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Hey and welcome to the short stuff I'm Josh and there's Chuck and this is short stuff.

And this is a hoax edition which we're starting to slowly assemble into a short stuff suite.

The year 1810, the month November, the day possibly unknown.

Right.

And on this particular day, if we zoom over to London and then zoom in a little more into

a wealthy section of London and then even further into a place called Berners Street, we're

going to find a 22 year old, a guy who I would have liked to have been friends with.

Name Theodore Hook.

He was a bomb of aunt.

He was known to be mischievous, incredibly intelligent, very charming kind of guy.

The kind of person who would just show up on a stranger's doorstep and start talking

to them and the hopes that he would be invited to dinner just to see if he could do it.

Just a neat guy all around and he's walking down the street with a friend of his name,

Samuel Beasley, right?

That's right.

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