H.I. #77: Woah, Dude
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okay Brady I need an honest answer how
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stupid do I look are you wearing like
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the earbuds with no wise the new apple
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yeah i got the new apple earpods yeah
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I'm not cool with him you're not cool
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with them I wanted your opinion on this
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you're gonna give them a thumbs down yep
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down so the answer to how stupid do I
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look is very more stupid than you should
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the lack of wires coming out of these
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devices now I'm just realizing at every
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turn the problems is eventually going to
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cause me if I stay in the apple
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ecosystem you know I went and looked at
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google pixel in the shop I wouldn't ask
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to hold 10 did you I did
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that's how serious I'm getting there
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that's very serious did you check out
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what the wolf emoji looks like on the
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pixel was that your number one thing
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that you're a Salesman didn't get to
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that stage they had this huge security
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contraption bolted to it looks so you
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couldn't really get a good feel of what
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it was like without this huge thing
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glued to the bottom of a bit cord and I
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was like this is ridiculous man I want
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to hold one with that this stupid thing
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so they had to go out the back and get
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one of their own and bring it out to me
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what like the salesman's private phone
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yeah which had some skin on it as well
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it was bloody amateur hour so I yes I do
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think those pods the Daft they look so
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fragile in the ear to that just like
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gonna fall out all the time do they stay
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in nicely i have to say the airport's do
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stay in remarkably well I actually think
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that they stay in better than the wired
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headphones because you don't have the
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wire tugging on them all the time
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mm I've seen a few people wearing them
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around London while I'm wearing my own
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headphones and every time I see somebody
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else wearing the Apple earpods I think
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wow that looks really silly and then of
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course realized that I to one of these
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people walking around looking really
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silly yeah i think this is like a
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perfect example of how like fashion is
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accepted among people like it's a thing
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that looks strange because people
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haven't seen it i don't know i think
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people get used to it but it's very very
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weird to have them you know great you
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are an Apple watch that in my eyes
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ok I think clearly as far as sticking
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out in a crowd that these of course
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white apple air pods stick out a
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thousand times more than Apple watch
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disagree with you on that one I'm sure
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we'll get used to them in no time and
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the world keeps turning you know it's
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Australia Day today by the way as we're
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recording is that Australian
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mm no it's not independence day at marks
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when the first flight arrived in
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Australia to sort of start colonizing
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that's kind of controversial because I
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guess you could say it's wipe out the
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well i hope the meaning of the day is
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changing a bit now there's a bit more
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recognition of past wrongs but the date
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does actually celebrate the arrival of
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the first fleet the arrival of the first
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flight was there because of other
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reasons funny banned Sydney how about
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detailed and kind of germs and steel
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that's why the Aborigines didn't build
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the first fleet well happy australia day
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now grey yeah it's been such a long time
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since we spoke because you've been away
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having special great i'm again when you
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sort of disappear into the mountains and
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meditate on the meaning of life of that
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I have accumulated 36 items on my little
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document of things I'd like to talk
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about next time we do hello internet and
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we can't possibly do them all so I've
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done bit of a color but I have to warn
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you I'm overflowing with things i want
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luckily a lot of them when i read back
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through the list now I think I don't
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care about that as much as I thought I
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did but some of them are still on my
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mind say we might spill this list over a
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few episodes like that works fine for me
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Brady i thoroughly welcome your 36 items
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of follow-up but probably the highlight
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of the last month or so while you've
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been off on planet gray has been that I
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went to a hello Internet vinyl listening
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body i am genuinely so envious of this I
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really Envy is that this is a thing that
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you did you didn't just go to a party
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tho Brady I think the key element here
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is that you crashed a hello Internet
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listening party I did I went an amount
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they didn't know I was coming and i'm a
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bit reluctant to say this because i
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think it will make them feel like
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disappointed by my attendance in some
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ways but I actually told you I was going
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to do it because I the one I went to was
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and I said gray I've seen on reddit that
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these people are getting together and
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they're meeting in this picture but
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after a final party i'm thinking of
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going do you want to come with me and
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you were totally up for you actually
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said I'd love to do it but unfortunately
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you couldn't because you had just gone
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away like the day before
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mhm so I don't want those teams here at
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the party do you think are we could have
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had great that would have been even
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better we got start with Brady
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second-rate Brady could have had a great
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great now and I so it was just me better
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it was very good fun and also though I
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have to say after what grace said in a
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previous episode about how I should
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never contact him asking him to send a
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video because it's something like he
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wouldn't be willing to do the way that
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directed to help me out no of course not
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no I would never do something like that
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great did send the video unannounced I
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was just sitting at the table with the
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team's chewing the fat having paints are
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having a chat and suddenly my phone
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pings and it was a video message from
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gray like to the team's was like I was
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great just sent you all the message
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who wants to see it and seriously a few
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people considered leaving the room
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because they didn't want to see your
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face like we're going on I don't know
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those are the best kind of listeners as
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far as I'm concerned they were really
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serious about their face boilers in the
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end everyone stayed and watched your
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little message as well so the idea of
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crashing the hello Internet listening
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party it really appealed to me I really
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regretted that I couldn't be there and
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so I felt at least send a video right I
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can be there sort of remotely kind of in
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a little bit of a sad way and i was
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wondering if anybody was going to stand
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on the other side of the phone while the
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message was playing so they didn't have
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to actually get the face boiled I have
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to say to the people who attended the
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party just to be clear
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Brady like eighty percent of the value
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of getting us to the party because brady
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is the life of the party
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I am NOT the life of the party well
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whether that's true or not that's what
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but so how was it from your perspective
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we haven't discussed it all like I'm
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dying to know how did the logistics of
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this go down well it was it some
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location in London and I knew their
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meeting in the basement of a pizza place
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but i had no idea how many people were
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gonna be there and I was thinking it
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would be two or three people
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mm I thought it might feel a bit strange
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flat just two people are sitting
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listening to a record and I turn up and
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they're like are high so I wanted to
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find out information without spoiling
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the fact i was thinking of going and
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after spending way too long on a train
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with flaky 3g reception trying to set up
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a fake reddit account which is much
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harder than you told me it would be no I
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don't know what you mean with your
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kingdom and thumbs but it takes two
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seconds to set up a sock puppet account
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on reddit to sac there i was having a
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few problems so I said after the captain
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contact the organizer and said is it
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I'm hoping that he would like contact me
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back and say yeah there's how many of
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the many people coming and he took ages
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to reply to them and then eventually he
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didn't he just said yes and I didn't
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want to like seem too nosy because that
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would give it away so i just had to like
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leave it at that okay well I'm going on
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I don't know who's gonna be there at
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like the idea that didn't want to raise
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suspicions that a brand-new reddit
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account might be yuge just has that
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information about crashing the party I
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don't think this would cross anybody's
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mind that wondering like hey this new
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guy do you think it's brady I was
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probably overthinking a little bit
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yeah based on our text message
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conversations about this you were
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definitely overthinking it and
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overcautious but it was delightful to
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so then I got to the pizza place and I
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said is there a group of people
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downstairs in our life
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yep then just as I was getting to the
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bottom of the stairs I bumped into
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someone who turned out to be the
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organizer and like I didn't really know
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what kind of reaction to expect it's not
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like you know Elvis has turned up or
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something it's just like some dude say I
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wasn't expecting like you know
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screams of joy or anything like that and
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he just kind of went Brady the best way
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I can describe is it was like I had said
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I might come but I wasn't sure
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the Hat turns out ahead that was how I
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would describe the reaction i tell you
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what it was really great and we had a
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brilliant brilliant night it was not
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really good fun everyone was really
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there was about 10 people there i think
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and we ordered pizzas and we had some
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beers and then put on side one and then
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put on side two and I tell you what the
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most interesting thing for me was
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because I never thinks about hello
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internet huh I never think of it as
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something that's funny
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mmm i totally understand like I just
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think it's you and me talking we joke
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around with each other because that's
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just what we do but like the thing that
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surprised me was how often people were
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laughing at the podcast like it was a
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funny show em and I got great pleasure
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from that because it's always a nice
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thing isn't it when people are laughing
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at things that are supposed to be
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entertaining and you know we never get
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feedback from an audience that we never
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know what people think and saying people
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smile and also seeing people like nor
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shake their head or are you know typical
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gray or saying people look at each other
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and not all the in jokes and stuff it
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was like a human beings do this into
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this I kind of forget that sometimes it
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was a really nice experience just to be
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observing people listening to the
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podcast and then afterwards we hung out
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and we spoke and it was a really great
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I totally agree with your description of
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this thing because when we're recording
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the show and when I'm editing the show I
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always very much think of it in the same
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way that it's you and me having a
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conversation and the listener is just a
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silent member of that conversation but
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yeah I don't really think of it as a
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thing that would be funny so it would be
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very strange to sit in a room full of
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people and here when that laughs like I
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think i would be surprised every time
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like every once in a while when my wife
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listen to the show and she laughed at
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something I'm always kind of surprise
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and I think what was the thing that was
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mm but I'm also realizing that I think
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you and I would have had a bit of a
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logistic disagreement had been able to
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attend that evening because i don't
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think i could actually have sat through
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listening to our own podcast in a room
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full of people also listening to the
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podcast i think i would have waited
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upstairs in the pizza place
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till the show is over and then go
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downstairs and talk to everybody because
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i think i would be too uncomfortable to
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be sitting in a room like hey
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everybody's listening to the thing that
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I've made i think i would have to wait
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don't be like you go ahead Brady i'll
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come down later I mean I did offer to
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leave when they started listening I did
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say is this too weird for you guys to
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have me here should i just go upstairs
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for a bit and they're like no no I mean
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I can understand that concern and like
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it was in the back of my head too but it
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didn't feel like that at the time they
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had been looking and nodding and smiling
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and there was a bit when you would say
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something that would be typically great
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they would just look at me and go huh
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I feel for Brady and I smile back it was
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almost like you were you know having a
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little laugh behind your friends back
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right everyone in the room rolling their
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eyes at me perfect yeah yeah it was
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enjoying things as well but it wasn't
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too weird like that say I'm glad I did
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so there you go Tim's if you are
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arranging listening parties around the
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world you never know when one of us
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might show up well Brady it wouldn't be
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hello internet without plane crash
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corner I see that one of your 36 items
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here is plane crash corner
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well that's what the fans want is it
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always so uncertain with the corner that
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makes me the most uncomfortable the
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corner actually like most likely to be
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blindsided by something horrible that I
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don't know about have always strings
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doubt about whether or not the fans do
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like playing Crash corner but here we
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are our know anecdotally it's probably
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the favor of over conus of course yes
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all of the fans who love the corner
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contact you about it yeah so we have
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what is this i still think after all
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this time you don't fully grasp plane
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crash corner as well it's not like every
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horrible crash that happens I talk about
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who the thing I just wanted to note was
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that back in the early early days of
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hello internet we had the mh370 the
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Malaysian Airlines plane that has
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vanished and just flew out to say and no
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one ever knew what happened and they're
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all these searches for and back then I
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was just so confident that and find
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eventually they have always technology
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and they're looking for out in the
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Indian Ocean somewhere where they think
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and just as time went by I began to have
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my doubts and now they've called the
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search off the search is over and they
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have a founder and I just never thought
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that would happen a whole plane full of
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people never to be found which I find
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extraordinary I mean the oceans a big
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it must have disappeared in the ocean
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yeah but technologies moved on the
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Titanic went missing in deepwater who
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and for a long time it wasn't fair but
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then technology came along it was like
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yeah we can find it now and I know you
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knew roughly where the titanic sank
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because they rescue people in stone but
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i'm just amazed they can't find it and I
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know how big the indian ocean is I'm
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just amazed i couldn't find and there
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was talk this minister from the
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Malaysian government said they were
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going to offer a reward to private
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searches like if someone could find that
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they get a reward and that quite excited
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make cool yeah it's like treasure
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I know I even wonder if those two
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legends that went to South America and
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they're on their way up the mountain
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might say alright we're doing it but
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then a couple days later it was another
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story from someone more senior Malaysian
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government saying that guy probably was
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shooting his mouth off and they might
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so I don't know if there's a reward or
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not if there was a reward would you be
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tempted to try and claim it seems like a
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brady project i don't think i have the
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technical capabilities i think taking a
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piece of paper with pie printed on and
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rolling out a runway as one thing
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yeah searching for a missing plane in
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the indian ocean that's another kettle
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I don't know don't you want to progress
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in the difficulty of your projects
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you're a man who's been on Everest
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things like making a missing plane in
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how cool would that be and listen I
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think you also have quite an audience
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here i think if you really wanted to you
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could draw on the right people to help
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yeah just say i'm reading are you
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talking about Kickstarter or something
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patreon is ready guys that he's doing
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yet to say I don't know I'm just the
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ideas guy here right you're the executor
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right you make things happen you get
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vinyl record shipped across the world
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and I'm sure that you can find mh370 I
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think you could do it would make a great
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YouTube video they would make quite a
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video to get free berated very quickly
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that's the main reason i don't want to
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do it because I know just get free bird
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straight away anyway you know what
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fair enough you know what i was going to
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sort of clarify correctly when you refer
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to me as the man that's been on Everest
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but I quite like you saying that so I'm
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just gonna let that one slide
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wait a second you tell me that's not
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true well I wouldn't say I had been on
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Everest here's the thing i specifically
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phrase that not like you've climbed
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Everest because I don't think that's
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entirely true which have been on at base
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camp right that counts
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I don't know where you would technically
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say being on Everest start so I'm not
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sure base camp would count but I think
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you've got to get through the cumbias
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fall before you can say you're on
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Everest homebush mumu I think base camp
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that counts is how concerned eighty
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percent of the danger of getting to
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everest is getting on the plane that
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gets you there so if you're on the other
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end of that plane you make it to base
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camp that counters on Everest
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well like I say I could correct you on
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this stuff but you're just making me
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sound awesome so why would I will let
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that stand now grey we talk about not
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really thinking about who's listening to
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the podcast and one thing I often forget
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is that one person who uses the podcast
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is my sister for helping my Neffe go to
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sleep it's like his thing like he goes
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to bed and sometimes instead of a
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bedtime story he can have like 20
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minutes of Uncle Brady are that's the
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sweet sounds wait but she's just being
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lazy and she playing at hello internet
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so he listens to hello internet when I
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think that's why he said just float love
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i love the idea that not only are we
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putting grown adults to sleep with the
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podcast at the house that children being
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put to sleep well it sounds to me like
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maybe we're putting my sister to sleep
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but not my nephew because what happened
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in our pre christmas episode was when we
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started talking about elf on the shelf
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and I mentioned how it was this toy like
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my sister had sewn down wasn't listening
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and my little nephew who has an elf on
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the show flight was not so great he
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and can I just say for the record and to
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my little nephew who been listening
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right now your elf on the shelf is
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Nestle is a real elf and you be a good
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because Nestle's what
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and what uncle Brady said about toys was
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confusing and not right but Nestle is a
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real elf and you be a good boy and i
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look forward to seeing you again soon
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leave your uncle breaking up
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there's no reason to doubt uncle Brady
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exactly and if it also did get me
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thinking about the Easter Bunny and I
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just want to ask you a quick question
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gray ok shut your eyes
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ok what does the easter bunny look like
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okay because that's what i wanted to
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find out is the Easter Bunny to you like
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a rabbit or is the Easter Bunny to you
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like a man in a rabbit so it's totally a
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man in a rabbit suit that's what the
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Easter Bunny is like to make the Easter
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Bunny is like a six-foot man and as
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ill-fitting so carrying a basket full of
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yeah he might be white for me I don't
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know if he's pink he's definitely
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bipedal for a step that's true yeah let
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me send you a picture of the easter
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bunny i'm waiting I've still got that
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gorgeous picture of you looking at me
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with your present to us at all
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that's the Easter buying yeah you've got
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mean for everything everything
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look all I did was I went into google i
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typed in Easter Bunny and that's what
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that was the first of several terrifying
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Easter Bunny photos right here's another
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one you're googling scary easter bunny
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you're not googling just a taster body
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no I am NOT a typed in easter bunny this
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is what i found the Easter Bunny is a
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friendly man in a pink so not the ones
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that great has just been placed together
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i'm sending Brady nightmare versions of
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the Easter Bunny the kind of Easter
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Bunny that you would have in a horror
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movie but now in my head it's a smiling
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happy bunny that is human sized not
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smiling the bunny face can't smile it
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looks friendly it's like in a cartoon
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you know rabbits in a cartoon can smile
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it doesn't have to be accurately rabbit
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face it's like cartoony rapid face know
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the thing that I'm confused about here
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is there anybody who thinks that the
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Easter Bunny is that like a rabbit
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yeah i think there are some people who
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grow up with the Easter Bunny mythology
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being a a small rabbit on all fours but
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with magic powers obviously to deliver
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not standing out person but is this
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version of the Easter Bunny mean is he
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laying the eggs like the cadbury bunny
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rabbit start leg but they don't deliver
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magic chocolate eggs either I'm just I
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don't understand I don't know how the
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all four small rabbit actually delivers
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the eggs if you grew up believing the
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easter bunny was an actual rabbit tell
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us and tell us how it negotiated the
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mechanics of delivering the eggs because
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we'd like to know because in my head the
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man-sized Easter Bunny has a magic
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basket from which you can draw an
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infinite number of eggs yeah like Santa
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Claus and his magic sack it's the same
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yeah but an actual magic Easter Bunny
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laying eggs for all the children on
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Easter this horrible era sounds like
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torment but like a man in a suit with a
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magic basket that has infinite eggs and
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you're cool with that yeah that's fine
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that's a okay great i just want to check
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i just wanted to that question for you
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then the Tooth Fairy human-sized very
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hmm like Audrey sighs no okay maybe
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smaller even site via i don't know i
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don't really have a good idea of the
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Tooth Fairy in my mind now I think the
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Tooth Fairy was less of a ever real
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fixture in my childhood and more of a
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transparent money delivery mechanism
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I mean I believed but i think the
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problem is you see less depictions of
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mm I mean you see the most depictions of
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Santa and that's why we all agree on
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Easter Bunny there does seem to be a bit
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of a range and that's why we can discuss
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it but you hardly ever see depictions of
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because it's not like this you know
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Tooth Fairy cards and tooth fairy
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branding because we all lose their teeth
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at different times so we don't really
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►
know what the Tooth Fairy looks like
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it's a great unknown great unknown
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hmm maybe there'll be some fanart of two
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theories LOL out tooth fairy I'm sure
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there will be this episode of Hello
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talk a little bit about styles i went
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and saw Road one for the second time did
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I did where did you see it for the
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second time I was with some friends and
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they wanted to go on CNN and I wanted to
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see a second time so because for people
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who don't remember you had seen it twice
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when we did our review your christmas
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day review and I had seen it once and
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we're not going to review again because
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we've done arivu and also we're not
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gonna do spoilers but i have all my
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notes for the scenes from the platform
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that light that we were gonna finish up
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now you don't want to and today but can
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I just say watching a second time and I
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hope it came across that i did like the
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film because i gave it like a partial
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thumbs-up who people remember whereas i
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would say you were quite negative about
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watching a second time my thumb has
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no and it has moved more towards twelve
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o'clock the upright position and if we
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were doing that episode again kid I
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would call you out on more things that
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you said and I think you were overly
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harsh I still agree with a lot of things
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he said but I think you were overly
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harsh and that film was even better than
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I said it was the first time around
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still not like you know an old-time
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amazing film but for people who said we
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gave a bit of a hard time I kind of a
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great i think we could have been a bit
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►
more positive about it that was my
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►
second viewing opinion when we walked
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okay so on the 180 degree scale that is
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your thumbs up and thumbs down what is
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the final resting place i would say 1048
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which is even more fine-tuned and stars
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like it's like pointlessly precise got
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four significant digits here to do like
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Star Wars 1040a and 38 seconds
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oh thank you that's crazy-making so
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anyway I just wanted to put that out
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I think that's very interesting very
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interesting you liked more the second
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►
time around the first time yet and
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►
things that you criticized for I think
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►
if it didn't do you would have
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►
criticized it for like it could
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win on some things like things that you
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said where things were getting too
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complex and it was unnecessary detail if
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that stuff had been left out would have
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been plot house i'll give one example if
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you want when they go to desert planet
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and they've got to go and find a shake
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of error he says I know a guy who can
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tell me where he is blue and you thought
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our God you know a guy who knows a guy
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dove you know we don't need to know a
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guy to know a guy but if he hadn't and
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they just landed on the planet and going
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to shake the various house we would have
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all been saying oh sure you're very this
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big hidden guy but anyone can just turn
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►
up on the planet and walk straight to
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his front door that's ridiculous that's
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completely implausible so like little
◼
►
things like that that seem like
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►
unnecessary complications i think you
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have got to drop a little bit of Indian
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otherwise we'd be complaining the other
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way and I had a lot of attention to that
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stuff and I didn't think it made things
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overly complicated because i want to
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just totally agree with you that the
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►
movie was in a no-win situation with
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that kind of stuff and yeah that if they
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hadn't added in a bunch of those details
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they would be potholes
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I think it's the same thing like with
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putting the labels for the places that
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they're going to in the movie
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yeah I as we discuss the time I think
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they had to leaving those out would have
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►
made things more complicated but i think
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my problem is a bit more fundamental
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that it's like the structure of the
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►
movie has put you in this no-win
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situation that's more how I feel about
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it is like the whole thing was slightly
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►
disorganized and kind of a mess but i'm
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very interested to hear that you liked
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it more the second time and I feel happy
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for you that you liked more the second
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►
time and I liked the first time as I
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said I thought it was a good film even
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►
not as good as some others and many
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►
criticisms that were made by both uni I
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►
standby but some of them i think i gave
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►
you be over an easy ride on me because
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I've seen it once and there's no point
◼
►
bickering over everything but I do feel
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►
like if we did that review again I'd
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►
probably going to be harder against
◼
►
interesting anyway we've done overview
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►
you know we've played their game we know
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►
those who can't replay the superbowl so
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►
the review stance but you want to talk
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►
about styles you've been mulling over
◼
►
style as well you've been in the
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►
mountains meditating the meaning of life
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►
well this is an interesting thing
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►
these two interesting things that i have
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►
noticed one of which is the name for the
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new Star Wars movie has been recently
◼
►
announced yes what is the name braiding
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it is the last Jedi what do you think of
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►
that name disappointing is my first
◼
►
impression like it's the first time I've
◼
►
been asked to comment on and because i
◼
►
don't have many Star Wars fans around me
◼
►
in my day-to-day movements
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►
it sounds like it should be the end of a
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►
trilogy hmm it doesn't sound like the
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►
middle it's okay it's not as bad as some
◼
►
others maybe it's not even disappointing
◼
►
it just is what it is
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►
it just sounds a bit final mhm and it
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►
seems weird to be using a name of such
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finality on this series of films that
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blatantly is now going to become endless
◼
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for the rest of our lives until we die
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I think and beyond there is quite fair
◼
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ok i am willing to bet that Disney will
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►
be making Star Wars movies long after
◼
►
you and I are dead just like to support
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you in any way that things are going to
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►
happen in star wars that you never know
◼
►
about well this is the reason I brought
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►
up as I saw some headlines about all the
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title for the next star wars movie has
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been released and the thing that I
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►
noticed was not any particular thoughts
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►
about the title but i noticed my own
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►
internal emotional barometer towards
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this news and I suddenly had a feeling
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►
of kind of like dread at the rest of my
◼
►
life they're always being news about the
◼
►
next star wars that this is just going
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►
yeah and the feeling that I had was it's
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►
a bit like election cycles in the US
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►
where it feels like you get like this
◼
►
very brief break and then it's like
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we've got a hundred days and we're gonna
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►
start talking about the midterm
◼
►
elections right and you know you have a
◼
►
little bit of time never gonna start
◼
►
talking about the next general and I
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►
thought oh no is between christmas and
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►
mid-january the only time for the rest
◼
►
of our lives will be free of Star Wars
◼
►
news i think that might be the case but
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►
it's always going to be like mid to late
◼
►
January we're going to start hyping up
◼
►
try being a football fan in England man
◼
►
the offseason last 20 minutes
◼
►
oh yeah I play the last game of the
◼
►
season and you're like wow well that was
◼
►
a rollercoaster ride and then the new
◼
►
seems to be starting minutes like it's
◼
►
like crazy I guess this happens with
◼
►
everything it's just like the rumors
◼
►
about the next iphone start before the
◼
►
current one is even out you know that
◼
►
everything has these same cycles yeah
◼
►
but I just had this feeling of suddenly
◼
►
realizing this is going to occur forever
◼
►
with Star Wars so what do you think if
◼
►
the touch of the last Jedi then
◼
►
aside from that feeling you had yeah i
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►
just thought it was kind of a strange
◼
►
title i agree with you with something
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►
about it feels a little bit off but I
◼
►
also recognize that I am much less
◼
►
emotionally invested in the future of
◼
►
Star Wars and I feel relieved at that
◼
►
the other thing that I've just been
◼
►
thinking about which I have found
◼
►
interesting is when I guess two years
◼
►
ago now you and I did the first Star
◼
►
Wars Christmas special where we talked
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►
about the force awakens and we both
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mhm i have been really aware that i
◼
►
liked that movie I saw a bunch of times
◼
►
in the theater and then later in the
◼
►
year i saw it was available for pre-sale
◼
►
and itunes I was like boom sold
◼
►
immediately like I never buy presale
◼
►
stuff I always hate that but I'm not
◼
►
buying it immediately right so I'll be
◼
►
able to watch it it's interesting i have
◼
►
no desire to watch again
◼
►
yeah ok but so this is what happened
◼
►
right it's like i pre-ordered it and I
◼
►
have never touched it and I only just
◼
►
realized this recently that it is never
◼
►
crossed my mind to even watch that film
◼
►
another time i feel like i have no draw
◼
►
to watch that movie again like I'm very
◼
►
interested to hear you say the same
◼
►
thing why do you think that is because
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►
you didn't imprint with like you
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►
imprinted with the Star Wars films as a
◼
►
mnu imprint with fewer films and out hmm
◼
►
so you liked it but you haven't liked
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►
bonded with a attending level I think
◼
►
this is again like the age-old question
◼
►
of our star wars movies great movies or
◼
►
did we imprint upon them as children
◼
►
they're both it is a bit of both but
◼
►
I've just been really aware of that
◼
►
sensation and I feel no no need to
◼
►
rewatch the force awakens and also being
◼
►
much more aware in retrospect
◼
►
that the force awakens is this
◼
►
phenomenon in Hollywood movie making
◼
►
called the soft reboot
◼
►
hmm i feel like i wasn't aware of this
◼
►
so much when watching the movie and i
◼
►
think i would be more painfully aware of
◼
►
of it on a rewatch that there are a
◼
►
whole bunch of movies that are not just
◼
►
being remade by Hollywood but are being
◼
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done as these like kind of Kwazii
◼
►
sequels but that also start the whole
◼
►
story over again I can't totally agree
◼
►
with that about force awakens yeah I
◼
►
don't think it's a perfect soft reboot
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►
it feels like a soft soft reboot know
◼
►
it's like a shot in the arm for a glass
◼
►
of water in the face to the series like
◼
►
wake up wake up we've got to get our act
◼
►
what are you doing or it's like a big
◼
►
halftime talk about the coach saying
◼
►
you've just played terribly come on
◼
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let's get out there and have a great
◼
►
second half but it's not a reboot
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because like the story is a continuation
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and like they're constantly referring to
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what happened before and it's got the
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same people in a same characters are in
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a you know Skywalker still and everyone
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knows what he did before the legend of
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I know what you're saying you're not
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being crazy but if you're going to call
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that a rainbow it's the softest of
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softest versions of it i think it is
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it's very soft soft reboot out because
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even though there are new characters
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they're all explained in New and Luke is
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just in the ob one role where all of the
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characters are the same thing again we
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have new Vader there's new young Luke we
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have new Han Solo it does feel very much
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I just wonder if that will also not age
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the movie well going forward in the
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future but it's just a thing that I'm
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aware of and i found interesting that I
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was wrong that future me would really be
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interested in watching this movie again
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and it turns out that is not the case
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yeah I could've told you that I could
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have saved a few bucks there
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well when i go to pre-order road 1 i'll
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if you put Road one and force awakens in
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front of me right now and said you have
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to watch one of those 2i choose red one
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at the moment that's astounding to me I
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can't believe that and I've seen that
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more recently I've seen it twice since i
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saw force awakens road one was more
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grown-up road when was an adults movie
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and I'm a grown-up now
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oh I just don't think force awakens is
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probably better you know I think if you
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were like weighing and measuring
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everything and you had to do a big
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analysis I would still say force awakens
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is better than rogue one or rogue one
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felt more like my movie at my time of
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life and my interests and it's got a lot
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more weaknesses than force awakens but
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it just felt like it was talking on my
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level who a bit more hard as nails
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moving for a hard-as-nails man maybe
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maybe that's it i don't know maybe five
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years when we can really put them
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side-by-side and by then there will be
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another five-star was maybe it's what we
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have here a breeze papercut you asked
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did I had it for it I'm not sure I quite
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as for it i have many paper cuts you
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know I always have many paper cuts and i
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have one it doesn't make me angry so I
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don't want the people who i'm about to
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criticize to feel like I'm angry at them
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but it does kind of get my goat little
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bit em so I did something a couple of
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weeks ago been playing around with my
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email list and one of the things i have
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decided to do is occasionally send like
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treats to people on my email list to
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like thank them for putting up with my
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haha you're sending them emails banking
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them to for putting up with your email
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ok got it right well now wasn't close it
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was a bit more subtle than that but
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feels like why I'm not subscribe to your
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yeah thank you go sign up to Brady's
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yeah right yeah you've sold so well now
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so what I did was and I didn't just send
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an email just for this purpose it was
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just a PS on the end of a normal email
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little i said if you send me your
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address i put everyone who sends me
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their address in like a lottery and a
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hundred of them i sent postcards that
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personal postcards and our signs and I
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got nice stamps made for them it was all
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a bit of fun was like like
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look like a reward but randomly chosen
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who nice thing to do and I get all these
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addresses and then I used a random
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number generator to choose a hundred of
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them and these are the addresses for
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people who i was writing postcards to
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Lou and because people were sending
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their address to me an email and not
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using some kind of form or proform or
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commerce site they just had to write
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their address and how they choose to
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and this is when I realized something
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everybody in the world when they're
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writing their address to may imagine
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most of them now and probably in england
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right there address and include their
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country except Americans I reckon by
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ratio of 602 three Americans right there
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address and never put united states USA
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at the end of it I think they just
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assume it's a given that you're from
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America so when I was like pasting and
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making all these forms to send because
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it was mostly American so I was sending
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these things to always had to write
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►
united states USA and that sort of thing
◼
►
because Americans never write their
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country everyone else does no matter
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where you from our Sweden Italy all over
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the world Israel Australia even most of
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the UK people did and they know that i'm
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in the UK Americans never write their
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country and their address and i think
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►
it's like you know tonight maybe it's a
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►
little bit arrogant to do i say i think
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►
the two-letter state abbreviation is all
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►
yeah obviously that's what they think
◼
►
yeah you see mo and address and
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►
obviously you know where that is
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►
yeah you know where that's going America
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►
that's where it's going
◼
►
America and tell me where I you should
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►
know where i am and i began to frustrate
◼
►
me BR another American not putting their
◼
►
country on their address surprise price
◼
►
so many of these amero centric
◼
►
complaints there obviously just a side
◼
►
effect of for most Americans for
◼
►
ninety-nine percent of everything they
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►
it's all economically within the borders
◼
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of the united states like how many times
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►
is an American ever have to send a
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►
letter anywhere else in the world
◼
►
almost never mm like unless you're
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►
sending it to Santa Claus you know you
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►
send it out of the country and even then
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►
you know some Alaskans will try to tell
◼
►
you that you know you should be setting
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►
what do you mean the North poznan
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►
America I can't remember off the top of
◼
►
my head like the reasoning for why
◼
►
centers in Alaska it seems a bit dubious
◼
►
right but there's some reason why I mean
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►
you know I understand that that's a
◼
►
papercut of yours but i think this is
◼
►
what's going to happen when you have
◼
►
some gigantic economic bloc that
◼
►
supplies for itself all of the needs
◼
►
that had these people like a hello
◼
►
Internet listeners most of them i don't
◼
►
know maybe they're not maybe lots of
◼
►
them were subscribe for videos and don't
◼
►
know that I'm British
◼
►
well Australian in Britain they're all
◼
►
objectivity fan I don't know what's
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►
going on everything it should matter
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►
I think you should just put your country
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►
they're like unless you know for a fact
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►
that the persons in the same country as
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you the thing is i am thinking back to
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►
when I was a little boy in school and
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►
i'm pretty sure it never even came up
◼
►
about how to address international
◼
►
letters like I remember doing the how do
◼
►
you write a letter to somebody in
◼
►
Arkansas lesson but the there was never
◼
►
any reason to put United States on the
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►
bottom i'm pretty sure I never came
◼
►
across the notion of putting the country
◼
►
name underneath until I was in the UK
◼
►
but we live in the world of a bay now
◼
►
and we're pretty globalized out well
◼
►
obviously we're not obviously we're not
◼
►
that globalize because people don't do
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►
it I'm a little surprised but not that
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►
mm you should know where America is a
◼
►
couple of times i was thinking where is
◼
►
this slide is this in America it must be
◼
►
because it wasn't that would have
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►
written the country with the side of the
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►
United States so great
◼
►
there's a quiz show in the UK which i'm
◼
►
sure you've never watched called
◼
►
mastermind you have you heard of this
◼
►
I don't think zone where I think they're
◼
►
usually four contestants students and
◼
►
they each take a turn sitting in like
◼
►
the hots eight and under the spotlight
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►
and there are two rounds
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►
they're asked a series of questions on a
◼
►
specialist subject of their choosing
◼
►
oh and then they're asked a bunch of
◼
►
questions or general knowledge and you
◼
►
two scores are added together and
◼
►
whoever does the best wins and you'll
◼
►
see someone ok here's John Smith from
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►
somerset and his specialist
◼
►
subject is fighter planes of world war
◼
►
two and the quiz makers will have come
◼
►
up with a whole bunch of questions on
◼
►
this special subject and usually you
◼
►
you're just kind of flabbergasted and
◼
►
you might get one or two if you're lucky
◼
►
who and it's kind of weird that people
◼
►
can know so much about a subject and
◼
►
then that the quizmaster will say after
◼
►
so tell us why you're into world war two
◼
►
planes or whatever and I have a little
◼
►
chat and then I'll come back later and
◼
►
do their general knowledge section but
◼
►
it's always a really good fun thing to
◼
►
think to yourself when you're watching
◼
►
master mind if I was on mastermind what
◼
►
would my special subject bay what
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►
something I know a lot about and I'd be
◼
►
really happy to be quizzed about
◼
►
in-depth black at a deep level now I
◼
►
always thought that my special subject
◼
►
would be the Apollo moon landing
◼
►
oh yes of course and anyway
◼
►
amazingly a couple of years ago I was
◼
►
watching mastermind and some guy came on
◼
►
and he chose that sa special subject so
◼
►
this was like my moment to put myself to
◼
►
the test it was no longer hypothetical
◼
►
for me I could do it and see how good I
◼
►
and I'm not ashamed to say I did pretty
◼
►
well I think maybe I got one wrong out
◼
►
of like about 20-25 questions
◼
►
oh so I was like yet I know my stuff i
◼
►
know my stuff I felt pretty good so I
◼
►
always thought that would be my ultimate
◼
►
subject I was watching mastermind the
◼
►
other day and admittedly it was a
◼
►
celebrity version where the questions
◼
►
are a little bit easier when they do
◼
►
celebrity mastermind anyway this cricket
◼
►
player came on and he chose as his
◼
►
specialist subject the original three
◼
►
hm and they asked him all these
◼
►
questions and i know i think that is my
◼
►
specialist mastermind subject because
◼
►
the first four words of the question
◼
►
would come out and i would give this
◼
►
really obscure answer and my wife who
◼
►
was sitting in the room at the time
◼
►
looked at me half impressed and in or
◼
►
and half ashamed of what nerd husband
◼
►
exactly have horrified that you know all
◼
►
yeah we all know that feeling but I tell
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►
you what so I know if I was a mastermind
◼
►
they would be my two options because
◼
►
they seem to be two things I know quite
◼
►
a lot about not cricket cricket would be
◼
►
one of my guesses for you
◼
►
cricket maybe but cricket can be quite
◼
►
nobody the broader subject are the
◼
►
easier the questions funnily enough but
◼
►
how specific could you get could you be
◼
►
like my specialist subject is jeff john
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►
could you do well I think the more
◼
►
specialized you get the more they throw
◼
►
it incredibly hard questions at you
◼
►
that's my experience of watching
◼
►
hmm is that the more you zoom down the
◼
►
more obscure they get on you should be
◼
►
like my specialist subject is general
◼
►
well yeah but it did get me and I'm
◼
►
getting to my point here after it's not
◼
►
just an excuse to tell you how much I
◼
►
know about moon landings star wars are
◼
►
we sure they go well we can stop me
◼
►
everyone but the thing I wanted to know
◼
►
was if cgpgrey was on mastermind what
◼
►
would his specialist subject bay if you
◼
►
had to go on this quiz show and be
◼
►
quizzed in front of a national audience
◼
►
in-depth what's the subject you would
◼
►
choose one that you think when the
◼
►
researchers pulled their questions
◼
►
together you'd hold your own I gotta go
◼
►
with current events and pop-culture I
◼
►
would be my special subjects that sports
◼
►
ball between the 1980 and 2000 will
◼
►
crush that I would absolutely crushed
◼
►
that besides that have been this is
◼
►
I've got a theory i put 12 that I
◼
►
thought you'd say okay you guess first
◼
►
year and we'll talk about that
◼
►
my guess is that you're gonna choose
◼
►
lord of the rings that is not an
◼
►
unreasonable gasps yeah but I think it'd
◼
►
be pretty terrible at that ok for anyone
◼
►
who was really pulling out a lord of the
◼
►
rings quiz I don't go crazy hard but you
◼
►
have a lot of the ring is an unusually
◼
►
deep well to pull from wrap that has a
◼
►
large number of names and i am really
◼
►
yeah yeah especially those names are
◼
►
also similar to each other
◼
►
exactly yeah that's not a bad guess from
◼
►
your perspective but ok here's the thing
◼
►
i always think that it is important to
◼
►
understand and know yourself and one of
◼
►
the lessons that I learned about myself
◼
►
a long time ago is that i am not a
◼
►
specialist in anything I kind of want to
◼
►
be the person who knows a ton about the
◼
►
or I want to be the person who has a ton
◼
►
of Lord of the Rings knowledge but I
◼
►
have much more like a serial specialists
◼
►
like I will for a narrow period of time
◼
►
get incredibly interested in the thing
◼
►
and read up on everything that I can
◼
►
possibly read about it and then suddenly
◼
►
one day I will wake up and I will just
◼
►
have no more interest in that thing
◼
►
it's just that phase is over and so
◼
►
there's a ton of stuff that I have done
◼
►
this with but i really don't have a
◼
►
single topic over a long period of time
◼
►
that i can say oh you know I really love
◼
►
and know everything about X I kind of
◼
►
accept that as part of my personality is
◼
►
part of the reason why I turned down
◼
►
doing it like a PhD program a long time
◼
►
ago because the whole idea of having to
◼
►
focus on one specialist topic for a long
◼
►
period of time I just came to the
◼
►
realization and just face it straight on
◼
►
like I can't be that person there's no
◼
►
way i can actually do that so I
◼
►
genuinely don't think I have any
◼
►
meaningful specialist area that I could
◼
►
offer up on a game show like that
◼
►
well gray that's a fascinating insight
◼
►
into you as a person as always and I
◼
►
commend you for entering into the spirit
◼
►
of the question but obviously your
◼
►
answer is completely unacceptable to me
◼
►
and I want to choose a subject just for
◼
►
the sake of it with that huge
◼
►
qualification attached to it i would
◼
►
want to go on a TV show be tested on
◼
►
Apollo or Star Wars the nerves of the
◼
►
lights and the cameras i'm sure i'd
◼
►
check and make a complete fool of myself
◼
►
what if you had to do it like you had to
◼
►
do it to save your family's life like I
◼
►
appreciate that theoretical question I
◼
►
mm I'm trying to be strategic about this
◼
►
but I I get what you're saying about you
◼
►
not being someone who you know it's like
◼
►
I'm not a person who has hobbies i think
◼
►
i can ever maintain interest like that
◼
►
for any length of time there are very
◼
►
very few interests in anything that last
◼
►
a very long time with me
◼
►
yeah maybe voting systems but even then
◼
►
I feel like it'd be trivial to design
◼
►
specialist questions that i couldn't get
◼
►
something like that i mean the quiz
◼
►
buses aren't trying to embarrass you but
◼
►
you're right that might be a hard one
◼
►
because I probably feel quite limited in
◼
►
what I can ask it doesn't like this is
◼
►
why I like I'm trying to be somewhat
◼
►
strategic about this is not like lord of
◼
►
the rings where the well is infinite
◼
►
yeah with voting systems it's a much
◼
►
yeah and i think i could probably do
◼
►
okay with something like that
◼
►
interesting but even that I feel
◼
►
incredibly tentative with that as you
◼
►
know an answer so well you name
◼
►
something so thank you for giving me one
◼
►
if you gotta let me slide with that one
◼
►
brain i'll let you slide with that
◼
►
thank you i appreciate about can I just
◼
►
say one other thing that infuriates me
◼
►
about that show mastermind the way the
◼
►
show works is you answer the questions
◼
►
in the time that i always think it's
◼
►
unfair because it seems to me like
◼
►
people get an uneven number of questions
◼
►
like someone seems to get more questions
◼
►
in their time slot than someone else but
◼
►
that makers of the show always say
◼
►
that's not needed what kind of banana
◼
►
republic show is that they don't have a
◼
►
set number of questions and time there
◼
►
are no but the other thing that drives
◼
►
me crazy is that the way it works is if
◼
►
there's a tie the way they break the tie
◼
►
is the person who passed on the least
◼
►
questions because if you don't know
◼
►
announcer you can just say pass and then
◼
►
at the end they told the answers to all
◼
►
the ones you got wrong who I don't know
◼
►
why anyone ever says pass because if you
◼
►
don't know the answer you should just
◼
►
have like a thing in the back of your
◼
►
head that I'm going to say John Smith
◼
►
blue so at least you'll have no passes
◼
►
people say in passing that show drives
◼
►
me crazy because there's no strategic
◼
►
I mean if you get one wrong the
◼
►
quizmaster then tells you the correct
◼
►
answer so that might take up one or two
◼
►
seconds of your time but you're not
◼
►
getting dark point it feels like you
◼
►
should just burn through as many
◼
►
questions as possible
◼
►
yeah that's just me getting something
◼
►
off my chest drives my wife crazy
◼
►
because I complained about every time i
◼
►
watch the show but I complain more about
◼
►
the uneven number of questions to be
◼
►
honest but it seems an incredibly unfair
◼
►
but also seems like the stakes can't
◼
►
possibly be high here if nobody's
◼
►
figured out the strategy when they're
◼
►
like who created the orcs and you go
◼
►
potato right and it just they are now
◼
►
sorry he's like keep moving keep moving
◼
►
right yeah is there no reward on the
◼
►
show is this just for funsies true that
◼
►
the reason to big prize it's not high
◼
►
stakes but anyway I take questions quite
◼
►
seriously sometimes I don't want to get
◼
►
too bogged down by all this
◼
►
you are very serious about the
◼
►
of games that is true that is true i am
◼
►
so serious we can essentially never play
◼
►
games we played games at Christmas way
◼
►
you know that didn't even count what we
◼
►
did was not even a game it was a
◼
►
conversation starter which is the only
◼
►
reason we were able to play we had a
◼
►
great not weed is fun we had a very good
◼
►
night over christmas but it seems like
◼
►
it's impossible to play settlers of
◼
►
catan with you you won't deal with it
◼
►
now probably not say if we were doing it
◼
►
for like a podcast I would because i
◼
►
have to pretend pretend to be a normal
◼
►
person is not totally losing his cool
◼
►
yeah something else just quickly there
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was new information to me and I feel
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silly for not knowing this I don't know
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if you know this but I'm often surprised
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by things in shops that have security
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tags on them to stop you shoplifting in
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particular underwear like when you shop
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for you wouldn't know this because you
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know shop for underwear in the shops but
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I'm already trying to spin up a
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theoretical scenario under which I'm
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shopping for clothing in a physical
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store expensive like you know like a
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thousand-pound leather jacket i can
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understand they're putting a security
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tag on so you can't just walk out of the
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shop but the thing I've always surprise
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is there is really really high security
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unlike underwear like boxes of Calvin
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Klein underwear or whatever like that
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you know the trendy brand is they're
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always so got security to the hilt like
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it's Fort Knox and I've got all these
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huge tags on them because they're
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obviously a very stolen item who maybe
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because people who shoplift want nice
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underwear and maybe because they're a
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good size to steal at night but it
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always baffles me a little bit but I've
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learned to accept it over the last 10 to
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15 years that it's a thing what I didn't
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realize was the other day because I
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don't eat steak very much i know
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everyone loves steak and thinks it's
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like the best thing in the world to a
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true but I think it's really overrated
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really the other day I decided to buy a
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stake in my local supermarket and I
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wanted to get a posh one because I'm
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plushies cushions so I want to get like
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you know that tasty choice special
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deluxe version of course it wasn't like
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a posh one from a butcher was still like
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a prepackaged when it was sealed in
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packaging and costs like 10 pounds or
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something about that and I had security
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tags all over at the checkout they had
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to take the security tags off and
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so that shoplifters couldn't leave with
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a case of steak instead of plastic this
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was new information to me i said to the
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woman is this like new
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why is this security on a piece of steak
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and she's like or I think they just get
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stolen a lot people steal them
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we had a whole conversation about I
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brought the underwear without food and
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she was like saying she thinks take is
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an easy thing to resell like you could
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go down to the pub and sell out that not
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so it's got a good resale value like a
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steak grain market out there
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yeah I don't understand how this could
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possibly be did you know this i mean do
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you ever bought steak do you have a shop
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for food i should be shot food shop for
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food now of course of her i'm not going
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to a supermarket and shopping for food
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now I haven't done that in years
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I can possibly avoid it right every once
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in awhile i will get sent on errands
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like a semi autonomous drone to just
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pick up items that have been
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photographed so i can visually identify
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them without having to think about it
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very much and bring them back
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I've never roaming up and down as
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supermarkets with the supermarket car
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looking at things wondering why the
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security tags on the steak
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this is not an activity that I would
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ever participate if I can possibly avoid
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yeah i'm gonna have the uber guy bring
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me some food or I'm going to have food
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delivered to my door I'm not going to go
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to the supermarket and deal with
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security on the steak sounds like a real
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it's the first time I've ever bought
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photos had security on it was new to me
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obviously moved up in the world are you
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sure that steak was done dollars are you
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sure you weren't buying much more
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yeah i didnae Donna wasteful braiding
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now I gave it to someone else to eat
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because I knew I wasn't gonna eat it did
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it took it down the pub made a tidy
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profit is like but here's the thing
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Brady I feel like I have to actually ask
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►
if you did resell it because I could
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totally see that happening
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I can I shelling is really you can come
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someone who would want resale stuff i
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don't understand why you do anything
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sometimes I've gotta draw here full of
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every iphone I've never ironed most
◼
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people and I sell their iphones when
◼
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I never sell stuff soon be filled with
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pixels that you on well now it was a bit
◼
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plasticky to be honest I wasn't very
◼
►
impressed by the feel of it
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m.phil shape i was disappointed I was up
◼
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for a tow but it felt cheap
◼
►
starting at brady I'm sorry to hear the
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security on your steak but i'm going to
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►
guess that as security technology gets
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cheaper going to be security and more
◼
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food supermarket seems going to be
◼
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security on ten-dollar bananas this
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episode of Hello internet has been
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brought to you in part by Harry's now
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we've been talking about these guys for
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a regular and happy harry's user it's
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not easy saying happy harry's user but i
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am one and I've said this before and
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disillusioned by the shaving industry in
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particular some of the pricing practices
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now we're not naming names here of
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course but I can't think of one company
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in particular that I think they would
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suggest has been a little bit
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well naughty in its treatment of us the
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shaving public so Harry's was born in
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these guys took it so seriously they
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even bought a shaving blade factory in
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Germany I believe that serious business
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that would be like gray and I buying a
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record producing factory when we made
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our vinyl edition we didn't do that by
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the way but that's kind of the analogy
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i'm using here but back to shaving x
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being less greedy with profits and by
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selling over the Internet
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Harry's is getting great blades to
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usually find in drugstores the way it
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fans of the show if you go to Harry's
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that's a lot of stuff for free it's well
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a really good website and it gives you a
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really good feel for what these guys and
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what the company's about that address
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Harry's dot-com and the offer code
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eh I and half thanks to them for
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supporting the show you know how I said
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there were 36 things on my list
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don't trust to talk about a lot of them
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no I had a lot sport on my mind lately
◼
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and I'm just got no one to talk sport
◼
►
with you know what Brady that is correct
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►
you do have no one to talk to for what
◼
►
it really clear and put that card on the
◼
►
table right now which is that you really
◼
►
don't have anyone to dog sport where I'm
◼
►
calling it now grey it's an officially
◼
►
official sports bowl corner it's new
◼
►
it's a new kona I never feel more like
◼
►
you're tolerant wife then when you're
◼
►
talking to me about sports
◼
►
I always feel like i am being the best
◼
►
of friends that I possibly can be
◼
►
I don't know if this can be a regular
◼
►
thing I don't know if I can handle this
◼
►
do you know the being a nice friend and
◼
►
tolerance is all undone the minute you
◼
►
say you're doing it i know but i feel
◼
►
like i have sunk so many hours in my
◼
►
life into listening to you talk about
◼
►
I'll tell you what there are 4 items
◼
►
here are now let me just deal with two
◼
►
of them those bottom two can wait for
◼
►
another day because I bottom two are
◼
►
going to take me awhile but let me deal
◼
►
with those two top ones cause they'll be
◼
►
a bit quicker and they're also a little
◼
►
bit more up your alley and you don't
◼
►
actually have to understand either of
◼
►
these sports to appreciate the point i'm
◼
►
wanting to race is so bad at estimating
◼
►
what I'm interested in with this points
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►
no no I don't think you'll be interested
◼
►
as such but at least you don't have to
◼
►
talk about like the rules of a game or
◼
►
how the spores played with the rules of
◼
►
the game where the most interesting
◼
►
thing you just literally you're going to
◼
►
talk about people which I couldn't care
◼
►
about less but the abstract rules of how
◼
►
the game works that's the only thing I'm
◼
►
I've been listening Moneyball all day
◼
►
and every time they talk about the
◼
►
people in the sport of like I who cares
◼
►
i can't keep track of any of these
◼
►
people so they get back to the
◼
►
statistics like now I'm interested
◼
►
great do you know who and Demaryius now
◼
►
alright and mary is a Scottish
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►
tennis player and he has recently just
◼
►
become the number one tennis player in
◼
►
ok he's one of the last two olympics
◼
►
he's 12 Wimbledon titles and after many
◼
►
many many years of a lack of British
◼
►
success he has finally become a great
◼
►
British tennis player
◼
►
ok this is cause much happiness in the
◼
►
UK it's funny he was always considered
◼
►
very Scottish until he started winning
◼
►
lots of stuff and then everyone in
◼
►
England started referring to him more
◼
►
often as British mhm the kind of got
◼
►
adopted as a lot more British once he
◼
►
anyway that's by-the-by very good tennis
◼
►
player and he's at the height of his
◼
►
game he's the world number one at the
◼
►
moment right in the New Year's Honours
◼
►
he was knighted i actually have issues
◼
►
with people being knighted during their
◼
►
sports korea i think this should happen
◼
►
afterwards but because the government
◼
►
likes to use knighthoods as an excuse to
◼
►
increase their popularity they have
◼
►
knighted this guy while he's still
◼
►
playing Lou alright i have no control
◼
►
over that I don't I obviously i don't
◼
►
think they should be doing it now but
◼
►
I've done the two problems I have with
◼
►
it is one I think it sounds silly
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►
calling someone so Andy married when his
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►
name is Andrew but he still called sir
◼
►
Andy Mary Lou and the other thing that
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really annoys me is because of weird
◼
►
protocol or whatever reasons all of the
◼
►
media outlets in the UK especially the
◼
►
baby say now feel like they have to call
◼
►
him so Andy marry at every reference so
◼
►
you'll be listening to like the sports
◼
►
update on the radio or the TV to find
◼
►
out the latest results and they'll be
◼
►
saying oh and so Andy Mary bait jeff
◼
►
smith in a game of tennis sir Andy mary
◼
►
has pulled his hamstring sir Andy Mary
◼
►
will be playing in the US open tomorrow
◼
►
and I think it sounds silly when you're
◼
►
just running through sports results in a
◼
►
guy who was just called Mary or Andy
◼
►
marry a week ago is now being called sir
◼
►
Andy Mary and every reference
◼
►
I mean isn't that the whole point of the
◼
►
name is that everybody has to do this
◼
►
little acknowledgement thing
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►
no I don't think that's the point of it
◼
►
and a lot of people don't like it he has
◼
►
said like in a column just you know to
◼
►
call me Andy he doesn't want to be like
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►
Sandy Mary all the time
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►
mmm i mean i know lots of people who
◼
►
were knighted who mr. fancy-pants pretty
◼
►
awful Brady's friends ignited some of my
◼
►
best friends are nights anyway I mean
◼
►
like a i'm not quite sure what you're
◼
►
saying here but if the dude has written
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►
some article saying just call him Andy
◼
►
then I think that's that supersedes
◼
►
things like if someone wants to be
◼
►
called Andy instead of Andrew it's like
◼
►
you go along with that and if he's been
◼
►
knighted and he says in when you doing
◼
►
sports rundowns you don't have to call
◼
►
Thank great ok now we're done with this
◼
►
we don't have to actually call him Sir
◼
►
I think they should just drop it then if
◼
►
he's ok with dropping it
◼
►
yeah what could be the possible
◼
►
objection well it's pop there's probably
◼
►
some protocol written in like some beast
◼
►
I'll guide where anyone who was knighted
◼
►
has to be referred to as Sarah in the
◼
►
first reference and they're unwilling to
◼
►
let it go something my question it
◼
►
doesn't sound like a problem with Andy
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►
doesn't sound like a problem with the
◼
►
knighthood system sounds like it's a
◼
►
problem with the BBC mara I wasn't a
◼
►
portion blame I was just saying that no
◼
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it's me then I think the BBC needs to
◼
►
change that style guy that we are
◼
►
referring to a surprising amount of time
◼
►
it's all right now let me give you my
◼
►
other conundrum which I want you to
◼
►
solve for me saying yourself to andy
◼
►
ok you have a conundrum that you want me
◼
►
to solve this is the Wayne Rooney
◼
►
problem you know Wayne Rooney is now I
◼
►
don't know when Ramires he's a football
◼
►
he's a soccer player for Manchester
◼
►
United ok for many many years the record
◼
►
number of goals scored by a Manchester
◼
►
United player was by a guy called Bobby
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►
Charlton who you won't have heard of
◼
►
butts big deal in England is called 249
◼
►
girls live in manchester united and
◼
►
Wayne Rooney has been closing in on this
◼
►
record and what happened was about two
◼
►
weeks ago he finally scored the goal to
◼
►
equal the record and we had all the was
◼
►
loud as a hero is on all over the
◼
►
newspapers and their specials on TV and
◼
►
it was isn't it brilliant is equal this
◼
►
record at last and then I feel like
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►
we're kind of painted into a corner
◼
►
because is a bigger deal to equal the
◼
►
record or break the record because two
◼
►
weeks later he scored another go and he
◼
►
became the highest score out on his own
◼
►
on 250 then he was in all the newspapers
◼
►
and we had all these TV specials and we
◼
►
had all these tributes again and he was
◼
►
lauded as it's great here I folk
◼
►
breaking the record when records were
◼
►
broken when should we be celebrating
◼
►
when the record is equaled or when the
◼
►
record was surpassed well obviously it's
◼
►
when the record is surpassed equaling
◼
►
the record who cares because the person
◼
►
that's way more impressive right right
◼
►
yeah like doing something first and most
◼
►
very impressive doing the same thing
◼
►
somebody else did before you the same
◼
►
amount not impressive at all so it's
◼
►
obviously after but again I think this
◼
►
is actually the BBC's problem again
◼
►
because if they want to just talk about
◼
►
because they have to fill the airwaves
◼
►
with stuff to talk about so you how can
◼
►
we turn one news story into two we can
◼
►
talk about it twice that's how it made
◼
►
them look silly and became a little bit
◼
►
of water on Mars because it was like
◼
►
didn't we celebrate this two weeks ago
◼
►
wasn't he the great hero two weeks ago
◼
►
why is this happening again so my
◼
►
version of this that come across every
◼
►
once awhile in the non sports world
◼
►
which i always find confusing is news
◼
►
stories that talk about it
◼
►
the contents of a speech that have not
◼
►
yeah something about those things always
◼
►
feel like they fell out of a parallel
◼
►
in a speech that will happen later today
◼
►
the Prime Minister will lay out a policy
◼
►
that has these three points like wait
◼
►
what always happens with budgets as well
◼
►
in the budget to be released tomorrow
◼
►
there will be tax cuts yeah and the
◼
►
other time always happens on christmas
◼
►
day when we were told what the queen or
◼
►
the archbishop is going to say in their
◼
►
message to the world of peace later
◼
►
today the Queen would deliver addressing
◼
►
aging all Britons to hold hands and like
◼
►
whoa hang on I haven't said it yet
◼
►
yeah I find that so strange i remember
◼
►
years ago there was an example of a
◼
►
newsreader in America literally reading
◼
►
a speech that the president was going to
◼
►
give before the speech was given
◼
►
it feels so wrong I feel like if I was
◼
►
president now I'm not giving you a copy
◼
►
of my speech out of time you'll hear it
◼
►
when I give it I'm with you there
◼
►
I'm with you there I mean I guess the
◼
►
reason they probably do is because this
◼
►
is something that everybody really
◼
►
totally hate that went a little
◼
►
opportunity to be able to change the
◼
►
last second which is kind of what I
◼
►
presume is the reason that they do it
◼
►
out it's about hitting the peak news
◼
►
cycles and stuff isn't you think that's
◼
►
what it and it's about the same thing
◼
►
that happened with the window you go
◼
►
it's about having two parts of the
◼
►
cherry you get a new cycle the day
◼
►
before and a new cycle when they've got
◼
►
the footage of you actually saying it
◼
►
when you get twice the coverage i guess
◼
►
in my mind I was always thinking of it
◼
►
like when you put a video up on patron
◼
►
just for the patron so they could see a
◼
►
little give you a chance that you really
◼
►
have something up like it's not really
◼
►
probably take a temperature
◼
►
yeah exactly like how should I didn't
◼
►
realize that mistake with their let me
◼
►
fix this or like when cgpgrey releases a
◼
►
script a few days before a video asking
◼
►
for people to check his grandma the
◼
►
grammar nazi sneak peek that's exactly
◼
►
right like oh hey look at all these
◼
►
words in my video I hope they're all
◼
►
there no that's what I always thought it
◼
►
was but i think you're right yeah it's
◼
►
the exact same thing they want to be
◼
►
talked about twice but going back to
◼
►
wayne rooney you would have bit of a
◼
►
conundrum because the day he scores go
◼
►
249 and he's equal this famous record
◼
►
you can't say nothing about it because
◼
►
it's a bit of an elephant in the room
◼
►
sure you can of course you can see
◼
►
nothing about it why do you have to say
◼
►
something about it like a your i just i
◼
►
live in a world of sports hype wheres
◼
►
the idea of saying nothing is completely
◼
►
foreign to me you're quite right that
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sorry Wayne Rooney I don't really care
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about your score until it's bigger and
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you saw it around for me that's how i'd
◼
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rather sports news network
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that's all for sports bar corner until
◼
►
next time we do with a few media subject
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sauna gonna look forward to it Brady i
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okay Brady many months ago now i think
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you got me a little present I take me
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present present that i have with me
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listeners can hear that there's a fully
◼
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work for you hello hear the dead trees
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►
here the dead trays is fully work if I'm
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using the actual thing I don't know
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►
whatever i'm flipping the pages of a
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this is what you got me a book called
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some for details from the after lives by
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David equal in and I think it's actually
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►
came up when we were doing the vote
◼
►
counting you mention this book as an
◼
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interesting book to read it's made up of
◼
►
very large number of very short stories
◼
►
about what might happen to you in the
◼
►
afterlife like I need two or three pages
◼
►
h1 yeah they're very very short and you
◼
►
sold it to me on like oh I might be
◼
►
interested in this book as a nice little
◼
►
book that you could put by your bedside
◼
►
just read a couple of pages and I
◼
►
accepted graciously and it sat next to
◼
►
untouched by human hands can I just
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clarify before you tell me what you did
◼
►
well you still got us so you haven't
◼
►
burned it's not like a religious book
◼
►
it's not about what really happens in
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the afterlife just in case people think
◼
►
it's about yeah it's like a fictional
◼
►
book writer some fun speculations it's
◼
►
not thought experiments it's just things
◼
►
thing about life more than death
◼
►
actually but yeah it's not like you know
◼
►
this is what will happen in heaven or
◼
►
stuff it's not touch financial people
◼
►
it's fiction right that's yeah that's
◼
►
excellent clarification and I was
◼
►
interested in the book because you gave
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►
me an interesting description of it you
◼
►
told me something that the basic
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►
premises and so I i accepted the gift
◼
►
graciously and then I proceeded not to
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►
touch it forever and sort of half forgot
◼
►
about it even though it was literally
◼
►
the only thing on the dress that was
◼
►
mine it was more of a problem
◼
►
yeah exactly well one of the reasons i
◼
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gave it to you besides thinking that you
◼
►
would like the contents and I wanted to
◼
►
talk to you about the contents of the
◼
►
book I mean I know you don't like paper
◼
►
books and but i actually thought you
◼
►
would want this book as an object it's
◼
►
actually quite an attractive book it's
◼
►
small and thin as sort of black and I
◼
►
thought if there was ever a book you're
◼
►
going to like the look of and accept
◼
►
into your object lighthouse it might be
◼
►
this book i love that this is something
◼
►
that crosses your mind you're looking at
◼
►
work and trying to think
◼
►
will this be accepted into the great
◼
►
household it's quite modest you know
◼
►
it's not gaudy or colorful and not big
◼
►
and fat it looks cool it looks like
◼
►
something you would carry around with
◼
►
you and I mean it looks like a kindle
◼
►
and actually is not much bigger than a
◼
►
kindle itself yes that is correct
◼
►
yeah but so went untouched for a long
◼
►
time and then finally last night for
◼
►
some reason I felt motivated to give it
◼
►
a shot and I've read through perhaps the
◼
►
first twenty-five percent maybe a third
◼
►
of this book and I have some pop trading
◼
►
account white okay first of all we have
◼
►
to talk about the physical paper nests
◼
►
mhm because I've got my copy here too by
◼
►
there's someplace out there we go very
◼
►
nice I was trying to think it has been
◼
►
maybe five years since i have read a
◼
►
physical book made of paper
◼
►
hmm it might possibly be longer than
◼
►
that but I'm pretty confident that it
◼
►
has been five years and i have to say
◼
►
when I decided like oh let me pick this
◼
►
up let me give this a try
◼
►
I was kinda thinking like this is gonna
◼
►
be a charming experience to read a book
◼
►
you know it's like going to ye olde
◼
►
town and you're like a lookout charming
◼
►
this yes but I have to say I find the
◼
►
experience of reading a paper book after
◼
►
years of reading digital books extremely
◼
►
subpar I did not like it at all
◼
►
I didn't find it charming in the least I
◼
►
didn't like the physicalness of the book
◼
►
and i found it super annoying this
◼
►
little book like we're trying to open up
◼
►
the pages and if the pages are all bent
◼
►
and so now like I have to try to break
◼
►
the spine of this book to make it all
◼
►
nice and even to look at like I'm
◼
►
breaking the physical spine of this
◼
►
thing but even when i do that the pages
◼
►
are still bent so the words are all
◼
►
getting wrapped around as dumb as it
◼
►
sounds like that the lighting is all
◼
►
I can't just put it down on the table
◼
►
and read it i have to have a hand on it
◼
►
all the time keeping the thing open
◼
►
I don't like paper books I don't like
◼
►
them at all i don't think it's charming
◼
►
I know people always like oh it's nice
◼
►
to read a paper book if you can but I'm
◼
►
coming down very hard on digital books
◼
►
it's so funny you should say that and I
◼
►
know this is almost playing too cliche
◼
►
here but I've actually been really
◼
►
disappointed lately with the low number
◼
►
of books have been consuming moon for
◼
►
the last sort of your talking I mean
◼
►
I've done a few audio books that I've
◼
►
enjoyed it but i haven't been using my
◼
►
kindle and it was beginning to irk me
◼
►
and we're at the shops a few days ago
◼
►
and my wife was feeling the same way she
◼
►
reads a lot more than me but she was
◼
►
like I'm not some books and we went into
◼
►
a bookstore and like filled our boots
◼
►
with paper books because we felt like
◼
►
that was the thing to do and i bought
◼
►
three or four books and came out with
◼
►
them and i've been reading one of them
◼
►
for the last three or four days and I
◼
►
feel like I've been reborn and it's like
◼
►
wonderful and I'm like deliberately
◼
►
carving out time to read another thing i
◼
►
know i'm gonna run a bath and read a
◼
►
book in the bath for the next hour
◼
►
because I'm enjoy and like I'm obsessed
◼
►
with the book and i'm reading at every
◼
►
opportunity and it's the paper that's
◼
►
really engaged me that's having as
◼
►
opposing a logical to engage me and I
◼
►
know it's we have a laugh because we're
◼
►
different stuff but I've had the exact
◼
►
opposite experience I've got back into
◼
►
paper books for the first time in ages
◼
►
and i'm absolutely loving it
◼
►
I totally understand that like I
◼
►
completely understand that feeling i do
◼
►
keep a book list of the books that i
◼
►
read and i don't think that audio books
◼
►
count as reading a book in the same way
◼
►
and i am really aware of the number of
◼
►
books that i have sat down and
◼
►
physically read as opposed to listen to
◼
►
is smaller than i would like it over the
◼
►
past years and this is something I've
◼
►
been working on since the summer to try
◼
►
to increase the number of books that i
◼
►
read there's a few things I've been
◼
►
doing towards that i can say like paper
◼
►
is not the answer but what I think paper
◼
►
does do is it it's the isolation of the
◼
►
thing you have a physical book this is
◼
►
the only thing in your hand it's not
◼
►
going to be batchu it's not going to
◼
►
distract me with something else
◼
►
it's not even that you're sitting there
◼
►
and you have the option of doing
◼
►
something else is that isolation and so
◼
►
I do think it is quite reasonable to get
◼
►
paper books if you want to try to read
◼
►
I'm glad that's working for you but I
◼
►
have to say I felt totally repulsed by
◼
►
the physicalness it's a guy that aside
◼
►
the information did communicate to your
◼
►
nonetheless sister i was able to read it
◼
►
that is entirely true but if you thought
◼
►
ok so you sold me on this book with two
◼
►
interesting stories that i do want to
◼
►
talk about but for the most part reading
◼
►
through this book i feel like i need to
◼
►
be high while I'm reading this book i
◼
►
think just sitting down and reading this
◼
►
book each of these 12 page little
◼
►
stories I wrote down my summary of the
◼
►
first seven or so that i read em and
◼
►
each of them here the summaries it's
◼
►
whoa dude what if we're like bacteria
◼
►
living on a giant creature that doesn't
◼
►
whoa dude what if we're just background
◼
►
characters in somebody else's dream
◼
►
yeah well dude what if Heaven is really
◼
►
boring slow dude what if our creators a
◼
►
really dumb i can you sold me on some
◼
►
great ideas but man I have never read
◼
►
anything that I feel like I need to be
◼
►
high and a sophomore in college
◼
►
and I will love this book if you're
◼
►
listening to my voice right now you are
◼
►
a sophomore in college and you are high
◼
►
you should get this book like body and
◼
►
immediately you will love it i mean that
◼
►
in a genuine way like I think the book
◼
►
can be fun but most of these little
◼
►
stories i found uninteresting anything
◼
►
sounds stupid by the way when you say
◼
►
word in front of like what was rode one
◼
►
like won't do what if an asteroid the
◼
►
death star was stolen by like a girl
◼
►
who's the daughter of the guy who
◼
►
designed the Death Star
◼
►
whoa like I can make anything that
◼
►
sounds stupid by talking like a stoner
◼
►
so I had no no yeah I totally understand
◼
►
right but I am conveying with the world
◼
►
the tone that it felt like some of these
◼
►
stories were written they're all
◼
►
supposed to blow your mind a little bit
◼
►
because the idea is H story makes you
◼
►
look at things in a different way and
◼
►
some of them i can't remember them it's
◼
►
a long way since i read but most of them
◼
►
I was like are you want to tell someone
◼
►
about that idea the book reminds me of
◼
►
like true when you're younger and you
◼
►
sit around thinking imagine this is an
◼
►
idea and you don't have to let me assure
◼
►
the idea much further and that's what
◼
►
this book is it's like imagine if the
◼
►
afterlife was like this but the thing
◼
►
about them is a lot of them make me look
◼
►
at my life differently you know it's not
◼
►
like life-changing or like getting
◼
►
things done or something like that yeah
◼
►
yeah I never thought about things that
◼
►
way and I don't know it didn't change my
◼
►
life I'd forgotten most of the stories
◼
►
but reading a couple of them again today
◼
►
I had the same feeling it excited me and
◼
►
it's very easy to get through because
◼
►
it's so sure it's like digestible it's
◼
►
like intellectual bubblegum I would say
◼
►
I think they're a little bit too short
◼
►
yeah because i do think that they can't
◼
►
quite follow entirely through on some of
◼
►
their interesting premises and that's
◼
►
what is it's a book of interesting
◼
►
yeah that is totally fair that's totally
◼
►
fair but that's so I'm like a third of
◼
►
the way through the book
◼
►
yep it's such a fast read because it
◼
►
only took me about a half an hour to get
◼
►
a third of the way through
◼
►
yeah it's not even like oh this one is
◼
►
an interesting i don't like it you know
◼
►
you're not like investing a whole bunch
◼
►
yeah of the ones i did read i did think
◼
►
that they were two that were interesting
◼
►
the first one which i think does
◼
►
hit that bullet point of making you
◼
►
think about your own life a little bit
◼
►
the first one is is actually the very
◼
►
first one in the book which is called
◼
►
some is the one that gave the book its
◼
►
and the premise of this one is that in
◼
►
the afterlife you live your whole life
◼
►
again but you are living all of the
◼
►
similar experiences in order so you
◼
►
spend 18 months waiting in line right
◼
►
two years staring out of bus window he
◼
►
spends a third of your life just asleep
◼
►
all at once all the pain as well all
◼
►
your pain is concentrating too like
◼
►
eight or nine hours of just incredible
◼
►
pain and breaking your arm and all that
◼
►
stuff but then after that there's no
◼
►
pain at all like everything is just
◼
►
concentrated together
◼
►
yeah but the personal one that I like
◼
►
the best I think related most hello
◼
►
Internet is three days calculating
◼
►
restaurant tips which would be a
◼
►
particular kind of help i like that as a
◼
►
premise because you see these lists of
◼
►
how much time do you spend in your life
◼
►
doing various activities but i think it
◼
►
hits home under this framing of what if
◼
►
you had to live your whole life again
◼
►
but you're living all of these moments
◼
►
all these similar moments together that
◼
►
makes it a much more visceral and
◼
►
interesting thing to think about what is
◼
►
your like look like you spent two days
◼
►
tying your shoelaces three days
◼
►
calculating restaurant tips that you
◼
►
said 51 days deciding what to wear
◼
►
nine days pretending you know what is
◼
►
being talked about two weeks counting
◼
►
money things like that
◼
►
yeah i like that i think it's an
◼
►
interesting way and like it just makes
◼
►
you think for a moment a little bit
◼
►
differently about how you are living
◼
►
your life it's interesting though
◼
►
because the end of the story
◼
►
I think sort of delicate on your page
◼
►
and a half long but then at the end it's
◼
►
sort of said something along the lines
◼
►
of this experience makes you really
◼
►
appreciate how your lives are broken up
◼
►
into pieces and shuffled around you
◼
►
don't have to do all these things
◼
►
together and the variety and the change
◼
►
but that's not what I took from the
◼
►
story I didn't take from the story and
◼
►
appreciation for that i took from a gosh
◼
►
you know am i spending that much time
◼
►
doing things that I shouldn't be doing
◼
►
if i'm spending eight days staring into
◼
►
I need to spend less time staring into
◼
►
refrigerators and that's known as a time
◼
►
but I'd hate to have to spend all the
◼
►
time I spend faffing around with
◼
►
designing websites or doing some
◼
►
animation and that was all concentrated
◼
►
into like you know two-and-a-half years
◼
►
of sitting there and animating text on
◼
►
videos I'd be like you know how can i
◼
►
really be spending that much of my life
◼
►
like when I come to the end of my going
◼
►
to be glad I spent nine years animated
◼
►
videos and I know it sounds like
◼
►
throwing your whole life into the
◼
►
outbreak well that's what this book does
◼
►
like to them like that and then you read
◼
►
the next one you forget the one that
◼
►
came before but like after story i put
◼
►
the book down and go whoa dude I got
◼
►
into my wife is something that's like
◼
►
our man imagine this like and it's like
◼
►
I'm gonna read another one
◼
►
I think it's really good i really like
◼
►
it what's the others was the one you
◼
►
liked well yeah I mean just to be clear
◼
►
I'm going to finish the book i'm going
◼
►
to keep reading through it because it's
◼
►
so short now and they're also easy like
◼
►
for me personally the hit rate was quite
◼
►
low of the ones that i was reading on
◼
►
which ones do I like in which ones do I
◼
►
not like I remember what my hit right
◼
►
was like I thought it was better than
◼
►
fifty percent for me what you think
◼
►
making a short huge event yeah it's like
◼
►
out if there's an interesting idea
◼
►
there's a thing that I think about for a
◼
►
while and if it's one that I find an
◼
►
interesting i can just move right on
◼
►
yeah but the one that I like the best so
◼
►
far is one called metamorphosis and I
◼
►
think this is a really interesting idea
◼
►
the premise of this afterlife is that
◼
►
when people die they don't immediately
◼
►
go to the real afterlife they have to
◼
►
sit around in a lobby waiting and what
◼
►
they're waiting for is for the last
◼
►
person on earth who remembers them to
◼
►
yeah and when they are no longer
◼
►
remembered on earth they are allowed to
◼
►
leave this Lobby and move on to the next
◼
►
unspecified phase of what the afterlife
◼
►
is and this is a perfect example like I
◼
►
find that a really interesting premise
◼
►
because it brings up this notion of how
◼
►
interesting it is that some people are
◼
►
remembered such an incredibly long time
◼
►
and you can imagine that there are
◼
►
people who are remembered now who may
◼
►
well be remembered for as long as the
◼
►
human species exists in any form and
◼
►
then on the flip side there are of
◼
►
course people who are forgotten
◼
►
essentially as soon as they're dead
◼
►
right people who are known by almost
◼
►
nobody in the water yeah and I like this
◼
►
premise sort of reverses that like that
◼
►
the humans who are of great a claymore
◼
►
are noteworthy on earth have to spend
◼
►
this interminable amount of time in
◼
►
purgatory begging cryin waitin to never
◼
►
whereas the nobodies get to just pass
◼
►
right on through the lobby and move on
◼
►
to the next phase immediately just to
◼
►
clarify that further though it's not
◼
►
just like sort of remembered by people
◼
►
who knew you could just be spoken of in
◼
►
this short story for example there's
◼
►
like some nobody out farmer who was
◼
►
unlucky to drown in a river which then
◼
►
became like a famous place and like 20
◼
►
guys go there all the time until the
◼
►
story of the farmer that drowned in the
◼
►
river right even though he died hundreds
◼
►
and hundreds of years ago and he was
◼
►
quite an obscure farmer he's forever
◼
►
stuck in his portrayed right because his
◼
►
stories being told forever and ever and
◼
►
it's always been changed as well in many
◼
►
ways the story doesn't represent who is
◼
►
or what he was but because of it
◼
►
he's still stuck in this this terrible
◼
►
yeah there's a line thats related to
◼
►
that which I really quite likes where
◼
►
it's like and that's the curse of this
◼
►
Lobby we live in the heads of those who
◼
►
remember us and we lose control of our
◼
►
lives and become who they think we are
◼
►
yeah it's a great little lime even just
◼
►
in a very small way being a person on
◼
►
the internet who says things that you
◼
►
just become so aware of how like the
◼
►
version of you that is in other people's
◼
►
heads has almost nothing to do with the
◼
►
oh yeah it's very funny to see people
◼
►
like arguing about like what you think
◼
►
and writing things like I don't agree
◼
►
with that at all right features laying
◼
►
it out there like this is a thing that I
◼
►
agree with I think it's also just an
◼
►
interesting thing to think about the
◼
►
people throughout history
◼
►
obviously they just become
◼
►
ideas that are totally unrelated to the
◼
►
actual person yeah when you think about
◼
►
Abraham Lincoln the idea of what you
◼
►
think Lincoln is in your head
◼
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probably the real Abraham Lincoln would
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yeah and the book talks about this
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purgatory waiting room place having like
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Saints and people in their revered and
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the saints are there who actually really
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lives and they're just being remembered
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in a different way we're making it sound
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yeah it's literally but the thing that I
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because that's the tragedy that you
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because the minute they die
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that's the last person he remembers you
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walk in the other door a few seconds
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later and people there observing that
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sort of remark on the tragedy of that
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are you didn't get to see his grandson
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because the grandson was the last person
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he remembered him say so of course the
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question that this bag Brady how long do
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you think we would have to spend in that
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hmm how long do you think the hello
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I mean I don't think very long and the
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same with the YouTube videos I mean
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there's just so much content in the
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world now that I think everything's just
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going to get buried the danger is that
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some researcher in 300 years is going
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through some archive of something and
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stumbles over your name which is around
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the place if any internetting survives
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cgpgrey why someone on this website
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talking about someone called cgpgrey
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almost look who he is and if that's
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hundreds of years ahead for some reason
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that sticks you in the waiting room for
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a pretty unlucky reason say I guess
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because we're a bit splattered around
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the place online there is a risk that we
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could come up in a few hundred years on
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we're going to be like particularly
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on that that would be a problem
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guess we'll find out we're hanging out
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in that Lobby yeah yeah just to
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emphasize again this book is not
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suggesting this is what the afterlife is
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like it's just a whole bunch of thoughts
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like you know interesting made-up
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yeah there's just a bunch of thought
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experiment so the conversation starters
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just two of them and we could we could
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talk about this for hours i love it
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this is as far as I have gotten but i
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just want to thank you on the podcast
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for giving me this gifts of a physically
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inconvenient book but i will meander my
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and may perhaps we'll talk about some of
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alright well we spoiled two of them but
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I don't really think this is a spoiler
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yeah I would categorize this as not
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spoilers and just ideas yeah
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the idea is the whole exactly and this
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and telling a few of these stories is
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actually how you sell the book two
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people yeah you told me about the lobby
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one and that was like okay I give me a
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copy of this and I was just as happy to
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read the lobby one when i actually got
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to it the premises in the first sentence
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of all of them but ya told me to tell
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you the one that was so to me by a
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friend of both of ours actually called
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Jake and he sounded to me with a
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he sold it to me with one I don't know
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if you've got to this one yet that
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basically there are these like
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beings i'm going to make up these
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numbers because I can read the story so
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longer there's like these two thousand
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mile tall beings and their job over
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thousands and thousands of years which
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is incredibly important high-stakes job
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is to hold the fabric of the universe
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together like this is really
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labor-intensive mentally intensive job
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keeping the universe help together in
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the depths of space or you know some
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crap like that but they get a holiday
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they get a vacation from every you know
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500 years of thousand years and that
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holiday is to spend 80 years on earth as
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so what we are is just the vacation of
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these beings that have this incredible
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job and we think like our lives are
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really important and we stress about all
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these things but for them just coming
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and having a little concerns and of our
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life and worrying about taxes and their
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jobs and going to the beach and having
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families is like the ultimate luxury to
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them it's like this flippin little fun
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holiday they get to go on before they
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have to go back to this serious job of
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holding the universe together so we're
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just we're just vacationing mega aliens
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i love it i love her have a bit of a
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visceral reaction to that one because i
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have known people who believe something
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sort of similar to their okay yeah i
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mean a silly and silly if you follow
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that with logical conclusion
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it ends in anger I mean it's written
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just fine it's not but but i like the
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idea that our lives an important because
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we think i'll have to so important
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of course our lives are unimportant yeah
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your life is important right after I
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don't think my life is important
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because like I felt like it was
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something I couldn't do without telling
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you've been very silly lately I've been
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silly i invited listen to the podcast
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using various outlets such as Twitter
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and a patreon and emails and stuff to
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hello Internet themed limericks and send
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them to me for us to me is over and
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perhaps even award if they were creative
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enough this is such a you project Brady
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everything about this is is you I
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expected to get fifty or a hundred maybe
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if we're lucky we got lots and lots
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yeah you don't look at the back end of
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the podcast I don't think you realize
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how big this podcasters and if you add
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for hello Internet limericks you're
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gonna get a lot of them we did get a lot
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of them i assume everyone knows what
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limerick is but that is a false
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assumption isn't it because not everyone
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knows what limerick is well what do you
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think everyone does know what limerick
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is I feel on the spot because like a
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limerick is a like a rhyming poem
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yeah it's a power of a very set style
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and i tomatoes a very set way of reading
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and when you read about the rules of a
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limerick there is a little bit of
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latitude and certainly the ones we got
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sent used some of that latitude it has
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to be five lines and it has this AAA BBB
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a rhyming pattern so to give you an
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example in my email I sent out to people
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inviting them to submit I even read my
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own memory i write the invitations a
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limerick would you like to hear it
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let's hear it really you can't believe
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me do this stuff in here with your home
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or you're out for a drink
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I hope that you can take pause and think
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because if you have time you send me
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arrive and when vinyl by using this link
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suggesting that people might win a vinyl
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record for the winner
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you like that one I like that you do
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this kind of i like that you open
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yourself up to sorting through however
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many limits you got you said we received
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a bunch of limericks but like the vinyl
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like with many have other helmet net
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projects and I was not really involved
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you heard the unspoken hero of this so i
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like that you do these things really let
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me give you one more limerick example
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which is your favorite you know
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professor polygraph i mentioned before
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he's a chemist I spend lots of time with
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so his favorite limerick and a bit like
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a dad or grandpa who tells you the same
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joke over and over again
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I've heard him say this limit committee
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many times because his favorite and it's
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about the insecticide chemical DDT
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because of course that's what can we say
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lyrics about right let me see if I can
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a mosquito was heard to complain that a
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chemist had poisoned his brain the cause
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of his sorrow was paradichlorobenzene
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dad I feel now trichloroethane that that
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is a chemistry limerick I think it will
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grab that but i think there's a better
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day ago so lots and lots of people sent
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ok and they were a mixed batch as you
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would expect but I would like appreciate
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some people like went all out some
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people like sent like 10 some people
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sent more than 10 and each limerick
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followed on the one before and it was
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like a narrative like a whole story told
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in memory circulating the Iliad and the
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Odyssey yeah some people write limericks
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about our regular sponsors which I found
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interesting there was one guy called
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Chris and I think Chris must have fallen
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out of his sake when he saw the alerts
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about this because this was his moment
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because he emailed me a straight away
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and he said hi Brady i started writing
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limericks about each episode of the
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podcast about a year ago he goes on to
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say there i stopped after about 13 of
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them when i realized some of them were
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crap i hope he means his limericks and
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not the podcasts but anyway he's not
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entirely clear which were crap but i
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think he means his limericks but a
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couple of them were good
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I'm sorry so he sent all those limericks
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so for me there's good news and bad news
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about that for Chris the good news is
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that he didn't miss the short window of
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opportunity to send me the lyrics
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because there was only like a 24-hour
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opportunity and if he missed this window
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he would have been devastated
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yeah you were the bad news is i don't
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think any of his limericks made my
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shortlist sorry Chris but I could be
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wrong about that i'm not sure but one of
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my favorite experiences of this was when
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i showed you the webpage I'd written
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that explain the rules and how people
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could submit little I said what do you
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think about this and your reply was and
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our radio verbatim you wrote i can't
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think of any problems with that but i'm
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sure the internet will find them and i
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did find out what the problem was little
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because when i wrote like the
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description of what I wanted people to
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do i gave them like the email address
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and i said in and the rules I said put
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Limerick in the subject field now right
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limerick an uppercase put Limerick in
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these reasons that reason yeah what do
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you think happened I don't know if it
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seems so straightforward to me i'm
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trying to think how will this get messed
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up at least two people i think more
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thought that meant they should write the
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entire Limerick in the subject field
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haha i don't think i will send out
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helmerich in the subject of the email
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which was quite an interesting
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interpretation of the instruction but I
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completely understand why they did it
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completely understandable totally
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understandable they're just following
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your instructions exactly so it makes me
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realize how hard it is to write
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instructions that we went through that
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with the voting process are trying to
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thinking really hard about this could be
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how will people stuff it up so I've come
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up with a short list which isn't
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uh-huh of the ones that I think you're
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probably the best I've seen so far I
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thought maybe we should share some of
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them right so we're gonna go read
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through some limericks now
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yeah what's your limit grading scales
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like well I didn't really realize what a
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limerick was until we're just recording
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right now I didn't realize there was a
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specific rhyming pattern that we had to
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do was to data editor editor editor
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ok i will try to remember that and we
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will see how this goes and apologize to
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people for us reading them not the way
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you intended but that's just part of
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poetry isn't it and it sounds like it
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could be a disaster of greater than our
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limit goes but you say I'm sure you can
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pull this off now I can pull this off
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well go first I'll read one first
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already there once was a cave man named
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brady who said Maryland's flag drives me
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crazy i think it's ok said the robot
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called gray it's so bad that it might
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just amaze me i like it that's cute
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Marilyn flag yeah i'll send you your
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once so hang on let me send you the
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first one feature aid and there are you
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there once was a doctor called Brady
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this one was a man not a lady
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he may be the cleverest to have visited
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Everest though great finds that claim
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rather shady red I like that one
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I believe I just claim that you visited
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Everest is very podcast I don't find
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doll no but it's shady that I'm the
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cleverest to visit Everest 00 Catholic I
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think that's what they may not know who
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okay here we go hello Internet held an
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election for a flag where the author
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affection we chose milan gear the loyal
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teams cheer flag flag rebels cry
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insurrection I think the problem is
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limericks their brain is expecting
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something naughty when you say and I
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would traditionally limerick Sarah bit
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naughty and most of these are naughty i
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did say on the grounds that a little bit
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of naughtiness was allowed but we have
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got a couple of naughty ones coming
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ok but yeah you're right a bit of
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naughtiness is good so I cannot tell you
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how many liberals I've read today grades
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ridiculous i think it's gonna explode as
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kids that nothing happened Olympics you
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read either but I feel like this is a
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crazy-making thing to do
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alright well doesn't this next one for
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you ok on a quest very great pseudonym
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dr. heron went out on the limb made of
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metal and wheels his friend also feels
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the best listeners should all be called
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it's nice it's now a pseudonym and limb
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don't rhyme i can't i can't accept that
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now that one ! that works for me i was
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pretty harsh on one where I thought the
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writing wasn't up to scratch but I
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thought that was our pseudonym does not
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rhyme with limb I'm disagree disagree
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alright well what you think of this
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there once was a robot code gray and you
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might find it out when i say though he
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loved automation flags and education he
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always led Brady astray
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I never leave this movie no no that's
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slanderous that Limerick is slanderous i
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have never led you astray Brady era
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never not once not ever
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here's another one for you then I don't
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know how you'd be doing this all day
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because i have read to limericks and I
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feel like I'm already losing my mind
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ok my day had been fairly mundane when H
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i started up in my brain so I jumped to
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my feet thought I must send a tweet at
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Brady Haran i'm not on a plane
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oh my god i love that that is amazing
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and I was like yeah I that is absolutely
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yeah whatever here we go they may both
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have a passion for flagging and some
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freebooting had their hearts egging but
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when they asked around they surprisingly
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found that their best known for the term
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humble bragging it's not bad not bad
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little bit of a vigorous for our
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problems with humble bragging don't mind
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here's one that my PTA okay Brady was
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brushing his teeth with a tooth brush
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with bristles of heath a crack
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interrupted and splinters erupted and
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his mouth did resemble a wreath i can
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give that one a vote to that having good
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i'm sorry I've been such a grump
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to be honest I feel like a chump but i
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hope you can see that it's not you it's
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me i'm in love with the mighty black
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stump the black stump was used in a lot
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of limericks people who got really into
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the black stump stump rhyme with very
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hmm you'd be surprised and you'd be
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surprised how many people notice the
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fact that Brady rhymes with both shady
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and lady the lady one feels like a give
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radiantly yeah like that had to have
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been a prominent feature yet there's
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another 15 okay Brady takes this
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ridiculous show two places it never
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should go from smartphones to race rats
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and cricketers nice bats gray is always
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I feel like the Limerick speaks to me
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Brady does that's why it's on the one
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just for you to rate whoever wrote that
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I genuinely feel like that Limerick
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this one's because I an element of truth
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mmm i have a message for gray I want him
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to see what I say but I know he won't
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read it will simply delete it but Brady
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all right here we got this one's VA
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Brady's biggest fan is a duck who finds
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himself being out of luck
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you're reading this gray as Brady can't
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say the Limerick ending with fuck is
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fitted norte I like it I like it
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you might like this one to them okay
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great we hope you will never be parted
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from your co-host and imp but
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kind-hearted and we know you don't like
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Brady touching his mark but at least he
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has never yet fired could go along with
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your strict policy of not looking
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yourself on the broadcast is another
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topic that came up quite a lot hot
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stoppers are fun don't you see they're
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more than just plastic to me a man
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quickly learns from his third degree
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it's no fun to wait an A&E and good good
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going to like it like that one right
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►
here we go free booted contents for
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jerks it sucks to steal people's hard
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it bums you too busy Tuesday like Brady
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and gray and Henry and Michael and Dirk
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okay i gotta give bonus points for
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cleverness for rhyming Dirk yeah it's
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it met this one with all these limericks
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i feel like if i can get past the first
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two lines it's fine it's hard to read
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them as an attachment limericks it is
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surprisingly hard to reviews this is
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ok there once was an Adelaide man who
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came up with the naughtiest plan through
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the protests of grey limericks hooray
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and hand with this concept here and
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another one that does feel like my
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experience because you messaged me about
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this stuff you mentioned this to me
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ahead of time and but let's just say i
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am very slow at ever responding to
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messages of any kind from everyone
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yes I always feel like by the time I
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even respond to your messages about live
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thanks you've already gotten a page
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written like you're already moving
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forward with his plan so I do definitely
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feel like you're always half running
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with these things before i even wake up
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and see that there's a message and go
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braves got an idea let me rip it up with
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my thoughts on this like nope it's
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action now permission later exactly yeah
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but that's what you do for forgiveness
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there once was a fellow named Tim who
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downloaded hii on a whim as he sat on
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his flight he received quite a fright
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►
plane crash quarter was mentioning him
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►
that's right all right here we go
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haven't I could get this one wrong this
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is gonna take some concentration
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►
ok this is a bit concept art so but
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we're gonna have we're gonna have a few
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►
different ones in there 0 100 100 0 100
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100 one but great what does that mean
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my mind is not a machine 00 1 111111
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little too matter for me
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yeah it's a little too clever for its
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own good that was it has meaning it
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would have been better if the numbers
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rhymed but i like that they were trying
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to be different people can read that one
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later and figure out what the things
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made because the numbers to actually
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oh I would be disappointed if they
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►
didn't this is a nice one for you
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hey gay sadly I'm filled with regret
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►
that my needs just haven't been met am a
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►
tactical shopper who wants a
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►
heart-stopper so now I get coffee from
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pretz I feel like that one has a really
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nice flow that's that's very nice
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►
yeah very smooth very smooth over an
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endless horizon a plane flies it's been
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►
diverted to dulles great Christ
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►
apartment and airport so boring grades
◼
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already snoring dreaming of Brady as he
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closes his eyes and I never dreamed be
◼
►
breeding know if you did you wouldn't
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►
tell me because you are not talking
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►
that's true but i think i have literally
◼
►
never dreamed of you once so you say
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►
that make you sad no I don't dream about
◼
►
modern people i always dream about
◼
►
things from my childhood does not
◼
►
surprise me at all for some reason
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►
ok for a linguist i tend to bumble over
◼
►
english i often tumble but despite the
◼
►
nice term even i can confirm you'll
◼
►
never advance the bragg humble and take
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that's right that's a layout isn't it is
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►
true that bread Campbell has got nowhere
◼
►
breathe like you're good at the word
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►
creation but that was terrible
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►
do you know what something happened the
◼
►
other day that was a really good example
◼
►
of a brand company should written it
◼
►
down that I wish I could remember
◼
►
whatever convoluted thing even meant by
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►
the bride humble I don't even remember
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►
we'll come back to it because i had a
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►
good break humble the other day and I
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►
don't even remember what it was
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well there once was a teacher cold gray
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who decided to quit one day he packed up
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►
his chalk and he took a short walk to
◼
►
use auto which drove him away two things
◼
►
on that i wish i'd use chalk as a
◼
►
teacher and i wish i had not oh ok i
◼
►
believe the second part not the first
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►
what do you mean I never had choc lab I
◼
►
don't believe you wish you did either
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►
no I always like chalk and i use chalk
◼
►
and university all the time when I was
◼
►
doing physics problems i would've
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►
thought he'd put in like the dusty
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►
dirtiness of it it is dusty and it is
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►
dirty and is a pain in the butt in many
◼
►
ways but I think there's something nice
◼
►
about working through problems with
◼
►
chalk as opposed to with markers and I'm
◼
►
mathematician swear by that was nothing
◼
►
else but yeah so you believe me know
◼
►
now this one starts with a but because
◼
►
it's part of one of those ones where
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►
someone has written a big narrative and
◼
►
I've just extracted one of the limericks
◼
►
from this greater story
◼
►
ok but within that strange microwave lay
◼
►
a twist set to ruin his day his plans
◼
►
were defeated the brew superheated and
◼
►
made quite the gray hands sauté never
◼
►
has a very much like the neighbor for
◼
►
Christmas field to it i don't quite know
◼
►
okay Bree I i am wondering yeah you've
◼
►
been doing this all day and I am
◼
►
wondering if you have lost my slightly
◼
►
because how many of these things do you
◼
►
we're nearly done with this short list
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►
and how do you possibly expect us to
◼
►
select a winner but maybe we'll find out
◼
►
about that later you can talk about that
◼
►
in a minute because I
◼
►
no idea what is another one for any
◼
►
would-be ballots tougher referendum by
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►
postcard is tougher but a quick offline
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►
pole spiraled out of control and for
◼
►
this postal workers did suffer like that
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►
yeah I'm not so sure she suffered mainly
◼
►
she seemed totally indifferent to our
◼
►
internet poll that we were running
◼
►
yeah but that was just one work and they
◼
►
were like postal workers all around the
◼
►
world that were having to transport
◼
►
these postcards for us we made no one's
◼
►
tougher Noah the county flags of Liberia
◼
►
were so bad they gave me Listeria i had
◼
►
my last meal red Guns Germs and Steel
◼
►
and died from plane crash hysteria man i
◼
►
really like that one video I thought I
◼
►
feel like it falls down at the last
◼
►
rhyme that last time doesn't quite work
◼
►
hysteria and Liberia it's pretty good i
◼
►
didn't read that well to be fair but
◼
►
anyway now you won't get the end of this
◼
►
one but the cricket fans will say this
◼
►
is my little nod for someone being
◼
►
ok this is one for the cricket fans yeah
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►
Brady surprised gray with a ticket to
◼
►
see a test match of cricket but when he
◼
►
tried to explain the rules of the game
◼
►
he was dismissed leg before wicket means
◼
►
nothing to me it means nothing to you
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►
here's a final one 4209 is the number of
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►
videos you'll find that grantees to
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►
release by the end of next week to only
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►
yeah I like that it's not bad i like
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►
that one was pretty good yeah it's
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►
that's just a few hopefully within yeah
◼
►
we'll give a few prizes out to ones that
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►
I don't know how to really decide that
◼
►
if you got any ideas or I have no ideas
◼
►
and I really do feel like just reading
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►
through whatever it was ten limericks I
◼
►
feel like it has warped my brain somehow
◼
►
did I totally understand i was going
◼
►
crazy aliens invisible me like I don't
◼
►
know how you have made it through today
◼
►
but holy cow reading through them it's
◼
►
harder than you think it's going to be
◼
►
and there's something about the rhythm
◼
►
which just stirs your brain into crazy
◼
►
it's very it's weird and yeah i think i
◼
►
really only read and but holy cow I
◼
►
could not imagine reading all of them at
◼
►
well we'll go back through them and you
◼
►
and I can have a talk about how to pick
◼
►
winners and get some prizes at two
◼
►
people but everyone who sent one we
◼
►
really appreciate and i'll try and find
◼
►
a way to share more of them i don't know
◼
►
if i'll share all of them will say I've
◼
►
copy and paste most of them so i have
◼
►
got them on a document but i have to say
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►
that i really like his limerick format
◼
►
and I feel like the guy he rode him
◼
►
before Chris Wright who was doing a
◼
►
limit for each show i love the idea of
◼
►
there being a limit for each show it
◼
►
feels like this is the the opposite of
◼
►
when people leave a first comment like I
◼
►
saw a video i can let me just leave some
◼
►
low quality comments immediately within
◼
►
seconds of it going out right
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►
no no let me craft a piece of poetry
◼
►
about this literally crafting a home to
◼
►
describe the episode that you have just
◼
►
listened to four episodes of hello
◼
►
internet that feels like the anti first
◼
►
comment in the reddit is very I did I
◼
►
want to see like I want to see episodes
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►
every time someone has written a
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►
limerick it is totally the anti first
◼
►
comment is writing a poem about an hour
◼
►
podcast to help cement forever the
◼
►
legacy of the hell original podcast so
◼
►
that we never leave that Lobby I mean if
◼
►
I was going to have an official power
◼
►
hello Internet it definitely would be in
◼
►
the Limerick over say the Heike which i
◼
►
think is super pretentious the Limerick
◼
►
is funnier than the haiku
◼
►
yeah hi case full of itself someone did
◼
►
send a high-k thinking now been a smile
◼
►
like I didn't put them on the list where
◼
►
they weren't following the rules
◼
►
exactly no haikus people limericks
◼
►
yeah limericks limericks is where would
◼
►
you have the Limerick as the official
◼
►
partner fellow internet I am NOT
◼
►
interested in expanding the official
◼
►
things of this podcast i want to create
◼
►
these things an official official look
◼
►
II do you do what you need to do you ask
◼
►
for my blessing that the Limerick is the
◼
►
official form of poetry of the hell
◼
►
original podcast i am not granting that
◼
►
now we ever grant official status to
◼
►
anything ever again we'll have to find
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►
I've got the Easter Bunny in front of me
◼
►
taking off my screen I have literally
◼
►
been doing this whole conversation with
◼
►
a full screen of Easter bunnies in front
◼
►
of your fault i don't know i can
◼
►
hypnotize I'm hypnotized by all these
◼
►
Easter bunnies that are just staring at
◼
►
second one you said was terrifying
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►
they're all going for