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🗓️ 4 March 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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0:00.0 | What is the largest souvenir that you've ever brought home from a trip? One time, my wife and I were |
0:08.6 | living in Hungary, in Budapest for a year. We found a taxidermy's antique. It was a taxidermied fox |
0:18.3 | holding a little taxidermy duck under its arm. |
0:22.8 | So we bought it. |
0:24.6 | And then my parents came and visited and we said, hey, can you please fly home with this? |
0:30.3 | So they had to bring a little paper bag and a little fox, which is standing up. |
0:35.1 | This little head is poking out of the bag. |
0:37.2 | They carried it out of the plane. |
0:39.1 | Thanks, well. |
0:39.6 | Thanks, Dad. |
0:41.4 | I'm always trying to bring big, dumb stuff home from trips. |
0:46.8 | And it's always such a pain in the butt. |
0:49.4 | But then when you get it home, it's kind of worth it. |
0:52.2 | Anyway, picture the biggest souvenir you've ever tried to |
0:56.1 | bring home. Well, I tell you this next little story. In the 1960s, London Bridge was in fact |
1:10.7 | falling down, just like the nursery rhyme. |
1:14.0 | Though actually, it might be more accurate to say that London Bridge was sinking down, |
1:19.8 | as in it was literally sinking into the mud. |
1:22.1 | There had been this bridge in this spot in London since Roman times. |
1:26.5 | But the version they had had in the 1960s was actually built in the 1800s. |
1:31.3 | And in 1800s, they just had horses and buggies, not cars and double-deckers trying to drive over this thing. |
1:38.3 | And so the weight of all these modern cars and double-decker red London sightseeing buses was slowly driving the bridge into the mud. |
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