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Welcome to the High Low, the weekly conversation between Dolly Alderton and Pandora Sykes.

I'd like to kick off this episode with a revolting little update from Opportunusa DJ CJ.

Links have launched a Marmite body spray.

Now, this raises a red flag to me because last week we were told the news is that there's not enough Marmite because of pubs being closed.

So how come there's not enough Marmite to fill the larger jars, but there is enough surplus Marmite to make a body spray?

Interesting. What you're saying is there has been a re-rooting of vital resources, which is not us.

This is what I'm thinking. Yeah, this is what I'm thinking.

Now, raise a red flag for me because I think it's laboring under the fourth pretense that teenage boys do not already smell pretty funky.

Thank God they can now douse themselves in links Africa and get the Marmite pong.

And then just to really seal in that yeasty flavour, like grouting for the groin, they can use the accompanying shower gel.

Yes, not just a spray, a shower gel too.

Right, I feel like there are a lot of unanswered questions there and I look forward to the panorama special.

Thank you to the listener who responded to Dolly's piece on the stinky Greenland shark with a New Yorker piece on eels,

who have the most complicated biology of any animal I've ever known.

I read this piece when I was very tired and was so confused by the various incarnations eels go through.

Like in their fourth stage of eeldum, they just rescind their stomachs.

They don't have stomachs anymore and they just live off their own fat, fat, they live off their own fat for the last quarter of their life.

So they do away with their giblets and that's what they do.

Did you know that eels are critically endangered?

They do away with their giblets.

They are completely lost track of what this pod got.

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