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Genius! Genius!

Hello, it is with most humble and magnanimous waltz thers, madams that I welcome you to another

installment of the serialisation of evil genius for even though I am a toothless and scruffy

lus rokes, sir, and my morals all askew for one of better learnings due to the fact I

am aware that my mother did pass hence from laying a bed with unsamely gentlemen. Besides

all of that, I am your host Russell Cainwell McPodd. Yes, it's the Dickens episode, overwritten,

overrated beardy show off, or vital strand in the DNA of what it means to be British. Whatever

you think of Dickens, you'll know that on evil genius no lauded person is safe from

a dirty dismantling. We even take dirty histories and remantle them, someone Google if that's

legal language. Who'd have thought Hugh Hefner, series one, was actually a bit of a feminist?

Wut? On the other hand, it turned out John Lennon was just a touch wife beaty and a touch

psychological child abusing. Imagine, we've annoyed, provoked, and asked ourselves deep into

the podcast world, and this week it's everyone's favourite doorstop they pretend to read, Dickens.

Our most influential writer since Shakespeare, author of great expectations, Oliver Twist

Anna Christmas Carol, you might just know him better as the boring geyser of a tenor, Uncle

Darren, I'm talking to you. At the end of this lively debate, my panel must,

simplistically and reductively vote one way or the other, was Dickens more evil or

genius. So, I would like to welcome my panel today, welcome everyone, I'm joined by

Inell Tom Blinson, one half of the double act Johnny and Inell, you might know them from

the kids TV, but he's also a stand up and a founder of the Kinetic Comedy Festival.

Oh, right. I turned up with a physics professor, nothing to do with Kinesis, left, saw some bang

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