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Episode 52 - One Year Celebration Quiz Off
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Paul and Martin (co-Mayors of ADHDville) chat about how doing a podcast about ADHD for a year has changed them. We also have the One Year Celebration Quiz Off... Who will be the first Quiz King?
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ADHD/Focus music from Martin (AKA Thinking Fish)
Theme music was written by Freddie Philips and played by Martin West. All other music by Martin West.
Please remember: This is an entertainment podcast about ADHD and does not substitute for individualized advice from qualified health professionals.
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Transcript
Reunion and Episode Highlights
00:00:00
Speaker
that went back in the room back in the room back in the combined room martin i know you're back with me like the old gang back together yeah Thank you. Yeah, I really, it's a real shame that I wasn't there last time because it looks like you had a really nice time and it looks like Lucy was lovely. Lovely Lucy. that She was fabulous. I was watching it last night. um Just radiant and just, yeah, good fun. Yeah. So if you haven't seen that episode, it is episode number 50. Episode number 50. Yeah. Go and check it out.
00:00:39
Speaker
I was really, I wasn't really
ADHD Experiences and Comparisons
00:00:40
Speaker
liked about Lucy. She was so ah like I just love the way she articulated her. personal ADHD kind of thing. Like she said at one point, like is she felt like she'd missed a lecture when she was growing up on how to deal with normal life. It's like, like everyone else seemed to have gone to the lecture, except her. It's like, what about me? That's really nice. yeah Lots of other things that really resonated. Really cool. Yeah. Yeah. Nice. All right. So yeah. So that was that. We're both, we're back together again.
00:01:15
Speaker
Mm hmm. As we should be. Like peanut and jelly, peanut butter and jam. Yeah. Well, in America, that sounds like a nice coupling, but everywhere else sounds like horrific. What about bedfellows? Bedfellows.
00:01:35
Speaker
right yeah that's too much you know what that the whole peanut butter and jam slash jelly thing i didn't get until i came here and then i had some and i was like oh god this makes so much sense It makes so much sense. Right. If you just take your classic sandwich, right, you've got fairly dry, boring white bread, usually. Then you've got the peanut butter, which is great, but it's also kind of quite sort of um ah clingy and sort of sticky and it's quite solid.
00:02:20
Speaker
So if you have a jam with it, like a raspberry or a strawberry, it cuts through it. It cuts, it kind of adds this sharpness to it, which makes, you know, like it's a bit like if you have cookies and milk, right? They're really good combo.
Podcast Impact and Purpose
00:02:39
Speaker
Cause you can eat a, you can eat like a nice little chocolate biccy, like a, like a hobnob, say. And that's great, but it kind of gets a bit dry.
00:02:51
Speaker
ah yeah Yeah, exactly. um And but if you have a glass of milk, have a bit of milk, it's like, oh, yeah, that yeah they just compliment each other and then so that you could eat more of the of the cookie because it kind of combats the kind of cleanness talking like jam. Yeah.
00:03:13
Speaker
right yeah yeah yeah can it be any flavor with the peanut it can but i think that the classics over here are strawberry is is strawberry jam but i do like the peanut butter it could be the smooth or crunchy yeah both dealer's choice. and But I would, I would, I would, yeah, if you haven't tried it. I'm going to try it. I'm going to try it. OK, because I've got jam down there. Speak to you. Speak to your girlfriend. She will. She she will understand why it works because the peanut butter on its own.
00:03:57
Speaker
Then you add in the jam, you go, oh yeah, these two compliment each other so well. so Yeah, but she's Italian. she she She already looks at me a little little bit squiffy if I'm eating if i' eating peanut butter with or without jelly. All right. Well, let us know how that all goes next week. I'll let you know on the squiffy scale, how that goes. All right. Onwards. Yes. Onwards.
00:04:25
Speaker
um Am I going to, uh, uh, I see here's written here. Next app. Next step of've got each are for the next step. Cause we're recording two episodes today. Oh, I see. Oh, I got it. All right. Well, with that confusing, uh, start, uh, welcome to, uh, Pick up a jam. Aww, lovely bed of fellows, yes they are. I can say they complement each other. ADHD.
00:05:00
Speaker
And Paul's gonna find out what he's been missing all these years. Tune in next week for the Squiffy Scale. The Squiffy Scale. Alright. Hello, I'm Paul Thompson, I was diagnosed with a combined ADH and the D a year, almost a year ago. Wow.
00:05:19
Speaker
A year, Paul. A year. Almost a year. Blimey, Charlie. That's nuts. And I'm Martin Weston. I was diagnosed with the combined ADHD poo poo platter in 2013. Yes. We're just two mates. Two. Two. Not three. Not four. Not five. Two. Two. Who by questions. Or not. After 39 years of friendship, discovered the co-ADHD years. What the? What the?
00:05:48
Speaker
Now, it's really important to say, Martin, that this is an entertainment podcast, right, about a adult ADHD. It does not substitute, no, no, no, for individualized advice from qualified health professionals. So don't take any advice from us, which is, here's a kind of ADHD park bed with room for everyone, including the doppelgangers, your jigos, your money doubles, your chaperones, and even your best buddies.
00:06:14
Speaker
Still here? A miracle already. Then grab your jet packs, pedalos, base hoppers or any other transportation methods and let us take you to ADHDville, an imaginary town that we've created in our minds. In our minds. Where we like to explore different parts of the A, the t D, the H and the D. D, D, D, D and we start off as always here in the Town Hall in the Mayor's Office where we the joint mayors of ADHD will take care of business. And on my agenda today, oops, on my meeting notes, um we've just done. So we ah there's the recap, I think, so because we've done 50 years, 50 years, it feels like 50 years, it's only been 50 episodes, almost a year and of of ah of ADHD. So we're going to kind of ah
00:07:11
Speaker
We're going to just go back on on some of that and and and what we kind of think of that. And then we've got a double, in celebration I would say, a doubleheadach quiz double A double quiz.
00:07:27
Speaker
Double, doubleple helpings
Future of the Podcast
00:07:29
Speaker
doubleple double Double helpings. One from me and one from the from Martin. Yeah, and we'll see who wins. Who wins the 50th anniversary quiz-off. So prizes just to just, you know, just blame for pride.
00:07:47
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. So it's it's like who owns the first year? Who's who's won the first year? This is the 2024 anniversary quiz off. Yeah. It's like who wins the 50 50 episode pants. Yeah. Exactly. A weather with pride. Yeah. Yeah. That's the English pants, not the not the American pants.
00:08:12
Speaker
Aye, right, yeah, exactly. Just want to make sure, just want to clear that up. All right, so where are we going today, Paul? Let's go. Let's go to the park bench. Ah, let's go to the park. It's got like the Rama in front of us, you know, it's like,
00:08:29
Speaker
We have a panoramic view vision of our 50 episodes. um right what sister Let's bring the car around and we'll head off to the park.
00:08:51
Speaker
We're going down the park.
00:08:58
Speaker
Hopefully we won't meet any drunken people. um All right. no you done By the way, it's a classic English park when you were kids. Everyone used to go to the park to feed the ducks bread. And apparently it's just about the worst thing you can give to a duck is bread. Yeah. Yeah. Don't feed the ducks. No one said anything, you know. Anyway. I know. We didn't know. 50 years, 50 episodes, Martin. Mm hmm. The carbs. How was it for you? You know what, it's I mean, what, this this last year, you know, I was thinking about it's there's lots of things that come to top to mind. ah But one is is that
00:09:51
Speaker
Because I do this podcast with you and because we then go into till like we go on TikTok and I do a bunch of stuff on TikTok, this whole thing forces me to think about ADHD and my own ADHD, the people's ADHD, a lot, a lot more than I would normally.
00:10:13
Speaker
Because I think when I was diagnosed in 2013, there was like a bit of a, you know, I would hunt down all the information and read books and find out what I could. And then it kind of tailed off a bit and I just existed a while and, you know.
00:10:31
Speaker
it it It wasn't really the the focus um any the anymore after my initial kind of hyper-fixation moment. How quickly did it tail off? did like it like Was it a year or was it more or less? I think it was fairly quickly actually. and and then it just yeah I just learnt a lot and then i just kind of then it was just a low-key thing in the in the background after that.
00:11:01
Speaker
I binged and then I just like watching Breaking Bad you like binge the first two seasons and the next four seasons you kind of like dipped your toe in every now and again. Right. Yeah, so it's it's been good to kind of It's good to kind of keep it up front in my head. I think it's actually helped me. So it if anything, this podcast helps me we with with my ADHD more than anything else has.
00:11:34
Speaker
Okay, yeah, to be honest. That's it. That's really interesting. That's really interesting. Yeah, I've i've been the same. I've been the same because I literally the first we recorded the first air episode three days after I got my diagnosis.
00:11:51
Speaker
Yeah. So the 50 episodes coincides with the almost a year of living with it. And I have to say, I have had, I have needed time off thinking about ADHD, because you, as you know, Martin, you know, you kind of like, for every episode, you liked every episode or every theme that we work on, it you kind of like deep dive on a bed and you're listening to,
00:12:17
Speaker
other people's podcasts, you're reading up and stuff like that, researching. I got to a point like it was a bit like, I need to not think about ADHD for a bit. who But having said that, it has been, um you know, have I've learned so much in such little time, which is good, obviously.
00:12:39
Speaker
right yeah and then yes the next the next thought is um is uh did you think we were gonna get to 50 oh when we started out did you think oh i'd still be doing this in a year's time I was more, I'm not sure what the word is, hopeful or realistic. Let's use the word hopeful. I was more hopeful than you, because you were saying, I was already projecting like I do. I was already thinking about, you know, taking over the world, you know, with our podcasts and stuff. And you were like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, let's read it back.
00:13:25
Speaker
is this Let's just get to 10 and let's see how it goes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I'm, I'm, I'm, I am, I am surprised and not surprised. If, if, if this was just me and I started to to do a podcast on my Todd, I don't think I would have got to 50. So yeah.
00:13:54
Speaker
So I think I wouldn't, I'm um'm i'm surprised that I got to 50, but then when I factor in you and in know and it always helps when there's someone else there because it kind of, mean you feel sort of accountable. So yeah yeah so you kind of do stuff. and So i'm I'm not surprised.
00:14:16
Speaker
when I take you into the picture. I think if I did it by myself, I might have given it up more easily. Yeah, I wouldn't. But I mean, that comes to one of the subjects I've got up here is like, right from the start, we decide, okay, how are we going to define success with this podcast?
00:14:40
Speaker
Like even before we did the first one, and we both were pretty much in agreement, I think. We didn't argue anyway. No, 55. We both said, we just want to have a good time. We just want to have some fun with it.
00:14:56
Speaker
Right. And it's been this it's been a blast. Right. And and yeah, that's always been the thing is that is that I will only do this as long as it's fun. You only do this as long as it's fun. If it stops being fun for one of us, we we both say, yeah, dont that's that's fine. You just kind of go on and say, yeah, Martin, Paul, I'm you know, I'm this isn't bringing me any joy. I'm not getting any anything out of this and anymore. yeah And we'll get that's fine. That's cool. We'll just end it here. We'll just do a last episode and and cool it call it a day. and well We'll just carry on doing other things, you know. and In reality, the opposite is true. It feels like a really comfy chair every time we like, like you know, we start recording. time up you know Yeah.
00:15:50
Speaker
That's me in my, my, my creaky chair. I think I've got to get some oil. Oh yeah. I suppose you get a full back on the floor then. Yeah, right. This thing is my pivoted. Oh, okay. Yeah. Um, could happen.
00:16:12
Speaker
So I could say in terms of, in terms, yeah, go on. I was going to ask you, how do you think how do you write? What about the community that has come along along?
00:16:28
Speaker
with it. It's like so there's you and me right and we kind of do this for fun and we we um and we do it for each each other but then you come but then you have people that kind of like oh I quite like these two guys chatting you know we've had mum Michael you know we we have um yeah we have Lee we have I mean like there's you know we have Alec
00:16:53
Speaker
alexandra I mean, there's a whole bunch of people, Seth, that listen to this and they put it on every week and they write comments and ye and you go, man, yeah, there's a little community. yeah Yeah. And we've not got big numbers at all, you know, like, like there's some, ah some people started a podcast after Wheaties and a lot of massive budgets and production, you know, um, you know, it's a production teams behind them and stuff like that, man getting big numbers and stuff. yes But
00:17:27
Speaker
it i to me, I only care about the the actually the quality of the community that we have and you know the feedback we get and and and the the fun we have. And it's really everything to me. Yeah, this this this podcast is just us, what's at all for our good yeah points and our bad points and whatever. un polished People that are not necessarily and not at all famous at all. But I have to say without without exception, all of our guests, it's been fantastic.
00:18:03
Speaker
really, really cool. okay You know, at times really, I've got emotional and, you know, we've laughed and um just really connected. And it's just been great. And we love for people from every angle of almost, you know, or every angle of the community, every corner of the community has been great. Yeah. And hopeful hopefully do a lot more of that or not. Hopefully we will. We will be doing a lot more of that. Oh,
00:18:33
Speaker
Paul just got cut out of his back again. Yeah. I'm connecting and de-connecting and yeah. Okay. Carry on. Carry on. Carry on. Carry on. Um, so what, how does, but how does, how does ADHD specifically affect the podcasts? Like for me, like for from in the beginning,
00:19:00
Speaker
In the beginning, in the and the beginning ah it was really hard seeing and listening to myself. It was like, yeah oh, that was awkward. Right. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you kind of get over that after a while, I think. yeah Also, um you know, ah con confession is like, once I record this podcast, I never actually watch the podcast.
00:19:33
Speaker
So I just deal with files. You edit it though. You edit it though. Yes. Right. So I get all the files. So so after we've recorded an episode, I download all the files but and then I assemble it all.
00:19:46
Speaker
And I only just check the that the the voice and the video is in sync, which it is most of the time, unless there's technical issues.
00:19:57
Speaker
um and then so so So I just check that the beginning's fine and I check that the end is fine. But I don't listen to the whole thing again. You've never seen them an episode from front, from beginning to end.
00:20:14
Speaker
No, no, I just do this and then I just deal with files after that. um and And in fact, so every time I come to advert, you know, like ah so on the on a Tuesday, I do a a TikTok post which basically says that this is what we're going to be talking about this this week.
00:20:36
Speaker
And oftentimes I can't remember what on earth it is that we actually did talk about. And I have to kind of, I have to, I have to do a quick scan of it to kind of go, Oh, okay. Yeah. We talked about that. Oh yeah. We talked about this. Oh, Paul. And then, okay. And then I, uh, that's okay. Yeah. So I don't actually listen to myself.
00:20:58
Speaker
that right much. I've only listened back because I've I'd just like to like I don't know self critique like see how I can improve you know like on the but one of the things I ah really struggled with was actually with coordinating our voices so that are you know avoiding talking over each other Right. Which is a bit of a skill that you develop, isn't it? Yeah, it's a total skill that I've got.
00:21:35
Speaker
I had to do that. I had to talk over you then. Yeah, because it was just me too. Me too. Let's just talk over each other randomly.
00:21:48
Speaker
yeah Yeah, because I've noticed that the guests, when we have guests on the, it's I've noticed that for them, it's also hard to know, you know, to, to kind of like, understand when their cue is, you know, um right. And in the end, it just like, it so everything, like everything else, we just like, just get on with it, generally.
00:22:09
Speaker
Right. I think we've kind of nailed that with the e each other. I think when it comes to guess, I think we've not quite nailed the... Yeah, it's not easy. No. Because the third person, it's like the third three equals infinity, right? It's like a magic number.
00:22:30
Speaker
And so it's a bit chaotic because you're like thinking you're not only thinking about when you jump in, but we're thinking about respecting the guests as well. Right. And the, and the, the other host. So it's like, so rather than talking for 50% of the time, your guests now should be talking about 60, 70% of the time. And you're only speaking individually, like 10% of the time, right? Something like like like that. and So much less than you would normally, and it's kind of weird.
00:23:04
Speaker
I don't think we've quite quite nailed that. but now Maybe we never will. baby we never never will
00:23:16
Speaker
um and and but so but it was oh There's one one thing I've got here. is like a we one thing we always try to do right from the start was not being one another one of those kind of preachy podcasts.
Listener Engagement and Feedback
00:23:34
Speaker
Yes. No words are really, really careful about just like, there's so many, so many of you out there that so many podcasts out there just like trying to tell people how to think of and behave. And it drives me insane. It really pisses me off.
00:23:52
Speaker
You know, it's like I was like, listen to a school teacher. It's like, just how you think the charging pay. And if you don't do like this, then you're an idiot, you know, like fitness podcast or something, you know. Right. I thought i think um when when when I was thinking about how this how this all this podcast should be.
00:24:14
Speaker
um I obviously probably did like you and I would just go download and listen and do a bit of research on everyone else's podcast and it's in the format just seem to be get as big a guest as you can yeah for your show, right? So yeah quite often it it would be like doctors or psychiatrists, guests, and people from the you know ADHD um you know research groups and all that kind of stuff. And there seem to be quite a lot of that, which is great. you know if if If you just want pure info dump, there's plenty of podcasts out there that will just give you info.
00:24:54
Speaker
yeah And I thought, well, that's not us really, because we're not qualified. That's that's why we have the the disclaimer at the beginning of the the episode that this is an and and attempt. I mean, we do do our research, that but we don't have letters after our name. it just We must be careful not to misinform.
00:25:17
Speaker
Right. But at the end of the day, it's just two old good guys chatting about their own ADHD journeys. And then then then it felt like, oh, yeah, this is what this is. This is about this is about personal journeys, um which is kind of why when we do have people as guests on, it's it's really about them and their stories. It's about stories, right? Stories. Yeah. yeah And it's like daily, daily life, you know, it's like things that crop up almost every day, like new daily challenges that you weren't, you know, you weren't expecting, like everyone else does. But in our case, in our case, we've got ADHD kind of underlying it, of course. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So. I have a question, which I don't know whether you've thought about
00:26:14
Speaker
The next 50 episodes. Yes. Looking forwards. Oh, I had thought of that. Which is odd for me. Usually I'm a massive i'm a massive projector.
00:26:26
Speaker
Right. And I usually think, and I haven't, which is unusual. So yeah. And I haven't either until I just thought of it just now. Okay. So I am, I'm asking a question of which I don't know the answer. I love those kind of questions. So I know, so the the best questions, the best questions are neither the the person you're asking or the, or the person's actually asking the question, know the answers. Love that.
00:26:55
Speaker
Yeah, um so I'm thinking, let me think, the next 50. What I would say at at this point to kind of give my brain a chance to think in the background is, ah if you ah get in the comments, tell us yes tell us what you want, right? As as we said before, ADHDville is a place, it's a community, it's um It's just as much your place as as it is ours. um yeah So what what do you want to see us do more of or less of? um yeah what do you what What would be helpful to you? Get in the comments, tell us. Tell us. One of the things that's been quite difficult for me, I'm thinking as you were saying that,
00:27:41
Speaker
There have been times when, this feels like an interview special, Christmas special, it's like reviewing the year. Anyway, there were times when things that came up that was like really personal stuff that I wasn't expecting to reveal or even on a couple of occasions things that had never occurred to me before that were really deeply personal.
00:28:05
Speaker
now And like putting it out there on a you know public po podcast has been quite revealing. Yeah, you know what? Our first guest, which was your your mate, um Jonathan, Jonathan, he said and it stuck with me. He said, oh, you are you. He he called us. He he he called us. He called us a brave. We were being brave. And at that point, I hadn't hadn't even occurred to me that I was being brave about anything.
00:28:42
Speaker
Right. And I was thinking, oh Jesus, am I? Am I? Is it, is it, is there something that I should be concerned about? Right. It's like you've just been, you've, you've just been called up for, as a, you know, for like national service and like two fresh soldiers and you're just about to be thrown onto the front line. And the last thing they say to me, they say to me, Oh, you're brave. Carry on. I know.
00:29:10
Speaker
you know Especially when I thought I was just going to go to the pub for a drink with my mates and and someone tells me that I'm now on the front line. You'd be drafted. Wait, what? Yeah. I know. But termally forwards.
00:29:27
Speaker
looking ahead i'm thinking yeah but there are hard times when you've had to have you know it's the same for you i'm sure when it's like you talk about things that you are not necessarily always proud of or you know it could be slightly embarrassed even yeah yeah i've done that i've done that Yeah, especially things on TikTok that I do a Yeah. I'd be a bit brave like on the putting stuff out there. Right. Because yeah on tick TikTok, there is always a bit of a danger that somehow it could big blow up.
00:30:04
Speaker
And it could become a thing. Right. So I shared a TikTok of me sucking my thumb in the middle of a restaurant. And I was like, yeah. Oh, yes. As it happened. I i remember seeing that and thought, well, you're brave, Martin.
00:30:19
Speaker
Right. That was me being brave. That's like, you know, laid bare. Right. It's still up there. It's still out out there. I mean, it could still blow up in my in my face, but as it is, it hasn't. So that's fine. Was it cathartic for you? Print it out there. No, I don't think so. Didn't feel curs ah cathartic.
00:30:48
Speaker
particularly just like, well, this is a part of me. I'm just going to share that on online. Yeah. And then just because you get old, it's like you care so we don't care so much when we get old about what people think. Yeah.
00:31:04
Speaker
It's true, absolutely. So you know um so on the so the future of the pod, on the next 50, there is definitely going to be more of this.
Audience Growth and Aspirations
00:31:16
Speaker
I'm going to try and get the of the audience to be bigger because it's always good to like have you know i have more people. so don't forget to like and subscribe and share um um and comments are always that really help us a lot right but i do want to you know just to speak out of both sides of my mouth i do want to try and get the most ridiculously big guest that i can get so
00:31:47
Speaker
not like a sort of you know like a you know like a doctor or physician but someone stupidly big someone like Jim Carrey is impossible to to to get so once in a while i i will message people who have ADHD, who I know have ADHD, that are kind of, you know, stars of the TV and radio.
00:32:13
Speaker
um ah And I will kind of go, hey, if you if you want to talk about ADHD on our podcast. Yeah. Have you tried Jim Carrey yet?
00:32:26
Speaker
I have not tried Jim Carrey because I don't know his agent's number or his agent's email. That's always the problem, though, is getting through past the agents. And to be, yeah. Right. I mean, that's that's like a big freaking wall. Yeah. I did try to pull their emotional heartstrings, but you're not talking to them in the end. Hardly ever.
00:32:49
Speaker
I did try Robin Ince, who's a comedian from um ah the Infinite Monkey Cage podcast. podcast um I tried him because he has it ADHD, but I didn't get anything from him. I tried Gillian Anderson, you you know the um mo the from the X-Files. I know her very well.
00:33:14
Speaker
Oh right, very well. very i don't know i I don't know whether she has ADHD or not, but um I am on a TikTok i and I did try and reach out to her. Actually, I do know her literary agent or her literary editor who who who has e edited so some of her books. I know him, but I don't really want to go through him because I feel like I'm using people at that point, you know what I mean? um But anyway. Okay. All right. I'd like to get on, um if you're listening,
00:33:52
Speaker
ah What's her name? She works, um she's a female comedian, has ADHD. ah She worked on the... No, another one. I tried her. Very similar, Sue Perkins. Oh, Sue Perkins, all right, yeah. Yeah, it's really cool lady.
00:34:11
Speaker
Yeah. um Yeah. Should be great am to get on. Yeah. see All right. Well, if anyone out there has any connections we with a someone with ah ADHD or you know autism or combined. um Yeah. less let Let us know if you have a sneaky back access to someone.
00:34:36
Speaker
though ah that we could get on this. Also with the next 50, apart from easy ones, I think there's a couple of themes that we'll probably repeat because you know um some things that we talked about 10 months ago have like you know got like new experiences of or more experience of some of the subjects.
00:35:02
Speaker
um or more personal life experience of those things, so there's that. But still, we've got a list, Martin, we've got at least another, we've got at least 30 of the list. We did a list about a year ago, and we're like ula three-quarters of the way through, not even.
00:35:22
Speaker
right so plenty to do plenty of work to be yet to be talked about yeah all right okay so should we move on to quizzes yes yes let's jump in the car in the mayor's vehicles and they make a way to the coffee place um and then we'll just get a cup of coffee because um yeah all right let's just do that let's just go
00:36:08
Speaker
Okay. All right. So what can I get you? Much obliged you. I'll pay this time. I don't, you know what? We'll just be like, but no, no, honestly, no, it's me. No. Put your wallet away. Put it away.
00:36:30
Speaker
You know it's my turn. That's right. um i will have Well, now that it's pumpkin spicy latte season, I feel obliged by society to have a pumpkin spiced latte. I'm go for a straight up cappuccino.
00:36:51
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all right normal not decaffeinated cappuccino right treating yourself yeah all right so um you know what um i've i've got a coin here to to decide who's going to go first um okay i have an an american quarter okay to eagles and the wensaid um and this is from um this quarter is uh wow okay all right this is a Puerto Rico is this a real coin is there a head Puerto Rican quarter okay all right so heads heads or tails to go first heads heads that'll go first all right it is heads you go first it's always heads first
00:37:47
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All right. And don't forget the winner of this becomes the champion of the first 50 episodes. episodes Okay. so okay lot Lots to play for is what I'm saying here. A lot to play for. I'm feeling the pressure. Okay. yeah You should. You should. So basically, okay, so look to 50, 50, Martin. What's that? 50 in terms of anniversaries. Golden.
00:38:15
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Oh, it's a golden anniversary. So I've got a bit of a mix of things based on gold, right? Of course. Right. Okay. yeah um But also the straight up number 50. So let's start with a straight up one, right? All right. Paul Simon wrote a song called 50 ways to leave your lover.
00:38:37
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51 to leave. if you look Yeah, I know it well. hey Great song. Yeah. famous He also wrote a so famous song called Mrs. Robinson. Okay. Yeah. But yeah what what the original song had a different name. Which was it? Was it A Mrs. Roosevelt?
00:38:58
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OK. B, Mrs West. If only. C, Mrs Topson. Or D, Martin, Mrs Pinkerton. So that that's your Roosevelt, your West, your Topson or your Pinkerton. It's one of those. OK.
00:39:19
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um right what is this robinsons heaven who right Right, so it can't be Mrs West or Mrs Thompson because that's both of our names.
00:39:31
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yeah hey mrs roosevelt hey mrs pinkerton i think pinkerton sounds lyrically too punchy it's it's got too many p's and k's in it so if i'm singing it hey mrs pilkington like it feels too hard so i'm going pinkerton Yeah, Pinkerton, after the arc famous Pinkertons. um And ah so ah it has to be Mrs. Roosevelt. Come on. Damn, you're right. You're right. You're right. All right. One down. Mrs. Roosevelt. But St. Roosevelt sounds weird, doesn't it? I'm glad he changed it to Robinson.
00:40:14
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Okay. Okay. yeah but to Back to gold, Martin. Okay. Gold. Gold. A medical study in France during the early 20th century suggests that gold was as an effective treatment for A. Rheumatoid arthritis, Martin. Okay. B. generalwartz war Genital Genital warts. Okay. C. Trenchfoot.
00:40:46
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or D Martin gout. Yeah. All right. All right. It's gender towards trench foot. I'll give you a clue. It's not all four. It's not all four. All right. Gold. Okay. I'm thinking the one that sticks out trench foot it's like well that's like that's like trench foot you kind of call that in about world war one so yeah i would have thought it's very unlikely that that um that there you are with your trench foot in world war one and someone's getting very unlikely it's very very unlikely yes gold here you are here you are tommy have some gold on you on your little
00:41:29
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when you're right out so um so so trench foot out you know what the gentle i mean the gentle warts just sounds too too fun um i'm i'm i'm gonna go with gout basically only because
00:41:51
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Gout is, you you get that from like drinking and like luxurious lifestyle. So it feels like if you can afford to get gout, you can probably afford a bit of gold.
00:42:03
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okay a That's my only strange logic. Go with gout. I think you would, with it because it sounds nice. Gout. so yeah and No, you're wrong, Martin. It's rheumatoid arthritis. Oh. All right. OK. Next question. Yes. Tell me. ah Gold is so pliable, Martin, that it can be made into sewing thread. That you may have known already.
00:42:32
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but did you know that an ounce of gold can be... an ounce of gold can be stretched over a 50 miles an ounce okay 10 miles 25 miles or 5 miles
00:42:52
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50, 10, 25, 5. You see, my the normally the logic of these questions is it's always the highest number. Right. Because it's usually like, oh wow really?
00:43:10
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Like, so I'm going with with the highest. I'm going with 50 miles. Oh, fuck you. Yeah, you're right. When I say fuck you, I mean, in a nice way. In a f friendly way. A nice, friendly way. Jovial. In a jovial way. Fuck you Fuck you Vikas.
00:43:31
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ah That's two out of three. Well done, Martin. Yes. Got another two yet though. Okay. During the foot, this is slightly similar theme to the second question. During the 14th century, Martin. 14th. Not the 13th. 14th. 14th. Drinking molten gold. but drink Drinking molten gold and crushed emeralds were used as a treatment for Bubonic plague. Leprosy. Hemorrhoids. Blindness.
00:44:14
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is I didn't even bother to write any of these down actually. I should have put gout in again because I know you like that word. I love a bit of gout in the morning. Gout. You know what, it's it's nuts because Drinking molten gold when I just go straight through you like yeah, I mean if we didn't have emeralds Didn't have hemorrhoids before you damn sure keep getting them now ah I'm gonna go with Emeralds man. This is this is again. It's a rich man. That's that's that's an expensive treatment in there and
00:44:54
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I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm going to well get that under Obamacare. You won't get that under a ah Obamacare. Bubonic plague, leprosy, hemorrhoids, blindness. Oh, let's, let's go with blindness. Makes no sense. um Well, hang on, hang on a second. So at that point, you've, ah you've, you've got the four
00:45:21
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medicine is about the, the four humans, right? Where you're either too cold or too cold or too wet or too dry. And that kind of causes, you cool yeah and so you have to have the the opposite thing of, so cut does that help me near arthritis?
00:45:43
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I'm going with arthritis. I've just swapped it up. What is it? That's the final answer. Arthritis isn't there. Oh, was it rheumatoid? It's bubonic plague, leprosy, hemorrhoids or blindness.
00:46:02
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All right. Okay. Oh, okay. So I'll just stick with my original blindness thing. It's bubonic plague, Martin. Oh, dying here. so One in four so far. Oh, no. Last question. Two in four. You got two in four. Two in four. Yeah. Last one. Yeah. Gold is edible, Martin.
00:46:27
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Gold. Gold. Yes. Some Native American tribes believed consuming gold could allow humans to, A, levitate.
00:46:41
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oo b B, become immortal. Immortal. C, development of an optimal poker face.
00:46:53
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What? D? D to have a really good podcast content. A bit like this quiz. Oh, right. Man, that the theft was like a desperate grab for for an answer at the end there. Ah, I've lost interest. I've lost interest in this quiz. Do you want me to recap? Do you want to recap? No, no. I have it levitate immortality to develop a poker face. Yeah.
00:47:23
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her or create better podcast content. It's a bit like this s quiz, closed brackets. I did use the exclamation mark on that one. um And i'm very you know I'm very prudent with the exclamation mark.
00:47:42
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I think that you don't like, see, I was thinking about this. the The other way, you don't like the exclamation mark. You feel it's a bit too overused. bit too bright Overused. Too shouty. Too shouty. Whereas I work in retail advertising, so I use the fucking thing a lot. I just have to ah just have to ah keep it to one exclamation point within a certain area. Yeah.
00:48:12
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I can't have like two sentences running on both with an exclamation mark. I can't have an exclamation mark in the heading and in the subhead, for example. Right. Well, it depends where it is. If it's in an email, it really pisses me off. I'm a colleague and it's it's not, you know, it's just not appropriate. You know, all the time. Liberal. OK, liberally. hey um A levitate, B immortality.
00:48:41
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Right, well, let's just take a face poker face and and i ah podcast content is right. So let's go with with immortality, the gods. It's levitation, Martin.
00:48:59
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I got two out of five. Five. All alright okay ah right. All right. It started well. Two out of five. It started well. I thought I might um might have this nailed. It started when the wheels fell off. They were, they relatively just wobbled and then went bing!
00:49:17
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like weebles like weebles wobble but they don't fall down one of the best i fell one of the best trap lines in the world ever weebles wobble but they don't fall down i do remember it very well all right so this quiz right so i um one of our regular listeners alexandra um who lives in greece Yes, he's possibly our only Greek um but podcast listener, friend of the pod. And I thought, you know what, let's dedicate this quiz to her.
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00:50:06
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So I've got a Greek quiz. Oh, loads of potential. so she can so if you but if you're great gods We have some Greek cottage going on as well. yeah it's tough We have a bit of a range of stuff going on here.
00:50:27
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it's a tough one because they got up to all kinds of shenanigans oh right yeah they were they were fantastic and i am kind of i have been getting quite into myth mythology over the last six months or so and yeah the greeks are But yeah, their stories are something else. um All right. you here you getry books Stephen written a couple of books about Greek mythology in the top. Very good. ah thirty Very good. Very good, Mr Fry. yeah Very good. All right. Let's see how you do. So in Greece, there is a chasm or a crack
00:51:18
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or a fissure, if you like, in the earth, but okay for that which emits which is this sweet smelling gas. And it has this kind of hallucinogenic qualities if you sniff it in. right So what did the ancients greece what did the ancient decide to do with this?
00:51:47
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once they once once once they once they found it out. Did they, right A, claim it was the entrance to Hades and on festival days throw food down to appease Cerberus, the three-headed dog?
00:52:07
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Did they erect a temple where you could pay for advice and and prophecies? Some more priestess. Or B, build a kind of hotel slash spa where you could unwind with your mates and talk business and have a laugh. Right. with Okay. Choose a card. Yeah. So was it was it the the entrance tattoo to Hades? It's A, Martin. It's A.
00:52:46
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Was it the ah the claim it was the entrance to Hades on festival days? Throw food down. Yeah. I'm very confident. I'm very, very confident. All right. Well, your confidence has not paid off because it's been.
00:53:03
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They decided to erect a temple, which is actually the temple of Apollo ah ah ah Delphi. tammy um and they ah and the And the priestess right offer debt of would smell the um the the hallucinogenic fumies and uh give purposes and people came from all around the world. Wow. Hmm. Okay. Okay. Let me just mark this down. I got it wrong. I don't know. You got it wrong. I was really confident, Martin. I know. I know. I was exuding confidence for like 30 seconds.
00:53:55
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Mm hmm. So the Acropolis, which if you can bring it to your mind, which is the iconic symbol of of of Athens, of Athens, you know, that and the well done nothing and the and the Parthenon. Yeah, which sits on it with all its columns and whatnot. um It was it was blown up. In 1687.
00:54:24
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1687 yeah 1687 so this is 17th century so was it blown up by the Venetians which is Venice which is which is a you lot just saying yeah yeah uh the Venetians yes a whole different bunch so all or the or the cough
00:54:57
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And we aren't talking the, um you know, people who like to wear black hoodies and eyeliner. Goths. It sounds like I would exclude the Goths. Right, so we're taking the Goths off the table.
00:55:11
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Sorry, their style. It's just it's not their style. Going back to your bedroom would have been a slightly different period of history a bit earlier than that. They're out later. No, a bit later. All right. but Oh, what I don't know now. Oh, who blew up the path on what was it? Was it the the Venetians or the Phoenicians? Very similar naming. And they say Phoenicians.
00:55:38
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you're going to you're you're going to classically 50-50 split it yeah and go with Phoenicians. I must point out actually that I have three possible answers a new had and you gave me four possible answers. So I'm just saying that that you um that you have a slightly easier Okay. Quiz. Yeah. And the answer is it was the Venetians, not the Venetians. Venetians? Yeah. I was wrong. Yeah. I'll go there two weeks' time. You can verify that. I can go there and bang some heads. You know, it's like, oh, you know. Right. Ask questions, take some names. So this was the 1687, the Venetian siege of Athens where the Turks
00:56:30
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were not doing so well and they decided to retreat into the the the Acropolis which up until that point had been standing for 2000 years and was pretty much how it was built it was like it it looked great it was fantastic yeah um um but um but it's where they stored their gunpowder and then there was one lucky shot from the Venetians, the Venetians which hit the gunpowder and blew the whole thing up. Wow. Which is why it's called... Because Turks were partly responsible for building Venice.
00:57:10
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Venice was basically but mostly based on the riches from the merchants from Istanbul. All right. Yeah. There you go. i was like You get the name okay some history on this pod. Yeah, you do. You Okay. You do. You know what? I thought, okay um anyway, number three. It's fairly as a swamp. It's a swamp. Yeah. Some would argue that it kind of still is. A tourist swamp. Just with more water.
00:57:42
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um Yeah. All right. Ancient Greeks used what as toilet paper? Oh God. Did they use leaves and moss? Right. Seems scratchy. but yeah Did they use a sponge on a stick?
00:58:02
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sponge on a stick yeah like a stick with a sponge you know like the yeah yeah the natural sponge what natural sponge natural which i presume they had odals of odals of natural sponge probably ah yeah because it's all in the fucking island over there yeah yeah um and or three stones Oh God, you just put stones in there just to like, put like a, it sounds so unlikely that we wipe, wipe yourself with stones. But being the most of Greece, I've got to leave aside the fact that, okay, the islands, I'm going to say stones, Martin. You're going to say stones and you'd be correct. You'd be correct.
00:59:00
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got one It's not so easy to find.
00:59:04
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Well, yeah, you know, it's a practical thing. You don't want to be like, you know, like call your mate who's a fisherman. So you've got any sponges. Well, that's what the Romans did. So that was their thing. They would have a sponge on a stick. And um yeah, it was it it was ah get this pull this it it was a shared sponge on a stick. It wasn't just your sponge on a stick.
00:59:34
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It was a shared sponge. Okay. A problem. Shared is a problem. Shared is a Shared is a. Shared is a. You'd halve your anal cleanliness problem with by sharing a sponge. I don't know. I think you actually multiply it by passing on whatever. Right. Whatever.
01:00:01
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bad bum monsters you've you've you've got. Alright. I've got a similar thing. Next time, I've got a quiz. I've already got one another one teed up. It's on a similar theme actually but anyway, I'll that was for another time.
01:00:15
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All right, you know what? We could do a whole side pod of just of just quizzes. I'm just saying. Could be just us giving it eat each other a quiz and that's it. That's the whole pod.
01:00:28
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yeah um Which isn't a bad idea to be honest. um if you're up up for if If you want like an ADHD side pod of just quizzes, let us know. Anyway, yeah number four.
01:00:44
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um So I've got one out of two, is that right? yeah Yeah, you know, you've got one out of three. Oh Christ, okay. um So you have to get both right. So I'll get one more to draw with you. Yeah, and you have to get both right to win. Right, okay. If you're getting both wrong, you're the loser. All right, so number question number four. Yeah. Ancient Greeks invented what modern the device? Was it A the computer, B the telephone, or C the can opener?
01:01:27
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Computer, telephone, can opener.
01:01:35
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Well, computer surely the first computer effectively was the um thing that was created invented by by the Chinese. What's the, what are they called? The beads. So abacus.
01:01:55
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apacus I think the abacus was invented by the Chinese. Yeah. I'm sure that was the first of thinking, Martin, they ask the first computer might be wrong. Okay. I'm going to say tin opener. All right. Tin opener.
01:02:15
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And you would be spectacularly wrong, I'm afraid. Oh, so close. I mean, just I'm kicking myself now because tin, no one had tin in Greece. Tin was cold. I think tinned food was ah ah was basically ah was a Napoleon. I mean, that's that that's around the no Napoleonic Wars, where he basically wanted food. Yeah, that's a stupid answer.
01:02:50
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Yeah, apparently the Romans specifically invaded England for tin because they found out they found it that on Cornwall they had this particular for a type of metal called tin where they can make armour and other metal implements with a lighter thing and they found out that Cornwall was the place to go for it. So that's the main reason they invaded England.
01:03:14
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Also, I would say that the main reason they invaded England was because it was so far out on there. As far as the Romans were concerned, it was like we it it was like that kind of country that was way over there. Yeah, that was scary. And yeah so what you would do was that.
01:03:38
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a It became the the place, if you wanted to prove yourself as an emperor, you would go and try and conquer there because that that would show your your metal. Then you could come back to Rome and I think ah Julius Caesar only managed to kind of get his foot on the on on the beach. So he kind of came into England.
01:04:00
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there was a bit of there was a it was it was on the South Beach um and there was a bit of a bargee bargee Right. And, um and the fact that if I'm remembering this, right, the the Romans wouldn't get off the off the boat because because they were too scared and then someone through the the the standard, the Roman standard into the water. Now, you know, that thing in films where they're holding up this big huge like
01:04:31
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that Well, I mean, that they were flat, actually. Yes, but it was like the source of of of pride. you You would not let the standard fall, right? That was like that was the sole embodiment of your if you your fucking army.
01:04:52
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So we threw it over, it forced all of the soldiers off the boat to kind of get there to to get the standard back and then they had a bit of a fight and then they won and then Julius Caesar got off the boat stood on the on the on the on the stony shore they went all right that's it I've conquered England and then he legged it back to to to Rome right that was it anyway getting back to the freaking quiz ah so i need to get this last one to right so the answer was the ancient greeks invented the computer which was it's called the um the anti-kathira it's about two two thousand years old it's the it's the um it's the oldest analog computer it was ah it was an and it was used to predict
01:05:44
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astrological astrological events, you know, like hey ah like eclipses. um Right. and ah And and we we didn't and and we didn't get up to its computational skills until the 13th century. So um well done, the Greeks. Well done, the Greeks. All right. So you have to get this one right to draw basically. and I'm not feeling confident about this one. I'm feeling confident for you.
01:06:13
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I'm confident for you. Oh, OK, thanks. I feel confident for you. All right. make we're we're We're going back to the gods.
01:06:26
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So a Greek god, goddess, should I say, and whose name means victory yeah was the inspiration to which sportswear brand?
01:06:40
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died So was it A6, A six ah-S-I-C-S, A6? Two, Adidas or Adidas or Adidas. Or three, Nike. It's Nike. I know this one. And you'd be correct. Be correct.
01:07:04
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Oh, that's nice much. We true. We true. We share the pants. We share a leg each. Okay. and Let's hope they're elasticated. There we go. Nice. Good one. All right. Well, um I will just quickly say ah
01:07:30
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um Let's just talk about jump in the cab, get get back to the town hall and then we'll and we'll clear out. All right, let's get.
01:07:48
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All right, I think we can say here at this point, um ah if you, and if you the outro, right, your feedback is vital to us. Yes, we read all your comments. And we might read one of yours out in the future podcast. Absolutely. So we'll say yours. I don't mean yours, Marti, I'm talking to the listeners.
01:08:11
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