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The Blindboy Podcast

How Ireland invented spaces between words

The Blindboy Podcast

Blindboyboatclub

Arts, Philosophy, Art, Fiction, Factual, Society & Culture, Comedy

4.97.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

The contribution that Irish monks made to the mechanics of writing

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0:00.0

This is an advertisement for Go Henry.

0:03.0

When I was a child I used to get pocket money from my dad.

0:06.0

I used to walk into real life shops and buy things with pocket money.

0:10.0

I had to learn how to budget. I opened a little bank account and would save my money in there to buy bigger things in real life.

0:17.0

But what do kids do now when most of the stuff you buy is online?

0:21.0

That's a lot more complicated than buying something in a shop with

0:24.2

physical money. Well if you're a parent, go Henry is the UK's number one

0:28.9

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0:35.4

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0:41.8

financial literacy that you'll definitely need when you become an adult, but most importantly go Henry has smart parental controls

0:49.0

So you can oversee how your kids are spending their money in the interest of their safety.

0:54.4

It's a way for you to be responsible and how to teach your kids to be responsible in the face of

0:59.2

digital complexities that we certainly didn't have to deal with when we were getting pocket money as kids.

1:04.7

So if that sounds interesting, sign up at gohenry.com and you get your first month free.

1:10.6

Pommel the bun dungeon you costredy goubbnets, welcome to the Blind Buy podcast.

1:16.0

I hope you're all getting conkers deep in the bam of summer. I'm vandalizing myself with summer. I'm going for runs and the early dawn, cornflower blue sunlight,

1:29.2

mist curling up off the water like the river has a hairstyle, barge sharping with enthusiasm,

1:36.6

an air that you can drink.

1:39.0

And then I'm going for walks in the evening, slanty sun, That's so orange it's almost brown, dragonflies,

1:46.5

voluntarily placing my head into a swarm of midges just to feel the itch, experiencing the full vitality of being alive and reflecting

1:56.7

on how lucky I am, how lucky unfortunately I am to be able to enjoy something like a summer's day.

2:04.0

Ireland in the summer months is beautiful, absolutely stunning.

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