The Seven-Year Gum Panic And Other Nonsense

You can measure a childhood by the “facts” you’re warned about, then spend the rest of your life quietly unlearning them. We’re Hannah and Davey, and we’re putting the most stubborn childhood myths under the microscope, from the classics your parents swore by to the playground rumours that somehow became universal truth. 

We start with the big ones: swallowing chewing gum and the famous “seven years” claim, sitting too close to the TV and whether it really ruins your eyesight, and cracking knuckles and the fear of arthritis. Then we get into the myths designed to keep kids in line, like pulling faces or crossing your eyes and being told you’ll get stuck like that, plus the food myths that tried to make vegetables feel magical, including carrots and “seeing in the dark”. Along the way, we talk goldfish memory, sugar and hyperactivity, and why expectation can be as powerful as any ingredient. 

From there we widen out into nature and everyday life: can you catch a cold from being cold, does shaving make hair grow back thicker, will touching a baby bird make its mum reject it, and do bulls really hate the colour red. We also share the truly cruel ice cream van rumour, the car interior light “illegal” rule, and finish with pop culture nonsense, screen burn, and whether dogs only see in black and white. 

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Transcript

Welcome And The Myth Theme

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Hello and welcome to Bonus Dad.

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Bonus Daughter, a special father-daughter podcast with me, Hannah.

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And me, Davy, where we discuss our differences, similarities, share a few laughs and stories. Within our ever-changing and complex world.

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Each week we will discuss a topic from our own point of view. And influences throughout the decades.

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Or you could choose one by contacting us.

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Via email, Instagram, Facebook, or TikTok. Links in bio. Hello and welcome to a very special podcast episode by Bonus Dad, Bonus Daughter. I just messed up.

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But it was funny.

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We do like a five-second start before the podcast so that you can do some sound funkiness. Yeah. And I was just complimenting Father on his outfit today and forgot where that I should be keeping quiet. Today we are doing an episode on childhood myths.

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Yes, it's all those myths that we myths, myths, myths that we were told as kids. And I don't know if Hannah knows some of them because I wasn't cruel and told you some of these things.

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Yeah, I I hope not. I hope not. The reason I'm laughing a little bit is because we have a little special guest in our studio today because Archie was barking in our last episode because I think he could hear us and wanted to be with us. Yeah. And so he's just looking at us, panting.

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Yeah, so we brought him we brought him in here. He's down there at the moment.

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He's just so cute.

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He doesn't he doesn't quite know what's going on.

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What do I do?

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He's like, What's happening? But he's on his bed.

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Yeah, you don't need to talk.

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Yeah.

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Well now he's looking at his bits. I'm glad you can't see it.

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He's grooming. He's he's making himself clean, bless him.

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Uh great.

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Yeah, he's just being clean.

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He's just being cool.

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Yeah. So, yeah, so I've um looked at a few myths that we were told as kids. Um, and and I've also then got the reality of them.

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Oh, okay.

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So uh I want to know if you if you've heard any of these.

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Okay.

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And if you've been told them.

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The only thing the only things I can think of like Easter Bunny, Santa, and Boogeyman.

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No, no, it's not Boogie. The Sandman It's not that quite that type of myth.

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Oh.

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They're more kind of like myths to stop you doing something.

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Ah, like the light on in the car. That's the one, that's the one that's in here.

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That's that one. Yeah. So from the top then. From the top. Yeah, let's go. Yeah.

Swallowing Gum And What Happens

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Did you know that swallowing gum stays in your stomach for seven years? So you used to chew it as a gum, you used to chew it as a child, and your parent would say to you, if you swallow that, that will stay in your stomach for seven years.

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How long will it stay in the stomach for?

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But did you have you heard that?

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Uh yes.

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You have.

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Despite the fact that I used to swallow hubbubba thinking that that wasn't the case.

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That's why I went with that one first. I still can't believe you used to swallow it.

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Mitchell was like, when I got home, he was like, I was like, Did you ever swallow hubbubba? He's like, no. And then I was like, ah. Yeah, no one does, Hannah. I I have swallowed so much hub and bubba. What what why? I thought it was like, I thought it dissolved.

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When you fart, did it come out like a bubble?

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I I hope so. I don't know. I don't know. If you're if you're about to tell me what actually happened.

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Strawberry flavoured.

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Yeah, it was strawberry. What strawberry? I can't believe I I don't ever remember splitting it out, genuinely.

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So, because of the makeup of gum and how it is, it doesn't actually digest properly.

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Oh, it doesn't.

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It doesn't digest properly, but your body will pass it through.

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Oh, okay. So I'll poop it out.

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So you will poop it out, yeah. But it doesn't stay in your stomach for something.

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I wonder how how much I've pooped out. Genuinely, genuinely thought that it just I don't ever remember spitting it out. I I honestly I need to have some to remind myself.

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Or did you like choke and bite bits off and swallow it?

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I would have swallowed it whole.

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Really?

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Thinking it was fine. Okay. And dissolved. I genuinely don't remember spitting it out. Yeah. I never had it that often, I guess. Thank God. Can you imagine?

TV Distance Eyesight And Contact Lens Chaos

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Right. One something else that we were told was that sitting too close to the TV will ruin your eyes.

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Uh yeah.

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Um Talking about eyes ruined, yeah. I that that's really blurry today, and I've just realized why.

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You haven't got contact lenses in?

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I've got my contact lenses in, but I've got them in the wrong eyes.

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What prescription are you?

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So that one's 2.75.

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Yeah.

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And that one's 2.5. Oh, there's only there's only a little bit in there, but it's a little bit blurry, and that's the reason why.

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Oh.

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Because I literally have got the wrong lens in the wrong eye.

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Oh.

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I'm an idiot.

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Mine's my lenses are for astigmatism. So if they're in slightly wrong, it throws everything off.

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Oh, do you want to hear?

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So there's a certain, there's a special line.

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Oh god, do you want to hear something really gross?

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Go on then.

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The other night.

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Always love something gross.

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The other night. Alright, so it's putting contact lenses in. I must have been when I first started putting contact lenses in, it was a little bit or putting your finger near your eye. Yeah, it's a little bit kind of like first time, it was like I was I was moving away as I was trying to do it. But now it's just second nature. Yeah. You just put it in, it's just so easy, isn't it? Your eye just grips the lens and you're good.

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That is worse energy.

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Yeah. The other day, I didn't realise that I tried already taken my contact lenses out and I was trying to take my contact lens out again. So I was literally just How do you do that? I don't know.

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I don't know if it's because I am so blind that I can tell.

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I think I think so. But I was like, why is this lens not coming out? And then I thought then I looked down at my hand and it was already in my hand.

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Because I'm minus four. I can really tell if my contact lens isn't in or not. I don't know how you can not tell that.

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So I was just squeezing my eyeball.

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Oh no, I I as soon as I go like this, I know that I'm blind in one eye.

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Yeah.

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Can you do this or not? But you can. Yeah, I can. So in that can you do that? Well, some people can only do like twice, like double eyes, not single eyes.

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Can't win can't wink or blink.

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Can't wink or blink. They blink but can't wink.

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I can shake my eyes.

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Linda blinks. Sorry.

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Sorry. That is oh that now honestly.

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I don't know if that's an inappropriate reference or not.

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No, no. If if you want to listen to another another podcast, there's a podcast called My Dad Wrote a Porno. Yeah. And it is brilliant. And it's about this guy who basically this is his son, isn't it? Who reads it? His son and his and two of his friends, they read this book live, and it's just like the worst book. It is so funny. And it's about this, yeah.

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And one of the friends is female as well, so she fact checks a lot of the like female anatomy because the way he writes this porno is it just doesn't make sense. But it's like this guy has never had sex once because none of that is true.

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But these the main characters is a woman called Belinda Blinks, and it's um well no, she's called Belinda.

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Oh, that's it, yeah. The book is called Belinda Blinks.

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And the the funny thing is, she works for like a pots and pans company. It's so random, it's just hilarious, and like they go on a conference and stuff, and it's like who goes to a pots and pans conference, and all these pornographic things happen. Yeah, it's just honestly uh we the I can't mean your mum listened to it in the car, but we were driving somewhere and we literally had tears streaming down the colour.

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It's a good one to listen to in the car with like-minded people. Yeah, it's so so funny. So funny.

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Um so yeah, so sitting too close to the TV will ruin your eyes.

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Yeah, I I I I have heard that. I remember I remember being told that as a kid.

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Yeah.

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But also, just to remind everyone, I'm blind. So I did sit quite close to the TV because I couldn't see the the bloody things.

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Well, there was nearly a it was I censored myself. My hand was I censored myself.

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Um but yeah, I I did sit quite close to the TV.

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I'll tell you what is dangerous. I was blind. I'll tell you what is dangerous if you if you sit too close to the TV, if your name is Carol Ann.

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Don't go into the lake, Carol Ann. Carol Ann! Is she a moth? Sorry.

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No, that's uh that's for those who don't know, that was apologized. They bury they moved the stones, but they didn't move the bodies. Yeah.

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Don't go into the light. I like the bit in that movie where he rips off his own skin. Now I know that sounds like a really weird thing to like, but considering at the time and what they had to work with in terms of special effects, that was terrifying.

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Yeah.

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Terrifying. It still looks terrifying now.

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Oh, talking about horror films and things. Uh so have you seen Passenger advertised? That looks quite good.

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And have you seen Weapons?

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Have you watched Weapons?

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Is that the one where Yeah. Yeah.

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Have you seen it? Is it good?

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I liked it, yeah.

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See, I want to watch it, but your mum is like, oh no, I don't she does she's gone off horror.

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Oh no, Weapons is good. Yeah, so I'm I think Weapons is the one where they they run like this.

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Yeah, that's it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.

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Um I went to cinema to see that and I really enjoyed it. Really? Genuinely really enjoyed it. And there's not many horror movies that I enjoy recently.

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Oh god, what's his name in it? Um thingy who's the English actor, but he ends up in loads of Marvel films.

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Oh.

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Uh but he's a c he's he's like the sorcerer supreme.

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Yes. Yes, he is in it. Yeah, he's in it. Yeah, yeah.

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I can't remember his name. I can't remember his name. So if I saw his name, I'd know it.

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He's Wong in Marvel. Um, but I can't think what his real name is.

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Because did you know he was in um he was in the IT crowd as well.

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Yes. I've seen the IT crowd recently.

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I've actually watched all of it. Have you? Yeah, I've watched all of it now. Yeah, I want to see, and I also want to see good luck, have fun, don't die.

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I came, I came here to drink my milk and kick ass, and I've just finished my milk.

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Such a good couple. Yeah, I love moss.

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I love football.

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Oh, and he's kicked the ball, and now he's kicked the ball, and now he's kicked the ball. What a fun sport this is.

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They they have like a script already prepared to speak in like football hooliganism or whatever. So funny.

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He's got the app, isn't he? Yeah.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Um, so anyway, anyway, we went on a tangent then. Uh so sitting too close to the TV ruins your eyes. Well, it might strain them temporarily.

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Yeah.

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But it doesn't permanently damage them.

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And I feel like it's more of a strain if you're blind and trying to see the telly from far away.

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Yes.

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So maybe parents should get their children's eyes checked first before they start throwing assumptions. Throwing assumptions.

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Yeah.

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Just putting it on there.

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Now I never did this.

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Oh no.

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But I did know people who did.

Knuckle Cracks Eyelids And Odd Talents

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Okay.

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Or do cracking knuckles. Yeah. And there's a bit of things saying that cracking your knuckles will give you arthritis.

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Uh that is false.

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It is false.

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It's just breaking up the lactic acid. If anything, it's actually quite good for you.

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Yeah. It doesn't. It's studies show that there is no link to arthritis. Mostly it just annoys people.

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Yeah, I don't think I can do it. None am I cracking?

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Oh god, do you ever go to school with anybody who could flip their eyelids over?

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Yeah.

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What can you remember? People used to do that.

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It's so weird that you've just said that. Like that has unlocked something in my brain.

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Yeah.

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That is really weird.

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They were absolute psychopaths.

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Yeah. Why were they always so weird?

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And how did you realise you could do that?

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I know, right? That's weird.

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Yeah.

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You have just like that's just blown my mind. Like, yeah, that is something I do remember. Why, even like 20 years apart in schooling, like there's still weirdos that do that. I wonder if Gen Z is still doing it. There's that one weird kid that ate a worm, you know? It's like that, it's it's like it's it's like yeah, it's a rite of passage.

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Well do you do they when you go for your eye test, do they flip your eyelid over?

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They they do.

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They put a cotton bud on top of your eye and flip it over and have a little look underneath.

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Yeah, they do, yeah. Because I tend to pay for the slightly extra one because of I've got lots of eye.

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You've got lots of eyes.

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Well, I'm quite blind, so I'd I'd rather get the puff of air in your eye. Oh the the uh the triggering like balloon in the distance in the house, and you're like, uh, it's coming. And even though you know it's coming and you try your best to stay put, I I've failed it a couple of times and then go, I'm really sorry. I'm gonna have to retake that. I was like, I knew it was coming. She was like, I know, I'm so sorry. They should put like a thing behind your head, so then you can't.

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Have you not got one?

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No, I just I just put my old chin on and hope for the best. Anyway, next one. We're going well off. But yeah, where the weirdos do that. Yeah, why is that?

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Yeah, I used to know three or four people who used to do it.

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Yeah. It's really weird. Is it still a thing? Do people still do it? Let us know.

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Yeah, the inquiring minds want to know. Yeah.

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Um, so my chair is really squeaking. It sounds like I'm letting wind.

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I know that that the chairs are really squeaky today. I think it might be the heat.

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Oh, yeah, of course it is. It could be the heat. They're not normally that bad, are they?

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Because it is bang holiday weekend and it is very hot outside.

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It is warm.

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We should have done this outside.

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Yeah, with all the dogs barking and children playing. Yeah. Damn them children.

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I know, God.

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They woke me up this morning, actually. The children. At seven o'clock this morning, someone had let them let the feral children out of the garden, and they were just screaming, and I'm like, Yeah, it's Sunday.

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It's the Lord's Day. It's the day of rest. The Lord's Day. It's the day of rest.

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What's happening? I I don't mind kids playing outside. I want to preface that. I don't actually mind. I love hearing kids playing outside, but that early in the morning, giddy f that's another pound in the swear jar. So deserved.

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I I've so you have you sleeping with your window open at the moment?

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Yes. Sorry, I don't know why I hesitated on that. Yes, I am.

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Well, it is, and I I will confess to this, it is your mum has told me and she has recorded me, so I know it's true that I do snore. And I snore quite loudly. And I woke up this morning, and you know when you you know when you have that thing in your back of your throat where your throat's dry, and the reason it's dry is because you've been going like that. And yeah, that's right. I woke up this morning, I was like, yeah, I've obviously been snoring. Oh, the window's open. I wonder if all the neighbours like literally thought, what the hell is that? As a whale song. Exactly. It's just the sound of a humpback.

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You are snoring as bad. Mitchell's got bad recently, but if I he's quite sweet because if I I'll very gently, I'd never I'm never angry, I will say this. I I never am. I'm like, darling, you're snoring. And he goes, I'm sorry. And then but he's not awake. Yeah. He's just he'll turn over and then it'll be like bliss for about 10 minutes, and then suddenly, like one massive song. I'm like, oh Jesus Christ.

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I have woken myself up.

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I I have travelling, but I'll I'll catch myself snoring, like I'll be on the especially on the plane because you're upright and you and your jaw comes down, and like you're like and you look around, and then you see a couple of smiles, and you're like, oh shit.

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Yeah. Your mum does it sometimes, like on the sofa. Because again, it's just because where you're sitting, right? And and occasionally I've been sitting there watching something, and I'll just hear a she'll wake up and then she'll go, Did I snore? Like, yeah, yeah, you snoring it. Yeah.

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How are we

Faces Carrots Goldfish And Sugar

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doing?

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Uh so if you make a weird face, it'll stay like that, you know.

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Oh, yeah, I used to get all that.

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Yeah, get that? Why? Did I say any of these to you?

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No. I don't think I didn't know. That sounds like Nana said that to me.

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Yeah. So yeah.

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I'm quite animated as well. So I feel like that one's really unfair on me.

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But this is a funny one for you. So if you do make weird faces, right? I don't know why I just do it like that. You're essentially, it's like you are you're moving your muscles in your face, aren't you? So if you were to make weird faces, then the more weird faces you make, the more weird faces you can make.

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Mm-hmm. Think of like there is some truth then, yeah. Jim Carrey.

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Yeah. So the more that you do move your face, facial muscles, the more expressions you can give.

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Yeah.

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So I think it's a good thing.

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I think it's a good thing to do.

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It's a good thing.

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I think it's it's to stop children from like sticking their tongue out and stuff, isn't it? It's to prevent that kind of thing. Why don't you teach your child that the appropriate use of facial gestures, then rather than saying, Oh, don't do any because your face will stay like that.

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Exactly.

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Just explain why.

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Yeah.

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I don't understand why there's just no explanation for things. Carry on.

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Carrots. What have you heard about carrots?

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They make you see in the dark.

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They do. But they don't. No, they don't. They do help eye health though, because the vitamin A. So there's a little bit Okay, so there is some like truth in there.

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Yeah.

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But they won't turn you into um night vision. You're not gonna be an elf.

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No.

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With with not with night vision. Dark vision. Dark vision.

SPEAKER_01 16:53

Yeah, I have heard that one. Um and I think it was to get me to eat my carrots. I get it.

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That the boy down there likes a carrot.

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A boy down there does like a carrot.

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He likes a carrot. Oh, did you see did you see that? Did I see that lies? I said that word and his his kind of eyes looked up a little bit.

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Does he does he have any other trigger words?

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Uh yes.

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Biscuit?

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Uh no, doesn't it? T-R-E-A-T.

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Oh yeah, yeah. Yeah.

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And W-A-L-K. Oh, yeah, that's an obvious one.

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He's a Labrador after all.

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Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Anything to do with food, really. But not the word food.

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He doesn't know the word food, but he knows.

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But if you would say the word treat. Oh.

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Oh, little eyes.

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Little eyes came up.

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Or dinner.

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Oh.

SPEAKER_01 17:37

Oh, that got a very big reaction. Oh, look at the puppy eyes.

SPEAKER_02 17:42

I know. Look at his little face. That did get a little bit.

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Shall we go for a walk? Oh no, he doesn't like that. He's more interested in his face.

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He's more interested in his stomach. Much more interested in his stomach. Oh, he is a Labrador, as I said. He is.

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Look at his little.

SPEAKER_02 17:54

We have got him one of those bowls that slow him down eating because otherwise he will just in one go.

SPEAKER_01 17:59

I misheard him. Thought you said bong then. And I was like, what? Bowls. I want them bongs to slow him down. Keep him mellow. I was like, what? Doug does weed. Carry on. Goldfish. Oh, they only have a three-second memory, which I think is rotten. That's not true. Is it true?

SPEAKER_02 18:21

No, it's not true. It's not true. It is a myth. But the interesting thing is what it says next to the reality column, it says goldfish can remember things for months and even learn routines. How do people know that? How do they know?

SPEAKER_01 18:37

Well, I can understand that actually, because if you feed your fish at a certain time but they're already waiting at the top of the tank, they've obviously sensed a routine.

SPEAKER_02 18:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 18:45

I think a lot of aquatic animals are a lot smarter than we think they are.

SPEAKER_02 18:50

You mentioned the deep in the previous episode. So maybe. Oh, I know just one other boy's reference.

unknown 18:55

My gosh.

SPEAKER_02 18:56

Did you notice it was Sam Jackson, Samuel L. Jackson, who was the shark?

SPEAKER_01 19:00

I didn't until after the fact. I told Mitchell about it, and apparently Chase, who plays the deep, was like, I didn't know. I was just talking to a tennis ball or something like that. Like, because they would have used that just as his reference point to look at the sea.

SPEAKER_02 19:13

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 19:14

He was like, I had no idea. I th I was just talking to a tennis ball.

SPEAKER_02 19:17

Yeah, but yeah, Samuel L. So random. Yeah. So yeah, apparently goldfish can remember things for months and even their routines.

SPEAKER_01 19:23

No damn.

SPEAKER_02 19:24

There you go.

SPEAKER_01 19:25

Good old goldfish.

SPEAKER_02 19:27

Sugar.

SPEAKER_01 19:29

Sugar makes kids completely hyper. Um I mean it's an old fashioned phrase, oh pump full of sugar.

SPEAKER_02 19:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 19:40

I mean, it can't I mean sugar is is a wake wake juice as in does energize you.

SPEAKER_02 19:47

It is pure energy. It is pure energy. It's pure energy.

SPEAKER_01 19:51

I mean, it's not wrong.

SPEAKER_02 19:52

No, but it says the research on it is quite mixed. It don't people don't think it does as much as what we think it does, and it's probably more of the expectation of the sweetness and the hype makes people hyper. It's like labelling theory, isn't it? Yeah, rather than the drug itself.

SPEAKER_01 20:07

Yeah. Um one I wouldn't call it a drug. Well no, perhaps not the great greatest phrasing there. Um but um yeah, they also banned uh blue MM. Um no, blue smarties because of the E-numbers.

SPEAKER_02 20:17

Because the E-numbers, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 20:19

I think they're back though. I had an ice cream the other day that had Blue Smarties on it.

SPEAKER_02 20:23

I haven't had Smarties for ages.

SPEAKER_01 20:25

Should we have Smarties next time? I think so. Should we just have a snack?

SPEAKER_02 20:29

Yeah, I think we're gonna be able to get it.

SPEAKER_01 20:30

Let's have a snack episode. Yeah. Well oh, should we bring five snacks each?

SPEAKER_02 20:34

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah,

Eurovision Chat And Snack Plans

SPEAKER_02 20:37

yeah. Do you watch Eurovision?

SPEAKER_01 20:39

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 20:39

You did watch Eurovision, yeah. Did you watch it normally? And I'm going no normally live, as in did you did you just watch it or did you have like a themed thing at your house?

SPEAKER_01 20:48

Not this year, no. No.

SPEAKER_02 20:49

I have one previous years, but not we are gonna next year we're gonna have a theme thing where pick pick a country come and bring like a food. It's rings or something from that food.

SPEAKER_01 20:59

We normally do a sweepsteak, but there's only four of us this year, so we didn't bother.

SPEAKER_02 21:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 21:02

So you all put obviously all the countries in a hat, then whoever picks the winner gets a prize. Normally wooden spoon.

SPEAKER_02 21:08

Who's your favourite, by the way? Which one did you like the most? Because we because I didn't watch Eurovision, but what we did was the next night we just went through YouTube and watched the songs.

SPEAKER_01 21:16

Australia.

SPEAKER_02 21:16

Australia.

SPEAKER_01 21:17

I really liked Australians. Um I think Croatia was the other one. Was the women in the um like the nun suits?

SPEAKER_02 21:24

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 21:26

Suits and costumes. Sorry, I don't know why I said.

SPEAKER_02 21:28

Who is the Shakira knockoff? Team's Timu Shakira.

SPEAKER_01 21:33

Australia.

SPEAKER_02 21:34

Was it Australia?

SPEAKER_01 21:35

No no no no no no.

SPEAKER_02 21:36

Yeah, because you came out and started seeing us like this looks just like Shakira. Shakira, Shakira. Because there were some there were some awful ones, but there were some quite good ones as well.

SPEAKER_01 21:48

I was just trying to find the message that I sent Mitchell because I What did you think of our entry? Germany, Australia, Croatia.

SPEAKER_02 21:54

Yeah. What what did you think of our entry?

SPEAKER_01 21:57

I think it was very Eurovision-y. Yeah. I thought That it it it's very similar to like uh there was someone last year, I think it was German's entry that was very similar. Iceweight. Um there was a very similar entry. Um I don't think that people understand that he makes all of his own instruments.

SPEAKER_02 22:17

I know, we looked him up afterwards.

SPEAKER_01 22:19

Yeah, I think if people were more knowledgeable about the amount of time and effort that he personally put into the very clever man, yeah. Very, very incredibly clever man.

SPEAKER_02 22:32

I think I think he was wasted on Eurovision.

SPEAKER_01 22:34

He was wasted on Eurovision, that's what I was gonna say. I don't think he was but it was Eurovision-Y, yeah it was a Eurovision-y song. That is something that other countries would have done. It's just because we're politically not favoured, that's probably why we did so poorly. But having said that, obviously Sam Ryder seemed to overcome all of that political drama.

SPEAKER_02 22:54

Because he was just a nice guy.

SPEAKER_01 22:55

Really?

SPEAKER_02 22:55

And you could not help but love Sam Ryder.

SPEAKER_01 22:57

Yeah, chill guy, chill guy.

Colds Shaving Hair And Growing Older

SPEAKER_02 22:59

Um, did you know that you could catch a cold from being cold?

SPEAKER_01 23:02

No, you cannot. It's a fantasy.

SPEAKER_02 23:04

It is a complete and utter myth.

SPEAKER_01 23:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 23:06

So you can only catch a cold from a virus and not chilly weather itself. Oh, don't go out there, you'll catch your death of cold.

SPEAKER_01 23:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 23:14

My grandmother used to say that as well.

SPEAKER_01 23:15

Wet hair in the cold apparently is really bad for you as well, but yeah.

SPEAKER_02 23:19

It just makes you colder. I mean it'll probably it'll probably give you hypothermia.

SPEAKER_01 23:23

Yeah, eventually, yeah. But not in this country.

SPEAKER_02 23:26

You're not gonna you're not gonna get a cold from it.

SPEAKER_01 23:28

I even in I honestly, in the depths of winter in this country, even if you did go outside with your hair wet, I don't think you could ever get that cold.

SPEAKER_02 23:36

Isn't it without we call it a cold though, isn't it?

SPEAKER_01 23:39

What do you think that is?

SPEAKER_02 23:40

Why do you think we we gave it as opposed to a hot? Yeah, no, as opposed to any like as a as a virus. I'm having a hot. A different name for a virus is I've got a bit of a hot. But cold colds are actually quite clever, aren't they? Because your body's immune system will fight it, but then you won't get that type that type of cold again.

SPEAKER_00 23:57

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 23:58

But the virus will then mutate.

SPEAKER_00 24:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 24:02

Yeah, interesting. Um your mum will now be screaming at this at this next one.

SPEAKER_01 24:09

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 24:09

Because this is her wheelhouse.

SPEAKER_01 24:11

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 24:11

Hair grows back thicker after shaving.

SPEAKER_01 24:14

No.

SPEAKER_02 24:14

No, it doesn't.

SPEAKER_01 24:15

It does not.

SPEAKER_02 24:16

It does not.

SPEAKER_01 24:17

I was worried because uh I am reaching my um let's say my prime years. We're coming up to 30, the big three-o for me. And I do get a whisker upon my little mole here.

SPEAKER_02 24:33

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 24:34

It's my secret mole. And it gets a little bit like it's a very pale mole. It's like a little raised lump. And it does get a hair. And if I feel now, no, I can't feel one now. But every so often there will be one, and I was like, oh no, what do I do? Do I pluck it? Do I shave it? Like what happens? But I have now microbladed my face.

SPEAKER_03 24:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 24:57

It's called derma braiding. Dermoblading? Thermosomething something. Um Joe will correct me. Um I've been doing it myself, and my hair, my hair hasn't come back any thicker. Even my mustache. Even my little because I have I don't have a mustache, like I don't have thick hairs, but I do have like the thick.

SPEAKER_02 25:14

Well, we've got more hair on our body than the bloody gorilla.

SPEAKER_01 25:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 25:17

The amount of pores that we've got, it's just this bloody gorilla's got thicker hair.

SPEAKER_01 25:21

Yeah, I I don't shave my arms or anything, but I do do my little mustache because it's it's as I said, it's not like a man's thick hair mustache. It's just fuzz. It's fuzz, and because I've got such pale hair, it just looks like it's glittery.

SPEAKER_03 25:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 25:34

Like it, like the if the sun hits it, it just looks like it's like I'm basically like uh Edward in Twilight.

SPEAKER_03 25:41

Twilight, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 25:42

Um so yeah, I do I do dermoblane my my face, but it doesn't grow back any thicker.

SPEAKER_02 25:48

Yeah, it just grows back to its the only reason it looks like is because the way it's cut.

SPEAKER_01 25:52

Yeah. And I think the reason that people think it goes thicker is because as you age, you just develop more hair. Yeah. Like the the older I'm getting, the more hair I'm getting in places that there will definitely wasn't hair before. So I didn't mean to be gross about it.

SPEAKER_02 26:07

No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I was laughing about something because obviously I can't see my back.

SPEAKER_01 26:12

Oh, yeah, you do have a hairy back.

SPEAKER_02 26:14

I know, and your mum, we bought some um when we went to Florida the first time, we went and bought some Imak.

SPEAKER_01 26:20

What's that?

SPEAKER_02 26:21

Uh it's like a hair removal cream.

SPEAKER_01 26:23

Oh, like nah.

SPEAKER_02 26:24

Yeah, and then you put it on, you put it on, and then you have a shower. Anyway, your mum put this stuff on my back. God, it burnt.

SPEAKER_01 26:31

It burns, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 26:32

It burnt and it was in the shower. And your mum was then sort of like on my back, she was like wiping it down, and then she just went, look at that. And honestly, I thought she'd like found a rat or something. I was like, really?

SPEAKER_01 26:44

That's how that's how bad your back is.

SPEAKER_02 26:46

She was like, and that's how but the weird thing is Mitchell's getting more of a hairy back now. But the weird thing is, is this something that I never realized before? But and because because as soon as that happened and all the hair then came off, I put my shirt on or t shirt, and it was like slide.

SPEAKER_01 27:04

I'm like, huh? That's how I feel when I've haven't uh shaved my legs in a while, and then I put something smooth on, and I'm like, oh it's really weird feeling. Smeal. I get Mitchell to feel my legs as well. Like, feel my leg, feel my leg, like like a smooth. It's like and and uh and I and you go, oh yeah. And I'm like, no, more enthusiasm. Oh, they're lovely, darling. More energy, more energy, more footwork, more fashion, more fashion. Same with my nails when I used to get my nails done as well. I'd come home and um I'd be like, so what do you think I got? And then go, oh, and and then if if he's like, oh yeah, they're cool, I'm like, um no, what

Baby Birds Bulls And Lightning Myths

SPEAKER_01 27:43

are they?

SPEAKER_02 27:43

Oh they're beautiful, they're amazing, they're this and they're next one is it touching a baby bird makes its makes its mother reject it.

SPEAKER_01 27:55

Well, you actually thought that was true.

SPEAKER_02 27:57

Apparently, birds don't really care. Fair enough. You know, they will still they'll still care for the little baby. They don't really care about human scent. Oh, I thought it was like the scent that Oh, sorry, just talking about birds.

SPEAKER_01 28:11

There's a well, someone not another one that's gone into your conservatory doors.

SPEAKER_02 28:15

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. There's a thing on YouTube on not on YouTube, on on like TikTok and Facebook. First I thought it was AI, but it genuinely isn't. And it's this parrot that just will just just annoy its owner, and it's really funny, because like two o'clock in the morning, it'll just go wandering through to the living room and go, Alexa, play music, and then just start dancing, and then you can just hear the owner go, for Christ's sake, it's two o'clock in the morning. It was like yeah, but it just likes playing music and just and just hates going like this.

SPEAKER_01 28:54

Bless it, it's brilliant.

SPEAKER_02 28:55

But there are some AI ones, but this particular one isn't AI, isn't it? It's really good. Um, bulls. Bulls hate the colour red. You know when they should like the matador. The matador with the yeah, with the red.

SPEAKER_01 29:09

Um I did hear that this is not correct.

SPEAKER_02 29:13

It is not correct.

SPEAKER_01 29:14

But can we just say the story about when we went on holiday to me, you and mum, um Mitchell couldn't come, can't remember why, just the three of us.

SPEAKER_03 29:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 29:23

We brought Archie.

SPEAKER_03 29:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 29:25

And we went to, I'm gonna get the word wrong, Olnik.

SPEAKER_03 29:29

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 29:30

You went into a field. Anick. Anik, sorry, thank you, thank you. You went into a field and it said beware of the bull, and you were wearing a bright red raincoat. Yeah. Um, and there's I never forget the picture of you going, hmm. Yeah, that's quite funny. Um yeah, I did kind of know it was that. I mean, they've kind of been almost Pavlov dog into it's bullshit. It's bullshit. Yeah, I don't think bulls, unless they're trained in that arena, know what red is.

SPEAKER_02 30:00

No, apparently it's more the movement that they react to rather than the colour. So it's the same thing.

SPEAKER_01 30:03

So as long as you didn't go like this when you're in that figure.

SPEAKER_02 30:06

If I just stood there like a like froze, I suppose I put a bit more. Like a bean pole. Oh god, where I used to live. I used to live in Sleaford. Um, if I uh there was a field behind the housing estate and there were cows in there. And on the way to if I was to walk home from school, I could make take a shortcut through this field, but I would always get to the field gate, I'd look to see where the cows were and then decide whether or not I was going through the field or if I was going to go the long way around. Because if they were between me and the other gate, they're like, nah, I'm not going through there. Because I'm I'm not saying like this is like one or two cows, there was a lot of cows.

SPEAKER_01 30:41

Right, okay.

SPEAKER_02 30:42

You know, if they decided that you would get stomped and you were gonna if they were the other side of the field, they're like, Yeah, I'll risk it. But okay, if they were in that part of the field, it's like now I'm walking all the way around.

SPEAKER_01 30:51

Sure.

SPEAKER_02 30:51

Yeah, but they nice, yeah. Um lightning never strikes the same place twice.

SPEAKER_01 30:57

But it does. It does. Isn't there we had an episode where that man had been struck by lightning like three times or something? Mad.

SPEAKER_02 31:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 31:04

Definitely nine live cat kind of man.

SPEAKER_02 31:06

Yeah, it definitely does. Because it's like tall buildings.

SPEAKER_01 31:09

But why do why do why would parents say that to kids to so they wouldn't be frightened? I don't know. Lightning never strikes the same place twice. Yeah, I don't know. But uh that lie just doesn't mean anything.

SPEAKER_02 31:20

Um isn't a childhood myth that humans only use 10% of their brains.

SPEAKER_01 31:25

I think we only use 10% at one time, but we use our entire brain.

SPEAKER_02 31:29

That is correct. We uh so we use all parts of our brains, yeah, but at different times. Yeah. Depending on what we're depending on what have you seen that image of the um neuron walking along the thingy, along the brainstem. It's literally like carrying like an endorphin or something that says this is what happiness actually genuinely looks like. Oh wow this little thing just walking along.

SPEAKER_03 31:50

That's cool. No, I haven't seen that.

SPEAKER_02 31:52

Just taking it to that part of the brain. It's bizarre, yeah.

Ice Cream Trucks Adults And Car Lights

SPEAKER_02 31:55

No, oh, this was this was one that Rob mentioned last night. Because I must have met Rob and Annu were around last night, and I said, Hannah's just text shit. I need to come up with some episodes. And this was one, and as soon as I said, Oh, I could do one on childhood myths, Rob, no, actually, no, it was your mum, then turned round and said, Ice cream truck music means they're out of ice cream.

SPEAKER_01 32:17

Oh, that is such a cruel thing to say to a kid. That is so cruel. Yeah, so cruel. I don't think mum ever said that to me. I wasn't massively into ice cream to be fair, but like that is so cruel. I get it if you're struggling with money. Like, I do understand why you would do that lie. Yeah, but that is so cruel. Yeah, so so cruel.

SPEAKER_02 32:40

Uh so I'm gonna cut the next two out because one on quicksand and the Bermuda Triangle, and we've spoken about those.

SPEAKER_01 32:48

You don't want me to go off about the Bermuda Triangle anymore.

SPEAKER_02 32:50

No, we haven't got time. No, this one, yeah, this one is true, yeah. Or as in as in this one is definitely not true, rather.

SPEAKER_01 33:01

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 33:03

Adults know what they're doing.

SPEAKER_01 33:05

Absolutely not. Absolutely not.

SPEAKER_02 33:07

Then we don't know what we're doing.

SPEAKER_01 33:09

I also thought that this was true. Yeah. I don't have as an adult.

unknown 33:14

I ain't got a clue.

SPEAKER_01 33:15

I I'm fumbling. Exactly. I I'm buffering and I'm f and I'm flubbing. Yeah. And I am floundering in a sea of uncertainty.

unknown 33:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 33:26

I am no, I I I I don't I don't have a clue.

SPEAKER_02 33:30

No, but it's just blagging it all the way through life. I am black in life. Just blagg all the way through life.

SPEAKER_01 33:35

I don't the other day I had this odd thought. I don't know if I know how to do my job.

SPEAKER_02 33:40

It's called imposter syndrome.

SPEAKER_01 33:42

Imposter syndrome. Like, I don't actually know if I'm good at my job. Yeah. Am I good at my job? I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 33:46

Yes, you are.

SPEAKER_01 33:47

Am I?

unknown 33:47

I don't know. I don't know. I don't know what you do.

SPEAKER_01 33:52

They keep me around.

SPEAKER_03 33:53

Exactly. I guess.

unknown 33:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 33:56

Do you know what? There's that thing that where um there's that speech by Barack Obama. I don't know if you've seen it, and it's so true. It really is true. Um, because you have to, you know, like when you're in in a big company, yeah, and you think like you look at like the CEO and you think you work sort of things, you think that each level of management or whatever probably knows more than the level below. Nope.

SPEAKER_00 34:16

Nope.

SPEAKER_02 34:17

Nope. So this thing by Barack Obama, and and uh he does his speech and he says similar thing, like with the American government, saying as you go through the levels of government, you think that as you go up that people know what they're doing, but when you get to that level, you realise they haven't got a clue. No, and they've and it's the same. Yeah, it's the same because like where I've worked my way up as well to a degree, and where I am, and the people above and like I I know they haven't got a clue. Yeah, I I We're all just making we're all just making do with what we've got. Yeah, I yeah, we're all just making do with what we've got. Now, this is a good one. Turning on the car light is illegal.

SPEAKER_01 34:54

Yeah, um even as an adult though, like I don't really see the issue. I've had the light on in the car, like distracting. If Mitch was looking for something in the car though, I'm not like, oh my god, I can't see. It's not that bad.

SPEAKER_02 35:07

Yeah, but I suppose if you had it on all the time, you would kind of get used to it.

SPEAKER_01 35:10

Yeah, I think so.

SPEAKER_00 35:12

I think so.

Seeds Toad Warts And Eye Tricks

SPEAKER_02 35:13

Uh uh swallowing watermelon seeds grows a watermelon inside you. That was actually, I remember that saying if you swallow seeds, it'll grow something inside you.

SPEAKER_01 35:21

I remember it being apple.

SPEAKER_02 35:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 35:23

Pips.

SPEAKER_02 35:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 35:24

Pips, seeds, yeah. Yeah, I was always a bit worried about that actually, which is probably why I don't eat a lot of fruit at the moment. Always a bit worried that there's going to be something growing inside me. But um, yeah, I was told that. But I don't again, I don't know why. It would put a child off eating something that's healthy. So why would you lie like that?

SPEAKER_02 35:44

Touching toads give you warts.

SPEAKER_01 35:46

Warts?

SPEAKER_02 35:47

Yeah, that remember that being said as a child.

SPEAKER_01 35:49

Oh no, I don't know that one.

SPEAKER_02 35:50

You get wort to warty toys.

SPEAKER_01 35:51

I thought you meant like licking toads like for for recreational drug use.

SPEAKER_02 35:56

Yeah, well, if you lick the wrong one, you'll know about it. Will you? Because some of them can kill you.

SPEAKER_01 35:59

Really? Yeah. What? Like in the UK?

SPEAKER_02 36:01

Well, no, just in no, not in the UK.

SPEAKER_01 36:04

Oh, we don't have poisonous toads. No, no. Not that I'm going around licking toads, by the way. Like, I'm not worried about this. It's not a fear that I have in my life. Oh no, what if I lick the wrong toad? I've never licked a toad, but um I just maybe want to know if I ever handle a toad and then lick my hands, potentially. Could you microdose toad? Well, I suppose it okay. For the audio listeners, father just literally just done the smallest amount of like tongue out, lizard tongues ever, but it was like the tiniest portion.

SPEAKER_02 36:40

That's a microdose.

SPEAKER_01 36:41

Like Yoshi.

SPEAKER_02 36:42

So you got you got the shit like toad like Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 36:47

Yoshi Yoshi. He's licking toads, isn't he? Let's be honest.

SPEAKER_02 36:52

Again, so the reality is that warts come from viruses, not frogs.

SPEAKER_01 36:55

Oh damn. I don't know warts come from viruses. I thought they were like from I don't know. Oh, Swiss, yeah, Swiss it is a virus or a bacteria, I guess.

SPEAKER_02 37:03

I'm gonna do something now. Go, go. I was told not to do this, otherwise they will stay that way.

SPEAKER_01 37:08

Oh, cross your eyes.

SPEAKER_02 37:09

Cross your eyes.

SPEAKER_01 37:10

Ooh. No, I can't I don't think so. Let me try.

SPEAKER_02 37:13

Go on, not quite. You So what you need to do I can't separate my eyes. All you need to do is cross your eyes and then look one way with both eyes. Because one eye will stay there and the other eye will flick out. No, because you're flicking your eyes from side to side now.

SPEAKER_01 37:29

I am!

SPEAKER_02 37:29

Yeah. And you've got now your eyes are closed.

SPEAKER_01 37:32

Oh, my eyes hurt.

SPEAKER_02 37:34

Can we shake my eyes?

SPEAKER_01 37:35

Oh yeah, you're weird. You can shake your eyeballs. Yeah. Can you still do it?

SPEAKER_02 37:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 37:40

Go on then. They're not shaking.

SPEAKER_02 37:41

Are they not?

SPEAKER_01 37:42

No. You've lost it. Oh yeah, they are. That is so weird. How do you do that?

SPEAKER_02 37:46

Just shake them. Just shake my eyes.

SPEAKER_01 37:49

How did you discover you could do that? This is we this is even weirder than the eye lid flipping thing that we were talking about in the last episode. Yeah. Like I can't. I feel like I'm gonna squish out shit if I if I push any harder.

SPEAKER_02 38:03

Like it's just it's just moving the muscles behind your eyes. But again, it's like I can't. It's just it's just having that neural network to be able to do it to link too. Now you're just shaking your whole head.

SPEAKER_03 38:14

I know!

SPEAKER_02 38:18

Oh dear lord. Okay. Okay. I'm just scrolling through some of these.

SPEAKER_01 38:26

Scrolling my way downtown. Walking fast.

Screen Burn Marilyn Manson And Dog Vision

SPEAKER_02 38:32

Oh, this was one, and your mum still your mum still mentions this sometimes. And on some TVs, I suppose it does, whereas video games and keeping the picture on one thing will ruin the screen.

SPEAKER_01 38:45

Oh yeah, the screen burns version.

SPEAKER_02 38:48

It doesn't happen so much anymore.

SPEAKER_01 38:49

No, because I think we've switched to LEDs opposed to plasma. I don't I don't know what the difference. OLED, I don't know. I don't really understand much.

SPEAKER_02 38:57

But um Well, we'd be screwed if our TV did.

SPEAKER_01 39:00

Yeah, because you've got a picture, don't you? You've got like an art picture.

SPEAKER_02 39:03

It turns into an art picture when it's not a TV. What is TV not a TV? When it's a piece of art. That was very Alan Partridge then, wasn't it?

SPEAKER_01 39:16

That was the weirdest thing you've ever done. It's like you went into a different person's character then.

SPEAKER_02 39:21

Well, it's a piece of art.

SPEAKER_01 39:25

Um yeah, you channelled your inner Alan Partridge then.

SPEAKER_03 39:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 39:31

You can get screen burn on your iPhone as well, apparently. But uh again, I've never been able to achieve it.

SPEAKER_02 39:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 39:37

Not that I'm trying.

SPEAKER_02 39:39

I don't know why this would come up under childhood, but this is the last one. This is the last one. This is the last one.

SPEAKER_01 39:43

No no no no.

SPEAKER_02 39:44

Did you ever hear the story when you were younger about Marilyn Manson that he allegedly removed one of his ribs?

SPEAKER_01 39:51

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 39:52

So he could Yeah, we won't say why, but there's the myth was that he allegedly removed one of his ribs.

SPEAKER_01 39:57

I think we can tastefully say it to perform oral pleasure on himself. Yes, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 40:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 40:02

I did hear this rumour. I also know that he's married to Paige and charmed.

SPEAKER_02 40:07

He was, he was not anymore. Well they're not married anymore. No, not anymore.

SPEAKER_01 40:11

Um yeah, that was something that went around a lot. It did. I remember, but apparently it's not true.

SPEAKER_02 40:17

It's not true at a load of all nonsense.

SPEAKER_01 40:19

Yeah, why Marilyn Manson? Is it again because of the oh like satanic cult like remnants of that? Because he was your own personal Jesus. He covered Depeche Mode, didn't he?

SPEAKER_02 40:31

He did cover that was a really good song.

SPEAKER_01 40:33

Someone to hear your prayers, someone who cares. I don't know any other Marilyn Manson song though. Uh not I was never a massive fan.

SPEAKER_02 40:42

Yeah, uh no. No, I can't think of another one. No.

SPEAKER_01 40:46

Well, he got success out of that, so and the rumour about him removing a rib.

SPEAKER_02 40:51

Actually, I've just found one more one more, one more in homage to my little boy down there.

SPEAKER_01 40:57

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 40:58

Homage.

SPEAKER_01 40:59

Homage.

SPEAKER_02 41:00

Homage. Homage. That dogs can only see black and white.

SPEAKER_01 41:04

Dogs can't look up. Big Al says I was thinking the other day, you know, when we did that podcast episode about the guests we wanted on this podcast. Why the heck did we not say silent peg? Silent Peg. Or Nick Frost.

SPEAKER_02 41:19

Or Nick Frost, yeah. Oh, that would have been so good. That would have been brilliant.

SPEAKER_01 41:22

Anyway, uh dogs dogs can see in other colours.

SPEAKER_02 41:26

They can see colours.

SPEAKER_01 41:27

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_02 41:27

They can't see as many as we can.

SPEAKER_01 41:30

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 41:30

But they do see in other things as black and white.

SPEAKER_01 41:34

Right. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 41:34

So there you go.

unknown 41:35

Well.

SPEAKER_02 41:36

So that one was for you, Archie boy.

unknown 41:38

No.

SPEAKER_01 41:38

He's sleeping.

SPEAKER_02 41:39

Absolutely nothing. He's just he's chilled out now. He's sleeping. I think he was barking because he wanted to be in here with us.

SPEAKER_01 41:44

Be with us.

SPEAKER_02 41:45

Yeah, bless him.

Outro And How To Follow

SPEAKER_02 41:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 41:46

Well, if you enjoyed this episode on child myths.

SPEAKER_02 41:50

Child yeah, myths. Myths.

SPEAKER_01 41:51

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