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Fresh Goods Friday 700 - The censored edition
What are you lot talking about? Assuming it’s neither football nor shopping, dare we guess that you’re currently thinking about this coming weekend’s cycling adventures?
Wherever you go and whatever you get up to on your fine velocipedes, may we wish you the very best of times.
To get you increasingly amped – nay, stoked – for the weekend, here is this week’s roundup of stuff that has arrived at Singletrack World HQ since the last time we did this. That’s right – it’s time for Fresh Goods Friday!
We hope you like knee pads.
https://singletrackworld.com/2024/04/fresh-goods-friday-700-the-padding-it-out-edition/
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Hello, welcome
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Imagine the fireworks, the cake, the candles, because... Let's put them in afterwards. It is a round number Fresh Goods Friday
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700 Fresh Goods Fridays. If we numbered them correctly. I know we at least didn't number them correctly once
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I imagine when it started, I don't think we numbered them. Probably didn't think you'd do it for more than a couple of weeks
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There's nothing going on. Yeah. On that right Friday. But last week there was nothing going on and Amanda and I did it anyway
0:58
Because we're pro now. 700 in, we've had some practice at Waffle
1:02
Well I think it's just that they all do strike break, really seem to send a lot of..
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Sandy people, what do you call them? Distributors and stuff, obviously off as well
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Yeah, anyway. Started to trickle in today. So we have... We don't have 700 products
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No, we have a 700c bicycle behind. 29, 80RO, I don't know
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They still don't have a wheel sign. None of them want to say they are. We've had that in before
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That's going to be reviewed in two days, which is a Sunday. Okay
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Giant Stance, two and a bit grand. Ooh. Can't even remember what travel is
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I think it's like 130-ish. Got its own fork on it. Look, giant crest, like toothpaste
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A full sauce bike for under... Got a full colour. There's a little bit of colour there underneath and on top, but it's black
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Cool. Yeah, good. Right. We're just getting white. So we have this
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This is probably the most exciting thing. I think I came through my front door yesterday. Yeah, and mine
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Sorry, three days ago. So we're on Fresh Goods Friday 700, and you were here for number one
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and then had a bit of a break in the middle and then came back. I think I was about Fresh Goods Friday 260 that I started
2:25
This is issue 154. 154. And I started at issue 100. Oh, right, okay
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That was my first one. My first one was 14 or 15
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It's making me feel quite old, this whole thing. Quarterly? Imagine how easy that would be
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Only four times a year. It was about the same. I seem to recall. Right
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But it's got so much more beautiful and it still feels really good
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There's a lot more scanning of slides than driving to Rochdale. Driving to Rochdale, okay
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You don't have a mod story. Well, get your copy of this
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Not in the newsagents like what it was in the old days. No, it wasn't even in the newsagents then
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Was it? Maybe, maybe not. It was in bike shops and letterboxes. Best Place Now is on our website if you're not already a member or a subscriber. Revamped
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This is a second revamp. No, I've been through at least two. No, I'm in this one with the new
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No, I've done a few different revamps. It's not called a Berliner format because that's a tabloid, isn't it
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That's what the Guardian went to a few years ago. This is the best one yet
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This is the best format yet, for sure. Yeah. And it gets better
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And when you open it at home, people go, what's that smell? It's a nice smell
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And it's, if you like, kind of mechanic-y, oily kind of salt, smell
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Salt condition. I quite like it here. Anyway. People think something's going wrong with the washing machine
4:01
It's all right. Or the grill's gone wrong again. Insight into Benji's house
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Yeah. So if you're not already a subscriber, go to singletrackworld.com and use the code HELLO50 to join us and you'll get a half price subscription
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And that will give you the next issue, which will be 155 automatically
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And then you can go back and buy this one in the shop at a special discount price
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That's the best way to do things. Okay. You can get at it straight away in a digi format. Yeah
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You can just go and download it from a PDF. While you wait. You get all of them all the way back to number one as well
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There'll be one missing somewhere. They're all there. It's PDF. Right. So that's the most exciting thing that's happened this week. Bye. Honest
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Have you got a knife? Have. That's a new thing this week
4:56
So this is my wallet. People love knives, don't they? Well, so this is not strictly speaking a knife
5:03
This is a multi-tool. So my son, my 13 year old son went on holiday with his mates and their parents
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and brought me back a tool as a present. Like a great proud parenting moment
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I just wonder if it's drug paraphernalia. I don't think it is. No, it's not
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Like shopping. No, not a fan. So it's got a screwdriver and a knife and a bolt thing
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All sorts of amazing. It's a good way of wrecking everything on your bike. So I'm going to be going
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Well, I mean, you know, it's in the wallet. And it's useful. It's got a saw
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I haven't tried it before. Where's the knife then? So the knife is there. We were a bit touched then
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Um, yeah. I'm all right. I'm made of leather. So, but yeah, I was so pleased that my son went on holiday and thought what she wants
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what my mum really needs is a tool. Could it be a belt buckle as well
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Was that just my... I don't think so. No. Well, I don't wear belts
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This is a complicated box. Hang on. I've got stuck with the wrong one
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You're just going to watch me struggle. I've got a knife in it. Could help. I should have learnt
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Which since we're on like a reminiscent thing. Once upon a time, when we used to do like live Facebook stuff
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I did a live unboxing of a fork and it was in the most complicated packaging in the whole world
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And it needed like snippers and all sorts. Oh, right. Do not reveal that on camera
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Put that aside. That was well planned. This one should have been opened
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That's not what I was expecting, but I know what it is. This is for Amanda, who's not here
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But I think she's opened it and left it with us. No, she was going to take it with her on holiday and then she hasn't
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Sorry, women's cinder downpour light jacket from RAB. Yeah. Putting a glare everywhere, isn't it
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So... Can I open that? It's... She needs to model it. Right
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That is, I think, the only one of the RAB cinder range that I haven't tested
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Oh, yes. Yeah. Give her them. So that one is kind of lightweight and waterproof. Right
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Although I've already tested one that is more waterproof, but less lightweight
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It's not got any valves in it. What's the NDR? No, it's bike industry fashion, isn't it
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Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Race. That is sport version. The... One of the cinder range, the super packable lightweight one
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is in my editor's choice, I think, the last year. It's a nice colour. It's amazing
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It's the same colour as that. Right. Oh, it's like... Am I allowed to reveal these things, Benji
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Winter ball. Yes. Oh, that's for like gnarly riding. What is it? A backpack
8:01
Oh, I know what that is, sorry. Oh, can I open it? G-FORM, is the brand
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It's quite heavy. I'm just being impatient and looking at stuff from elsewhere
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So are you planning a downhill event this year? No. Ross is keen on back protectors
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Everyone should be keen on back protectors. They're good. This is a chest protector as well. Right
8:28
Purple tab, quite like that. Yeah, this one's a large. I wonder if it will fit me. Right
8:32
I don't know. Details written in words. That smells quite nice. Either on the web page
8:41
This is just like unboxing, because everyone loves unboxing. It's like, oh, we should be doing like ASMR type G-FORM
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Good. All of that. G-FORM, I feel like a bit of an aesthetic revamp
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because they used to be a bit kind of... Remind me of Red Dwarf
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Yeah, they were all like... They were all like... Sci-fi. Yeah, shapes
9:03
And golden things. Yeah. So this is a bit more... They're all shapes. Everything's shapes, but..
9:09
Purple thing that probably not allowed to be called D3O, but you know what I mean
9:13
It's in there. It's called Rezero. Right, okay. Right, Rezero. Terra elbow
9:20
Medium. Fine. You bendy bendies. Do you wear elbow pads ever? No
9:25
See, I do. I have a wholly under-used... I often don't wear knee pads
9:32
I wear gloves. Wear helmets all the time. I don't know why I wear all the time. How do you live in this
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Oh look, these ones are even more hardcore. Ooh. These. Hell, I'll lie
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I think it's for warmth reasons, and they do fit under... Like, these probably might have a go with..
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Just for longevity reasons. Of course. You just need to keep rising
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I don't want to get into the debate, really, or get into helmet compulsion. No, no, but..
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I just think you're self-dooming yourself to injury a lot of time if you're wearing stuff
10:03
I don't like wearing stuff. You don't like wearing stuff. So just... No, I don't want to wear gloves
10:07
Benji in the woods naked. You can tell all the time. Oh, that's a proper one, that
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It's a proper one, yeah. For skid plate stuff. So I wouldn't..
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What I would like to see, people out there who design things, is these things either permanently
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or well securely attached to bib shorts. Okay, then you can hold these things up by bib straps
10:35
which is what they do on motorbikes. Well, that is a thing. There is the..
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There used to be. ...click-fast system. Yeah. That some of them use
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But as it is, I'm going to get my dear old mum to sew those to some existing bib shorts
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because that's the pain of them, is the bloody norabatty tugging you have to do all the time
10:53
Just get some old wick. Oh, you're very intolerant. Why do you think you're trying to attach them
10:58
on a carrot-shaped object, i.e. your leg? They're not going to stay up, are they
11:04
Mine stay up. Maybe my legs aren't carrot-shaped. Got bigger knees. What else have we got
11:12
The car socks. Yeah. I do like a sock. That's basically it. Secret
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Only one pair. I thought there was two. No, there's more in there, but it's all..
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I think they're white. All right, cool. What do you mean, cool
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Who wants white socks? I love them. Yeah? White socks. Right, good
11:30
Do you know, I'm going to Sea Otter next week, and I've decided I'm going to see
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how many pairs of socks I can come up with. I'm going to do socks of Sea Otter
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Right. Because my sock drawer needs a refresh, but not with white socks
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That's fair. That's from my and Amanda's permanent backburner project, is some kind of sock feature
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Amanda didn't believe in socks when she started here. What, at all
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No, I don't think she owned a pair of socks. I know she's not keen on waterproof socks, which I kind of agree with a bit
12:01
Just they are horrible after an hour and a half. Fine. All right, look at this
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YT, young talent. Those are a bit posh. Those are more knee pads
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More knee sleeves. That is actually real. That looks like it'd be quite useful for going on holiday
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and keeping your shit together. Well, it would let the stink out, wouldn't it? Yes
12:24
Bar lock lightning grippers. There you go. You can have a go at that
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Riding wear, that's their thing, isn't it? They're doing, that's their new stuff
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which I think there's a box here also from young talent. Okay
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That's young talent, isn't it? YT. Yeah. Too old for it, Benji
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Yeah, no, you'd stop me doing things I'm too old for. As is the theme of today's newsletter, actually
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Oh, is it? Kind of, sort of. Yeah. I've discovered that the forum has kind of a niche
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and deep enthusiasm for retro outdoor clothing. No way. Something that hearkens back to when they were more free
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and had stuff to do, thus confusing with it being good. No way is that popular on the forum
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No, they're not necessarily saying it's good. They're just all over it. Like you can give them like a tiny logo and they're like
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I know exactly what that is. Oh, is that secret
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Okay, you're covering the technical features now, aren't you? Probably not even like to talk about them
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Well, that's why I thought we should move on. But we can always cut this in when they come out
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Like we'll manage to not lose the video in that time. Mark knows what he's doing
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Um, yeah. Right, what about us against the invisible? What? Against the secret, not invisible
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That would be cool. Don't know anything about them. What were we talking about
14:10
Over the hills people or something? No, I'm done with that. I've moved on to the question
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Oh yeah? So Adrian Wilkinson says, what would you call a trail at a bike park if you got the chance to name a trail
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You have to name it either related to what the trail is like. You don't have to do anything. But it's usually, you name it for either something that happened on it
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or its nature. Yeah. Characteristics. So I have spoken to some people that are doing sort of trail advocacy
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trying to legitimize wild trails type stuff. And one of the problems that they've come across
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is that so many trails are called stuff like, Willie Waver. Oh yeah
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Blue Bulls or whatever. And if you're trying to put that into a kind of serious policy document
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that's not very helpful. Yeah. So that all that sort of, yeah, macho stuff
15:02
Although it does make me slightly tempted to call the trail the Vaginator or something like that
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It's very French. We've lost Mark. I don't know. Is it for, what I call that trail is not what someone else calls it
15:21
It's just what we need to refer it to. There's a practical reason why we call trails because you get fed up with calling it that one near that one that goes like that
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What are you on about? Yeah. And no one knows the definitive map numbers
15:34
So there's this trip that's supposed to be present locally is the same as Ernie's Love Tunnel
15:39
Right. Well, the last track we named in my literal part of the woods
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we called Soil Stacking. Because it was something to do with the guy I ride with
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had just been sorting out a soil pipe. Because that's what we do at home
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And it was quite a, we call it loam. Pretend that it's not just crap soil muck these days
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It's quite a mucky track. So we called it soil stacking. Okay
16:10
But by that, your next trail is going to be called something like washing machine brushes then, isn't it
16:15
Based on the last task we did. That's still going quite well. And they threw up an error in the washing machine
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But I think it's just not ready. It's just not prepared to count the really fast spins yet. Okay
16:26
Just easing in on the 800s. So I'd call mine understair storage
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Or it'd be nice to have trails like, don't worry, it's grippy
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Uh, it'll go, just keep going or something like that. I've got an issue with trail names
16:42
They are tediously like puerile. So it's like grey. That's why I don't like calling them what people know them as
16:52
Okay. I'm tediously puerile. I'm definitely not. That's fine. But you know, just like GPS
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Um, I think I might've been rude, but just that they're always like. Macho. Yeah. Yeah
17:07
Okay. What else do we need to know? What else is happening
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I'm going to sea otter. Stay tuned. Next week. Is it on next week
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It's on like the weekend after this one. Why don't we foolishly commit you to do some kind of sea otter fresh goods
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Because the internet is rubbish. It's in America. And the time zones mean I'll be all out of kilter
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Not be, yeah. Just. Just chill. Things will magically appear. Stay tuned
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See you next week. There might be stuff from somewhere. There will be. Bye
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Bye for now. 701 next week. Yeah
18:06
You could do a, you could do a piece to your phone. Send you. Yes
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Possibly. Yeah. But see. Oh, and then we've been because there's issues over to our roving reporter
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Hannah, who's on the ground in sea otter right now. Yeah. Over to you, Hannah
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So I'll, the show starts on Thursday. What state is sea otter in? California
18:28
Yeah. Yeah. Right. Starts on a Thursday. So. Right. You should do it
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Any, any silly face the camera just started with. Thank you, Benji. Back to you in the studio
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But then he might not go on. Here's our roving reporter, Hannah. He might go, here's Hannah, that silly cow
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And I'll go, thank you, Benji. Yes. Good idea
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