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Ready Mark? Yes, I am ready.

Sure you're ready. Yes, you're still typing your column. No, no, I'm just

talking my column. I'm just making notes for the

for the forthcoming show you work with notes.

Well, I, it's like revising for exams that if you write the things down,

then the act of writing them down puts them into your head. And so that's why you know,

when you're doing exam revision, you do exam, you do revision cards, not so you can take them in

and cheat from them, all I imagine. That may be something that, but because the writing on my hand,

that's not, that's not, that's not, that's not it, no, but because the act of writing it out

puts it into your, puts it into your head. And that's, that's what I do. That's why I think my system

for waking up and remembering things by writing them with my finger on the back of my head

actually works because you do what? I have, I have to mention this, so are we now in podcast

gold? Are we? Are we? Okay, if I want to wake up at six o'clock, I write the number six on

the back of my head. Or if I want to know that, that means you're one third of Damian,

Omen three by potatoes, I write potatoes on the back of my head with my finger.

But it's just the act of writing them down. How, sorry, how does writing the number six on the

back of your head wake you up at six o'clock? I think it must, exactly the same as you're just saying,

must put it in your head somewhere. No, but how does your mind know when it's six o'clock?

Are you the man with a clock in his walls? I'm like Jack Reacher, I can, I have an internal clock.

I can tell you, I don't know. So, okay, so you don't need an alarm clock. No, I mean, I wake

up stupidly early anyway. I just say it's a way of remembering things. If I want to say, by,

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