DC-S1E0-Pilot
Program DiggerCast Season 1 Pilot
of 14-01-2007
Transcribed by Andrew Kennett,
version 10
of 100726
report - Introduction
Sean
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Welcome to the first ever, er SearchCast... the podcast about searching random and... pointless... subjects on search engines. Uh, my name is Sean Nicholls from seannicholls.com...
Andrew
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...and I'm Andrew Kennett from stormkeeper.net.
Sean
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The first thing we're going to er search in this podcast is simply enough, SearchCast!
Andrew
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(sounding slightly amused) Yeah, quite simple alright.
Sean
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So, ah... let's see what we've got here... first thing we've got here is Daily serchts, shirts... {gibberish}
Sean + Andrew
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Daily Searchcast dot com.
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Daily!
Sean
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No, I am not rewinding, alright? This is enough! (chuckles) Okay, I am not taking seventy takes with this, alright?
Sean + Andrew
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So.
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(laughing) That's fine!
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Yeah.
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We'll just work with it.
Sean
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Okay, so first things first, Daily Searchcast. Um, (speedily) don't really care now.
Andrew
Sean
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You got anything to say about that, no?
Andrew
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No, this is the first time I've seen it. Search engine news via podcast. Y'know, that's almost like what we're trying to do isn't it? (laughing)
Sean
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Um. (laughs a lot) Yes, it does, doesn't it? Almost as if we found this and... and we stole the idea.
Andrew
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(breathes in) Yeah, but we didn't really; this is just something that randomly happened.
Sean
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Well, let's see- (laughing) let's see what our doppelgangers are doing...
Andrew
Sean
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A 20-30 minute recap of the past day's news about search engines, and search marketing. No, you see the difference here is they're actually professional and doing something proper. We're just messing about, doing nothing real.
Sean + Andrew
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We're pretending to be doing something but no, we're just slackers
2:
Yeah.
Andrew
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Heh, yeah... but wait a second, they're only doing it on search engines. We're going and doing stuff from search engines.
Sean
Andrew
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There's a mar- there's a difference there.
Sean
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So all you copyright lawyers and everything there, you can figure that out for yourself and... you can email us at... we don't have an email address so just... I dunno...
Andrew
Sean
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Imagine, imagine that you're... no, yeah... project the thoughts towards us...
Sean + Andrew
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And um... if we're not awake, leave a message.
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We'll ignore them.
Andrew
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(laughs) Yeah. (coughs) Yeah, if we're awake leave a message anyway cos we're not gonna answer you.
Sean
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Er... are you s... you... yeah, I'm using Google, what are you using?
Andrew
Sean
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Hm, I think we need some sort of diversity here so you keep using Google, I'll use um... what have we got? Um...
Andrew
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Don't bother with Yahoo, that's still Google isn't it?
Sean
Andrew
Sean
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I dunno, prolly Microsoft's one, live.com
Andrew
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Er, er... bless yourself before you use Microsoft's.
Sean
Andrew
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Microsoft is the antichrist, remember?
Sean
Andrew
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(laughs) {pause} (breathes in) Yeah... remem, remem, remember that time when we were waiting for the er, DART?
Andrew + Sean
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That I asked you what-
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Nononono. No, okay? We're not going back to that, alright? The Guard said I was completely not at fault, alright. It was an honest mistake.
Andrew
Sean
Andrew + Sean
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Okay, fine.
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And, and she apoligised to me afterwards anyway, so.
Andrew
Sean + Andrew
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(sighs) Can we just get back to the subject here please?
2:
(laughs)
Andrew
Sean
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(sounds a little exasperated) Negative one.
Andrew
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92 point, 92 point 2 million
Sean
Sean + Andrew
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Sex?
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Something in- something interesting.
Sean
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Sex, panties, Searchcast?
Andrew
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No, I typed in "something interesting".
Sean
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Just something interesting?
Sean + Andrew
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The actual word "something interesting"?
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Yeah.
Andrew
Sean
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Um... yeah... that's... original, that is.
Andrew
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Yeah okay, let's try it with quotes. {mouse click}
Sean + Andrew
Sean
Andrew
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So, what's your first hit?
Sean
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Ah, I dunno about the first hit, but... I'm at this Simon Frankowwwuagh. Um... (laughs) I can't pronounce this.
Andrew
Sean
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I don't know! It's a website, it doesn't have an accent!
Andrew
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(laughs) I meant is his surname German?
Sean
Andrew
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(laughs more) Never mind!
Sean
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I can't pronounce it, how am I supposed to know if it's German?
Andrew + Sean
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How do you spell it?
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If I could-
Sean
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F... I'll just Skype you it, bloody hell. (pause) This podcast is going downhill really fast, this is!
Andrew
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Yeah, well... there's always.... this is only a pilot anyway.
Sean
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(agreeing) Thank bloody hell. Wait, thank hell, what? I'm thanking the wrong god here...
Andrew + Sean
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(laughter) Er, hell is- (more laughter)
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Anyway... the website... (laughter) the website is arbritrary.name/index.html.
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Okay, I think I know how to say it... it's Simon Frankau [Frankow].
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Nyeh.
Sean + Andrew
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Frankau.... ah, ye smartarse!
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Yeah.
Andrew
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I think he's German... this is an interesting name for a website, dogbomb.co.uk.
Sean
Andrew
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...you've heard of them have you?
Sean
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No I just like the name, dogbomb; it's like some sort of suicide bomber for dogs.
Andrew
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You'd have to be barking mad though to try it.
Sean + Andrew
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(pause) Okay, I'm currently at a Flick- (laughter) Yeah, I'm ignoring you completely, cause I dunno what you're talking about.
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(laughing)
Sean
Andrew + Sean
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Hmm...
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Isn't there laws against putting kids this age on the internet?
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Well, how old-
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Is she 5 or 6 or something?
Sean
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Here look, I'll... I'll give you the page.
Andrew
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Er, yeah... (pause)
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Er...
Sean
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There, now you got the page... tell me, you think that's legal?
Andrew
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...um (clears throat) actually they're from Israel, but you could argue that Israel's the 51st state?
Sean
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(long pause) Yeah.... umm... what?
Andrew
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I'm getting political here, um. (laughter)
Sean + Andrew
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Um...
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Achts, actually, I think it's art.
Sean
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...oh, actually really? Art.
Andrew + Sean
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Yeah...
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Um yeah... I kinda understood that, but you see the thing is that there's these crazy people who think that any naked kid on the internet is child porn.
Andrew
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It's not porn though, it's art; there is a distinctive difference.
Sean
Andrew
Sean
Andrew + Sean
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If this were-
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Oh, the law defines art.
Andrew
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Yes, it does actually; but, if this were child pornography it would not be up on the internet, on a reputable website that thousands, if not millions of people could see. Actually, I found this one which kind of was... weird, umm... from, from Google. Um, doing slightly sexual stuff, yet feel nothing.
Sean
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(pause) You do realise we're trying to keep this as a clean podcast?
Andrew + Sean
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No, but...
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We're not trying to, like...
Andrew
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No, but it's from, asexuality.org.
Sean
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How did you get to this!? What did you search for?
Andrew
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Um, I'm not sure actually... I... the idea being a s- (pause) ...something uninteresting... in quotes.
Sean
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And you ended up in asexuality?
Andrew
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Yeah, it's one of the hits, it's... top one's camouflage... er... obviously. Er, another one's for Charmed...
Sean
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Oh here, (fast) look at this, look at this; hoodies for iPods.
Andrew + Sean
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Hoodies for iPods?
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Yeah.
Sean
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ipodhoodie.co.uk. (laughs slightly, then reads off site) You want something unique to cover your iPod? Hoodies are a youth icon (laughs) widely recognisable despite their style. (laughs more)
Andrew + Sean
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(laughs) What?
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There are a lot of other cases for MP3 players which are all similar and uninteresting.
Sean
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iPod hoodies were created by a small home grown company in the U.K; the aim was to keep your Mp3 player protected in something unique and eye catching.
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Hoodies will transform your iPod into something more individual... and they'll steal music for you!
Andrew
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(laughs) Yeah... definitely.
Sean
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Aww, this is actually quite funny, these little things, they're just little hoodies... the the jumper thing with the hood.
Andrew + Sean
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Yeah.
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On the (laughs) iPod.
Andrew
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Coincidentally, where's the bling?
Sean
Andrew
Sean
Andrew
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Yeah, but you're meant to have- you can't, you can't have bling like that, it has to be gold bling.
Sean
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(pause) ...white's the new gold.
Andrew
Sean
Andrew
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...oh look, there's the bling!
Sean
Andrew
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(laughs lightly) My personal favourite is the iPod hoodie, banned from shopping centres nationwide...
Sean
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(sounding amused) Oh yeah, that's really happened.
Andrew
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Yeah. Do you, do you see the picture actually on the about... err, poddies?
Sean
Andrew
Sean + Andrew
Sean
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Oh, I see what you're talking about; the little like, thing in front of the Iraqi wall, thing. Yeah, okay I see, yeah alright. It's got the gold chain type bit.
Sean + Andrew
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I see what you mean.
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Yes, there's your bling.
Andrew
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Right, uhh... are they actually having a laugh or is this actually, real?
Sean
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Um, I would say from the quality of the website that it'd have to be real. (sounds slightly amused)
Andrew + Sean
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Yeah.
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Because every other joke website I've ever seen, they actually make the website look, kinda realistic.
Andrew
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Yeah, but I just want to say this one; this one is gold, for the press coverage: "An asbolute must-have!"
Sean
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Aww, the- Ohh, asbolu... ohh.
Andrew
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Yeah, guess what paper said that.
Sean
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Ummm, I'm going to guess... The Mirror.
Andrew
Sean
Andrew
Sean
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(sarcastically) Oh, well that's clearly a high quality newspaper isn't it.
Andrew
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(sarcastically) Yes, it is.
Sean
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Okay, I think we need to like speed this up now and start searching for something else.
Andrew
Sean
Andrew
Sean
Andrew
Sean
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{Typing and mouse clicking} (puts on a TV presenter type voice) Why don't you join us at home, boys and girl(s)? Something else... {keypress} Enter.
Andrew + Sean
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(laughing) Yah... I just uh did it-
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Oh bloody hell!
Andrew
Sean + Andrew
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(sounding amused) Boys and girls, please disregard the last request for you to search for "something else" because the first entry comes with "sexxxx or something else?"
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Why, what- (laughs)
Andrew
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That's my second hit on Google.
Sean
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Yeah... wha... what do you mean that's your second one? Did you put it in quotes again?
Andrew
Sean
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(grumbles) Smartarse, making me look bad.
Andrew
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It looks better in quotes. What's this about? "Gladly putting the 'D' back into Dork."
Sean
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Oh, where's this one? Ohhh. See? See? See how this works?
Sean + Andrew
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You see, you look for something that seems... normal, you get like half a page of normal hits then suddenly, it just shines at ya; the one link where you got crazies.
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Yeah.
Andrew
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(laughs) Yeah and you think-
Sean
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Don't laugh, crazies are downloading this thing!
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Come on.
Andrew
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Yeah, we're crazies for doing it... but who cares?
Sean
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Well, you didn't need to mention that... it's kind of implied.
Andrew + Sean
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Yeah, how about ... how about this... something-
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Giving away our secrets... (mumbles)
Andrew
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(laughs) Yeah. How about this one? I don't you... idontlikeyouinthatway.com.
Sean
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Where are you getting this from?
Andrew
Sean
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...I know, oh my God. (sighs)
Andrew + Sean
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(laughs a little) It's in Google, yah I'm just looking at the moment.
2:
Hmmm....
Sean
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...there were times where you wish you were drunk or hungover?
Andrew
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Oh, I got Jack Daniels here!
Sean
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...you've just come back from, did you say Amsterdam or something?
Andrew
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No I'm not going, I haven't been to Holland yet.
Sean
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Holland... oh Holland, right... where you eat the tulips, right okay, my mixup.
Andrew
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(laughs) ...or smoke the tulips. Yeah, they smoke anything in Holland I bet.
Sean
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...now that's rashit, rashell... {gibberish} racial stereotyping.
Sean + Andrew
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(says something unintelligable)
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Yeah.
Sean
Andrew
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Yeah, well... (clears throat) a lot of stuff is actually legal in Holland though... which is one of the reasons I'm probably, if I ever actually decide to live there, I'm going to be stoned half the time.
Sean
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Yeah it's crazy in Holland, it's probaly illegal to have sex with an iPod.
Andrew
Sean + Andrew
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Anyway, the website I found... um, what have we got here? Um, okay this website I really don't really care about, but we've got some links here that kinda look a bit weird.
2:
(laughs)
Sean
Andrew
Sean
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Princess Roo; the Princess of Roo, hang me out to sleep where sunshine grows.
Andrew
Sean + Andrew
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See? No matter what you do, crazies; you're just surrounded by crazies... okay, here we go.
2:
(laughs)
Sean
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(reading site) Happy New Year, I have moved into... I've moved house to somewhere else, as you prolly know.
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Oh, aww... as you prolly know. Aww, isn't that sweet? Thank you for the comments you've left asking for my new address... I'm afraid that I can't send you a- (laughs)
Sean + Andrew
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Oh, they're asking for the- they're asking for her, the address... that's brilliant.
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(sounding amused and astounded) What?!
Andrew
Sean
Andrew
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Yeah, stalkers, my mistake.
Sean
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Yeah, look... thank you for the comments you've left asking me for my address. (laughing)
Andrew + Sean
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Comm- maybe...
2:
(continues laughing a little)
Andrew
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Are you sure it's... I'm sure she's just saying comments when it's actually just a comment.
Sean
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...you're getting nitpicky now... mmm... come on.
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I'm struggling hard to think why you would be possibly be listening this far...
Andrew + Sean
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Let's just go on for half an hour and stop it then.
2:
So...
Sean
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Okay, you've got 7 more minutes of this crazy shit!
Andrew
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Yeah. Uh, the next one will be shorter and we'll probably do a little more research this time.
Sean
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No... nononono nonononono, no... no. I refuse to be associated with a podcast that actually researches stuff... alright?
Andrew
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Okay, fine. We'll do a... um, we'll do... what we'll do then is we don't research, we just come up with some random words before we do the podcast and search them-
Sean
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No, that sounds too much like work! You're not understanding... alright? (sounding very Irish) I want to sit down in me chair, I wanna look at a screen. And I want to talk crap while typing shit in, alright?
Andrew + Sean
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(laughing) Okay.
2:
Like that.
Sean
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I don't wanna t'ink, if I wanted to t'ink... (laughs) I wouldn't be doing this!
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Anyway...
Sean + Andrew
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No, I think the best thing to do from now on right...
2:
(laughing)
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...is we follow strict rules, alright?
2:
Yes?
Sean
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So we type something into search, okay?
Andrew
Sean
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And, we select a link or links from the pages that come up, right?
Andrew
Sean
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But any page you go to, you have to follow a link from there.
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Okay...
Andrew
Sean + Andrew
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Okay so... yeah so
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Ohh, you...
Andrew
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Oh,I see what you're saying... it's a bit like going to Wikipedia and following links through.
Sean
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Yeah. Okay, so you search for some random phase... phase?
Andrew
Sean
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Thank you.
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Phrase. (laughs)
Andrew
Sean
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Some random phrase. Alright, you pick- you pick a link and then you follow the links from there...
Sean + Andrew
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...and see where we end up.
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But wait-
Andrew
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But wait, what happens if it's just one page?
Andrew + Sean
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And we-
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Well then we go back.
Andrew
Sean
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Well, you got the option, either go back or suicide.
Sean + Andrew
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I mean the option's up to you.
2:
(laughing)
Andrew
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Yeah yeah... coincidentally, this is interesting... er last link, second page in Google for "something else"... they're actually advertising a gun. (pause) They're actually talking about a gun here. Um, M109 155 millimetre [misinterpreted as millilitre] SP Howitzer.
Sean
Andrew
Sean
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Alright, cuz... that would be a water gun... wouldn't it?
Andrew
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Yeah. Could you imagine a water gun that was... oh that's a hose.
Sean
Andrew + Sean
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(says something unintelligable)
2:
The strange places where your mind goes.
Andrew + Sean
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(stumbling) That's like... that's like what you have at the back of a fire engine. Y'know, it'd be a Howitzer water pistol.
2:
A gun?
Sean + Andrew
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No I don't think fire... the fire brigade ever really needed to bring guns to shoot the fire.
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No, that...
Sean
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You see, that's why they bring water.
Andrew
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Yeah... no, I'm just saying what a... the, this Howitzer... it's um...
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Well you know what a Howitzer is, don't you?
Sean
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It's like a small dog, right?
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That they keep out barking.. like howitzer, but...
Andrew + Sean
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But isn't that a...
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(makes a throaty sound when he speaks) Howitzer... howitzer.
Sean
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It sounds like that, right?
Andrew
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I thought that was a howlwitzer
Sean
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Yeah howlwitzer, there you go. That's how it's correctly pronounced... howlwitzer.
Andrew
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But I'm just talking about a Howitzer as in the um... cannon.
Sean
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It's Dutch-German-Austrian... Nicarian. ...ist.
Andrew
Sean
Andrew
Sean
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How can a Howitzer be a tank? [It's actually an artillery.]
Andrew
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I'm telling you, it's a tank!
Sean
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I know what you're telling me...
Sean + Andrew
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It's not what I'm believing.
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Look.
Andrew
Sean
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(long pause) A tank, let's see here.
Andrew
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Well, not a tank exactly, but a type of tank.
Sean
Andrew
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Available modifications...
Sean
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See here, now why can't you buy tanks on the open market?
Andrew
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You can actually, you can buy them on... oh, you can buy jets on eBay!
Sean
Andrew
Sean
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I don't really count eBay as the open market really cuz by open market I mean you actually recieve your gu... goods gugugoods.
Andrew
Sean
Andrew
Sean
Andrew
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(pause) ...it's a website.
Sean
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What's a... what website?
Andrew
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{faint clicking} Umm, it's called "I Want One of Those". Coincidentally, I just put in "I want" and I've got iwantavacation.com, I want you, I want a new girlfriend, iwant... ah, here we go; I want one of those. {clicking sound}
Sean
Andrew
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(another pause) Hm, freeview DVD tablets... those are quite cool.
Andrew + Sean
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Uh...
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DVD tablets?
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Yeah.
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Did you say DVD tablets?
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Yeah.
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As in tablets you take to watch DVDs?
Andrew
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No, I mean er.... err.... the Xoro - that's spelt with an X by the way - HSD 7500 and 7510 multiregion portable DVD players; rather a mouthful though not literally please... huh? Umm...
Sean
Andrew
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Yeah, I know, uhh... it said in brackets here "rather a mouthful though not literally please". Unless they're talking about the fact they're-
Sean
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Okay yeah, we need to wrap up now because we are actually braching on the 30 minute time limit that you gave and uh, I really am becoming quite disturbed with (slight laugh) what we're coming up with here.
Andrew
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Uh yeah, hang on I just want to go and take off my JavaScript...
Andrew + Sean
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Er, or put on my JavaScript and find that bloody jet....
2:
Yeah... I'm waiting with you lot as well...
Sean
Andrew
Sean
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No, we'll wait for you...
Andrew
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L39 Jet, and we're not kidding... ooh, this looks interesting.
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? actually searching... ah, sold out. Go figure... emm.
Sean
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You, you know we have like um 40 seconds left.
Andrew + Sean
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Yeah, um it's an RAF jet and it goes for about 200 thousand-
2:
Faster
Sean
Andrew + Sean
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200 thousand
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Funnier!
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Uh... funnier?
2:
Less sadness!
Andrew
Andrew + Sean
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Yeah...
2:
More emotion!
Andrew
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(laughs) Shut up!
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Don't make me go over there; I'm gonna be over there at the end of this month.
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That's great...
Andrew + Sean
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Super fa-
2:
Now that's a threat.
Andrew
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(laughs) Yes, I know it's a threat. Listen to this: super fast delivery from £3.95.
Sean
Andrew
Andrew + Sean
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Uh...
2:
I wasn't listening to you
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Sorry...
2:
I was just messing, I wasn't paying attention.
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(laughing)
2:
Come on.
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1:
Yeah.
2:
You think I was actually paying attention to you doing this?
Andrew
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Yeah but a 5 year, um... oh. (reads off the site) Sadly a beaurocrat with the imagination and flair of a cashew nut has demanded that we no longer sell the L39 jet. Apparantly due to some consumer protection act or other we may no longer offer the jet - and we were selling so many after all - in case someone hurts themselves.
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Go figure. You can still buy one (laughs) but not from us, sorry! However, we're not going to be bullied into submission, so even though this is not an offer for sale, here's how much fun you could have had... were we not all citizens of a nanny state.
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Obviously we're talking about the UK here, but um yeah...
Sean
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Yeah, okay we're getting a little bit weird now alright, so I think we really, for the last time, no backing out of it, whatsyerface.
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This is the end of the podcast, anything to say?
Andrew
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Er, yeah... we should probably er, if we're doing the next one we should probably make it less weird.
Sean
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(pause) Okay. So, that's the end of the first Sean... uh... not Sean Nicholls, Jesus.
Sean + Andrew
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(speaks gibberish) This is why I said "no cuts", right? You see, because I did this with my seannicholls.com thing, right?
2:
(laughing)
Sean
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And I said it 70 times... and now that's all I can say! (hits desk in rhythm) That's all I can say!
Andrew + Sean
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Remember in-
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Alright... (hits desk) so thank you for listening to the Sean Nicholls dot com blog entry
Sean + Andrew
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I don't know if that's what you thought you were listening to, but really that was what you were listening to.
2:
(laughs)
Andrew + Sean
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Well yeah actually-
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Come back again and ehh I don't know what he's saying but who cares.
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(laughs)
2:
Alright...
Sean
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So come back again where next time we'll be less weird.
Sean + Andrew
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Um, I don't know if you'll be listening then but...
2:
(says something unintelligable)
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But God help you if you are.
2:
Yeah. (laughs)
Andrew + Sean
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Yeah... maybe if we made it to the second one, they'll actually like it better.
2:
Alright.
Sean
Andrew
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Oh yeah, coincidentally... you know what you said about that's all you can say, remember that episode of Dexter's lab where he just says "omellete du fromage", uh or something.
Sean + Andrew
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(pause) ...you don't understand "the end of a podcast", do you? (laughs)
2:
(laughs)
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When you say... when you say "it's ending now" it means you, you don't bring up new topics.
2:
(laughs)
Sean
Andrew
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? before the end of it, but...
Sean + Andrew
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1:
Oh dear God... (makes light banging noise)
2:
(laughing)
Sean + Andrew
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1:
Uhhh, alright. People, anyone who has reached this far... you honestly... please, go into government. Cuz you... you have patience...
2:
(continues to laugh)
Sean
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Patience I just don't have! (mock crying) I just don't have this patience in me! Okay...
Sean + Andrew
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1:
So.
2:
Just end it already!
Sean
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Yes, okay... (adopts formal voice) thank you for listening... and I'm sorry for putting you through this torture!
Andrew
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It's not as bad as Thomas's podcast though. (laughs more)
Sean
Andrew