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[00:00:00] And have you noticed now when you go into shops in this country, we're supposed to take our bags for life.
[00:00:04] I keep forgetting they're on the hook on the back of the kitchen door.
[00:00:07] I do the same.
[00:00:08] When you buy your 5p carrier bag, each one now comes with a look of disdain.
[00:00:14] The Letter W
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[00:00:37] you can go to Thicktionary.com. All right I called you, Paul Gannon, Wombling.
[00:00:42] So I'm going to go ahead and guess that it's got something to do with the Wombles.
[00:00:47] Is it that I like to pick up litter?
[00:00:49] Womble in this case, belt W-A-M-B-L-E. The verb to Womble is the noise given to a rumbling
[00:00:56] stomach. All right that's fair enough. What's that coming over the hill is it Paul Gannon?
[00:01:02] Yeah it very likely is.
[00:01:03] It's also to move unsteadily or to feel nausea. The Orangins of Womble, W-A-M-B-L-E. I
[00:01:09] suppose you could say Wamble but I'm pretty sure it's Womble.
[00:01:12] Please say Womble, I like it.
[00:01:13] It comes from around the 131350, comes from an obscure Norwegian word,
[00:01:18] Wambler meaning to stagger. It's an uncommon surname, Wamble but it does exist.
[00:01:22] Yeah.
[00:01:23] It's also recorded as Twemmler and Twamly. The Wamble coat of arms features a knight,
[00:01:27] a yellow chevron and three squirrels.
[00:01:30] Excellent, that's the kind of shield I can get behind.
[00:01:33] Well it's funny you say that actually because the Gannon coat of arms is very similar.
[00:01:36] Is it?
[00:01:37] But you've got three lions.
[00:01:38] Well that's all right, I mean I honestly would prefer the squirrels, I think that's much more me.
[00:01:43] Yeah you've got those lazy cricket lions, yeah to really stretch down.
[00:01:47] The ones that have the kind of one arm stretched back, one crunched.
[00:01:50] Yeah that's you man. Yeah poised to attack. Anyway that is the verb to Wamble.
[00:01:54] Well I just picked Wunderkind because it was clever to be a W word but say it with a V.
[00:01:58] I mean really that's all it came down to. If you don't know what it means,
[00:02:01] it means a person who achieves great success when relatively young.
[00:02:05] Would you say that was true? Would you say you peaked in your 20s?
[00:02:07] I kind of did actually. The biggest radio station I ever worked on was when I was 20 years old.
[00:02:13] Yeah.
[00:02:13] It's been sort of sideways slash downhill slash a bit ups.
[00:02:17] So that ski my career is like ski Sunday.
[00:02:19] Okay yeah.
[00:02:19] Basically.
[00:02:20] With the same theme to you.
[00:02:21] But I'm poised to go back to the top any minute like a cold spring just you wait.
[00:02:25] You wait it's like a jack-in-the-box.
[00:02:27] Curfewr cranking that dial and eventually bam you're there.
[00:02:30] So Wunderkind is a natural German word.
[00:02:32] Yeah and I was thinking of other Wunderkinds.
[00:02:34] Peter Cook's probably one peaked in his mid 20s when he was writing you know
[00:02:38] Beyond the Fringe and for Kenneth Williams and things like that.
[00:02:41] Chesney Hawks.
[00:02:42] Chesney Hawks exploded bros.
[00:02:45] I mean we're looking at geniuses they lit they burnt too brightly.
[00:02:49] Kelly Brook.
[00:02:50] Don't know.
[00:02:51] I'm not spoken to her.
[00:02:52] I don't know what she's up to.
[00:02:53] I think she's working in a Walmart right now.
[00:02:57] And this is the Wifwaf podcast.
[00:02:58] Wifwaf in the 1880s was a sport.
[00:03:02] It's like tennis.
[00:03:03] Like table tennis.
[00:03:04] Okay.
[00:03:05] Before table tennis got onto bats and rackets and things like that and paddles.
[00:03:08] They were using cues.
[00:03:10] That's strange to me because that wouldn't make the Wifwaf sound.
[00:03:13] I presume no the name he comes from.
[00:03:15] So the Wifwaf name comes right at the end of the whole process.
[00:03:18] Oh.
[00:03:18] Wifwaf is essentially table tennis which started off with cues.
[00:03:22] Bats came in around 1890.
[00:03:24] If you're looking for an illustration go to the Christmas advert for Jacques and Son.
[00:03:29] They're promoting an exciting new version of table tennis called Gossamer.
[00:03:32] Wow.
[00:03:33] Which would eventually fold into Ping Pong which is a registered trademark of Hamley Brothers in 1900.
[00:03:38] Then a couple of months later Slasinger went this Ping Pong slash table tennis thing
[00:03:43] got slash Gossamer thing is going crazy.
[00:03:46] We totally have to jump on the bandwagon.
[00:03:48] But as companies do they go but we need our own name for it.
[00:03:51] Right.
[00:03:51] So Slasinger registered as a trademark Wifwaf.
[00:03:55] Did it take them all of two minutes to come up with that?
[00:03:58] Yes they took the Wif, the gust of wind generated from the swift wave of a hand
[00:04:02] and the Waf coming from the Scottish word to Wafd.
[00:04:06] Obviously.
[00:04:06] So pretty easy.
[00:04:08] Well this is a thing if they're going to just name sports after onomatopoeic sound
[00:04:11] and you've got Wifwaf Ping Pong I'm surprised football wasn't called Biffbuff.
[00:04:15] Ding dong.
[00:04:17] That's a knocked around ginger whatever you call it.
[00:04:19] And Boris Johnson famously quoted Wifwaf in his Olympic speech back in 2012.
[00:04:24] Right.
[00:04:24] But Wifwaf came after Ping Pong which came after the name Table Tennis.
[00:04:28] You think he was talking about riffraff but got a list on that particular speech?
[00:04:31] I think so yes.
[00:04:32] Yes.
[00:04:33] Time for this week's word workout on the dictionary we are doing the letter W.
[00:04:38] It's an anagram of a band Paul Gannon and everyone listening at home yeah you just
[00:04:42] swig on your coffee.
[00:04:43] I'm very dry throated today.
[00:04:44] What is it?
[00:04:44] Larte?
[00:04:45] Yeah of course it always is.
[00:04:47] Your anagram of a band Wail, W-H-A-L-E, tyres, T-I-R-E-S.
[00:04:53] It's a band.
[00:04:54] Okay.
[00:04:54] Wail tyres.
[00:04:55] Wail, that could be the name of a band for all I know in itself.
[00:04:58] Probably is it probably will be in the future.
[00:05:00] Here we go.
[00:05:01] Hey fancy a game?
[00:05:03] Fancy a W game?
[00:05:04] Oh right then.
[00:05:05] Wicked.
[00:05:06] The game is What's In A Name.
[00:05:11] These are people who go by their middle name rather than their forename.
[00:05:14] Okay.
[00:05:14] And the addition of a middle name became common amongst royalty and aristocracy
[00:05:18] around about the 17th century.
[00:05:20] So before that they were just called one, two, oi, little.
[00:05:24] That's a very strange name to have.
[00:05:26] Short.
[00:05:27] Yeah.
[00:05:28] Brad Pitt what was his original first name?
[00:05:29] Became the W.
[00:05:31] Whalen.
[00:05:32] Is incorrect William.
[00:05:34] So close.
[00:05:34] William Bradley Pitt.
[00:05:35] Number two.
[00:05:36] Will Ferrell had a different first name that began with J.
[00:05:39] What was it?
[00:05:40] It did be the J.
[00:05:42] James.
[00:05:42] Incorrect John.
[00:05:44] Walter Willis is better known as who?
[00:05:47] John.
[00:05:47] Bruce Willis.
[00:05:48] Oh balls.
[00:05:51] Warren Beatty first name original first name beginning with an H.
[00:05:55] Humperdink.
[00:05:55] Henry Beatty.
[00:05:57] You can see kind of why he changed it.
[00:05:59] I can see why he changed it.
[00:05:59] Because I think that is a word.
[00:06:01] Henry Beatty.
[00:06:02] Yeah Henry Beatty.
[00:06:03] It's the act of making love to small animals.
[00:06:06] And finally, Awesome Wells surname Wells with a W first name for Awesome Wells.
[00:06:10] Was Jacob.
[00:06:11] Incorrect George.
[00:06:13] Oh so close.
[00:06:13] I didn't give you the letter so reasonably close.
[00:06:15] Poor guy didn't you scored zero slash five.
[00:06:17] Possibly my best today.
[00:06:23] Time for this week's big four words on the dictionary.
[00:06:25] If you enjoy these and you've got a future word for a future episode,
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[00:06:34] Number one.
[00:06:35] Here we go.
[00:06:37] You might run out of the studio when I do this.
[00:06:39] Go on.
[00:06:40] Weather.
[00:06:42] Yeah I'm going to get my coat.
[00:06:44] I'm leaving.
[00:06:46] I'm doing a fake haircut.
[00:06:46] Do you remember that though?
[00:06:48] Yeah I do remember the Budweiser.
[00:06:50] What's up?
[00:06:50] What's up?
[00:06:53] Contender for the most annoying phrase of all time.
[00:06:56] I would argue that the Budweiser commercial was the last viral commercial
[00:07:00] of the non-internet era.
[00:07:02] If you think about it, 99 till like 2003.
[00:07:04] I would agree with that yeah.
[00:07:05] I don't think much came after that.
[00:07:07] It was first coined the phrase Waddaap
[00:07:09] in a short film called True
[00:07:11] that featured Charleston the third
[00:07:13] and his childhood friends Fred Thomas, Paul Williams, Terry Williams
[00:07:16] and Kevin Lofton.
[00:07:17] Then a guy works for an ad agency,
[00:07:20] saw it and went oh this would be Wickey for Budweiser.
[00:07:23] Was he a white man?
[00:07:24] I don't know it doesn't say.
[00:07:25] I'm going to go and presume he's a white man in marketing.
[00:07:27] Wikipedia does not say that he was a white man.
[00:07:30] Anyway so he took you to Anheuser Bush who owned Budweiser.
[00:07:32] They went love it.
[00:07:33] They went back to the guy and one of his friends said he didn't want to be in it
[00:07:36] so they just cast another guy.
[00:07:38] That guy was Scott Martin Brooks.
[00:07:40] You go on the computer.
[00:07:41] Was the stand-in?
[00:07:43] Right for the guy who said I'm not going to go down with the corporate machine.
[00:07:46] You know and I don't know but you have to wonder when someone turns down a lot of money to be famous
[00:07:50] if there's plenty to hide.
[00:07:51] Like he's had a bit of a suspicious history.
[00:07:54] I just don't know but it must have got you know what fame.
[00:07:56] No it's not for me.
[00:07:57] Is this profiling Damien?
[00:07:59] I'm interested.
[00:08:00] No, I'm not.
[00:08:01] This is profiling.
[00:08:03] Hi, voice getting higher.
[00:08:04] So yeah one of the most popular viral videos of all time before the internet.
[00:08:08] Waddaap.
[00:08:09] Right my w-word is Wabbit.
[00:08:13] Oh I see what you've done man.
[00:08:14] See what I did there?
[00:08:15] You've gone for another speech impediment one.
[00:08:17] Kind of basically yes but I did pick Wabbit because I was going to think
[00:08:20] Elmer Thud get into talking about that because I'm a big fan.
[00:08:23] But also I found that it's a Scottish term.
[00:08:24] Originally in the late 19th century of unknown origin but used in Scottish parlance
[00:08:28] it also means exhausted or slightly unwell.
[00:08:32] So you could say I'm feeling rather Wabbit today.
[00:08:36] So I could say to you I could ring you up while you're on your couch and I could go
[00:08:39] What's up?
[00:08:40] What's up?
[00:08:41] And you could go Wabbit.
[00:08:45] It's like the worst Chas and Dave song ever.
[00:08:47] Perfect.
[00:08:49] But also Bugs Bunny obviously used what's called a waskilly Wabbit by Elmer Thud
[00:08:52] and I went into the history of Elmer Thud and it's a fascinating character
[00:08:55] because it originally created by Tex Avery in 1937
[00:08:59] and the character was then known as Egghead
[00:09:01] and it wasn't until he was teamed up with Warner Brothers' brand new
[00:09:04] Looney Tunes star at the time, Daffy Duck
[00:09:06] that he was finally named.
[00:09:08] He rides into this episode with a little moped kind of thing
[00:09:10] with the words Elmer Thud, peacemaker.
[00:09:13] And in those episodes he was like a goodie, a kind of weird goodie
[00:09:16] and all you wanted to do was take pictures of Daffy Duck or the rabbit or adopt them.
[00:09:20] That's weird.
[00:09:20] Like anyone that turns up with a camera and starts taking pictures of people, strange.
[00:09:24] But that was his character initially and then it was only when
[00:09:28] he was paired off in 1931,
[00:09:30] a 1941 Bugs Bunny cartoon, Elmer's Pet Rabbit
[00:09:33] that they started to get both characters right because
[00:09:36] Roger Rabbit, not Roger Rabbit.
[00:09:37] Bugs Bunny.
[00:09:38] Because Bugs Bunny began to get the affectations of the
[00:09:40] What's Up Dark and the phrase like that and then they became...
[00:09:43] So originally they weren't supposed to be paired together
[00:09:46] but he just kind of was brought into the fold
[00:09:48] and then they realised that Bugs needed a foil.
[00:09:50] Rather than someone who was a bit dotty and a bit kind of just keen
[00:09:53] to have a rabbit-fick picture,
[00:09:54] he needs to be more of a kind of villain.
[00:09:56] And so obviously that led to the famous hunting season trilogy of cartoons,
[00:10:00] rabbit season duck season, rabbit season, that whole kind of thing.
[00:10:03] And then the Oscar-winning, I think it was called What's Up Dark
[00:10:06] or the one basically that's the opera one that they did.
[00:10:08] And it became legend.
[00:10:10] But then I looked into the speech
[00:10:12] and I found out that there's actually rules for how Elmer Fudd would speak.
[00:10:14] So he always vocalises consonants R and L, pronounced them as W instead.
[00:10:19] For example...
[00:10:20] My, that really was a da wishes wegg of wham!
[00:10:24] That script writer would never get any work with Jonathan Ross.
[00:10:28] No, it all forms itself.
[00:10:29] So yeah basically Elmer Fudd then basically and they call it as well.
[00:10:33] Robin Williams said that he when he gets his R and his L switched around
[00:10:37] he would call it the Fudd Syndrome.
[00:10:39] Oh who? Robin Williams?
[00:10:40] Robin Williams, yeah.
[00:10:41] And I'll leave you with this interesting story about Mel Blank.
[00:10:44] Mel Blank was in a horrible car accident, I think in the 60s or 70s.
[00:10:47] A horrible car accident.
[00:10:48] A horrible car accident.
[00:10:51] And he was in a coma for a very long time
[00:10:54] and they didn't know if he was ever going to come out of it.
[00:10:55] A very long time.
[00:10:56] A very long time.
[00:10:57] This is really insensitive.
[00:10:58] This is really insensitive but he's dead now and it's been a long time passed.
[00:11:01] And they tried everything to get him to engage, to kind of you know wake him out of it.
[00:11:05] And then one day a doctor just walked in and went
[00:11:06] I'm gonna try something really different.
[00:11:07] And he went bugs how are ya?
[00:11:09] And I liked that Mel Blank went...
[00:11:10] Err, what's up doc?
[00:11:13] No.
[00:11:13] Seriously and then he would only speak in his characters because they believed.
[00:11:17] At that point in his career he'd done those voices for so long
[00:11:19] they had muscle memory.
[00:11:20] Yeah.
[00:11:21] When it comes to doing those voices or if he engaged him as
[00:11:23] Bugs Bunny in the recording studio he just suddenly turned it on.
[00:11:26] That's so interesting.
[00:11:26] Like you see interviews with the cast of The Walking Dead which is on Break Now
[00:11:31] and they've all changed their accents.
[00:11:33] There's an Australian woman that works on the show, she sounds American.
[00:11:36] Yeah.
[00:11:37] There's a dude that plays Rick Grimes who we know is a dude from...
[00:11:40] Egg.
[00:11:40] Love Actually and that life.
[00:11:42] And Andrew Lincoln.
[00:11:43] Lincoln!
[00:11:44] There ya go.
[00:11:44] I knew it was sausage based.
[00:11:45] He sounds American now.
[00:11:46] Like Hugh Frye.
[00:11:47] Hugh Frye.
[00:11:48] Hugh Laurie.
[00:11:49] F***!
[00:11:49] We've got mental foot syndrome.
[00:11:53] We're getting off surnames and names mixed up.
[00:11:56] Hugh Laurie does the same thing now.
[00:11:57] Sounds fully American.
[00:11:59] Fascinating stuff.
[00:12:00] Thanks Paul Gannon.
[00:12:00] Always.
[00:12:01] Good common knowledge as well.
[00:12:02] I have fully my second word, witches knickers.
[00:12:06] Yes.
[00:12:07] You've been to America and to Scotland.
[00:12:09] Aye.
[00:12:10] And I'm going to take you to Ireland Sunshine.
[00:12:11] Here we go.
[00:12:12] Witches knickers.
[00:12:13] An Irish phrase used to describe plastic bags caught in tree branches.
[00:12:16] Oh that's a cool most kind of beautiful.
[00:12:18] Like a beautiful scene from American Beauty.
[00:12:20] Yeah.
[00:12:21] But they're just standing there looking at a plastic bag in a tree go and it's so beautiful.
[00:12:23] That was the inspiration really.
[00:12:25] Other similar names for witches knickers include urban tumbleweed,
[00:12:30] bag hawks and landfill snowbirds.
[00:12:32] That's a bit convoluted.
[00:12:33] I do like the urban tumbleweeds.
[00:12:36] Yeah.
[00:12:36] Oh I can't even say it when you repeat it back to me.
[00:12:37] Humble tumbleweeds.
[00:12:38] Humble tumbleweeds.
[00:12:39] Wow.
[00:12:40] We've got...
[00:12:41] Isn't this karma for taking the mick out of Mel Blank?
[00:12:43] That's what it is.
[00:12:44] We apologise.
[00:12:45] Can we have our voices back please?
[00:12:47] Plastic caribags make up 2% of litter on the streets.
[00:12:50] In 2002, Bangladesh banned plastic bags threatening to find anyone that was caught using one.
[00:12:56] Oh.
[00:12:57] Because in India it's a dump.
[00:12:59] Large parts of it and I don't mean this...
[00:13:01] I live in the western world where everything's really nice right?
[00:13:04] They've got no bins whatsoever.
[00:13:06] That's like Egypt doesn't it?
[00:13:07] You see these pictures of the pyramids but then they say if you pulled the camera back a bit
[00:13:09] further you'd see just all the trash.
[00:13:11] When I went to Egypt we took a bus from Cairo airport to the pyramids
[00:13:16] and the guy was like do you want the cheap tour or the expensive tour?
[00:13:20] And we said to him what's the difference?
[00:13:21] He went well the expensive tour cuts out all the slums.
[00:13:25] It won't make you feel bad about your life.
[00:13:26] And we went, cheap's fine because it was air conditioned and we didn't want to get out.
[00:13:31] Yeah Bangladesh did a carry bag ban in the northern Indian state of
[00:13:34] Himachal Pradesh.
[00:13:36] You can be jailed for seven years for using a plastic bag.
[00:13:39] They're also banned in South Africa, Rwanda, China, Australia and Italy.
[00:13:43] Mod Brean Devon became the first town in Britain to be plastic bag free in 2007.
[00:13:48] Oh I did not know that.
[00:13:50] And have you noticed now when you go into shops in this country
[00:13:52] we're supposed to take our bags for life?
[00:13:54] Yeah.
[00:13:54] I keep forgetting and then on the hook on the back of the kitchen door.
[00:13:57] I do the same.
[00:13:58] They when you buy your 5p carrier bag each one now comes with a look of disdain.
[00:14:03] You're right I've gotten that as well.
[00:14:04] Yeah.
[00:14:05] It's like it's like you've stolen something almost you know it's got that whole kind
[00:14:08] of we know what you're doing.
[00:14:09] I put my massive basket no euphemism intended on the side of go.
[00:14:13] Can I have a couple of bags please?
[00:14:14] Yeah if you want.
[00:14:15] I have so many bags for life by this logic I should be immortal.
[00:14:18] Why couldn't you bring your own ones?
[00:14:20] They've got to ruin the environment for it.
[00:14:21] I see all of that in their eyes.
[00:14:22] Yeah all that disdain.
[00:14:24] So yeah next time you see a orange Sainsbury's carry bag
[00:14:27] trapped in the branches and the blossom of a tree
[00:14:30] you are staring at a pair of witches knickers.
[00:14:33] Right so the next word I have for you,
[00:14:35] woof-its.
[00:14:36] Wow isn't that a great word?
[00:14:38] Pulled out some great words today.
[00:14:40] The origin is unknown it's now 19th century the meaning is and this is what is so delightful
[00:14:46] about it the meaning of woof-its is an ill feeling or depression one citation says that this
[00:14:51] can also lead to woof-its being a dreaded disease that comes from the overeating and
[00:14:56] under drinking of one's previous night or as a tree phrase I don't know what that means
[00:15:01] I'm always overeating and over drinking.
[00:15:03] Yeah well they also say the other phrase is the ailment that comes with the morning
[00:15:07] after the night before.
[00:15:09] So it's a hangover so an old fashioned term for a hangover.
[00:15:11] It's basically an old fashioned term for a hangover.
[00:15:13] Oh I got the woof-its.
[00:15:13] I got the woof-its real bad.
[00:15:16] Come on let's bring that word back.
[00:15:17] Woof-its needs to happen we've got to get woof-its on the go.
[00:15:20] But then I was thinking come on there must be some you know it's been used somewhere
[00:15:23] or you know in a book or whatever and I find that that was right but not the book I was
[00:15:27] thinking of apparently.
[00:15:28] Is it the bible?
[00:15:29] No oh god Jesus had the woof-its.
[00:15:32] He said if this doth be the last night on earth I will go out with a case of the woof-its.
[00:15:37] Yeah and commandment number 10 thou shalt not woof-it.
[00:15:42] Anyway no the 11th one that they kind of cut out.
[00:15:45] So no woof-its I did find in a book form but it was a kids series of books written by Michael
[00:15:50] Parkinson.
[00:15:50] Beautiful.
[00:15:51] He wrote a bunch of books called the woof-its.
[00:15:53] They featured a bunch of anthropomorphic dog-like creatures who lived in a fictional
[00:15:57] Yorkshire coal mining village of Grimeworth.
[00:16:00] The four original books published by Michael Parkinson were called and again
[00:16:04] only Michael Parkinson would have come up with these titles.
[00:16:06] The woof-its day out.
[00:16:07] The woof-its play cricket.
[00:16:09] The woof-its play football and the daily woof-it.
[00:16:11] Is correct I just checked all these on the internet.
[00:16:14] And it was turned into a TV series.
[00:16:16] No chance of you missing the woof-its though because here they are and today
[00:16:19] they're going to do something you've got to do soon spring cleaning.
[00:16:28] They all lived in a terraced houses on Grimeworth street at number eight lived
[00:16:32] Grandpa Ironside which is a great name and Grandma Emily they were the heads of the family.
[00:16:37] At number 10 Uncle Atherstone he's a miner, gardener, band leader of the Grimeworth Collie
[00:16:42] brass band.
[00:16:43] Uncle Gaylord at this point he's trolling right.
[00:16:46] Atherstone's brother a football pool's winner who considers himself posh.
[00:16:51] And at number 12 there's John Willi Woof-It.
[00:16:54] Oh sorry son of the Ironside and coal miner and played the trombone the
[00:16:58] brass band.
[00:16:59] La-Lavina, wife of John Willi.
[00:17:01] Elton, son of La-Lavina and John Willi dreamed of being a pop star.
[00:17:05] Angela, sister of Elton had ambitions to be a TV news reader and the dog Gershwin.
[00:17:11] And there was also a few other there was Clough Woof-It,
[00:17:13] manager of the football team.
[00:17:15] Sergeant Cox and there was a cop called uh no not a cop he was an editor of the
[00:17:19] daily woof-it called Baskerville Woof-It.
[00:17:21] You know what they say about introducing too many characters at once?
[00:17:24] Yeah.
[00:17:24] I would suggest that has led to the downfall of the woof-its.
[00:17:27] But he must have said to Parker's that he went you want to write some books make him the most
[00:17:31] northern books you can possibly and he just went to town on it.
[00:17:34] Yeah.
[00:17:34] He really did excel.
[00:17:36] Hey here comes the results of your word workout today an anagram of a band beginning with W.
[00:17:42] 30 seconds on the clock for Paul Gannon and everyone at home Whale Tires W-H-A-L-E-T-I-R-E-S begins now.
[00:17:59] I'm struggling with this one.
[00:18:00] Whale Tires is a band.
[00:18:03] Truly famous band.
[00:18:05] You've probably heard them in the last month.
[00:18:09] Oh that's depressing and then the month before that and then the month before that.
[00:18:12] Because okay so and the year before that and the decade before that oh the decade five seconds
[00:18:17] how long how far back are they go are we going with this band you either know it 90s
[00:18:22] the answer is be witch no that doesn't be given are you got me excited to hear
[00:18:26] say lovee then for the first time in years Whale Tires come on man.
[00:18:38] Why don't I know this I was going to say Westlife and then I was going to say wheat us.
[00:18:44] No woman no cry.
[00:18:46] The whalers yeah it's okay fair enough I got thrown because I thought it's going to be
[00:18:50] because theoretically if it begins with a T because it's the whalers if you're gonna
[00:18:55] whalers like the Beatles do you say become a the B all right it's fine I can see that I
[00:18:59] didn't get it right without a lot of help so I didn't win this on my own I had a lot of help
[00:19:03] so thank you. Yeah the whalers Bob Marley's band originally formed together with Peter Tosh
[00:19:08] not real name and Bunny Whaler back in 1963 throughout the year several other singers
[00:19:13] and musicians joined and at their peak they had 19 members in total that would tour the world including
[00:19:19] seven times in England. Wow obviously Bob Marley passed away 1981 on a plane he was supposed to
[00:19:24] be flying back to Jamaica and had to stop off in Miami yeah where he died. Well did he die of
[00:19:29] actually I don't know this story. Cancer oh so it wasn't like anything no it was under his toe
[00:19:34] nail and because he's rastafarian he refused all medical treatment and then he had some
[00:19:39] sort of herbal remedies and okay dietary things and it just got it just spread to his lungs and
[00:19:43] everywhere. Oh balls. There are now only two surviving members of the whalers but fun fact for
[00:19:48] you Bob Marley once appeared on Top Gear. Really? Bob Marley was once on Top Gear. Wow not the
[00:19:56] car show but the preceding BBC light program on the radio in the 60s. Oh okay you alright
[00:20:03] fair enough. Called Top Gear. So I was thinking he couldn't really have done the
[00:20:06] star on a reasonably priced car. He went the stick going around the track. Yeah Bob it's
[00:20:13] taking you six hours is an olf. I'm just jamming. One down the window. Jimi Hendrix
[00:20:19] free the Beatles the Who, Dusty Springfield Led Zeppelin the Kinks and Man For Man also
[00:20:23] appeared on that show Top Gear. Of course there's two of them still performing including
[00:20:27] Bunny Whaler your anagram today Whale Tires the Whalers. And I'll do it for this week's episode
[00:20:32] of The Fictionary thanks so much for hanging out. I'm glad we all got to the end in one piece.
[00:20:36] I think this episode of The Fictionary Paul Gannon has been whip cat. Oh I like that. I'm
[00:20:43] prone to say this episode was rather withering. And I would suggest it might be a bit of William
[00:20:47] Priest. So William Priest was the chief engineer at the British Post Office who said in 1878
[00:20:54] oh those Americans have need of a telephone but we don't we've got plenty of messenger boys.
[00:20:59] Oh. Twiddles must off. Yeah. Little did he know the world would turn into one giant spam folder.
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