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The Tortoise with Brooke McAlary

Birthday Parties and the Zombie Apocalypse

The Tortoise with Brooke McAlary

Brooke McAlary

Education, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Self-improvement

4.6525 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2016

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Brooke and Ben answer some amazing listener questions in today's hosts-only episode - including a zombie survival question that is probably Brooke's favourite question ever.

Transcript

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0:00.7

Hello and welcome to the Slow Home podcast. This is episode number 108. And there are a few things that I'm not going to mention. I will. This is the second time we're recording this. I wasn't going to mention that. I also wasn't going to mention the fact that the couple that works together shares germs together and I apologise if my voice craps out.

0:21.4

I wasn't going to mention that either.

0:23.0

But there I am.

0:24.0

So this is the story.

0:26.3

We recorded this episode a while ago, and I edited, went to edit it the day before it was

0:34.0

released, only to find that the audio Gremlins had struck.

0:39.8

I had a severe case of reverb, herb, and you had static monsters.

0:50.5

Oh.

0:51.7

So here we are.

0:54.0

Kicking goals. Kicking slow goals. Kicking slow goals.

0:57.3

Kicking slow goals in a slow fashion, slowly drinking a glass of red wine to ease my way into the evening.

1:06.0

And this will be a slurp from a beer.

1:08.3

Oh, great. Nothing like mouth noises. It's been a long time since we have

1:12.7

done the old record the night before trick. It's, I don't, I don't, I'm not enjoying it. I've

1:18.5

got to say, I'm not enjoying the fact that we're 12 hours out from releasing this episode and we're

1:23.2

recording it now. So anyway, if things are a little silly, a little loose tonight, that would be why.

1:29.0

That being said, it is a hostful. And again, many thanks to the nerdist crew for letting us steal

1:35.0

that term, which we didn't ask permission to do. Let's get into it. Let's do that. Got some

1:41.1

great questions. Okay, let's go. Okay.

1:43.6

Okay. Lucy writes to us via I'm not sure where.

2:07.2

Facebook.

2:08.0

Was that Facebook?

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