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The greatest kitchen gadget ever after the cooker.

I don't do microwaves, so I can't be bothered with the microwave.

So, yeah, I think it goes cooker, then cooker.

So cooker, as in the one with

the, like the flames and the heat and the gas

and the electric and the induction and then

cooker, the hot water tap.

Do you know what I used it for last week?

Getting chewing gum off my daughter's jeans.

This is the gadget that keeps giving.

She was panicking. Dad, I got chewing.

I sat down and chewing gum and I, and then, you know, the, the, the, I've only got like

15 pairs of jeans and this one's got chewing gum on them and it's the one I need to use. So I just did

it. I put it in the hot water, it melted it, scrubbed it off, did well. Actually,

it's fascinating watching my daughter do that lose the plot because it's so, doing this podcast

for all these years and sort of spending a lot of time reading books and especially sort of

self-helpy books and philosophy books and books on stoism and all that sort of stuff.

It's interesting watching the panic and how

important that chewing gum to get that chewing off the jeans was in that moment. And and the reality

is the thing I do that my mate always take the Mickey out of me is you know if you think about

death every day, it allows you to live. And I always, whenever I get like really frustrated,

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