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2015-09-03 | 🔗

Live from The Edinburgh Festival, Dan, James, Andy and Anna discuss the history of buttons, White House squirrel problems and sewer-powered street lamps.

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Look at that and hello and welcome to another episode of no such thing as a fish. A weekly podcast this week coming to you from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. My name is Dan Shriver, I'm joined by three other q. I please welcome to the stage as Andy Murray and it just ends games and James and the and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite backs from the last seven days and in no particular order. Here we go starting with you, James, Oregon, okay, my fight this week is that Doug pay make street lights collapse You always hurt the ones you love. What does it do that Well, it's urea that you get in, don't pay and it's corrosive
all over the World Street lights are falling down to two dealt p, that there was a report that came out and San Francisco. They would just killing over these lampposts. The p was really ruining them, and this is a quite from. Then we encourage people in dogs alike to do their business and other places like a proper restroom we're on one of our fire hydrants. The idea of the fire hydrants is that made out of cast iron, so they won't corrode okay, but I didn't know that the people pissing on lampposts was a thing. On early doing now, I've been clearly wasting. My time is dogs. Ninety ear and I on things in order to market their territory, don't they were ass? Humans only have, as we could just we anywhere else good point yeah. They did some tests on dogs as well. They tested how they how they do with in terms of status, so they took forty eight labradors through a course which was full of urine of other dogs. You know that's cause, that's what scientists do and
They found other animals with higher tail bases, entail positions of that I was higher up. They did more you're in marking, so they think that is a sign of stages into more Europe marking, and you are high stages of your tails as a woman of a mountain and ways and there is some doubt some very submissive, low stages, animals they just fake it they lifted leg, and then they don't sprightly thing is I'm sure, Humphrey or maybe the just really like street lights and they don't want to read them out will be organised so the light environments we friendly dots. So have we other than just encouraging people not to piss lamp to death? A we are we doing something about? The key yeah. Maybe we are ok, go does a donkey rhino in the spanish town of elegant morale, so they have a point All the pole has a grid underneath it, and the idea is that the dogs will pay on this pole. So law that and where was it elven drill?
the law that you have to train your dog to recognize a dog get rhino near a nice into that say it isn't. But there is, for a Chenza in ITALY, which says that someone can be fi. five hundred euros for not cleaning up after your dog urinates. Wow people have to walk around with a bottle of water and wash it away, awesome kitchen towel and you just definite wow good. It does happen thing to Museum in Duke's it the very worried about it is a Bridgeport museum and it. It has a really expensive archive of the town's eight hundred year old rope, knitting industry and this museum snowbunny eroded, but I don't get rent and they found the release. The National Museum, the entire recently just right around here and then I'm it. This is a great waves. Taking over somewhere. Eventually, with war is wing,
you're. Just we oughta enough in or collapse. It's a long term strategy does not oblige Greek always not worth having them. I just want to read it today but dealer why the denote? What do we know why the dogs are so attracted to this rope and netting museum, or is it a mystery very interested in yet early fishing industries, anyway, if we're going off topic here, I don't care, I don't care and innovative types are using dog feces as a solution to some problems. What possible problem How do I set it presented that collect cryptically? So if you put your doorways and abandoned it goes to a sigh and then it gets burn up and releases lots of bad stuff into the atmosphere bought in Massachusetts. They ve created a methane digestion so that you put your dog theses into this meeting digestive and its powers,
Is today the moment only powers, one lump. I think football fixtures collapsed. They are working on it. Okay, there is a is powered lamp in London, a street light is powers, and it's right. It's great offices in Covent Garden is by the Savoy hotel come on. You don't need me doing that and they used to have them these these to be straight lines which burned off the gas from the sewers. So, the day the gases which will come up these pipes and into just be burned off the top and has any
one still working, but it's called the what's. It called the carting lane a patent sewer ventilating lamp. That's what it's called the works: wow lamps in London, speaking of which there are fifteen hundred gas lamps in London, that it's still powered by gas and there's a team of five people who worked for british gas apparently, and they are employed to go around London every night and wind up these gas lamps. So they didn't actually light the fire. They wind up the clock thing which ignites the gas lamp on the inside and they climb not as and go up there and do that every single night you'll see them never seen them. You aren't looking up jail It was all looking up. Isn't that cool? They call themselves the guardians of the lamps. british gas employs yeah he's cool. I've discovered a really great place to buy you're. An online
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now, rather than a liquid, that you can just smears some urine smell of Cairo to it stops, I guess other colleagues may be coming into your house in your sofa. Yeah yeah home is full. Kyle. It is all the time. Actually, we ve got a new sponsored by the way for this week's pokers, guys Peter Lp March and Fiji, but also you can also go down the list of all the things that they sell and there's lots of animals is really it's really cool and they bottle them in those kind of you know when you go Passos health shops where they have up your mass, you know all those big huge about it. I feel like protein shake, there's, there's lots of different animals. My favorite one that I saw is that you can buy one gallon of pure black bear urine a gallon, a gallon, that's where I saw a long must take a bear to produce a gallon of hearing straight into the thing as well, but it must be a nightmare that could take down a building. Yes
Have you heard of a white footed, sportive lemurs I haven't no. Neither had I until until I found this out so app if kind of Lima and really anti social, in fact, actively avoid each other and They go to great lengths to not see that mates or their family members or anyone else, and they only communicate in the communal toilets. That's what I do. If they go, they leave a scent mark cause you like writing little comments on the toilet wall, basically yeah yeah and they just go, and they say oh good, good mom was here or whatever, and then that's why I've seen your mug with yeah laughs will be nearly eighty episodes before we had our first, your mum, geographic. We we we stood out very well other uses. good uses for urine
I have been criticized by the local councillor criticized. That's a nice day, and this is the best way they went on forums line and that our dog is lost on the people in the forms that well used, pay all over town and it'll come back and finding about, is quite a normal way of doing. It said the owner, just put up a sign silly. There was a Who was interviewed about it? Who said he will be pleasantly surprised if it works, but probably it'll be better if they could like place, jumpers and items of owners clothing because they really recognize things that the owners smell of so he said the only way the year and thing would work was if the owner had an incontinence problem and I'm going to have to move on to the next fact. In a few minutes. Ok, though, is a book called a copious Bates Yonah from seventeen, six by George Bait and he had a goggle from mouth ulcers, which included a white doctored
wow. How do you go? will the solid thing. I think you then diluted in some water. I won't say why naturally yeah, why not take the edge off it? some other uses for dogs according to old medical dictionaries from one from Robert James in seventeen. Forty three he said, keeping a warm puppy next to one's upset belly will give a kindly and cherishing he nice man and not quite nice, dog dunk, being hot, an accurate might treat to take Might. might as well with the joy of anything else. So there was an experiment in nineteen fifty five, which I really like, where the urine of schizophrenic was fed to spiders to find out if they made webs
any differently compared to when they drug the year really sounds like they're, just getting the words out behind schizophrenic, spiders you're in what are we going to do that you can imagine that, though I bet they make really wacky webs, but it's been crazy. They didn't. There was no marked difference in the webs of this spiders if you're drunk this schizophrenic is urine or the only thing that could be going to die from it. The scientist said was that year and must taste extremely unpleasant after taking just a sip, the spiders exhibited, marked appearance, the pharmacist. Why would have made a wet, but it just said screw you in the middle of it Ok, let's move onto our and x factor for pact number two, and that is my fact. My fact this week is that after the button was invented, it took more than one thousand years for someone to invent the button hole
with these, what we do, what do they go? Who gives making them and they? doing things like well, I guess we'll just we'll just latch a bit of string around it. That might be the way it just. No one thought to have created the buttonhole and eventually- and I love that that must have been the biggest innovation of it's day the little slit in the middle clothing. It's the loops do So I think the buttonhole came about in the mid thirteenth century and Europe when the buttonhole came to being. But you can listen to that if you have a loop that works perfectly well, I didn't really see why bulletin button button. We don't have to be reinforced as well, because you can't just cast a hole in your clothing because then that'll, that'll, widened and eventually it'll be no go for a button. They do have to be reinforced guys I know that public service announcement was brought to you yeah, and they were used for decorations well at night because they reveal Nate and and whatever there was apparently really expensive as well. According to friend coach Cassie, who is the world's biggest,
button collector wait, wait, wait! Does he the world's largest collection of buttons or he's the world's biggest elixir. He has three buttons but he's eight foot, six yeah. He said that there was a time when the buttons were so expensive. You could pay off a debt by plucking a precious buttons from your suit. It says the one who owl is the ridicule: yeah, there's a really really good article about buttons on slate dot com. If you want to go there afterwards for more buttons, stuff and gallon the the quota is a button. It takes an extraordinary amount of information about a given time and place it's provenance onto a crowded, little canvas children learn to button and unbutton early in life, and they keep doing it until that debt yeah he's a great little thing. Anyone in the audience hear anyone listening at home
all of us on this stage, most likely. The one thing that unites us is that we're all. If you have a button on, you are wearing a button that comes from the same town in China. There is button city in China is called child pole and child toe produces fifteen billion buttons a year and it started because three, I think it was three brothers. They just found a few buttons on the ground. Then they started collecting buttons and then it turned into an industry, and it became this open it, but now they make the rather than in the yeah yeah yeah. That's the amazing thing: they fined fifty billion yeah. Nobody knows where they come from, but it's not it's not every single button on the world, I think it's something like three out of five people if they wearing buttons, where buttons from button city and balanced He apparently is amazing. It is situated very near toothbrush city
a lot of the toothbrushes legs to putting the whole city under that something about something else about buttons. Lots of Birmingham is built on buttons. Sociable stay with me, so Shell buttons used to be extremely popular buttons made from from other purple show and in the eighteenth century, the with the world's positive the button town of asian century was Birmingham that I made a huge amount of the world show buttons and the best ones apparently required AC different processes in order to make a button and there was so much waste child what they produce, that they dug enormous pets to bury it all and lots of them in today, especially in the about him, have their foundations on mother Cause Pub so that foundations on mother about Zimbabwe? Who does that not know that is really interesting? Did you know that cloth buttons were illegal? In seventeenth century France cloth buttons, sloth buttons are illegal in seventeenth century France yeah they sound totally useless. I haven't found them
like buttons made of color? That wasn't the reason they bound them? Basically, it was due to big button. Yeah. It was the handicraft industry who said that, basically, by making these cloth, but since was going to make how of buttons made out of hello whenever they're going to make the make them obsolete, and it was so bad that people that officials would go to houses and search them looking for buttons. This on you could be arrested enjoying a button in the privacy of your own home. According to this article, I read wow when we say enjoying a Boston, I mean you're enjoying your bus, and I think you might I have to be arrested. Yeah there was a button alternative, since we didn't really figure out the button buttonhole thing in ancient Greece and Ancient Rome was the fibula, which was a forerunner of the safety pin and send you out exactly like a safety pin, and they had these in ancient Greece and Rome. An thousand example of one of these things, which I love, which is an invention that vanished from
Two thousand is safety pen resurfaced, and so they had a safety pins of ancient Greece did not only to have their tunics. The guy, who invented the modern sakes pen, was cold water HANS, I think an he sold is pace of four four hundred dollars because he had he had like a gambling. That's all something so he sold is painted, so they can pay off. Is that thought. I say to pet: it's nothing! It's not really important aid of no avail not saved events to be almost as many as a common and Elsa he invented, I think, like. so a machine like similar to the lies, how events of the actual so machine, but he did a precursor to it, and he didn't pace in that ass. He thought it would put a lot of seamstresses out of work. Oh it did the opposite of that created a massive global interest.
my friend, the one thing that buttons that, when the buttonhole did come into being one thing that they were useful in fashion between thirteen and fifteen centuries was detachable sleeves? So, That was a really fashionable thing. Is that you would have you know you could swap between outfits that, when you're wearing a different outfit every time he had lost, he had a sleeve draw, which is justly New, probably they did not know they had nothing warehousing, integrate this that's really cool. Amazing, you ask us, one day, you might accidentally leave the house with all the sleeves on disaster and some people say I he's just doing on purpose to be pretentious, so basically before the busing hall was invented. Buttons did become very popular, everyone was wearing them ornamentally and one of the hangovers of that
time which we rarely think about. I was reading this in Bill Bryson's book at home. If you think about a suit coat and the buttons by the cuff, they they're not practical buttons, they're just ornamental three ornamental on each side, yeah. That is weird now so that's a hangover. from back in the day, pre buttonhole well so another hangover which we are wearing every day, every female in the audience symbols of sexism of the olden days is the fact that buttons on women's clothes on the opposite side to buttons on men's clothes. So there are loads of theories about why. That is the main theory. I've heard is that women were dressed by maids yeah, so the the Maes who are mostly right it would kind of be. It would be easier for them because it was on the left, hand, side, whereas men dress themselves. I thought it was because all women are left handed yeah. I've heard so yeah, I think, the main theory,
Another theory is that so men have them on the right hand, side, because they would have their weapons in the right hand, when their kind there s weapons, so say what you are trying to get dressed until someone. At the same time, it actually is much easier. One hundred I will do to the death, but that yeah. Chilean Lincoln's can't stand the same room as friends and family, who word buttons AB she's called Gillian, kids and she has something called Coom, a phobia which is the fear of buttons. She's had it since she was eighty seven, her boyfriend's Nate during certain the can only work clothes with Ips yeah, but her name is Lincoln's, which is nicely ironic, oh of outside that yeah yeah, we must have the same thing yeah.
It together. Okay, ready one. Two three Steve jobs: Steve Jobs was scared of buttons and and a partially there's a theory that that's why it led to the bottomless Iphone because he was so yeah, so Steve Jobs, Actually he was, he had a fear of of buttons yeah. He did say that and yeah, two thousand and seven. I think something about the fear of buttons was Napoleon's. I think great, granddaughter Marie Bonaparte really ready. wow. Is she the one who had a clitoris moved We can't just holiday We very quickly she was. She did some studies. While she looked at the distance between the clitoris and the vagina of lots of women and found out that those where it was closer had more orgasms and she wants to have more orgasms, so moved her clitoris surgically closer to Chattanooga and she had to move twice and it didn't work. It's very sad
research area, mighty families of Napoleon? His army actually had a situation with buttons, which was that their buttons were made out of tin and I've read. I don't know if this is actually a solid theory, but parents when they were marching into Russia was so cold that the ten crumbled and so their unit, worms opened wide up and suddenly they were exposed to the cold and that's what led to a lot of that. So so as they are invading it was kind of like watching the full Monty. Coming over that theory, I read different things about it. Though I've read people contradicting it, and people saying yes, not it's definite, yet so yeah, I'm not sure. I'm gonna have to move us on allergies. Anyone else got something. I just thought the button replacement is the zip in the modern era, equal beware of this it because it is by far and away the most common cause of penis injury.
I was there between two thousand and two and two thousand and ten that were almost eighteen thousand people in the U S alone, who were hospitalized because of penile injury. They all arrived on the same day, the coincidence it was after a big charity, polio flies and also possibly, no. Interestingly, if a member is My only ever the penis and not the text is a good news of the testing is very hard to get them call and, as is more like, don't, I know, use for the testicles, a very, very bad when they ventured to set. It was marked it as a better way. Still Your trousers. Are you a less likely to forget to do up a zippo, as you were to forget to do a buttons? but also less likely to chop your cock off with
it's a perfect number three that is Andy Murray, okay, my fact is that as a baby, Saint Nicholas refused to drink his mother's breast milk on fast days. So on wednesdays on Fridays, say Nicholas, would refuse to suckle because he was so holy, so young, except evening when it was allowed, because the day was over, There are, there are other signs where this happens so there's a biography of the fifth century, St Candide, which says that as a baby, he completely refused to suckle at his mother's right breast, but if she had eaten a delicious meal, he also is the Sackler the left breast. What so he wasn't allowed to enjoy it too much surgery in a delicious meal, then breast milk is more than likely. It was like an abstinence thing to say much more advanced than some credit for that. You know who the patron saints of breastfeeding is. It's not so Nicholas, know it's St Giles before he became a saint, he withdrew,
deep into the forest near name where he lived on his own and so companion was a deer who sustained him with her milk weird wasn't. No one is a patient's Dana breastfeeding is. There is no conventional way to breastfeed, also. The patron saint of Edinburgh send Giles can say, and the patron saint of people who have Fraid of the dock wow, that's very good knowledge. The patron saint of Glasgow is Saint Mungo on Saint Mungo died of shock after getting good to a very but your guys, I think and handled above it is really hot, so Mungo plays what you're going to be signed. So what what does warmer saint saint Gwen. The white was the mother of two young sons and ensure gave birth to a third son and in order to help her nothing, a third of and got miraculously, gave her a third breast and she became
known as Gwen of the three paps yeah, it's in Nicolas, about this fact is say one of his miracles, which is particularly impressive. I think so. There was someone who is selling pickled ham in a street market and St Nicholas realized that he was not selling pickled ham, as the science suggested. He was selling the pickled chopped up bodies of three small children and he piece them together, but it's not it's odd, because he paced them together and he brought the children back to life again so wow that is impressive. The gherkin triplets like oh yeah. We should by that, like stories about what things do we don't necessarily presenting? As I know I know, write down is interesting because it sounds like wherever he walked. He would be in a situation and he would pray it away,
Where are the ocean, we're in the ocean and sailors or vomiting and there's a whirlpool I'll just do a quick prayer or eastern about him actually is that he slapped. Somebody wants me slapped a fellow bishop, yes, because it's the great area controversy, which is the control of the about whether Jesus is actually fully divine or whether we should have half divine, because he was also a human and basically is an echo strongly believe that Jesus is, is God man, some as a gesture? The Jesus wasn't quite either divine on human and he got up. It was at some sign out in that year. Three. Twenty five, eighty and cynical got up, crossed the room and gave my big slap in the face of that is where we get the phrase bashing, the Bishop so yeah, I'm not sure what you say in the saints didn't do. These things is the central issue in any way. For instance, there are few saints who, with the capital to the curry, their own health,
If you say that that didn't help as well- and I definitely am not saying that ain't gene of LE genre who carried his own severed head and threw it into the Rhone Paul of Tarsus, who had his head chopped off, said Jesus Christ, fifty times after a big shots. I don't said it that way, but it I had fifty times is available, the first time. It will be amazing and then the tenth time it be. Okay, we got to a and fiftieth time. Okay, can you just shut up Firstly, a real problem with Saint Sue beheaded and then carry their heads around where to put the halo. So I did and some controversy as to whether you put it over that severed neck when you're, painting them or whether you put it above the head here and then mix is and what see both oh you'll, see why I too have broken up. their own view on that wow. Can I bring it back to the breast milk very quickly again
is this another website. So so I found a great place to buy it breast milk, so only the breast dot com. It is genuinely instincts eliminated. Breast I know it should have been guys. This is a this is a genuine place where people trade, breast milk online and you have all sorts of categories, sub categories of types of breast milk that you can buy and have shipped to your house. You can have zero to two months. There was fresh breast milk on demand, special diet brackets Vegan, row and then the final one is willing to sell to men. I'm pretty sure I have heard. I don't know if this is true that bodybuilders like to have breastmilk because their theory and that apparently this is complete rubbish, but that theory is a baby goes
really small to quite big and a really small amount of time? So surely the same happens to come. Think marrying the two together saints and breast milk? Oh yeah, have you heard of the miracle of the lactation of St Bernard, and this is where St Bernard was praying and the virgin Mary Virgin Mary when he was praying so sprinkled some milk on his For as in her own breast milk- and there are other depictions of it- which are quite impressive, so I'm quoting directly from the the Wikipedia article about the lactation- that's embedded in art, usually kneels, before a Madonna, electrons, breastfeeding Madonna and as Jesus takes a break from feeding the virgin squeezes arrest and he is hit with a squad of milk, often shown traveling and impressive True, it is across the room
it up. It's medieval artworks that you got listen, yeah, yeah! Well, men can lactate, because you can. I think, we've discussed before you massage your nipples enough as a mountain. Then you can bring it out, and did you ever do that experiment on the I was it that he was going to do it. I did have a good night, was it successful, not dribble NASA period? Suspend a week's so weird on the train, research research. No, no, no, not a drop I try and not give it up. Yeah. Do you want to hear about St Philip Neri, who is known as the humorous ST is this. I am going to really funny mate you got to meet him funny MIKE. It really is like that. It's so sad and his basically all he did that was funny. Is he once shaved off half his beard as a way of poking fun?
himself. He also like to wear a cushion of is at during his debut solo, our c venues, so he was sainted for that is that he must have been some other stuff. I dunno it's much easier back, then. Wasn't it we're going to have to move on very soon? Can I just tell you very quickly about the infancy gospels of Jesus because as another young Muslim, said he was a Jesus wasn't. So there are some second century sources which describe if Jesus did as a very very small boy when he was about five years old and they're- really amazing, because at the very different to the gospels, and so when he was five years old, he gathered together, separate rivers which it'll be desperate pools of water and he gathered them into a single pond and he cleaned it up and then a boy ruined them by sort of sweeping them apart with a broom, so Jesus
aid immediately, just made the boy with it and then then there was another time when a boy bumped into him. Any Jesus immediately kills the parents of the boy you're Jesus has killed, go to Joseph saying I'm yours, killed us. So Jesus simply struck blind and all of his accuses Joseph Little boxes, is air and tells above everything else will look about the really get Ok, it's time for our final fact, and that is just and ski I am, I think, is that when Ronald Reagan left office, he left a note on the White House alone for the squirrels warning them to beware of George Bush's dogs. Yeah have quite sway. is it s rear, but also he's assuming that squirrels could read his. He wasn't Chavez
on the shed. He was very fond of the girls and sadly, George Bush recounted later that did up see no good cause that dog Milly beat the heck out of those girls went if he could, she could oh wow, you should have left also a sign for the dog, saying, don't get the squirrels. I didn't need that yeah there's they currently have, and this is like hot off the press, the White House's having squirrels, she's at the moment. Other with Michelle Obama is garden wall. They cause they always they got. Black friends spent an entire weekend, planting lots of bulbs in her garden and came back in like one hundred Bozeman Doug, So it's probably that there's a silly little legal issue that the gardeners are not allowed to touch the bit of garden she's created, but she's away, so much that she's actually not able to maintain it? They can't mow it. They can't read it. They can't do anything to it, but water it and it's just so that allowed to go near the first lady's garden. Yeah. I cannot really so that she's saying to them.
Please do go near it and then like we want to bought those claws somewhere in our legislation. That says we're not allowed to touch the orbits of garden are genuinely didn't, read the article, but they aren't saying girls are I think on the White House. Lawn and Reagan was really fond of them and it's kind of touching. So every time he went to Camp David he'd bring lots of acorns back from there to feed the squirrels. I was reading a tranquil walks yeah, he loved it. With this girls, and I was reading a transcript from an interview that he was having. I think it was with the New York Times where, basically, he that was in the transcript, as opposed at one point, and he says. Oh sorry, if I look out the window and look I did I'm just sing of his girls. Still easing the acorn that I brought in this language. God thing. It wasn't anything going on at the time like the cold war. I'll. Go on its cue.
I really thing about Reagan, because Reagan was obviously he was an actor in Bay movies and he was started in films with amazing titles and accidents will happen. Girls on probation, the angels wash their faces, brother rat and the baby about his and his rmd The page begins with this causation. Ronald Reagan is arguably the most successful actor in history and they base that on the fact that he became president of America. It's not that's, not a success as an actor yeah. I really like the pedantic nature of that comment, because he is the most successful person who has also been an actor. I can't fault, it is true that is true, or did you guys know that it is because of him that we have blue jellybeans, No, I know I know you know. We have blue jelly beans that stuff yeah I know the whole room goes, not true. It's true, he
It was for his inauguration, so basically he was a massive jelly bean lover. The reason he was a massive jelly bean lover is because he had a huge pipe smoking habit and he hated it. you didn't want to smoke anymore? The only thing that would stop him from having any nicotine. You would be to have a jar of jelly beans and often, if you look at photos of Ronald Reagan in all the meetings that he's in does a big jar of jelly beans. Next to him, wow, and so he loved licorice. That was his favorites type of jelly bean before the inauguration, because jelly bean caught onto it, they thought were going to create one. We don't have a blue one for the red, white and blue, and so they created it and so yeah Ronald Reagan, wow. That is really interesting thing. I think one thing you didn't light was Brussels sprouts. He once did trip to England and he was fed so many Brussels sprouts during his trip that he swore off them for the rest of his life. They told him they were great jellybeans. I created you know when he was. autobiography
one option, president it'll right when he was an actor and the vital I was a lot of talk backstage about how small his head was, and so he was there with this. Casting direct aid was saying what we going to do about Ronald's head You could style the actors slightly further away from him and then it would match the size of their heads from back. Then his body looks like it's been successful actor. He acts have very wide collars to minimize his shoulder width and have colors that was sort of open up a little bit lower. So it looked like his head. Was a bit bigger, I guess to you, know: increase the amount of skin exposure in the head area, it's amazing, yeah, poor guy, imagined here, but he is a successful actor of all time. Yeah. That is true. Who can forget watching brother rationed a baby every Christmas yeah? You know he wrote his first autobiography sixteen years before he became president wow. in nineteen sixty five saying and it was called where's the rest of me
about his was next autobiography well here it is yeah very forward thinking He was once threatened by guy who was going to attack him and the way he was known as the cats mom. And the reason was because he would send threatening letters but also pictures of cats, the President yeah, that is the precursor to the internet. I think lots of purpose was abuse and then pictures of yeah and the other thing that Reagan started was the idea that whenever a president leaves he always leaves a note for the next president, and he wrote a note saying: don't let the turkeys get you down to George Bush? Sorry, what is the relevance of the turkeys, the turkeys as in the like the press, the other countries, the the don't let the turkeys get you down, it's not about Turkey. Is it,
because that's a very specifically racist thing to say when you're taking over the most powerful nation this this was discovered by Brad Meltzer and not the not the the the fact that that note was left for Bush, but that Bush then said I left a note for Clinton and Brad Meltzer he's a crop, am writer political thrillers, and he then said this is apparently he thinks this is true wherever Ronald Reagan, when he had a briefcase with him and always carried a handheld gun on him, hey man, what's the opposite of a handheld but it bow and arrow, It was, I I just always lose- is amazing. His chief of staff. Do people know what his chief of staff was cold Ronald Reagan's yeah though he was cool,
Donald Reagan. Yeah. I don't understand why this isn't the most well known fact and the chief of staff who proceeded him as good Baker, so that Jeeves one presented proceeded, Donald Reagan. Howard Baker and the guy came optimist, good James Baker, so people say Ronald Reagan, was a bit confused in the eighties, but I definitely see where he's coming from. Knowingly weave we're running out of time in five years time. Right now moments any last facts, very quick. What about squirrel yet what it used to be illegal, not to report a grey squirrel? in your garden really. I think that grey squirrels were brought to the UK by Benjamin Franklin. He brought squirrels over the UK. According to news for squirrels? com. How many hits does It's a lot this week. Male cape ground, squirrels have very big genitalia. The penises can be forty
decide the length of their body and they come I'm through all for late. According to research, your Jane Waltman that they do it to clean the genitals What's unusual about any of this. Only forty percent
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