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Right, let's see if we can make this a really

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quick episode 28, because there could be outside

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noises starting up again at any minute. There's

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been a full three minutes of, as soon as we press

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record, plane, plane, more plane, next door banging,

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just after next door had stopped banging, started

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banging again, right, there's a gap between it,

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so before they put the telly on again, we're

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going to try and get this episode out. Yeah,

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crack as much out of the way as we can. This

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is Lightly Used. With Adam and Karen. Welcome

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to Lightly Used episode 28. I'm Adam. And I'm

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Karen. And I've taken antihistamines against

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the recommended powder to take. I was not going

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to mention that. It hasn't worked so far. This

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is a second attempt at doing the show. We had

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to stop the first one for me to do a horrible

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noise with my nose. I also wasn't going to tell

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anyone that. No, house lied to me. Hay fever

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is a bitch. I thought it would work quicker so

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we could do the show because I forgot to take

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it earlier. And it hasn't worked at all. So if

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my voice changes several times throughout the

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episode, we've stopped so I can unblock my face,

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essentially. Apologies in advance. He's such

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a terrible mess, ladies and gentlemen, and everyone

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in between. I'm lying. He's really not. I'm doing

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my best. I've got to apologise to Simon and Ross

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as well. When I was doing my thank yous on the

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birthday list... Honestly, I had too many scraps

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of paper and notes so I was strewn about the

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place. They invited us to be the first guests

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on their mini -sode Socks On or Off. They did.

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I forgot to say thank you. Thank you, thank you,

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thank you. Again, because we did thank you ages

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ago, but thank you again. Yeah. I was looking

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back and I... This is what we've got to be thankful

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for this year. Yeah. Lightly used Thanksgiving

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in July. Bit of the show. Birthday thanks. Yeah.

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Cheers, guys. I'm sorry. But, you know, in my

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defence, you get a title out of me, so. Oh, also,

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I introduced Karen to Tropic Thunder today. Oh,

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my God. You absolutely did. And I thoroughly

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enjoyed it. What did you make of the cast? Genius.

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I did not know. that Tom Cruise was in that movie.

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And considering how much scene time he actually

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gets, and even after they put his name up on

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the end credits with him in character, I was

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like, that's not Tom Cruise. How is that Tom

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Cruise? I still kind of don't believe that it's

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Tom Cruise, but apparently it's Tom Cruise. There

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were a couple of shots, even with the prosthetics

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and the Lane Grossman stubble and everything.

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I thought, oh, you're going to be able to tell

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us. I didn't want to say, I thought, oh, you're

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going to definitely get a no from that. But I

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thought, well, you haven't said anything. I wouldn't

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say anything. I wouldn't say anything. I didn't

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know anything at all about Tom Cruise. And Robert

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Downey Jr., the only time he looks like Robert

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Downey Jr. in the entire movie is when he walks

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into the heroin farm with his hat on. In disguise.

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And in disguise, his hat on, and he's got a mask

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up over his nose. So literally you can only see

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his eyes and mascara. And I was like, oh yeah,

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look, it's Robert Downey Jr. They've done a really

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good job of hiding him too. The prosthetics on

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that movie, genius. Whoever worked on those did

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a stellar, stellar job. I really enjoyed the

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pyrotechnics, like the effects, especially with

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Ben Stiller running across the bridge at the

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end. Spoilers. Danny McBride was excellently

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cast as well. Yeah, I thoroughly enjoyed it.

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I didn't know what to make of it. I gave you

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nothing going in, and it opened with the fake

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adverts as well. Yes. Didn't skip any of them.

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Yeah, I thought that was really cool with the

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fake trailers at the start. Devil's Alley, I

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really want to watch. Satan's Alley. Satan's

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Alley, sorry, yeah. I want that to be a real

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movie. I want to watch that one. It was great.

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In addition to some of the close -ups, just in

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sort of profile of Tom Cruise's head from just

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the side and back, I thought, well, it's going

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to give way. The absolute intensity of his swearing

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acting might have given it away. Honestly, I

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did not twig at all that it was Tom Cruise. And

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actually, the entirety of his time on screen,

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I was trying to think of who he reminded me of.

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And I was like, this is a specific actor that

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looks like this, but they've been chunked up.

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They're wearing a bodysuit and they're extra

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hairy. But the face... I think only Paul Giamatti

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could have done it otherwise. Maybe that's who

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I'm thinking of. I don't know. But whoever it

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was reminded me of someone and I thought it was

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maybe them, but they'd just been like chunked

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up for the role. Honestly, I mean, I'm thick

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as shit, clearly. Awesome chess wigs. And hand

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wigs. Like, you know, the perfect end of the

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hair just below the knuckle. His requests to

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the film were... Chef's kiss. He went fat hands

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and to dance. I mean, he does dance well. He

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really does dance well. I'm impressed. Especially

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for a white guy. If he did the full -on scissor

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hands running. Oh, there we go. There we go.

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His big fat arms. Knees getting up. Let's see.

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That's what would give him ways, Tom Cruise.

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Yeah. Tropic Thunder. Oh. I'm really glad you

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popped my sherry on that one. I really enjoyed

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it. It was great. I'm going to nominate that

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as your first film to review for The Land Before

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Crime. Oh, I thought you were going to do that

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one. Okay. Well, the thing is, I guess we can

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do different reviews of it. It'll be different

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people's versions of it. That's true, but would

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it be a bit boring to have, unless we did like

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two and a half minutes each and then mashed them

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together? going to be for people to download

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either one I suppose I'm sure that was in the

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group chat and said yeah it can be over that

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because it's different people's takes on it yeah

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that's true as all reviewers are I'm guessing

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maybe not release them too close to each other

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or right next to each other yeah I suppose we

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should explain and we can compete for downloads

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we should explain what the Land Before Prime

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is We absolutely should. The Land Before Prime

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is the newest addition to the Channel 84 family.

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It is. It's the five -minute film review, primarily

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focused around physical media and current cinema

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releases. Yes, no streaming allowed, unless it's

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a case of, I know I owned this DVD 17 years ago,

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but I've moved six times since then and flogged

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a lot of shit. So is it all right if I watch

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this on Netflix or something similar? And then

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review it because I did used to own it and I

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did see it in the cinema. Does that count? TJ

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said it counted. In that case, we can use those.

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Sorry about the farting noises. I'm particularly

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squeaky on the chair today. That's all right.

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It masks the bus going by at exactly the same

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time. Oh, lovely. You can hear my back farting

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against the chair instead of a bus going past.

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Delightful. And because we've carried on talking,

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I don't think I can edit either one out. Busted.

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Says me right for being there. How dare you get

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comfortable. I know. That'll teach you. It will.

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That'll learn me good time. Coming up on the

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show today, we've got slightly used news. Johnny

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Turnip has Excalibur in his hands. He does. We

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try and guess what each other's mystery items

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are in Tat in the Box. We have a game, and I

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will attempt the bibliotata I've been putting

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off. Really? I've not read any more of it. It's

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only been three episodes in the waiting. Although

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those... Two episodes before were about an hour

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long, so... Yeah, we really didn't need it, yeah.

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I talked so much. You didn't need a book review

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and top of that, even if I had prepared it. No.

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So I think that's a get -out -of -jail -free

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guy. Yeah, yeah, I think we did all right for

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the time. We made up for content. No one's told

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us it was shit, but that might mean no one's

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listening. This is the final instalment of the

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Once and Future Kings saga. Let's find out what

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happens. Abigavenny Man claims he stopped King

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Arthur's corpse from being dug up by aliens.

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From the Abigavenny Chronicle by Tim Butters

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on Monday 19th August 2024. And Abigavenny Man

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claims he not only stopped alien lifeforms from

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digging up King Arthur's corpse and defiling

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it, but... He also turned his back on a golden

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opportunity to rule the world, just because he

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didn't need the aggro. After alleging that he

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and his friends discovered the final resting

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place of the once and future king and had retrieved

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Excalibur from Tredegar Reservoir, semi -professional

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paranormal investigator Johnny Turnip told the

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Chronicle he was accosted by men in beige suits

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who were actually extraterrestrials who'd been

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plotting to rule the world for centuries. Look,

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a little like your average dickhead, explained

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Turnip. But they're actually from space, and

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they have one goal. To establish a global community

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council and enslave us all. Turnip added, If

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a manager beat me and the boys in a fair fight

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and steal Excalibur, it would have been the endgame

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for humanity as we know it. They plan to use

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Excalibur to dig up King Arthur's corpse and

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kill it. Fortunately, just before me, Puerto

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Rico Paul and Fast Eddie prepared to go down

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in one last glorious stand that Eminem probably

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would have written a best -selling rap ballad

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about. Big Tony. Turned up on a Shire horse.

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Turnip added, Earlier in the quest, Torn had

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quit because he didn't trust in my vision anymore.

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He can be homonal at times, so I didn't pay much

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mind. But apparently, when he got back to Ebba,

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he was plagued by a bad feeling that his mates

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were in trouble. So he jumped back into his Bedford

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rascal, hult -footed down to the heads of the

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valleys. Only trouble is, he broke down just

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outside Ebbu Vale. However, Torn's a resourceful

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type, and after borrowing a Shire horse from

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a field, He travelled the rest of the way to

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Tredegar in his stolen steed. Imagine that surprise

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when Big Tony turned up in horseback at the last

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minute, brandishing a baseball bat and yelling,

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BANZAI YOU BASTARDS! In his classic red Adidas

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tracksuit and Wales FA bucket hat, he looked

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every inch a knight of the modern age. The fact

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he was blasting out Beyoncé's end of time with

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a portable Bluetooth speaker he had strapped

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on his back didn't even seem weird. Tones always

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had a strange choice in fighting songs and certainly

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rattled the aliens. They were expecting a walkover,

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but they didn't count on the mad bastard from

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the Mardi riding a horse, playing queen bee and

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screaming blue murder. As tone charged, the men

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in beige couldn't hold their line or their nerve.

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They pedalled away furiously on their electric

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bikes, and as the crappy electric motors kicked

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in, I waved Excalibur at their backs and yelled,

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This is for Arthur, you Martian flyboys! Dramatic.

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That's one nil to humanity! Screamed Puerto Rico

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Paul as he high -fived Fast Eddie. Where's that

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treacherous, tall JFK Jones? I asked. He's one

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of them now, said Paul. They've corrupted him

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with their multidimensional nonsense. He was

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a good man, I sighed solemnly. Let's remember

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him for who he was, and not the motherless piece

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of crap he later became. As we all bowed our

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head in silence, and tried to remember something

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positive about the rat who once called himself

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our friend, I gazed in wonder at Excalibur. After

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all my manifest trials and tribulations, I finally

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had the means to resurrect King Arthur and rule

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the world as his second -in -command. Yeah, to

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be honest, it all seemed like a lot of unnecessary

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aggro. I'd have to return to Dunraven Bay, plunge

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it into a rock and hopefully free the once -and

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-future king, and looking at Excalibur, which

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resembled the rusty old samurai I saw from the

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1990s, a little bit too much for my liking. I

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wasn't sure if it would just snap in half as

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soon as it hit Solid Rock. As far as weapons

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go, it did look very epic. Even if I managed

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to free King Arthur, as old as the possibility,

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he could be a dickhead. I mean, you've been sleeping

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for over a thousand years, I need to be walking

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up a bunch of men in tracksuits and join you

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to fight some aliens and rule the country again.

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What sort of mood would you be in? Also, if I

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had to be second in command, which I should imagine

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it's pretty much a full -time job, something

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I've always strenuously avoided. As I keep telling

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my job coach, if I don't get enough Netflix and

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beer time during the week, I can get a bit neurotic.

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Turnabout it. Looking at Excalibur, I finally

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made my decision. And, just as I went to hurl

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the Sword of Destiny back into Tredegar Azua,

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Puerto Rico Paul went to grab it, but as soon

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as he touched it, he let out a scream and fell

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to his knees. I can't move my hand! He screamed.

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Paul's left hand had gone completely limp at

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the wrist. Every time he went to move it, it

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just flopped back down limplessly. What sort

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of strange magic is this? growled Big Tony. The

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sword is cursed, JT. Throw the thing back into

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the water and be done with it. As I threw Excalibur

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skywards, I'm sure I saw what suspiciously looked

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like a false widow jump from it. Nanny Anna Horrorshow

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Turnip used to breed them and plant them in bananas

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at supermarkets, until she was caught on CCTV

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one time and told to behave. Turnip told the

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Chronicle, As the sword we'd spent so long searching

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for finally splashed into the water, I was sure

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I saw a hand call up to grab it, but for some

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reason it was wearing those fingerless neon green

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gloves that were big in the 80s. It freaked me

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out a little, but no one else seemed to notice

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anything untoward. Big Tony had gone into a heated

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argument with Fast Eddie about who would win

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in a race between Usain Bolt and Sonic the Hedgehog.

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Meanwhile, Pedro de Capullo was sat gazing at

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his limp wrist and mourning about how he'd never

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be able to hold a microphone and do a Simon Le

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Bon tribute act again. I said, Trust me, Paul.

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It'll get better. Maybe not tomorrow. Maybe not

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next month, or maybe not even next year, but

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one morning, you'll wake up and have the use

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of both ends again. This seemed to console him,

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and As he softly started singing Rio by Duran

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Duran, we all joined in the chorus and turned

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our heads to the heavens. Singing tunelessly

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together and without a care in the world, we

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looked at the first stars of the evening appear

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in the sky like pinpricks in the curtain of light.

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And, as we stood side by side, with our arms

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flung around one another's shoulders, I realised

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what I'd been searching for was already there.

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There was a King Arthur spirit inside every one

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of us. No. It was the great king's spirit of

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individualism, resistance, defiance and courage

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in the face of overwhelming odds that mattered.

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Let his final resting place or some rusty old

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sword. As the boys broke off Singareo and Puerto

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Rico Paul began doing an enthusiastic rendition

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of Hungry Like the Wolf while using his limp

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wrist like a stage prop, Fast Eddie pulled out

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a crate of lager from the boot of his mini and

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grinned. It was going to be a great night. All

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these stories and more have been compiled by

00:14:57.250 --> 00:14:59.649
Tim Butters in his book, The Manifest Trials

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and Tribulations of Johnny Turnip. And you'll

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find a link in the show blog for this episode

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at lightlyused .co .uk. It's time for my favourite

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segment. It's your favourite segment. It's everybody's

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favourite fucking jingle. It's time for... I

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was sounding really confident then and he was

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laughing. at me you bastard it's everyone's favourite

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it's your favourite jingle it is your favourite

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jingle everybody's favourite jingle and you will

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listen to it and enjoy it it's your favourite

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you make me do it every episode so yeah sorry

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people tat in the box tat in the box tat in the

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box tat in the box tat in the box tat in the

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box Tight in the box. Well done. Your turn to

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guess first. Yes, we're trying to work out because

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usually we base it on who brings the book. And

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we've thrown this all out of cock. We're not

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even recording in order of segments. We can't

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remember back two weeks ago. No. Even though

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we've got our notes in front of us. I'll put

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mine away. Oh, fair enough. Okay, are you ready

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to guess? Yes. My eyes are closed. My hands are

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out. Oh, cheeky. The filthiest segment of Lightly

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Used. Now, I will preface... Because of you.

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Because of me? Do you ever listen back to this

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segment? I don't know what you're talking about.

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I'm a charming young woman of refined and...

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Single entendres all the way. I don't know what

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you mean, you filthy, dirty boy. Right, you ready?

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I'll prerequisite this with, it makes a noise

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and you may recognise it from the noise, but

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I don't know. So here we are. That was the box

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falling down the wall. My eyes are closed. My

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hands have been out all this whole time. It is.

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Just in case I... Equidistant between your two

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hands. It's a plastic object. It is plastic.

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It feels rectangular. It was a nubbing sort of

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thing at one end. I just... You're rubbing my

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nubbin? Grazing my nubbin with your eyes closed,

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you filth. With a ball of my hand. Oh, weird.

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That's it. Do hands have balls? I thought they

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had palms. A bit. Because you have feet balls.

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Well, I thought it was just that bit. Your thumb

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sort of joins. Is that not the... Oh, yeah, there

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was a nubbin sticking up. Is it one of the...

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Oh, hang on. He's trying to figure out what all

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the nubbins do. He's literally touching up every

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single nubbin to find out what it does. I almost

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went in too early with my guess. It might be

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what I thought it was. That's the noise that

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I thought might give it away. I'm feeling all

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bits which aren't helping. That's a battery slot

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if that helps. Is it made by Tomy? Yes. I can't

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remember the name of it. You literally just said

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it. ARC. I can't remember the name of it. It's

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called ARC. ARC. I can't remember the name of

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it. But I don't enunciate well. Yeah, it's Tomy.

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It's Tomy. Yeah. ARC. It was upside down. Yeah,

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it was upside down. so this is one of the collection

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of handheld game machines that tommy created

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in the 70s and the 80s let me put it down to

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it's not making a noise yeah i will play with

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it otherwise i did bring a battery uh it is there

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if you want to have a play i'll wait till you

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finish talking about it it's not in perfect working

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order However, I did find an engineer lady on

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YouTube randomly who was fixing one that she'd

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bought that was broken. So I'm going to go back

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and watch that video to see if I can pull it

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apart and figure out, because this first blue

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bit doesn't turn all the way around. Anyway,

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this is... Oh, I won't have a go in that casing.

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If I start having a go, I... You won't break

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it any more than it's already broken. It might

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be repairable if I do. Anyway, this is the Tomi...

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...machine... Exclamation. ...named... I guess

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because it's so frustrating that that is the

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noise that you tend to make most when you're

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actually playing it. It's sort of... There is

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another noise in there, though. Is there? Oh,

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a few when you get to the end. Yeah. Phew. That's

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not what I'd be saying. I'd be like, where's

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the bloody beer? I heard this. Yeah. It's basically

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like a handheld... Miniature screwball scramble,

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I guess, in your hand. The idea is that you run

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ball bearings through a maze of obstacles. You

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go from the top to the bottom. If you fall off

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the obstacle, you have to go back to the start,

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either with that same ball bearing or you've

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got a little collection of them at the top. You

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can let them drop one at a time. Made in the

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70s and 80s. I think this is a 1980 model, which

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means it is exactly the same age as me. And for

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those of you that are good at maths, congratulations

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to you. Like I say, it is still ticking, but

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not working entirely. This was a Swansea car

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boot sale find for a Fiverr, which I thought,

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on a gamble, for something that's the same age

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as me and has a lot of feelings about it for

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a certain generation, I thought a Fiverr is worth

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a punt. It doesn't seem outlandish. No. It's

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one of those... it's whatever you're prepared

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to spend on it sort of things yeah and like you

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know like the conversation we were having earlier

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we don't buy things to sell them we buy them

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because we have an interest in them yeah and

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to be honest even if it worked in perfect order

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it would still spend 99 .9 % of its time on my

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tat shelves so it doesn't matter yeah it doesn't

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yes it's a it's like a trophy find you're right

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yes it is So yeah, I don't really care that it's

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not in perfect working order. You can get round

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it, but I've gotten as far as this twisty turning

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magnet bit and failed every time beyond there.

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But I like what you said about it being before

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a computer game. Yeah. It is a combination of

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some sort of tabletop. Playing game and maybe

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an arcade game. Yes. In your pocket. Yeah. At

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the end of terms, you'd be king of the fucking

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school with that. Oh, yeah, 100%. Or at least

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your class. I mean, I think these came out...

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Or queen. Maybe. With a K or a Q. A queen or

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a queen. I guess if you're royalty, you can choose.

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I guess so. A bit like birthday. I think these

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came out... after the Pocketeers, which were

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a much more simple version of the same sort of

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concept. There was no mechanics in them, no...

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you know no clock windy bits and pieces ticking

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but it was a maze where you got ball bearings

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through or there was other ones where you had

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like rings and and purely tilting and squirty

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water things yeah whereas this you very much

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have to play it on a flat surface because the

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first time i tried playing it i tried playing

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it like a game boy and holding it up which of

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course as soon as you release The ball bearing

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at the top. They all just drop straight down.

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And I was like, oh, okay. So it is a tabletop.

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It's a handheld tabletop flat surface game. Yeah.

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But yeah, I love it. It's great. In America,

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this was called Trip Over Traps or Tricky Traps.

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I found a couple of videos about those. ebay

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prices vary cheapest for a broken unboxed is

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about a fiver so what i've paid but with like

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more obvious things wrong with them like missing

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connectors in the battery section and things

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like that to the i've put cheapest broken five

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pound richest boxed 119 pounds at least that's

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what they're asking yeah and the average is about

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30 to 40 sort of selling asking price on ebay

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but like i say with all of the things that i

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buy i only spend money on things that i'm happy

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to have just to look at if they function then

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that's even better and i know some people will

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be like oh my god you're such a weirdo why are

00:23:44.460 --> 00:23:46.059
you buying a game if you don't even care if it

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works or whatever but you know what it's my tat

00:23:48.720 --> 00:23:51.039
collection and if it doesn't work i don't care

00:23:51.039 --> 00:23:55.579
also mind your business yeah my tat my biz yeah

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that's my that's my How do you work the twisty

00:24:02.009 --> 00:24:04.829
bit? So you have to put the battery in the back

00:24:04.829 --> 00:24:06.809
of the machine. Oh, they would automatically

00:24:06.809 --> 00:24:10.609
move that. Oh, okay, I see. I don't know if the

00:24:10.609 --> 00:24:13.470
timer is... Because it's obviously got the windy

00:24:13.470 --> 00:24:15.880
timer -y bit. I think it gives you about a minute,

00:24:15.980 --> 00:24:18.500
but I think there may be something caught up

00:24:18.500 --> 00:24:20.460
in there because as soon as you put the battery

00:24:20.460 --> 00:24:23.720
in, everything starts making noises. So there's

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no on off button. And the only thing that I like

00:24:26.700 --> 00:24:28.599
screwball scramble, the only thing that really

00:24:28.599 --> 00:24:30.839
controls any mechanical parts, not that there

00:24:30.839 --> 00:24:32.859
is much on a screwball scramble is the clock.

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Yeah. So they're obviously all, yeah, they're

00:24:36.599 --> 00:24:39.140
all connected. So there's something going on

00:24:39.140 --> 00:24:42.119
on the inside between the timer and this first

00:24:42.119 --> 00:24:45.490
blue cheesy disc. that are not quite right but

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it's it's good fun definitely stick a photo of

00:24:47.829 --> 00:24:52.210
this on the blog the only things i can see apart

00:24:52.210 --> 00:24:53.769
from obviously mechanically you say it's not

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working the only defects are the age related

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just there's a little bit of bubbling from there

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just a little bit of and i think at some point

00:25:00.589 --> 00:25:02.609
somebody's put some tape over it to prep i'm

00:25:02.609 --> 00:25:04.329
guessing package it when they'd be moving house

00:25:04.329 --> 00:25:07.369
or something to keep it intact because It's in

00:25:07.369 --> 00:25:09.930
incredible condition. It really is. The colours

00:25:09.930 --> 00:25:12.109
are really bright on it. Look at the red pop

00:25:12.109 --> 00:25:14.049
on that. I mean, it's clearly never been kept

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in a window or anywhere near any direct sunlight.

00:25:17.430 --> 00:25:22.049
No. I mean, maybe this front sticker is a bit

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bleached and the yellow around the top sticker,

00:25:24.190 --> 00:25:27.509
but I think it's been kept out of sight, out

00:25:27.509 --> 00:25:30.289
of mind. It's 45 years old. You can still tell

00:25:30.289 --> 00:25:32.910
it's yellow stickers. Yeah. Yeah, no, that's

00:25:32.910 --> 00:25:34.809
awesome. Yeah, I love it. That's going to take

00:25:34.809 --> 00:25:38.430
some beating. Like many people that like Tomys,

00:25:38.430 --> 00:25:44.509
if I see more, I shall gather. It's your turn.

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Okay. Okay, right. Close your eyes, put your

00:25:48.990 --> 00:25:51.630
hands out. They are closed and my hands are open

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and on the table. Here's a box for menaging.

00:26:01.430 --> 00:26:08.630
Oh, quelle surprise. It sounds heavy. Oh, I could

00:26:08.630 --> 00:26:11.170
have been acting. You could have been Mr. Actor.

00:26:11.230 --> 00:26:18.410
Is it like a grande dame? Or a petit flou. Okay,

00:26:18.470 --> 00:26:21.789
it's equidistant between your hands. All right,

00:26:22.230 --> 00:26:25.849
taking my words off me. It was a good sounding

00:26:25.849 --> 00:26:28.289
word. I know, it is. It's nice to say. Darling.

00:26:29.460 --> 00:26:32.799
Grasp the bulb firmly. I'll just give it away.

00:26:33.900 --> 00:26:36.200
This feels very much like... I'll wait for you

00:26:36.200 --> 00:26:38.539
to touch it. Have a good feel of it first. Yeah.

00:26:39.559 --> 00:26:49.980
It is large. It has wire. Springy wire. I've

00:26:49.980 --> 00:26:54.700
just hit the microphone. Sorry about that. That...

00:26:54.700 --> 00:26:57.450
I just hit the microphone again. Sorry about

00:26:57.450 --> 00:27:00.970
that. Nobody listens for ASMR. Good job, really.

00:27:01.170 --> 00:27:03.630
Got the wrong mics for that. This is a car charger

00:27:03.630 --> 00:27:11.569
plug. Yep. And this is either a blue light or

00:27:11.569 --> 00:27:18.509
a red light or an orange light. Yes. Is it magnetic?

00:27:18.509 --> 00:27:20.789
Can you stick it on your roof? Oh, my God. Is

00:27:20.789 --> 00:27:23.130
this off your new van? No. Oh, is it not? No.

00:27:23.990 --> 00:27:26.710
Well, it's a safety light of the orange variety

00:27:26.710 --> 00:27:29.289
with the cigarette lighter plug and a stretchy

00:27:29.289 --> 00:27:34.029
cord. Yep. Quite an old one. Ooh! Ooh, it is!

00:27:35.710 --> 00:27:40.710
Britax PMG Limited. That's one of the old safety

00:27:40.710 --> 00:27:43.250
triangle things on the very top that's mostly

00:27:43.250 --> 00:27:46.630
worn out. Oh, yeah. Dirtied out. I'm guessing

00:27:46.630 --> 00:27:49.950
from the heat of the bulb. That is... So cool.

00:27:50.250 --> 00:27:53.730
That's an orange, roof -mounted, amber rotating

00:27:53.730 --> 00:27:58.970
warning beacon. In 1939, Yorkshire metallurgist

00:27:58.970 --> 00:28:03.089
Philip Metcalfe Godfrey Thorpe. Good name. Excellent

00:28:03.089 --> 00:28:05.569
name. He began producing vehicle wiring and electrical

00:28:05.569 --> 00:28:08.549
equipment on a kitchen table in Leeds. And he

00:28:08.549 --> 00:28:11.650
founded the company PMG Thorne. A bit easier

00:28:11.650 --> 00:28:13.809
to say. And land was developed around his home

00:28:13.809 --> 00:28:16.289
for production facilities. And they relocated

00:28:16.289 --> 00:28:19.309
to Bridlington in the early 60s. Oh, nice. Factory

00:28:19.309 --> 00:28:21.369
is still based there today. Cheaper rent in Brid.

00:28:21.670 --> 00:28:24.470
By the mid -70s, the company was bought by Britex

00:28:24.470 --> 00:28:30.029
and renamed Britex in brackets PMG. It's now

00:28:30.029 --> 00:28:32.730
part of some multinational, I think, what was

00:28:32.730 --> 00:28:35.089
it called? Eco group? Eco groups? I can't remember.

00:28:35.269 --> 00:28:37.890
But they still make light bars and beacons. Plus,

00:28:37.910 --> 00:28:41.509
probably since the 70s, Britex is more well -known

00:28:41.509 --> 00:28:44.269
for making child safety seats for cars. Oh, right.

00:28:45.150 --> 00:28:51.140
And I acquired this. maybe five years ago acquired

00:28:51.140 --> 00:28:56.220
i've tried it out and moving on um i've said

00:28:56.220 --> 00:29:00.460
what i've said does it work i it didn't work

00:29:00.460 --> 00:29:03.220
properly from what i remember uh i can't remember

00:29:03.220 --> 00:29:05.039
what was wrong whether it either i remember it

00:29:05.039 --> 00:29:07.740
did light up whether there was just one flash

00:29:07.740 --> 00:29:12.339
and that was it uh i can't remember whether the

00:29:12.339 --> 00:29:16.019
beacon rotated or it just lit up and didn't rotate

00:29:16.019 --> 00:29:19.299
uh Yeah, there's something not right with it.

00:29:19.779 --> 00:29:22.299
This plug doesn't seem as old as the rest of

00:29:22.299 --> 00:29:25.019
it. Well, I took that adapter apart to check

00:29:25.019 --> 00:29:27.339
to see was there a fuse issue or something or

00:29:27.339 --> 00:29:29.660
what was the rating on the fuse. I couldn't quite

00:29:29.660 --> 00:29:31.980
get it back together properly, as you can see.

00:29:32.240 --> 00:29:34.339
I'll need to spend a little bit more time in

00:29:34.339 --> 00:29:36.640
an emptier room where if the spring shoots out,

00:29:36.720 --> 00:29:41.140
I'll find it easy. This is a fantastic thing.

00:29:41.559 --> 00:29:44.640
I didn't even know you had this. No, I've been

00:29:44.640 --> 00:29:50.579
keeping this off -site. Oh, that is cheeky. So

00:29:50.579 --> 00:29:53.759
where am I going to keep it? I really, I really

00:29:53.759 --> 00:29:56.960
rate that. That is a fine piece of kit. After

00:29:56.960 --> 00:29:59.480
the show, we'll plug it in the Tatmobile. We'll

00:29:59.480 --> 00:30:00.839
try it out. We'll see if it works. We'll see

00:30:00.839 --> 00:30:02.680
if it works. And then if it doesn't, you can

00:30:02.680 --> 00:30:04.380
just put your light bars on and give those a

00:30:04.380 --> 00:30:06.460
flash just to satisfy me. I was happy to give

00:30:06.460 --> 00:30:09.599
you a flash. Oh, excellent. Told you this segment

00:30:09.599 --> 00:30:23.170
was fun. Dear Lord. Oh dear. It's been a little

00:30:23.170 --> 00:30:25.150
while since we've recorded us playing a game.

00:30:25.150 --> 00:30:27.309
It has been a little while and I can tell it's

00:30:27.309 --> 00:30:29.130
been a little while because I am not enthusiastic

00:30:29.130 --> 00:30:32.029
about this and I really thought I would be. I

00:30:32.029 --> 00:30:34.269
never am enthusiastic about the game segments.

00:30:35.210 --> 00:30:37.650
What have you brought for the episode? I have

00:30:37.650 --> 00:30:41.569
brought Burton's. Jammy Dodgem's Game, an exciting

00:30:41.569 --> 00:30:45.130
and original game of skill and chance for two

00:30:45.130 --> 00:30:48.210
to six players, fun for everyone from eight to

00:30:48.210 --> 00:30:50.589
80. I was just having a look on the inside to

00:30:50.589 --> 00:30:52.470
see if I could find out when it was made. Very

00:30:52.470 --> 00:30:56.410
specifically prohibitive age range. I can't see

00:30:56.410 --> 00:30:59.970
a date of manufacture on here. Is there anyone?

00:31:00.210 --> 00:31:04.869
No, no idea. It looks maybe late 70s, early 80s.

00:31:04.869 --> 00:31:07.819
Yeah, quite possibly. I wonder if it says on

00:31:07.819 --> 00:31:10.380
eBay that I got it from. I was going to ask also

00:31:10.380 --> 00:31:13.339
where you got it from. It is an eBay purchase.

00:31:13.680 --> 00:31:17.940
I've had it a little while and it only hasn't

00:31:17.940 --> 00:31:22.220
come up because I've got so many other games

00:31:22.220 --> 00:31:25.900
now that it's really difficult to choose. Was

00:31:25.900 --> 00:31:27.099
there anything on the back of the other bit of

00:31:27.099 --> 00:31:31.680
box? No, I've checked. So it cost me altogether...

00:31:33.779 --> 00:31:39.819
£10 .20, £3 .20 postage, £0 .16 fat and £6 .84

00:31:39.819 --> 00:31:42.819
for the game itself. What was the grand total,

00:31:42.900 --> 00:31:46.799
sorry? £10 .20. We'll see if it's worth it while

00:31:46.799 --> 00:31:49.400
we give it a quick run through. We will. We've

00:31:49.400 --> 00:31:51.759
given the rules a quick read through and it seems

00:31:51.759 --> 00:31:54.700
like it's really aimed at more than just two

00:31:54.700 --> 00:31:57.880
players. Yeah. We're adapting a two player mode.

00:31:58.980 --> 00:32:02.240
One of us, sorry, the aim of the game is, well,

00:32:02.299 --> 00:32:04.539
the version that we'll be playing is one player

00:32:04.539 --> 00:32:06.920
has to get to the other end of the board without

00:32:06.920 --> 00:32:10.279
their three lives being taken by the other dodger.

00:32:10.799 --> 00:32:15.859
It's a grid of 74 squares. Some of them have

00:32:15.859 --> 00:32:19.420
got jammy splodges on. Some of them have got

00:32:19.420 --> 00:32:23.799
chance cards, chance... last things aren't they

00:32:23.799 --> 00:32:26.920
some of them you pick up a chance card sorry

00:32:26.920 --> 00:32:33.819
i need to cough oh that was unpleasant some of

00:32:33.819 --> 00:32:36.559
the squares have got jammy spots some of the

00:32:36.559 --> 00:32:39.460
squares you pick up a chance card one player

00:32:39.460 --> 00:32:43.900
is the danger dodger it is a dodgems sort of

00:32:43.900 --> 00:32:47.539
game and the idea is that that person playing

00:32:47.539 --> 00:32:51.240
the danger dodger takes the lives of the Jemmy

00:32:51.240 --> 00:32:53.480
Dodgers playing in the other dodgems, trying

00:32:53.480 --> 00:32:55.759
to get from one end of the board to the other.

00:32:55.900 --> 00:32:59.720
Yes. Each player has three lives, and if the

00:32:59.720 --> 00:33:05.240
Danger Dodger is on the same square as the player,

00:33:05.380 --> 00:33:08.559
the Danger Dodger steals two lives from the player.

00:33:08.960 --> 00:33:12.519
If the Danger Dodger is on a square adjacent

00:33:12.519 --> 00:33:15.819
to the player, except a diagonal! They were very,

00:33:15.839 --> 00:33:19.450
very insistent in the rules. Then you take one

00:33:19.450 --> 00:33:22.509
life. And I think I'm going to be playing the

00:33:22.509 --> 00:33:25.390
Danger Dodger first. I have to write down how

00:33:25.390 --> 00:33:28.049
many squares, or write down the number of the

00:33:28.049 --> 00:33:30.769
square that I will be moving to. And I'm allowed

00:33:30.769 --> 00:33:35.250
to make five moves. And I'm not allowed to move

00:33:35.250 --> 00:33:39.349
onto any of the gemmy squares. But I can move

00:33:39.349 --> 00:33:41.289
through the chance ones, but I can't stay on

00:33:41.289 --> 00:33:44.109
them. And I think you, as the player, you get

00:33:44.109 --> 00:33:50.910
to move three squares. I have written down a

00:33:50.910 --> 00:33:53.089
square that I will be moving to. Okay, what square

00:33:53.089 --> 00:33:55.569
are you starting from? Oh, sorry. As per the

00:33:55.569 --> 00:34:01.170
rules, I start on square 29. Karen gets to start

00:34:01.170 --> 00:34:04.089
outside of the board, and you get to move three

00:34:04.089 --> 00:34:06.769
squares in any direction, except diagonal! Up

00:34:06.769 --> 00:34:09.469
to three squares, as long as I move one. Yes.

00:34:10.570 --> 00:34:15.269
Because you're there, I'm going to go from row

00:34:15.269 --> 00:34:17.989
8. I can start at whichever row I want, can't

00:34:17.989 --> 00:34:20.750
I? Yeah, I guess so, yeah. Okay, and I'm going

00:34:20.750 --> 00:34:27.389
to go to number 15. Oh, close. I was going to

00:34:27.389 --> 00:34:34.469
go to 13. I'll be moving. Right, there's a tactic

00:34:34.469 --> 00:34:37.170
coming already. I'm thinking, he got more five

00:34:37.170 --> 00:34:40.809
squares, I got more three. How far away can I

00:34:40.809 --> 00:34:44.949
get? And am I safe? I have written down a number.

00:34:45.269 --> 00:34:47.630
I don't know how interesting this will be to

00:34:47.630 --> 00:34:50.730
listen to. One, two, three, four, five. I literally

00:34:50.730 --> 00:34:52.750
can't escape you if you've written the right

00:34:52.750 --> 00:34:56.230
number down. Yeah, yeah. Actually, I can escape

00:34:56.230 --> 00:34:59.489
you. I can overshoot. I can go on a chance square

00:34:59.489 --> 00:35:04.949
if you can't. But will it be good for you? I'm

00:35:04.949 --> 00:35:08.210
going to the chance square. I can't go to the

00:35:08.210 --> 00:35:10.909
chance square, so I'm going to 32. Fuck me, I

00:35:10.909 --> 00:35:16.000
was close. We're bumper to bumper, babes. I get

00:35:16.000 --> 00:35:18.739
a life off you because I'm right next to you.

00:35:18.840 --> 00:35:20.019
And I've got to give you the highest value one,

00:35:20.019 --> 00:35:22.219
haven't I? For some mystery reason, it doesn't

00:35:22.219 --> 00:35:24.340
seem to make any difference. And I pick a chance

00:35:24.340 --> 00:35:27.820
card, yes? Yes. Okay. My chance card reads, sudden

00:35:27.820 --> 00:35:34.840
power surge. Move to square 48. There we go.

00:35:34.960 --> 00:35:41.909
I'm on square 48. I'm almost five clear squares

00:35:41.909 --> 00:35:46.989
away from you. I'm just checking some rules of

00:35:46.989 --> 00:35:52.090
what I can and can't do. I can get a home in

00:35:52.090 --> 00:35:55.550
two moves. This is going to be a very quick game.

00:35:57.949 --> 00:36:03.190
You can get adjacent to me. That's the best I

00:36:03.190 --> 00:36:09.920
can do. One, two, three. I move to number 60.

00:36:10.500 --> 00:36:14.900
I move to 41. Oh my God, I'm so far away from

00:36:14.900 --> 00:36:18.900
you. You're going to lose so bad. I guess I will

00:36:18.900 --> 00:36:25.059
go to 66, 72 and then to the finish line. Yeah,

00:36:25.099 --> 00:36:26.840
so it wouldn't matter what square I move to.

00:36:27.039 --> 00:36:28.840
No, I think this is going to make... I couldn't

00:36:28.840 --> 00:36:31.119
even get a light off you either. Yeah, this will

00:36:31.119 --> 00:36:34.800
make more sense with more players. Yeah. Do you

00:36:34.800 --> 00:36:35.960
want to do it the other way around where you

00:36:35.960 --> 00:36:37.800
get to go top to bottom or do you want to quit

00:36:37.800 --> 00:36:40.619
it because we haven't done a timer? I'm happy

00:36:40.619 --> 00:36:44.179
to end there. Okay. Well then, you won. Yeah,

00:36:44.199 --> 00:36:46.619
and I would like to say I prefer jam and creams

00:36:46.619 --> 00:36:55.639
to jammy dodgers anyway. I brought that book

00:36:55.639 --> 00:36:58.300
with me finally. We can do that final segment

00:36:58.300 --> 00:37:00.960
of the show. You sure? Yeah, yeah. I've got to

00:37:00.960 --> 00:37:03.300
finally get through it at some point. This is

00:37:03.300 --> 00:37:06.940
the ITV Guide to Independent Television from

00:37:06.940 --> 00:37:12.699
1974. Wow. And it's introduced by Brian Young,

00:37:12.900 --> 00:37:16.099
the Director General of the Independent Broadcasting

00:37:16.099 --> 00:37:20.760
Authority. The idea of the book, I think this

00:37:20.760 --> 00:37:22.980
is more of the trade. Right. You wouldn't be

00:37:22.980 --> 00:37:25.800
surprised to find out. But it was also available

00:37:25.800 --> 00:37:28.320
to the public. And the version I've got is, it

00:37:28.320 --> 00:37:30.000
does say in the front, there's a library edition

00:37:30.000 --> 00:37:34.340
and a... The trade edition. Oh, okay. The public

00:37:34.340 --> 00:37:40.480
version was 90 pence. And introduces it by, most

00:37:40.480 --> 00:37:43.260
viewers are confused about who does what in independent

00:37:43.260 --> 00:37:45.840
television. This is not surprising. I've got

00:37:45.840 --> 00:37:47.920
no idea if he actually sounds like this. It sounds

00:37:47.920 --> 00:37:50.320
lovely to me. For one thing, it is a courier

00:37:50.320 --> 00:37:53.139
system, public and private, national and regional,

00:37:53.300 --> 00:37:57.420
leading and following public tastes. We in the

00:37:57.420 --> 00:37:59.639
authority happen to think it works pretty well.

00:38:00.690 --> 00:38:04.010
Essentially, this was just after the authority

00:38:04.010 --> 00:38:08.630
switched from being the ITA to the ITB, from

00:38:08.630 --> 00:38:12.510
the Independent Television Authority to the Independent

00:38:12.510 --> 00:38:15.349
Broadcasting Authority. And they've subsequently

00:38:15.349 --> 00:38:18.250
switched to Ofcom. Right. Previously, they were

00:38:18.250 --> 00:38:20.170
just in charge of television, but since becoming

00:38:20.170 --> 00:38:22.480
the Broadcasting Authority... They're in charge

00:38:22.480 --> 00:38:25.559
of what goes on on the radio as well. And during

00:38:25.559 --> 00:38:27.679
this period, I've been completely, completely

00:38:27.679 --> 00:38:31.940
biased. I did go to the Wales pages. There was

00:38:31.940 --> 00:38:33.860
a switch over from black and white to colour,

00:38:33.900 --> 00:38:37.199
but there was swathes of Wales still not covered

00:38:37.199 --> 00:38:39.860
by any television signal because of the terrain.

00:38:40.219 --> 00:38:42.579
There's big hills and a couple of mountains knocking

00:38:42.579 --> 00:38:45.480
them out. The gist of the book essentially is

00:38:45.480 --> 00:38:48.900
a review of pretty much... and say what we've

00:38:48.900 --> 00:38:51.920
done over the past year in terms of all our programming

00:38:51.920 --> 00:38:55.179
output there's examples of the spread of programs

00:38:55.179 --> 00:38:58.820
going back to 1956 with the covering things like

00:38:58.820 --> 00:39:04.480
news documentaries plays serials and what's that

00:39:04.480 --> 00:39:06.940
entertainment and music taking up a big section

00:39:06.940 --> 00:39:09.679
of it but then obviously the broadcasting hours

00:39:09.679 --> 00:39:12.539
going up from just over 40 a week to just over

00:39:12.539 --> 00:39:16.719
100 hours a week by the end of 1973 But a lot

00:39:16.719 --> 00:39:19.159
of these segments of the book, it covers different

00:39:19.159 --> 00:39:21.360
areas of broadcasting, like different advisory

00:39:21.360 --> 00:39:23.679
bodies they report to, who they have to answer

00:39:23.679 --> 00:39:27.500
to. One of the segments here about violence in

00:39:27.500 --> 00:39:30.420
television programming. And it lays out the ITV

00:39:30.420 --> 00:39:32.719
code about what's allowed and what they've decided,

00:39:32.900 --> 00:39:34.639
what you can show, what I'm guessing the watershed

00:39:34.639 --> 00:39:37.679
was featured very prominently in there. It talks

00:39:37.679 --> 00:39:41.300
about the news, all the ITV, I'm guessing main

00:39:41.300 --> 00:39:44.780
regional presenters at the time. Tells you what

00:39:44.780 --> 00:39:47.360
they do for different regions in terms of different

00:39:47.360 --> 00:39:49.940
types of programming, like dramas and things

00:39:49.940 --> 00:39:52.059
they've got been very proud of, set photographs.

00:39:52.719 --> 00:39:57.760
And going ahead, preschool programming. The past

00:39:57.760 --> 00:39:59.579
year has seen the establishment of preschool

00:39:59.579 --> 00:40:03.369
programs as a daily feature of ITV. Rainbow from

00:40:03.369 --> 00:40:06.510
Thames. So this must have been one of the first

00:40:06.510 --> 00:40:10.050
years that they'd taken on Rainbow as part of

00:40:10.050 --> 00:40:12.530
the TV shows. And if you are a YouTube fan, I'm

00:40:12.530 --> 00:40:15.610
guessing you've found us by Cheap Show. There's

00:40:15.610 --> 00:40:17.610
no way you would have found us before them. They've

00:40:17.610 --> 00:40:20.429
spoken very highly of Stuart Millard's channel

00:40:20.429 --> 00:40:23.969
on YouTube. He is a genius. Highly recommended

00:40:23.969 --> 00:40:26.849
by us as well. His essays and documentaries are

00:40:26.849 --> 00:40:29.110
very, very worth watching. And quite a few of

00:40:29.110 --> 00:40:32.320
them do cover Rainbow and also Salute. To Rod,

00:40:32.360 --> 00:40:34.219
Jane and Freddie. Yeah. Definitely seek them

00:40:34.219 --> 00:40:38.420
out if you've got the time. Skipping ahead, there's

00:40:38.420 --> 00:40:42.139
a day in the life of a regional announcing team.

00:40:42.420 --> 00:40:46.219
Oh, wow. This segment follows two continuity

00:40:46.219 --> 00:40:50.519
announcers, Roger Shaw coming in, getting ready,

00:40:50.679 --> 00:40:52.800
going on air, doing some continuity, writing

00:40:52.800 --> 00:40:55.340
his script and also then going on to present

00:40:55.340 --> 00:40:58.019
the evening news. So he gets from behind the

00:40:58.019 --> 00:41:00.860
microphone, he's in vision. Before the end of

00:41:00.860 --> 00:41:04.039
the day. And also one other of their continuity

00:41:04.039 --> 00:41:06.699
announcers does their children's TV show as well.

00:41:07.059 --> 00:41:11.039
The pretty lady with the blonde curls. And here

00:41:11.039 --> 00:41:15.500
we go. Welsh programming. They've done the section

00:41:15.500 --> 00:41:17.980
in Welsh. They have. Which is kind of surprising.

00:41:18.840 --> 00:41:21.179
Early in the year, the authority published a

00:41:21.179 --> 00:41:23.039
statement on the future of television programmes

00:41:23.039 --> 00:41:25.579
in Wales. A document that contributed to the

00:41:25.579 --> 00:41:28.519
continuing debate in contemporary Wales. on the

00:41:28.519 --> 00:41:31.840
place of Welsh in television. A statement suggested

00:41:31.840 --> 00:41:33.820
the most practical way at present to overcome

00:41:33.820 --> 00:41:37.079
the problem would be to release the fourth channel

00:41:37.079 --> 00:41:43.900
to the authority. S4C. Yep, this was 1974. I

00:41:43.900 --> 00:41:47.760
think it was 1984 that S4C first came on air.

00:41:47.780 --> 00:41:50.940
Wow, it took a decade to kick Welsh language

00:41:50.940 --> 00:41:53.619
off the English TV channels. Or to finally sort

00:41:53.619 --> 00:41:57.030
out enough coverage. Yeah. Now, one of the things

00:41:57.030 --> 00:42:00.489
we've mentioned before from our childhood, public

00:42:00.489 --> 00:42:05.889
service... Oh, PSAs. PSAs. Love a PSA. The programme

00:42:05.889 --> 00:42:07.929
companies find time throughout the network for

00:42:07.929 --> 00:42:11.050
about 20 ,000 transmissions each year of public

00:42:11.050 --> 00:42:14.329
service films on health, safety, welfare, and

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at no cost to the government departments concerned.

00:42:16.710 --> 00:42:21.139
So they were obliged to put PSAs on the TV. I

00:42:21.139 --> 00:42:23.199
haven't seen them for years. I used to love a

00:42:23.199 --> 00:42:26.340
PSA. All those don't play with fireworks, don't

00:42:26.340 --> 00:42:29.340
wear crinoline around sparklers, crossing the

00:42:29.340 --> 00:42:32.300
road safety. Was it the hedgehogs that they used

00:42:32.300 --> 00:42:34.480
for the road safety crossing? Yeah, the king

00:42:34.480 --> 00:42:36.820
of the road. Yeah, king of the road. And then

00:42:36.820 --> 00:42:40.400
there was Charlie and his little boyfriend. I

00:42:40.400 --> 00:42:41.940
don't mean boyfriend, but he was a friend who

00:42:41.940 --> 00:42:44.119
was a boy. He was a human boy. Charlie was a

00:42:44.119 --> 00:42:48.269
cat. Ginger cat. Oh, Kenny Everett voice, yeah.

00:42:48.429 --> 00:42:51.590
Charlie says... Made famous by the prodigy. Don't

00:42:51.590 --> 00:42:56.710
take sweets from strangers. The scariest PSAs

00:42:56.710 --> 00:42:59.849
were the don't mess with the junction boxes and

00:42:59.849 --> 00:43:03.010
kids getting blown up and burnt to death on pylons.

00:43:03.250 --> 00:43:04.550
I remember the one with the kids getting run

00:43:04.550 --> 00:43:08.429
over by trains. What's the... Stillwater, the

00:43:08.429 --> 00:43:12.130
one with death. No. What do they call it? Where

00:43:12.130 --> 00:43:16.429
all the... Power lines, yes. Substation, yes.

00:43:16.909 --> 00:43:18.610
I don't know. Don't go get your frisbee from

00:43:18.610 --> 00:43:20.949
one of those. Yeah, leave your fish in your substation,

00:43:20.969 --> 00:43:23.909
walk away, stay alive. There's a section as well,

00:43:23.969 --> 00:43:25.750
getting the message across. How an advertisement

00:43:25.750 --> 00:43:29.150
reaches the screen. For the big national advertiser

00:43:29.150 --> 00:43:31.309
who wants to be seen on every television set

00:43:31.309 --> 00:43:34.409
in the United Kingdom, advertising time can cost

00:43:34.409 --> 00:43:40.000
as much... £6 ,500 for 30 seconds. Imagine the

00:43:40.000 --> 00:43:45.159
expense to be on every TV. Prime time, 30 seconds,

00:43:45.340 --> 00:43:49.019
six and a half grand. That's 1974 money. That's

00:43:49.019 --> 00:43:51.900
not even new money. Half a minute in 12 homes

00:43:51.900 --> 00:43:57.849
can cost just one pea. That's mad. Independent

00:43:57.849 --> 00:44:00.110
television receives no part of the licence fee.

00:44:00.150 --> 00:44:01.809
The cost of the service is met entirely from

00:44:01.809 --> 00:44:03.730
advertising revenue. The majority of viewers

00:44:03.730 --> 00:44:05.550
would rather have the advertising than stump

00:44:05.550 --> 00:44:08.050
up another £3 or £4 a year extra on the licence

00:44:08.050 --> 00:44:10.150
fees to pay for the programme. Oh, how fucking

00:44:10.150 --> 00:44:18.090
topical! 1974, remember this? Like, 50 years

00:44:18.090 --> 00:44:22.690
in the future from 50 years in the past. Still

00:44:22.690 --> 00:44:29.059
having the same debates. ITV 1975. We hope that

00:44:29.059 --> 00:44:31.800
you have found ITV 1974 both interesting and

00:44:31.800 --> 00:44:34.559
useful as a reference book. We'd be glad to know

00:44:34.559 --> 00:44:36.820
how far it meets your requirements and whether

00:44:36.820 --> 00:44:38.679
you would like to see any specific changes in

00:44:38.679 --> 00:44:40.980
next year's edition. Please send any comments

00:44:40.980 --> 00:44:44.280
and changes to Eric Croston, Publications Editor,

00:44:44.579 --> 00:44:47.670
Independent Broadcasting Authority. I won't give

00:44:47.670 --> 00:44:50.090
the fellas rest. They might not be there anymore.

00:44:50.369 --> 00:44:53.230
They might not be. Actually, that's a good find

00:44:53.230 --> 00:44:55.329
because, like you say, it's not something that's

00:44:55.329 --> 00:44:57.150
going to be on everybody's coffee table, is it?

00:44:57.230 --> 00:45:01.269
One thing I do miss, though, is the regional

00:45:01.269 --> 00:45:06.090
TV logos. It's going through the regions. You

00:45:06.090 --> 00:45:09.530
can see this Yorkshire television, Westwood TV,

00:45:09.809 --> 00:45:17.940
a nice blue Peter -looking TV logo. HTV. That's

00:45:17.940 --> 00:45:20.820
our own Harlech television. Harlech. It looks

00:45:20.820 --> 00:45:25.159
like a TV antenna, kind of, sort of. I guess

00:45:25.159 --> 00:45:27.980
it kind of, sort of does, actually. That's what

00:45:27.980 --> 00:45:29.539
I've always thought it was meant to look like.

00:45:29.579 --> 00:45:33.039
But if you look at it from a wrong angle. I did

00:45:33.039 --> 00:45:36.139
like, Granada had a good logo. Granada. A big

00:45:36.139 --> 00:45:40.059
G with a cross on there. A scenario. Oh, sorry,

00:45:40.159 --> 00:45:43.440
G with an arrow, sorry. It's a manly G. And...

00:45:43.440 --> 00:45:49.659
Thames Television. Yeah. Anglia with a knight

00:45:49.659 --> 00:45:53.219
on this spinny, roundy thing. That was also quite

00:45:53.219 --> 00:45:56.440
a good logo. Yeah. Thames were the days back

00:45:56.440 --> 00:46:00.619
when TV was choice and the choice was slim. Do

00:46:00.619 --> 00:46:02.159
you know what? I like that book. It's a good

00:46:02.159 --> 00:46:05.500
find. And, you know, it was worth the wait. £1

00:46:05.500 --> 00:46:08.309
.50, Wales Air Ambulance Charity Shop. Try and

00:46:08.309 --> 00:46:10.289
photocopy a couple of pages to stick on the blog.

00:46:10.449 --> 00:46:13.550
That's a good idea. Likelyused .co .uk and you'll

00:46:13.550 --> 00:46:15.670
find a blog entry for all our previous shows

00:46:15.670 --> 00:46:23.650
on there as well. Indeed you will. That's us

00:46:23.650 --> 00:46:25.429
done for another... I was going to say another

00:46:25.429 --> 00:46:28.309
week. We're over a year in and I keep messing

00:46:28.309 --> 00:46:32.130
this up. For another episode, thank you very,

00:46:32.170 --> 00:46:36.070
very much for listening. 28 episodes. You can

00:46:36.070 --> 00:46:39.530
find us all... Hang on a second. Yeah. Before

00:46:39.530 --> 00:46:42.909
you carry on. Oh, social. Shit, sorry, yes. No,

00:46:42.929 --> 00:46:49.690
no. What? So, Art, have you had a chance to have

00:46:49.690 --> 00:46:52.710
a little catch up with him since the last episode?

00:46:53.429 --> 00:46:56.309
I think it's very important that we say that

00:46:56.309 --> 00:46:59.050
we're recording this on the 19th, the day our

00:46:59.050 --> 00:47:03.650
birthday episode goes out. Yeah. We've got no

00:47:03.650 --> 00:47:06.800
idea what he's been doing. Was recording this.

00:47:06.860 --> 00:47:09.400
So we're in a bit of a time bubble. Because I

00:47:09.400 --> 00:47:12.940
went to the studios. He wasn't there. No surprise.

00:47:13.599 --> 00:47:16.440
Every person I saw there, I didn't see Rob or

00:47:16.440 --> 00:47:18.880
anyone like that. They were all busy. Everybody

00:47:18.880 --> 00:47:21.559
else didn't know what the fuck I was talking

00:47:21.559 --> 00:47:26.039
about. Oh, my God. But Rob said he was the cleaner.

00:47:26.139 --> 00:47:28.860
I thought he was somebody on computers or something

00:47:28.860 --> 00:47:34.840
when I first met him there. You... No, you have.

00:47:35.400 --> 00:47:38.099
Because you... I thought we were getting money.

00:47:38.340 --> 00:47:41.059
You were the one that told me his name was Arthur.

00:47:42.039 --> 00:47:44.260
Oh, yeah. Sorry. I thought you were going to

00:47:44.260 --> 00:47:46.860
accuse me of being responsible for this AI bullshit.

00:47:46.980 --> 00:47:51.659
I am not, mate. I'm a new witness. Thank you.

00:47:51.820 --> 00:47:55.920
Christ. Because, you know, I honestly, I was

00:47:55.920 --> 00:47:58.659
losing my fucking mind. Everyone who was asking

00:47:58.659 --> 00:47:59.739
who I'm talking to, I was trying to describe

00:47:59.739 --> 00:48:02.380
him, but I ended up feeling like... describing

00:48:02.380 --> 00:48:07.639
Emmett in the fucking Lego movie. Mr. Everyone.

00:48:07.940 --> 00:48:12.980
Yeah, he's, you know, you have to meet him. Yes.

00:48:13.360 --> 00:48:15.940
And also not helpful describing, have you seen

00:48:15.940 --> 00:48:20.960
this man? No, he wasn't there. Nobody seems to

00:48:20.960 --> 00:48:23.500
know who the fuck he is or have any recollection,

00:48:23.500 --> 00:48:27.579
even by his name. So does he? Arthur Grant. We

00:48:27.579 --> 00:48:29.019
don't even know if he works there. Call him Art.

00:48:29.400 --> 00:48:32.179
Nobody knows. Well, Rob said he was a cleaner,

00:48:32.280 --> 00:48:36.719
so... Good point. Again, we could be talking

00:48:36.719 --> 00:48:38.420
about completely different people now. You're

00:48:38.420 --> 00:48:40.820
the only other person who's seen the person...

00:48:40.820 --> 00:48:44.260
Is my art the same as your art? Because I haven't

00:48:44.260 --> 00:48:45.440
spoken to him since. Yeah, we didn't see him

00:48:45.440 --> 00:48:50.000
together. No. I don't know! This requires more

00:48:50.000 --> 00:48:52.860
investigation. Jesus Christ, shouldn't be this

00:48:52.860 --> 00:48:54.960
difficult. We just wanted to get a sponsor for

00:48:54.960 --> 00:48:57.539
the show. Mattresses or one of those food boxes

00:48:57.539 --> 00:49:00.570
or something. This is... Got out of fucking hand.

00:49:00.769 --> 00:49:02.829
Yeah, like, you know, hair loss treatment. In

00:49:02.829 --> 00:49:07.510
a year! We only do one episode of Fortnite! Jesus

00:49:07.510 --> 00:49:11.269
Christ, how has this got so... I haven't got

00:49:11.269 --> 00:49:14.730
a clue what's going on. I haven't seen him, nobody's

00:49:14.730 --> 00:49:18.289
seen him. Interesting. Not the word I'd use.

00:49:18.969 --> 00:49:25.409
Disturbing. It's my fucking voice. Yeah. Of course.

00:49:25.920 --> 00:49:29.960
But yes, you can find us at lightlyused .co .uk.

00:49:30.360 --> 00:49:33.880
There is our studio blog. Every single episode

00:49:33.880 --> 00:49:36.880
has a show entry. There's photos of our tats,

00:49:36.900 --> 00:49:38.719
links to anything we've talked about, links to

00:49:38.719 --> 00:49:41.159
the Abergavenny Chronicle articles, Tim Butter's

00:49:41.159 --> 00:49:44.360
book. And if we could find it in the Internet

00:49:44.360 --> 00:49:47.019
Archive, there will be a link to the bibliothete.

00:49:47.469 --> 00:49:49.610
book we featured in the episode as well indeed

00:49:49.610 --> 00:49:53.690
they shall also links to all our socials I'm

00:49:53.690 --> 00:49:55.630
going to have to throw over to you for that one

00:49:55.630 --> 00:49:58.610
I'm just going to list them off Facebook Instagram

00:49:58.610 --> 00:50:02.929
Twitter X Discord Blue Sky oh yes we've got Discord

00:50:02.929 --> 00:50:06.010
it's a YouTube and we have a YouTube channel

00:50:06.010 --> 00:50:09.269
which the episodes are uploaded to it's all audio

00:50:09.269 --> 00:50:12.900
content I think and there was Did we put a little

00:50:12.900 --> 00:50:15.159
shorter? There was one video of a game that we

00:50:15.159 --> 00:50:16.980
recorded. That's right. We're working on trying

00:50:16.980 --> 00:50:19.119
to do some more, I promise. Neither of us know

00:50:19.119 --> 00:50:23.480
video editing. My computer barely edits the audio

00:50:23.480 --> 00:50:26.559
for this episode anymore. I may take up the mantle

00:50:26.559 --> 00:50:28.699
of trying to learn that, but I'm not promising

00:50:28.699 --> 00:50:30.760
anything. Good luck and Godspeed. Thank you,

00:50:30.760 --> 00:50:33.960
sir. If you'd like to, you'll also find our studio

00:50:33.960 --> 00:50:37.900
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00:50:37.900 --> 00:50:43.059
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00:50:43.059 --> 00:50:47.360
TJ and Rob. Who Takes the Socks Off with Ross

00:50:47.360 --> 00:50:51.139
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00:50:51.139 --> 00:50:53.619
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00:50:53.619 --> 00:50:55.900
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00:50:55.900 --> 00:50:59.059
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00:50:59.059 --> 00:51:02.219
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00:51:02.219 --> 00:51:05.920
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00:51:05.920 --> 00:51:08.980
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00:51:08.980 --> 00:51:11.480
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00:51:11.480 --> 00:51:13.519
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00:51:27.340 --> 00:51:29.300
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00:51:29.300 --> 00:51:32.340
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00:51:32.579 --> 00:51:36.250
Like, subscribe, internet things people do. Whatever

00:51:36.250 --> 00:51:38.630
the kids say. I'm too old for this shit. Thank

00:51:38.630 --> 00:51:41.190
you. Please be kind to us. We appreciate you.

00:51:41.530 --> 00:51:43.670
And please be extra kind to me because I got

00:51:43.670 --> 00:51:46.030
shat on by a seagull today for the second time

00:51:46.030 --> 00:51:48.369
in a month. Meant to be good luck. That's what

00:51:48.369 --> 00:51:52.050
Rob said, but I'm yet to find out. No. We did

00:51:52.050 --> 00:51:54.710
deprive a likely suspect seagull of a burger,

00:51:54.789 --> 00:51:57.110
though. That's true. But he was a weird -looking

00:51:57.110 --> 00:52:00.280
bugger. Like big eye, little eye. Yeah. He looked

00:52:00.280 --> 00:52:03.019
like he was tripping balls. He did. One pupil's

00:52:03.019 --> 00:52:06.960
blown the fuck out. Yeah. Thank you everyone

00:52:06.960 --> 00:52:08.960
for listening. Thanks for being here. We love

00:52:08.960 --> 00:52:13.219
you. Bye. Adam and Karen have been lightly used.

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Visit lightlyused .co .uk for more. To get in

00:52:17.639 --> 00:52:27.889
touch, email pod at lightlyused .co .uk. Try

00:52:27.889 --> 00:52:35.070
my throat. Have a sip. Yeah, yeah. Emergency

00:52:35.070 --> 00:52:48.590
pop. Or is it emergency pow? Oh, my throat just

00:52:48.590 --> 00:52:53.849
made a funny bubbly noise. Do you ever get it

00:52:53.849 --> 00:52:55.389
when you swallow and you're not sure if everything's

00:52:55.389 --> 00:52:57.539
gone down? Yeah. I feel like I've got a little

00:52:57.539 --> 00:52:59.960
bit of drink just stuck there. Yeah, it just...

00:52:59.960 --> 00:53:09.039
And it goes... On the way down. Do that noise

00:53:09.039 --> 00:53:17.239
again. Ooh, the pressure. I'm only joking. It's

00:53:17.239 --> 00:53:19.760
like that man making his big foot noise, his

00:53:19.760 --> 00:53:24.739
big feet noise. The feet slip over it. What was

00:53:24.739 --> 00:53:31.349
the noise I made? Or something like that. Gross.

00:53:31.949 --> 00:53:34.429
I think it's gone now. Let's see if I can pick

00:53:34.429 --> 00:53:43.710
up where I left off. It's your outtake. This

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