The Frank Skinner Show - Plasticine Tabards

Episode Date: November 29, 2024

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get a coupon for a free Big Mac or McChicken. See details at participating McDonald's restaurants. It's Frank off the radio, featuring him and that Parsh radio, and the one with the French name, from South Africa came. They're all here, open brackets, hooray! Close brackets today! And thus we begin another episode of Frank Off the Radio. Oh, I heard myself, I don't know if you saw, it's the noise my dog does that. What a finish, that's sweet? I'm joined by Emily Dean and Pierre Novelli. Follow the podcasts on X and Instagram. You can email the podcast via frankhofterradio at avalonuk.com. I felt that could have done with a bit more verve, but there we are. Yeah, and why do dogs do that? You're a dog expert.

I am. I wouldn't choose that topic on the wheel though Because whenever people choose... What? Dog saliva? Well, no, whenever, you know when people choose the topic they think they should choose because it represents their brand Don't do that. They're risky. Because you will have terrible humiliation Well, I was offered poetry when I was asked to do it. Really? You know, you genuinely would be very good on the wheel I'd love to do the. Really? You know, you genuinely would be very good on the wheel. I'd love to do the wheel, but Frank don't dance. Yeah. Simple as that.

And so I can't do it. Also I would be extremely, you know when I wrote the sort of songs for this show about Frank off the radio, people said to me, oh man, people, two people said, I've got a real ear worm from that, it's a really catchy tune, and I thought, I bet loads of people now will contact me and said, we'd like you to write a theme tune for our show, nothing. Hate it when life doesn't work out exactly how you want it to.

I've written theme tunes for my own show as many times, but never had any external offers. And then someone actually got paid to write a song of which the lyrics are the wheel the wheel I mean not even it's there isn't even a it's or Michael McIntyre's they just go the wheel it's quite I'm guessing the same person who wrote the wheel. And thought, right, lunch. Absolutely ridiculous.

I don't like the one show theme. I don't like how it ascends. Yes. They're shouting it in my face. One! Well, it's a bit like they're having a breakdown. Yeah, what happened? It's someone correcting the King's grammar.

He keeps saying I. Yes, you're quite right. Sorry, just give me a moment there. Could you hear imagination? You know that thing like when you're in a car on tour and somebody does a pond and it goes quiet because everyone's thinking of another one. You can hear them thinking thinking I hate that sound it's like this oh no that's the dog so still no still no Jenny foot no no I didn't know that Jenny had had a bit of an accident. Okay. Yeah. I don't think we're allowed to say. Is this Jenny we should say? Yeah, most people would be aware. We've got a new Jenny. There's no end

to the Jennys going in. I'm not building this story. I'm not spinning Jenny. I am and relax. I'm not going to have a silence there where you all try to think of another Jenny thing. Topical. Or another jetty thing. Or another industrial revolution era. I was going to say, no, you're all right. There'll be Luddites listening to this going, I'm never listening to this again. Bringing that up. Anyway, now we've got a Luddite reference.

We probably have got Luddites reference. Let me tell this story. We probably have got Luddites listening to this story. So, Jenny Foote, who fell off her bike, so is not here, she does the clips for the show, the visual clips that go online and draw in people in their hordes. And she sent me some to have a look at and my hair was completely wrong. I mean, I'm not a vain man physically, but it really looked bad. So I texted Jenny back, can you rearrange my hair in post? I mean, obviously it was a joke. In post being in post production guys

So then she texted back I don't know that your preferred haircut sits in my area of expertise So I went to reply I went to reply and What I replied was you are too funny and the reason I replied that is when I went to answer her text I was offered that as a template response you know you know when email offers you some response and I thought email you've done well you've read you've recognized the So it was like, they're like an AI response, is it almost? Yeah, they just, so a lot of them are just, yes, thanks, or that's perfect, or something like that. Be right there. Yeah.

Daisy often sends me those. Yes, but this, so I sent back, you are too funny, and when I sent it, I thought, no, that's going to make her proud. So then I sent another one. Which is a sin. Yes, exactly. I don't want to lead anyone into sin again. So I censored another one saying by the way that was a template reply that I was offered. Frank why did you do that? Because I don't want to make anyone. It's a bit rude though. Yeah but you gave with one hand and then what did you do? Did I take with the other? You take it away. Oh, yeah, but it wasn't it wasn't like a compliment sandwich so much as a

sort of compliment on toast kind of thing. Well, there's no two sides to it. I think I need to make it clear that the whole concept of being too funny is utterly alien to my world view Too funny. I don't think so not funny enough a commonplace So this when I was told after about three weeks of not thinking it was even worth mentioning by our producer that Jenny had fallen off her bike I Texted Jenny and said I'm really sorry to hear you had an accident. And I put a kiss on the end of it. No, I never send a kiss to women I work with, unless I've

worked with them for a long time. I get the odd kiss. Yeah, but I've known you since the old times. But, you know, when we first met, kisses, well this was pretext but kisses certainly on letters was a common... When we first met it was pre-decimal. Yeah exactly I still end my texts to Emily much obliged. I end mine at your obedient humble servant. Anyway I thought because she's injured, I put a kiss on the end because I'm showing my concern. So she replied and said, thanks Frank, I'm getting better and I'll be back soon.

No kiss. And I thought, I know what that means. Yeah. Down, boy. That know what that means. Yeah down boy That's what that means Down all right. I did me down So No, I think it's

Let me put it this way our producer Daisy who sits now at my right hand She um Our producer Daisy, who sits now at my right hand, she once said to me, hogging you is quite an unpleasant experience. What a love song that would be. Really? Because I'm so anxious about hogging, I'm saying, hogging you is quite an unpleasant experience. La la la la la! La la la la la!

Oomph! Oomph! Oomph! Oomph! Minnie, you've got the... making the dog bark! So, that was a Minnie Rippleton sequence. Go on. So Daisy said to you hugging you is quite an unpleasant experience. Because I'm so wary of being seen as some sort of sex fiend. Yes. I don't think anyone would see it. Have you ever seen those adverts they have outside restaurants and shops where it's two

wooden boards that form a sort of A shape? That's semi-hog. Only the shoulders touch. You do grandma, grandma hugs. No, but just because some men hog women, like they're taking an imprint. They've got some sort of plasticine tabard. My favourite. Yeah. A plasticine tabard under their clothes, which they think I've got. Yes, I think I've got all the bits. That's one of the bands they play here at Spiritland, isn't it? Plasticine Tabard? Probably.

They've been blasting that all morning. They were live last night. For any new listeners, Spiritland is where we record these and it's the coolest place on the planet. And every time I've walked in, and we probably walked in here what, ten times? At least. The man says, can I help you? I mean, it's not like I copied a series of disguises. So you know you're an OBE, MBE I'm sorry. MBE you don't build me up.

Yeah you're an MBE you've got international representation as you never fail to remind us. Anyway on the subject of predators at work I need to clear up. I said that Faye, our former employee, wore a t-shirt with a Greek vase on, a sweatshirt, and I said I really love that because I love those vases and told her the whole story about how I'd seen her in an exhibition. The next time she wore the sweatshirt, it was the other way around. That wasn't Faye. No, it turned out it wasn't Faye. It was Charlie, who was another woman who was... Oh, let's name and change someone else.

No, I'm the villain in this. I obviously talked about the vase with such fervour. I thought, they thought yeah, VAR's my eye and then what did they think? Down boy. So yes. I love this idea you have that everyone's going around thinking Frank Skinner the sex fiend. Well you can, nowadays you've got to be careful, do you know what I'm talking about, Willis? I hope you don't take this the wrong way and that I think most people would feel quite safe with you. Hmm Is that okay? No, I'm happy for them to feel safe with me I might beckon them towards my bed, but only to say come into the light I feel if you beckon me towards the bed, you'd be wearing like a Scrooge Knight cap. Oh, definitely

Man, I wear more in bed than the people who go to Spiritland wear on the street. What do you wear in bed at the moment? What are you wearing in bed at the moment? Three piece suit? Pocket watch? I wear socks, thermal socks, flannelette trousers and then I'm not kidding. Trousers? I'm not kidding, well you know, pyjama trousers and I'm not kidding. Trousers. I'm not kidding. Well, you know, pajama trousers. And I'm not kidding you, I wear three t-shirts and a sweatshirt. Three t-shirts and a sweatshirt? Yeah, can you deal with this? Well, partly because I'm on tour at the moment. And as you know, hotels will spend on anything apart from a duvet.

I've complained many times on here that duvet, it's like a J-cloth that they're expected to sleep under. You can't change the heating in the room. So I've worn more than that. I've worn them so the actual, the top, I can't hardly get it off, there's so many layers to it. It's like... You look like you're doing something for charity. Exactly. Yeah, exactly. A hundred layers for charity. Yeah.

Whole man escapes from T-shirts. People have sponsored that. The T-shirt escape dance. The most seductive dance. The dance of a hundred shirts. In which he dislocates his shoulders, etc. So you dress like you're trying to burn a fever out of yourself. Yes.

Gosh. I just get so cold in the night. No, I'm with you, Frank. I'm not with either of you on this. I'm glad to hear it. We're all very happy in our own beds, thank you very much. I glow in the night like molten iron

Frank wearing some sort of I don't know some Tarzan get off No, I imagine Flintstones on one shoulder Like a leopard print one shoulder, yeah, yeah, okay. I imagine Pierre sleeping in the garden wearing only body paint. What do you imagine? Imagine stumbling over him if he was a burglar. Does that have to look like the garden? When those people get painted like the background? I can imagine you sort of trying to get back to, you know, primal existence. Oh, right.

Raw meat. Like those people on social media who have a whole career where they tell their viewers just to eat raw liver and sort of drink unpasteurized milk. Yeah, exactly. Don't warn them that they'll get salmonella. Well, and brucellosis, I think, from unpasteurized milk. I like brucellosis because it sounds like if you wanted to educate people about the dangers of brucelosis you could have a little cartoon character called Bruce-elosis who stood next

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CBC News. Guess where I went on Sunday? Church. I went to two, I did go to church. Yes! Well done. Technical victory, not the answer we were looking for. No, no, you're quite, that's quite right.

That's one of those things where there's a big delay on pointless or QIs, they look it up in the gantry and they go, we didn't have that, but you are technically... I think it's one of those on pointless where they'd say if I said where did I go on Sunday they'd say well I know that answer but it's going to be massive. A hundred yeah. No I went to two childhood homes. Oh lovely. Not dressed as Santa. The children aren't still living there. Is this in London or outside London? No, it's in Liverpool. Oh, so we've got to have a beetle in there. It's not their leaving of Liverpool. Do we have a John Lennon in there? John Lennon is one.

Lovely. You can probably guess the other, they're often yoked. I'm assuming it's, we've got some Paul action going on. Yes. So I went to the boyhood homes of both Paul and John. How did they compare? Well, I mean, I was surprised because I always think that John was the ragamuffin scary rebel. Tough guy. Yeah.

He grew up in a lovely privately owned home with quite a bit of stained glass and lead in the windows. I mean, it was a lovely middle-class home. Oh, he's lied. Well, I don't know if he did lie about it. I mean, don't get me wrong. I would have called it posh when I was a kid. I wouldn't call it posh now. I've seen posh. Yeah.

Yeah. But then- You've seen real medieval stained glass. Remember the first time our Nora went out with someone who had a car? Oh, the whole street came out. Well, we went out and it was like a rusty old mini and we walked around it like he had felled a rhinoceros and we'd gone out to examine the carcass. Did everyone in the street come out to look? No, I think they were frightened at the silhouette.

The sound. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, so that was, that was when my dad said, I'm not always going out with someone who's got a car. And my dad said, oh, we've lost her. He also said that when our Terry got a toothbrush. Oh, the toothbrush. Yeah.

Was it the case that Paul McCartney's house was this sort of? It was a council house. It was all right., it was alright. You know, I grew up in council houses, they're not tips, they're fine. But I did some things, I sat in the corner of Paul's house, where him and John wrote, I saw her standing there. You can sit in that actual corner of the house. And there's a porch at John's,

where they used to go in and sing because the acoustics was good and also John's auntie who raised him didn't want him actually in the house. Oh is that Mimi? Mimi yeah. She was very Mimi. Was it satisfying? Because I find that any sort of historical location goes one or two ways.

Either you sit in the place where they say the thing happened and you really feel a sort of mystical connection or you just go, oh, it's just a room. One or the other. Yeah, well, obviously there's a lot of, you know, this is a sort of chair that would have been in Paul's house. They haven't kept all of it. They got the original lino. To me, lino. That's the working class home sort of. If you've kept the lino. Yeah. And where was lino kept the lino, all the sound of dog toenails on lino is one of the great. The clattering. Did lino go in the kitchen?

If they did it with my boiled home, would they actually put authentic urine buckets in the bedroom and would they be full or empty? Oh Frank. It would be like the sort of reenactment society. Maybe they just produce authentic replica urine. Yeah maybe they just fill it more upon the anniversary of my death. Yes, yeah. This isn't Frank's urine but it's how his urine would have been. Exactly. And they could keep owls because our Terry had owls. Terry had many, many animals. But yes, but it was, you know what, I guess. I forgot about the owl. The owls were on top of the wardrobe. Yes, yes. Frank just got used to them waiting around. Well Terry hadn't worked out that they were

lively by night, so sleeping with them was an error. Did you just hoot at night? Yeah, and other owls gathered outside and they hooted. There'd never been an owl in our area. Where did they come from, those owls? A protest outside an embassy. Release our brother. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, but there were no owls in Albury, you know what I mean? We shall not leave the conf...

It's that thing they bust them in like in the Midas strike. They all signed a petition. Yeah, flying pickets, that's what they were. Oh man. Yeah, so they'd sit outside and shout, you know. Yeah, exactly. Shout him. Shout him.

No, it was brilliant. I'll be absolutely honest. I had a bit of a moment on my own in each of their bedrooms and in Paul's I just saw how brilliant that a bloke came from this working class house and then changed the world. I did think that. And in the other one there's a terrible thing which even when I think of it now makes me feel upset. On Wikipedia, which can be a merciless list of information, it says on John Lennon's Wikipedia, cause of death, gunshot wounds. And I always think, oh man, that just reduces the whole thing to a man versus machine.

Anyway, this is not what this show's about, emotional moments, but I did. I was, you know, they were my childhood and growth, the people, so it was a big deal. But here's the thing, I read John's house, by the way, has got a name. I mean, that was totally posh for us, if the house had a name.

They had these reports, school reports, and here's one of them. It says, his work always lacks effort. He's content to drift. When I got expelled, this is one of the few things I got in common with John Lennon, the Edmaster, Mr. Lardner, expiroment said, you're a drifter and one day you'll drift into something you won't be able to drift out of. This is Frank Sietter author idea. Now that's what he said. And then, but worse than that, and I swear to you this is true, when I did a teacher training for six months, I hated

it. It's the worst thing I ever did. And at the end of it, the headmaster of that school, bear in mind I was a student teacher, not a pupil, said to me, and I swear this is true, he said, I'm worried, he said, I think it's quite possible you could become a tramp. He didn't say it with an upwards inflection. I think it's quite possible you could become a tramp. No, it could be you. A tramp, a tramp. I mean, forgive me, I'm one of two. I know we don't say you anymore.

We don't say it anymore, but I leave it in for accuracy and for period charm. Yeah, that's what he said to me. How did we get to know him? He was the headmaster of the school I'd been teaching at. How did you give the impression of Trampton through teacher training to a man? You're just constantly sort of carrying all your notes on the back of a stick and whistling in the fingerless gloves. Do you know why it is? It's because he always wore that, he was a belt refuse Nick and he liked to rope around his waist.

No, I was, I used to wear this Henning Bow and overcoat that Akeeth gave me and a bully, and I'm talking about a bully when I was about 25, a bully on the bus, did a sort of tug-of-war thing with it and it snapped, so I had to wear that coat without the belt. So maybe that was why you thought you had the potential to be... Well, I mean, I just think I'd done so badly and my attitude was all wrong and I slept in the street. To be fair to him, you did once wake up on the Central Reservation. Well, more than once, but not during that period, that had gone. But yeah, so it just

all that came flooding back. Can I give you one more amazing discovery? I thought I knew a lot about the Beatles. I did not know that Paul McCartney's cousin Bert was one of the nation's leading, I'll let you have one guess each. Who? Accountants. No. Dog trainers. No. Cryptic crossword compilers.

Cruciverbalist. Does he work for Arrow Words? He worked for five main broadsheets simultaneously. He was so good at Cryptic Crosswords. And the other Paul McCartney cousin, Emily it Emily Atack related isn't she? Because Kate Robbins her mother. Really? Yes, I believe that's true. Well his brother of course was Mike McGeer of the Scaffold. Oh okay, I remember the Scaffold.

And his brother was, do you know the Scaffold? Did they sing the same thing? Yeah, you're looking, that used to be my support act. The Scaffold? It's a pod. No, they did, thank you very much for the entry, I thank you very much. Do you know that? I've heard that yes. Oliver Poole love. He was running around in his Flintstones garb at that time. With Roger McGough and John Gorman. Yes. Anyway. Yeah. Yeah. So what about that though? He was the man who

wrote Saw Three Pigs Turning Aside, 5-7, one of the great cryptic clues of all time. I know, I knew that would set Pierre into a frenzy. We might be able to think that. That was like one of those, it's like a QR code. If you scan it, it gives your phone a virus. It's been 10 minutes now. No, I don't want to lose you. Shall I just tell you what it is? Can you put him out of his misery? Because he's just not going to stop. Well, whenever you see a word like turning, that's usually a hint it's going to be an anagram because it's turned or it's mixing or any word that suggests jumbling of letters. So

an aside is the actual clue. So Saw Three Pigs turning aside, Saw Three Pigs is an anagram of stage whisper, which is an aside. What is this? Three, two, one? That's the main clue. But just to show, Berturt, Burt in action. Very impressive. Yeah, and he did it for ages. I think his memoir is called 30 Years of Burt. I'm more impressed by that clue than Obla de Obla da.

Oh, are you? Yes. No, I love it. One thing I learned as well that Paul, when he was very young, one of the first songs he wrote was When I'm 64, which I thought didn't come out till much later. How weird. Yeah. Frank what's your favorite Beatles song? It changes from day to day. At the moment I think it's If I Fell. It's when they're their most Liverpool. That's not one from his even older than 64. Because he even said,

you know Paul McCartney lived in his house, in that council house until 1964. He was like an international major major star, he's still with his dad in the council house. They had to move because people are thinking in the end someone took the whole fence from outside as a souvenir. Oh God. He didn't want to say anything in case they took it anyway. Now there's someone who really did take the fence. I didn't make that up. On if I fell, if I fell in love with you and there's a bit where it gets very Liverpool and he said well if I need to know that you will love me more than hair. And I thought, love you more than hair? That's a weird comparison. I mean, I, you know, I don't mind hair, but I don't love it. And then he's saying her of course, is

from Liverpool. That's very Scouse. Gosh, they lost that. Oh, anyway enough. Oh, it's weird from the outside world. I miss them. So we have a fashion inquiry Oh, well, I don't I think it might be an unknowing fashion inquiry Hodges quadruple seven on Instagram What shirt is all that was the inquiry? I thought it was from births He's up to his old imagine a Bert! He's up to his old tricks again. Imagine four seven-letter words and the clue is Hodges. He's like, I'm just going to burn this.

I've got no idea. If you're Bert, the cousin of, sorry I don't remember his actual name. It's not McCartney presumably. No, but if you're Bert, on your gravestone, you don't want rest in peace do you? No. You want something like precipice overthrown. Bert would annoy me though if he was splitting up with you. He'd give you some terrible crossword clip to solve.

Imagine what the text would be like from Bert. An anagram of it's over. Hodges wants to know what shirt you're wearing and it was in that clip where it looks like a football shirt but it's not. That blue and yellow. Oh, this is on one of the grabs from the podcast. Yes, on Instagram. Actually it's festival merch. I went to, there's a fabulous festival in Gloucestershire called 2000 Trees and there's a whole rock music thing happening where people are doing merch that looks like

a football. There's an Iron Maiden one that looks like a football shirt because there's a couple of big West Ham fans in Iron Maiden, so it's Claret and Blue and stuff. But yeah, so it's not a football blue and stuff but yeah so it's it's not a football shirt. I think Hodges might have been excited to find out you were suddenly supporting some minor Croatian football team. No no I'm not I was supporting 2,000 trees not easy. I like Hodges sounds very much like a friend of Billy Bunter's. Yeah I like, what the fat owl of the remove? Again a quote, just making that clear.

We've also heard from Becky. He used to sit outside our house at night. With his sign. I just wanted to give you some BTS intel. Do you remember what BTS was Frank? I told you recently. What it stands for. Behind the scenes.

Oh yeah. I just wanted to give you some BTS Intel on the Strictly Final Dance. Okay. I was talking about the fact that it's the most embarrassing thing on television. The people have just been kicked out for not being able to dance and then asked to improvise Yeah, and Becky continues yet after they've been given the boot and given the friend for life spiel Yeah from as I believe you called it Luigi. I think it was Luigi Yeah, a friend of mine appeared on the show, you know, I mean, I went to meet their family. It's so lovely their family I think we'd be friends forever. No, you won't. You'll never see each other again. You despise them, even as you left. You felt the next morning when you got up, you felt you could smell their house on your clothes, didn't you? That's the truth of it. Sorry, carry on.

A friend of mine appeared on the show. Sorry, that sounds like a humble brag. I'm now desperate to know who this friend is. We're going to have to try and work this out. Anyway, that sounds like a humble brag. I'm now desperate to know who this friend is. We're going to have to try and work this out. Anyway. And they said that neither they nor the pro dancers were told the song that would be played as they did their farewell spin around the dance floor. So not only do they have to deal with the upset of being booted off the show, being basically told they can't dance dance but they then have to improvise a dance to a sad song they potentially don't even know. The Beb are brutal. This is from Becky and I know I'm glad to have that confirmed because I often I did wonder when I watched

that do they vaguely know are they told beforehand look if you get booted out. This is the song. Yeah. Yeah. Apparently not. No. It is cruel. It should just be Ryle Albison's It's Over every week. They should just play the same song though. Yeah, then they know what's coming. It should be a song that's impossible to dance to, like The Number of the Beasts by Iron Maiden. It's just a spoken word intro and a lot of guitar solos. Do something with this. Go on. A boy named Sue by Johnny Cash. Don't take your guns to town or that. Yeah. Just dance to this. Screw you.

I think I've danced to it. Don't take your guns to town. It's got a bit of a... It suggests hand motions. You could do a little gun hand signs. I think I'm holding reins with my left hand when I dance to it. Hey, you could go on the wheel if you just said, I will only dance if I can do it in I think I'm holding reins with my left hand when I dance too. Hey, you could go on the wheel if you just said, I will only dance if I can do it in the manner of someone on a stagecoach or something. Yeah, I think they're quite strict. Oh, they're okay.

David and Huddersfield, Frank, has got in time. Did I tell you that you have to do, they do singles of you. So they film you in rehearsal, just in close up on you doing the dancing. So they've got really good shots of you dancing. So everyone just watches you dancing on your own. On the wheel. On the wheel. The wheel, yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. So you just, as on the point they go, right, dance on your own now please. Dance on your own and we're getting really close in case anyone misses you dancing on your own. I love the wheel though. I love the wheel though and you're so good on it. I love Michael McIntyre. But you'd be brilliant on it Frank, it just upsets me. Well it's also one of them, you could be on it and you could know everything about your subject

and never be asked a damn question on it. Oh yeah. But no, we've got it on what's it called? Series record. Okay. David in Huddersfield has been in touch and says, Frank forcing people in his pay, he's quoting you directly by the way, to listen to Dylan Thomas late at night, reminded me of Joseph Stalin allegedly forcing all his underlings to watch cowboy movies into the small hours. I'd have gone on alright with that, because of Stalin.

I think my brother had one on top of the wardrobe. If you had a pet Stalin, there's only one name you could call it Svetlana if it was a lady. Yeah, you would have done alright with being mates with Stalin though, because you love a cowboy film. How do you feel about Dave suggesting that? You remind him of Stalin. Are you comfortable with that?

I remember Vince Cable saying that Gordon Brown had gone from, when he was Chancellor to Prime Minister, he said, what's happened to him? He used to be this formidable figure in the House and now he's pathetic. And he said he's gone from Joseph Stalin to Mr. Bean and had got a big applause, well not applause, but big laugh and everyone was saying this is one of the great lines and I thought only in the House of Commons can that be seen as a downward movement. Yeah! He used to be like this brilliant murderous dictator. He was mass murderer and now he's just like a lovable fool with a teddy bear.

Yeah, how sick is that? It's also an odd, they're not equival, Vint. It's not like a... Yeah, but you know. Oh, lay into the greatest crush I've ever had. Well. Yeah. She, sorry, I nearly did a LIDAR cable joke. Thank God I stopped myself at the last minute.

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