It is Thursday. It is Thursday, the 12th of December 2019, and you're listening to the end of the world.

I am your host, Mike Hall, with me today is Marsh.

Hello.

And Alice, the team back together again.

After that, that incredulous interloper.

Yeah, emotionally manipulating our listeners

with his tail, his made tale, his fictional tales of familial

DNA tracing. It drives me up though every time I've got a story that I'm very

happy with someone else does a really heavy emotional people totally undermine.

Totally undermind me.

You need to a big emotional story sometime Mike.

I don't know about that.

I did the Polly story.

That was my big emotional story.

But yeah, so welcome back, Marsh. It's nice to be back in the country.

How was, how was Brazil? Brazil was lovely. It was, it was, because obviously it's southern hemisphere,

which means it was sort of heading into like spring into

summer so it was 30 degrees there, which is nice because you had to spend a fortnight

not in the middle of a British winter. But what I find then alienating and

disorienting is landing back in the middle of British winter.

And I think the thing is, it's the reverse thing of that myth about frogs being boiled.

In that, the myth being if you put a frog in water and slowly wears a tail. frogs being

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