Hello everyone and welcome to the long and winding Royal Road. My name is

W.H. Park. This is episode 42 and as a special treat for everyone on this

auspicious number. I don't know why 42 would be an auspicious number, but hey, you know, we have a first-time

guest, a long-time listener, first-time caller. It's their man, my pal, you know flat again.

Hello, WH 42 episodes before I get to come on, which actually isn't that weird because all Japan in the 90s not exactly my area of

expertise but I'm glad that we're talking about something today that kind of can

tie into the present day as well.

And I do have a theory about at least one man's significance of the number 42. It's the answer to the question of life, the

universe and everything. That's for the Douglas Adams fans, Hitchhiker's Guide to

the Galaxy fans out there. They built a computer which was called the Earth.

No, I'm getting this all wrong and we're going way off track. They built a computer called Deep

Thought that took tens of thousands of years to come up with the

answer to the question of life the universe and everything and the answer that it came up

with was 42.

42? There you go.

I, you being a Douglas Adams fan, see, so I did not know this.

I did, or you might have told me I forgot.

You tell me a lot of things that I forget, you know?

What can I say?

It happens. Sounds right. Sounds about right, right?

And let me just try to fix my camera here. Like, is that maybe that's worse. Let me try to move it over here.

Oh, that's better. I think that's better. And then where I went wrong, just to bore people even more is that no one understood what 42 meant so they had to

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