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UK slash 5 Live, where you'll also find out terms of use. Okay. Well, I'm starting this this podcast entirely on my own. Ah, Mark's actually just

wanted him. He's been he's been elsewhere. So I'll just pause and hello right I'd sort of given up waiting really because you weren't

I told you I wasn't have you started doing the podcast? Oh I see this is the comedy moment when Mark comes in late.

Yeah, how was it with Jeremy? Oh he was great. He was great.

It's lovely to be in a studio with him because he's smart and intelligent and it's just like you know it's just

And he's the only other broadcaster in the world who wears a suit all the time he does and he said to say hello to you

So I said hello.

So you would give it your this is uh...

Jeremy has this sort of like philosophy strand

what makes us human.

Yeah.

And I'm sure that I manage to sufficiently lower the tone. Yeah, and in, can you sort of sub it down to a couple of centers? What in essence is it that makes us human?

Scary films. Now, I was talking about, um, about there being something very human about liking scary stories.

That was what it was, basically.

I was just justifying my existence by saying that thing that I like doing, that.

That appears to be how that spot works it was

back to your PhD basically then was it well yeah and then well as you know

nothing's changed in all these it's a bit it was yes it was just me

talking about scary the thing that came up which it comes up again is if you're a horror

fan people do do that thing of saying to you well why do you like scary films as if like liking them is completely weird and nuts but it isn't it's just like you know you either do or you don't

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