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iron filings. Here we go, here we go, here we go, here we go, this is it.

This is top flight timer Shane, I'm Andy Hopper, you know some perverver.

I'm Simoniste Delaney, so what? Welcome along is the Ripley's 2022 Odyssey. We're looking at the

Ripley's believe it or not book which is in all good shops now which says on the front all true,

all weird, all wild. We've already established it clearly isn't all weird and it definitely isn't

all wild. They say it's all true but then they also say believe it or not. I don't know what the

fuck's going on with these people but I don't know what shall we do the random number selector thing

and then see if that gives us any joy and then if not we'll just flick through some pages.

I don't believe not, okay. Yeah, we're quite prepared to just reject.

174, 174 it says let's go 174, oh this is an interesting one. This could actually be a history

box subject I think and it is a two-page spread about Edgar Allan Paul. Oh yeah, he was an

interesting lad, wasn't he? He was, they've probably missed out lots of the interesting stuff

in here but um, hmm, hmm, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, excuse me mate, bless you. The

Raven, the Raven is often considered to be Paul's most widely known work however the poem might

have fallen a bit flat had Paul God with his original idea a parrot. It's going to be the parrot

parrot. He said there in his 1840s success in the philosophy of composition Paul wrote that

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