:17,180 --> 00:44:19,180
I knew I'd do badly at that.

994
00:44:19,180 --> 00:44:24,180
That's not just world, that's history.

995
00:44:24,180 --> 00:44:27,180
For another crack at an R.

996
00:44:27,180 --> 00:44:28,180
World.

997
00:44:28,180 --> 00:44:29,180
Back at you.

998
00:44:29,180 --> 00:44:31,180
OK.

999
00:44:31,180 --> 00:44:41,180
A tidal wave of molasses swept through Boston in 1919, killing 21 people and injuring 150 others.

1000
00:44:41,180 --> 00:44:44,180
That's too stupid not to be true.

1001
00:44:44,180 --> 00:44:45,180
It is true.

1002
00:44:45,180 --> 00:44:46,180
Yay.

1003
00:44:46,180 --> 00:44:51,180
I'm going to give myself an R out of my deck.

1004
00:44:51,180 --> 00:44:52,180
Pull it from the bottom.

1005
00:44:52,180 --> 00:44:54,180
I'm taking it from the middle.

1006
00:44:54,180 --> 00:44:55,180
Or anywhere, it doesn't really matter.

1007
00:44:55,180 --> 00:44:57,180
OK, right.

1008
00:44:57,180 --> 00:45:01,180
For a U.

1009
00:45:01,180 --> 00:45:04,180
Also, you haven't shuffled these, have you?

1010
00:45:04,180 --> 00:45:05,180
Yeah.

1011
00:45:05,180 --> 00:45:06,180
Oh, OK.

1012
00:45:06,180 --> 00:45:12,180
I've randomized all the cards -  I've randomized the letters, not the categories.

1013
00:45:12,180 --> 00:45:13,180
Ah.

1014
00:45:13,180 --> 00:45:16,180
World.

1015
00:45:16,180 --> 00:45:19,180
Third world in a row.

1016
00:45:19,180 --> 00:45:26,180
There are more London streets named after Queen Victoria than any other person.

1017
00:45:26,180 --> 00:45:28,180
True.

1018
00:45:28,180 --> 00:45:29,180
Correct.

1019
00:45:29,180 --> 00:45:31,180
You win a U.

1020
00:45:31,180 --> 00:45:38,180
I'll get you out of your deck.

1021
00:45:38,180 --> 00:45:42,180
Let me find one.

1022
00:45:42,180 --> 00:45:43,180
Got one.

1023
00:45:43,180 --> 00:45:46,180
Excellent.

1024
00:45:46,180 --> 00:45:50,180
You are playing for a Y.

1025
00:45:50,180 --> 00:45:52,180
I've already got one, I hope.

1026
00:45:52,180 --> 00:45:55,180
Told you I'd randomized it.

1027
00:45:55,180 --> 00:46:00,180
Might have a spare.

1028
00:46:00,180 --> 00:46:02,180
Health.

1029
00:46:02,180 --> 00:46:15,180
Rubbing butter onto a burn helps minimize the damage.

1030
00:46:15,180 --> 00:46:25,180
That's a tough one because if it was cold butter, it might feel soothing, but it's fat, so it might also contribute to the burn.

1031
00:46:25,180 --> 00:46:27,180
I'm going to say myth.

1032
00:46:27,180 --> 00:46:28,180
You're correct.

1033
00:46:28,180 --> 00:46:30,180
Give yourself a Y.

1034
00:46:30,180 --> 00:46:31,180
A spare Y.

1035
00:46:31,180 --> 00:46:32,180
OK.

1036
00:46:32,180 --> 00:46:35,180
I've now got two Ys and an R. What have you got?

1037
00:46:35,180 --> 00:46:37,180
R and a U.

1038
00:46:37,180 --> 00:46:38,180
OK.

1039
00:46:38,180 --> 00:46:39,180
All right.

1040
00:46:39,180 --> 00:46:46,180
For a T.

1041
00:46:46,180 --> 00:46:52,180
Coconut milk can be used as a blood plasma substitute in an emergency.

1042
00:46:52,180 --> 00:46:54,180
I'm going to say myth.

1043
00:46:54,180 --> 00:46:55,180
It's true.

1044
00:46:55,180 --> 00:46:56,180
Really?

1045
00:46:56,180 --> 00:46:57,180
Yeah.

1046
00:46:57,180 --> 00:46:59,180
I'm really surprised.

1047
00:46:59,180 --> 00:47:00,180
There we are.

1048
00:47:00,180 --> 00:47:02,180
Good to know.

1049
00:47:02,180 --> 00:47:04,180
A T back at you.

1050
00:47:04,180 --> 00:47:05,180
OK.

1051
00:47:05,180 --> 00:47:09,180
Health.
(adam has a long pause)

1052
00:47:09,180 --> 00:47:11,180
King George 5th

1053
00:47:11,180 --> 00:47:13,180
Sorry, I was reading Roman numerals.

1054
00:47:13,180 --> 00:47:15,180
King George V?
(Karen pronounces 'Vee').

1055
00:47:15,180 --> 00:47:16,180
Yeah.

1056
00:47:16,180 --> 00:47:25,180
King George 5th was killed by a lethal dose of morphine and cocaine injected by his own doctor.

1057
00:47:25,180 --> 00:47:27,180
...That's a speedball, isn't it?

1058
00:47:27,180 --> 00:47:31,180
I wouldn't know.

1059
00:47:31,180 --> 00:47:32,180
I'm far too innocent to know, though.

1060
00:47:32,180 --> 00:47:36,180
No, genuinely I don't actually know.

1061
00:47:36,180 --> 00:47:38,180
I've been guessing all mine.

1062
00:47:38,180 --> 00:47:46,180
George V. Was he directly before QE2?

1063
00:47:46,180 --> 00:47:47,180
I don't know.

1064
00:47:47,180 --> 00:47:49,180
You're asking me history questions.

1065
00:47:49,180 --> 00:47:51,180
I just read what's on the card.

1066
00:47:51,180 --> 00:47:53,180
Myth.

1067
00:47:53,180 --> 00:47:54,180
It's true.

1068
00:47:54,180 --> 00:47:59,180
I didn't need a T anyway.

1069
00:47:59,180 --> 00:48:00,180
Right.

1070
00:48:00,180 --> 00:48:02,180
For a U.

1071
00:48:02,180 --> 00:48:03,180
We've got five minutes left.

1072
00:48:03,180 --> 00:48:05,180
We've both got two left.

1073
00:48:05,180 --> 00:48:06,180
Life category.

1074
00:48:06,180 --> 00:48:12,180
The first ever England football captain died in 1881 after a night out dancing and drinking.

1075
00:48:12,180 --> 00:48:13,180
True.

1076
00:48:13,180 --> 00:48:14,180
Correct.

1077
00:48:14,180 --> 00:48:15,180
Give yourself a U.

1078
00:48:15,180 --> 00:48:17,180
I already got one.

1079
00:48:17,180 --> 00:48:18,180
Sorry.

1080
00:48:18,180 --> 00:48:22,180
I'll grab a spare.

1081
00:48:22,180 --> 00:48:27,180
There's one.

1082
00:48:27,180 --> 00:48:30,180
You get another crack at a T.

1083
00:48:30,180 --> 00:48:31,180
Oh, God.

1084
00:48:31,180 --> 00:48:33,180
Let's just move this on...what letter do you....

1085
00:48:33,180 --> 00:48:38,180
I need a U, an E, an M, or a T, or an H. Oh, I do need another T.

1086
00:48:38,180 --> 00:48:39,180
You do need a T?

1087
00:48:39,180 --> 00:48:40,180
Yeah.

1088
00:48:40,180 --> 00:48:43,180
Stupid woman.

1089
00:48:43,180 --> 00:48:46,180
World.

1090
00:48:46,180 --> 00:48:58,180
The bra was invented by a New Yorker named Otto Titzling.

1091
00:48:58,180 --> 00:48:59,180
True.

1092
00:48:59,180 --> 00:49:01,180
It's a myth.
I was trying not to smile SO much!

1093
00:49:01,180 --> 00:49:09,180
I wanted it to be true so badly.

1094
00:49:09,180 --> 00:49:10,180
For an E.

1095
00:49:10,180 --> 00:49:14,180
Life category.

1096
00:49:14,180 --> 00:49:20,180
Crisp's were invented in Australia in 1957.

1097
00:49:20,180 --> 00:49:23,180
False....

1098
00:49:23,180 --> 00:49:24,180
...Myth.

1099
00:49:24,180 --> 00:49:25,180
It is a myth.

1100
00:49:25,180 --> 00:49:30,180
Give yourself an E.

1101
00:49:30,180 --> 00:49:36,180
Oh, there's an E.

1102
00:49:36,180 --> 00:49:38,180
Do you need a Y?

1103
00:49:38,180 --> 00:49:41,180
No, I've got two of those.

1104
00:49:41,180 --> 00:49:42,180
T you said you needed, yeah?

1105
00:49:42,180 --> 00:49:43,180
Yeah.

1106
00:49:43,180 --> 00:49:49,180
Okay.

1107
00:49:49,180 --> 00:49:50,180
Very wordy one, this.

1108
00:49:50,180 --> 00:49:52,180
Crime.

1109
00:49:52,180 --> 00:50:03,180
In 1997, a Philadelphia restaurant was fined $150,000 after a customer threw a soft drink over her boyfriend and then slipped in the puddle injuring her back.

1110
00:50:03,180 --> 00:50:04,180
True.

1111
00:50:04,180 --> 00:50:05,180
It's a myth.

1112
00:50:05,180 --> 00:50:07,180
Oh.

1113
00:50:07,180 --> 00:50:08,180
What letters do you need?

1114
00:50:08,180 --> 00:50:10,180
Could I have a T, please?

1115
00:50:10,180 --> 00:50:13,180
A T, please, Bob.

1116
00:50:13,180 --> 00:50:19,180
Let's see if I can find one.

1117
00:50:19,180 --> 00:50:22,180
Aha, there's one.

1118
00:50:22,180 --> 00:50:23,180
For a T.

1119
00:50:23,180 --> 00:50:25,180
World category.

1120
00:50:25,180 --> 00:50:33,180
Britain turned down the chance of taking over Volkswagen as part payment for the German war debt of World War II.

1121
00:50:33,180 --> 00:50:34,180
I'll say true.

1122
00:50:34,180 --> 00:50:35,180
Correct.

1123
00:50:35,180 --> 00:50:36,180
Give yourself a T.

1124
00:50:36,180 --> 00:50:37,180
I win.

1125
00:50:37,180 --> 00:50:41,180
You're too good at these games.

1126
00:50:41,180 --> 00:50:44,180
Let me get the T to prove it.

1127
00:50:44,180 --> 00:50:48,180
I think, hang on, I've discarded a T.

1128
00:50:48,180 --> 00:50:49,180
No, you've discarded it.

1129
00:50:49,180 --> 00:50:51,180
You don't get to keep it if you've discarded it.

1130
00:50:51,180 --> 00:50:53,180
No, from the one that you got wrong earlier.

1131
00:50:53,180 --> 00:50:56,180
So you'd be rummaging through an entire stack.

1132
00:50:56,180 --> 00:50:58,180
There's like six there instead of all of those.

1133
00:50:58,180 --> 00:51:10,180
T-r-w-e.

1134
00:51:10,180 --> 00:51:11,180
True.

1135
00:51:11,180 --> 00:51:13,180
Well done.

1136
00:51:13,180 --> 00:51:14,180
Am I holding this right?

1137
00:51:14,180 --> 00:51:16,180
No, wrong way round the camera.

1138
00:51:16,180 --> 00:51:17,180
It doesn't matter.

1139
00:51:17,180 --> 00:51:18,180
We're not filming the cameras.

1140
00:51:18,180 --> 00:51:20,180
Well done, you win.

1141
00:51:20,180 --> 00:51:22,180
You're too good at these games.

1142
00:51:22,180 --> 00:51:23,180
We still don't know if they're half-spare.

1143
00:51:23,180 --> 00:51:24,180
We need to find something harder.

1144
00:51:24,180 --> 00:51:25,180
Have we really?

1145
00:51:25,180 --> 00:51:26,180
Not fair play.

1146
00:51:26,180 --> 00:51:27,180
Yeah.

1147
00:51:27,180 --> 00:51:28,180
It's a fun little game.

1148
00:51:28,180 --> 00:51:33,180
I can imagine with a party of six people or whatever, you would have a nice little giggle

1149
00:51:33,180 --> 00:51:36,180
over a glass of wine or two playing that game.

1150
00:51:36,180 --> 00:51:37,180
Love it.

1151
00:51:37,180 --> 00:51:38,180
Brilliant.

1152
00:51:38,180 --> 00:51:39,180
Good game.

1153
00:51:39,180 --> 00:51:40,180
It cost nothing because I stole it.

1154
00:51:40,180 --> 00:51:42,180
Good game, you tea-leaving sausage..

1155
00:51:42,180 --> 00:51:49,180
Good game, good game, you dirty thief.

1156
00:51:49,180 --> 00:51:59,180
It is time for Biblio Tat and this episode, I so nearly said this week, this episode is

1157
00:51:59,180 --> 00:52:01,180
my turn to bring a book along.

1158
00:52:01,180 --> 00:52:06,180
So I have brought Ghosts of Wales by Peter Underwood.

1159
00:52:06,180 --> 00:52:12,180
President of the Ghost Club is also an illustrated book and it was printed by Corgi.

1160
00:52:12,180 --> 00:52:15,180
Do you think he gets a badge or a special hat?

1161
00:52:15,180 --> 00:52:16,180
Well, I don't know.

1162
00:52:16,180 --> 00:52:17,180
He's president.

1163
00:52:17,180 --> 00:52:19,180
He can do whatever he likes, right?

1164
00:52:19,180 --> 00:52:21,180
That's how it goes these days.

1165
00:52:21,180 --> 00:52:23,180
Maybe whatever the previous president did.

1166
00:52:23,180 --> 00:52:24,180
Maybe.

1167
00:52:24,180 --> 00:52:33,180
So the Corgi edition of this book was printed in 1980, but the original publication was

1168
00:52:33,180 --> 00:52:39,180
first published in Great Britain by Christopher Davis Publishers Limited in 78 and reprinted

1169
00:52:39,180 --> 00:52:41,180
by Corgi in 1980.

1170
00:52:41,180 --> 00:52:48,180
So it's an anthology of tales from around, tales from around Wales about ghost ghouls

1171
00:52:48,180 --> 00:52:49,180
and creepy things.

1172
00:52:49,180 --> 00:52:52,180
And there is actually a chapter on Swansea.

1173
00:52:52,180 --> 00:52:54,180
It's only four pages long.

1174
00:52:54,180 --> 00:53:00,180
So I thought I'd give you a little bit of Swansea ghost history.

1175
00:53:00,180 --> 00:53:03,180
I'm going to turn my torch on because I haven't got my light on.

1176
00:53:03,180 --> 00:53:05,180
I like to be spooky with the torch on.

1177
00:53:05,180 --> 00:53:10,180
Telling ghost stories for real.

1178
00:53:10,180 --> 00:53:13,180
Definitely not attractive with the torch on.

1179
00:53:13,180 --> 00:53:17,180
Two poltergeists and the ghost of Jersey Lill.

1180
00:53:17,180 --> 00:53:23,180
Busy bustling Swansea has been the scene of several ghostly disturbances, including violent

1181
00:53:23,180 --> 00:53:27,180
turmoil at a terraced house on Rhondda Street in 1965.

1182
00:53:27,180 --> 00:53:33,180
The Howells family, David and Marcia and their two little children moved into the house and

1183
00:53:33,180 --> 00:53:38,180
three days later Mrs Howells said, We woke up in the early hours of the morning.

1184
00:53:38,180 --> 00:53:41,180
We could hardly breathe and felt as if something was choking us.

1185
00:53:41,180 --> 00:53:44,180
We opened the windows, but it made no difference.

1186
00:53:44,180 --> 00:53:47,180
Nothing further happened for 10 months.

1187
00:53:47,180 --> 00:53:52,180
And then Marcia Howells entering the living room one afternoon was amazed to see a child's

1188
00:53:52,180 --> 00:53:57,180
medicine bottle rise by itself off the mantelpiece and fly towards her.

1189
00:53:57,180 --> 00:54:00,180
She quickly left the room and slammed the door shut.

1190
00:54:00,180 --> 00:54:05,180
As she did so, she heard the sound of the bottle smashing from within the empty room.

1191
00:54:05,180 --> 00:54:10,180
Soon David returned home from work and when they looked into the room together, some of

1192
00:54:10,180 --> 00:54:15,180
the furniture was upside down and clothes were scattered all over the place.

1193
00:54:15,180 --> 00:54:20,180
A couple of days later Mrs Howells grandmother was in the front room with Gareth, who was

1194
00:54:20,180 --> 00:54:25,180
not yet two years old, when she heard a crashing noise from the direction of the living room.

1195
00:54:25,180 --> 00:54:29,180
She immediately went to that room but was unable to open the door.

1196
00:54:29,180 --> 00:54:34,180
When Marcia returned home with Beverly, nearly four years old, they found the living room

1197
00:54:34,180 --> 00:54:36,180
had again been wrecked.

1198
00:54:36,180 --> 00:54:41,180
The settee had been upended, a television set thrown on the floor and chairs were tumbled

1199
00:54:41,180 --> 00:54:43,180
on top of everything.

1200
00:54:43,180 --> 00:54:47,180
Upstairs they found a double bed in the front bedroom upside down on top of the baby's

1201
00:54:47,180 --> 00:54:48,180
cot.

1202
00:54:48,180 --> 00:54:51,180
This much they could see through the gap in the bedroom door, which they could only open

1203
00:54:51,180 --> 00:54:53,180
a few inches.

1204
00:54:53,180 --> 00:54:58,180
Marcia leaving the back door locked, as it had been when she went out, now waited at

1205
00:54:58,180 --> 00:55:00,180
the front door for her husband.

1206
00:55:00,180 --> 00:55:05,180
As he arrived there was another crashing sound that seemed to come from inside the house

1207
00:55:05,180 --> 00:55:06,180
towards the back.

1208
00:55:06,180 --> 00:55:11,180
On investigation they found an unconnected gas stove lying on its side in the lean-to

1209
00:55:11,180 --> 00:55:15,180
kitchen and a smashed bottle of coffee nearby.

1210
00:55:15,180 --> 00:55:17,180
Coffee coming bottles?

1211
00:55:17,180 --> 00:55:19,180
Maybe it was a glass jar?

1212
00:55:19,180 --> 00:55:23,180
Yeah, or camp coffee comes in a bottle.

1213
00:55:23,180 --> 00:55:28,180
The family, including two grandparents, now left the house and spent the night with relatives.

1214
00:55:28,180 --> 00:55:31,180
How many relatives have these people got?

1215
00:55:31,180 --> 00:55:33,180
David and Marcia had had enough.

1216
00:55:33,180 --> 00:55:38,180
David said that although he had a mortgage on the property he would never take the children

1217
00:55:38,180 --> 00:55:42,180
back into the house and Marcia said she would never sleep in the house again.

1218
00:55:42,180 --> 00:55:46,180
She was convinced that no human being could have been responsible for the happenings.

1219
00:55:46,180 --> 00:55:52,180
Police, a reporter and a Roman Catholic priest later visited the house but encountered no

1220
00:55:52,180 --> 00:55:57,180
further damage or phenomena of any kind and it was assumed that by then the disturbances

1221
00:55:57,180 --> 00:56:00,180
had ceased of their own accord.

1222
00:56:00,180 --> 00:56:04,180
Mrs. Glendora Howells, the grandmother who moved out of the haunted house with the

1223
00:56:04,180 --> 00:56:08,180
granddaughter's family, said that later none of her property was damaged.

1224
00:56:08,180 --> 00:56:11,180
She and her husband Jack had occupied the front room.

1225
00:56:11,180 --> 00:56:15,180
She was very puzzled by the fact that none of the things were among the furniture and

1226
00:56:15,180 --> 00:56:19,180
fittings thrown about the rooms by an unknown force.

1227
00:56:19,180 --> 00:56:24,180
She said the affair had badly shaken her and she would not return to the house and

1228
00:56:24,180 --> 00:56:28,180
run the street if she were offered £500 to do so.

1229
00:56:28,180 --> 00:56:34,180
A few days later Harry Holmes, a local psychic investigator, spent 24 hours in the house

1230
00:56:34,180 --> 00:56:38,180
and came to the conclusion that the damage was not the work of a poltergeist but of a

1231
00:56:38,180 --> 00:56:39,180
human being.

1232
00:56:39,180 --> 00:56:45,180
He disclosed reasons for suspecting that someone, for reasons unknown, had manufactured the

1233
00:56:45,180 --> 00:56:49,180
disturbances and made them look like happenings of a paranormal nature.

1234
00:56:49,180 --> 00:56:55,180
He described how a jammed bedroom door could have been rigged and pointed out that a loose

1235
00:56:55,180 --> 00:57:00,180
window in the lean-to kitchen could have enabled someone to obtain entry and exit.

1236
00:57:00,180 --> 00:57:05,180
Less than a month later Mr and Mrs. Jack Howells, the grandparent, returned to the

1237
00:57:05,180 --> 00:57:11,180
house and lived in it without experiencing any unusual happenings until it was sold.

1238
00:57:11,180 --> 00:57:16,180
So moving on to the story about Jersey Lil, this one's a bit shorter than the last one.

1239
00:57:16,180 --> 00:57:21,180
Five years later, after the house and run the street incident, some of the night shift

1240
00:57:21,180 --> 00:57:26,180
workers at Swansea's Ford Motorworks began to report that a ghost of Jersey Lil had

1241
00:57:26,180 --> 00:57:27,180
returned to the area.

1242
00:57:27,180 --> 00:57:34,180
Many years before this ghost had long been reputed to haunt the old Elba Tinplate works

1243
00:57:34,180 --> 00:57:38,180
at Jersey Marine and it was thought she may have returned to the works which is now part

1244
00:57:38,180 --> 00:57:40,180
of the Ford complex.

1245
00:57:40,180 --> 00:57:45,180
One theory suggested that Jersey Lil was a woman of easy virtue who had been murdered

1246
00:57:45,180 --> 00:57:48,180
in the area many years ago.

1247
00:57:48,180 --> 00:57:53,180
Another idea is that she was a woman who worked at the old Elba Pickling works and met her

1248
00:57:53,180 --> 00:57:55,180
death in a vat.

1249
00:57:55,180 --> 00:57:57,180
Sounds dramatic.

1250
00:57:57,180 --> 00:58:02,180
Certainly when the Ford company took over the Elba works they were warned they had a

1251
00:58:02,180 --> 00:58:07,180
ghost on their hands but it didn't trouble them it seemed until now.

1252
00:58:07,180 --> 00:58:12,180
In December 1970 a worker was in the toilet of the heat treatment area when he said he

1253
00:58:12,180 --> 00:58:14,180
felt a hand on his shoulder.

1254
00:58:14,180 --> 00:58:18,180
He turned around and there was a wraith like figure of Lil.

1255
00:58:18,180 --> 00:58:21,180
He made a hurried exit from the toilet.

1256
00:58:21,180 --> 00:58:26,180
Later an identical figure was seen walking down the steps into the main plant.

1257
00:58:26,180 --> 00:58:28,180
Was it using a ladies toilet?

1258
00:58:28,180 --> 00:58:29,180
Maybe.

1259
00:58:29,180 --> 00:58:31,180
Maybe she just wanted him to piss off.

1260
00:58:31,180 --> 00:58:33,180
Excuse me! See the sign on the door?.

1261
00:58:33,180 --> 00:58:37,180
Now workers recall that Lil made a brief appearance at the plant a couple of years

1262
00:58:37,180 --> 00:58:40,180
previously but no one took much notice of her.

1263
00:58:40,180 --> 00:58:45,180
The management were not committing themselves other than to say that in the heat treatment

1264
00:58:45,180 --> 00:58:50,180
area crown wheels were put into a furnace and then cooled off and there was a lot of

1265
00:58:50,180 --> 00:58:55,180
steam and rising smoke and that could perhaps be mistaken for a ghost.

1266
00:58:55,180 --> 00:59:02,180
Later a spokesman of the firm said he had noticed there were often about 18 month intervals

1267
00:59:02,180 --> 00:59:07,180
between reported appearances of the ghost but he offered no possible reason for the

1268
00:59:07,180 --> 00:59:08,180
apparent rhythm.

1269
00:59:08,180 --> 00:59:13,180
There were also news radio reports and there are many other ghosts in Swansea.

1270
00:59:13,180 --> 00:59:18,180
In 1965 the ghost of a chimney sweep was reported to be haunting a house in the district of

1271
00:59:18,180 --> 00:59:19,180
Morriston.

1272
00:59:19,180 --> 00:59:24,180
Even policemen were said to have witnessed the phenomenon and some very strange things

1273
00:59:24,180 --> 00:59:29,180
seemed to happen at a house of a Methodist minister who lived on St George Street now

1274
00:59:29,180 --> 00:59:32,180
Hanover Road off Walter Road.

1275
00:59:32,180 --> 00:59:37,180
The roof of David Phillips is described in published accounts of the case as one of the

1276
00:59:37,180 --> 00:59:40,180
keenest and wittiest of men.

1277
00:59:40,180 --> 00:59:46,180
Not the type of person you may think of easily hoodwinked but he was completely puzzled when

1278
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his furniture suddenly began to move itself whenever his back was turned.

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His bedroom in particular repeatedly turned itself up-dye dome upside down and I literally

1280
00:59:56,180 --> 01:00:01,180
can't read anymore but what I do want to say is I paid 50p for this book in the British

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Heart Foundation in Llanelli and its original publishing price in 1980 was £1.25

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so I don't think Peter Underwood got that many royalties from this book but I'll probably

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read the rest of it because I like a good ghost story.

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01:00:17,180 --> 01:00:18,180
Guess what?

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01:00:18,180 --> 01:00:19,180
It's the outro!

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We're done for another episode.

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Not just the episode.

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Yeah done for the year.

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Done for the year.

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This is the last episode of 2024.

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It's been lightly Christmas themed.

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It's been a quick five months.

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01:00:44,180 --> 01:00:46,180
Was it July we started?

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01:00:46,180 --> 01:00:48,180
Yeah so it's more than five months.

1296
01:00:48,180 --> 01:00:50,180
It's what six, seven months?

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01:00:50,180 --> 01:00:53,180
No, July, August, September, October, November, December.

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Six months, literally half a year.

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It was the start of July wasn't it?

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01:00:57,180 --> 01:00:58,180
Yeah.

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01:00:58,180 --> 01:01:00,180
Either way it's gone by fast.

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01:01:00,180 --> 01:01:02,180
It really has.

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It really has.

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And I guess really what I want to say first is thank you everybody so much for listening

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for all the shares and the likes, the views on YouTube.

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We appreciate every single one of you.

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Absolutely.

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Merry Christmas.

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01:01:21,180 --> 01:01:23,180
Happy New Year.

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I hope 2025 starts off really well for you.

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Please keep listening.

1312
01:01:27,180 --> 01:01:28,180
Please keep listening.

1313
01:01:28,180 --> 01:01:30,180
We will be back in the new year.

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Thank you Tom.

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01:01:31,180 --> 01:01:32,180
Thank you Rob for having us.

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01:01:32,180 --> 01:01:35,180
We are part of the Studio:Channel 84 Network.

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01:01:35,180 --> 01:01:40,180
If you haven't already listened to our fellow network shows, please do give them a listen.

1318
01:01:40,180 --> 01:01:47,180
The Variety Show where Channel 84 all started, where pop culture meets parenting and everything

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01:01:47,180 --> 01:01:52,180
in between and to the sides, above it and below it and around it.

1320
01:01:52,180 --> 01:01:56,180
The general area.

1321
01:01:56,180 --> 01:01:59,180
The Untitled Trek Show is no more.

1322
01:01:59,180 --> 01:02:02,180
Long live the Untitled Sci-Fi Show.

1323
01:02:02,180 --> 01:02:07,180
The Untitled Trek Show did bow out with style and class.

1324
01:02:07,180 --> 01:02:12,180
Check out the very, very special Christmas Shitshow story.

1325
01:02:12,180 --> 01:02:13,180
That's fantastic.

1326
01:02:13,180 --> 01:02:15,180
It was a labor of love for Rob.

1327
01:02:15,180 --> 01:02:17,180
Thank you very much for including us in it.

1328
01:02:17,180 --> 01:02:18,180
It's been amazing.

1329
01:02:18,180 --> 01:02:20,180
28 hours of editing for that one episode.

1330
01:02:20,180 --> 01:02:21,180
It does show.

1331
01:02:21,180 --> 01:02:22,180
Yeah, it really does.

1332
01:02:22,180 --> 01:02:24,180
He's done a fantastic job.

1333
01:02:24,180 --> 01:02:25,180
It's really fun.

1334
01:02:25,180 --> 01:02:28,180
All of the Channel 84 guys are on there.

1335
01:02:28,180 --> 01:02:32,180
Everyone from the studio, apart from Ross because Ross doesn't do anything.

1336
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He's the sensible one.

1337
01:02:33,180 --> 01:02:39,180
Plus some of our other wonderful friends and podcast family people that we've met on the

1338
01:02:39,180 --> 01:02:42,180
socials and face to face over the last couple of years.

1339
01:02:42,180 --> 01:02:46,180
So please do look out for them and have a listen because it is fantastic.

1340
01:02:46,180 --> 01:02:49,180
And apologies in advance for when my voice breaks.

1341
01:02:49,180 --> 01:02:54,180
I was going to say, is it appropriate to give a headphone warning?

1342
01:02:54,180 --> 01:02:57,180
I mean, the levels are okay.

1343
01:02:57,180 --> 01:03:01,180
And we've got to say thank you as well to Simon and Ross of Who Takes the Socks Off.

1344
01:03:01,180 --> 01:03:09,180
Ross and Simon have been torturing Tom, Rob, Adam and myself for the last couple of months

1345
01:03:09,180 --> 01:03:15,180
in a master of tasks, not rip off Taskmaster themed Christmas special.

1346
01:03:15,180 --> 01:03:20,180
All of which was audio recorded and video recorded.

1347
01:03:20,180 --> 01:03:22,180
It's not out yet.

1348
01:03:22,180 --> 01:03:28,180
Simon is still working on the editing, but it will be available, I believe, in audio and video format.

1349
01:03:28,180 --> 01:03:30,180
So hopefully you'll find it on YouTube.

1350
01:03:30,180 --> 01:03:35,180
If not, definitely linked to the channel84.co.uk website.

1351
01:03:35,180 --> 01:03:40,180
In the meantime, there is their best of 2024 mammoth episode as well.

1352
01:03:40,180 --> 01:03:42,180
That's a good three hour slog.

1353
01:03:42,180 --> 01:03:46,180
If you've never heard the show before, if you want to find out what you've been missing.

1354
01:03:46,180 --> 01:03:50,180
Yeah, that sums up the entire year - best bits of the year for them.

1355
01:03:50,180 --> 01:03:56,180
It does. It's a collection of brilliant soundbites and clips and mini interviews and things.

1356
01:03:56,180 --> 01:03:58,180
Yeah, just really good fun.

1357
01:03:58,180 --> 01:04:03,180
Socks have also got their first live stream taking part in Lemon Sunday's six hour stream.

1358
01:04:03,180 --> 01:04:06,180
That's on January the 19th.

1359
01:04:06,180 --> 01:04:11,180
You can find their podcast feeds and socials at channel84.co.uk.

1360
01:04:11,180 --> 01:04:13,180
Have a listen and tell a friend.

1361
01:04:13,180 --> 01:04:18,180
And you can find us at likelyused.co.uk as well.

1362
01:04:18,180 --> 01:04:25,180
You can. And you can also find us on Twitter because I refuse to call it X.

1363
01:04:25,180 --> 01:04:26,180
Blue Sky.

1364
01:04:26,180 --> 01:04:30,180
We also have a Discord. You can find a link and an invite to that.

1365
01:04:30,180 --> 01:04:35,180
We have an Instagram and occasionally when we're bothered I share things on Facebook too.

1366
01:04:35,180 --> 01:04:41,180
So we've got most of the social covered, but the Facebook stuff is under my name not the show.

1367
01:04:41,180 --> 01:04:44,180
So yeah, is that it? Is that everything?

1368
01:04:44,180 --> 01:04:46,180
I think that's everything we do.

1369
01:04:46,180 --> 01:04:47,180
Oh wow.

1370
01:04:47,180 --> 01:04:48,180
That's it for the year.

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01:04:48,180 --> 01:04:50,180
In that case.

1372
01:04:50,180 --> 01:04:55,180
We wish you a Merry Christmas. We wish you a Merry Christmas.

1373
01:04:55,180 --> 01:05:01,180
We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

1374
01:05:01,180 --> 01:05:03,180
Hurray

1375
01:05:07,180 --> 01:05:10,180
Adam and Karen have been lightly used.

1376
01:05:10,180 --> 01:05:13,180
Visit likelyused.co.uk for more.

1377
01:05:13,180 --> 01:05:18,180
To get in touch, email pod at likelyused.co.uk.

1378
01:05:18,180 --> 01:05:23,180
Turnip explained that when Steve appeared he was still very much into his necromancers act.

1379
01:05:23,180 --> 01:05:24,180
He hadn't realised.

1380
01:05:24,180 --> 01:05:25,180
He's real...

1381
01:05:25,180 --> 01:05:27,180
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01:05:27,180 --> 01:05:28,180
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This was a Studio Channel 84 network show.

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To find more, head over to channel84.co.uk now.