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This is Lightly Used with Adam and Karen. Hello,

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I'm Adam. I think I might be Barbara. Oh, hello,

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Babs! Alright, my lovely. Episode 40 of Lightly

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Used. The big 4 -0. I know, we should be getting

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real naughty, right? That's what a 40's are for.

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Well, I've got a personal anniversary I'd like

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to celebrate. Ooh! It's been about 20 years,

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end of March, since my first podcast. No way!

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Yeah. Back in the day, I used to be on local

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radio a little bit. Very, very local radio. A

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very, very little bit. But on my Christmas Eve

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show in 2005, it was on Bridge FM. I used to

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do the evening show there for a little bit. They

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let me bring on my two other radio friends. It

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was Paul Saunders and Hannah Lewis. Hannah, who was

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the newsreader, and Paul, who I met at The Wave

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in Swansea. And when I got sacked from there,

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he took over my overnight show. So I was happy.

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If anyone has them - mate - At least it's him.

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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm glad you got the extra

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income. Fair play. Paul introduced me to podcasting.

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He edited out all the songs that we played in

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the radio show and that became our first podcast.

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Oh, that's fun. I think he released that in around

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about March 2006. Wow. All those many, many,

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many, many moons ago. I was a bit of a naysayer.

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Explain it to me. It's just a radio program,

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but without music. It's talk radio, but not on

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the radio. What's the casting bit? It's just

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to record it, yes. Right, now I understand. A

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lot less complicated than I thought. The earliest

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remnants are on the Wayback Machine. Nice. 13th

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of June 2006, and that screen grab is episode

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11. So I'm guessing around about March 2006.

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So happy pod-iversary to me. Happy pod-iversary

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to you indeed. I'm not volunteering any of these

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shows because... I'm not putting 20 and 25 -year

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-old me, or however old I was at the time, out

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onto today's internet. Fuck that. No, no. 20

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-year -old me is in the vault. Opinions of the

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time. Yeah, yeah. He was an absolute dick, okay?

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We can both agree on that. You don't need the

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proof. 20 -year -old me was a dick too. If you

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do find it, keep it to yourself, okay? It was

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a bit of virtually everything, or above. Nice,

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like an acronym. That was from 2006 to late 2007,

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possibly early 2008. Oh, you were on for quite

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a while then. 59 episodes. Nice. And two bonus

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episodes. Two bonus episodes was after my birthday.

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We came back to my flat and we did a drunk recording

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in the front room. And we split that into two

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episodes. The second one. It wasn't as good.

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It was later on in the same recording session.

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Yeah, it got to the point where the alcohol had

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taken over. Yeah, it was not being funny. And

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then it was Interrobang. It was the second podcast

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that was maybe early, mid -2008 to sometime in

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2009, 69 episodes. It was me and Hannah, then

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me and Ed Parnell, who does our introduction,

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and he's the voice of our show. Adam and Karen

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have been lightly used. That is Mr. Parnell,

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and I am happy every time I hear him. I'm eternally

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grateful to you, so cheers, Ed. You're a man.

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I honestly had no idea how much... you'd done

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before. I mean, I knew you'd done podcasting,

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but like, you've thrown out a couple of hundred

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episodes. Thanks for glossing over the 15 year

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gap of no podcasting at all. I didn't think that

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that was important. Still, that's 20 years of

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podcasting. That doesn't count the fact that

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most of it wasn't podcasting. Still. Sorry, I

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just hit the mic then. Sorry. You've done a lot

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more of this than you let people know in general,

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including me. I'm like, hang on a second. I didn't

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even know you had a second podcast. I think you

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played me some snippets from above back in the

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day. Maybe just the smallest bit to hear my radio

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voice from back in the day. Posh Adam. Yeah.

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Hey, Radio Voice, Adam, I had to do that live

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show, the fundraiser. That's very true. Radio

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Me came back out. Good to be here. Yeah, yeah.

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Radio You came out. No support from me whatsoever.

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You did extremely well. Slightly higher pitched

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and more enthusiastic version of me. That's Radio

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Me. I love it. It's great. Playing the big hits.

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I don't think any station that I worked on had

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that strapline. I don't know where that came

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from. Playing the biggest hits, the most bangingest

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tunes. The bacon to your butty. I think one of

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the best ones was The Wave. At some point, I'm

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sure the strapline was South Wales' biggest hits.

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Oh. We said the last bit first. Nice. Made a

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point. And then nobody ever enunciated the last

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bit particularly well. I don't think that's...

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I think it changes South Wales' best music. I

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don't think that was a long -lived strapline,

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if I recall. Funny that. Funny, funny. I can't

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remember whether that was an official one or

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just something like, yeah, we're some mostly

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male presenters. Hey, good morning. All of you

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guys from the 2000s guying yourselves up on the

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radio. That's why you're not hearing my podcast.

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That's fair. Because that was... We didn't have

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to comply with any rules for that. That's true.

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It was so early in the day that, you know, having

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a few listeners back then was like mega. We were

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on iTunes featured podcasts a couple of times

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and we made the top 10 overall iTunes charts

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in the UK and fairly regularly in the UK top

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10 comedy podcasts. There weren't many podcasts

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to choose from 20 years ago. I think Johnny Vaughan

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and Denise Van Outen on Capital FM were also

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next. There's a screen grab of... Our podcast

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next to theirs on iTunes front page. That's brilliant.

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Rubbing shoulders. That's really cool. I like

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that. That's awesome. Good story. Happy podiversary

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to you. Thank you very much. What have you been

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up to? I have been watching Wakatakakake. Absolutely.

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Sumo season's back. Sumo season is back. The

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Grand Sumo March Tournament in Osaka. She's probably

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finished now. or we'll finish tomorrow from when

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we're recording this. Date doesn't really matter.

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It's been excellent. I've really enjoyed it.

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I think the channel that I watch it on is NHK

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Japan on YouTube. They do like a 30 -minute roundup

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of the day with all the bouts, all the top -level

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bouts. I think it's the Japanese National Broadcasting

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Company, I think. Yes, it is indeed. Well done,

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good sir. Excellent knowledging there. Godzilla's

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taken down their tower hundreds of times. So,

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yeah, so quick updates, I guess. Wakatakakage...

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was when i wrote my notes he was six and five

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over 11 days so he was up one but i think he's

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won a few more since then i think he might be

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eight and five now oh um who was my guy who won

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the emperor's trophy in january has absolutely

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had his ass handed to him by just about everybody

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he was in line for promotion to No, it's gone.

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So yeah. He's at the top of his class. He is

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at the top of his division, his class. And if

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he had won, I think he needed to win 10 bouts

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in March to be promoted to the next superior

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level of sumo. So to put it in. Vague. British

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sportsman, is he facing relegation? He's not

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facing relegation. He was facing promotion, but

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he won't be relegated. He's going to be mid -table.

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But he's just not getting promoted. Yeah, no

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promotion for Anishke, which is a real shame.

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That close. Yeah. Ura, so U -R -A is how you

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spell his name, really... It's just the happiest

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sumo wrestler. His profile photo, when they bring

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it up for the matches and they give you their

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stats, it's just this, like, lovely smiley face.

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He's so happy and beautiful. And he's got this

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gorgeous skin. Like, oh, he's so pretty. And

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he wears a pink Mawashi. remembered that one

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um and then he's got these big like straps that

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he has on his legs he's from osaka so the crowd

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are like yeah come on come on come on i think

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when he retires he will have women down the road

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waiting to marry him and have his babies he's

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actually a third generation successful grand

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sumo wrestler his grandfather did really well

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and his father before him as well so ura is third

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gen ass kicker so when he retired did he get

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put out to stud You're bringing the fourth gent,

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come on. Yeah, I'm pretty sure sumo wrestlers,

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I might be completely wrong. Please correct me

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if I am wrong. In fact, I might go and do some

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reading after this and correct myself in the

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next episode. But from my very poor knowledge

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and guesswork, sumo wrestlers are not allowed

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to get married and have children until after

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they retire. That's a way of life. They're not

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supposed to have anything to do. They live in

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stables, you know, whilst they're competing.

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Is there a documentary about this we should be

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a lot more aware of? I imagine there are plenty.

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I might do some Googling and do some actual learning

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about sumo because I really love it. But I also

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know on the flip side of it being incredible

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and these huge strong men of... gargantuan proportions

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being able to pull off the most incredible physical

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feats whilst trying to stop themselves being

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pushed out of a ring one of the younger sumo

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wrestlers had to withdraw from the tournament

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before it started his name is muduri fuji he's

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29 years old and he had a heart attack holy crap

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he's been in hospital with fluid on his lungs

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um for Three weeks, I think, now. And I did read

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a very small story where one of the other sumo

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wrestlers has said, yeah, he really should stop

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smoking before he goes out and has a bout because

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it's not doing him any favours. So I don't think

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Midori Fuji potentially... is the fittest example

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of a sumo wrestler. From what I gather, smoking

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is a big part of Japanese culture. Yes, yeah,

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I believe it is. So, I mean, you know, I'm not

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judging him, but yeah, 29 years old in pretty

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much in intensive care because his heart and

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lungs are packing in and that's really sad. So

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there is a dark side to sumo, but I genuinely

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appreciate it for its beauty and it's just like...

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absolute insanity it is a feat of human endurance

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to take part in a match i've seen just clips

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yeah this is gonna sound crass but you know nature

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documentaries the walrus it's that just the amount

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of mass of people smashing and but with technical

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expertise involved as well so it's oh fuck's

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sake yeah and it's a clash i mean and sometimes

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it really really is i mean you know they're both

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on their their start lines and when they go into

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to start The sumo. I can't remember what the

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name of that is. There is a specific name. There

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are various techniques. You can go for a lunge,

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a grab. You can jump to the side. Some guys go

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straight in with the head. Straight in with the

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head onto the other guy's head. And you can hear

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them. bashing themselves together. And I'm like,

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how do you not have brain damage? It's like mountain

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goats. And then they can spend anywhere between,

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like, four seconds, is probably the shortest

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much I've ever seen, to a couple of minutes pushing

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each other around. They're both, you know, some

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of these guys are 120 kilos, some of them are,

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like, 150, 180 kilos. Like, that's a lot of person

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to push around whilst you're also pushing yourself

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around being a lot of person. Do you have to

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wear, like, a weighted... What's shogi? What's

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it called? Mawashi. Oh, damn it. You were so

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close. Do you have to wear a weighted Mawashi?

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No. Like jockeys having their weight penalty.

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No, no, it's not like jockeying. They just accept

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that they're all in the same division and there

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are weight and height differences, you know.

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Between A to B, in this range. Bitty to see you're

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in the next class up and so on. I did see an

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interesting match. I can't remember who it was

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between. But one of the guys had his hand on

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the rear strap of the Mawashi of the other wrestler.

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And it had come undone. The knot had come undone.

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So the referee went over to them mid -wrestle,

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put his hands on their shoulders, and they have

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to stand. perfectly still, while the referee

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then goes and reties the Mawashi. And then he

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will let them carry on again. But the ref has

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to put the guy's hands in exactly the same place.

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It's so technical. But yeah, absolutely fascinating.

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And so the discipline involved with the fighters,

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no, you exactly freeze. Yeah, and they are really

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disciplined and they tend to come across as very

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humble. Don't know if that's how they're... Could

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be cultural. I don't know if it's cultural, if

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that's what they're told that they have to come

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across as, but they're all very gracious. They're

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asked questions like, you know, how do you feel

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about your win today? Oh, I'm very grateful and

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I appreciate the fans and I hope that they enjoyed

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it. So there's no macho man Randy Savage. Absolutely

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none. The egos are under so much control that

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it only comes out in the ring. And that's another

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reason that I love it. There's no bad mouth in

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each other, no slap in each other. Actually,

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there are some slaps, but once they're in the

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ring. Technical slaps. Yeah, technical slaps.

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But yeah, I just love sumo. probably next episode,

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there'll be a roundup of who actually won the

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Emperor's Trophy. And no sort of shit -talking

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before the match, like boxes and stuff like,

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oh, I'm going to come and eat your family and

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all that crap. None of that. Right, the match

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will speak for itself. Yeah. There's a dignity

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in that. The worst thing they do to each other

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is... Wedgie. ...is get into a staring lockout

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when they're getting ready to go. And, like,

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they will... lock in until one of them is forced

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to break connection of the of eye line of eyesight

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and there was one bout this week where these

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two guys were just like i'm just gonna fucking

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stare at you mate i'm just gonna stare at you

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i'm gonna stare i am staring into the deep dark

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depths of your soul that sounds great and it's

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like yes that's how you psych people out you

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go I know I can beat you and I just have to look

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at you for you to know that. Yeah. And it's like,

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yeah, I appreciate that. I don't need any of

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this, like, bravado and blah, blah, blah, blah,

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blah. Oh, that's also going to ask with the ref

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adjusting the... Mawashi? Going to combine the

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both times. Wamashi? Yeah, pretty much. Mawashi.

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Did they bring screens or something? No, no,

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no screen. No, because it hadn't fallen off.

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It was just the knot at the back that secured

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it. It was just the knot at the back that secured

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the back strap. So the ref saved everybody's

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dignity. I mean, not that there's much being

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hidden. It's literally just to gooch the balls.

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You've got the freedom to move without... yeah

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with broadcasters losing their license let's

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leave it at that that's the one but yeah love

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it love simo glad it's back uh more updates to

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follow and then probably again in may because

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it seems to be there's a tournament every other

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month and i will try and put a link to highlight

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in the vlog yeah i'll send you a i'll send you

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a couple of youtube videos of like bouts of the

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day and you can put those on because those are

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good they're only like two and a half minutes

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long so people can watch those uh oh what else

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have i been up to um oh i bought myself a mobility

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scooter i have bought myself the rattliest old

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bird i possibly could have found but i was on

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a budget and i cannot afford to pay the Minimum

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£1 ,000 to £1 ,500 for a brand new scooter that

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comes to pieces and would fit in the boot of

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my car. So I did a bit of shopping around and

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I found Red Dragon scooters in Gowerton. Not

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too far. My old stomping ground. Yeah, not too

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far from there. And they had like this. bat cave

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almost full of scooters likely used scooters

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some of them lightly used some of them extremely

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heavily used and some of them unused i think

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the one that i have purchased is edging slightly

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more towards the heavily than the lightly used

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just used but yeah very used but the battery's

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got excellent life and i've been around town

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twice on it and not had to charge it it's still

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half full so that's really good so i've had like

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What, three miles out of it? Just dossing about

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around town, getting some fresh air and... I'm

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not sure what the range is meant to be, if that's

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good or bad. I think it's a... Hmm, that's a

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good question. I feel like, brand new, it would

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probably be about 12 kilometres. So what's that,

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eight miles? I've failed maths twice. Meh, anyway.

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So, yeah, I bit the bullet because I've been

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really struggling and I've been feeling like

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my independence has been going a little bit...

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So I thought, I'm going to get myself a battered

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old scooter to rattle around town on so that

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I can get out on the days where my legs don't

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work very well or my back is particularly bad

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or I'm too exhausted to go for a walk, but I

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desperately want some fresh air. And so that's

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what I've done. I spent 250 quid on this little

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old rascal that I think I'm going to call Bertha

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because she's a rattly green machine. Lovely

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Bertha. I have genuinely... Driven around town

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with a massive smile on my face, regardless of

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the fact that it rattles on every little bump

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or whatever. It's just brilliant. Does it just

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need some screws tightening up? It might do.

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I mean, the suspension might need a tweak as

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well. But, you know, it's my first step into

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using powered mobility aids, as Adam knows. And

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as some listeners know, because they know me,

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I generally mobilize outside with a walking stick.

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I don't very often go out without it. And if

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I do, it's probably to put a bin bag out and

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I can't carry a stick and a bin bag at the same

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time. And it is a very funky, bright green aluminium.

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Yes, I do have. I've got two very nice walking

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sticks. I've got a bright green one that lives

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in the car. And then I've got a sort of silvery

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blue marbly coloured one that lives in my flat.

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With a squishy handle. With a squishy handle

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and a ferrule and they both glow. So I can see

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it in the dark, which is really handy. But yeah,

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I genuinely enjoyed just pootling around town

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and... You found a bit of independence? Yeah.

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Or regained? Not being absolutely wiped out and

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exhausted just from walking to the market, which

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from where I live, it's less than a five minute

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walk, which is pretty rubbish. That gives you

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an idea of how happy you are with the scooter

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there. Yeah, I absolutely love it. And at some

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point I will... Trade it in for a newer model

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of something. But it has convinced me that having

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some sort of wheels with an electric motor is

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something that would really improve my quality

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of life. Oh, we've got to go down in your basement

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car park and film us having a go on this. Oh,

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can we? Yeah. That might be the only time you

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ever see me on it. Because it's like, I've just

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got to get over myself and all of that. Yeah,

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watch this space for... crazy, rascal videos

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on the YouTube channel. Who knows? Yeah, we'll

00:19:58.819 --> 00:20:00.480
be hooning it around one of the stanchions. Yeah,

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we will. But yeah, it's great. I love it. I'm

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really pleased. Excellent. I'm pleased for you.

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Yeah, thank you. I appreciate that. I'm glad

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it's made a big difference and only cost, what,

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10 % of the other one? Yeah. That's piss -takingly

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expensive. And also, yours looks like a scooter

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should, as opposed to somebody made it in this

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shed. Or it's... something from maybe the 1980s.

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Yeah. It did look kind of dated, but the closer

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pictures you could see, it's absolutely modern.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah. It looks like you're in a more

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comfortable seat in your actual scooter, not

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the tube frame folding. yeah the e -folding is

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the one that you're talking about the one that

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i sent you a link for it's a little trikes quite

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sort of a low profile thing up into a suitcase

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sort of yeah it does when you can get them to

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work i was talked out of buying one this week

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as well i met a lady who bought one for her husband

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who he was refusing to use for various reasons

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get me her an offer um i've got her phone number

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I'm not stupid. I'll see how I get on with this

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one, but yeah. Yeah, yeah. Because I was like,

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oh, I'm so glad I walked into the shop when you're

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here with your e -foldy because I was looking

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at getting one of these and the woman was like,

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don't. I was like, why? She's like, I've not,

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she's like, all I've been able to do with it.

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is take it from the car to the front door, from

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the front door to the car. She's like, I've not

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been able to use it because it won't fold or

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unfold. She was having issues with it anyway.

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Maybe there's a neck that she just doesn't have

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and it could be an absolute bargain for yourself.

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Yeah, and I mean, that's a £2 ,600 scooter. To

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her it was, not to you. To her it was. I mean,

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I might drop her a text in a couple of weeks

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and ask her how she's doing. We had a lovely

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chat. Try before you buy as well. Yeah, yeah.

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I'll be like, oh, can I rent it off you? And

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now you've got something to compare it to. Yeah.

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And I'll be like, give me your bank details and

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I'll send you £100 a month until I've paid it

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off. I genuinely would as well, to be quite honest.

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But yeah, I've sort of been talked out one of

00:21:53.339 --> 00:21:56.460
those. But yeah, the Rascal is fantastic. I'm

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really pleased with it. It's not cool. It's not

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sexy. It is officially a granny wagon. But I'm

00:22:03.299 --> 00:22:04.940
good with it. It's functional. It does what it's

00:22:04.940 --> 00:22:07.880
meant to do. It's transportation. Yeah, I am

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at peace with knowing that I'm going to have

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fun when I sit on that trolley. You just need

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to get some lights from Halford for it or something.

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Yeah, I might wrap it. I might get myself some

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swanky vinyl wrap and wrap it. That's surprisingly

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expensive. And, you know, yeah, do some Vespa

00:22:24.400 --> 00:22:27.539
lights at the front. Like 7 ,000 headlights at

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the front of it. A quadrophenia look. Yeah, yeah,

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but powered off a separate battery, obviously,

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otherwise I'd never get anywhere. Mod squad chesters.

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Yeah, that's me. Obviously. No, I'm that cool.

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Are you starting a fight down in Brighton? No,

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just down the seafront. Just down the seafront.

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The battery will get you to Brighton. Yeah. Sorry,

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I mean, that's enough scooper chat, but if you've

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been in a similar position to me where you are

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wondering whether to get on or not, Get one and

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see what happens. Rent one for a day. If you

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have a laugh and you have more energy and you

00:23:01.799 --> 00:23:06.539
can enjoy your existence more, then maybe think

00:23:06.539 --> 00:23:09.279
about investing. Definitely try before you buy

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and have a go of all the functions by the sound

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of it. Yeah, definitely play with every model

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in every shop that you're allowed to sit on because

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they're all very different. Don't go for the

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first one. Have a compare. Unless you get an

00:23:19.039 --> 00:23:21.069
absolute bargain. Yeah, absolutely. In which

00:23:21.069 --> 00:23:23.450
case, too good to say no. Yeah, and if it's a

00:23:23.450 --> 00:23:24.910
bargain and you hate it in six months, you should

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trade it in against something else. Yeah, yeah.

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Because it's still a relatively new scooter.

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And I guess unless you need one, you're not going

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to be going out there looking just for the sake

00:23:32.130 --> 00:23:34.890
of it. Yeah. Well, unless we have a go in it

00:23:34.890 --> 00:23:36.890
and it turns out to be super fun, then I might

00:23:36.890 --> 00:23:41.309
go. I would love to race you around town on a

00:23:41.309 --> 00:23:42.869
pair of scooters. We should go to the mobility

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shop and get the red burgundy ones that they

00:23:45.150 --> 00:23:46.910
have there. You can rent them out for like a

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tenner a day. I've been looking into it. How

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do you remove the limiter? Speaking of... Is

00:23:51.819 --> 00:23:53.420
it like a go -kart? Speaking of, mine is stuck

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at eight miles an hour. Oh, it does sound dangerous.

00:23:56.799 --> 00:23:59.259
It doesn't do anything slowly at all. Can't modulate

00:23:59.259 --> 00:24:02.519
the throttle at all. I have crashed it several

00:24:02.519 --> 00:24:04.680
times in the building, not outside. I've not

00:24:04.680 --> 00:24:06.940
run anybody over. Oh, it does zero as well as

00:24:06.940 --> 00:24:11.119
eight. Yes, it does. It does stopping on a dime.

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Does it reverse the same speed as you? Oh, yes,

00:24:13.359 --> 00:24:15.099
it reverses at eight miles an hour as well. Oh,

00:24:15.099 --> 00:24:17.359
then just pull a Nissan Leaf. Yay! Oh, it's insane.

00:24:17.640 --> 00:24:20.940
I love it. But, yeah, everyone, buy yourself

00:24:20.940 --> 00:24:23.859
a mobility scooter. They're genuinely fantastic.

00:24:24.460 --> 00:24:27.319
Again, try it before you buy it. It's the only

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speed top speeder. 80 miles an hour doesn't sound

00:24:29.720 --> 00:24:31.680
much. If you're trying to just inch into a lift

00:24:31.680 --> 00:24:34.839
around a doorway. I know. Or, say, around a charity

00:24:34.839 --> 00:24:37.559
shop, for instance. Oh, like the YMCA where I

00:24:37.559 --> 00:24:40.539
knocked all the clothes down the other day. I

00:24:40.539 --> 00:24:45.859
wasn't going to go into specifics. I'm dangerous.

00:24:46.019 --> 00:24:49.220
What can I say? I'm danger Karen. Watch out.

00:24:49.259 --> 00:24:55.599
There's no better way to be. One last thing before

00:24:55.599 --> 00:24:57.400
we move on to actual segments because we've been

00:24:57.400 --> 00:25:02.480
chatting for half an hour. Did I say 30 minutes?

00:25:02.559 --> 00:25:09.160
Holy poo. We're saying 30 minutes. That's what

00:25:09.160 --> 00:25:12.269
it shows in the recorder. Dear listener. It might

00:25:12.269 --> 00:25:14.390
be seven. It'll be the time it is on your playback

00:25:14.390 --> 00:25:17.490
device. Seven minutes of cohesive chat that Adam

00:25:17.490 --> 00:25:19.809
has edited perfectly. This isn't likely used

00:25:19.809 --> 00:25:22.529
in the use of 30 minutes. I know. I'm sorry.

00:25:22.690 --> 00:25:25.170
All right. One last thing. Close your eyes. Very

00:25:25.170 --> 00:25:28.990
inefficient of me. Hold your hands out. Hold

00:25:28.990 --> 00:25:30.970
both your hands out. Is this early tat in the

00:25:30.970 --> 00:25:34.609
box? No. This is edible. Oh. One for your left.

00:25:34.650 --> 00:25:38.609
One for your right. Oh, thank you. Merry Podiversary

00:25:38.609 --> 00:25:44.140
Easter stuff. I've got a square box in one hand.

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Yes. Oh, is this an Easter egg? Congratulations.

00:25:47.900 --> 00:25:56.079
And a cup noodle? Yes. Oh, a sweet and sour.

00:25:56.240 --> 00:25:58.960
I know. Limited edition. I spotted them in Morrison's

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the other day. That's a funky colour purple.

00:26:00.700 --> 00:26:02.539
I know. I was like, oh, I've not seen the sweet

00:26:02.539 --> 00:26:04.759
and sour ones before. So they're Nishin Sober

00:26:04.759 --> 00:26:08.190
Noodles in a cup. We like them, various flavours

00:26:08.190 --> 00:26:10.250
of them, and they've brought out a limited edition

00:26:10.250 --> 00:26:11.950
sweet and sour, so I bought Adam one and myself

00:26:11.950 --> 00:26:15.220
one. And if you are a noodle aficionado... A

00:26:15.220 --> 00:26:17.799
noodle -anado. We don't rip off cheap show enough.

00:26:18.480 --> 00:26:20.240
These are also vegan. That's all I was going

00:26:20.240 --> 00:26:22.140
to say. Oh, really? I did not know they were

00:26:22.140 --> 00:26:24.400
vegan. You can enjoy them. If you're that way

00:26:24.400 --> 00:26:26.680
inclined or your body is that way inclined, whether

00:26:26.680 --> 00:26:28.920
you want to be or not. Yeah, good point. Oh,

00:26:29.039 --> 00:26:31.839
and mini eggs. Thank you very, very much. Happy

00:26:31.839 --> 00:26:35.000
Easter. Happy Pod-5iversary. Happy Saturday. Thank

00:26:35.000 --> 00:26:37.740
you. You're welcome. Got you nothing. That's

00:26:37.740 --> 00:26:41.680
fine. You give me cups of tea and rummy baths.

00:26:41.680 --> 00:26:44.779
That's always a gift enough. I've got off lightly

00:26:44.779 --> 00:26:51.140
there. Lightly used. Forgot to say what we're

00:26:51.140 --> 00:26:53.339
doing in the show today. Oh yeah, that would

00:26:53.339 --> 00:26:56.319
help. On the way next, the further adventures

00:26:56.319 --> 00:27:00.900
of Johnny Turnip in Lightly Used News. We're

00:27:00.900 --> 00:27:02.880
going to close our eyes and try and work out

00:27:02.880 --> 00:27:04.799
each other's mystery items in Tat in the Box.

00:27:05.359 --> 00:27:09.359
No game today. And I have a book. Oh, and we

00:27:09.359 --> 00:27:11.039
do have a bibliotheque to end the show. We do.

00:27:11.099 --> 00:27:13.039
And it'll be a nice quick one. You'll be so happy.

00:27:13.359 --> 00:27:15.599
You and the listeners. That's all on the way

00:27:15.599 --> 00:27:18.299
between now and whatever your pod player says

00:27:18.299 --> 00:27:20.720
is how long the show lasts. That's the one. Yeah.

00:27:20.839 --> 00:27:34.880
Yeah. Precise. Hot off the press from Monday

00:27:34.880 --> 00:27:39.440
the 30th of September 2024. Oof, scorching! From

00:27:39.440 --> 00:27:42.259
the pages of the Abergavenny Chronicle by Tim

00:27:42.259 --> 00:27:46.039
Butters. Abergavenny Man claims Pembrokeshire

00:27:46.039 --> 00:27:50.599
is home to a lost civilisation. From the legendary

00:27:50.599 --> 00:27:54.119
lost city of Zed to the fabled island of Atlantis.

00:27:54.759 --> 00:27:57.640
The rumours of ancient civilisations have tantalised

00:27:57.640 --> 00:28:00.420
and tormented truth -seekers, adventurers and

00:28:00.420 --> 00:28:04.059
rum -swilling buccaneers for centuries. And now,

00:28:04.240 --> 00:28:06.680
an Abergavenny man believes he has discovered

00:28:06.680 --> 00:28:09.720
evidence that points to a lost civilisation that

00:28:09.720 --> 00:28:14.920
once existed in Pembrokeshire. At first, all

00:28:14.920 --> 00:28:17.420
roads pointed towards Saundersfoot, explained

00:28:17.420 --> 00:28:20.240
semi -professional paranormal investigator Johnny

00:28:20.240 --> 00:28:23.099
Turnip. To my mind, there's always been something

00:28:23.099 --> 00:28:26.240
suspect and fishy about that place. But it turns

00:28:26.240 --> 00:28:28.380
out the kingdom of mermaids and mermen that we

00:28:28.380 --> 00:28:31.759
were seeking lay in what is now 10b. Turnip told

00:28:31.759 --> 00:28:34.319
Chronicle, Of course, we're talking thousands

00:28:34.319 --> 00:28:37.000
and thousands of years ago. But what most people

00:28:37.000 --> 00:28:38.680
don't realise is that the island of ours was

00:28:38.680 --> 00:28:40.900
once a different shape, and a large part of South

00:28:40.900 --> 00:28:43.099
Pembrokeshire, from freshwater west to 10b, was

00:28:43.099 --> 00:28:45.819
once underwater. As far as I can assert him,

00:28:45.880 --> 00:28:47.440
the kingdom of mermen stretched from what is

00:28:47.440 --> 00:28:51.730
now Manabeer to 10b. Turnip added, That's a crazy

00:28:51.730 --> 00:28:54.509
story I know, but I've no reason to doubt the

00:28:54.509 --> 00:28:57.549
man in the pub at Wise Man's Bridge. Turnip said,

00:28:57.710 --> 00:29:00.390
Just as dawn was breaking and the locking was

00:29:00.390 --> 00:29:02.269
coming to an end, the man who went by the name

00:29:02.269 --> 00:29:04.829
of Step Aside Sammy Jr. gave me a map that leads

00:29:04.829 --> 00:29:07.369
to a special seashell that was once sacred to

00:29:07.369 --> 00:29:10.109
the Kingdom of Myrrh. Step Aside Sammy told me

00:29:10.109 --> 00:29:11.809
that once I have the shell, I can use it to summon

00:29:11.809 --> 00:29:14.170
a mermaid, make her cry, and use her tears to

00:29:14.170 --> 00:29:16.420
restore balance to the world. At the start of

00:29:16.420 --> 00:29:17.839
the quest, I didn't realise it was going to be

00:29:17.839 --> 00:29:19.660
this easy, but thankfully it looks like me and

00:29:19.660 --> 00:29:24.779
the boys are on the right track. Turnip revealed

00:29:24.779 --> 00:29:27.079
that after travelling from Tenby to Abergavenny

00:29:27.079 --> 00:29:28.960
on their mission to find a mermaid for the triple

00:29:28.960 --> 00:29:31.059
goddess, they initially hit something of a brick

00:29:31.059 --> 00:29:34.359
wall. Tenby's a great drinking town, explained

00:29:34.359 --> 00:29:37.359
Turnip, particularly for among the Shemen. Because

00:29:37.359 --> 00:29:39.059
it's at sea level, there's a lot more oxygen

00:29:39.059 --> 00:29:44.559
down there. They're mountain men like us are

00:29:44.559 --> 00:29:47.109
used to. And all the O2 is great for hangovers,

00:29:47.269 --> 00:29:49.049
which meant that we could eat crab and drink

00:29:49.049 --> 00:29:51.690
red wine to our heart's content. If we felt a

00:29:51.690 --> 00:29:53.130
bit shaky in the morning, we could have a dip

00:29:53.130 --> 00:29:54.849
in North Bay, followed by a full English and

00:29:54.849 --> 00:29:56.490
a couple of shandies to set us up for the day.

00:29:57.769 --> 00:29:59.970
The only trouble is, the day usually revolved

00:29:59.970 --> 00:30:01.869
around a steady pub crawl. It lasted until the

00:30:01.869 --> 00:30:03.809
early hours and usually ended with me, Big Tony

00:30:03.809 --> 00:30:05.549
and Puerto Rico Paul running naked through the

00:30:05.549 --> 00:30:07.670
surf in South Beach, re -enacting that scene

00:30:07.670 --> 00:30:10.890
in Rocky III, with Balboa and Apollo Creed frolicking

00:30:10.890 --> 00:30:13.980
in the waves. By week two, we decided to get

00:30:13.980 --> 00:30:16.140
our heads glued on and down to business. So instead

00:30:16.140 --> 00:30:17.660
of the usual afternoon session at the Hope and

00:30:17.660 --> 00:30:19.680
Anchor, we decided to hop on the bus to Saundersfoot

00:30:19.680 --> 00:30:22.200
and take the walk from Hobbit Hall to Wise Man's

00:30:22.200 --> 00:30:25.119
Bridge. The idea was that the CA would clear

00:30:25.119 --> 00:30:26.940
our heads and help us hatch a strategy to catch

00:30:26.940 --> 00:30:29.460
a mermaid. Once we had a definite plan, we could

00:30:29.460 --> 00:30:31.039
celebrate with a pint or two of something mild

00:30:31.039 --> 00:30:33.680
at the Wise Man's pub. Turnip told the Chronicle

00:30:33.680 --> 00:30:36.279
that as they walked, Puerto Rico Paul was beginning

00:30:36.279 --> 00:30:38.119
to show evident signs of alcohol withdrawal.

00:30:40.039 --> 00:30:43.079
It had been a heavy week, explained Turnip. And

00:30:43.079 --> 00:30:45.140
Paul's bipolarity was probably a little bruised

00:30:45.140 --> 00:30:47.240
from all the binge drinking. He started ranting

00:30:47.240 --> 00:30:49.539
about how much he identified with seagulls and

00:30:49.539 --> 00:30:51.660
how he should move to the coast because it was

00:30:51.660 --> 00:30:55.380
his spiritual home. I saw Big Tony's nostrils

00:30:55.380 --> 00:30:57.640
flare when he said that, but I kept my own counsel.

00:30:58.039 --> 00:31:00.099
Paul was about to have one of his episodes and

00:31:00.099 --> 00:31:03.279
was best left to talk himself out. The thing

00:31:03.279 --> 00:31:06.359
is, boys, he said. I once had the chance to move

00:31:06.359 --> 00:31:08.500
to Swansea, but that place is far too coarse

00:31:08.500 --> 00:31:11.339
and vulgar for my liking. It's all fake tans,

00:31:11.420 --> 00:31:14.019
crap tattoos, steroids, Botox, and people who

00:31:14.019 --> 00:31:16.619
think they can surf. Barry Island's far too many

00:31:16.619 --> 00:31:18.900
James Corden associations, and Porthcawl attracts

00:31:18.900 --> 00:31:22.400
too many Ebbw Vale types. Oh, Gmore's okay, but

00:31:22.400 --> 00:31:25.319
who wants to live that close to Bridgend? No,

00:31:25.440 --> 00:31:27.400
I think when you're used to the civilising influence

00:31:27.400 --> 00:31:29.880
of a place like Monmouthshire, only Pembrokeshire

00:31:29.880 --> 00:31:32.289
will do for the seaside getaway. It's the kind

00:31:32.289 --> 00:31:34.009
of county I think my Simon Le Bon tribute act

00:31:34.009 --> 00:31:37.950
will go down well. Turn about it. After delivering

00:31:37.950 --> 00:31:40.569
the sermon on seaside towns in Wales, Paul fell

00:31:40.569 --> 00:31:44.089
silent and gazed out to sea as we walked. Without

00:31:44.089 --> 00:31:46.470
looking at me, he said, What's the point in all

00:31:46.470 --> 00:31:51.250
this, JT? The point in what, Paul? I said patiently

00:31:51.250 --> 00:31:53.509
as Big Tony shook his head and gritted his teeth

00:31:53.509 --> 00:31:57.410
like a dog. All of it! shouted Paul as he flung

00:31:57.410 --> 00:32:01.029
his arms wide. Mermaids, fairies, King Arthur's

00:32:01.029 --> 00:32:04.049
burial place. What exactly are we chasing here?

00:32:04.230 --> 00:32:06.970
Is any of it real? Are we just slaves to substance

00:32:06.970 --> 00:32:10.170
abuse and personality disorders? That's enough

00:32:10.170 --> 00:32:14.450
of that talk, girl big Tony. Why? shouted Paul.

00:32:14.609 --> 00:32:17.990
Look at us. We're men in their late forties with

00:32:17.990 --> 00:32:19.950
nothing to show for our lives but a series of

00:32:19.950 --> 00:32:22.710
broken relationships, dead -end jobs and unrealised

00:32:22.710 --> 00:32:26.630
dreams. That's the bipolar talking, Paul, I said.

00:32:27.160 --> 00:32:29.359
I don't call repeatedly saving the world a dead

00:32:29.359 --> 00:32:32.400
-end job. Your trouble is, there's always been

00:32:32.400 --> 00:32:34.259
a part of you that wants to clip your wings and

00:32:34.259 --> 00:32:36.680
get in line. If you want to be a domestic dog,

00:32:36.759 --> 00:32:38.619
obediently sitting at your master's table and

00:32:38.619 --> 00:32:40.839
waiting for a bone in the pat on the head, you

00:32:40.839 --> 00:32:43.619
might guess, but that's not who you really are,

00:32:43.700 --> 00:32:46.299
and you need to remember that. Then what the

00:32:46.299 --> 00:32:50.619
hell are we, JT? He screamed in my face. We're

00:32:50.619 --> 00:32:53.599
the men they couldn't hang, Paul, I said. The

00:32:53.599 --> 00:32:56.259
bandits on the borderline, the last of the Apaches.

00:32:57.000 --> 00:32:59.079
When we're gone, who will dare dream the dreams

00:32:59.079 --> 00:33:01.940
we've dreamt and live the lives we've led? We're

00:33:01.940 --> 00:33:03.839
the men who couldn't be bought, because to the

00:33:03.839 --> 00:33:06.119
world we're worthless, but what we've got is

00:33:06.119 --> 00:33:08.900
priceless, and that's one another's backs until

00:33:08.900 --> 00:33:11.980
the end of time. Well, at least until last orders.

00:33:12.539 --> 00:33:16.099
So romantic. Appealing to Paul's poetic nature,

00:33:16.299 --> 00:33:19.279
manic duality always worked wonders. In an instant,

00:33:19.339 --> 00:33:21.740
he went from despondent to delirious and roared.

00:33:22.119 --> 00:33:24.799
Hell yes! The things we've seen and done are

00:33:24.799 --> 00:33:27.400
far too big for a social media update! They'll

00:33:27.400 --> 00:33:30.140
write songs about them! Forgetting completely

00:33:30.140 --> 00:33:32.079
about our need to hatch a plan to capture a mermaid,

00:33:32.339 --> 00:33:34.180
we walked triumphantly to the pub to celebrate

00:33:34.180 --> 00:33:36.400
her brilliance while singing Freebird by Lynyrd

00:33:36.400 --> 00:33:39.079
Skynyrd. Yet, as it turns out, visiting the pub

00:33:39.079 --> 00:33:41.640
was a fortuitous piece of luck, because it was

00:33:41.640 --> 00:33:43.859
at the Wise Man's Bridge we met Step Aside Sammy

00:33:43.859 --> 00:33:46.519
Jr., who told us all about the Kingdom of Myrrh.

00:33:46.819 --> 00:33:48.799
All of a sudden, catching a real -life mermaid

00:33:48.799 --> 00:33:51.069
didn't seem all that impossible. And if we were

00:33:51.069 --> 00:33:52.690
lucky, we might just be able to catch a handful

00:33:52.690 --> 00:33:56.990
and sell a few on eBay. Nice. Turnip added, as

00:33:56.990 --> 00:33:59.029
the unmistakable and iconic opening drum burst

00:33:59.029 --> 00:34:01.029
of Tommy Gunn by the Clash came on the jukebox,

00:34:01.309 --> 00:34:03.789
Puerto Rico pulled down his pint, grinned demonically

00:34:03.789 --> 00:34:05.990
and said, I think we're going to need a bigger

00:34:05.990 --> 00:34:11.769
aquarium, boys. To be continued. And all of Turnip's

00:34:11.769 --> 00:34:14.289
tales have been compiled into a book by Tim Butters.

00:34:14.909 --> 00:34:17.309
The Manifest Trials and Tribulations of Johnny

00:34:17.309 --> 00:34:19.670
Turnip. It's available on Amazon and you'll find

00:34:19.670 --> 00:34:22.489
the link on the show blog at lightlyused .co

00:34:22.489 --> 00:34:33.849
.uk. It is time for... Tat in the box, tat in

00:34:33.849 --> 00:34:37.389
the box. Tat in the box, tat in the box. Tat

00:34:37.389 --> 00:34:40.809
in the box, tat in the box. Tat in the box. Tat

00:34:40.809 --> 00:34:45.309
in the box. There is Tat in our boxes. Oh, I

00:34:45.309 --> 00:34:48.469
wanted to press the button. Tat in the box, Tat

00:34:48.469 --> 00:34:51.010
in the box. Oh, Valentino. Tat in the box, Tat

00:34:51.010 --> 00:34:54.849
in the box. I really appreciate that Valentino

00:34:54.849 --> 00:34:58.289
did. Yeah, I really appreciate that he did it.

00:34:58.409 --> 00:35:01.730
But, Valentino, I'm so sorry if this gets back

00:35:01.730 --> 00:35:04.809
to you, which it probably will. He's always listening.

00:35:05.130 --> 00:35:07.869
I actually really like singing the jingle, so

00:35:07.869 --> 00:35:11.769
I appreciate the gift, but stop it. Well, I was

00:35:11.769 --> 00:35:14.590
struggling to ask for a favour. I know, we all

00:35:14.590 --> 00:35:20.329
know. It's okay. Tap in the box! Yay! So my eyes

00:35:20.329 --> 00:35:23.230
are closed, my arms are, my hands are out. I'm

00:35:23.230 --> 00:35:25.230
standing for a change this episode. You are.

00:35:25.570 --> 00:35:28.469
He's almost in a squat. I have to be a bit lower

00:35:28.469 --> 00:35:29.989
than the microphone, otherwise I'll be sticking

00:35:29.989 --> 00:35:32.170
my face and bumping it around when I'm trying

00:35:32.170 --> 00:35:34.929
to guess. Guess what? There's a caveat. Oh. You

00:35:34.929 --> 00:35:37.230
will know exactly what kind of item this is as

00:35:37.230 --> 00:35:39.630
soon as you touch it. Oh, I forgot to say, I

00:35:39.630 --> 00:35:42.030
don't have a donation item. Oh, neither do I.

00:35:42.130 --> 00:35:45.349
Oh, no, well, I do, but I've decided not to do

00:35:45.349 --> 00:35:47.130
it because you haven't got one. Oh, solidarity.

00:35:47.510 --> 00:35:52.170
Thank you. Yeah, so here's my actual tat. It

00:35:52.170 --> 00:35:55.349
is on the table in front of you. Oh, there it

00:35:55.349 --> 00:35:59.590
is. It's a mug. Congratulations. What is a mug

00:35:59.590 --> 00:36:03.739
made of? It's got a very, very thick base. It's

00:36:03.739 --> 00:36:06.460
glass. It is indeed glass. It's a tankard. It

00:36:06.460 --> 00:36:10.920
is a tankard. And I can't remember which tankards

00:36:10.920 --> 00:36:14.179
you've got. You won't know this one because I

00:36:14.179 --> 00:36:16.920
bought it this week. I wasn't sure from the podcast

00:36:16.920 --> 00:36:19.719
you've been on. Had one of them given you a tankard?

00:36:20.300 --> 00:36:25.099
No, unfortunately. Although Matt, Mr. Matt of

00:36:25.099 --> 00:36:27.579
A Pint of Cthulhu, I would have really liked

00:36:27.579 --> 00:36:30.469
one of those Cthulhu horn mugs. They'll teach

00:36:30.469 --> 00:36:32.809
you to send them to a visual podcast. Yeah, send

00:36:32.809 --> 00:36:36.630
them to us instead. Don't give them to the hoboes.

00:36:36.630 --> 00:36:38.550
They don't appreciate it. I was listening to

00:36:38.550 --> 00:36:41.409
Cthulhu and Chill episode two. All right. And

00:36:41.409 --> 00:36:43.550
towards the end of the episode, Matt was checking

00:36:43.550 --> 00:36:46.449
his texts. Norton said, we haven't forgotten

00:36:46.449 --> 00:36:48.829
about you. We're really busy. Oh, that's cool.

00:36:48.949 --> 00:36:50.889
It's still in the pipeline. That's excellent.

00:36:50.969 --> 00:36:53.670
I was of the impression that it wasn't something

00:36:53.670 --> 00:36:55.389
that was going to come to fruition, but I really

00:36:55.389 --> 00:36:56.789
hope that it does for them because that would

00:36:56.789 --> 00:36:58.849
be so fun. Matt must be so chuffed that he's

00:36:58.849 --> 00:37:00.849
got Norton's phone number. He must be absolutely

00:37:00.849 --> 00:37:05.190
fucking landed. I can't work out what design

00:37:05.190 --> 00:37:07.590
is on it, but there is something screen printed

00:37:07.590 --> 00:37:12.070
on there. There is design, but I can't feel what

00:37:12.070 --> 00:37:15.469
it is. The relief is too small and I... Wouldn't

00:37:15.469 --> 00:37:16.690
be able to guess it. That's quite all right.

00:37:16.730 --> 00:37:18.150
You can open your eyes. You said it's a glass

00:37:18.150 --> 00:37:20.230
tankard. It is indeed a glass tankard. It's a

00:37:20.230 --> 00:37:24.690
camera one. Swansea Bay Beer Festival 2011. The

00:37:24.690 --> 00:37:27.429
campaign for real ale with Brains Brewery. That

00:37:27.429 --> 00:37:30.190
is the one. And I found two of them. So one is

00:37:30.190 --> 00:37:33.489
yours and one is mine. Cheers. So these were

00:37:33.489 --> 00:37:36.650
two pounds each. I think they're what? Half a

00:37:36.650 --> 00:37:40.250
pint? Yeah. Half pint to line. Oh, yeah. Yeah,

00:37:40.250 --> 00:37:41.829
of course. I've got a bit of a sticker stuck

00:37:41.829 --> 00:37:43.650
over my... So, yeah, half pint glass tankard

00:37:43.650 --> 00:37:47.289
with a nice wide flared base. Oh, thank you.

00:37:47.289 --> 00:37:50.610
I'm just going straight on the fetch. The print

00:37:50.610 --> 00:37:54.050
is a line drawing, really, of the Brangwyn Hall

00:37:54.050 --> 00:37:57.070
with the clock tower. It says Swansea Bay Beer

00:37:57.070 --> 00:37:59.909
Festival 2011 around it. There were actually

00:37:59.909 --> 00:38:03.210
probably 10 or 15 of these from different years,

00:38:03.309 --> 00:38:06.409
but 2011 was the only one where they had matching.

00:38:06.809 --> 00:38:09.369
Oh. And I was like... Oh, because we're girlfriend

00:38:09.369 --> 00:38:11.650
and boyfriend and we've got to have matching.

00:38:12.309 --> 00:38:15.250
So we've got matching mugs because I'm a sad,

00:38:15.349 --> 00:38:17.710
sad cow. Do you remember any of the other designs

00:38:17.710 --> 00:38:19.849
on them? They were all very similar, but they

00:38:19.849 --> 00:38:22.369
were different colours. It wasn't just the Brangwyn

00:38:22.369 --> 00:38:24.829
Hall, they were just landmarks around Swansea.

00:38:24.849 --> 00:38:28.789
No, so some of them, they were all of the Brangwyn

00:38:28.789 --> 00:38:30.750
Hall. Oh, that's kind of boring. Because I think

00:38:30.750 --> 00:38:35.070
the Brangwyn Hall came into being with the campaign

00:38:35.070 --> 00:38:38.719
for real ale. Swansea Beer Festival around 2010

00:38:38.719 --> 00:38:42.059
-2011. And they've been held in Brangwyn since

00:38:42.059 --> 00:38:44.760
then. Oh, that makes sense. Prior to that, they

00:38:44.760 --> 00:38:46.920
were held in the Patty Pavilion, which is not

00:38:46.920 --> 00:38:50.800
very far away from the Brangwyn Hall. And if

00:38:50.800 --> 00:38:53.099
you've listened to a recent I'm So Not Over It

00:38:53.099 --> 00:38:57.119
podcast with Gareth and Esselstyn... They mentioned

00:38:57.119 --> 00:39:00.260
Challenge Annika and I sent in a letter, sent

00:39:00.260 --> 00:39:04.119
in a letter, an email. Because it's the 1990s.

00:39:04.519 --> 00:39:07.659
I sent a letter into telly. They read my name

00:39:07.659 --> 00:39:10.400
out on the radio. I still got oddly excited.

00:39:10.599 --> 00:39:15.199
They read my email out about Annika Rice. doing

00:39:15.199 --> 00:39:17.159
the roof of the patty filly of one challenge.

00:39:18.000 --> 00:39:19.519
Don't know whether it was successful or not.

00:39:19.980 --> 00:39:22.900
And some other boring facts and how to tell little

00:39:22.900 --> 00:39:25.019
and all the apart, which is something they pondered.

00:39:25.099 --> 00:39:26.860
I need to listen to that episode. I'm a little

00:39:26.860 --> 00:39:30.780
bit behind. Esilth gives it, I'm not going to

00:39:30.780 --> 00:39:33.800
say anymore, exactly the reaction all the information

00:39:33.800 --> 00:39:38.239
deserves. Esilth is one of my absolute audio

00:39:38.239 --> 00:39:42.280
heroes. The most infectious laugh in podcasting,

00:39:42.300 --> 00:39:45.150
I think. Yeah. Closely followed by me. Thanks

00:39:45.150 --> 00:39:48.989
for the compliment, love. But no, she is the

00:39:48.989 --> 00:39:52.690
most charismatic laugh and way more famous than

00:39:52.690 --> 00:39:55.929
me, obviously. Clearly, I'm not famous. Yeah,

00:39:55.989 --> 00:39:58.389
she's ace. And I obviously love Gareth, too.

00:39:58.510 --> 00:40:00.369
And I send him random messages every now and

00:40:00.369 --> 00:40:02.369
then. And he's like, oh, God, Adam's girlfriend's

00:40:02.369 --> 00:40:03.949
messaging me again. I'm sure that's what goes

00:40:03.949 --> 00:40:05.250
through his head. But he's always very polite

00:40:05.250 --> 00:40:07.760
and gets back to me. He's lovely. It is lovely.

00:40:07.820 --> 00:40:09.780
I'd like to meet them both at some point if we

00:40:09.780 --> 00:40:11.099
could arrange it. It doesn't even have to be

00:40:11.099 --> 00:40:13.860
a podcast thing, just a pint. A big pod nod for

00:40:13.860 --> 00:40:16.099
I'm so not over it and link will be in the description.

00:40:16.219 --> 00:40:19.019
But sorry, Paddy Pavilion was where they used

00:40:19.019 --> 00:40:22.480
to hold the festivals prior to Brangwyn Hall.

00:40:22.500 --> 00:40:26.300
That's it. And prior to the Paddy Pavilion, they

00:40:26.300 --> 00:40:30.219
held it in the Ostream Centre in Mumbles, which

00:40:30.219 --> 00:40:33.159
is on the main drag going through Mumbles towards

00:40:33.159 --> 00:40:37.079
the... white rose end oh yeah on the right hand

00:40:37.079 --> 00:40:40.139
side uh near the posh bakery i think and they

00:40:40.139 --> 00:40:44.739
do lots of like craft sales and things in there

00:40:44.739 --> 00:40:47.260
now i think it might there might be a small library

00:40:47.260 --> 00:40:49.400
in there i'm not sure never actually been in

00:40:49.400 --> 00:40:51.599
we need to go back down to mumbles but it's absolutely

00:40:51.599 --> 00:40:53.880
the wrong time of year in summer as soon as the

00:40:53.880 --> 00:40:56.500
sun comes out as soon as the sun comes out you

00:40:56.500 --> 00:40:58.619
do not go to the mumbles and you do not go to

00:40:58.619 --> 00:41:02.199
gower it's you get stuck behind a million cars

00:41:02.199 --> 00:41:06.269
that are stuck behind Seven caravans. It's easily

00:41:06.269 --> 00:41:08.489
going to be two hours in traffic from Gowerton.

00:41:08.670 --> 00:41:12.489
Yeah. To the Gower, sorry. Yeah, to the Gar.

00:41:12.750 --> 00:41:16.409
The Gar. The Gar. The Gar. UK's first place of

00:41:16.409 --> 00:41:19.309
outstanding natural beauty. Yeah. Is it really?

00:41:19.570 --> 00:41:21.909
Pop fact, yeah. Oh, I thought that was the Lake

00:41:21.909 --> 00:41:25.489
District. No, we beat them. oh nice i might have

00:41:25.489 --> 00:41:27.590
dreaded that to say whales only i'll have to

00:41:27.590 --> 00:41:32.670
check sorry that's how the sausage gets made

00:41:32.670 --> 00:41:35.849
yeah it comes out how it comes out it's fact

00:41:35.849 --> 00:41:40.190
until it's not no i'm too lazy staying in as

00:41:40.190 --> 00:41:42.510
it is so i'll just give you a little bit of history

00:41:42.510 --> 00:41:45.230
about the swansea bay Beer Festival. It's actually

00:41:45.230 --> 00:41:47.889
the Swansea Bay Beer and Cider Festival. It's

00:41:47.889 --> 00:41:50.369
usually held on August bank holiday and is organised

00:41:50.369 --> 00:41:53.510
by the Swansea and Neath branch of CAMRA, which

00:41:53.510 --> 00:41:55.769
is... Campaign for Real Ale. Thank you, sir,

00:41:55.869 --> 00:41:58.050
says it on the back of the glasses. They have

00:41:58.050 --> 00:42:00.789
been celebrating this particular festival for

00:42:00.789 --> 00:42:04.230
over 35 years and it offers a wide selection

00:42:04.230 --> 00:42:07.530
of real ale, ciders and peris from Wales and

00:42:07.530 --> 00:42:10.650
beyond, typically supported by live music and

00:42:10.650 --> 00:42:14.510
local breweries. History and background. While

00:42:14.510 --> 00:42:17.769
the current camera branch was restarted in 1986,

00:42:18.210 --> 00:42:20.969
the festival has evolved over 35 years into one

00:42:20.969 --> 00:42:23.889
of the largest in the area, according to Yahoo

00:42:23.889 --> 00:42:28.510
News UK. How old is that data? And Travel Gumbo.

00:42:28.550 --> 00:42:30.150
Don't even know who they are. Yahoo is still

00:42:30.150 --> 00:42:33.190
going. They do just repurpose news from other

00:42:33.190 --> 00:42:37.199
sites. Oh, I got the... The order of the building

00:42:37.199 --> 00:42:39.219
is the wrong way around. It started in the patty,

00:42:39.219 --> 00:42:41.699
then it went to the Ostrom, and then it went

00:42:41.699 --> 00:42:43.400
to the Brangwyn Hall. Where it still is today.

00:42:43.519 --> 00:42:45.440
Where it still is today, and will be on August

00:42:45.440 --> 00:42:48.920
Bank Holiday 2026, which is the next one. Any

00:42:48.920 --> 00:42:51.599
friends of Real Alien Wales? Get along. Yeah.

00:42:51.639 --> 00:42:53.179
Say we sent you. Actually... They won't know

00:42:53.179 --> 00:42:54.800
what you're talking about, but that makes it

00:42:54.800 --> 00:42:57.329
even funnier. Dan and Steve, another pod nod

00:42:57.329 --> 00:43:01.309
from Boofoon's Misty Investigators. We're awash

00:43:01.309 --> 00:43:03.489
with pod nods today. I know. Dan loves himself

00:43:03.489 --> 00:43:07.329
a real ale. So, Dan, August Bank holiday, Swansea,

00:43:07.449 --> 00:43:11.030
you will have the best time ever. Let us know

00:43:11.030 --> 00:43:12.719
if you're here. We'll... show you around some

00:43:12.719 --> 00:43:15.260
charity shops or some spooky looking buildings.

00:43:15.300 --> 00:43:17.300
Show us some castles we can go around with you.

00:43:17.460 --> 00:43:19.239
We'll take you into the Cross Keys, which is

00:43:19.239 --> 00:43:22.300
the oldest stand -in building in Swansea. Still

00:43:22.300 --> 00:43:26.300
has parts of its medieval walls and things in

00:43:26.300 --> 00:43:30.280
place. It was initially, random facts, initially

00:43:30.280 --> 00:43:32.500
opened as an almshouse for the poor in Swansea

00:43:32.500 --> 00:43:35.820
by... Some vicar. And he's now a pub. Fucking

00:43:35.820 --> 00:43:37.760
do -gooder. Yeah, I know. How dare you? Go there.

00:43:37.880 --> 00:43:40.639
We want a drink here. What are those blooming

00:43:40.639 --> 00:43:42.679
god -botherers? No, don't mean that. Helping

00:43:42.679 --> 00:43:44.960
people out. I know. How dare they be kind and

00:43:44.960 --> 00:43:46.960
courteous and think of thy neighbour and all

00:43:46.960 --> 00:43:49.619
of that stuff. Yeah, we could take anyone who

00:43:49.619 --> 00:43:51.360
wants to visit Swansea, who wants to spend time

00:43:51.360 --> 00:43:54.730
with me. And Adam probably won't talk as much

00:43:54.730 --> 00:43:56.829
as I will. But, you know, give us a shout. If

00:43:56.829 --> 00:43:59.050
you're here, we'll find some places to take you

00:43:59.050 --> 00:44:01.210
and hopefully not get you lost. Or at the very

00:44:01.210 --> 00:44:03.969
least, we'll go for a pint. Yes, we will go for

00:44:03.969 --> 00:44:07.389
a pint in the Cross Keys with thee. Because it's

00:44:07.389 --> 00:44:11.230
not too far. Yeah, it's walking distance slash

00:44:11.230 --> 00:44:13.809
wheeling distance from where I live. Well, say

00:44:13.809 --> 00:44:17.210
no more. Don't dox yourself. Invite thyself.

00:44:17.769 --> 00:44:20.170
For beers in Swansea. Yeah, not to your place.

00:44:20.530 --> 00:44:21.670
No, I'm not giving my address out. Specifically

00:44:21.670 --> 00:44:23.250
to the Croskies. Specifically to the Croskies,

00:44:23.429 --> 00:44:25.690
yeah. Probably I'm doxing myself a little bit,

00:44:25.769 --> 00:44:28.550
but there we are. Now, there's lots of residential

00:44:28.550 --> 00:44:30.670
places within wheeling distance there. Yeah.

00:44:30.769 --> 00:44:33.030
It's the middle of Swansea. That's true. Right.

00:44:33.710 --> 00:44:36.349
I've forgotten what item's in my box, so it's

00:44:36.349 --> 00:44:38.289
going to be as much of a mystery as me to you

00:44:38.289 --> 00:44:40.230
at the moment. Why don't you close your eyes

00:44:40.230 --> 00:44:43.110
while you open your box and see if you can guess

00:44:43.110 --> 00:44:47.400
what it is. Oh, okay. I'll do that. Right, let's

00:44:47.400 --> 00:44:51.159
see what I've brought. Oh, yes, I remember now.

00:44:53.980 --> 00:44:58.440
There is an item. There's an item between your

00:44:58.440 --> 00:45:00.679
hands which you're going to work out immediately.

00:45:02.019 --> 00:45:05.619
Okay. Can we start counting down from three from

00:45:05.619 --> 00:45:08.760
how close your hands are getting to it? Three,

00:45:08.900 --> 00:45:15.090
two, one. You're going to work it out. my goodness

00:45:15.090 --> 00:45:20.210
me it appears to be a very happy nipple be it

00:45:20.210 --> 00:45:23.030
a bell where did you get that idea from i don't

00:45:23.030 --> 00:45:26.829
know to be quite honest i was gonna say before

00:45:26.829 --> 00:45:30.769
i ding dinged it is it one of those old victorian

00:45:30.769 --> 00:45:33.650
style nipple switches oh yeah that you get in

00:45:33.650 --> 00:45:37.170
old houses um but on its side it definitely yeah

00:45:37.170 --> 00:45:38.769
if you'd given it to me like that i'd have been

00:45:38.769 --> 00:45:40.829
like oh is that is that a nipple switch and i

00:45:40.829 --> 00:45:43.699
would have been like Twiddling this bit up and

00:45:43.699 --> 00:45:45.800
down. Yeah, I would have been... I would have

00:45:45.800 --> 00:45:48.300
been... That's exactly the motion you were making.

00:45:48.500 --> 00:45:50.420
I would have been pinching the nipple to try

00:45:50.420 --> 00:45:52.139
and get it to move up and down. But no, it's

00:45:52.139 --> 00:45:54.840
an innie and outie, not an uppie and downie.

00:45:55.079 --> 00:45:58.099
Can I open my eyes? Oh, yeah. You exactly worked

00:45:58.099 --> 00:46:00.019
out what it was. Oh, my God, it's a brass bell

00:46:00.019 --> 00:46:04.400
from the RSPCA to cost £3 .99. And that's the

00:46:04.400 --> 00:46:08.199
RSPCA Leesnini in Lettley. You've had that longer

00:46:08.199 --> 00:46:11.400
than you've had me. That was behind the counter.

00:46:13.829 --> 00:46:16.809
Not quite. You know what I mean. But yeah, that

00:46:16.809 --> 00:46:19.510
was behind the counter under the glass. I had

00:46:19.510 --> 00:46:22.369
to ask the lady to reach it out for me. Did you

00:46:22.369 --> 00:46:23.989
feel obligated to buy it then because you'd asked

00:46:23.989 --> 00:46:26.349
her to get it out of the cabinet? Once I saw

00:46:26.349 --> 00:46:27.809
the price, I thought, yeah, I'm having that.

00:46:27.869 --> 00:46:29.869
If it was over five, I probably would have gone.

00:46:30.010 --> 00:46:32.889
Yeah, fair. I would have, I don't have to, but

00:46:32.889 --> 00:46:34.949
yeah, that price. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a very

00:46:34.949 --> 00:46:38.530
nice miniature small brass tit that makes a lovely

00:46:38.530 --> 00:46:42.070
noise. Yeah, £3 .99. That's great. I think that's

00:46:42.070 --> 00:46:44.909
worth it. I've since found about two weeks later

00:46:44.909 --> 00:46:47.809
I went back to the shop. There's a little box

00:46:47.809 --> 00:46:52.190
card game. £1 .99. It's got a newer version of

00:46:52.190 --> 00:46:54.010
a bell. It's not as decorative or anything, but

00:46:54.010 --> 00:46:56.309
just for the sound you wouldn't know it's ornate

00:46:56.309 --> 00:46:58.829
when I'm doing that with. But yeah, I could have

00:46:58.829 --> 00:47:00.849
saved some money if I waited two weeks. Oh, well.

00:47:01.150 --> 00:47:02.849
It's just the noise I wanted it to make. It's

00:47:02.849 --> 00:47:06.389
very nice. And it is a classic bell. Ding! Yeah.

00:47:07.219 --> 00:47:10.179
service. Photos of the items are going to be

00:47:10.179 --> 00:47:15.579
on our show blog lightlyused .co .uk What should

00:47:15.579 --> 00:47:18.480
we do next? Bibliotek. Bibliotek. Oh, we're nearly

00:47:18.480 --> 00:47:20.079
at the end of the show already. We are. It's

00:47:20.079 --> 00:47:22.099
gone fast even though we talked for half an hour

00:47:22.099 --> 00:47:30.559
front -loading like you say. It is question and

00:47:30.559 --> 00:47:35.219
answer time with 500 questions and answers by

00:47:36.159 --> 00:47:39.099
Grand Dreams or Grand Dreams, depending on how

00:47:39.099 --> 00:47:43.000
you read it. It is G -R -A -N -D -R -E -A -M

00:47:43.000 --> 00:47:46.940
-S. This is a freebie from the laundry room.

00:47:47.340 --> 00:47:50.539
Oh. So where I live, there is a laundry room.

00:47:50.760 --> 00:47:53.599
And people who live in the building that use

00:47:53.599 --> 00:47:56.820
the laundry room often leave things in there

00:47:56.820 --> 00:48:00.400
for other people to take. So it's like a book

00:48:00.400 --> 00:48:02.380
exchange. Some people leave clothes. It's been

00:48:02.380 --> 00:48:05.820
kettles, toasters. No money, unfortunately. Or

00:48:05.820 --> 00:48:08.820
it's been snapped up quickly. Yeah, yeah, that's

00:48:08.820 --> 00:48:11.199
true. Wendy's always in there because she does

00:48:11.199 --> 00:48:12.860
boot sales on the weekends and that's how she

00:48:12.860 --> 00:48:14.659
makes the money. She sells all of the free stuff

00:48:14.659 --> 00:48:16.179
that we put in the laundry, which is totally

00:48:16.179 --> 00:48:17.940
fine because it's not in my flat anymore. People

00:48:17.940 --> 00:48:19.059
are trying to get rid of it. That's why it's

00:48:19.059 --> 00:48:22.199
there. Yeah, but this was with a selection of

00:48:22.199 --> 00:48:24.820
books in the laundry room and I thought this

00:48:24.820 --> 00:48:28.199
would be ideal for Bibliotat, not only because

00:48:28.199 --> 00:48:31.059
it's got 500 questions with answers in it, but

00:48:31.059 --> 00:48:33.630
because... it would take an awful lot of episodes

00:48:33.630 --> 00:48:37.030
to read and answer all 500 of them. We can come

00:48:37.030 --> 00:48:39.230
back to it a few times. Much like the unsolved

00:48:39.230 --> 00:48:42.010
mysteries and the scary stories to tell in the

00:48:42.010 --> 00:48:45.250
dark, you'll probably see this book again. Welcome

00:48:45.250 --> 00:48:47.409
to Bibliotap. Should we work our way through

00:48:47.409 --> 00:48:49.710
it five questions at a time? We can come back

00:48:49.710 --> 00:48:51.590
to it a hundred times. Yeah. Shall we, like,

00:48:51.610 --> 00:48:53.530
ask each other questions, see if we can guess

00:48:53.530 --> 00:48:55.949
the answers? Or shall I just read you a few randos?

00:48:56.809 --> 00:48:58.949
If you ask me them first, when we bring the book

00:48:58.949 --> 00:49:02.179
back, I'll ask you five questions. Okay. All

00:49:02.179 --> 00:49:06.760
right. No page numbers. Helpful. We're starting

00:49:06.760 --> 00:49:08.280
from the start, though, yeah? We are starting

00:49:08.280 --> 00:49:11.840
from... Just so we can keep track of when we

00:49:11.840 --> 00:49:13.760
come back to it. Yes, I'm literally on page two.

00:49:13.900 --> 00:49:15.820
Right, we'll work our way through the book as

00:49:15.820 --> 00:49:22.480
written. Who invented the first locks? L -O -C

00:49:22.480 --> 00:49:25.300
-K -S, like door locks, not water locks. I was

00:49:25.300 --> 00:49:28.659
going to ask. Oh, what? I can't remember the

00:49:28.659 --> 00:49:32.210
first name. Yale? No. Wow, I don't think Yale

00:49:32.210 --> 00:49:35.750
had been around for 4 ,000 years. Trub? Yeah,

00:49:35.829 --> 00:49:39.349
that's the one. It was Trub. I really wanted

00:49:39.349 --> 00:49:42.010
to say Trub. Brilliant. So the first locks were

00:49:42.010 --> 00:49:44.369
invented... Was it the Greeks? No, it was the

00:49:44.369 --> 00:49:46.949
Chinese. The first locks were invented over 4

00:49:46.949 --> 00:49:50.090
,000 years ago by the Chinese, but ancient Egyptians

00:49:50.090 --> 00:49:51.750
also had quite intricate locks. No, no, we're

00:49:51.750 --> 00:49:54.710
looking for a name. You say who, not what race.

00:49:54.769 --> 00:49:57.329
Yeah, that's true. Yeah, I wanted a name. Okay.

00:49:58.210 --> 00:50:03.469
Book. Book says, who invented the Yale lock?

00:50:04.110 --> 00:50:08.190
Americans. No, there's an actual name. You asked

00:50:08.190 --> 00:50:10.889
for a name. I'm giving the same answer back.

00:50:11.170 --> 00:50:13.750
It's a nationality that I've invented that. Not

00:50:13.750 --> 00:50:18.860
bad. uh jeffrey no it was linus yale jr linus

00:50:18.860 --> 00:50:21.880
i know he invented a cylinder lock in the 1860s

00:50:21.880 --> 00:50:24.659
now known as the yale big advantage of the yale

00:50:24.659 --> 00:50:27.559
lock compared to other locks of the day was its

00:50:27.559 --> 00:50:30.239
superb engineering and the fact that it was smaller

00:50:30.239 --> 00:50:33.440
than any other key as a result yale locks became

00:50:33.440 --> 00:50:37.469
popular the world over I'm taking half a point

00:50:37.469 --> 00:50:43.449
for saying Yale invented the Yale lock. Okay,

00:50:43.449 --> 00:50:51.750
random question. Why did Benjamin Franklin fly

00:50:51.750 --> 00:50:57.429
a kite during a thunderstorm in 1752? Oh, damn

00:50:57.429 --> 00:50:59.610
it. How much of the dollop have I actually remembered?

00:50:59.949 --> 00:51:02.829
Yeah, you should know. This has definitely been

00:51:02.829 --> 00:51:06.920
dolloped. I don't know if it's going to be the

00:51:06.920 --> 00:51:09.639
obvious answer. It's going to be the, woo, KY

00:51:09.639 --> 00:51:14.860
clacks and goes off. Was it to prove electricity,

00:51:15.139 --> 00:51:18.480
metal conducted electricity, or lightning conducted?

00:51:20.239 --> 00:51:22.909
Lightning. electricity was conducted through

00:51:22.909 --> 00:51:26.510
the air by lightning okay you are you are you

00:51:26.510 --> 00:51:30.409
are so close the key gave off sparks when lightning

00:51:30.409 --> 00:51:33.449
struck thus proving that lightning is an electrical

00:51:33.449 --> 00:51:37.250
discharge it's very dangerous experiment and

00:51:37.250 --> 00:51:40.739
people have been killed trying to copy it So

00:51:40.739 --> 00:51:44.619
you were so close with the electricity and stuff,

00:51:44.699 --> 00:51:46.480
so well done. I don't think I can get half a

00:51:46.480 --> 00:51:48.739
point for that one. I was a bit cheeky the first

00:51:48.739 --> 00:51:50.300
time round. All right, how many questions have

00:51:50.300 --> 00:51:52.699
I asked you? Two? Three? That was two. Oh, that

00:51:52.699 --> 00:51:54.900
was technically three. There was two about locks,

00:51:55.000 --> 00:51:57.340
so that's three. Okay, who was the first Prince

00:51:57.340 --> 00:52:05.000
of Wales in 1301? Oh, no, no, no. Llywelyn the

00:52:05.000 --> 00:52:13.030
Prophet? Hmm. He's guessing so hard. Owen Glendure?

00:52:13.309 --> 00:52:17.170
No. Damn it! Honestly... No, I think it was the

00:52:17.170 --> 00:52:19.860
last. Your brain is wonderful. No, I was wrong.

00:52:19.960 --> 00:52:23.820
In 1301, King Edward I of England invested his

00:52:23.820 --> 00:52:27.019
eldest son, Edward, as the first Prince of Wales.

00:52:27.179 --> 00:52:29.900
King Edward's main purpose in creating this title

00:52:29.900 --> 00:52:32.719
was probably to becape the Welsh people after

00:52:32.719 --> 00:52:36.579
his wars of conquest. No, we don't count him.

00:52:36.619 --> 00:52:38.639
He wasn't the Welsh King of Wales. Since then,

00:52:38.659 --> 00:52:42.760
the title has been conferred upon the male heir

00:52:42.760 --> 00:52:47.070
apparent to the sovereign. That was not read

00:52:47.070 --> 00:52:49.010
very well. It's all right. I haven't answered

00:52:49.010 --> 00:52:50.909
any of these well, especially that last one.

00:52:51.610 --> 00:52:53.969
That's quite embarrassing for my lack of knowledge

00:52:53.969 --> 00:52:57.309
of Welsh history. I feel I owe Gareth Gwynn an

00:52:57.309 --> 00:53:00.550
apology for that one somehow. You've just de

00:53:00.550 --> 00:53:05.269
-Welshified yourself. I need a hand. You know

00:53:05.269 --> 00:53:07.989
intricate knowledge that's not necessarily necessary.

00:53:08.469 --> 00:53:10.530
I've got to turn in all my Welsh currency. I've

00:53:10.530 --> 00:53:13.489
got to change the Bank of England. Oh, God. Don't

00:53:13.489 --> 00:53:16.730
make me do that as well. No, I don't have a lot

00:53:16.730 --> 00:53:18.530
of special money if I get across the Severn Bridge

00:53:18.530 --> 00:53:21.250
back in the day. All the triangle coins when

00:53:21.250 --> 00:53:24.130
you come here. Oh, the Severn Bridge. I have

00:53:24.130 --> 00:53:26.250
my injections, thankfully, so. The toll at the

00:53:26.250 --> 00:53:29.090
Severn Bridge. I missed the toll at the Severn

00:53:29.090 --> 00:53:31.309
Bridge. Because of the racing after you paid

00:53:31.309 --> 00:53:33.570
to get through the gate. So boring now, just

00:53:33.570 --> 00:53:35.150
having three lanes going straight from England

00:53:35.150 --> 00:53:37.530
into Wales. So dull. You have to abide by the

00:53:37.530 --> 00:53:40.809
rules of the road. I know. It's a bit of a lawless

00:53:40.809 --> 00:53:42.809
sort of mile. They didn't even put a service

00:53:42.809 --> 00:53:44.829
station on all of that massive amount of space

00:53:44.829 --> 00:53:46.829
that they've created because there was like 70

00:53:46.829 --> 00:53:49.809
zillion lanes. No, but there was a bit for them

00:53:49.809 --> 00:53:52.030
to escort you round to the other side underneath

00:53:52.030 --> 00:53:54.570
there if you didn't have money. One of my friends

00:53:54.570 --> 00:53:58.000
had that happen to him. Oh, no way. I think it

00:53:58.000 --> 00:53:59.980
was before contactless. I think they might have

00:53:59.980 --> 00:54:02.000
only taken cash at the time. He didn't do a Gavin

00:54:02.000 --> 00:54:03.639
and Stacey and just like get out the car, lift

00:54:03.639 --> 00:54:05.360
the barrier and fuck off and then get chased

00:54:05.360 --> 00:54:07.739
halfway through Wales by a policeman to then

00:54:07.739 --> 00:54:10.139
go and watch a baby being born. This is pre -Gavin

00:54:10.139 --> 00:54:12.019
and Stacey. Oh, right. OK, fair enough. He would

00:54:12.019 --> 00:54:14.099
have got away with it if it was afterwards. OK,

00:54:14.219 --> 00:54:17.179
last question. Yeah, I think so. All right. What

00:54:17.179 --> 00:54:26.719
is sauerkraut? Is it the cabbage? Cabbage. Cabbage,

00:54:26.719 --> 00:54:31.719
that has been... Boiled? What's the other thing

00:54:31.719 --> 00:54:34.639
you do with vegetables? Boil and mash them, stick

00:54:34.639 --> 00:54:41.280
them in stew. Oh, I'm thinking of potatoes. Sorry,

00:54:41.440 --> 00:54:44.960
not cabbage. No, cabage. We're talking cabage,

00:54:44.960 --> 00:54:47.559
not potatoes. Shredded? I mean, it does get shredded.

00:54:47.739 --> 00:54:51.019
But, like, for keeping food for a long amount

00:54:51.019 --> 00:54:53.940
of time. Pickled. Yay! It's pickled cabbage.

00:54:54.409 --> 00:54:56.570
In brine. It's pickled in brine. Originating

00:54:56.570 --> 00:54:59.469
from Germany, it's made from packing alternative

00:54:59.469 --> 00:55:02.010
layers of cabbage and salt in a large barrel.

00:55:02.550 --> 00:55:04.670
When it has then been fermented slightly, it

00:55:04.670 --> 00:55:08.849
is bottled or canned. I did very poorly in this

00:55:08.849 --> 00:55:12.170
altogether. I imagine I will do equally poorly.

00:55:12.309 --> 00:55:14.670
There's no blurb on this book. Literally, the

00:55:14.670 --> 00:55:16.929
front cover is exactly the same as the back cover.

00:55:17.349 --> 00:55:20.050
But yeah, look out for new and interesting facts

00:55:20.050 --> 00:55:22.650
coming up in the future when Karen's been lazy.

00:55:23.949 --> 00:55:25.849
Oh, we might do these again if I edit this out.

00:55:25.889 --> 00:55:27.730
Sorry there was no book this episode because

00:55:27.730 --> 00:55:30.829
I'm too embarrassed about the answers. Oh, it's

00:55:30.829 --> 00:55:33.269
a shame we didn't have time. Oh, yeah, no. We

00:55:33.269 --> 00:55:35.309
spent too long talking at the start. We couldn't

00:55:35.309 --> 00:55:37.269
do the book. Yeah, I'm sorry I didn't bring a

00:55:37.269 --> 00:55:44.750
book this time. My bad. Did we tell Rob off?

00:55:45.150 --> 00:55:47.849
For what? Not going to the cinema with you. Oh.

00:55:48.539 --> 00:55:51.320
No, we haven't told Rob or Tom off for not going

00:55:51.320 --> 00:55:53.239
to the cinema with me. And it's fine because

00:55:53.239 --> 00:55:55.480
they have busy lives. They didn't let you go

00:55:55.480 --> 00:55:58.019
across the country to go and spend two hours

00:55:58.019 --> 00:56:01.159
with them. The fucking cheek! I was willing to

00:56:01.159 --> 00:56:04.079
drive from Wales to London to go and watch a

00:56:04.079 --> 00:56:06.420
two -hour, five -minute runtime movie with them.

00:56:06.639 --> 00:56:09.889
You just had to set aside two hours of a... weekend

00:56:09.889 --> 00:56:13.070
evening i know but they do have kids and wives

00:56:13.070 --> 00:56:18.250
and i don't have any traffic you might encounter

00:56:18.250 --> 00:56:23.289
on the way so yeah yeah how selfish of me i have

00:56:23.289 --> 00:56:25.110
been texting a little bit today actually because

00:56:25.110 --> 00:56:27.210
i obviously we went we went to go and see project

00:56:27.210 --> 00:56:31.010
how mary last night no spoilers um well we'll

00:56:31.010 --> 00:56:32.969
say what we like by here if there are i'll cut

00:56:32.969 --> 00:56:35.469
some out or bleep them so if this conversation

00:56:35.469 --> 00:56:39.150
jumps around any that's why The only thing I'd

00:56:39.150 --> 00:56:43.670
been aware of of it is you'd told me it's based

00:56:43.670 --> 00:56:46.610
on a book and audiobooks. You're a huge fan of

00:56:46.610 --> 00:56:53.489
them. I'd seen a poster and a bus stop. And I

00:56:53.489 --> 00:56:58.590
saw Ryan Gosling giving an interview with Seth

00:56:58.590 --> 00:57:03.750
Meyers a few nights ago. That motherfucker spoiled

00:57:03.750 --> 00:57:06.820
the film for me. Don't watch that interview.

00:57:07.239 --> 00:57:11.199
Yeah. Do not watch him in any interview, bigging

00:57:11.199 --> 00:57:13.639
up the film before you see it, if you have any

00:57:13.639 --> 00:57:17.579
intention of seeing it. Yeah. For everybody else

00:57:17.579 --> 00:57:21.760
in the cinema, not a dry eye in the house. Yep.

00:57:22.739 --> 00:57:26.199
No. He said something in the interview, I was

00:57:26.199 --> 00:57:29.460
expecting worse. I'm going into the film. Knowing

00:57:29.460 --> 00:57:32.420
not to invest. Expecting something to happen.

00:57:32.719 --> 00:57:37.969
That did not happen. I'd been braced. Yeah. So,

00:57:38.010 --> 00:57:41.010
yeah, it didn't have the punch it should have

00:57:41.010 --> 00:57:43.610
and clearly had for every single... It wasn't

00:57:43.610 --> 00:57:46.570
a packed cinema, but everybody in there cried.

00:57:46.630 --> 00:57:49.769
There was a lot of sniffling going on throughout

00:57:49.769 --> 00:57:52.050
different parts of the movie, actually. There

00:57:52.050 --> 00:57:55.630
were maybe three moments that were quite emotional

00:57:55.630 --> 00:58:00.210
and there were a few sniffly noses around the

00:58:00.210 --> 00:58:04.050
screen. But the biggie. Fuck you, Ryan Gosling.

00:58:04.090 --> 00:58:08.570
You spoiled your own film. But it was a very,

00:58:08.610 --> 00:58:10.710
very good film. I went in there knowing absolutely

00:58:10.710 --> 00:58:14.269
nothing about it. Excellent concept. Visually

00:58:14.269 --> 00:58:19.369
stunning. A little bit long. That's modern films

00:58:19.369 --> 00:58:21.289
for you. I don't know how much of that was also

00:58:21.289 --> 00:58:23.909
down to those cinema seats clearly aren't designed

00:58:23.909 --> 00:58:25.949
for long films. That's true. Even the premiere

00:58:25.949 --> 00:58:29.750
seats. My bum hurts. My coccyx still hurts today.

00:58:30.349 --> 00:58:33.449
It wasn't comfortable sitting there. I was squirming.

00:58:33.610 --> 00:58:36.090
Yeah. Leslie Odeon needs some new seating, please.

00:58:36.190 --> 00:58:38.710
Thank you. Yeah. I have seats that are comfortable

00:58:38.710 --> 00:58:43.150
for a modern film lens. But as a standalone sci

00:58:43.150 --> 00:58:45.969
-fi film that you knew nothing about other than,

00:58:45.969 --> 00:58:48.690
you know, the preparedness that Ryan had personally

00:58:48.690 --> 00:58:52.630
given you, would you recommend it for someone

00:58:52.630 --> 00:58:56.289
else to go and watch? Absolutely. Yeah. Rated

00:58:56.289 --> 00:59:00.559
12. 12A? 12A, you're right. Yeah. So, yeah, you

00:59:00.559 --> 00:59:03.699
have to have an adult with you. And I really

00:59:03.699 --> 00:59:07.059
would recommend it being a 12A. Yeah. Some of

00:59:07.059 --> 00:59:09.280
the themes and scenes in there. For the emotional

00:59:09.280 --> 00:59:13.360
side of it, not necessarily the visual. You know,

00:59:13.380 --> 00:59:16.059
there was one part in particular that I found

00:59:16.059 --> 00:59:20.219
really difficult to listen to. And that made

00:59:20.219 --> 00:59:24.119
me feel really quite upset. Not like, oh, I'm

00:59:24.119 --> 00:59:26.260
shedding a tear because it's a sad moment in

00:59:26.260 --> 00:59:30.059
a film. but like it added to the distress of

00:59:30.059 --> 00:59:34.280
the moment the audio of that section really got

00:59:34.280 --> 00:59:37.619
me um to the point where i i felt physically

00:59:37.619 --> 00:59:39.559
and emotionally uncomfortable and i did shed

00:59:39.559 --> 00:59:41.840
a few tears like i wasn't sniffling away like

00:59:41.840 --> 00:59:44.980
everyone else was because I know the story. I

00:59:44.980 --> 00:59:48.599
know what should happen, how things should happen,

00:59:48.780 --> 00:59:52.099
how it should end, how it should start, and everything

00:59:52.099 --> 00:59:54.719
else in between. You know, I've listened to Project

00:59:54.719 --> 00:59:58.820
Hail Mary maybe five times since September. So

00:59:58.820 --> 01:00:03.199
yeah, it's a book that I love. I feel like the

01:00:03.199 --> 01:00:08.420
film made as good a representation of a book

01:00:08.420 --> 01:00:11.719
that is... I think it's over 20 hours long audio.

01:00:12.119 --> 01:00:14.380
Oh, that's a lot to adapt. To squeeze into a

01:00:14.380 --> 01:00:20.159
two -hour movie where they include all of the

01:00:20.159 --> 01:00:22.880
important aspects of the book that carry through

01:00:22.880 --> 01:00:25.559
the spine of the story. How things are presented

01:00:25.559 --> 01:00:27.920
might not necessarily be how I imagined them

01:00:27.920 --> 01:00:33.340
to look or how the book describes them, but everything

01:00:33.340 --> 01:00:39.030
was... It was visually stunning. It was a beautiful

01:00:39.030 --> 01:00:44.389
film. The practical effects, absolutely fantastic.

01:00:45.289 --> 01:00:48.570
Props to the props guys. I said it last night.

01:00:48.869 --> 01:00:52.050
Absolute props to the props team because the

01:00:52.050 --> 01:00:54.869
practical effects were fantastic. I enjoyed it.

01:00:55.269 --> 01:00:59.789
Also wardrobe. I liked his stripy top. That needed

01:00:59.789 --> 01:01:01.690
to be it. I was waiting for the tracksuit trousers

01:01:01.690 --> 01:01:06.880
with the matching stripes. 1970s. olympic team

01:01:06.880 --> 01:01:09.579
yeah yeah it was very very olympic that was a

01:01:09.579 --> 01:01:12.980
cool outfit yeah um so you didn't need to wear

01:01:12.980 --> 01:01:15.559
the cagoule anywhere near as long no that yellow

01:01:15.559 --> 01:01:18.179
cagoule featured an awful lot in the film that

01:01:18.179 --> 01:01:20.880
felt so sweaty i could feel how clingy that was

01:01:20.880 --> 01:01:23.579
and there's that that one scene where he's he's

01:01:23.579 --> 01:01:27.519
sat talking and you can you can hear the coat

01:01:27.519 --> 01:01:30.179
making noises because he's moving and he's he's

01:01:30.179 --> 01:01:32.139
uncomfortable in what he's saying so he's shifting

01:01:32.139 --> 01:01:34.280
about and you can hear the noise that the coat's

01:01:34.280 --> 01:01:37.360
making sorry i was thinking of his space cagoule

01:01:37.360 --> 01:01:40.099
that he came out of oh right the first 20 minutes

01:01:40.099 --> 01:01:42.579
yeah sorry but also yeah he does wear a loud

01:01:42.579 --> 01:01:46.079
cagoule in an otherwise silent scene and every

01:01:46.829 --> 01:01:48.929
All of my mind's, how much does this fully work

01:01:48.929 --> 01:01:52.269
or is that recorded on set? Interesting. I have

01:01:52.269 --> 01:01:56.889
no idea. I'm such a nerd. But as someone who

01:01:56.889 --> 01:02:00.429
loves the book, I enjoyed the film. I found parts

01:02:00.429 --> 01:02:03.190
of it distressing. I kind of was expecting to,

01:02:03.369 --> 01:02:07.230
but it's... More distressing than you anticipated.

01:02:07.590 --> 01:02:10.449
Yeah. With reason, given... Yes. Don't want to

01:02:10.449 --> 01:02:12.469
spoil things. It's an excellent film. If you're

01:02:12.469 --> 01:02:15.329
into sci -fi, if you like space, you like end

01:02:15.329 --> 01:02:19.750
of the world scenarios where, you know, there's

01:02:19.750 --> 01:02:21.909
one option, a bit Armageddon -y really, like

01:02:21.909 --> 01:02:23.989
there's this one thing we can do. It's an extreme

01:02:23.989 --> 01:02:27.269
idea. It's highly unlikely to succeed, but we're

01:02:27.269 --> 01:02:28.750
going to try it anyway because we can't think

01:02:28.750 --> 01:02:31.179
of anything else. Then go and watch. Project

01:02:31.179 --> 01:02:34.260
Hail Mary. Ryan Gosling acts Professor Grace

01:02:34.260 --> 01:02:37.320
incredibly well. I think he matches the character

01:02:37.320 --> 01:02:40.179
from the book really well. And I also think that

01:02:40.179 --> 01:02:42.739
they carried the humour of the book really well

01:02:42.739 --> 01:02:44.880
into the movie. I was going to say, you were

01:02:44.880 --> 01:02:46.559
talking about the weight of it. It's also very,

01:02:46.639 --> 01:02:48.539
very funny. Yes, it is. It's not like Sunshine.

01:02:49.300 --> 01:02:52.099
No. As a weighty sort of film. Yeah, it is a

01:02:52.099 --> 01:02:54.119
very funny film as well. There's a lot of comic

01:02:54.119 --> 01:02:56.579
relief in there and it's all really well placed.

01:02:57.460 --> 01:03:00.179
The only thing I'm annoyed about... is that I

01:03:00.179 --> 01:03:03.059
had to go for a wee halfway through the film.

01:03:03.099 --> 01:03:05.460
And I held it for as long as I could until the

01:03:05.460 --> 01:03:07.900
point where I was incredibly uncomfortable. And

01:03:07.900 --> 01:03:09.539
I came back and I was like, what have I missed?

01:03:11.380 --> 01:03:14.119
But I wasn't gone very long. But from what I

01:03:14.119 --> 01:03:16.099
told you, you knew exactly what it was from the

01:03:16.099 --> 01:03:18.059
book. So, yeah, I don't think you missed too

01:03:18.059 --> 01:03:22.019
much because it's adapted well. It is a really...

01:03:22.019 --> 01:03:24.320
I was trying to phrase that. It is adapted really

01:03:24.320 --> 01:03:26.000
well. From what you told me. And considering

01:03:26.000 --> 01:03:29.159
the mammoth... task that the script writers had

01:03:29.159 --> 01:03:32.219
to pull all of that detail out of an incredibly

01:03:32.219 --> 01:03:36.059
long and detailed book it's fantastic lord of

01:03:36.059 --> 01:03:38.360
the rings in it and we're gonna do three films

01:03:38.360 --> 01:03:40.099
out of this yeah it didn't need to be an epic

01:03:40.099 --> 01:03:42.880
um i do believe there will be a follow -up book

01:03:42.880 --> 01:03:45.039
from the author of project hail mary whose name

01:03:45.039 --> 01:03:48.039
i cannot recall but i look forward to that coming

01:03:48.039 --> 01:03:49.960
out on audible because i'm sure that will be

01:03:49.960 --> 01:03:55.519
an excellent read was the second main character

01:03:57.260 --> 01:04:00.420
In the film, how did that character look compared

01:04:00.420 --> 01:04:04.219
to how, from the book, your mental image? I thought,

01:04:04.360 --> 01:04:11.039
actually, they did really well. I need to listen

01:04:11.039 --> 01:04:13.940
to the book again because I need to listen to

01:04:13.940 --> 01:04:17.860
the description, like Grace's description of

01:04:17.860 --> 01:04:21.400
Rocky. Just from your overall memory of the book,

01:04:21.420 --> 01:04:24.920
was it fairly close? Very, very close. Oh, excellent.

01:04:24.920 --> 01:04:29.219
Really good. Like I say, the props team and the

01:04:29.219 --> 01:04:33.219
practical effects were fantastic. Rocky is presented

01:04:33.219 --> 01:04:35.340
brilliantly throughout the film. Oh, I was trying

01:04:35.340 --> 01:04:37.059
to avoid the character name. Yeah, it's fine.

01:04:37.059 --> 01:04:38.639
Oh, I can bleep that. Yeah, I think you can say

01:04:38.639 --> 01:04:40.099
the name because we're not saying any information

01:04:40.099 --> 01:04:42.239
about it other than it's just the name. Oh, fair

01:04:42.239 --> 01:04:46.280
enough. But I, yeah, I was not disappointed with

01:04:46.280 --> 01:04:48.760
the look of the film in any way, shape or form.

01:04:49.019 --> 01:04:51.960
I think it's a sign of very, very good writing

01:04:51.960 --> 01:04:56.760
when it's adapted. And that's exactly as it appeared

01:04:56.760 --> 01:05:00.340
in my mind's eye from the writing. So, oh, kudos

01:05:00.340 --> 01:05:04.099
to the author whose name we both forget. I know,

01:05:04.099 --> 01:05:05.840
and my phone isn't next to me either, so I can't

01:05:05.840 --> 01:05:08.519
check. Sorry, author of Project Hail Mary. It's

01:05:08.519 --> 01:05:10.730
an entire... Different level of the house. Ray

01:05:10.730 --> 01:05:13.710
Porter narrates it on Audible. So, you know,

01:05:13.710 --> 01:05:15.469
he's amazing. I listen to everything that Ray

01:05:15.469 --> 01:05:18.010
Porter narrates now. He's my falling asleep to

01:05:18.010 --> 01:05:19.909
guy. Doesn't matter what the book is. It's a

01:05:19.909 --> 01:05:22.590
gateway drug. I've listened, I have half listened

01:05:22.590 --> 01:05:25.010
to so many sci -fi books over the last few months

01:05:25.010 --> 01:05:27.210
just because I like falling asleep to Ray Porter's

01:05:27.210 --> 01:05:31.869
voice. Pod nod. Yeah. If you get any Audible

01:05:31.869 --> 01:05:35.159
credits, one to check out for sure. You got us

01:05:35.159 --> 01:05:37.420
some extra badges as well, pin badges. Oh, yeah.

01:05:37.559 --> 01:05:39.639
I managed to get us free pin badges, which was

01:05:39.639 --> 01:05:41.760
really cool because I booked the tickets online.

01:05:41.880 --> 01:05:43.940
And if you booked online, you got a free badge.

01:05:44.139 --> 01:05:46.909
Karen did speak to the manager. I didn't speak

01:05:46.909 --> 01:05:50.230
to the manager and I didn't ask him to speak

01:05:50.230 --> 01:05:52.150
to anybody else for me. You had to speak to him

01:05:52.150 --> 01:05:53.769
because he was the one that had taken tickets

01:05:53.769 --> 01:05:57.489
on the way in. I asked the guy behind the kiosk

01:05:57.489 --> 01:05:59.469
and he said he didn't know and to ask the guy

01:05:59.469 --> 01:06:01.190
who was taking the tickets. He just happened

01:06:01.190 --> 01:06:03.909
to be the duty manager. Oh, was he? I think he

01:06:03.909 --> 01:06:08.030
was. Sorry. I'm sure that's... He pointed out

01:06:08.030 --> 01:06:10.929
he was the duty manager. So we asked the guy

01:06:10.929 --> 01:06:12.489
who was taking the tickets, Mr. Duty Manager,

01:06:12.710 --> 01:06:15.780
and he was like, oh, I don't know. sure i read

01:06:15.780 --> 01:06:17.460
an email somewhere saying we should have got

01:06:17.460 --> 01:06:19.639
some free pin badges hang on a minute let me

01:06:19.639 --> 01:06:21.780
go and have a look so we go into the screen have

01:06:21.780 --> 01:06:24.179
a sit down and then this guy walks into the screen

01:06:24.179 --> 01:06:26.139
10 minutes later with a carrier bag full of pin

01:06:26.139 --> 01:06:28.360
badges made a beeline for you yeah He's looking

01:06:28.360 --> 01:06:30.920
specifically for you. He did. He spotted us first,

01:06:30.960 --> 01:06:33.139
came straight to us. And then he was leaving.

01:06:33.179 --> 01:06:34.420
And then he was like, oh, I better offer him

01:06:34.420 --> 01:06:35.920
to everyone else that's already sat here as well.

01:06:36.179 --> 01:06:38.539
So whoever was sat down while the guy was going

01:06:38.539 --> 01:06:40.000
through the screen got their free pin badge.

01:06:40.159 --> 01:06:41.800
But that big group of boys where there was like

01:06:41.800 --> 01:06:43.880
10 of them. One had gone to the toilet. Yeah,

01:06:43.940 --> 01:06:45.639
a couple had like, one had gone to the toilet,

01:06:45.679 --> 01:06:48.099
one had gone to Ben and Jerry's to get a milkshake

01:06:48.099 --> 01:06:49.659
or whatever. So they missed out on pin badges,

01:06:49.780 --> 01:06:51.239
but their mates all had them. So that was quite

01:06:51.239 --> 01:06:53.900
funny. I don't even think they said. Oh, can

01:06:53.900 --> 01:06:56.179
we grab one for our mate? I don't think anyone

01:06:56.179 --> 01:06:58.039
even asked. We should have asked for Spence.

01:06:58.039 --> 01:07:00.460
Well, I did call after, but I was only half joking

01:07:00.460 --> 01:07:01.780
when I said, oh, can we have doubles for the

01:07:01.780 --> 01:07:03.679
ones you forgot to give out for everybody else,

01:07:03.739 --> 01:07:06.440
Susan? Because he did say, we went to a giving

01:07:06.440 --> 01:07:08.460
these out from the start. Yeah, so they've got

01:07:08.460 --> 01:07:10.719
like a thousand pin badges or whatever, and they

01:07:10.719 --> 01:07:13.699
handed out like maybe 25 last night. Not everyone

01:07:13.699 --> 01:07:16.280
read the memo fully. We skimmed it. Yeah, but

01:07:16.280 --> 01:07:18.260
we got our three pin badges, and I am really

01:07:18.260 --> 01:07:20.420
pleased. It'll be added to my collection. An

01:07:20.420 --> 01:07:22.960
excellent film. Definitely go and see it. The

01:07:22.960 --> 01:07:25.239
one thing I will say from the interview with

01:07:25.239 --> 01:07:28.119
Ryan Gosling, he's been on board for six years.

01:07:28.300 --> 01:07:31.059
He's been involved. For this movie? Yeah. Wow.

01:07:31.139 --> 01:07:32.880
I think as soon as the book was in his hands,

01:07:32.900 --> 01:07:35.300
pretty much. Wow. He's been involved in trying

01:07:35.300 --> 01:07:37.119
to make it a film. That's really cool. Well done,

01:07:37.159 --> 01:07:40.099
Ryan Gosling. Yeah. What a man. Thank you so

01:07:40.099 --> 01:07:43.059
much. And he apparently had... some astronauts

01:07:43.059 --> 01:07:46.219
watching it and when he's just haphazardly and

01:07:46.219 --> 01:07:49.360
randomly flopping into walls and grabbing onto

01:07:49.360 --> 01:07:52.159
things just out of control, getting through tubes.

01:07:53.239 --> 01:07:57.039
ISS astronauts had seen that. Yeah, yeah, that's

01:07:57.039 --> 01:08:00.260
about right. That's what happens. Super organised

01:08:00.260 --> 01:08:03.559
in zero G. Because he obviously has to be a little

01:08:03.559 --> 01:08:06.420
bit chaotic, but, you know, he's not the slickest

01:08:06.420 --> 01:08:08.500
astronaut in his character. Do they do it on

01:08:08.500 --> 01:08:12.139
wires? Do they film those scenes on wires? It

01:08:12.139 --> 01:08:15.199
must be through rigs, wires, possibly there's

01:08:15.199 --> 01:08:18.619
ceilings maybe CGI'd in. Yeah. So we're not seeing

01:08:18.619 --> 01:08:21.319
a bunch of strings. Interesting. However, it's

01:08:21.319 --> 01:08:24.260
really, really well done. And you do believe

01:08:24.260 --> 01:08:26.439
that he's in a space station. Yeah. Apart from

01:08:26.439 --> 01:08:27.819
when he wakes up, it looks like he's in some

01:08:27.819 --> 01:08:30.140
sort of nice... He does it like he's just woken

01:08:30.140 --> 01:08:32.640
up from a really lovely sleep, doesn't he? In

01:08:32.640 --> 01:08:34.800
his nice orange sleeping bag, all clutched in

01:08:34.800 --> 01:08:36.039
and tucked up. Well, I meant the room that he's

01:08:36.039 --> 01:08:38.539
in is like given different lighting and textures

01:08:38.539 --> 01:08:40.739
and tones to all the other rooms. It's more relaxing

01:08:40.739 --> 01:08:43.500
to think of, well, supposedly more relaxing when

01:08:43.500 --> 01:08:46.039
you're just waking up from hypersleep or whatever.

01:08:46.460 --> 01:08:48.880
Yeah. No, I can't say any more. It's going to

01:08:48.880 --> 01:08:51.220
spoil the people. Yeah, shush. It's a great film.

01:08:51.300 --> 01:08:58.859
Go and watch it, please. I hope this episode

01:08:58.859 --> 01:09:01.699
has made some kind of sense. I don't know how

01:09:01.699 --> 01:09:03.699
much it stayed in. Well, I mean, you know, you

01:09:03.699 --> 01:09:06.659
are the king of editing. You made us sound absolutely

01:09:06.659 --> 01:09:08.220
amazing. I've made myself a crown and everything.

01:09:10.619 --> 01:09:13.819
You'll be fine. Thank you very, very much for

01:09:13.819 --> 01:09:15.640
listening. If you do want to get in touch, pod

01:09:15.640 --> 01:09:19.659
at lightlyused .co .uk. There's photos of all

01:09:19.659 --> 01:09:23.300
our tats on the blog. All our tats. The two things

01:09:23.300 --> 01:09:25.460
we brought in. The two tats. I think it's very,

01:09:25.539 --> 01:09:28.720
yeah, I'm going to leave that one. that's the

01:09:28.720 --> 01:09:33.039
name of the show it seems very thin on the ground

01:09:33.039 --> 01:09:34.859
for photos this episode I think the last one

01:09:34.859 --> 01:09:37.699
we had there was a thousand too many photos if

01:09:37.699 --> 01:09:39.859
anything so I think this is making up for it

01:09:39.859 --> 01:09:42.020
this would be a minimal also links to our pod

01:09:42.020 --> 01:09:44.439
nods are going to be on the show blog as well

01:09:44.439 --> 01:09:47.619
and also a link to Tim Butter's book The Manifest

01:09:47.619 --> 01:09:50.119
Trials and Tribulations of Johnny Turnip that's

01:09:50.119 --> 01:09:52.220
always on the blog to be fair since Tim let us

01:09:52.220 --> 01:09:54.470
know I've got a book out. Yes. So, yeah, at least

01:09:54.470 --> 01:09:56.250
we can do it. We're using material from your

01:09:56.250 --> 01:09:58.609
book. One person we know of has bought a book

01:09:58.609 --> 01:10:00.770
from us featuring it on the show. Have they?

01:10:01.430 --> 01:10:04.050
Might have been Matt. Matt, did you buy a book?

01:10:04.449 --> 01:10:05.829
Well done if you did. Somebody did get in touch

01:10:05.829 --> 01:10:07.630
and say they bought one. That's really cool.

01:10:07.970 --> 01:10:10.069
I'm really pleased to hear that. We need to go

01:10:10.069 --> 01:10:11.930
back to Abergavenny at some point. We do. There's

01:10:11.930 --> 01:10:14.109
more exploring to be done. At the very least,

01:10:14.109 --> 01:10:16.470
we need to buy another copy of the book and ask

01:10:16.470 --> 01:10:18.789
Tim to sign it so we can give it away somewhere.

01:10:19.390 --> 01:10:21.529
Just to kind of boost listeners. That's the one.

01:10:21.750 --> 01:10:23.430
That will be happening at some point in the future.

01:10:23.590 --> 01:10:25.430
And also Abergavenny was a nice place to visit.

01:10:25.550 --> 01:10:29.510
It is beautiful. Back to signing off. We are

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01:11:02.569 --> 01:11:04.569
we've forgotten anything until we tell them next

01:11:04.569 --> 01:11:08.409
time. I know. I'm listening to it editing. Oh,

01:11:08.409 --> 01:11:10.390
that's a good point. You've missed all of this

01:11:10.390 --> 01:11:16.149
out. Corrections. Thanks for listening. Cheers,

01:11:16.189 --> 01:11:20.869
mate. Thanks, mate. Bye. Adam and Karen have

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[OUTTAKE] 
But it turns out the kingdom of mermaids

01:11:38.630 --> 01:11:40.630
and mermen that were... Mermaids and mermen?

01:11:41.529 --> 01:11:47.079
Mermaids and mermen? 
Mermaids...Mermaids....Aah...Aah 
(Flight of the Conchords impression)

01:11:48.460 --> 01:11:57.680
[OUTTAKE] 
Oh. Turnip said, just as dawn is breaking.... Got

01:11:57.680 --> 01:12:05.800
the Postman Pat lyrics in my head. It's going

01:12:05.800 --> 01:12:07.500
to be stuck in my head all night now. My internal

01:12:07.500 --> 01:12:09.239
jukebox is going to be tuned into Postman Pat.

01:12:10.020 --> 01:12:18.520
[OUTTAKE] 
I think I could make that edit happen. What you

01:12:18.520 --> 01:12:20.960
should do is do the edit, but then leave this

01:12:20.960 --> 01:12:23.079
conversation in so everyone's like, what are

01:12:23.079 --> 01:12:25.119
they talking about? This is the show. Just this

01:12:25.119 --> 01:12:29.380
out of context. I'm going to, if you send me

01:12:29.380 --> 01:12:31.739
this. Is that your side channel? If you send

01:12:31.739 --> 01:12:33.659
me the raw audio for this, I'll just clip it

01:12:33.659 --> 01:12:35.140
and put it on Instagram. People will be like,

01:12:35.239 --> 01:12:40.979
what? What? But it'd be great. Not sausages then.

01:12:41.800 --> 01:12:44.000
[OUTTAKE] 
Stop making me have to work. You can just delete

01:12:44.000 --> 01:12:45.380
it all. I'm just saying stuff. Yeah, I've got

01:12:45.380 --> 01:12:48.680
to listen to all this. Sorry. Blah, blah, blah,

01:12:48.800 --> 01:12:50.579
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Oh, that's just

01:12:50.579 --> 01:13:03.079
spiteful now. Yes. 
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