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Hello, my lovely betwixters, it's me, Kate Lister, welcome back once again to Betwix the Sheeds.

Hello, how fabulous to see your fabulous selves. Do come in and take a seat. But before we go any

further together, I do have to tell you again, and I will continue to tell you between now and the time

that the show eventually gets cancelled. This is an adult podcast spoken by adults to other adults about adulty things in an adulty way, covering arranged adult subjects, and you should be an adult too.

Right, proceed at your own caution, you have been warned.

Between the sounds of bleating sheep, cooing doves, shouting salesmen and coins hitting wooden tables,

you'd have thought I'd have taken you to a marketplace.

And I wouldn't blame you for thinking that.

This place even has food stalls.

But this is not a marketplace.

This is a temple, and none other than the second temple, Jerusalem. And do you know what I heard?

I heard that there was quite the commotion yesterday. Well, yesterday in the first century.

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