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Adam and Joe

Text the Nation mini-special!

Adam and Joe

BBC

Comedy

4.93.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2011

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Der! This week's podcast somehow launched without the essential ingredient of Text the Nation! So here it is in all its 4 minute 39 second glory. Do send your public pretence stories to [email protected]

Transcript

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0:00.0

Textination, text, text, text, textination.

0:05.0

What if I don't want to?

0:06.1

Textination.

0:07.0

But I'm using email.

0:08.2

Is that a problem?

0:09.0

It doesn't matter, text.

0:12.0

Now, sometimes on textination, we have a subject that

0:15.5

generates so much correspondence that it seems criminally

0:19.1

ludicrously insane just to leave it alone there.

0:22.3

And about two years ago, we did a thing on textination

0:25.6

about public pretending we called it.

0:27.6

Little games you play with yourself

0:29.4

when you're out and about, just to sort of charades you play.

0:33.7

How would you describe it, Joe?

0:34.8

Well, it's sort of the theatre of public spaces, isn't it?

0:37.7

And for instance, some of the good ones

0:39.1

I remember from last time are, if you're waiting for a friend

0:42.6

in a particular public place, the friend doesn't turn up

0:46.8

and you start getting self-conscious about why you're

0:49.6

standing there.

0:50.2

Or for instance, if you're in a restaurant alone,

0:52.8

waiting to order, but your friend doesn't turn up.

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