You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast. Hi everybody and welcome back to Who'd Ed Wotnow, the history podcast that's not your

history class. With me, your insatiable host, Katie Charlwood, History Harlot and Reader of Books.

Well, we are still in the spooky season, and I am just back from Katie Charlwood, History Harlot and Reader of Books.

Well, we are still in the spooky season, and I am just back from my first long weekend,

and I don't know how long.

It's nice to have time off.

I don't know what to do with myself.

So I decided to go to Sligo and see my lovely friend, Shonna, who you may know from Sex Shopper. And I also met up with the fantastic Mark, who you may know as Bearded Badger's Storytelling, the podcast, or from the

Lebercon Museum in Dublin. I had a fantastic time. We've got some ideas going, fun stuff's going

to happen. But it's been great.

It's been nice to have some time off,

and it's nice to meet all these super cool people that I met on TikTok.

You know what? I'm going for it.

Anyone who's listening,

anyone who has made friends or has friends that are,

like through things on the internet that, you know not dodgy like um is someone who grew up

with chat rooms yeah you're gonna watch out for weirdos out there um but you know these are the

right kind of weirdos i know a lot of older generations don't get the concept of you know

making friends with people who you know live further away from you or who you know through online

and things like that as well. And that the concept of a textual relationship is out with their

reality. But you can make some really, really good friends and really great connections

via online. And I have started to do that with TikTok, Instagram, Twitter to a less extent I have a Twitter, so,

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