Show Us Your Onions
4/8/202659 min
The Moon landings. The fall of the Berlin Wall. The conviction of Al Capone. Everyone remembers exactly where they were when the news broke of these landmark moments in history. Well get memorising your surroundings people because it’s about to happen again. That’s right. None of your common-or-garden bean-machine-spewed topics this week. Oh no. Prepare to drink in a world first and please welcome the inaugural episode of a podcast format that takes The Rule Book, tears it to shreds then pickles it to prevent spoilage in case it turns out we need it later after all - it...
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First 90 secondsBenjamin Partridge· Host0:00
[upbeat music] Greetings.
Henry Paker· Host0:10
Hello, everyone. Hello, everybody.
Benjamin Partridge· Host0:11
Hello.
Henry Paker· Host0:13
Welcome back. You seem unsure about that. Well, I don't know if that's the right thing to say.
Benjamin Partridge· Host0:18
[laughs] They could be listening for the first time.
Henry Paker· Host0:20
Yes.
Benjamin Partridge· Host0:20
In which case- Welcome ... welcome.
Henry Paker· Host0:22
Welcome. Yes. Very welcome. Or they might be listening for the last time. They might know this is the last one they ever wanna hear. [laughs] They're giving it one last rodeo, in which case goodbye. Farewell.
Benjamin Partridge· Host0:29
They could be on, um, a one-way NASA mission into the sun.
Henry Paker· Host0:33
Yes. What would that achieve I wonder from NASA- I don't know.
Benjamin Partridge· Host0:37
It's the kind of thing that happens in films, isn't it?
Henry Paker· Host0:39
Yeah, yeah.
Benjamin Partridge· Host0:39
It's like, "We have to send, we've gotta send one man into the center of the sun."
Henry Paker· Host0:42
To save his daughter. [laughs] It's al- it's always his d- a daughter. "You're the best roofer in Hertfordshire."
Benjamin Partridge· Host0:48
Yes.
Henry Paker· Host0:49
"You're the only man for the job." [laughs] "The one skill we don't have is re- retiling r- roofs."
Benjamin Partridge· Host0:55
"We need to put a roof on the sun." [laughs] "And we know that you managed to roof quite a, quite a challenging primary school."
Henry Paker· Host1:01
[laughs] "During some inclement weather."
Benjamin Partridge· Host1:03
[laughs] "Oh, my God, we can't fit enough felt batons on the ship."
Henry Paker· Host1:08
[laughs] Is that a thing, a felt baton? I don't think it is. I don't know. I don't know. That's why, but that's why they need the roofer.
Benjamin Partridge· Host1:14
"Hey, what's that? We can't... W- what? What's that? The roofer isn't available for the launch date because he's doing another job?"
Henry Paker· Host1:19
[laughs] He's got three different jobs on the go.
Benjamin Partridge· Host1:22
What the...
Henry Paker· Host1:22
[laughs] And he's having difficulty coordinating with a scaffolder. [laughs] [laughs] "The scaffolding, the scaffold is in Marbella.