70s Punk Dystopian Roundhead

 Laura: Hello and welcome to the best ever episode of Lexx Education

Laura: We say the best episode, the most recent episode.

Laura: Is it the only episode you haven't heard?

Laura: It's an episode of podcast comedy.

Laura: Me tries to learn science.

Laura: Comedian comedy podcast from her brother.

Laura: He is called Ron.

Ron: Hello, I'm Ron.

Laura: What we've never told you before, is Ron short for Ron or Dino the footballer?

Laura: Surprising.

Ron: Lots of people call me that.

Ron: Lots of people call me that.

Ron: Don't care.

Ron: Don't know who that is.

Ron: I think it's a compliment.

Laura: Sure.

Laura: If you're into football, why not?

Laura: And hello, everyone.

Laura: How are you?

Laura: We're not in the best mood, are we, Ron?

Laura: We're a bit.

Ron: Oh, I'm all right.

Laura: Oh, all right, then.

Laura: Well, I'm not in the best mood.

Laura: I'm a bit sulky, and I'll tell.

Ron: You, I see you're just ignoring the.

Laura: Personal family tragedy that we're having at the moment.

Laura: Yeah, fine.

Laura: Ron doesn't care.

Laura: I went shopping this morning, Ron.

Laura: Everybody in the Waitrose car park was a d*******.

Laura: And I get it.

Laura: Waitrose is a stereotypical, like by word for middle class twats.

Ron: But did you go to the one near my old flat?

Laura: Yes, because I needed to go to Taj.

Laura: I wouldn't normally go.

Laura: One, it's the other side of the town.

Laura: Two, it's expensive, three, it's small.

Laura: Fine.

Laura: But I needed a certain type of pastry from Taj.

Laura: So I thought, I'll do the rest of the shop in Waitrose.

Laura: I was reversing, and it was pretty tight, right?

Laura: But the only thing I could do to get out of people's way was to do a three point turn.

Laura: And I'm there.

Laura: I'm reversing.

Laura: I'm being very careful, and then the guy behind me just starts beeping.

Laura: And, like, do you think I don't know that you're there?

Laura: Like, I'm aware.

Laura: You can see how carefully I'm reversing.

Laura: So why are you beeping at me?

Laura: He's beeping and, like, staring at me, like, more cars here.

Laura: And I'm like, oh, no, your car is there.

Laura: The fact that I haven't hit it yet is proof that I know that your car is there.

Laura: The thing that's happening is I am reversing and turning around without touching your car.

Laura: Then he just reversed back up by, like, 2 meters because he had f****** loads of space behind him and could have done that the whole time rather than beep at me.

Laura: If he hadn't been stopped there in the turning area, there wouldn't have been any drama.

Laura: Then as I'm driving home, I'm coming up to the roundabout at seven dials, and I get on the roundabout and then I see over by one of the other ones by the lawn dread.

Laura: This old, old, old, old, old lady starts crossing.

Laura: And I'm like, okay, cool, start slowing down.

Laura: And the guy just steps out in front of me and sticks his arm at me.

Laura: And I was like, whoa, dude, what are you doing?

Laura: And he starts gesticulating wildly of the woman.

Laura: Look at her.

Laura: I was like, I could f****** see her, mate.

Laura: I'd already slowed down for her.

Laura: What I wasn't expecting was you to suddenly step out in front of my car and expect that because I was going to break for a woman who was 30 yards away, I had time to stop for a man that suddenly launched himself at the bonnet of my car.

Ron: Sounds like you're just surrounded by a den of fat slags today.

Ron: That's horrible.

Laura: I am Ron and the whole time child of the podcast was sulky.

Laura: So we were just listening to the CBB's theme tunes, like in the car.

Laura: So you're doing all this to the Teletubbies theme tune, which is f****** mad when you listen to it just in your car.

Laura: It's really insane.

Laura: There's a bit where they sing Mary had a little lamb, and then this posh woman just goes, well, I'm glad that's over.

Laura: That was a lot of noise.

Laura: And then the Teletubbies beg for it to happen again.

Laura: It just f****** happens again.

Ron: I lived 100 meters away from that waitrose all through lockdown.

Ron: And because I wasn't really spending my money on anything else, I just shopped at the Waitrose rather than walking further away.

Ron: And while is expensive, if you're spending pub money on it, that you usually spend at the pub.

Ron: F****** brilliant.

Ron: I lived like a king.

Ron: Got real fat.

Laura: Delicious.

Laura: Here's the thing, though.

Laura: Walking around Taj, just looking at how thick and juicy all the veg is in there, I was like, oh, man.

Laura: Getting fresh stuff from Taj is the way forward.

Ron: None of it was packaged.

Ron: I did do as much grocery shopping as I could at Taj, but to be honest, I don't write the groceries at Taj.

Ron: Like the green groceries at Taj, all.

Laura: The, oh, I got some big fat jeans.

Ron: Sometimes there'd just be stuff that was just like, oh, and obviously then, because it's not in a package, you're like, okay, I can just choose the other ones.

Ron: But then you're like, well, how old are those ones?

Ron: If they're with the ones that are off.

Laura: Yeah, I guess it depends if you're going to use them that day, isn't it?

Ron: Yeah.

Ron: I go to the green grocer when I could be bothered, on North street near me in Bristol now.

Ron: Well, I've only just started going and f*** me, the fruit is good from there.

Ron: I've been eating some apples.

Laura: Apples?

Laura: Yeah, we had to change the kind of apples we were having so that child of the podcast could have them.

Laura: And they're too flowery for me.

Laura: I like a granny Smith.

Ron: Why couldn't she have the other ones?

Laura: Because she doesn't get through them quick enough.

Laura: Tiny mouth.

Laura: She's too small to do anything.

Laura: Anyway, we've got lots to talk about in this intro, but we should probably do some of that.

Laura: Did you listen to today's episode, Ron?

Ron: Most of it.

Laura: Have you looked at the notes that I've made?

Ron: I'm looking at them now, I've got them open, yeah.

Laura: Did you do the advent calendar analysis?

Ron: No.

Laura: Okay, well then we've got to talk about today.

Ron: I just have not had time to do that.

Laura: That's fine.

Laura: So first thing on the agenda, one Leicester festival tickets.

Laura: It is less than a month now until our Leicester festival debut.

Laura: We'd love you to be there.

Laura: It'll be our third live show.

Laura: We think we're getting the hang of them now.

Laura: We've done two.

Laura: They were both great.

Laura: We're going to have another great one.

Laura: Please do come along.

Laura: I'm doing solo shows both days too, so if you want to come to both.

Laura: Hey, come to both.

Laura: They're in the same venue, the ones on the sun.

Laura: So it's back to back on the Sunday.

Laura: It's that show.

Laura: You can go and get a beer and then come back up for my show.

Laura: Tickets are at the Leicester festival website.

Laura: Or if you live in Leicester, pop into the black course in Ailsden and you can buy them at the bar.

Laura: Leicester Festival.

Laura: That's that done.

Laura: New ballgame episode of Patreon came out Friday.

Laura: I was a bit worried about it, Ron, because we were so interested in the subject, we forgot we were supposed to be entertaining in the.

Ron: You were so interested in the subject you barely let me talk throughout the episode.

Laura: True facts, not a lie is spoken.

Laura: Editing it, I was like, gosh, we might as well not have an audience.

Laura: We are literally just having an in depth discussion.

Laura: But people seem to have enjoyed it.

Laura: The discord has been a blaze.

Ron: People like those episodes.

Ron: People love the Bob Dylan episode as well.

Ron: And that was just a good discussion.

Ron: I think it goes to show that maybe in podcasts, like both of the guests should be in, both of the hosts should be informed on things.

Laura: I don't know about that.

Laura: So join the Patreon and listen to that.

Laura: Or if you are a patron and you haven't listened yet, hey, it's sitting there.

Laura: It's ready for you.

Laura: Now, the big announcement.

Laura: This week we are going to make a class tea towel.

Laura: We have got in touch with a company who can make a little tea towel with all of our images on it.

Laura: Anybody who wants to be involved can be on the Lex education class tea towel or first class tea towel.

Laura: Maybe we'll do this again in the future.

Laura: Don't know.

Laura: Anyway, if you would like to have your picture included on the Lex education class tea towel, what you need to do is send us a one by one inch image of yourself that you have hand drawn.

Laura: You need to draw it in quite a thick pen, quite a simple drawing, because I have to trace all of these and put them on the tea towel and then email it to us, lexeducation@gmail.com send us your images and we will put them all together on the class tea towel with our own images and some regular guests.

Laura: And then we will be making this tea towel which will be available for you to buy should you want to, so that you can have a little bit of lab rat merch in your kitchen and have the nicest podcasting community ever all joined up together on a tea towel.

Laura: So one by one inch.

Laura: So it's quite small, just a little stick drawing or a drawing that represents you.

Laura: If you don't want to try and draw your own little face, you can do whatever you like and put your name in the box too, like write your name or however you want to be known on the tea towel.

Laura: Send that to us lexeducation@gmail.com and we will arrange them on the tea towel.

Laura: We'll give you quite a while to do this, but if you can get them in, great.

Laura: If we say end of February is the deadline, we'll remind you every week, so don't worry about that.

Laura: But we think this will be a lovely piece of merch.

Ron: A bit different as well, isn't it?

Laura: Pardon, Ron?

Ron: Bit different as well, isn't it?

Laura: I reckon.

Laura: I wonder how many other podcasts have ever done a class tea towel.

Ron: Probably like none.

Ron: Oh, that was a scream from downstairs.

Laura: I think they're reading the big hairy toe book.

Laura: That older sister of the podcast bought her and she likes to pretend to be scared of the monster.

Laura: That's all.

Laura: Weird book.

Ron: Yeah.

Ron: I think it's going to be good fun.

Ron: And we're all about useful merch.

Ron: I think that should be our vibe.

Ron: Like, not just another t shirt or a hat, although those are fine, but stuff that you can use.

Ron: We want to be drying your dishes with you.

Ron: We want to be there when you're making a meringue.

Ron: We want to be there.

Laura: Bobble hats were a good seller.

Laura: I'd consider doing bobble hats again.

Laura: T shirts is too much faf man.

Laura: Because you've got to think sizes worth too much hassle.

Laura: Tea towel, one size.

Laura: Let's do it.

Ron: Yeah.

Ron: If you guys ever want t shirts, then you all need to become the same size.

Laura: Yeah.

Laura: Because we can't be bothered with that.

Laura: So enjoy this episode.

Laura: It is our second ever redo episode.

Laura: Something about January makes me lose recordings.

Ron: Yeah, we can brag as much as we want about being the only podcast, the only podcast that has a tea towel, but we're also the only podcast that just regularly has to redo episodes.

Laura: Regularly once a year.

Laura: It's not even that bad.

Laura: Anyway, crack on in and we'll see you on the other side.

Laura: It's a redo, Ron.

Ron: It's a redo.

Laura: Pretending it's not right now to moisturize your face because your face is so.

Ron: Shiny and wet looking that I was.

Laura: Like, yeah, because I use expensive products.

Laura: So many products.

Laura: The one I opened this morning, so it's 21 December for us right now here in the real world was called dragon's blood ras, and it's an eye gel for making me look like less, like an old crone.

Laura: And now I've reached a point 21 days into the advent calendar where I've got so many creams, I can't possibly use them all in one day because they're just layering on each other and not actually reaching the skin anymore.

Laura: So I've had to come up with a skin routine while I've got some of these products, and then I'll just have to slowly change it as they run out, because I think my skin would fall off if I was using all of these acids and things.

Laura: And today in the dragon's blood one, right, it was hyaluronic acid, which has come up a lot.

Laura: It's like a moisturizing acid or something, and then arnica, which I know we've had in the past because it helps bring bruises out.

Laura: And it's for brightening.

Laura: You're around the eyes.

Laura: So I was like, okay, so it's like drawing out bruises or something.

Laura: And then the third ingredient was trademarked.

Laura: So I was like, so that's definitely nothing because it's just something you've invented or it's water, but you're calling it percopood and pretending it's fancy.

Ron: Yeah.

Ron: I mean, that's not.

Ron: What do you think a trademark is?

Laura: Well, something they've made up.

Ron: No.

Laura: Yeah, because you can't just say, like, hydrogen.

Laura: Trademark.

Ron: No.

Ron: But they could have had a process to make a molecule that they've then trademarked.

Laura: They haven't though, Ron, because it's a face cream.

Laura: They're not going to make up a molecule, are they?

Ron: They waste a lot of time on it.

Ron: I mean, it's working.

Ron: I'm not saying you look like one of these because you've got delightful bone structure, but you've got definitely the skin texture of a blobfish.

Laura: Have I got botox shine as if.

Laura: I've had loads of botox.

Ron: I can see distinct points of light on both sides of your chin, all over your nose and your forehead.

Laura: That's what I wanted, was to be so shiny that people are distracted from the aging of my face.

Laura: Really shiny.

Laura: The moisturizer I've used today is the rich cream, which was, I think, possibly day one.

Laura: And it's so thick, it takes half the day to soak into your skin.

Laura: I've had a lot of spots in the last few days, which I hope is the cleanser, the one that came with the weird cloth, like drawing out all the stuff that's normally just wedged in pores, mining.

Ron: It really how it works, I think.

Laura: Is it not?

Ron: No.

Laura: Well, then, in which case it's making my skin worse because you're putting all.

Ron: The products on it.

Laura: No, I told you, I've stopped doing that.

Laura: Now I've got four more days to go, but on the 23rd, I'm just going to have to open the 24th and 25th because I'm going home to mother and father of the podcast for Christmas, and I'm not lugging the whole thing across the country.

Ron: You guys are real on it with car space.

Laura: Oh, we tried to buy a roof box yesterday because we were so worried about getting everything home.

Ron: Yeah, fair.

Laura: But it was like 450 pounds to get a roof box.

Laura: And I was like, do you know what?

Laura: No.

Ron: Doesn't feel like it should be that much.

Ron: I'm not saying it should be cheap because you don't want all of your stuff to start flying around.

Ron: But like 200 quid, surely?

Laura: Well, this is how they get you, though, Ron.

Laura: It's like the cheapest roof box is like 230 quid or something like that.

Laura: Not that bad.

Laura: But then you've got to buy the bars and you've got to have it fitted and the bars are another 180 pounds.

Laura: So you're like, that's how they get you.

Laura: But luckily, a dripping tap at the moment and Halfords is right next to B Q.

Laura: So I rang agony dad in B Q to ask him what washer I needed for my dripping tap and I mentioned, oh, we were in town anyway, getting a roofbox and he said, I've got a box sitting in the shed if you want it.

Laura: So we're getting a free box off agony dad.

Ron: So you're just having the bars attached then?

Laura: No, he's got bars too.

Ron: Oh, he's going to do all of it.

Laura: Yeah, probably.

Ron: He's a good lad.

Laura: Do it with all bungee ropes and stuff, won't he?

Ron: Yeah.

Ron: Probs.

Laura: I do have to fix the tap by myself, though.

Laura: Our bath is dripping and it makes me really anxious.

Ron: Why?

Laura: It's waste of water, isn't it?

Laura: We're running out of drinking water.

Ron: Are we?

Ron: Here?

Laura: Why in the world, generally, where I live.

Ron: Yeah, but they're not going to ship that water to somewhere else.

Laura: No, but it's going to go in the sea, isn't it?

Laura: And then it's not drinking water anymore.

Ron: Yeah, but it's not going to.

Laura: I don't think it's good to have dripping taps, is it?

Ron: No, but you don't have to worry about it.

Ron: Worry is not a useful emotion.

Laura: Well, you're doing the right thing and fix it, though.

Ron: No, the worry is not making you do that.

Laura: What's making me do that?

Ron: The fact that that's what you need to do because it's sensible to fix a dripping tap.

Ron: Worry because you're doing that and you're still worrying about it.

Ron: So the worry is not helping, is it?

Laura: No, but I've been through this with my therapist and she always tells me why worry is bad, but just get your worry gland sucked out.

Ron: Yeah, but you told me this, I'm parroting back to you, therapy, that you've passed on secondhand.

Laura: Yeah.

Laura: Oh, I know it, Ron, I just can't do it.

Ron: Yeah, that's the problem with therapy, they.

Laura: Tell you it all and you go, yeah, that's really logical, thanks a lot.

Laura: And then your brain just goes, I'm still a piece of s***.

Ron: Yeah, I'm not depressed at the moment, so I've, like, signed up for the dentist.

Ron: I've signed up for a doctor.

Ron: I'm really looking after myself.

Ron: It's nice.

Laura: I've started flossing.

Ron: Oh, bloody h***.

Ron: Nicely done.

Laura: Yeah, I figured now I can't brush my teeth as much.

Laura: I've got a real listerine habit, but I think that that is deroding my gums quicker than the brushing one.

Ron: Why do you think?

Laura: And I started flossing because it hurts so much.

Ron: Yeah, because it does sting, but you can get ones that don't sting.

Laura: Yeah, I'm going to do that next time.

Laura: There was one that said mild flavor, but I didn't want to be that puss puss.

Laura: I thought, I can handle it.

Laura: I can't handle.

Ron: You are a big puss puss, though.

Laura: I'm a huge puss puss.

Ron: I'm thinking about getting water flosser.

Laura: Oh, will Duggan's got one of those.

Laura: When he got it, he told me it was life changing, but I don't know if he still uses it.

Ron: Well, I think water flosser might be what you need, because then it's kind of the same action as cleaning your teeth and it would leave you feeling fresh.

Ron: Friend of the podcast Owa has one.

Ron: Yeah, so I've talked to him about it.

Ron: Yeah, but I'm all over these nashes at the moment.

Laura: You're getting on those nashes now?

Laura: Yeah.

Laura: I've got to go to the dentist in February.

Laura: It's going to be the first time.

Laura: Four or five years, Laura.

Ron: I didn't go for ten years.

Laura: Yeah, but you're only a little baby boy.

Laura: We're going on a family trip.

Laura: Tom booked us as a family.

Laura: I've never felt more betrayed in my life.

Ron: He comes through sometimes.

Ron: Honestly, I'd never been off my own back.

Ron: When I turned 18 and mum stopped taking me, I just never went again.

Ron: I was like, this is sweet, I don't have to go to the dentist now.

Ron: Yeah, but now I'm going to go every year.

Laura: Yeah, you are, you legend.

Ron: Yeah, every bloody year.

Laura: We've got to do a redo, Ron, because I lost the file.

Ron: Yeah.

Ron: Do you not remember how bloody dullsville this episode was?

Ron: Apart from all the light that we brought to fun?

Laura: Yeah, but the content, we had characters, and I've made really good notes, I would say.

Laura: So hopefully we can just.

Laura: If it turns out like the last redo where we screamed at each other for 2 hours, I'm going to cry so dense.

Laura: No.

Laura: Right.

Laura: Let's not even go back to that.

Laura: If people want to re listen to that, they can go back and listen.

Ron: Great episode.

Laura: The moles redo special.

Ron: Probably one of our best or worst.

Laura: One or the other.

Laura: Anyway.

Laura: Properties of electromagnetic waves.

Laura: That's what this episode is.

Laura: What?

Ron: That's the episode before me.

Ron: You've got no notes for this one, apparently.

Laura: 84 eightyes of electromagnetic waves.

Ron: No, we didn't.

Laura: And Gamma Sievert, Rinson and Becker.

Laura: L.

Laura: Danger mouse.

Laura: I don't know why it says that.

Ron: Oh, all of my great danger mouse chat is gone.

Ron: You were so rude about that.

Laura: Yeah, that's what this episode was.

Ron: Oh, yeah.

Laura: Millie Seavertz.

Ron: Yeah.

Ron: Well, yeah.

Laura: Do you want to talk about danger Mouse again?

Laura: No, because you had a bit of a misunderstanding where Ron was talking about danger mouse.

Laura: I thought he meant the cartoon mouse.

Laura: He meant a music producer.

Ron: Yeah, no, it's fine.

Ron: We don't have to talk about my interest.

Ron: Let's talk about face cream some more.

Laura: No, I'm willing to talk about it.

Laura: I just.

Ron: No, because you've lured me into this trap before.

Laura: What trap?

Ron: Because you're going to be like, it's.

Laura: Not a trap, it's a cuddle.

Ron: No, because you're going to be like, oh, yeah, talk about it.

Ron: Then you'd be like, who cares?

Ron: That's boring.

Laura: Well, that's how you feel about face creams.

Ron: Yeah, but we talked about it for ages.

Ron: I was lovely.

Ron: I was charming.

Laura: All right, you talk about danger mouse and I'll be lovely.

Ron: I don't want to.

Laura: Okay.

Laura: What else do you want to talk about?

Ron: Well, we should probably do.

Ron: How long have we been recording?

Laura: Long time, Ron.

Laura: Ten minutes.

Laura: But the episode is going to whiz by because we've already done it.

Ron: Yeah.

Ron: So we're doing 6.6.2 .3 properties of electromagnetic waves.

Ron: Two.

Laura: Have we already done one?

Ron: Yeah.

Laura: Oh, yeah, we have.

Laura: I've written it down twice.

Laura: Yeah.

Laura: Before it was all the electrons on shelves that are not shelves and now it's different.

Ron: Yeah.

Ron: So do you want to do higher tier stuff or are you feeling lower tier today?

Laura: No, we're in higher tier.

Laura: Hang on, let me take the glue stick back out of my mouth.

Laura: I'm feeling higher tier.

Ron: All right, so first thing that we need to know is that radio waves can be produced by oscillations in electrical circuits.

Laura: This is different to what we did before.

Laura: I haven't written down any of those words.

Ron: Yeah, I wasn't feeling very high, dear.

Ron: Last time we did this.

Laura: Bloody h***, Harry.

Laura: All right, well, I'm going to start another page of notes for all the extra gubbins.

Laura: What is oscillating?

Laura: Is that waving around in a circle?

Ron: No, I think it's something oscillates when it is described by.

Ron: Like a sine wave.

Laura: Described by a sine wave what, swing backwards and forwards in a regular rhythm?

Ron: Yeah.

Laura: The grain pan near the front of the combine oscillates back and forth.

Laura: That's the example they give.

Ron: Wow.

Laura: All right.

Laura: Yeah.

Laura: Oscillate.

Laura: It's a lovely word, isn't it?

Laura: Sounds like a bird.

Ron: Do you want to know one of my favorite words that relates danger?

Ron: Mouse?

Ron: No.

Ron: Oscilloscope.

Laura: Yes.

Laura: That's lovely.

Laura: So what was oscillating?

Ron: Electrical circuits.

Laura: Oscillating electrical circuits make radio waves.

Ron: Yes.

Laura: Okay.

Ron: When radio waves are then absorbed by the antenna, they create the same frequency like oscillations in the waves again, and then that's how you receive the radio signal.

Laura: No.

Laura: What did that mean?

Laura: Say that again.

Laura: So an antenna absorbs it, and then what?

Laura: They start oscillating.

Ron: So you got one thing that creates oscillations in the electrical circuit that makes radio waves.

Ron: Radio waves are transmitted, absorbed by something else.

Ron: They create the alternating current there.

Ron: I.

Ron: E.

Ron: An oscillating current.

Ron: And then that gives the information to the thing that you've sent the radios to.

Laura: Sure.

Ron: Does that not make sense?

Laura: There's a lot of gaps between the words where stuff's happening.

Ron: So imagine the radio wave we're sending the great, great song eight days a week by the beat.

Ron: Danger mouse and I need your love and we've got, like, a radio transmitter that's putting that into the wires.

Laura: Yeah.

Ron: The oscillations in the electrical circuit is then creating radio waves, and then they're also going, oh, I need your love eight days a week.

Ron: And then that hits an antenna, which is plugged into a circuit and creates the same electrical pattern in that one.

Laura: This is the kind of inventor I could never have been.

Laura: Someone that can get a song into just a thing going up and down.

Ron: Friend of the podcast.

Ron: Noah agrees with me.

Laura: Of course he does.

Laura: He's your friend.

Laura: Husband of the podcast agrees with me.

Ron: No, he doesn't.

Laura: Yes, he does.

Ron: No, he doesn't.

Ron: No, he doesn't.

Laura: Do you have an enemy?

Ron: In.

Ron: In some ways, you.

Laura: Why am I.

Ron: No, I'm asking you.

Laura: You meant I was your enemy.

Laura: You're like, in some ways, you.

Laura: The f*** you, Ron.

Laura: Happy New Year.

Laura: I've got loads of enemies.

Laura: Me.

Laura: They don't know Lucy Porter.

Laura: Stop starting beef with Lucy Porter, who I like and whose podcast I've been on, actually.

Ron: Who are your enemies, then?

Laura: Well, I've got that friend that I don't talk to.

Laura: Oh, yeah, she's my enemy.

Ron: Yeah, she sucks, to be fair.

Laura: Yeah.

Laura: Oh, there's that comedian that I had to do that Edinburgh run with.

Laura: I don't like him.

Ron: Can't remember which one you're talking about.

Ron: There's a lot of male comedians to hate.

Laura: Yeah.

Laura: Who else do I hate?

Laura: I think that's it at the moment.

Laura: Those are old beefs.

Laura: Is there more science, Rob?

Ron: I was just thinking, I don't think I have any enemies that are like people I know.

Laura: Oh, you hate from a distance.

Ron: I hate from a distance.

Ron: I hate quite passionately from a.

Ron: Yeah.

Ron: Yeah.

Ron: That's what you get for reading the news.

Laura: Oh, yeah.

Ron: I think Kia Starma's my nemesis.

Laura: Yeah, but what if he gets in power and then just turns out to be the most lefty, brilliant person in the.

Ron: That's not how you should run a democracy.

Laura: No, I know, but it's the only dream we can cling to.

Ron: Yeah.

Ron: No, yeah.

Laura: I've got to wrap up all my Christmas presents this afternoon.

Ron: That's fun.

Ron: What time will you be at Mum and dad's on Saturday?

Laura: Hopefully by, like, three, four.

Ron: Okay, nice.

Laura: Depends what time Tom gets back from Middlesbrough.

Ron: That's a long day.

Laura: Yeah, I know.

Laura: Bless him.

Laura: But, hey, if he listened to his wife, it wouldn't be his day, so let's have no sympathy for, uh.

Ron: Okay.

Ron: He's my enemy.

Laura: Yeah.

Laura: F*** you, Tom.

Ron: Right, so talk it back to me, Laura.

Ron: Radio waves getting transmitted.

Laura: Oh, we just did that bit.

Laura: Let's do some more.

Ron: Yeah, that's why I said, talk it back to me.

Laura: Right.

Laura: So an electrical circuit's oscillating and it's making an alternating current that is making a sine wave shape.

Laura: And then that gets absorbed into an antenna, and then the antenna does the same sine wave out to a radio, and that's got the information in it.

Ron: That's a lot of words.

Ron: I didn't think there was much content to it, but we're moving on.

Laura: It's pretty much verbating, what you said to me.

Ron: No, because I didn't end it with.

Ron: And that's got the information in it.

Laura: Well, what did you say then?

Laura: And you said that transmits the information, the song, eight days a week, and then you just sang for 40 seconds.

Laura: If you think that your words explained how a song is in an oscillating wave.

Laura: You are f****** nuts.

Ron: It's like a sound wave.

Laura: Yeah, you didn't say that.

Ron: Sometimes you're like, oh, don't treat me like a dumb dumb fast furious.

Ron: And then other times you're just like, oh, treat me like a dumb dumb.

Laura: But the thing is, Ron, if you're going to treat me like a dumb dumb, then when I give dumb dumb answers, you have to be happy with them.

Ron: No, I don't.

Laura: Yes, you do, because that's all.

Ron: Not the format.

Ron: Not the format.

Laura: That's all the information you've given me.

Ron: Not the format.

Laura: Lord, I cannot know more than you tell me you can.

Ron: I think that might be your big f****** problem, is that there is a world of information out there and you don't have to receive it from me.

Laura: But whenever I bring snippets of information to the podcast, you're always like, who's told you that?

Ron: Absolutely charged.

Laura: Well, then don't be mad when all the information.

Ron: Me and friend of the podcast know have just gone splitzies on a new scientist.

Laura: Those old bastards.

Laura: Maybe science Galileo.

Ron: Ooh, let me sign in and see what's in the science news.

Laura: No, Ron, let's just do this f****** episode.

Laura: We're 20 minutes in halfway.

Laura: Right.

Laura: Why don't I lead the episode then, as I've got the notes?

Laura: Okay, so uv x rays and gamma rays are dangerous, Ron, okay?

Laura: Because they ionize particles in your body, and ionized things tend to get busy because they have a charge.

Laura: They do stuff.

Laura: And so they either.

Ron: What do they do?

Laura: I'm saying that that's not what moisturizer you're using on your face, is it?

Laura: Does it specify it's a face moisturizer?

Laura: No, Ron, don't use that on your face.

Laura: Get a face moisturizer.

Ron: Why?

Ron: My face is the same skin as the rest of my body.

Laura: Yeah, but it's exposed more than the rest of your body.

Laura: Oh, hi, child of the podcast.

Laura: Please don't climb the ladder.

Laura: Hang on.

Ron: That thud.

Ron: Was Laura touching the desk?

Ron: That was not a child only.

Laura: It's okay.

Laura: She's safe.

Ron: Cool.

Laura: Don't worry, everyone.

Ron: I don't understand why, though, because your.

Laura: Face is out all day, whereas your tummy isn't.

Ron: I don't.

Laura: So, so you want a different moisturizer that protects it all day, has a little bit sun cream.

Ron: Laura, I was using zero moisturizer before this.

Laura: Okay, fine.

Laura: It's better anyway.

Ron: Yeah, but that is better, though, right?

Laura: Sure, yeah.

Laura: But you just might find it blocks your pores.

Laura: It might make you spotty.

Laura: You just want one that's been formulated for your face.

Ron: I've been getting a few spots, but then so have you.

Ron: And you've put thousands of pounds on your face this month.

Laura: Arguably, Ron, I put too much on my face.

Ron: I don't know if I'll take your advice.

Laura: My face is glowing.

Laura: My face can be seen from space.

Laura: I'm basically Rudolph the red nosed face.

Laura: Anyway, the ionized cells either end up, like, killing off other cells around them because they're so, like, agro or they become cancerous and they sort of multiply.

Laura: Loads and loads and loads.

Laura: Yes.

Ron: Ron.

Ron: Cells don't get ionized.

Laura: Particles get ionized.

Ron: Yeah.

Laura: Okay.

Laura: Not cells.

Ron: And then the ionized particles will either kill the cell they're in because they just destroyed the machinery that makes it work, or they mutate it in such a way that then.

Ron: Yeah, you get cancerous growths.

Laura: Yeah.

Laura: A sea vert is a measure of radiation, Ron.

Ron: Yep.

Ron: What measure?

Laura: Agreed.

Laura: I agree.

Ron: No, what measure?

Laura: What measures radiation.

Ron: In what sense?

Ron: Because Beckerl is the measure of just pure radiation, isn't it?

Laura: Is it?

Ron: Yes.

Laura: It's 1000 milliseaverts.

Ron: Is 1 how those things work?

Laura: Rinchin is air absorption.

Ron: Yeah.

Ron: So it's a different thing absorbing it, isn't it?

Ron: Do you remember why they stopped using the wrenchen?

Laura: No.

Ron: What are we talking about there, when we're talking about these things being harmful, death.

Laura: What's absorbing decay?

Laura: Radioactive decay, half life.

Ron: What's absorbing it?

Laura: Everything.

Laura: No, particles.

Ron: No.

Ron: When we're talking about ultraviolet and x ray and gamma ray being dangerous, what's absorbing it?

Laura: Bodies.

Ron: Humans.

Ron: Yeah.

Ron: So the siever is the unit of radiation dose to a human, which is why they stopped using.

Ron: I think I did.

Ron: Because we talked about how they stopped using the Ritzen.

Ron: Because that's about absorption in air, which isn't a true conversion to.

Laura: Do you know what?

Laura: I think by this point, I was so busy building up the world because there was Master Gland and Runcap and then Lord Sievert and Rinchin.

Laura: Rinchin is Runcap's dad.

Laura: And then you said Beccarell, and I said Beccarell was probably Rinchin's new wife having killed his first wife.

Laura: And Millie Sievert is their daughter that they've named after Lord Sievert to try and please him.

Laura: I think I was sort of creating the little hobiton world of Runcat Rinchin and Lord Sievert and Master Gland.

Ron: I despise how well you remember that.

Laura: But that has a story around it.

Laura: I can picture that.

Laura: That makes sense because remember, Lord Seavert was like the lord of the whole and Master Gland is like the sheriff of the area.

Laura: Because you were arguing with me about, oh, a PlayStation five controller.

Laura: Very fancy.

Laura: Ron.

Laura: You were arguing that Master Gland was the lord of the area.

Laura: And I was like, no, he's like a sort of middle management, but he's all up himself with his own beliefs in himself, whereas Lord Siever is the overlord.

Ron: Let's both draw run cap and see whether we draw the same thing.

Laura: Yeah.

Laura: Okay.

Laura: Just so you know, I've got really cool gel pens.

Ron: I've got a bick.

Laura: And he's got a dig bick one cap.

Laura: Okay, what are you starting with?

Ron: Always start with the eyes, baby.

Laura: I started with the nose.

Laura: Turned out weird.

Laura: Ron.

Laura: Wait, where's this chin?

Laura: I'm so bad at drawing.

Ron: I should be talking.

Ron: It's a podcast.

Laura: I am talking.

Ron: I said I should be talking.

Laura: Yeah.

Laura: I can't draw very well, Ron.

Ron: I'm okay at drawing.

Ron: This is different to how I imagined it, but that's okay.

Ron: I think I've put quite a lot of culture into him.

Laura: Yeah, kind of culture.

Ron: The culture of the world that he lives in.

Laura: It's the first time we've ever played drawing on the podcast, isn't.

Ron: Yeah.

Laura: I wonder if it makes good audio.

Ron: Is this one of my edits?

Laura: No, it's mine.

Ron: That's lucky for the listeners.

Laura: Yeah.

Laura: I'll put just fun music over this and maybe some.

Laura: I'll try and find the music that, like, Bob Ross uses.

Laura: You know?

Ron: I don't think he uses music.

Laura: No music at all.

Laura: I've never actually watched Bob Ross.

Ron: I used to watch it when I was a stoner at university.

Laura: I've tried to give him buck teeth, but it looks more like he's smoking.

Ron: My guy's kind of like a modest monk.

Laura: Oh.

Laura: Mine's like a 70s punk, dystopian, round head from the Civil War smoking a cigar.

Laura: Maybe he's got a beard.

Laura: He's going to have to have a beard because I messed up his mouth.

Laura: Oh, s***.

Laura: Now his beard is a different color to his hair.

Laura: That's not normal.

Laura: That's not normal.

Laura: Oh, f***.

Laura: This is awful.

Laura: This is worse than my science.

Ron: Aquas.

Laura: Just so that you know, when I show you this picture, Ron, this is not at all how I picture.

Laura: Run cap.

Laura: Okay.

Ron: I'm almost done.

Laura: It's just a drawing.

Laura: That's happened.

Ron: All right.

Ron: I'll send a picture of mine to you.

Laura: Oh, yeah.

Laura: Is that me?

Ron: No, that's one of his daughters.

Laura: Here's mine.

Laura: I haven't got my phone up here to be able to send you a picture, but I'll just show you.

Ron: But like you say, it's not how you imagine run camp.

Ron: So that's just a little drawing you did.

Ron: Well done.

Laura: It didn't come out right, but I put in lots of effort.

Ron: All right.

Ron: Did you want to keep talking me through what we went through?

Laura: Yes, I do.

Ron: Oh, we talked ages about why radio waves are better than other stuff.

Ron: Yeah, we did the next bit.

Laura: Radio waves are very good for communication, Ron.

Ron: Why?

Laura: Because they don't cause damage to humans or anything that we can tell.

Laura: And they are very reflective, so they're easy to send about.

Ron: They're reflective?

Laura: Yes.

Ron: Where'd you get that from?

Laura: I have written it down under no damage.

Ron: I don't think if they were really reflective, that would be good, would it?

Laura: They reflect well off things.

Ron: Is that what we want?

Laura: Yeah, because then they're easy to transmit.

Ron: So if we've got a city, lots of buildings in it, lots of flat surfaces for a radio wave to reflect off.

Laura: Yeah.

Ron: If you've got radio waves bouncing off all of these buildings, what's that going to do to the signal?

Laura: Send it about really?

Ron: Well, no, though, because if we've got a car, we've got a radio wave that's going straight to the car.

Ron: Great.

Ron: I need your love.

Ron: But then we've got another bit of radio wave that's going to bounce off a building and hit the car.

Ron: So then it's going to be like.

Laura: Well, then why did I write down reflective?

Ron: Why are you getting cross when I'm just explaining in a fun way?

Laura: But you must have said it or I wouldn't have written it down.

Ron: Oh, that's not true.

Laura: What did I mean, then?

Ron: Put knows probably that doesn't get reflected at all.

Ron: It goes through things, and that's why it's so good at what it does.

Laura: Okay, I'll write not after reflective in brackets, then.

Ron: But reflective is a property of a thing that reflects something not of the thing that's getting reflected.

Laura: Very thoughtful.

Laura: Anyway, so there's that bit.

Laura: Then I written oscillating electrical circuits.

Laura: Oh.

Laura: Current is the same frequency as the wave conductor.

Laura: AC info.

Laura: That's that bit we just did, Ron.

Laura: Yeah, there it is.

Ron: Great.

Laura: Then I've put, microwaves are good for cooking and satellites because they're easily contained.

Ron: Infrared why does being easily contained make them good for satellites?

Laura: What are you talking about?

Laura: Watch.

Laura: Shut up.

Laura: Because you can just get them into a satellite dish and then stop them.

Ron: Laura, when asked these questions, you don't have to double down.

Ron: You can reflect.

Laura: Maybe that bit only pertains to the cooking microwaves.

Laura: Then maybe they're good for satellites for other reasons.

Laura: Okay, let's go with that, then.

Laura: Infrared.

Laura: I don't know, Ron.

Laura: They're very small.

Ron: Where are satellites?

Laura: Well, are we talking about, like, sky or of love?

Ron: What's a satellite of love?

Laura: It's a song.

Laura: You don't know by who.

Laura: Satellite of love.

Laura: Is it by who is satellite of love?

Laura: By my brain.

Laura: Lou Reed.

Ron: Interesting.

Laura: Not somebody that you know a lot of the music by?

Ron: No.

Laura: He's a bit too cool music for you.

Laura: You only like pop music.

Laura: I'm goading.

Ron: It's not working.

Laura: Goad.

Laura: Goad.

Laura: There's goad in them.

Laura: There are hills.

Laura: Then we got infrared.

Laura: And they are good for heaters, cookers and dark night cameras.

Laura: Why have I called them dark night cameras?

Laura: Ah.

Laura: And that is because heat people glow.

Laura: We glow a little bit when we're hot.

Ron: Heat people glow.

Laura: We're glowing when we're hot.

Laura: And it stays about a little bit.

Laura: So it can be captured as also non harmful.

Ron: Well, because what is infrared is heat radiation, isn't it?

Laura: It's heat radiation.

Laura: Yeah.

Ron: So we're warm.

Ron: But it's not just about us.

Ron: Don't think that this is just about humans, okay?

Laura: About stones, grass, the sea.

Ron: Well, anything with a heat signature.

Laura: Yeah.

Laura: What are you doing?

Laura: Are you drawing more?

Ron: Yeah.

Laura: You're not.

Ron: I've drawn Master Gland.

Ron: I am.

Ron: I'm behaving a great conversation.

Laura: Yeah, but you're a little bit disengaged.

Ron: I'm drawing Master gland.

Ron: I think you're going to like him.

Ron: He looks like Mulder and Scully's boss from X Files.

Laura: You love X Files.

Ron: It's alright.

Ron: I do like X Files.

Ron: Well, now you've stopped talking.

Laura: Yeah, I've run out of notes.

Laura: That's everything I wrote down.

Ron: Well, you didn't go through visible light.

Laura: We don't think we did that.

Laura: Maybe if we did, I'd given up making notes by then.

Ron: It'd be weird if we stopped halfway through a list.

Laura: Yeah, but it happens.

Ron: So what's visible light for, Laura?

Laura: Seeing.

Laura: But in technology, you can escape my technology.

Laura: Techno, techno technology.

Laura: What is visible light for, Ron?

Laura: In technology it's for cameras.

Ron: So the example that it's got here is fiber optic broadband.

Laura: We didn't talk about this.

Ron: We might have done.

Laura: We didn't.

Laura: Why did you just turn your camera off?

Ron: I sent you a picture of Master gland.

Laura: Oh, cool.

Laura: Visible light is for fiber optic technology.

Laura: Like those little Christmas trees?

Ron: Well, no, more like fiber optic broadband.

Laura: Fiber optic broadband.

Ron: But it's the same technology as fiber.

Laura: Optic, but as Christmas trees.

Ron: Do you know what the benefits of fiber optic communication is?

Laura: Very fast.

Laura: Master gland is gross, Ron.

Ron: Pretty good, though.

Laura: Yuck.

Laura: What's wrong with your brain?

Laura: Very fast, Ron.

Ron: Yeah.

Ron: UV Light.

Ron: Any uses for uv light you can think of?

Laura: Setting my nail varnish?

Ron: Yes, that's one.

Ron: Any others?

Laura: Tanning?

Ron: Yes.

Ron: Sun Tanning.

Ron: That's on the list I've got here.

Laura: Cool.

Laura: 80s artwork.

Ron: Yes.

Ron: Artistic endeavors.

Ron: Absolutely.

Laura: Looking for j***?

Ron: Yes.

Ron: Forensics.

Ron: Absolutely.

Ron: Maybe going.

Ron: Did you see that thing where a bunch of NFT bros blinded their guests?

Laura: Yeah.

Ron: That was crazy bananas.

Laura: Yeah, they were a festival, weren't they?

Laura: And they overused uv, and some people went blind.

Ron: It wasn't that they overused.

Ron: Well, obviously they did, but it was that they just didn't do any research into the type of uv that you need.

Ron: So they literally use lamps that are supposed to disinfect your hands.

Laura: Oh, wow.

Ron: Yeah.

Laura: Yikes.

Ron: Yeah.

Ron: Not good.

Ron: And then x rays and gamma rays.

Ron: Obviously.

Ron: X rays.

Ron: Medical imaging and then other treatments.

Laura: And what about gamma rays?

Ron: X rays and gamma rays are together there.

Laura: Oh, they're the same thing.

Ron: They're not the same.

Ron: Well, they're all the same thing.

Ron: They're different.

Ron: It's a spectrum.

Laura: Remember, love is a spectrum.

Laura: All right.

Ron: Satellite of love.

Laura: Spectrum, satellite of love.

Laura: That's how that song goes wrong.

Ron: Never heard it.

Laura: And you heard it thanks to an oscillating electrical circuit making a radio wave, possibly coming at you via some visible light.

Laura: Fiber optic broadband.

Ron: Hazar.

Laura: She's learned.

Ron: She's learned.

Ron: Maybe we should do every episode twice.

Laura: No.

Laura: Look at that lovely sun coming through.

Laura: Shortest day of the year today, Ron.

Laura: It all gets better from tomorrow.

Ron: Love that for us.

Laura: WHOOP, WHOOP, WHOOP.

Laura: Soon it'll be summer party time.

Ron: How many parties are you going to have this summer?

Laura: Twelve.

Laura: You should come and live with us for the summer again.

Laura: See you for the quiz.

Ron: Bye.

Ron: I can't remember because this is the one that we had to rerecord already.

Ron: Remember?

Laura: Yes.

Laura: I screwed up the admin, so it's.

Ron: A weird one, man.

Laura: All right, 84.

Laura: We've done it twice, so it should be a good quiz.

Ron: We've done it twice.

Laura: Yeah.

Laura: It's the one with run cap's dad.

Ron: Well, it was until that got deleted and lost.

Laura: No, I remembered all of that.

Laura: I think we re added it.

Ron: I don't think we did.

Laura: Do you reckon one day someone will make.

Laura: You know, like, there were the lost tapes on Radio four, Hancock's half hour, and they were like, the missing ones.

Laura: And I think people recreated them.

Laura: Do you think people do that for the missing episodes of Lex Education?

Ron: What, the moles original in this?

Laura: Yeah.

Laura: Someone will try and recreate the original based off what they know of us from the redo.

Ron: Well, if there ever was a fan base that might.

Laura: I still need to read the english homework, man.

Laura: It's sitting here on my desk.

Ron: I've yet to actually see it in person.

Laura: Yeah, I need to bring it to you.

Ron: Yeah.

Ron: So, Laura, can you remember what we were doing in the bulk of this episode?

Laura: It was more properties of electromagnetic waves.

Ron: It was.

Laura: These guys have a portfolio of properties.

Ron: They are on the market.

Laura: They're landlords.

Ron: Big time for properties.

Laura: Ron, what the f*** is going on with you?

Laura: I feel like you're stoned.

Laura: Are you sure?

Laura: It's a headphone thing and you haven't just been smoking all morning?

Ron: I haven't, no.

Ron: It's really, like, resetting.

Laura: We're doing a callback to an intro from about three weeks ago.

Laura: Ron's got new headphones and they're making him zen.

Laura: Oh, God.

Laura: This podcast.

Ron: I bought some tea the other day that tastes like Jaffa cakes.

Laura: Wow.

Laura: Is it meant to?

Ron: Yeah.

Ron: I haven't tried it yet.

Ron: I don't know if it actually does.

Laura: Why are we talking about it, then?

Laura: I can't be the focused one in this podcast because I'm not.

Ron: All right, question one.

Ron: Are you ready?

Laura: I'm always ready.

Laura: Born ready.

Ron: So we're doing properties of electromagnetic waves.

Ron: Two for those reading along with the syllabus, that's 6.6.2.

Ron: .3 literally no one is doing that.

Laura: Imagine if you are such a s*** teacher, that what you do is just play out these episodes in your class.

Ron: But can you imagine if I stopped doing it?

Ron: People would be like, ron hasn't said the numbers in a while.

Laura: Nope.

Laura: I don't think they would.

Ron: I think they would.

Laura: I think there's one person, isn't there?

Laura: Is it Abby?

Laura: Sophie, somebody is heavily invested in the numbers and that's it.

Laura: That is the only person that's commented.

Ron: It's not unfeasible.

Ron: That.

Ron: Because this podcast is going to go on forever, right?

Laura: Someday you want it to or not.

Ron: Listen, someday someone is going to use it in their gcses and they'll need to know where we're up to.

Ron: Okay, question one.

Ron: Laura.

Ron: What type of wave can be produced via oscillations in electrical circuits?

Laura: Oh, my God.

Ron: Twice we've done this.

Ron: Listen.

Laura: Yeah, well, it's not answered by the first half of the page of my notes.

Laura: Oh, hang on.

Laura: Oscillating says that there.

Laura: Oh, radio waves, sir.

Laura: Radio waves.

Ron: Yes, it is radio waves.

Laura: Them ones got it.

Laura: Killed the radio star.

Laura: No, wait.

Laura: That was video.

Laura: D*** it.

Ron: They were killed by the video.

Laura: Yes.

Ron: Laura, could you give me the unit in which radioactive exposure of the body is measured?

Laura: In Sievert.

Ron: Absolutely.

Laura: Well done, Lord Sievert.

Laura: Ow.

Laura: You're so welcome for your right to exist.

Ron: Laura, they're maybe making a reference to something that's not in the episode.

Laura: Nah, I definitely recapped it because I remember you being angry with me that I could remember all the characters, but nothing about the waves.

Ron: Okay.

Laura: Remember?

Ron: Oh, yeah.

Ron: But then you said yours didn't actually look what you thought looked like.

Ron: So it's just a dude.

Laura: Yeah.

Ron: What's that comedian's bit that you love where he says he's a.

Laura: It's Adam Hess.

Laura: And he has a bit where his mum asks him what he wants on his birthday cake when he's a child, and he panics and says, a dude.

Laura: A dude.

Laura: And so she makes him a birthday cake of just a man.

Laura: Me and Tom say it to each other all the time.

Laura: A dude.

Ron: It's good stuff.

Laura: He is one of my favorite comedians.

Ron: Laura, can you, for three marks, just briefly explain the mechanism by which harmful electromagnetic radiation damages a person?

Laura: So it charges the electrons, and then in the cells of a person, and then they sort of go into overdrive.

Laura: Either then the cells need shutting down and killing off, or they start killing the cells around them, or they just overproduce, and then that causes cancerous growth.

Ron: I'm going to give you one, Mark.

Laura: No, I said three things.

Ron: Doesn't mean they were all true, though.

Ron: We've had that chat before.

Ron: So the electromagnetic radiation does interact with the electrons, but it's not electrons getting overpowered.

Ron: That is the problem.

Ron: It's ionizing radiation.

Ron: I.

Ron: E.

Ron: Radiation that makes an ion.

Ron: That is the problem.

Ron: And then those ions are what causes the damage.

Ron: And then you do get mark for saying it.

Ron: Either just shuts it down or proliferates it.

Laura: Yeah.

Laura: Ionized things tend to get busy.

Laura: I have written that down.

Ron: Yeah.

Laura: Should have read my notes, instead of trying to do it off my brain.

Ron: But then, yeah.

Ron: Would have needed you to sort of say about DNA getting affected.

Laura: I didn't know about that.

Ron: That's how sort of mutations happen, and that's cancerous growth and stuff.

Laura: It's how you get.

Ron: So, Laura, why are microwaves used?

Ron: Why are microwaves usable for satellite communications?

Ron: I remember talking about this a lot.

Laura: Yeah.

Laura: The problem was we did talk about it, and we discovered at the time that my notes were shabby.

Laura: And we discussed that audibly.

Laura: But no change was made to the notes.

Laura: Is it because they are easily transportable?

Laura: Like, transmittable?

Laura: They go through things.

Laura: No, they're contained easily.

Laura: They are.

Laura: They can travel long distances.

Ron: All electromagnetic waves can.

Laura: Okay, so that is true, then.

Laura: One point also.

Laura: They don't hurt people.

Ron: Don't they?

Laura: No.

Ron: I'm going to save us all some time.

Ron: You don't know.

Ron: And that's okay, because all I've written.

Laura: Down is contained easily.

Laura: But that's when they're about cooking.

Laura: And that doesn't make any sense for satellites.

Ron: No, it does, because satellites are always outside.

Laura: What?

Ron: A satellite and a satellite dish both outside.

Ron: So it does not matter that the microwaves are contained, whereas radio waves go through walls and cars and that.

Ron: Which is why you can have a radio inside.

Laura: Oh, God d*** it.

Ron: Yeah.

Ron: Laura, can you give me.

Laura: An a?

Laura: Give me A-B-B give me a c.

Laura: Vert.

Ron: You pulled that around because you know that when cheerleaders are doing that, they're not just doing the Alphabet, right?

Laura: Well, they might be if it was, like, an Alphabet thing.

Laura: Like, maybe they're like, the Albuquerque alphabets.

Ron: You are confusing cheerleaders and the Jackson five.

Laura: Okay?

Ron: What?

Laura: The Jackson five.

Laura: Did they spell things?

Ron: ABC.

Laura: You know, the other day I had what felt like a mind blowing moment.

Laura: That was nothing.

Laura: Which happens a mean.

Ron: Yeah, this could be a f****** segment.

Ron: We'll record it at a different time to all the other bits, just to confuse the timeline.

Laura: Even more mind blowing moments that are nothing.

Laura: With Laura and I was like, wait, the letters could be in any order?

Ron: Yeah, alphabetical order means nothing.

Laura: And we spend so much time learning it and getting it right, literally, just so that we understand where books are in a library or whatever, and then they use the dewy decimal system after a point.

Laura: But, like, alphabeticals just means nothing.

Ron: Yeah.

Laura: Blew my mind a bit.

Ron: Yeah.

Ron: There is no reason why a should be before G.

Ron: No, it's just some.

Laura: Nonsense class system for letters.

Ron: Yeah.

Ron: Sorry, man.

Laura: Yeah.

Laura: I think, like, primary schools need to have a look at themselves.

Laura: We could have spent all that primary school time learning much more useful stuff.

Ron: But you still have to learn the Alphabet.

Ron: You have to know all the letters.

Laura: You do, but you could just do it in any order.

Ron: Yeah, but that's harder.

Ron: It's easier to learn them in a specific order and it's also easier to learn them to music if that's the.

Laura: Way your brain works.

Ron: You think that there's someone who would find it easier to just learn 26.

Laura: Things randomly, maybe, or in a different order.

Laura: Put all the vowels together and then all the perdubas together and the suckucuses together, all the different sounds, put them in little families.

Ron: I think it's so admirable how much you want to help and you being an inventor at all, you are putting your whirly big brain to the problem.

Ron: But I think on this one, to be honest, my love, I think you might be solving a problem that's not there.

Laura: You struggled with the Alphabet and you want my new wheelbarrow Alphabet.

Ron: I just think that there are more entrenched problems in the education system and.

Laura: Then it'd be like a new type of schooling.

Laura: Wheelbarrow schools.

Ron: No, you have to stop running these right wing, psyop like methods.

Ron: You cannot co op the wheelbarrow.

Laura: Wheel Alphabet.

Laura: No, that didn't work.

Laura: That sucked the wheelbarrow Alphabet.

Ron: But you know why it's called the Alphabet?

Laura: Because you're a mainstream school or a wheelbarrow school.

Laura: A wheelbarrow school.

Laura: And that is where I discovered.

Ron: No, you can't design a caste system where you have just scooped up a bunch of people and made them subhuman to the rest of people.

Laura: Subhuman, excuse me?

Ron: Your little wheelbarrowites toiling away, striving.

Laura: Well, they have to pay their toys to the great wheelbarrow, otherwise how are they going to escape the lava flood?

Ron: But Laurie, you couldn't call it the wheelbarrow Alphabet because Alphabet comes from alphabeta Ab, the two first letters of the Alphabet.

Laura: All right, then I'll call it the.

Laura: Well, I'll think about it.

Ron: Okay.

Ron: But again, I do think there are more entrenched problems in the education system than learning letters that you do have to learn in a specific order.

Laura: I'm just going to put them in an easier order for everybody.

Ron: Okay.

Ron: I think that's the end of the quiz.

Laura: Was there a quiz?

Ron: Yeah, we just did the quiz.

Laura: F****** great.

Laura: Well done, me.

Laura: Hey, Ron, did you get a water flotter?

Ron: No, still on my list.

Ron: I've just been going to the dentist instead.

Laura: Oh, yeah.

Laura: Did you have your first dentist appointment?

Ron: I've had three now.

Laura: Wow.

Laura: Was there problems?

Ron: Yeah.

Ron: We've talked about this, haven't.

Laura: Oh, I don't know.

Laura: I don't think you told us.

Laura: I don't think we've talked since you went.

Ron: Yeah, well, I had checkup and then I had a filling and I've had to have a tooth out.

Laura: Whoa.

Laura: Did you.

Ron: No.

Laura: Tooth collection, if you like.

Ron: No, he smashed it into pieces.

Laura: Whoa.

Laura: Why?

Ron: To get it out.

Laura: Held on tight?

Ron: Yeah, it's a tooth.

Laura: I've had loads of teeth out.

Laura: And they just come out full?

Ron: No.

Ron: Well, so I'm going to get an implant at some point in the spot.

Ron: So we wanted to really preserve the bone.

Laura: But they.

Ron: For real, just smash it up and pull it out.

Laura: Absolutely.

Laura: They anesthesitize you, but then you can feel the crunching and the moving.

Ron: Yeah.

Ron: I'm not particularly scared of going to the dentist in terms of the tools and the sensations and stuff.

Ron: I don't know why I didn't go for so long.

Ron: I think because I'd only been when I was a kid, I assumed I was going to get told off because you kind of do when you're a kid going to the dentist.

Ron: Or at least I did because I didn't look after my teeth very well.

Ron: But it was just so matter of fact and it was fine.

Ron: But, yeah, like proper nightmare equipment.

Ron: But go to the dentist, guys.

Ron: Go to the.

Laura: When I had my first wisdom tooth out, it was so awful.

Laura: The second one, I had it done under general because I was like, I'm not going through that again.

Laura: I was supposed to go 7th February.

Laura: They rang and they were like, we're really sorry, we need to move your appointment.

Laura: Next available appointment is the 5 May.

Laura: Oh, you better hope that there's nothing rotting in my mouth then, hadn't you?

Ron: That's not really good enough if they're moving your appointment.

Laura: I know.

Ron: What did they say why they had to move it?

Laura: Oh, they're pieces of s***, mate.

Laura: Right.

Laura: We've got some advent calendar analysis, but Ron did not have time to do so.

Ron: It's been a week.

Laura: We discussed it a lot.

Laura: I think my face is less shiny today.

Ron: It is.

Ron: Your skin looks nice, though.

Laura: Yeah, it's got a bit of a matte finish.

Laura: Have you got anything for the new scientist feature, Ron?

Ron: No, we do that in the episode.

Ron: I did start reading.

Laura: Do it in the episode.

Ron: No, but in the ones that we've done it.

Laura: No, we did it last week in the outro, though.

Ron: No, we did it in.

Ron: No, we did it in the body of an episode and we did it in the quiz.

Laura: I don't think so.

Laura: I think we did it in the.

Ron: Out.

Ron: No, Laura, no.

Ron: Promise.

Ron: We did it in the body of an episode and then we did it in the.

Ron: I can.

Ron: I can.

Ron: I was reading because I've done the prep.

Ron: It's just not right.

Laura: Okay.

Laura: I don't want to.

Laura: Let's do the rest.

Ron: So we've got a lovely global audience.

Laura: Ron Rochester.

Ron: All right, you go first.

Laura: You haven't done the music.

Laura: I think it's different every time.

Laura: To Andrew Smith.

Laura: Andrew is the reverse tooth fairy who slips loose teeth into your mouth while you sleep and then leaves a fibre underneath your pillow.

Laura: Thank you, Andrew.

Ron: And thank you to Scotty Jones, who is Lucy Porter's agent.

Ron: But not for booking gigs for Lucy.

Ron: They just book up all the gigs that Laura might do, furthering the feud, so Laura can't get them.

Laura: I think we should get Lucy Porter on the podcast.

Ron: She's very funny.

Laura: Thanks to Trish Caller.

Laura: Trish.

Laura: Trish, I know you in real life.

Laura: What are you doing being a free patron, mate.

Laura: What are you getting out of it?

Laura: Get in touch.

Laura: What's happening with this free subscription?

Laura: You email me like at least once a month.

Laura: We speak.

Laura: Do you know Trisha's the mum of one of younger sister of the podcast's friends, Ron?

Ron: She's the mum of one of our sister's.

Laura: Yeah, yeah.

Laura: Oh, if you look at all of younger sister's prom photos.

Laura: Oh, there's Trish's daughter just there next to her.

Laura: Anyway, we don't know why you can be a free follower on Patreon.

Laura: We don't know what you get out of it.

Laura: Nothing, we assume.

Laura: And neither do we, so.

Laura: Hello.

Laura: What are you doing, Trish?

Laura: Let us know.

Laura: That's the register for today.

Laura: Sorry, it was a bit aggressive.

Laura: Cross.

Ron: Yeah.

Laura: About to go and record with agony dad.

Laura: That might cheer me up.

Ron: Yeah, boy.

Laura: All right, well, listen, send us your tea towel pictures, buy your Leicester festival tickets.

Laura: Just be nice to us, make sure you talk about us everywhere and kiss somebody today.

Ron: Kiss everyone.

Laura: Don't kiss everyone.

Ron: You'll get kiss everyone you see.

Ron: Costa Smith.