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Click the link in the show notes to find out more. We kick off today's episode with some good

old-fashioned fibbing. Everyone has been through a phase in their life where you just encounter liars.

It happens at school.

But I think a real sweet spot of it is when you're, maybe you've just left college. You're a little bit old, you're sort of 18, 19, you're sort of hanging out in pubs a bit more regularly. Yeah. And you're still, you're still surrounded by a lot of adolescents who want to impress people. It's about the baron at uni. It's not about the baron, but he'd be a great example actually of someone who just really, really obviously lied about weird stuff.

There was a kid called Gary who went to a pub that I went to a lot when I was younger.

Was he friends with Hated Martin?

I don't know if he would have known Hated Martin.

I only met Hated Martin once and he told me that he thought it should be legal to kill people if you could later prove they were a prick.

I was like, I've made you for two minutes and your name makes so much sense.

So hated Martin.

It's amazing that I could suit that name. But you only started to talk to him because you were hated Jim, right? No, no, no. He was introduced to me as some sort of punishment for something I'd done, I would imagine. Were you in the Opsic signal group for Hirtids?

What did Gary say?

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