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Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby. Radio X. Well, here we are. Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby for the old podcast. Yo. Yo to you. Sorry, I'm sleepy this morning, Matthew. We're about an hour and 20 minutes into the show. We've only talked about the Beckenham Fireworks so far. So that's something to look forward to.

Don't apologize for being sleepy. We're all a little bit sleepy today. And it's a good thing that we've got some recordings of the fireworks.

Because they, you know, not only are they good content. Well, content. They are content. They are. They take time.

They kill time. They fill time. But they are also giving me what I would describe as euphoric recall because it was such a wonderful night. Yes. I'm back there. I'm back there. Should we read some emails? Oh yeah. Well, you can. Okay, I'd love to. So, Dr. Mike Sheldon's got in touch. Thank God.

Hello, Dr. Mike. Dear Crunch, Crumble and Dirty Harry starring Vince Eastwood. Happy radio, lads. Don't mind if I do. With respect to a recent text about the difficulty of plugging a USB cable in the correct way. Yes, please. I thought I would share the most useful piece of knowledge I've gained from 20 years in the tech industry. assuming that the socket is horizontal,

then to be fully compliant with the USB specification, the USB logo must be facing up when the cable is plugged in. Best luck in the charts this week. And thank you, Mike. That is a fantastic. It's not quite a life hack, it's just some information, but it's very good. Thank you, Dr. Mike.

Thank you very much to Kathy Rivett for getting in touch, who had, let's face it, had a breakdown over three paragraphs. Thank you very much. I read your email. Hang on, so we're not reading it out, we're just saying. No, I think, sort of, I think halfway through she goes, ah, you don't need to read this bit out. Is there a jest?

What topic is it on?

At one point, I mentioned the word Farrington.

When I heard, I think half way through she goes, you don't need to read this bill out. Is there a jest?

What topic is it on?

At one point, I mentioned the word Farrington when her train came into Farringdon. That's how it starts. Oh, wow, okay. That's the opener. She's got a textor for, have you been to Farrington? That's the textor idea, if you've been to Farrington. and she said this and then she put some stuff that's not for the pod

I'm bled. That's the textor idea. If you've been to Farrington. And she said, there's... And then she puts some stuff that's not for the pod. Unbelievable. Anyway, thank you, Kathy. Big fans of yours. When you're leading with the Farringdon stuff. Like those little coincidences, when they happen to you, you think, this is amazing, I've got to... They're very difficult to... They're very difficult to convey, aren't they? Those weird coincidences, when they happen to you, you think, this is amazing, I've got to,

they're very difficult to convey, aren't they? You know, those weird coincidences where, oh, just as someone's talking about a thing, then a thing happened. No one, unfortunately, nobody cares. And that's coming from me. I was chatting someone about Michael Barrymore the other day, last night, actually. Oh yes, yeah, big on TikTok. In Pratt, guess who was in Pratt?

Wait, you're the person you were talking to? No, not, it wasn't... It was a man who looked like Michael Barrymore. Oh, okay. Because I was going to say, how have we done an hour and 20 of the show if you walked past a Barrymore in the wild? No, he looked a bit like him. Was he dressed sort of semi-outrageously? Why he was running around, Pratt, he was, you know... Was he filming himself? Tickling old people and stuff. Great. All right, the back! Love Barrymore. Fantastic. We did do quite a long, maybe an hour on when you thought you saw Tim Vincent, but it wasn't Tim Vincent. Yeah, yeah, I remember that. I think that might have been during, that might have been during COVID. Was it not Tim Vincent? No, I, no, it wasn't Tim Vincent. Oh, I didn't listen to the end of the story. No, I think there would, there'd been a couple of instances. He was jogging, wasn't it? He was jogging and I drove really slowly Because I have seen Tim Vincent before And my wife and I sort of chased him down the road To check it definitely was Tim Vincent But I thought I'd seen him again The other time was when I thought I saw you Cycling into work And I thought oh I'll get really close to you on my bike in my car and try and knock you over

and then I'm thinking A

no no even if it is someone you know

it's not a laugh to run over a cyclist

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