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Laura: Hello and welcome to. It's not just another episode of Lex Education, it's the episode, it's the current one, unless you're sort of binge listening in the past, which a lot of people are doing at the moment, Ron. It's very, very popular. Um, I'm your host, Laura Lex. I'm a comedian coming to the end of the GCSE science syllabus alongside my teacher in science and life, my younger brother Ron. Hi, Ron.

Ron: Hello, I'm Ron.

Laura: Hello, Ron.

Ron: Hiya.

Laura: I've got a headache, Ron.

Ron: Yeah. How's that going for you?

Laura: Well, it's bothering me. See, I'm in Manchester and I had all day free today, so I was like, I've got a problem with my clothes at the moment where just none of my basics are in a good condition slash fit me. So I was like, hey, while I'm in Manchester, I'm gonna go to a shopping centre and I'm just gonna just get the basics, you know, your t shirts, your simples. Oh, uh, and then I got there and I didn't have my headphones, so I had to do the whole thing without headphones on. Ron, that's an awful lot of people that you can hear. No blocking outness. And nowhere seemed to have just stuff, like basic stuff. Everything was fancy or midriffy. And I'm more than happy people to reveal their midriffs. I personally don't want to. It doesn't make me feel comfortable. All clothes just stop, like, halfway where I want them to. And I think I'm existing now in that weird clothes realm between young and old, you know, I'm not quite ready for a round necked floral t shirt, but I'm also. I can't wear a midriff vest anymore. I need the. In the middle world.

Ron: Yeah, that's fair. I think. I think I went fairly comfortable pretty early on, you know? Um, but I think I'm a pretty. I've just been given a gift at work.

Laura: What is it? Nice to know.

Ron: I've been doing lots of public speaking events. Yeah. Laura, I've just been gifted the princely sum of 30 pounds for our voucher.

Laura: Can you. Where can you spend it?

Ron: Amazon Island, Selfridges, Starbucks UK.

Laura: 30 quid in Selfridges. I could have used that and given you cold, hard cash. Ron.

Ron: Deliveroo UK. Uh, just eat UK. PC curries, world, Costa UK. H and M Uk, ASOs, Amazon rewards or Ms.

Laura: Ron. Um, that's, that's a lovely present.

Ron: I saw your mouth moving, but I did not hear what you're saying.

Laura: Oh, it's weird for the. It's weird for the audio to die and not the video.

Ron went to get vaccinated against mixed martial arts this morning

Ron, you went to get vaccinated against mixed martial arts this morning. How was that?

Ron: Yeah, it was good. That was this afternoon. Um, I decided to walk in flip flops, which was an error. So I now have two penny sized blisters on the tops of both feet. Um.

Laura: Oh, Ron, was the walk just a bit longer than the flip flops were in for?

Ron: Uh, you know what? 1ft gave up on the way there and the other one gave up on the way back. Now I have weeping pus. Pus taps on my feet.

Laura: Ah, Ron. Horrible.

Ron: Yeah. Oh, and then when I was getting everything set up and I had to go get my microphone from over there, I dragged the top of one of my foot over the wheel of my wheelie chair and raked it.

Laura: It's not your new microphone. Where's your new microphone?

Ron: No, I left the new one in Belgium this time. I had too much stuff to go back with me and I'm going back there next week when we'll have to record. So I'll do the swap over next time.

Laura: Maybe you should just have a belgian microphone and a hair microphone.

Ron: That's exactly the plan. But we're gonna have the nicer one in the UK because it's where I spend most of my time.

Laura: No, it isn't.

Ron: Slam, uh, on me on the way back.

Laura: I've seen your house, Ron.

Ron: It's nice. I have literally only spent three nights here since I moved in, so it's still an absolute.

Laura: Oh, yeah, you definitely spend more time in Bristol. He lies.

Ron: Absolute shit tip at the moment. Um, but on the way back from my vaccine, Laura, I got against mixed martial arts. An oasis summer fruits.

Laura: Oh.

Ron: Which I would say is a top three soft drink.

Laura: No, it's too sweet and

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Laura: round tasting. It tastes really all the way around your mouth. I don't like that about oasis.

Ron: I have no idea what you mean.

Laura: No, this is kind of a callback to last week's episode where Tom and I did the intros and he got mad at my descriptions of flavours. Um, but oasis like, oh, I didn't know you.

Ron: Tom did the intros. I have to listen to that.

Laura: What didn't you listen?

Ron: Well, I'd only just.

Laura: You've been away for two weeks.

Ron: I only just edited it, so I was a bit like, well, I've just heard that one. I don't need to listen to that again.

Laura: Yeah, well, listen, I had a real case of the absolute depression for, like, ten days while you were away. I think you being out the country breaks me, Ron. And so I did the first intros where you were away on my own. They were very nice and chatty. I had a lovely time. But then for the second one, Tom was like, maybe I should do it with you so that you're not just miserable at people for 15 minutes. So he and I did that and he complained about my descriptions of taste often being shapes and, um, colours.

Ron: Yeah, I mean, that is. Was that synesthesia? Is that what it's called?

Laura: I don't know. I'm tired of finding out my personality is all stuff. Well, I just. That's just. It's just how things are to me. It doesn't have to be otherwise. It's like, I've probably got ADHD, I've definitely got depression. I've got anxiety. Then I can't picture things. That's aphantasia. Then. If that's synesthesia, too, there's nothing left. That's just a person. Everything is a diagnosis. And I just don't. I don't want that. Yeah, uh, can't bother.

Ron: Yeah, you do. Um, swell with problems.

Laura: Um, it's in your top three drinks. Is it, though? Interesting.

Ron: Like. Like, you know, like you can buy from a corner shop.

Laura: Mmm. I totally. Do. You know what my number one is?

Ron: Lilt.

Laura: No. Do you know Lilt? That's so weird. This came up in last week as well. Lilt doesn't exist anymore.

Ron: Yeah, I know.

Laura: I did not know that. It's just been wrapped up in Fanta.

Ron says pineapple Fanta tastes like lilt for him

Ron: Yeah, it's like just pineapple Fanta now, isn't it?

Laura: Yeah, it's like tropical Fanta.

Ron: But for me, I know, um. Um, maybe it said it on the can. I never read the can, but for me, look. Just tasted like lilt. And kind of the second that I found out that was pineapple flavour, I was like, ugh.

Laura: Uh, I thought it was like pineapple and grapefruit, though, because it was a bit bitter, wasn't it?

Ron: I don't know. That's just the kind of white noise taste of lilt.

Laura: Yeah, no, it's not lilt, Lil. It's not my favourite rum. It's close, but my favourite is Rio.

Ron: Yes. You drink a lot of Rio. I think if I'd had more time, I could have worked that out.

Laura: I had one the other day. We took charge of the podcast to the shop to buy her an ice cream, and I was like, I'm gonna have an ice cream when we get there. And then when we got there on. I didn't want any of the ice creams on offer, so I had a Rio and I wasn't sad about it.

Ron: Oh, fluffy. Ah. I ate some ice creams in Portugal.

Laura: Yeah, like ice cream gelato or sorbet.

Ron: I think I had a magnum.

Laura: Oh, Magnum. Double caramel. The best one.

Ron: An almond.

Laura: Almond?

Ron: Um, yeah, just an almond Magnum.

Laura: No, stop saying almond, because it's not how you say it's almond.

Ron: Um, it's fine either way. No, it's almond milk.

Laura: Hey, Ron, what's this?

Ron: It's your palm.

Laura: The palm of my hand. Um. Oh, my headaches going. That's really. Oh, God. An email just popped up in the corner of my screen from southern water. And I was like, oh, that will be of the bill. And it said 7.8 million, but it.

Ron: Said, it is expensive.

Laura: Whoo. We gotta stop bathing that child.

Ron: So, uh.

Laura: Uh, we took the side off her bed this week, Ron. So now she just gets up whenever she wants to at night and in the morning. And the other day she came and I was fast asleep. She came to my side of the bed, handed me a muslin, those little, like, clothings, and went, it's wet. And I was like, yeah, here's where she went. I washed it in the toilet. Oh, so this is. This is toilet water you've brought to my bed. Thank you, darling. Thank you.

Ron: I love the kid, but I don't think she's ready for that.

Laura: Well, here's the thing, though. We're working on potty training next week. We're going to attempt to rid ourselves of nappies. And I, um, think in order for that to go well, it's best if they're a bit more in charge of their in and out of bedness for when you get onto the night. Potty training.

Ron: Right.

James Water News interviewed two amazing water performers on BBC Radio 5 Live

All right.

Laura: Well, also, she's a real climber. And here's the thing.

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Laura: Her beds, like, quite high because she's not in a proper cot. She's in a. Just a single bed that's got bars, you know, and she's sort of getting to the age where she was experimenting with flipping over it. And I was like, she's gonna kill herself.

Ron: Yeah. Doing a bit of a flop.

Laura: Yeah. Do you know me? She was really, like. She loves swinging on stuff and climbing over things. It was really fun. She was watching the gymnastics and. Ooh, oh. Spinning and stuff like that. And, um, she just. Anytime she sees bars or anything, she likes dangling off them. And trying to roll over the top and I was like, it's getting to a point where I'm scared she's going to just experiment with flipping out of her bed.

Ron: That's fair. Uh, maybe she'll be some kind of gymnast, uh, or something. At some point we could get her one of those. Um. Uh, what was his name? Dave water Wraith. Um, the man with two tricks.

Laura: Ah. Uh, what was his name? James.

Ron: James.

Laura: James Water News James.

Ron: That's the guy from James Vanderbeek.

Laura: James Hofstadter.

Ron: No, it was something wood or something worth penny swear. James. James Brightsworth.

Laura: James. Ah. Uh, he was that Bristol Harbour Festival and basically where agony dad's boat was. We had the prime view of all of the water things going on. There were like steamboat parades and all that. And then there was a guy who went on jet propelled feet and could go like 60 foot up in the air like one of the baddies from Spider man kind of thing, like on tentacles, but like sprayed water down so hard it lifted him into the air. Um, and it was very impressive piece of kit and he had two really cool tricks and then did 415 minutes performances of those two tricks. It wasn't our favourite, was it? Ron and I felt like we really gave it the benefit of it and.

Ron: I think he was kind of done dirty by the presenter or commentator because she kept on saying, and he's going to do something really new now. And then every time it was like.

Laura: You know, you're watching the noise next.

Ron: To it, the dolphin.

Laura: Um, and one of them goes like. And then he said something really surprising and they're sort of stitching each other up.

Ron: Yeah. Um, my favourite bit was that quote that you found in the programme or on the website or whatever.

Laura: What about his origin story?

Ron: Yeah. So on the beach in Ibiza, watching the late, great avicii do a performance and there was someone with one of these water jet packs and I was like, I'm gonna do that. So you know what? I went home, I got one and now I do that.

Laura: Yeah. It was like, oh, you didn't get into this when you were twelve and have a coach that loved you. You're just a rich man that could afford a water sleep.

Ron: You had a profound experience on some. On some beach MDMA and had the means to follow up on it. No adversity was overcome. Um, in fact, you probably took that machinery away from someone else.

Laura: Good for him. He enjoyed it.

Ron: Well, maybe one day he'll come up with a third move.

Laura: The dolphin move was genuinely very impressive. Here's the thing, though. It's one of those things watching him do that where you're like, I don't. I don't really have any grasp on how hard it is to just stand on one of those. Yeah, I'm sure it would take me a week's training just to be able to do that. But the human brain is so like, okay, you've been doing that for 15 seconds. Fucking impress me more. That if you're gonna call something an amazing display and have it last 15 minutes, you need to have ways of showing us how tricky it is. Like, put you, Ron, on a second set, trying to stand up, and then let's have that next to James P. Underwood, and we'll see, you know, we'll see the expertise involved.

Ron: No, I think it needs more pageantry. I think it needed props or he.

Laura: Had a flag wrong.

Ron: I didn't see the flag. I saw the flare at one point.

Laura: Oh, uh, the flare that took, like, ten minutes to go away.

Ron: I am, um. Yeah, like, someone should be throwing things for him to catch or shooting water at him, because they did say that he was like, a superhero several times. And I think a bit more of that. That energy, um, have some kind of villain, um, for him to fight. Uh, maybe some kind of inflatable

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Ron: that he could.

Laura: A fire villain.

Ron says he would 100% go back to Bristol harbourfest next year

Ron: Yes. He could put out a fire. That's what we'd be.

Laura: Then that would have got in the way of the pyromancer. That boat that was there spraying water.

Ron: Have them out at the same time. That would have been some. Some drama.

Laura: Yeah.

Ron: Have him chasing those little shitty steamboats that came out and did, like, ten laps. Have him chasing them around, trying to put out their steam.

Laura: Yeah. They had, like, a paper boat race for children. He could have really ruined that. Yeah.

Ron: Any of it. He could have been. Yeah.

Laura: Anyway, what were we talking about?

Ron: You know, the other thing that really ground my gears about that performance as well. It's just a bit like, hey, lady, if this was more impressive, we'd be cheering. Humans love to cheer when we're in a crowd, that someone drops a glass at a fucking restaurant and someone will cheer. This just is not evoking that in the crowd.

Laura: It's not cheer material. Yeah. And then it was like, cheer for him, and you're like, hang on, are we making this good for him, or is he here, uh, entertained? But he's there every year, Ron, so people must request it back.

Ron: I don't know if they do.

Laura: I think you need. Maybe we should do some investigative.

Ron: I thought you were gonna say maybe we should do whatever the opposite request in back is. Just maybe no one's complained, but just boo.

Laura: Next year.

Ron: Boo. More pirate versus.

Laura: I really loved Bristol harbourfest. I would 100% go back.

Ron: Yeah, I'd go back. It's just nice to chill there.

Laura: Um, yeah, me and dad and child of the podcast took the little boat out. So we were moored right in the centre of Bristol, if you know Bristol well, it's where we, the curious, are in Millennium Square, that area. And then, um, we took the little boat out, um, both ways down the river on different days. So one time we went down to the loch, like out to the mouth of the Avon, which is where we left from when we sailed home. And then the other day we went round, like through the town. So we went under that wiggly bridge and past the really cool, like, warehouses that been turned into.

Ron: Yeah, up to temple means right out.

Laura: Yeah, we went right out past the feeder canal and, um, up to, like, well, like, way up the river, the other way and then came back again. And then we ran out of petrol and I had to walk back to the boat and get some petrol.

Ron: Yeah, Bristol's a good place.

Laura: Yeah, yeah. You should stay living there forever, Ron.

Ron: The view from my new room is crazy. I can see the Clifton suspension bridge. I can see the Clifton observatory, um, row of really colourful houses that Bristol.

Laura: Yeah.

Ron: Famous for. I can see those just from where I'm set. It's very, very cool.

Laura: Oh, that's cool. I sailed under the bris, the Clifton suspension bridge on the way out.

Ron: I sailed under it on the way in.

Laura: Oh, uh, it was rad. I really enjoyed the Avon Gorge sail. It was so pretty.

Ron: Yeah, yeah, it's cool. Bristol. Bristol Bay, or wherever it's called. Cardiff. No, not Cardiff Bay, the Bristol. The bit. The Bristol Channel. Not, not so pretty out there.

Laura: No, no, no. Horrible mud festival.

Ron: Yeah.

Laura: But, you know, Porter's head was nice then. Yeah, Porter's head looks really cool from the water. Yeah. And good strong tide in Bristol Channel. So we got home in like, record time because the tide was adding two and a half knots to our travel.

Ron: Yeah. One of the highest tidal ranges in the world.

Laura: Huge. Do you want to do some physics?

Ron: How long have we been recording?

Laura: 18 minutes.

Ron: That's good going.

Laura: Um, it's quite long in it.

Ron: Yeah. Well, now that I kind of feel like we're not really, like, you know, we're not doing all of the revision part of it because we're going to stop. Once we finish the biology and just.

Laura: Well, here's what I'm thinking. So we've got this. Physics next week will be the last biology, and then we've got. We should do chemistry and physics, I think, to just finish the round.

The biology exam will be the 2 September. The exams will happen after that

That feels neat to my brain. And then I've put in the schedule. The exams will happen after that.

Ron: Wow. Sorry it didn't happen. But we. We keep on saying that we're gonna talk about how we're gonna do this, but.

Laura: Yeah, then you keep going on holiday. Oh my God. That will make the. The biology exam will be the 2 September. Isn't that about when you're coming to stay?

Ron: Yes, but, uh, if we want to get even a bit sort of ahead. I'm coming to stay.

Laura: Yeah. You're coming on the second to the fourth?

Ron: Yes. Yes, I am.

Laura: Yeah. Okay, so, yeah, so we will at least have to have done at least the biology one before that.

Ron: Okay, so what.

Laura: What are we doing? We're gonna do an exam. You need to put together a 45 minutes exam run. Surely you can find a past paper.

Ron: Yeah. So you're just gonna do a past paper, is that it?

Laura: Uh, maybe you could look at some past papers and put together a really good exam.

Ron: Exam condished.

Laura: Um, do you want to hire a school hall? And I'll just sit in the middle of it and then you can invigilate.

Ron: You can walk up and down Werther's originals.

Laura: I wonder how much it costs to hire a school hall in the school holidays. And I'll just sit on one of those little chairs in the middle. We could pay for that Patreon money.

Ron: Let's say we'll do it in Brighton.

Laura: If it's exam conditions. It's going to be a very poor recording, isn't it? It's just going to be your footsteps going up and down for an hour.

Ron: Holy fuck.

Laura: What?

Ron: Jesus. Right. Sports hall. Like a classic lad like that.

Laura: Yeah. Yeah.

Ron: One whole day. Guess how much. Uh, m 300 pounds, 47 pounds, 50?

Laura: What, for the whole day? Live in one. We could fit loads of our friends living in there. We could get like ten families and we'll just live in a sports hall. Four pounds, 70 pence a day rent. Loving it.

Ron: You've only got that until ten, though.

Laura: Uh, that's all right. That's fine. We've only got to do three exams.

Ron: Wow. Oh, shit. Sorry. No, that's per hour. Fuck.

Laura: Oh. All right, so for the 3 hours that we'd need 150 quid, we can afford that. Ron.

Ron: Yeah, but also that's me looking, you know, that's in Montpellier, in Brighton.

Laura: That's.

Ron: That's the Brighton Middle school one. If. I'm sure if we drove out into the sticks a bit, I bet some.

Laura: Schools got a real shit. One thing is though, Ron, if we do it that way, there's no talking. It's got to be an audio medium. So you've got to ask me the questions, I think.

Ron: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um. I think. All right, I'll just get this past well. So I think the thing. The thing is, though, it won't be biology past paper. Chemistry past paper. It will be a, ah, past paper that'll be a mix of everything.

Laura: Oh, why?

Ron: Because that's how the exams work.

Laura: I thought you could do separate ones.

Ron: Hang on, let me see.

Laura: I'm sure you can sit separate GCSE's, can't you? Otherwise why'd you study them separately?

Ron: Because they're different things. Oh, uh, yeah.

Laura: Exams the same. Fucking wasted everybody's time.

Ronnie has a statistics GCSE. I have a maths GCSE

Just call it science.

Ron: But they're different sciences.

Laura: Yeah, but maths is all different. Maths is. And you still just call it maths?

Ron: No, you do. I have a statistics GCSE.

Laura: Right. And some people have chemistry, physics and biology. I'm sure you can do them separately.

Ron: Yeah, you can, it turns out.

Laura: Yeah. I wish you did a little bit more for this podcast when we're not recording. It would be really cool if you knew some of this stuff when we weren't all finding out together. Do you know. Do you know what I mean?

Ron: I find it really hard to find, like, brain for that. Yeah.

Laura: Yeah, that's. It's really evident, Ron. Really.

Ron: Evidently it, uh, takes everything in me to be ready and sat down at the right times.

Laura: You weren't even ready and sat down at the right time today. I flipped like a hobbled, horrible little goat foot, shanking your way back from the doctor with your vaccinations because you're full of disease.

Ron: I've bought some sensitive plasters that are skin friendly and breathable.

Laura: Oh, those are very pale, Ronnie.

Ron: Yeah, m. And some paracetamol with caffeine in it, because I've got to play a gig tomorrow and I don't want to have vaccine symptoms.

Laura: I'd love some paracetamol right now. I've got a horrible headache.

Ron: Yeah, you should take some, maybe.

Laura: I don't think I've got any. I've got lots of new clothes, though. See my rad trousers that I love?

Ron: Yeah. Gone. You know what we should have done Laura.

Laura: What?

Ron: We should have just done biology today.

Laura: No, it has to go in order. Look at my awesome trousers.

Ron: Those leopard spots.

Laura: Yes. And they're like massive flared jeans. Look how wide they are.

Ron: Oh, wow. Those are the nineties. Really are back, huh? Huh? Yeah.

Laura: Boy, I love them. Hang m on, I'm gonna have a look for paracetamol. Talk to the listeners.

Ron: Um, yeah, playing, ah, a gig tomorrow, listeners, with the band. We're playing Wells pride, the first pride event that Wells has ever done. That's the city of Wells. Um, yeah, playing five songs at a place called the venue.

Laura: I don't have any. I've got some gruffalo organics biscuits, but. You alright?

Ron: Yeah, yeah. You okay?

Laura: Yeah, really good, thanks, mate.

Ron: Nice.

Ronnie: Physics is the penultimate physics revision for this podcast

Um, how should we do the rest of this lesson then?

Laura: It's the last. No, it's not the last. Physics. It's the penultimate physics revision.

Ron: No, surely once we finish biology.

Laura: That really makes my brain itch though, that we don't end on the three. We've always done them in the threes.

Ron: I don't think I can bring myself to do that. I think I can't bring myself to do this.

Laura: Maybe the last chemistry in physics is just us talking about Mister M. Bean because it's the last day of terminal, but I just. That is tediously brain itching to not do it in a. In a triple. Do you not make your eye just wobble?

Ron: Lord, don't get me wrong, I feel that as well, but I just don't know whether it's the best for the listener to just make two weeks of padding.

Laura: It's not padding, Ronnie. Maybe it's. Maybe the whole podcast is padding, though, Ron. The whole podcast. Look, we came up with a delicate concept that just allowed us to harp on at each other for an hour a week. And I think we've stuck to our theme way more than other podcasts manage it, so, hey, if two out of 114 episodes happen to be a little bit self indulgent, then so be it.

Ron: I totally agree. Which is why I'm kind of saying, you know what? Now that the end is so in sight, I'm in Mister Bean mode with a sensor dine. Yeah.

Laura: Oh, by the way, I'm keeping that toothpaste you gave me the other day.

Ron: Okay.

Laura: That's a tax for me having to take your other stuff home.

Ron: I really want those things.

Laura: Yeah, up there at my house. Why don't you come and visit us next week?

Ron: Um, I can't. Um.

Laura: When are you going to Brussels? We're gonna come down to Somerset for that week. That younger, um, sister of the podcast is coming.

Ron: Well, I'm going to brussels the day after that because it's girlfriend of the podcast birthday that week.

Laura: Oh, yeah, right near mum's wedding anniversary.

Ron: Yeah. Yeah. So if sister of the podcast had have said, then I might have let her know that and had time to see her. I'll try and be there on the Sunday, but.

Sometimes things we've said we'd edit out are accidentally left in

All right. Edit break.

Laura: Okay, let's edit back in. Bitching about our family aside. Oh, you know, it's juicy gossip when we edit it out of the podcast. Or perhaps it's one of those things that we've said we'd edit out and, um, we've left in. In which case, thank you to all the people that always let us know every time I've left child of the podcast's name in this podcast or something that we said was hyper secret.

Ron: But you know what? Even if we have let that in, the. They don't listen. They don't care. Ah, no.

Laura: Oh, Ron, did I tell you I took charge of the podcast to see, um, Tom perform the other day?

Ron: No.

Laura: Loads of the lab rats were there, which was really fun because obviously, crossover fandom. Um, but she did not really understand the concept of performing and just stood on the side going, dad, dad, daddy. Yeah, it was really fun.

Ron: That's very, very funny. Was it one of the kids shows or.

Laura: No, I just took her to see a show about dildo suggestions and. No. Yes. It was a child show, an, uh, open air performance in Brighton. So I thought. Oh, distracting. Yeah, nice. It was good fun.

Ron: It's fun.

Laura: Yeah. Yeah.

Ron, can we do some physics with Laura for 36 minutes now

Right, Ron, physics now. 32 minutes and we've not done a thing.

Ron: Yeah.

Laura: No, don't start typing now. Run. Run.

Ron: So I've googled cool physics phenomena for

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Ron: us to look at.

Laura: No.

Ron: Want to? I don't want to. You know what? Let's reverse it. You do it and I'll listen.

Laura: Well, I don't know what to do.

Ron: The next bit. That's in the book on.

Laura: What is the next bit?

Ron: Uh, you know, what we doing last time, probably resistors or something.

Laura: Fun. You're supposed to come back from holiday full of tip top energy.

Ron: It's not about my energy. My energy is tip top. It's about that. Um, this feels like futile padding.

Laura: No, Ron, because if you prepped for this instead of just looking at the notes already, you could look at it and you could go, right. Laura struggled to learn this in this way for this one. So, in order to revise it with her, we're going to go back into this subject. But I've thought of a new way to teach it to her.

Ron: Uh, how much fucking time do you think I have? I can sit and go through everything in the syllabus and think, Laura struggled to learn this. I'd have to stamp that on my fucking forehead.

Laura: Yeah, well, at least then all the time you spend banging your head against the desk wouldn't be a waste because it would be being printed on there.

Ron: Um.

Laura: Um. Look, Ronnie, because of this headache, I've drunk a litre of water and I need to pee so much. Oh, uh. Don't show me your pussy foot.

Ron: You mank the skin flap.

Laura: M disgusting. Right, I'm back. You've rotten little troll.

Ron: You have a nice wee.

Laura: Yeah. Did a bit of poo, too.

Ron: Never the best ones, though. I feel. I feel like you gotta go in with purpose.

Laura: Oh, yeah? Yeah. The ones where, you know, it's absolutely lock, stock. That's where, you know, it's gonna be, like, life changing. Sometimes a good poo can feel like a medical procedure, I think, for how much better you feel after it.

Ron: Oh, yeah. And when you know that you've had a full evacuation as well, there's no delicious. No guesswork about it.

Laura: What are you doing?

Ron: Putting plasters on my wounds.

Laura: Can you please just do some physics with me? 36 minutes.

Ron: I'm gonna live with you. It ain't happening. Get on the fucking train. All right, I.

Laura: That's fine, if you'd brought something else to do in this episode, but it can't just be nothing laureate.

Ron: Why not? Loads of podcasts are, uh, just nothing.

Laura: Yeah, and they're all more successful than ours, Ron. But that's not who we are, uh, successful.

Ron: I know. Uh, come over to the dark side. Talk to the straight white man.

Laura: But I think I hate them all.

Ron: Not me, though.

Laura: No, well, sometimes, yeah, I love loads of straight white men. Don't tell Tom. Bottom friction, um, is what caused your blister, does Ron. That's physics.

Ron: Yep. Finally, your husband got it. Got himself together to send me his bank details so I could pay him back.

Laura: Ah. Uh, this is why we're financially incompetent as a couple. But, uh, we're happy, so who cares?

Ron: You know why he finally did that? I sent him a screenshot of magic arena that he found funny, and then he was like, oh, yeah, I was ignoring three other messages from Ron.

Laura: Yeah, he's a derp, but he's so.

Ron: Handsome and he's huge.

Laura: Yeah. Boy.

Ron: What a massive man.

Laura: Yeah. But we were watching the Olympic basketball the other day and, um. Do you know how high an Olympic basketball hoop is?

Ron: 13Ft.

Laura: 10Ft. Ron.

What if you do two me's in a headstand

That's two me's. That's me standing on my shoulders and on tiptoes, both of the mes. And it was, like, shorter than five foot. No, I'm m five foot, but if I was stood on my shoulders, then that's like half.

Ron: You'd put in two extra levels. There.

Laura: Was. Well, if it was me stood on my head, but then. That sounds like I'm doing a headstand. A me standing and a me standing on the first me's head, that's 10ft.

Ron: What if. What if the first the

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Ron: you on the floor is doing a headstand and then the other you're foot to foot?

Laura: Oh, yeah, that's 10ft.

Ron: That's the best way to do it, I think.

Laura: Foot to foot. But then which way up with the trench coat go. Um, that's really high. And, like, Tom would look really short on a basketball court next to basketball players. They're so tall.

Ron: Yeah, it's a weird one because, like, it's one of the sports where it's like, there's just one attribute that helps so, so much.

Laura: Yeah. But then Tom was looking this up. We were like, who's the tallest basketball player there's ever been? Do you know how tall they were?

Ron: Two metres, eight centimetres.

Laura: What does this mean? Stop being so fucking european.

Ron: Seven foot three inches.

Laura: No, seven foot seven, Ron. Um.

Ron: Crazy.

Laura: That's so tall. But apparently they weren't that great a basketball. But, like, imagine just being so physically right for a sport that even being dog shit at it, people are just like, yeah, so you can play.

Ron: Yeah, that's the dream.

Laura: Yeah.

Ron: I've never been so physically right for anything.

Laura: I'm not even physically writing up a podcast, so I get a backache sitting here. I guess if you were born with a fin, I suppose that's like Michael Phelps, isn't he? He was so physically born right to swim. Like, all that weird jointedness.

Ron: Is that his thing?

Laura: Wasn't it? Wasn't he the guy that won, like.

Ron: 28, Olympic swimmer extraordinaire?

Laura: But, yeah, he had, like, some kind of crazy double jointedness and some sort of biological thing where, like, the lactic acid in his muscles didn't work the same as other people, so he didn't get as tired or something like that.

Ron: That's interesting. And he used it for swimming.

Laura: What would you want him to use it for?

Ron: I don't know, I just, I guess, I don't know. Maybe he's played a blinder. I don't know. Do you get the most glory from that? Because I'd say, pardon?

Laura: He does, I guess.

Ron: Yeah, I guess. I don't know. It's just like, if you compare it to, like, I don't even know why, uh, I'm gonna stop talking.

Proportionately large chest enables Phelps to drag himself through the water

Laura: Here we go. Swimmers. He's six foot four. Phelps has the torso of a man who's six foot eight and the legs of a man eight inches shorter. So he's got a really long torso and short legs.

Ron: Is that good?

Laura: Proportionately large chest enables Phelps to drag himself through the water. Also means his legs produce less drag with each stroke. His wingspan is longer than his height, which I guess that's unusual, isn't it? Normally it's about banging, but his wingspan is three inches longer than his height. Uh, his legs resemble flippers because I think he's got such big feet. Oh, he. Like many swimmers, Phelps has hyper extended joints. But his double jointed ankles bend 15% more than his rivals. Paired with his size, his legs act like flippers, thrusting him through the water. He's also hyper jointed in his chest. That means he can kick from his chest instead of just his ribs, giving him more force with each stroke. He produces less, uh, lactic acid than other athletes reaches. A searchers have found that Phelps produces half the lactic acid of his competitors. These low levels of lactic acid means Phelps can recover quickly.

Ron: Wow.

Laura: Pretty cool.

Ron: Yeah. Oh, he is quite tall still.

Laura: Yeah. Six foot four.

Ron: Yeah.

Laura: Swimmers tend to be quite tall. Although I was watching some swimming the other day, and there was a guy who was only five foot ten and he still came second or something. And the commentators were like, don't let anybody talk you out of getting into swimming if you're really interested.

Ron: That's cool. You having a good time with the Olympics still?

Laura: I was. This boxing Ferrari has really upset me and annoyed me. Um, so there's a boxer called Imane Khalif, and she was, uh, fighting an Italian. She's from Algeria, she was fighting an Italian called Carini. And there was basically like one or two punches and then Carini pulled out the match. But Kalief, um, was barred by a different boxing thing from competing. Um, and somebody has spread the rumour that it's because she is a man. And so it's triggered this entire, like, oh, men shouldn't be allowed to compete, blah, blah, blah. But actually when you look into why she was barred by the IAB, I think it is. It was, like, not quite that. And basically, the IAB has been discounted from IOC rulings because of, um, corruption. Uh, um. And Kalief was born female. Female genitalia has passed all of the high bar set by the IOC for female competitors. I don't know if there are any trans women in the Olympics this time.

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Laura: I don't think there are, actually. So she's as female as everybody has wanted them to be. Has she got a uterus? Yes. Was she born with a vagina? Yes. There you go. You're a woman. Fine. And it's, like, still kicked off this absolute fucking controversy led by JK Rowling, and it's so depressing. And like, the italian woman Carini, she's come out and said, no, look, it had nothing to do with that. If the IOC say she can compete, I'm more than happy with her to compete. This is what was going on with me. I broke my nose, like, not so long ago. Her first punches hurt so much, like, hitting me in the nose. Um, but it just. It annoys me. Like, you talk about someone like Phelps and there's article upon article about how cool his body is and how great it is that it's designed for this. And then when a woman has the same thing where, like, Castor Semenya has high testosterone, or, like, kalief may or may not have high testosterone, I don't know. But she built. She is built, like, in a really cool way, and she clearly is really strong, but she's been defeated loads of times in boxing. But, like, when a woman is outstanding like that, the questions instantly start as to, well, she must be mine, then. Is she man, then? And it's just depressing. And the fact that it's coming from women who are claiming to support women, it's like, what hoops then do women now have to jump through to fit into your idea of what a woman is? She couldn't be any more of the woman you have claimed you want all women athletes to be, but now you want them also to all be average. So that, like. Like, why don't you want outstanding women? I don't understand.

Ron: Yeah, I mean, it's. It's not a new thought and, uh, not, uh, not a particularly deep one, but it's. It's just, uh. Like every time you hear something like this, it just makes it more and more apparent how transphobia is just misogyny in Mhm, a slightly uglier mhm kid well, in a slightly different cape.

Laura: It's hideous. It's hideous. And it's so horrible in this case that, like, suddenly all the trans debate is back again. Not that it ever really gets chance to die. And trans people just have nothing to do with this. They're just trying to crack on live lives and suddenly their right to live and right to enjoy their lives as up, uh, for discussion again. And you're like, sorry, dude, that you've been dragged into this. It's not. It's nothing to do with. You like, it, uh, and it's sad for female competitors of any sport that, like, the second you're outstanding, because you already could see yesterday, like, uh, as a swimmer, a female swimmer, anyway, who won a thing, won a heat by a lot, and instantly. Is she female? Yeah, she's just good. Like, this is not. Anyway, yeah, I'm sure all our listeners feel the same. So.

Tom watched all of the gymnastics yesterday and they were incredible

Preaching to the converted. But then I did read an interesting thing the other day about how preaching to the converted is still important because it reinforces for the converted that their views are not, um. They're not alone in their views. Oh, God.

Ron: Yeah. Safe to say we're not going to stop talking about this.

Laura: Um, but, yes, I've been enjoying the gym. I watched all of the gymnastics yesterday, and just fucking incredible. The one that really gets me is the bars. You know, they're like, where there's a low bar and a high bar, and then they, like, swing themselves across it and you're just watching it, like, what the.

Ron: Yeah. Ah, you watch stuff like that.

Laura: Dangle off that.

Ron: You watch stuff like that and you're like, I can't believe enough, uh, people gave that a go, that they were like, okay, we'll turn that into a sport.

Laura: Yeah. Like, they're swinging, and then they swing from one to the other. And. And the floor routines, the height and the twists and the control is incredible. And even the beam, I don't like the beam so much because I think the gymnastics on the beam is incredible, but I don't like all the little dancey bits they do in between. I just think it looks awkward and weird.

Ron: I think the same with the floor routines when they're, you know, when they do those to music and stuff, that.

Laura: At least, I think on the floor, there's a little bit more scope to make it more like dance. But on the beam, it's so limited. It's just like. And here's a shoulder jiggle in between, and you're like, why? Um. But, yeah, I really enjoyed that yesterday. It was great. You know, a performer is incredible when they're from the US and you're still cheering for them, like. Like, because the US is just so that their breadth of talent is so good. I think that I find them sort of hard to want to cheer for because there's no underdog story to it at all, you know? So you're just like, well, of course the US wins. They've got all the money and all the power, but that us gymnastics team and the woman that came second, um, I think brazilian, south american, argentinian, somewhere like that, her routines were just flawless and she had this, like, cracking black eye from where she'd hurt herself in training at some point. And, man, did she put a shift in. But it was like, I was watching that and it made me feel all gushy because I stopped watching it. And even the ones that were coming last were just achieving the most spectacular

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Laura: stuff that you were just like, oh, uh, man. And then. And then, like, the commentators say things like, oh, she's going to be disappointed we're placing fourth. And you're like, oh, fuck, why does it have to be a competition? Can't we just, like, just be. It doesn't matter where you came. You were incredible.

Ron: Oh, you know what, though? I do feel better about that since we did our Olympics episode, which patrons will have already heard.

Laura: Yes, that went out the.

Ron: Yeah, by now. Um, because, like, I think it's kind of cool that, like, you can still, you know, you can compete in a friendly way like that. And, like, people win great, and, you know, like, countries like the US and China and stuff, like, tend to run away with the medals counts a lot. But you know what? Like, more and more people show up, even though that they know that they're not going to be stood on the podium every single time. And, like, um, yeah, it's a competition, but, like, I think it's cool that there's an event that even being there, like, you, like, you say, like, even if you come stone cold last, that's enough of an achievement. I think that's cool.

Laura: Tom was telling me about the, um, football, because I was like, we were watching the basketball, and the US men's team has all the big names of basketball in it. And Tom was saying, oh, that's really surprising. Like, um, I've forgotten all their names now. Somebody, Michael jordan, LeBron James is there, and Kevin Durant and somebody else called Curry, they like, and they are the big names in basketball at the moment. And then I said, like, oh, well, what about the football then? Like, is our, uh, like, England football team there? And he explained that there's, like, really specific rules for Olympics. So in the football, you have to be under 23 in order to compete, which I think is really interesting, because then it brings all your younger talent through and really gives them a place. But also, we don't enter a football team because. Because there is no team GB football team. Like, it's England, Scotland, Wales. Um, and then you cannot represent two nations. So if you played for Team GB Olympics, you're ruling yourself out of ever playing for England, ever playing.

Ron: You couldn't do it. And then.

Laura: No, no, if you. Because you cannot have represented two different countries or something. Um, so we don't actually field anybody. But I thought that was quite fun, that 23, like, it's sort of. It must wrap people through a bit quicker. You're probably only gonna have one chance to represent at the Olympics.

Ron: Yeah. I mean, it seems a bit odd. Like, they don't have those age limitations on other sports, really.

Laura: No, but there's so much money in football. I wonder if it just keeps it a little bit different, you know?

Ron: Yeah, maybe.

Laura: Because maybe if you had Ronaldo and, like, all those, like, for years and years, would it just make it like any other football thing? Like, you've already got the World cup in the Euros and the copper America and the Bundesliga or whatever it is. Like, there's. There's loads of it. So it's a way to make it a little bit different.

Ron: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that makes sense.

I'm reading a cookbook that could make good patreon content

How are you going on with the. Have you started the book club book yet?

Laura: No, it still hasn't arrived from the bloody library. Trying to support my local friends. Freaking library. Paid one pound 20 to reserve it. Still not bloody here, mate. So instead I'm reading. What am I reading? I've lost my book now.

Ron: Ooh. The other thing that I'm reading at the moment that I think would make very good, um, patreon content. Uh, salt, fat, acid, heat.

Laura: Is it a cookbook?

Ron: Yes and no. It's like. It's about the science of cooking. Like, the idea is, like, to teach you about how salt, fat, acid and heat work so that you can, like, use recipes for inspo, but then just kind of understand it and then cook wherever you want.

Laura: Does it just say loads of salt and then you don't really have to worry about the other things?

Ron: No. So I've only read the salt chapter so far, and I'm getting into the fat bit now, but, like, it is, like, obviously, salt does make things taste better, but it also teaches you, like, when to salt stuff and how. And, like, um, because, like, salt only dissolves in water. So, like, if you're salting something like meat that has lower water content, you're gonna have to salt that a long time before if you want to make any difference to it. So, like, if you're not salting it, like, a few hours before, basically don't bother and things like that. Um, and, like, she, like, and she says a lot, like, um, you're gonna put probably more salt than you thought you would in your food. Don't worry too much about it, because, a, it's still, like, gonna have so much less salt than processed food and whatnot, and b, actually learning to salt your food better, um, will make you end up using less, because if you just whack salt in at the end, it's not gonna have permeated everything in the right way and whatnot. So you're gonna have to put more in to have the same effect. Yeah, it's really, really interesting. And things like, um, salting the water that you, like, cook your vegetables

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Ron: in and stuff actually makes them healthier because of, um, because of diffusion gradients, concentration gradients. If you don't put anything in the water, all of the minerals and the vitamins and stuff there in the vegetables just leak out into the water. Whereas if you put salt in the water, then there's a bit more of a balance, and then it stays in and stuff like that. It's really cool.

Laura: M. Yeah. All right. I'd be willing to do that for a Patreon episode. Yeah, the next few are already decided. We need to do the second politics one. M. Before I forget all my notes. And then you need to write your chapter of boy and see. And then it's my birthday, Ron.

Ron: Oh, what are we doing for your birthday this year?

Laura: Real housewives.

Ron: Okay.

Laura: I want you to watch an entire season of Real Housewives, and then we're gonna discuss.

Ron: No, that's way too much.

Laura: Four episodes.

Ron: Four episodes.

Laura: No, Ron, because you'll get hooked. You'll want to watch more.

Ron: Laura, I asked you to listen to.

Laura: One album, and I did.

Ron: Yeah. I'm not gonna watch a whole series. Aren't there, like 25 episodes per series?

Laura: Nah, not in the early ones. Like 14.

Ron: I will do four episodes. If I get hooked, I get hooked, and then we'll see. But I'm promising you four.

Laura: Okay. I'll have to think carefully about which four, then.

Ron: Well, make them, like, back to back.

Laura: Yeah, I will, but I want it to cover a cool bit.

Ron: Yeah. Okay.

Do me a quick fire quiz on physics just so that we don't get done under the trades description app

Laura: Do me a quick fire quiz on physics just so that we don't get done under the trades description app, okay?

Ron: Physics quiz for dummies.

Laura: No, Ron, you're so rude.

Ron: A, pull or a push applied or exerted on an object is a, energy, b, force, c, velocity, or d, distance?

Laura: Uh, it's a force, Ron.

Ron: Submit my answer. Ding dling ding. That's correct.

Energy is the ability to do work. 94% of quiz takers got this correct

Alright, next question. The ability to do work is a, velocity, b, force, c, energy, d, heat.

Laura: Energy.

Ron: Correct again. It says correct. Bravo. Energy is the ability to do work.

Laura: That, uh, feels weirdly phrased.

Ron: 94% of quiz takers got this correct. Blank. Is said to be done when a force of one newton moves an object of a mass of one gramme one metre in the direction of the force. A, force, b, time, c, energy, d, work.

Laura: Work done is a phrase. I definitely remember that.

Ron: Uh, yes, but I believe it to be one kilogramme over a metre because those are all SI units. And you know what? Someone write in and let me know. Um, next question. Only 81% of quiz takers got that right. All right. Blank. Is the speed in a given direction? Rate of motion with direction a, velocity, b, work, c, e to above.

Laura: Uh, wow, that was so mangled with, um, Internet noise. Could you please read the options again? I think it's velocity, but I want to hear the options again.

Ron: A, velocity, b, work c, energy d, temperature e, two of the above velocity.

Laura: Ron. Vector. Uh, speed and direction.

Ron: Very well done. Feedback. Velocity is a vector quantity.

Laura: Yes.

Ron: Which of the following energy sources is characterised by the process of nuclear fusion? A, coal, b, solar, c, natural gas, or d, geothermal?

Laura: Nuclear fusion.

Ron: Which of the following energy sources is characterised by the process of nuclear fusion? A, coal, b, solar, c, natural gas, or d, geothermal?

Laura: Hmm. M, nuclear fusion. What's fusing nucleuses? I'm gonna say natural gas one.

Ron: Is that your final answer?

Laura: Well, I don't think it's right. I. But I don't really understand the question.

Ron: Why would you choose that one?

Laura: Um, because gases are bimbling about, so maybe the nucleus is a fusing.

Ron: All right, it's wrong.

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Laura: Oh, uh, we all knew it would be. Let's find out why.

Ron: Solar energy. Oh, energies come from the sun, where nuclear fusion happens.

Laura: Oh, right. Hmm.

Ron: Only 49% of quiz takers got this right. So you were down to the.

Laura: Yeah, all right, fair enough.

What does Newton's second law of motion state

Ron: What does Newton's second law of motion? State force is directly proportional to mass times acceleration forces inversely proportional to acceleration, force is directly proportional to mass. Force is inversely proportional to mass.

Laura: This is a question for dummies. No, this doesn't feel dummy level. This feels like clever body level. Um. Um. Can you read them all again? A bit slower on force is directly.

Ron: Proportional to mass times.

Laura: Okay, Hannah.

Ron: Acceleration.

Laura: Yeah, I think it's that one, Ron.

Ron: Yeah, it just makes sense. Done it.

Laura: Yeah. Yeah, it does. Yeah.

Ron: Yep. Next. 60% of people got that right.

Laura: Yes.

Ron: According to Boyle's law, what happens to the volume of a gas if it's. If its pressure is increased while keeping the temperature constant? The volume increases, the volume decreases. The volume remains the same. The volume becomes zero.

Laura: The volume decreases. Wait, the volume?

Ron: Yeah.

Laura: Yes. Okay. It was right. Good. I carried on thinking after I put my answer in, and it nearly talked me out of it. But luckily, you'd already submitted my answer.

Ron: Some good ads on this page. Single latino dating sites. Jet. Two holidays.

Laura: Do you have to jet to the single Latinos, or do they come to you?

Ron: They don't say that. They're in my area. Actually, there's one here that just says, don't miss out. Claim.

Laura: Now claim your single Latino. Now. She's on this plane going to Mallorca.

Ron: Uh, Charles's law describes the relationship between the volume and temperature of a gas at constant pressure. What does the law state? The volume is inversely proportional to temperature. Volume is directly proportional to temperature. Volume is inversely proportional to pressure. Volume is directly proportional to pressure.

Laura: Volume is inversely proportional to pressure.

Ron: Directly proportional to temperature.

Laura: Dang it. But isn't that basically, the last question was, like, if you squeeze it, it'll get smaller.

Ron: Yeah, that was Boyle's law. That's Charles's law. This does say at, uh, at, uh, constant pressure, you've moved down a rank. Which, following is a fundamental principle of classical mechanics that describes the relationship between force, mass, and acceleration. Is it Coulomb's law? Is it Kepler's law? Is it Newton's second law? Is it Boyle's law?

Laura: Right. Well, it's not Boyles, because that was about. That was about the gases. Newton is about thermodynamics. In e. Um, Kepler. Is that not that thing where you go like, wow, coulombs, measurement of something. What was the question?

Ron: Which of the following is a fundamental principle of classical mechanics that describes the relationship between force, mass, and acceleration?

Laura: Oh, I think it's Newton.

Ron: Yeah, it's Newton's second law. Yeah, we just. Just did that one. Stupid. To really have both those questions in the same quiz to be honest.

Laura: But, uh, they're just catching you out.

In the context of basic physics, what principle states that energy cannot be destroyed

Ron: In the context of basic physics, what principle states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed from one form to another? Is that Newton's third law? Is that the conservation of energy? Is that ohm's law? Or is that who's law?

Laura: Hmm? Ohm's. Um. Law. The second two, I don't remember those coming up as laws. Could be in Newton's third. What was the first one? Einstein's.

Ron: Newton's.

Laura: What were the first two again?

Ron: Newton's third law. Conservation of energy. Ohm's law. Hooke's law.

Laura: Let's go. Newton's third. Let's just stick on a Newton thing.

Ron: Yeah, I think that's right, to be honest.

Laura: Yes. Newton.

Ron: No, it wasn't. It was the conservation of energy.

Laura: Oh, well, give it a better name. Who discovered it? That's what we want to name it after. More white men. More white men.

Ron: White men. Um. Well, there you go. Um, that's the quiz.

You are the outdoor type, strong type, shy type, gullible

Laura: Now, some science happened. Ron hasn't done a register, so we've not got one of these in the

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Laura: outro, but I'll just say a thank you.

Ron: What's your favourite colour, Laura?

Laura: Red. Are we finding out what song I am?

Ron: What sonic character? Yes.

Laura: Oh, sonic character.

Ron: When in a fight, you choose to run, stand and hold on. Charge. Freeze up or stand in fear.

Laura: Charge.

Ron: Choosing stand in fear.

Laura: No, I'm a charger.

Ron: If given a hard question on paper, you solve it. Just stare. Ah. Think for a while before solving. Divide it up, crumble up the paper.

Laura: There's no think for a while before get it wrong.

Ron: Yeah.

Laura: An option.

Ron: When trapped, you quake in fear, fly away, fight to your last breath, blow a hole in the wall and escape. Or run through the guy's legs. Run through.

Laura: Run through the guy's legs.

Ron: Yeah. We've all heard about you at university. And, um, your favourite music is rock, techno, classical, dark or love song? Probably love song.

Laura: Rock.

Ron: You didn't listen to rock music.

Laura: Yes, I do. Aerosmith. Do you know they've taken Aerosmith out of Disneyland?

Ron: No, that was our favourite.

Laura: Yeah, I know. They've changed it to fucking avengers.

Ron: Friends describe you as annoying, funny second in command, group leader or the outsider. We'll be kind. We'll say funny.

Laura: Thanks, Ron. It did say friends, not siblings.

Ron: You are the outdoor type, strong type, shy type, gullible type, smart type. Gotta be gullible.

Laura: Gullible.

Ron: Gotta be gullible. You are also the macho type. Learning type, gathering type, destructive type. Or cheery type. I think you're a gathering type.

Laura: Um, no, I don't really like clutter. I'd say cheering type.

Ron: Cheery cheat. No, it's cheery type.

Laura: Yeah, cheery. Except for when I'm depressed. You are also people.

Ron: You say the silent type, idiot type alone type. Inventor type.

Laura: Inventor type. I'm a hundred percent an inventor.

Ron: Yeah, right. I'll put inventor type for you because you are always, never alone. You are also the funny type, dark type, annoyed type, genius type, adventure type.

Laura: Funny.

Ron: You long to find a companion, a good time, an item, um, a way to protect a purpose.

Laura: A purpose? Definitely a purpose. Fucking point.

Ron: Your favourite sonic underground character. Your favourite sonic underground character is Sonia Manic Sonic, Doctor Eggman or the robots?

Laura: I don't know. Who's Jim Carrey in the film?

Ron: Doctor Eggman.

Laura: Oh, I'll have him then. I like him. I really like the Sonic film.

Ron: Your favourite main sonic character is sonic Tails, Knuckles Shadow, or Doctor Eggman. We'll say Doctor Eggman.

Laura: I don't understand this quiz.

Ron: Your favourite girl character or silver is Amyddeh. Sonya. Sally. Rouge or Silver?

Laura: Uh, I've never heard of any of them. So let's say Sally.

Ron: Just hope that Sally feels.

Laura: Oh, she's a magic. I watched a video this morning about Melissa Joan Hart and, man, is she well adjusted for a child star.

Ron: Just pick 11234 or five.

Laura: Two, please. Feels like we could have bypassed the whole quiz and just got shit.

What colour appeals to you the most? Is it red again?

Ron: You were in what age group? How old are you, Laura?

Laura: 31.

Ron: No, we're much closer to 40.

Laura: Shut up, Ron. 31.

Ron: You're over. You over 37?

Laura: I'm not 38 yet, but I am 30.

Ron: Yeah. All right, 37 and up. That's the category that you're in. You're in the oldest one.

Laura: Oh, uh, no.

Ron: What's your idea of a perfect day?

Laura: How is it still going?

Ron: Relaxing in a peaceful garden, going on an adrenaline fueled adventure? Spending time with friends and family or exploring new places and mysteries?

Laura: Peaceful garden, please.

Ron: What colour appeals to you the most? Yeah, but that's your favourite. Which one appeals to you the most? Is it red again?

Laura: Uh,

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Laura: I don't know. I'm like, purple's always quite mysterious.

Ron: Purple's not on the list this time.

Laura: What options have we got?

Ron: Blue, red, yellow, green or black?

Laura: Um, well, let's go black because I wear mostly black clothes, so I guess they appeal to me the most.

Ron: Okay, what's your preferred mode of transportation? Transportation.

Laura: Transportation.

Ron: Running at supersonic speed, flying through the skies, driving a fast car, or travelling by foot?

Laura: Uh, flying. Yeah, I love to fly.

How do you handle challenges? Analyse and strategize. Confront them head on

Ron: How do you handle challenges? This is the last one. This is the last one. Uh, how do you handle challenges? Analyse and strategize. Confront them head on. Seek help from others. Or embrace them as an opportunity.

Laura: Seek help from others.

Ron: Run. You got knuckles. You are knuckles.

Laura: Yeah.

Ron: Fighting time. I don't know how that. I think it's literally just because you.

Laura: Picked red or number two.

Ron: Yeah.

Laura: Is knuckles the little one that flies?

Ron: No, he's the echidna that punches things.

Laura: Oh, yeah? What? On me. Okay, well, thanks for listening. Holy crap. If you made it this far through, you have to let us know. Thanks to Stephen for upping your prescription. Um, to yearly. That's really nice for us to know that you're in for a year. Means we've got to make another year of content. Good, isn't it? Goals. Um. Everybody else that hasn't had a thank you yet on the Patreon register, we will get to you. Ron's just very disorganised.

Ron: There's not that many. I don't think, um. I don't think in Paddington you can expect me to do things like the register.

Laura: Well, it's only padding because you're fucking padding it, you stupid boy.

Ron: Shut up, knuckles.

All right, let's do the quiz again for you. Water is the worst. Ron, say it. Um. I need a wee again

Laura: All right, let's do the quiz again for you. No, no, no, we're not going through that. Um, thanks for listening. I need a wee again. Water is the worst. Um. Ron, say it.

Ron: Glass. Dismissed.

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