The Mongoose That Could Talk: Gef the Mongoose | Red Thread

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🗓️ 17 September 2025

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Nestled between England and Ireland lies the Isle of Man, an island that totals an area of 54 kilometres squared with an approximate population of just 84,530 people.
0:43.3	The island man is a self-governing British crown dependency, having the oldest parliament in the world with an unbroken existence called the Tinwald.
0:52.1	The island has its own language, Manx Gaelic, that was considered
0:55.5	extinct after the island became a British crown dependency and with the incoming tourism and
1:00.5	immigration, but the island has a strong sense of culture and a fierce determination to bring it back,
1:05.5	with the language now classified as critically endangered. The island is brimming with culture and folklore, but also strange tales, like the one
1:14.4	that we're talking about today, the story of Jeff the talking mongoose.
1:20.0	And I know, what a significant turn of events going from Chris Chan and murder to a talking mongoose.
1:28.9	That's Red Thread, baby.
1:30.3	That's what you can expect.
1:31.1	You get it all.
1:32.5	Expect the unexpected.
1:34.3	Nothing but facts.
1:37.6	Welcome to Red Thread, everyone.
1:39.4	I'm joined as per usual by my co-host, Jordan.
1:43.2	Good to have you here as well as head researcher at the
1:46.4	Red Thread Bureau of Talking Monkeys, I guess.
1:52.5	Whatever you would call us. I didn't know it was so specialised over there.
1:56.4	Yeah.
1:58.5	Joined by Kira, of course. I had researcher. Hello, Kira. Hello. Today, yep. It's what it says at the top. We're talking about a talking mongoose apparently, so I'm very excited to get into this one. We're a bit short on time today, so we're going to be... It's a good topic for today, actually, because it is quite a short not not Herculean effort like it was to go through
2:19.4	the previous two investigations like Christian being an eight year old yeah yeah yeah so this is
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