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<ADAM's PHONE RINGS>
What the hell's this? Let's see who this is.

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Moshi Moshi. Ah, hello, Adam. Do you know who

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this is? Oh, hey, Val. It's Valentino. Have you

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been trying to reach me? I like you two. You

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haven't asked me for anything. But management

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have asked me to be proactive. So, what do you

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need from me? This is a one -time freebie. No

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questions asked. Um, I think we're all good,

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thanks. We've already got a show voiceover. It's

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Ed Parnell. He's my guy. So we've got an intro

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and outro already. Any announcements we sort

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of do ourselves. If you need anything taken care

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of. Oh, there is something I could surprise Karen

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with. You know the tat in the box bit she does

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the jingle for? Could you do a jingle for it?

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Just keep this between ourselves. Don't tell

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Karen I did the jingle, but it goes like this.

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Tat in the box, tat in the box. Tat in the box,

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tat in the box. Tat in the box, tat in the box.

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Tat in the box. You know, blankety blank theme

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tune. If you're sure this is what you want. Yeah,

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yeah, yeah. Yeah, it'll be a fun surprise. Okay,

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in your own time. Not sure if you heard, but

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there were some hand claps too. Oh. Can you do

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hand claps? Actually, how... Do you have a body?

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How does that work? Get Karen. Now. Don't spoil

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the surprise, alright? I'll be back in a tick.

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Karen! Phone for you. It's Val. Val? This fucking

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guy. Hey Valentino, what's going on? I haven't

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heard from you since the USS Shitshow Rap Party.

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Hi. Oh, okay. See you, Val. Adam! What did you

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say to Valentino? He'll be getting a letter from

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HR, apparently. What the fuck did I do? This

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is Rightly Used with Adam and Karen. Welcome

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to Lightly Used episode 39. I'm Adam. And I'm

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Karen. This is a podcast based around our love

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of charity shops. We'll be taking turns to guess

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each other's featured items by feel alone. We'll

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read a bit of a local newspaper article from

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2024. They're going to play a game, possibly

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if we have time. And we're going to end the show

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with a quick look at a book I got. Excellent.

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Again, if we've got time. Yes. The reason I'm

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saying this now, we've never ever really summed

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up. What we do in the show, I don't think. Not

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really right at the beginning. Normally we're

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very definite on exactly what we're doing. We

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just hope people have listened to the show enough

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and just know what order we do things. If this

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is your first time listening, welcome to the

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show. We do things and we talk about them. We

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usually do all the things I mentioned above,

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but we're recording a little bit late today.

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We are. And we're all very, very tired. I'm going

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to say running on... I'd say I'm probably on

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about 40 % energy. Oh, I'm at least at 60. Oh,

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you're doing better than I am. Between the two

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of us, there will be a 100 % effort by one person

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in this podcast episode. I've had a bunch of

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caffeine, so that's helped me out today. Caffeine

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is a very useful thing. Thank you caffeine for

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existing. Going back to mentioning things that

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we tried to do but haven't got around to or it

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was too difficult to do. We planned to record

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the Star Trek Away Missions board game between

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episodes 37 and 38. We did. You came round and

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suggested that we watch a YouTube video like

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when we played Sky Joe. Yes. Just to see, right,

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what are we getting ourselves into? Yes, they're

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helpful. Ooh. It was a lot more complicated than

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we thought. It's a very involved game. We had

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no idea what we were getting ourselves into,

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as it turns out. It's very visual. I don't think

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there's any way it would really work on the podcast,

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even though we did Sky Joe, which is also a very

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visual game. Yes. It was also a very quick game.

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That's true. And we could describe things as

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we're going on. I've turned over this and revealed

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this. Whereas with that, it's... I've moved one

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square up, one square left. And I have line of

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sight to see through a door so I can fire on

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my next move. Yeah. For those of you that have

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been around since the very beginning, we played

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the Loch Ness board game. And that, whilst it

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was great fun and very complicated and really

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actually fun to listen back to, I laughed at

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myself quite a lot listening back to those episodes.

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I still... think the star trek game would not

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translate even as well as an se and that was

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when we were first starting out we've been at

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this over a year now and i think it would be

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really complex a game to play for audio format

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only and i also think you'd need to invest in

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a second dining table so we'd have a campaign

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set up for probably a month well i was going

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to keep this a secret but this table does extend

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to about a third longer Oh, it ambigonates. Yeah,

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but we might not be able to walk around it very

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well. That's true. Crawling underneath it. There

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is some extra table potential to be had. So we

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could potentially play that game on here, but

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it would be a very visual thing. So it would

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just be something we film only if we can learn

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to edit efficiently. Yes. I do have a correction

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from episode 38. Ooh, I love a correction. Scary

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stories to tell in the dark. Oh no, it was me.

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It was me. I said, oh, is that from the TV series?

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It was adapted into a film. Not a TV series.

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Came out in 2019. No way. I thought in the back

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of my mind it was ringing a bell. That might

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have to be something we dig out and add to the

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to -watch list. Guillermo del Toro was involved

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as a co -writer and producer. Come on, Guillermo.

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Apparently, there's a sequel in the works. Most

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of the crew and cast are returning, at least

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according to the Wikipedia article I skimmed.

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Sounds banging. While editing the last episode.

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Skimmy, skim, skim. Brilliant. Oh, yeah, we should

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watch that. Also, to clarify from last episode,

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episode 38, I wasn't keen on the second Sky Joe.

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Because it was a very visual game. And I wasn't

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sure that us reading out numbers was that engaging.

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That's the only reason I went, yeah, I'm not

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really bothered. Because how visual it was. Is

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this working well? I mean, I haven't had any

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complaints. We've got to have listeners to complain

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to have complaints. No, we can do what we want

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when no one listens to us. Whilst I'm speaking

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of episode 38, clarification, not a correction.

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Oh, okay. The watch that I'm donating. Yes. Just

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to clarify, I'm not offloading broken shit. As

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it might have sounded, only the strap is broken.

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The battery's just run out. Yes, the watch itself

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actually works. It just requires a new strap.

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The battery has just run down. I've not replaced

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it because I just don't wear the watch. I think

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I wore it twice. It ran when parked. There we

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are then. If it was a car. There we are then.

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Going back to episode 38, one last time. Are

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you sure this is the last time? No. One more

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potential time. I know that before we recorded

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Skyjo, which was done at a completely separate

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session. Yes, it was. You said that you were

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going to... Swear less. Swear less. And I swore

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so much during Skyjo. Most of the swears are

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from Skyjo. Did you count them? Boys and girls.

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Well, no. Fuck me. Shit! Bollocks! Oh, shit.

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Where is it? Yeah, well, sorry. My eyes have

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been closed all the time we've been talking.

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God damn it. It's tough fucking shit. You've

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got a 12 now. I've picked up a zero. Oh, bastard.

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I hate that. I'll swap it for the four I just

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played. I'm not going to keep that, so I'll turn

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that one over. Oh, fuck. And I'll swap it for

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that one. Ah, bollocks. I picked up a four, got

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rid of a minus one. Okay. Card from the pickup

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pile. Oh, fuck. Ah, fuck. That's an 11. That's

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not good. And reveal my final card. Ah, that's

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how you did it. I forgot how you did it. Which

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is... Fuck! An 11. And turn them over. Oh, fuck.

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Ah, fuck. That's a 9. Oh, you bastard. Oh, God.

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So there's that whole like, oh, fuck, I've done

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the wrong thing and I should have put this card

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on the discard pile instead of turning over a

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12. Yeah, I didn't count them. There was a few

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swears in there, let's put it that way. I'm so

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glad you wrote this point down because this is

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one of the things that I wanted to mention that

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I'd forgotten about that I needed to write down

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and I didn't. How much of an apology do you owe

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your parents? I can never apologize enough for

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my existence. That's why you're laughing. Yeah.

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Sounds a sincere apology to me. Well, if I wasn't

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laughing, I'd be crying and I'd rather not cry.

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So we'll go with laugh. I don't think that counts

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you fine with balls. Excellent. I wasn't finished

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with last episode, as it goes. You rated my...

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Let's say last episode, 38. You rated my cauldron

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at 22 .44 grams, which is £41 .28 in silver.

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Then we weighed my chunky -ass watch. Yeah. We

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didn't do a comparison if that was in silver.

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Oh, OK. The watch was 119 grams. Right. That

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would have been £218 .98 of silver. Oh, that

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would have been nice. That's how much heavier

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the watch was than the cauldron. Yeah. Wow, that's

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quite significant. Yeah, that's a heavy fucking

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wristwatch. Very heavy. The clocks weigh less.

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The grandfather clocks. I think I'm done with

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everything. Are you sure? Any more for 38? No,

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no. Any more callbacks? No, no. Looking at my

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notes, I think I'm done with everything from

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listening back to last episode and things like,

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oh, I should be mentioning that. This didn't

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come up. Or had I been paying more attention

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to the words coming out of my mouth, I'd have

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added this at the end of it. Fair enough. But

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we did go to Tech the Quest. We did. For Valentine's

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Day. Well, it was the Thursday. Valentino's Day.

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Yeah. Yeah. It was so much fun. So our game this

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week, and you said we can include the game, it

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was a quiz sheet that's been mostly filled in

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that I stole from a table at the end of the night.

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I've made a list of some of our highlights as

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well. I made notes before we'd forget. Well done.

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There was a hurricane generator in the room.

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Yeah. That was fun. We maybe should have... Wait

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till the end, after we photographed ourselves

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doing stuff before we went in there. My hair

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just went crazy for the rest of the evening.

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Your hair's been crazy ever since that wind tunnel.

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I washed it last night. I can see that it's clean.

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I can't do a thing with it now. It's definitely

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clean. It's beautiful and shiny. It's got some

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volume. That's just always my excuse for the

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day after. I watched it the night before. Honestly.

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Sure I did, mate. The wind tunnel slash hurricane

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generator was great. There was a little camera

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in there that recorded a 10 second video of you

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in the wind. So you could then watch yourself

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back and see how silly you looked. Oh, that's

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what that did. Yeah, you didn't actually go and

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look at it, did you? No, I just thought you could

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take a focus selfie of yourself. Yeah, it did

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like a little 10 -second video. I thought, we've

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got a camera. Except I was holding it in very

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different orientations, about three different

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ways round. So there's no way I can share that

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clip on YouTube. It's going to be YouTube shortwave,

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then regular YouTube wave, then back to YouTube

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shortwave. Yeah, if you're not an owl perched

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horizontally, you won't be able to make much

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sense of it. I'm not a cinematographer. No, me

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either. But it was really good fun. There was

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the earthquake simulator as well. That was fun.

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That was good. The lower earthquakes. This is...

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Now I know what they're like when people go,

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oh, you were aware of the earthquake? Yeah, no,

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I slept through it. You slept through it? Yeah,

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yeah. Turns out now I've experienced what they

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simulated. Yeah, it's very plausible I've slept

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through many earthquakes. Yes, yeah. I've felt

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a couple. So unless they got to some of the larger

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ones on the setting, then go, oh, yeah, this

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is noticeable. Stuff's happening. Yeah, like

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over, was it Richter scale, isn't it? Over six

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was very noticeable. Sort of four and a half

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and under. A bit like a, kind of like a, did

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I need a fart or was that just passing wind?

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Did a bus just go by? Yeah. So interesting. I

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enjoyed that too. And we had the, there's a big

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indoor slide. The big indoor slide. I do have

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video evidence of that. And I may have nearly

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broken both of my knees on the second time I

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went down the slide. I don't think either of

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us were very graceful going down there. Oh, no,

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there was no grace. Unlike that guy who went

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down before us, who was all in black, who shot

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down like a torpedo. Yeah, I thought that was

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going to be a hindrance when he got to the end,

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the leather jacket. But no, no, no. He went all

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the way down to the end, off the bottom of the

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slide and onto the crash mat. And he's the only

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person I saw do that all night long. Frictionless.

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Yeah. But note to self, try not to wear rubber

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-soled shoes whilst using a slide unless you

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can hold your feet up. Because that's why I nearly

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broke my knees. We didn't explain what Techniquest

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is. That's true. It's a science museum. It's

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down Cardiff Bay and it's been there since I

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think maybe the late 80s, early 90s. I remember

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going there for a junior or comprehensive school

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trip. Oh, wow. Some of the things, the exhibits

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are still there. They might have been updated

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slightly. There was a beach ball hovering against

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a fan. Yeah. They might have changed the ball

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a bit. It might be in a different place on the

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floor. I'm trying to think of some of the other

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things that were there. That gate. You're trying

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to unlock the gate with several different keys

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and there's a neck to doing it. I'm not going

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to spoil it. You have to go there yourself. There

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was one thing when I was a kid. In the dark room,

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you could stand against a big white wall and

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there was a big wall panel and there was a big

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flash for the camera and it would take essentially

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a photograph of your silhouette which would stay

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on the wall and slowly fade away. That's really

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cool. There's enough room for about five or six

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of you to stand there. So yeah, a whole bunch

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of us as kids were making silly poses and stuff

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against the wall. Yeah, I remember that being

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in there. It's a shame that's not there. It hasn't

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changed all that much since I was a kid, I'll

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be honest. The plasma ball was joyous. They've

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just moved stuff around a bit. Yeah. But yes,

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an interactive exhibit is something that I love.

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To be able to get your hands on the science and

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see the fun stuff that the science can do as

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well. All the kits and exhibits that they had

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there were really great fun. I thought they were

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fabulous. I had a great time. Thank you. You're

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very welcome. We went there as a Valentine's

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Day adult late evening special entertainment

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thing. Adult only. Yes, no kids. Otherwise, I

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think it's normally about £12 to go in and you

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can spend all day there. I think ours was about

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£17 to let the people stay after hours instead

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of going home. I think they also have a deal.

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If you want to spend the last hour or two, there's

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a reduced rate for going in. Oh, that's cool.

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But that's really all you need an hour there,

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to be fair. And the planetarium was good as well.

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I wish the show had gone on a bit longer, to

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be honest. That was my only complaint, was that

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the show could have been an hour long and I wouldn't

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have been in there long enough. That 20 or 30

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minutes went by really, really fast. And the...

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We saw a spacesuit or at least a mocha of a spacesuit

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on the way out. Stig's astronaut cousin. Yeah.

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And we were kind of making fun of it a little

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bit. We were a little bit. But no, it was part

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of the Principia. Principia? Oh, fucking hell.

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Principia? My Latin's shockingly bad, surprisingly.

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But yeah, that was... initiative for space and

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they went around lots of educational centres

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and schools with Tim Peake was giving talks and

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things like that. No way. And Techniquest was

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one of the stops on the tours. That's very cool.

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I think that was back in 2016. So that's potentially

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Tim Peake's underwear on that mannequin then.

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Potentially. His space underwear. I can't prove

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it's not. Nor can I. Thus it is. Until proven

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otherwise. That's how it works, right? I think

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so. Prove us wrong. Yeah, I guess so. One more

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thing before we jump on. I don't know if you've

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got many more things that you want to chat about.

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I just want to squeeze in. Thank you very much

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to the Buffoons Mystery Investigators. They are

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a wonderful podcast. Dan and Steve. Pod nod.

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They are lovely. I had four glorious hours talking

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to them online, which, as anyone who knows me,

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yes, I do like to talk. Sometimes it's hard for

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me not to talk. Did they have full glorious hours

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talking to you? I really hope so. They sent me

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free merch. So I guess they had a good time.

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Either that or it was, we'll just give Karen

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all this stuff so we never have to speak to her

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ever, ever, ever, ever again. Keep her happy.

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Go away. Yeah. It was really nice swag. It was

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lovely swag. Yeah, a couple of pens, nice button

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badge, got a coaster, fridge magnet, sticker.

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Yeah, they really spoiled me. And then I gave

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a couple of bits to you. and ched because i'm

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nice like that thank you for the sticker and

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pen no you're welcome uh so yeah i had a great

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time they gave me merch there'll be an episode

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out of them with me in it soon if they can patch

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together my very meandering tail i'll put a link

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to their podcast in the show blog lightlyused

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.co .uk This edition of Lightly Used News comes

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from the Abergavenny Chronicle on Monday the

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23rd of September 2024 by Tim Butters. Abergavennyman

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claims hunting mermaids used to be a well -respected

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sport. And Abergavennyman, who says he's been

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ordered to hunt and capture a mermaid by higher

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powers, has made the audacious claim. At once,

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not only was hunting these mythical sea creatures

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entirely plausible, but it was also a well -respected

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sport. Nowadays, people are more into their football,

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rugby and pigeon fantasy and fly fishing to really

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understand what a popular pastime mermaid hunting

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was, explained semi -professional paranormal

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investigator Johnny Turnip. But if you rewind

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the clock a few years, and we're sort of talking

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the Dark Ages here, hunting females who had fishtails

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instead of legs was all the rage. Turnip added,

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I only know because an old sea dog called Captain

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Cornelius Clyde told me. The captain has roamed

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the earth for centuries, and he attributes his

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incredibly long lifespan to the mermaids he has

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used to drink in his youth. Turnip recalls that

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Big Tony, Puerto Rico Paul, and himself were

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put in touch with Captain Cornelius Clyde after

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they paid Paul's mother, the witch of Tudor Street,

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a visit to ask her advice on capturing mermaids.

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Turnip said, After we left the Green Man Festival,

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we spent a few days binge drinking and trying

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to formulate a plan, but... We couldn't hatch

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anything solid. It didn't help that Puerto Rico

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Paul had one of his sporadic meltdowns. Paul's

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got a very artistic temperament. He just hasn't

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done anything artistic with his life. And sometimes

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he goes a bit Van Gogh on us. He hasn't cut his

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hair off yet, but he's come close. He gets these

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dark moods and throws these massive hissy fits

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where he just can't seem to find the point in

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anything. Anyhow, Big Tony tried slapping them

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around a bit and telling him to stop acting like

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a bloody woman. But nothing was working, and

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we were getting desperate. We had a world to

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save after all, and Paul was our wingman. In

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the end, Paul fixed himself by dressing up as

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Pennywise and disappearing to a darkened room

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for 48 hours, where he did nothing but drink

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spiced ginger tea, play Duran Duran records,

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and watch every episode of Succession back to

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back. He left that room a new man, and it was

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good to have the old Paul back. He ditched the

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clown costume and wig, and just ran a pinstripe

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suit and shades. This new Paul hardly looked

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like another at all. He just turned to me and

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Big Tony and said, while chewing a mat stick,

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Gentlemen, We need to pay a visit to the witch.

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Turnip explained that after jumping into Big

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Tony's Bedford Rascal, the gang headed out to

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Paul's mother's caravan on the outskirts of Llanthony

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Priory. When we got to the witch's caravan, Pauline

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was sat at the front in a bucket chair and skinning

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her rabbit with a zombie knife. Hello, boys,

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she smirked when we got out of the van. Baba

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Bennett just dropped his bunny off. He'll be

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gutted when I tell him he just missed Dumb Dumber

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and Braindead. Turnip added, as the witch cackled

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at a crap joke. Paul just sneered and spat on

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the ground as if to ward off a great evil. However,

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Big Tony just looked like he'd been visibly punched

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in the gut. There was bad blood between him and

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Bubba. As teenagers, they'd hunted and killed

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a lot of small furry animals together. They were

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even into badger baiting before it was a thing.

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Yet, when Big Tony fell in love with a vegan

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Buddhist from Blackwood, he quit blood sports

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and made a big effort to pretend he didn't eat

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meat. Anyhow, the big guy was very much in love,

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and he'd just got engaged with the Buddhist girl

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who was... Name I can't recall because we just

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called it Linda Bacardi behind Tone's back. To

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cut a long story short, Bubba Bennett threw an

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engagement party and promised there would be

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no meat on the menu for the sake of Tone's bird.

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Yet, when we arrived, Bubba had laid out this

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huge barbecue. There was wall -to -wall sausages

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and burgers everywhere. He was even grilling

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up roadkill, for Christ's sake. When Tone's lady

00:22:45.450 --> 00:22:47.930
friend arrived, she didn't see the joke. She

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just slapped Tony in front of everyone and shrieked,

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What sort of animals eat meat on this scale?

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She stormed out of there and out of Tone's life

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for good, as the big love -struck chump just

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looked on helplessly like a rabbit in the headlights.

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When Bubba softly placed the hot dog in Tone's

00:23:02.910 --> 00:23:05.470
clenched hand and said, Eat up, bro. Plenty more

00:23:05.470 --> 00:23:07.369
fish in the sea. Plenty more pigs in the pen.

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It was the last straw. A huge fight erupted.

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It was like Hulk Hogan versus the Ultimate Warrior

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all over again, but with real blood. Since that

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day, two's paths have never crossed, and it was

00:23:18.890 --> 00:23:20.670
why Big T was feeling the pain of the mention

00:23:20.670 --> 00:23:24.559
of his former best mate's name. Anyhow, said

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the witch, bringing us all back to the present.

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With an unnerving narrowing of obedient, malevolent

00:23:29.140 --> 00:23:31.359
eyes, she asked Paul, Why are you wearing that

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suit, son? You look like a spiv. Have you been

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to court again for shoplifting? What did you

00:23:36.440 --> 00:23:40.140
nick this time? Low -fat mince? Ignoring her

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venom, Paul explained wearily, We're on another

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quest, Mum. What do you know about mermaids?

00:23:46.640 --> 00:23:49.319
he asked. Enough to know when something smells

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fishy, boy. If it's mermaid thereafter, go and

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speak to Captain Cornelius Clyde. He'll tell

00:23:54.380 --> 00:23:55.740
you all you need to know about those slippery

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customers. You can usually find him hanging outside

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supermarkets begging for spare change. Now clear

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off, I've got a bunny to bile. Leaving old Acid

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Tongue to her bitter and twisted ways, we set

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off in fourth with this mysterious captain. Turnip

00:24:11.119 --> 00:24:13.160
explained that after endlessly cruising around

00:24:13.160 --> 00:24:15.319
the car parks of numerous supermarkets in Monmouthshire,

00:24:15.500 --> 00:24:17.529
they finally caught up with the captain. and

00:24:17.529 --> 00:24:19.150
took him to a pub where he shared his wisdom

00:24:19.150 --> 00:24:22.670
about mermaids over a bottle of rum. Nice. At

00:24:22.670 --> 00:24:25.170
first, the old sea dog had his twisted, explained

00:24:25.170 --> 00:24:28.349
Turnip. He kept repeating that capturing a mermaid

00:24:28.349 --> 00:24:30.289
and making her cry was a sure -fire way to gain

00:24:30.289 --> 00:24:33.109
eternal life. He said in the old days it was

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a popular sport, and every aspiring gangster

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had dreams of growing up and becoming a mermaid

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catcher. I had to explain that we weren't hunting

00:24:39.589 --> 00:24:42.329
mermaids for reasons of pure immortality. We

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were doing it because we were working for the

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Triple Goddess, and she needed the mermaid tears

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so the Green Man could drink them to restore

00:24:47.289 --> 00:24:50.569
balance to the Earth. Turnip added, You could

00:24:50.569 --> 00:24:52.369
tell the salty old bastard wasn't impressed by

00:24:52.369 --> 00:24:55.029
that. He just looked at us all moody and misogynistic,

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and said, Whatever the reason, if it's mermaids

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you're after, there's no better hunting ground

00:25:00.809 --> 00:25:04.490
than the town of Little Fishers itself. Tenby.

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Grab your buckets and spades, boys! Cried Puerto

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Rico Paul, who I now feared was entering the

00:25:10.099 --> 00:25:13.019
manic phase of his bipolarity. We're going to

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the seaside to dig for some miracles! To be continued.

00:25:18.500 --> 00:25:21.400
And Tim Butters has compiled all these stories

00:25:21.400 --> 00:25:24.559
so far into a book, The Manifest Trials and Tribulations

00:25:24.559 --> 00:25:26.799
of Johnny Turnip. You can find a link to the

00:25:26.799 --> 00:25:29.259
book and the original articles on our blog at

00:25:29.259 --> 00:25:36.500
likelyused .co .uk. You know what it's time for?

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Do I? I think you do. Why don't you tell me?

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Tat in the box. Tat in the box. Tat in the box.

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Tat in the box. Tat in the box. Tat in the box.

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Tat in the box. I got you a present. I did that

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without even moving my lips. That's fantastic.

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Is that Valentino? Yeah, I told him you'd like

00:26:06.569 --> 00:26:14.490
it. That's brilliant. So it's your turn to guess

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first. Okay. So the first thing we're going to

00:26:19.569 --> 00:26:21.829
do is an item we're going to be giving away.

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We still didn't donate that big bag of crap that

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I've got. No, no. I was meant to have got out

00:26:27.029 --> 00:26:30.049
of here on St. David's Day. Oops. We should have

00:26:30.049 --> 00:26:33.460
taken it to today. Never mind. It's still up

00:26:33.460 --> 00:26:36.480
for grabs. Yeah. If anyone's interested, pod

00:26:36.480 --> 00:26:40.859
at lightlyused .co .uk if you were to claim any

00:26:40.859 --> 00:26:43.400
of our donation tat we featured so far. Yes.

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You'll have to listen back for the catalogue.

00:26:45.619 --> 00:26:46.980
I can't recall what they are off the top of my

00:26:46.980 --> 00:26:49.099
head. No, not me. But you've got till, let's

00:26:49.099 --> 00:26:52.720
say, April the 1st. Yeah. We'll have more stuff

00:26:52.720 --> 00:26:55.680
in the bag by then. That's true. Including this.

00:26:56.019 --> 00:26:59.099
Close your eyes. Eyes are closed. Hands are out.

00:27:01.420 --> 00:27:08.710
And it's... Between your hands now. Ooh. That

00:27:08.710 --> 00:27:12.269
feels like a zip. You can open it if you want.

00:27:12.289 --> 00:27:19.349
It is a square wallet of some variety. Maybe

00:27:19.349 --> 00:27:23.869
for CDs? Can you guess what colour it is from

00:27:23.869 --> 00:27:27.950
your psychic fingers? Just so you can... That's

00:27:27.950 --> 00:27:29.490
the chair. I will vouch for that. That is the

00:27:29.490 --> 00:27:31.329
chair. I lent the left so you can see and my

00:27:31.329 --> 00:27:36.220
eyes are closed. My eyes are closed. What colour

00:27:36.220 --> 00:27:37.960
is it? What colour is it? What colour is it?

00:27:40.480 --> 00:27:44.339
Blue. Okay, you're going with blue. I can't confirm

00:27:44.339 --> 00:27:49.099
or deny at the moment. Okay. Am I done guessing?

00:27:49.579 --> 00:27:50.819
Is it the right thing? I was wondering if you

00:27:50.819 --> 00:27:56.119
wanted to open it. Oh, we'll open it. Open it.

00:27:57.099 --> 00:28:03.420
Oh. Oh. It's not CDs. It's like a vanity set.

00:28:03.559 --> 00:28:05.859
Is it a gentleman's vanity set? You are correct.

00:28:06.279 --> 00:28:10.140
Oh, so it's not blue. You can open your eyes.

00:28:10.160 --> 00:28:13.240
Red. You've guessed it correctly. Oh, it's a

00:28:13.240 --> 00:28:17.420
Brun. Very nice. The price tag and the receipt

00:28:17.420 --> 00:28:19.200
should be behind the little mirror in there.

00:28:19.319 --> 00:28:23.339
The price tag is from the RSPCA. Do you know

00:28:23.339 --> 00:28:27.670
how much it costs you? £4 .99. £5 .99. You were

00:28:27.670 --> 00:28:30.369
feeling spenny this day. I thought it looked

00:28:30.369 --> 00:28:33.990
fancy in the shop. It was opened like that. It

00:28:33.990 --> 00:28:37.970
looked nice. I got it home and I saw how corroded

00:28:37.970 --> 00:28:40.309
the inside of the talc powder and stuff is. I

00:28:40.309 --> 00:28:43.970
can't really use this. Use the brush in the mirror.

00:28:44.670 --> 00:28:46.750
The brush is for clothes, not your hair. But

00:28:46.750 --> 00:28:49.609
yeah, I don't need a big box like that for it.

00:28:49.829 --> 00:28:52.029
That's true. I'm not going to use that old toothbrush

00:28:52.029 --> 00:28:55.789
in there. Yeah, the metal compartments look to

00:28:55.789 --> 00:28:59.049
be like silver -plated or nickel -plated copper.

00:28:59.750 --> 00:29:02.470
Let's have a look. Where the talc is inside.

00:29:02.829 --> 00:29:05.829
Chromium -plated. So it's chromium -plated copper.

00:29:05.990 --> 00:29:08.049
I'm saying copper because it's got green corrosion

00:29:08.049 --> 00:29:12.250
on the inside. Lovely smell to it, though. Still

00:29:12.250 --> 00:29:15.009
smells of a handsome gentleman from somewhere.

00:29:15.849 --> 00:29:19.190
Maybe a bit of brute or Old Spice. I was going

00:29:19.190 --> 00:29:22.589
to say Old Spice, man. It could definitely be

00:29:22.589 --> 00:29:24.789
Old Spice. It's the sort of person that would

00:29:24.789 --> 00:29:27.230
have Old Spice and Brylcreem. Can you smell?

00:29:27.569 --> 00:29:29.569
I'd rather not, just in case there's asbestos

00:29:29.569 --> 00:29:32.029
in the talk. Oh, right, yeah, sorry. Just let

00:29:32.029 --> 00:29:34.819
me get the lung cancer. You chose to do it. Don't

00:29:34.819 --> 00:29:37.299
warn me or anything. It's like watching me walk

00:29:37.299 --> 00:29:38.940
off a cliff and not going, Cameron, there's a

00:29:38.940 --> 00:29:41.119
cliff there. I thought you were just looking

00:29:41.119 --> 00:29:42.720
in there. I couldn't see behind the mic that

00:29:42.720 --> 00:29:44.200
you were taking a sniff until you'd already done

00:29:44.200 --> 00:29:45.740
it. Oh, well, I've sniffed them both now, so

00:29:45.740 --> 00:29:48.339
if I get asbestos poisoning, we can sue Adam.

00:29:49.180 --> 00:29:51.900
No, no, you did that by yourself. That is a rather

00:29:51.900 --> 00:29:55.539
lovely thing. But, yeah, I shall be donating

00:29:55.539 --> 00:29:59.319
that to some... If you give it back to the RSPCA,

00:29:59.339 --> 00:30:02.119
you can give them the same price tag. Then you

00:30:02.119 --> 00:30:03.839
don't need to do anything with it. Exactly. Just

00:30:03.839 --> 00:30:06.660
straight back out. Yeah, yeah. The zip managed

00:30:06.660 --> 00:30:09.259
to find its way inside the packet. I've opened

00:30:09.259 --> 00:30:14.799
it too wide. I will leave that there. I could

00:30:14.799 --> 00:30:16.720
tell I'm only recording with one gentleman today.

00:30:19.819 --> 00:30:23.039
Right, do you want to guess my mystery tat item?

00:30:23.220 --> 00:30:25.940
I do want to guess your mystery tat item. Throw

00:30:25.940 --> 00:30:34.059
it at me, sort of. Oops. There we go. Have you

00:30:34.059 --> 00:30:36.519
just broken it? No. It's out of the box and in

00:30:36.519 --> 00:30:39.700
front of you. You'll guess it straight away.

00:30:42.319 --> 00:30:47.559
Is this your plasma ball? Yay! That noise was

00:30:47.559 --> 00:30:49.920
just the back of the plasma ball. It's got a

00:30:49.920 --> 00:30:53.279
screen on the back for visibility. I thought

00:30:53.279 --> 00:30:55.400
it would just make it weirder if you're trying

00:30:55.400 --> 00:30:57.700
to feel what it is with that on there. That's

00:30:57.700 --> 00:30:59.819
very cool. Love a plasma ball. Does it work?

00:31:00.119 --> 00:31:03.420
Yeah. Wicked. Oh, I've stuck it on the wrong

00:31:03.420 --> 00:31:06.119
way as well because the cut out bit should go

00:31:06.119 --> 00:31:10.059
at the bottom. There we go. Yeah, I've had this

00:31:10.059 --> 00:31:14.140
for about maybe 15 years. It's a proper student

00:31:14.140 --> 00:31:17.720
purchase. It's a present for me. It's a present

00:31:17.720 --> 00:31:19.440
for you. Yeah, my parents got it for me for Christmas.

00:31:19.440 --> 00:31:22.220
It's like... When I went to student halls, it

00:31:22.220 --> 00:31:24.619
was the choice between a lava lamp or a plasma

00:31:24.619 --> 00:31:27.440
ball. I was going to say, this will last. Early

00:31:27.440 --> 00:31:31.359
2000s, you know. Gadget shop aesthetic. Yeah.

00:31:32.319 --> 00:31:34.960
Really cool. I think it was just called the gadget

00:31:34.960 --> 00:31:36.740
shop, wasn't it? I think it was just called the

00:31:36.740 --> 00:31:38.960
gadget shop. I think then they started selling

00:31:38.960 --> 00:31:41.640
like spice and legal hides and stuff as well

00:31:41.640 --> 00:31:42.960
towards the end of the run. At least the one

00:31:42.960 --> 00:31:45.059
in Swansea did opposite where Argos used to be.

00:31:46.200 --> 00:31:49.400
That's before my time. I've never tried any of

00:31:49.400 --> 00:31:52.880
that. They seem shady as shit to me. From what

00:31:52.880 --> 00:31:55.880
I know of legal highs, they have tended to have

00:31:55.880 --> 00:31:59.799
worse impacts on people's short and long -term

00:31:59.799 --> 00:32:03.140
health than most illegal highs. This is not advice.

00:32:03.279 --> 00:32:05.720
I'm not advising anybody to go out and get themselves

00:32:05.720 --> 00:32:09.339
any kind of high. I'm just saying these are things

00:32:09.339 --> 00:32:11.680
that I've heard. We're certainly advising you

00:32:11.680 --> 00:32:15.140
not to get the spice. Oh, yeah, don't do spice,

00:32:15.440 --> 00:32:18.440
kids. It's bad. Unless it's like curry powder

00:32:18.440 --> 00:32:21.859
or cumin or turmeric or something like that.

00:32:21.900 --> 00:32:24.039
But like the stuff that you smoke, don't do that.

00:32:24.180 --> 00:32:28.630
Just say no, kids. Just say no. Okie doke. Oh,

00:32:28.730 --> 00:32:31.069
shit, yeah, I guess you want to... I'm just like,

00:32:31.170 --> 00:32:33.589
I was sat here just thinking away to myself,

00:32:33.809 --> 00:32:35.710
you know, blah, blah, blah, blah. Yeah, I've

00:32:35.710 --> 00:32:37.849
done my civic duty. With your eyes closed and

00:32:37.849 --> 00:32:40.789
your hands out, waiting patiently for me to remember

00:32:40.789 --> 00:32:42.730
that I'm actually supposed to do something. Yeah,

00:32:42.769 --> 00:32:44.529
we've been there, adults. We told the kids, yeah,

00:32:44.529 --> 00:32:47.190
don't do it. All right, moving on. We've done

00:32:47.190 --> 00:32:51.490
the bare minimum. Donation item first. Caveat.

00:32:52.109 --> 00:32:55.009
you will know exactly what kind of item it is

00:32:55.009 --> 00:32:59.549
immediately. What I am interested in is if you

00:32:59.549 --> 00:33:04.490
can guess specifically what it is. And the only

00:33:04.490 --> 00:33:07.670
way you can do that is because I know you know

00:33:07.670 --> 00:33:11.829
what this thing is. Oh, okay. Okay. And thanks

00:33:11.829 --> 00:33:15.529
for reminding me of the psych theme tune. Psych?

00:33:15.970 --> 00:33:18.480
It doesn't matter. I swear, the farty noises

00:33:18.480 --> 00:33:21.000
of the chair. It doesn't matter what I wear in

00:33:21.000 --> 00:33:25.000
this place, I fart chair all the time. It's on

00:33:25.000 --> 00:33:28.200
the table in front of you. It's a book. Correct.

00:33:29.180 --> 00:33:32.720
Now, as per the caveat... Yes, I'm familiar with

00:33:32.720 --> 00:33:36.400
one of these. Can you guess what book it might

00:33:36.400 --> 00:33:40.900
be? Right, it's fairly thin. For our audio listeners,

00:33:41.200 --> 00:33:43.240
it is not a New Testament. It's a soft beck.

00:33:44.700 --> 00:33:53.099
It's... Maybe 100 -ish pages, something like

00:33:53.099 --> 00:33:55.480
that. Can you count how many have I guessed?

00:33:56.380 --> 00:33:58.940
It doesn't say on the last page or that page.

00:33:59.579 --> 00:34:02.539
I keep flicking. Or that page. Or that page.

00:34:02.720 --> 00:34:04.440
I don't know. There's no page numbers, love.

00:34:04.720 --> 00:34:09.579
Sorry. Let's assume I was spot on. Okay. So,

00:34:09.639 --> 00:34:12.679
a book that has no page numbers, but you know

00:34:12.679 --> 00:34:16.079
what book it is. Okay. Is it a colouring book?

00:34:16.300 --> 00:34:19.119
It is not. It is a very specific book that we

00:34:19.119 --> 00:34:22.880
have discussed previously on the podcast. My

00:34:22.880 --> 00:34:26.550
memory's for shit. I do not pay attention to

00:34:26.550 --> 00:34:28.550
our own show. It is the most awful, shittiest

00:34:28.550 --> 00:34:32.289
book. Oh, that fucking joke book. Yes. That fiend

00:34:32.289 --> 00:34:35.949
joke book with the insertable, the job, insert

00:34:35.949 --> 00:34:40.969
job title here, joke book with clip art of somebody.

00:34:41.449 --> 00:34:44.690
That's the one. You can open your eyes now. I

00:34:44.690 --> 00:34:46.610
couldn't remember the job. The dentist joke book

00:34:46.610 --> 00:34:50.070
is finally going on. Chester Croker. Chester

00:34:50.070 --> 00:34:53.199
Croker is going on the donate pile. Too lazy

00:34:53.199 --> 00:34:56.019
to even number his pages. I know, right? Shocking.

00:34:56.480 --> 00:35:00.400
Yeah, I... How many years was this again? Does

00:35:00.400 --> 00:35:04.000
it predate AI? I don't know. It's a self -published

00:35:04.000 --> 00:35:07.420
Amazon jobbing, I believe, from what I can recall.

00:35:08.079 --> 00:35:13.099
No, it doesn't have a year. So there's no way

00:35:13.099 --> 00:35:15.699
of knowing if this is just completely AI from

00:35:15.699 --> 00:35:18.480
the earlier days. I think it's pre -AI because

00:35:18.480 --> 00:35:23.420
Chester Kroger has got several... Oh, they're

00:35:23.420 --> 00:35:24.980
probably just a collection of internet jokes

00:35:24.980 --> 00:35:27.179
of like... Probably, actually. Like some of Peter

00:35:27.179 --> 00:35:29.559
Kay's material. Yeah, I don't know. Early internet

00:35:29.559 --> 00:35:31.699
stuff. Benefit the doubt Chester Croker is a

00:35:31.699 --> 00:35:33.960
real guy. Actual fact, couldn't tell you for

00:35:33.960 --> 00:35:36.539
sure. Right. Yeah, you're probably better off

00:35:36.539 --> 00:35:38.699
donating that. Okay. I don't think anyone's going

00:35:38.699 --> 00:35:41.119
to be clamouring to get in touch with us to get

00:35:41.119 --> 00:35:43.119
it there. No, unless anyone knows any dentists

00:35:43.119 --> 00:35:45.570
that they really hate. Like their own dentist.

00:35:46.610 --> 00:35:48.969
Yeah, good point. Yeah, someone get in touch

00:35:48.969 --> 00:35:50.849
and put it in your dentist's waiting room. Yeah,

00:35:50.949 --> 00:35:53.489
please do. I bet the receptionist will have such

00:35:53.489 --> 00:35:57.489
a laugh. Okay, tat item for keeps. Okie dokie.

00:35:58.050 --> 00:36:03.289
I will preface this with a, I don't really know

00:36:03.289 --> 00:36:09.710
if it's something that I should keep. Okay. It

00:36:09.710 --> 00:36:12.420
is on the table in front of you. Am I giggling

00:36:12.420 --> 00:36:15.360
there? I was anticipating what it might be. It's

00:36:15.360 --> 00:36:18.059
not rude. A potentially regrettable keep item.

00:36:18.440 --> 00:36:21.920
It is a very potentially regrettable keep item.

00:36:22.059 --> 00:36:23.940
And this is one of the reasons that I'm bringing

00:36:23.940 --> 00:36:28.219
it to the show. There's some tassels. It's quite

00:36:28.219 --> 00:36:30.360
thin. There's some tassels on the very bottom

00:36:30.360 --> 00:36:35.159
with an orb, bauble -y sort of feel, which goes

00:36:35.159 --> 00:36:40.659
up on a stalk, leading to some ornamental shapes.

00:36:42.190 --> 00:36:45.710
Quite circular with a rough edge. I'm trying

00:36:45.710 --> 00:36:48.389
to work out what this is to describe it. You

00:36:48.389 --> 00:36:51.610
probably won't figure out what it depicts. Oh,

00:36:51.610 --> 00:36:55.010
it's a brush, actually, of some kind. I'm actually

00:36:55.010 --> 00:36:57.289
picking the thing up. The bristles were just

00:36:57.289 --> 00:37:03.579
a brush. Is it a... shaving brush sort of brush

00:37:03.579 --> 00:37:07.000
or something for the fireplace it is a fireplace

00:37:07.000 --> 00:37:10.440
right uh it is part of a companion set right

00:37:10.440 --> 00:37:13.059
it's very one -sided the design on the front

00:37:13.059 --> 00:37:16.679
yes it's flat backed yeah so to be face out yeah

00:37:16.679 --> 00:37:18.699
so it's like part of one of those sets used to

00:37:18.699 --> 00:37:21.739
get between like the 50s and the 80s where they

00:37:21.739 --> 00:37:25.940
came on a a brass stand with a like you know

00:37:25.940 --> 00:37:28.239
a circular bottom and a bit that comes out the

00:37:28.239 --> 00:37:31.260
middle like a toilet roll holder, and several

00:37:31.260 --> 00:37:34.079
hooks where you would place your shovel, your

00:37:34.079 --> 00:37:36.400
long brush, your bits and pieces. And this is

00:37:36.400 --> 00:37:39.659
one piece of one of those sets. Before you open

00:37:39.659 --> 00:37:43.000
your eyes, just... I can't work out what this

00:37:43.000 --> 00:37:46.800
decoration is meant to depict. I just want to

00:37:46.800 --> 00:37:50.099
say that it is okay for you to give any reaction

00:37:50.099 --> 00:37:52.719
that you get that is a natural reaction to have.

00:37:54.380 --> 00:37:56.059
Thanks for letting me tell me to brace myself.

00:37:56.280 --> 00:37:57.920
Now that we've got to the point that it is a

00:37:57.920 --> 00:38:00.800
fireplace brush from a companion set, feel free

00:38:00.800 --> 00:38:03.460
to open your eyes at any point and then tell

00:38:03.460 --> 00:38:10.960
the world how wrong it is. Oh, yeah, right. It's.

00:38:13.300 --> 00:38:19.360
Yeah. Of its time, I'm guessing, an African sort

00:38:19.360 --> 00:38:24.239
of lady with a headdress, sort of bonnet thing.

00:38:25.139 --> 00:38:26.900
She's got a headscarf on her head. But with very

00:38:26.900 --> 00:38:31.579
accentuated characteristics. Such as the length

00:38:31.579 --> 00:38:34.219
of the neck, the lips, the shape of the nose,

00:38:34.260 --> 00:38:39.500
the shape of the forehead in particular. I would

00:38:39.500 --> 00:38:42.260
not have guessed that. Google AI described it

00:38:42.260 --> 00:38:45.599
as thus. And you can tell me after I've read

00:38:45.599 --> 00:38:47.519
this whether you think there's anything wrong

00:38:47.519 --> 00:38:51.579
with Google AI's overview. AI overview. This

00:38:51.579 --> 00:38:53.920
item appears to be a vintage fireplace brush,

00:38:54.119 --> 00:38:57.440
likely from the 50s or 60s, featuring a decorative

00:38:57.440 --> 00:39:01.039
brass handle depicting a figure's head. Material,

00:39:01.219 --> 00:39:03.699
solid brass construction with a brush commonly

00:39:03.699 --> 00:39:05.920
made from horsehair or similar stiff bristles

00:39:05.920 --> 00:39:09.659
for cleaning hearths. Design features a figural

00:39:09.659 --> 00:39:13.639
head, a common stylistic element in the mid -century

00:39:13.639 --> 00:39:19.739
brass fireplace accessories. Yeah, so at no point

00:39:19.739 --> 00:39:22.900
in all of the points that Google AI has to say,

00:39:23.019 --> 00:39:28.780
does it state that it is even vaguely racist,

00:39:29.079 --> 00:39:35.710
racially profiled piece of... that I have had

00:39:35.710 --> 00:39:39.170
shamefully in my collection for over a decade.

00:39:39.489 --> 00:39:45.409
A lot longer than a decade. I picked it up at

00:39:45.409 --> 00:39:49.349
a car boot sale. You know, it cost me like 20p

00:39:49.349 --> 00:39:50.829
or something stupid like that. At the end of

00:39:50.829 --> 00:39:52.550
the day when people are packing things away and

00:39:52.550 --> 00:39:55.030
you're trying to find interesting bits and bobs.

00:39:55.869 --> 00:40:00.030
And I saw it from a distance and I grabbed it

00:40:00.030 --> 00:40:01.449
and I was like, yes, I'll have that. Thank you

00:40:01.449 --> 00:40:04.280
very much. Paid the lady and walked away. And

00:40:04.280 --> 00:40:07.639
I'd seen, you know, it from a distance and paid

00:40:07.639 --> 00:40:09.360
a great deal of attention to it. It was just

00:40:09.360 --> 00:40:10.559
like, well, there's a brass thing over there.

00:40:10.579 --> 00:40:12.480
I'm going to grab it. And it's for a fireplace.

00:40:12.579 --> 00:40:15.079
And I quite like fireplace brushes. Don't know

00:40:15.079 --> 00:40:20.699
why. I just do. So this thing has lived in a

00:40:20.699 --> 00:40:26.420
box of shame in my possession for a few years.

00:40:27.639 --> 00:40:30.920
And it's one of those things that as a very white

00:40:30.920 --> 00:40:36.599
person, I'm probably not educated enough on how

00:40:36.599 --> 00:40:39.719
I should speak about this particular item. How

00:40:39.719 --> 00:40:47.199
I feel about it is that life should never have

00:40:47.199 --> 00:40:51.380
presented an opportunity for this kind of imagery

00:40:51.380 --> 00:40:55.000
to have been created in order to make money for

00:40:55.000 --> 00:40:59.300
other people. It is, in my opinion, blatantly

00:40:59.300 --> 00:41:02.989
racist. Again, it is. Of the time, not that of

00:41:02.989 --> 00:41:07.210
the time is an excuse. I also think that there

00:41:07.210 --> 00:41:13.369
is an argument for our past and the way we perceived

00:41:13.369 --> 00:41:18.690
people and used them should not be whitewashed

00:41:18.690 --> 00:41:23.550
and hidden and put under the rug. One fireplace

00:41:23.550 --> 00:41:26.789
brush is not going to change the world. And neither

00:41:26.789 --> 00:41:28.869
is it being in my collection. And I genuinely

00:41:28.869 --> 00:41:31.460
don't know. whether I should keep it or I should

00:41:31.460 --> 00:41:36.360
get rid of it. I actually like it. But I don't

00:41:36.360 --> 00:41:39.760
know what that says about me. And it worries

00:41:39.760 --> 00:41:41.880
me somewhat. And this is one of the reasons why

00:41:41.880 --> 00:41:43.219
I've brought it to the show. And I've thought

00:41:43.219 --> 00:41:47.099
about bringing it along for quite a while. Because

00:41:47.099 --> 00:41:49.519
normally, you know, Tat in the Box is a bit of

00:41:49.519 --> 00:41:51.519
fun. And this hopefully will end up being a bit

00:41:51.519 --> 00:41:54.780
of fun. But at the same time, there's a lot of

00:41:54.780 --> 00:41:59.130
tats out there that was produced. during the

00:41:59.130 --> 00:42:01.889
Victorian era, the Georgian era, the 40s, the

00:42:01.889 --> 00:42:08.809
50s, the 60s, 70s, 80s, still now, that is racially

00:42:08.809 --> 00:42:13.869
inappropriate. And whilst those things exist,

00:42:14.110 --> 00:42:17.110
I don't know how I can stop them. I also don't

00:42:17.110 --> 00:42:19.670
want to be a purchaser of them and an owner of

00:42:19.670 --> 00:42:24.510
them. I don't want to proliferate that. So I

00:42:24.510 --> 00:42:30.210
want to know your thoughts, really, the situation.

00:42:31.909 --> 00:42:35.489
I don't think I've got enough melanin in my skin

00:42:35.489 --> 00:42:38.369
to really be speaking up on it. This is the problem.

00:42:39.170 --> 00:42:41.929
I can't tell you if that's alright or not. I

00:42:41.929 --> 00:42:46.550
think it's not alright. And... I don't know if

00:42:46.550 --> 00:42:48.849
my opinion is correct or not. Someone else could

00:42:48.849 --> 00:42:50.469
look at that and think it's completely fine.

00:42:50.969 --> 00:42:53.050
But at the same time as me thinking it's not

00:42:53.050 --> 00:42:56.889
all right, I quite like it. I don't like clowns,

00:42:56.889 --> 00:43:00.230
but if you hand the right French clown to me

00:43:00.230 --> 00:43:04.750
that's just in black and white clothes and black

00:43:04.750 --> 00:43:06.670
and white makeup, it could be the most beautiful

00:43:06.670 --> 00:43:09.070
thing in the world. But if a man walked up to

00:43:09.070 --> 00:43:10.889
me dressed like that, I'd probably want to kill

00:43:10.889 --> 00:43:14.829
him. I guess keeping it in the context of...

00:43:15.050 --> 00:43:18.250
This is a very awkward curio. That seems to be

00:43:18.250 --> 00:43:20.829
the acceptable way to keep it, as opposed to,

00:43:20.909 --> 00:43:25.969
yes, this is a fine thing to have. Is this a

00:43:25.969 --> 00:43:28.250
fine thing to have? I guess that's kind of fine.

00:43:28.530 --> 00:43:31.150
I suppose I'm, I was going to say, I'm not trying

00:43:31.150 --> 00:43:32.829
to turn it into a talking piece, but this is

00:43:32.829 --> 00:43:35.969
literally what I am doing, is using it as a talking

00:43:35.969 --> 00:43:40.110
piece. You know, so shush, Karen, stop trying

00:43:40.110 --> 00:43:44.949
to gaslight all of your listeners. Trying to

00:43:44.949 --> 00:43:49.610
whitewash your collection. I know. I, yeah, I...

00:43:49.610 --> 00:43:52.869
Collection of racist curios. Yeah. A collection

00:43:52.869 --> 00:43:55.530
of one racist curio that you're kind of, you

00:43:55.530 --> 00:43:57.349
feel awkward about having. I'm pretty sure it

00:43:57.349 --> 00:44:00.269
is the only thing in my life that I genuinely

00:44:00.269 --> 00:44:04.909
feel awkward about having. And recently listening

00:44:04.909 --> 00:44:07.590
to lectures on Taoism and blah, blah, blah, blah,

00:44:07.710 --> 00:44:10.909
you know, the idea of letting go of things that

00:44:10.909 --> 00:44:14.019
don't bring you joy. It's something that I am

00:44:14.019 --> 00:44:17.539
considering bringing into my life. Cowism or

00:44:17.539 --> 00:44:22.199
Marie Kondoism? That too. You know, to try and

00:44:22.199 --> 00:44:25.679
calm the brain a little bit. And this is an item

00:44:25.679 --> 00:44:29.139
that doesn't bring me joy. It doesn't bring me

00:44:29.139 --> 00:44:32.960
sadness, but it does bring me a lot of confusion

00:44:32.960 --> 00:44:39.019
because I both like it and dislike it. You have

00:44:39.019 --> 00:44:41.500
to go back to a car boot sale. Return it to whence

00:44:41.500 --> 00:44:45.960
it came. Yeah, God, yeah. We're back in circulation.

00:44:46.260 --> 00:44:49.380
Next time I go to Amsterdam, whenever that might

00:44:49.380 --> 00:44:51.079
be, I'll take it with me and I'll throw it in

00:44:51.079 --> 00:44:52.920
the canal and maybe the Bondi treasure hunter

00:44:52.920 --> 00:44:55.260
can find it one day. Get done for littering.

00:44:56.280 --> 00:44:58.719
Racist littering. The worst kind of littering.

00:44:58.739 --> 00:45:01.300
They can't tell me off. They kick bicycles in

00:45:01.300 --> 00:45:03.900
the canals in Amsterdam. One little brush isn't

00:45:03.900 --> 00:45:06.219
going to make a difference. Are the bicycles

00:45:06.219 --> 00:45:13.139
in blackface? I'm not sure how much of this game

00:45:13.139 --> 00:45:16.460
we can actually play. Okay. I remember, I've

00:45:16.460 --> 00:45:18.280
not looked at it since, but I remember since

00:45:18.280 --> 00:45:20.380
picking the sheet up off the table in Techniquest,

00:45:20.519 --> 00:45:23.420
some of the answers were filled in. Okay. And

00:45:23.420 --> 00:45:26.300
I haven't bothered erasing any of them. Okay.

00:45:26.360 --> 00:45:28.000
So we might not have to think too much about

00:45:28.000 --> 00:45:30.940
some of the questions. So this is the Techniquest

00:45:30.940 --> 00:45:36.130
The Love Lab Quiz. Ooh. Does it tell us how much

00:45:36.130 --> 00:45:38.369
percentage we love each other by the end of it?

00:45:40.469 --> 00:45:46.150
Oh, here we go. I was looking at the back first.

00:45:47.150 --> 00:45:49.550
Circle the answer to each question. And when

00:45:49.550 --> 00:45:51.309
you're finished, leave the completed sheet in

00:45:51.309 --> 00:45:54.670
the collection box at the front desk. It wasn't

00:45:54.670 --> 00:45:58.380
completed. No way of knowing. Those are the top

00:45:58.380 --> 00:46:00.579
scores will be entered into a draw to win four

00:46:00.579 --> 00:46:03.340
tickets to our next adult -only event. Oh, cool.

00:46:03.579 --> 00:46:06.519
Stay tuned for more info. And that's your email

00:46:06.519 --> 00:46:08.159
address, and we'd love to send you offers, blah,

00:46:08.179 --> 00:46:12.320
blah, blah. Cupid is the Roman god of desire.

00:46:12.860 --> 00:46:17.340
Who is his counterpart in Greek mythology? Helios,

00:46:17.539 --> 00:46:23.559
Eros, Hermes, or Demeter? Eros? I think so. That's

00:46:23.559 --> 00:46:28.159
the one that's circled. Okay. In Victorian times,

00:46:28.300 --> 00:46:31.199
this mean -spirited Valentine's Day card were

00:46:31.199 --> 00:46:37.719
called blank Valentines. A, Viper. B, Vinegar.

00:46:37.820 --> 00:46:42.840
C, Villain. Or D, Vindictive. I think Vinegar,

00:46:42.840 --> 00:46:44.820
that's what they've selected as well, but Viper

00:46:44.820 --> 00:46:47.360
does sound quite good. Vindictive Valentine sounds

00:46:47.360 --> 00:46:51.000
better. Probably too late for us to send these

00:46:51.000 --> 00:46:56.030
in. Yeah. I can't be bothered to look them up

00:46:56.030 --> 00:46:59.369
either, I'll be honest. Okay. Dear listener,

00:46:59.530 --> 00:47:02.409
please send us your answer. Do you want to look

00:47:02.409 --> 00:47:07.809
them up? Okay. What was the question? Greek god

00:47:07.809 --> 00:47:13.769
of desire. Greek... Greek... Greek god of desire.

00:47:15.409 --> 00:47:18.210
Eros. Yeah, type Eros and see what comes up.

00:47:18.210 --> 00:47:20.809
No, it came up as Eros. Oh, that is right. And

00:47:20.809 --> 00:47:28.309
type it... Vinegar. Valentine's. Vinegar. Valentine.

00:47:28.789 --> 00:47:37.650
Oh. Oh. It is a thing? Oh. It's a bit grotesque.

00:47:38.409 --> 00:47:41.630
That was a bit mean -spirited Valentine's Day

00:47:41.630 --> 00:47:45.289
joke. Victorians are weird. Who invented the

00:47:45.289 --> 00:47:48.630
first Valentine's Day chocolate box? Cadbury's.

00:47:48.769 --> 00:47:55.039
A. Rodin Flint. B. Richard Cadbury. Dick Cadbury.

00:47:55.480 --> 00:47:59.739
C. Milton Hershey. Or D. Should have read this

00:47:59.739 --> 00:48:04.340
one first. Domingo Ghirardelli. No idea. But

00:48:04.340 --> 00:48:06.559
it was Richard Cadbury. They got that wrong.

00:48:06.679 --> 00:48:10.260
They said Dick. Told you it was Cadbury's. Which

00:48:10.260 --> 00:48:12.920
naturally produced chemical is known as the love

00:48:12.920 --> 00:48:20.139
hormone. A. Oxytocin. B. Dopamine. C. Serotonin.

00:48:20.260 --> 00:48:25.000
Or D. I hope I pronounced oxytocin correctly.

00:48:25.420 --> 00:48:31.820
Yeah, I think so. I think C. What were they again?

00:48:33.000 --> 00:48:35.480
I'll pronounce that one again. Oxytocin. Oxytocin.

00:48:36.820 --> 00:48:40.940
Dopamine, serotonin or endorphins. Serotonin

00:48:40.940 --> 00:48:47.139
is the happy hormone. Dopamine is like when you're...

00:48:47.139 --> 00:48:50.349
Rewarded. Yeah, rewarded for something. What

00:48:50.349 --> 00:48:52.590
was the last one again? Endorphins. Endorphins

00:48:52.590 --> 00:48:57.030
is when you're pumped up. So oxytocin? They've

00:48:57.030 --> 00:49:05.010
circled oxytocin. What is the love hormone? Oxytocin.

00:49:05.730 --> 00:49:08.900
I've not heard of it, but I... We only got a

00:49:08.900 --> 00:49:12.239
B in GCSE science and stopped learning any more

00:49:12.239 --> 00:49:15.239
science. I got a double B for GCSE science. Biology

00:49:15.239 --> 00:49:18.340
is my weakest of them. Yeah, I think physics

00:49:18.340 --> 00:49:22.699
was my weakest. What fruit was once known as

00:49:22.699 --> 00:49:25.719
the love apple for its alleged aphrodisiacal

00:49:25.719 --> 00:49:31.360
properties? Aphrodisiacal? Aphrodisiacal? Aphrodisiacal?

00:49:31.960 --> 00:49:36.539
Aphrodisiacal? Properties. Okay. What fruit turns

00:49:36.539 --> 00:49:41.619
people on? Oysters. And they're fruit of the

00:49:41.619 --> 00:49:43.659
sea, right? You get them from a tree, yeah. A.

00:49:46.119 --> 00:49:52.239
Pomegranate. B. Plum. C. Pear. D. Tomato. And

00:49:52.239 --> 00:49:55.820
they've circled A. I think that's right. Pomegranate.

00:49:58.039 --> 00:50:00.699
What was it? Fruit of love. Fruit of what? Oh,

00:50:00.699 --> 00:50:05.809
sorry. The love apple. Love apple. Love apple

00:50:05.809 --> 00:50:14.349
is archaic term for the tomato. Solanum. Maybe

00:50:14.349 --> 00:50:18.789
it's a specific type of tomato then. Lycopersicum.

00:50:20.510 --> 00:50:33.550
No, lycopersicum. Solanum lycopersicum. Pomodoro.

00:50:35.340 --> 00:50:39.039
Okay, next question. Aphrodisiacal. Aphrodisiacal.

00:50:39.340 --> 00:50:43.199
Got there in the end. Sorry. How many times are

00:50:43.199 --> 00:50:45.420
you going to say aphrodisiacal? I thought as

00:50:45.420 --> 00:50:46.980
you were giving that one another go, I'll get

00:50:46.980 --> 00:50:50.820
another go for saying that one. In what year

00:50:50.820 --> 00:50:53.320
is the oldest known valentine believed to have

00:50:53.320 --> 00:51:05.119
been written? A. 1123 B. 1415 C. 1678 D. 1893.

00:51:07.019 --> 00:51:10.820
So it's either going to be C or D. I'm thinking

00:51:10.820 --> 00:51:12.900
prior to that, people wouldn't have been writing

00:51:12.900 --> 00:51:16.900
each other Valentine's cards or writing each

00:51:16.900 --> 00:51:19.039
other very much of anything unless they were

00:51:19.039 --> 00:51:25.460
very rich. I'm going to go C. 1678. It's not

00:51:25.460 --> 00:51:28.340
circled or anything, so. First Valentine's card.

00:51:31.420 --> 00:51:36.260
Valentine's. 1678 notable events. I wonder if

00:51:36.260 --> 00:51:39.599
that would be... No, Etsy. I don't want... This

00:51:39.599 --> 00:51:42.460
is our first Valentine's Together card. Celebrate

00:51:42.460 --> 00:51:44.300
being together since 1678. First Valentine's

00:51:44.300 --> 00:51:48.820
card ever sent. Oldest known Valentine written.

00:51:50.139 --> 00:51:53.460
Oh, traced back as far as the 15th century. So

00:51:53.460 --> 00:51:57.760
14 something. 14, 15. There we are then. On average,

00:51:57.960 --> 00:52:01.260
how many times does one's heart beat per day?

00:52:02.400 --> 00:52:11.099
A, 450 ,000. B, a million. C, 10 ,000. Oh, you

00:52:11.099 --> 00:52:12.900
went to escalate and go up in quiz numbers. Those

00:52:12.900 --> 00:52:16.400
are an odd selection of numbers. So 450 ,000,

00:52:16.420 --> 00:52:19.739
a million, 100 ,000 or 50 ,000. I don't know

00:52:19.739 --> 00:52:22.500
how many seconds there are in a day, but however

00:52:22.500 --> 00:52:25.760
many seconds there are in a day minus 20%. I'm

00:52:25.760 --> 00:52:34.139
going to say A, 450 ,000. How many times does

00:52:34.139 --> 00:52:46.380
your heart beat in 24 hours? Approximately 100

00:52:46.380 --> 00:52:50.619
,000 times. Oh, C. There we are then. What elements

00:52:50.619 --> 00:52:53.579
are diamonds made from? A. Zinc. B. Silicon.

00:52:53.739 --> 00:52:57.710
C. Carbon. Or D. Germanium. Well, if they were

00:52:57.710 --> 00:53:00.230
German diamonds, maybe germanium, but I'm pretty

00:53:00.230 --> 00:53:02.849
sure it's carbon. Approximately how many cocoa

00:53:02.849 --> 00:53:05.949
beans does it take to make one kilogram of chocolate?

00:53:06.329 --> 00:53:15.389
A, 400 to 600. B, 1 ,000 to 1 ,200. C, 150 to

00:53:15.389 --> 00:53:21.269
350. Or D, 700 to 900. But they've also put a

00:53:21.269 --> 00:53:24.030
little star on whoever's filling in this form

00:53:24.030 --> 00:53:26.929
in has put... What type of chocolate? Yeah. Is

00:53:26.929 --> 00:53:29.730
it white chocolate? Milk chocolate? Dark chocolate?

00:53:29.929 --> 00:53:34.289
Aero? 90 % chocolate? Is it cacao? Is it even

00:53:34.289 --> 00:53:37.530
chocolate? Because let's face it, most chocolate

00:53:37.530 --> 00:53:39.650
is just chocolate flavoured brown stuff these

00:53:39.650 --> 00:53:42.309
days. It does say one kilogram of chocolate.

00:53:42.530 --> 00:53:47.030
So presumably, I'm going to say... One... I will

00:53:47.030 --> 00:53:53.440
go B, the biggest amount. Uses... How... Many

00:53:53.440 --> 00:54:01.980
beans. 800 to 1200 cocoa beans produce one kilogram

00:54:01.980 --> 00:54:05.800
of chocolate. Oh, that could be either D or B

00:54:05.800 --> 00:54:10.219
then. Because D was between 700 to 900 and B

00:54:10.219 --> 00:54:13.659
was between 1 ,000 to 1 ,200. Oh, well, they

00:54:13.659 --> 00:54:17.820
were both roughly correct. That's stupid. Which

00:54:17.820 --> 00:54:20.400
renowned writer is credited with coining the

00:54:20.400 --> 00:54:23.889
term star -crossed lovers? Dickens? That's the

00:54:23.889 --> 00:54:26.409
first. A, Charles Dickens. B, William Shakespeare.

00:54:26.949 --> 00:54:32.389
C, Geoffrey Shorter. Or D, Lord Byron. Oh. It

00:54:32.389 --> 00:54:35.230
should be Shakespeare then. A circle Shakespeare.

00:54:35.710 --> 00:54:37.750
Yeah, Shakespeare. It's in Romeo and Juliet.

00:54:38.090 --> 00:54:40.469
And then at the end of the quiz, they put good

00:54:40.469 --> 00:54:43.429
luck. Shouldn't you have put that before you

00:54:43.429 --> 00:54:47.349
start? After you've answered all the questions.

00:54:47.449 --> 00:54:49.809
Good. Too late now. I've filled the quiz in.

00:54:49.809 --> 00:54:51.630
That was a fun quiz. We should have filled that

00:54:51.630 --> 00:54:54.170
in on the night. Yeah, we might have got some

00:54:54.170 --> 00:54:56.250
tickets to go back. Yeah, could do that slide

00:54:56.250 --> 00:54:58.269
again. We could have gone back twice. Twice?

00:54:58.409 --> 00:55:00.989
Did you just finger gun me then? Two. Yeah, twice.

00:55:01.210 --> 00:55:03.929
We could have won four tickets. Two. So that's

00:55:03.929 --> 00:55:07.010
two visits worth. Oh, no. Can you stop double

00:55:07.010 --> 00:55:09.610
fingering me, please? No. You have to quadruple.

00:55:09.650 --> 00:55:12.380
Whoa. Because. We got your special pass, so I

00:55:12.380 --> 00:55:16.179
got it free. Oh, shit, yeah. Because I'm a disabled

00:55:16.179 --> 00:55:21.079
person in Wales. Four visits! Four! We would

00:55:21.079 --> 00:55:23.440
have got a whole hand of fingers worth of visits

00:55:23.440 --> 00:55:29.739
out of my blue badge. Sorry. Some people are

00:55:29.739 --> 00:55:32.659
so rude. I'm so sorry, Mum and Dad. I'm really

00:55:32.659 --> 00:55:40.340
sorry. It's my turn for bibliothete. Yes, it

00:55:40.340 --> 00:55:46.139
is. I thought that was going to be silent. That

00:55:46.139 --> 00:55:57.659
was surprisingly noisy. Here we go, look. I'm

00:55:57.659 --> 00:55:59.400
trying to make noise and it didn't make noise.

00:55:59.579 --> 00:56:03.809
Yeah. The fuck? How much friction was there?

00:56:04.150 --> 00:56:06.230
Ghost friction. It's a very heavy bit of paper.

00:56:07.289 --> 00:56:12.170
A lot of drag. It's my choice of book for Bibliotek

00:56:12.170 --> 00:56:14.389
this episode. Yes, it is. And it's just going

00:56:14.389 --> 00:56:16.949
to be a very, very quick segment because I've

00:56:16.949 --> 00:56:18.949
only skim -read it and I haven't got much to

00:56:18.949 --> 00:56:22.010
talk about it. You've read that on me. Because,

00:56:22.170 --> 00:56:25.849
partly also, it's a kid's book. Oh, yay! It's

00:56:25.849 --> 00:56:30.190
called Piratology. Ooh! A Pirate Hunter's Companion.

00:56:30.289 --> 00:56:34.039
Cool. Oh, it's got a compass in the front cover.

00:56:34.980 --> 00:56:37.880
It's not a particularly accurate. I think it's

00:56:37.880 --> 00:56:40.139
just floating in water. So I tried it compared

00:56:40.139 --> 00:56:43.539
to my phone compass. And yeah, it didn't quite

00:56:43.539 --> 00:56:45.500
match up. I don't think there's any liquid in

00:56:45.500 --> 00:56:50.219
there. It's definitely pin. It's definitely magnetic.

00:56:51.159 --> 00:56:53.559
It doesn't always point north. It's pointing

00:56:53.559 --> 00:57:00.849
north, northwest. It's very cool. The general

00:57:00.849 --> 00:57:04.809
gist of the book is about a Captain William Lubber,

00:57:04.849 --> 00:57:09.409
who's a pirate hunter hunting down his nemesis,

00:57:09.409 --> 00:57:13.409
Arabella Drummond, a lady pirate. Inside, it's

00:57:13.409 --> 00:57:17.170
presented as this book has been found at the

00:57:17.170 --> 00:57:19.849
bottom of the sea. There's a mention in the publisher's

00:57:19.849 --> 00:57:23.159
note. Piratology was allegedly found in the old

00:57:23.159 --> 00:57:25.300
sea chest of divers searching for wrecks off

00:57:25.300 --> 00:57:28.280
the Grand Banks of Newfoundland in 2006. While

00:57:28.280 --> 00:57:30.800
it mostly conforms to accepted ideas about historical

00:57:30.800 --> 00:57:33.199
pirates, there are a few elements such as the

00:57:33.199 --> 00:57:36.059
Black Spot, which were previously unknown except

00:57:36.059 --> 00:57:38.340
in works of fiction such as Robert Louis Stevenson's

00:57:38.340 --> 00:57:40.559
Treasure Island. Moreover, researchers revealed

00:57:40.559 --> 00:57:43.480
that no trace of a William Lubber, or his ship

00:57:43.480 --> 00:57:46.429
the Sea Cat, or his piratical nemesis Arabella

00:57:46.429 --> 00:57:48.550
Drummond. So it's pretty much saying, yeah, this

00:57:48.550 --> 00:57:51.289
is all fiction. It's all fantasy. But there are

00:57:51.289 --> 00:57:52.929
little bits in there. It's quite interactive

00:57:52.929 --> 00:57:56.670
for kids. I like it. Every loose tie I've tied

00:57:56.670 --> 00:57:58.469
up for giving this to my niece. I was going to

00:57:58.469 --> 00:58:00.269
say, is this for your niece? There's a letter

00:58:00.269 --> 00:58:02.230
of commission that you unfold. It's a bit of

00:58:02.230 --> 00:58:03.829
string holding it together. It's really cool.

00:58:04.010 --> 00:58:06.309
It's like an investigator's journal or something.

00:58:06.449 --> 00:58:08.469
Little bits that you fold out. It's like showing

00:58:08.469 --> 00:58:10.949
bits of extra information. It's textured bits

00:58:10.949 --> 00:58:15.519
of paper in there. Here we go. A little fold

00:58:15.519 --> 00:58:21.500
-out map. There we go. That is so cool. And there's

00:58:21.500 --> 00:58:25.579
little drawings of Arabella Drummond. A little

00:58:25.579 --> 00:58:31.739
pot of gold dust bag. There's a little book in

00:58:31.739 --> 00:58:36.960
here. Nautical and piratical terms. Ahoy, hello.

00:58:37.619 --> 00:58:40.760
Amid ships, the centre of the ship. A vast stop.

00:58:40.980 --> 00:58:44.250
Aye, aye. Yes. I'm going to turn some more pages.

00:58:44.369 --> 00:58:48.190
I thought avast was behold. Avast, me captain.

00:58:49.530 --> 00:58:51.510
Try not to rip any of these pages off. I'm going

00:58:51.510 --> 00:58:55.389
to be very, very gentle with it. Fathom, six

00:58:55.389 --> 00:59:01.070
feet. Gangway, get out of the way. Not one nautical

00:59:01.070 --> 00:59:04.030
mile an hour, which equals 1 .7 miles an hour.

00:59:04.690 --> 00:59:07.849
Why isn't a mile an hour a mile an hour? It depends.

00:59:08.519 --> 00:59:11.219
I guess a mile of water is different to a mile

00:59:11.219 --> 00:59:14.380
over land. I don't know. Maybe the drag is different.

00:59:14.840 --> 00:59:18.059
This one I've had to try putting this bit together.

00:59:18.780 --> 00:59:21.940
It was ripped. I've kind of fudged this because

00:59:21.940 --> 00:59:25.599
what was in there was no longer in there. It

00:59:25.599 --> 00:59:28.039
was a bit of paper with the black spot on there.

00:59:28.119 --> 00:59:30.460
Oh, you've added a one. So I've had to kind of

00:59:30.460 --> 00:59:33.699
make my own. I can't remember whether I used

00:59:33.699 --> 00:59:39.039
toilet paper. No, no, that was rolling paper.

00:59:39.460 --> 00:59:43.340
Oh, my God, Adam. I tried to make it look as

00:59:43.340 --> 00:59:45.480
old -timey as possible. I need to stain that

00:59:45.480 --> 00:59:49.099
with some tea. I haven't given this to my niece

00:59:49.099 --> 00:59:50.760
yet, but that was the kind of most textured,

00:59:50.880 --> 00:59:52.940
old -timey paper I've got to hand. I get it.

00:59:52.940 --> 00:59:55.260
Just a bit of Rizzler. I get it. It's all right.

00:59:56.139 --> 01:00:00.179
Also, this is a bit to your back. So, yeah, Chinese

01:00:00.179 --> 01:00:03.059
sailors. It shows some knots. I think that's

01:00:03.059 --> 01:00:04.980
meant to be translated as well, a little bit

01:00:04.980 --> 01:00:10.519
of Mandarin. Cool. Yes, it is. It shows diagrams

01:00:10.519 --> 01:00:14.360
of different Chinese ships as well. I obtained

01:00:14.360 --> 01:00:18.139
this Chinese pirate ransom note from a trader

01:00:18.139 --> 01:00:23.579
at Canton. Translated, it reads as follows. Sorry,

01:00:23.719 --> 01:00:26.519
let's move this book a little more. To the owner

01:00:26.519 --> 01:00:29.179
of the Hung Wei Shipping Company, each month

01:00:29.179 --> 01:00:31.739
we would like you to send us the amount of 2

01:00:31.739 --> 01:00:35.639
,000 gold coins for the purposes of food and

01:00:35.639 --> 01:00:38.920
necessities. With this letter, we send a representative

01:00:38.920 --> 01:00:42.579
bearing our banner. Quickly, send a messenger

01:00:42.579 --> 01:00:47.820
with the loan to our stockade. If there is any

01:00:47.820 --> 01:00:50.960
delay, floating mines and cannons will await

01:00:50.960 --> 01:00:55.179
your ships. This is a note of caution. Fifth

01:00:55.179 --> 01:01:00.079
day of the 12th month. Rude. Nice to let you

01:01:00.079 --> 01:01:01.719
know how long it would have taken to get them

01:01:01.719 --> 01:01:05.860
as well. Yeah. This is a really cool find. I

01:01:05.860 --> 01:01:08.519
can't remember what's in this one. What is that?

01:01:08.739 --> 01:01:13.739
I think it's a compass and I can't remember what

01:01:13.739 --> 01:01:16.219
the square thing is for measuring distance across

01:01:16.219 --> 01:01:19.760
maps. Oh, yes. Yeah, it is. You point to point.

01:01:20.019 --> 01:01:22.639
Yeah, it's got all the mapping and nautical bits

01:01:22.639 --> 01:01:25.510
and bobs. animals that have been found along

01:01:25.510 --> 01:01:29.250
the way. Apparently there's a life and times

01:01:29.250 --> 01:01:34.269
of Arabella Drummond. Oh, here we go, yeah. It's

01:01:34.269 --> 01:01:37.230
got sort of greatest hits throughout the age

01:01:37.230 --> 01:01:39.690
of piracy. Oh, brilliant. Some notable people

01:01:39.690 --> 01:01:41.949
from piracy and the ages they were active and

01:01:41.949 --> 01:01:45.309
notable events. The Barbarossa Brothers, Kyra

01:01:45.309 --> 01:01:53.500
Dinn and Aaruj? Aaruj? Sorry, A -R -U -J, are

01:01:53.500 --> 01:01:57.619
born in the Mediterranean in the 1470s. 1530,

01:01:57.860 --> 01:02:00.519
Emperor Charles V grants control of Malta to

01:02:00.519 --> 01:02:04.659
the Knights of Malta. That's nice of him. 1653,

01:02:04.920 --> 01:02:09.840
Buccaneer Francois Lolanes attacks Spanish ships.

01:02:10.780 --> 01:02:15.679
1720, Calico Jack Rackham and Bonnie Mary Read

01:02:15.679 --> 01:02:19.920
are tried for piracy. Rackham is hung. I don't

01:02:19.920 --> 01:02:21.719
know how much of a fan of the show Black Sails

01:02:21.719 --> 01:02:25.139
you were. I think I watched the first season

01:02:25.139 --> 01:02:27.519
when I was on holiday in Thailand about a million

01:02:27.519 --> 01:02:31.599
years ago. Jack Rackham was one of the main characters

01:02:31.599 --> 01:02:34.099
in the show. I don't remember that much detail.

01:02:34.800 --> 01:02:40.559
At the end, I think he might have found the fictional

01:02:40.559 --> 01:02:42.599
pirate in the book. It's meant to, I think he

01:02:42.599 --> 01:02:45.880
found... uh arabella drummond and then retires

01:02:45.880 --> 01:02:49.219
cool there's a advert from pirates retirement

01:02:49.219 --> 01:02:52.820
a peaceful retreat for retired seafaring folk

01:02:52.820 --> 01:02:55.519
and the nice sort of uh really embossed relief

01:02:55.519 --> 01:02:58.980
is a shiny gold pages and some jewels yeah and

01:02:58.980 --> 01:03:01.940
i think there's a note from dispatches i haven't

01:03:01.940 --> 01:03:03.699
opened it but i'm sure it tells him what a great

01:03:03.699 --> 01:03:06.019
chap he's been yes absolutely hunting pirates

01:03:06.019 --> 01:03:08.440
well done and you've earned your retirement that's

01:03:08.440 --> 01:03:11.460
a very cool book so hopefully at some point my

01:03:11.460 --> 01:03:14.500
niece will come into This period in history.

01:03:14.760 --> 01:03:17.460
Yeah. In school. When this might come in handy

01:03:17.460 --> 01:03:19.559
for a school project or something. Absolutely.

01:03:19.719 --> 01:03:23.940
Oh, that's really cool. Good find. I can't remember

01:03:23.940 --> 01:03:27.579
what shop I got this from either. But originally

01:03:27.579 --> 01:03:30.780
this would have been £17 .99. I can see why.

01:03:30.920 --> 01:03:34.039
It's a big book. It's nice chunky pages with

01:03:34.039 --> 01:03:36.219
interactive elements. I've got a feeling this

01:03:36.219 --> 01:03:38.679
might have been from YMCA in Lettley. Probably.

01:03:39.159 --> 01:03:41.730
One of the free ones? No, I think this might

01:03:41.730 --> 01:03:44.230
have been maybe three pounds, possibly. Right.

01:03:44.469 --> 01:03:47.150
Maybe two pounds. Okay. Yeah, a present for my

01:03:47.150 --> 01:03:54.369
niece. Yeah, it's cool. I like it. Hmm, how do

01:03:54.369 --> 01:03:57.170
we start these outros again? Right, okay. Right,

01:03:57.269 --> 01:04:00.650
well, that's it, you ugly lot, you landlubbers,

01:04:00.730 --> 01:04:04.530
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01:04:04.610 --> 01:04:10.559
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