266: The Modern Spooky
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🗓️ 2 November 2017
⏱️ 27 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone, I'm Cruella Despook, and this is the most terrifying day of the year. |
| 0:10.0 | November the 2nd, the day filled with ill portent and eerie doings. |
| 0:20.0 | For instance, on this day in 1920, the first commercial radio station began in America. |
| 0:30.1 | And that might not sound spooky, but what if I told you that the radio DJ was a Frankenstein. |
| 0:41.3 | Also on this day, Penguin Books was found not guilty of obscenity in the Lady Chatterasley's |
| 0:48.3 | lover's gaze. Maybe they would have been convicted if the author's original version had been published, |
| 0:57.0 | in which Lady Chatterley was a big Skellington with tits. |
| 1:03.0 | And finally, on this day in 1965, Norman Morrison set fire to himself in front of the Pentagon to protest the use of napalm in the Vietnam War. |
| 1:19.6 | But only now have modern cryptologists noticed that Norman Morrison is an anagram of, I died ten years ago, I'm a ghost, what a twist. |
| 1:33.3 | Well, hello, hello, Halloween. Logge here, I'm not creweller to spook at all, |
| 1:46.0 | although I do think I've just done a voice that sounds a bit like Trigger |
| 1:51.0 | out of only fools and horses, but not when he's playing Trigger, |
| 1:54.0 | when he's playing in Doctor Who people things. |
| 1:56.0 | Yeah, that. |
| 1:57.0 | Anyway, I'm afraid it is my sad duty to inform you |
| 2:00.0 | that circumstances once again have conspired like a crime gang to keep us boys from meeting face to face, mano-a-mano. Real to real, I like to move it, move it. As I'm talking these very words right now at you, I don't know where any of the regular features |
| 2:19.4 | gang are. Least of all myself. I'm just paddling around in this horrific alternate universe, |
| 2:26.9 | ankle deep in blood and jaw bones. A mist surrounds me, faces stretching into focus before retreating back into the gas. |
| 2:37.0 | Ooh, there's a face now. It's GAV! |
| 2:42.0 | Oh, he's gone again. |
| 2:44.0 | Maybe if I focus on him and use my terrifying brain powers, I could... |
| 2:53.6 | Ooh, woo, you bugger! |
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