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I'm in a hermetically sealed room with no windows. I'm presuming it hasn't suddenly started raining or snowing outside. It still hot, is it out there we S we do the phone in on that? Is it still hot? No, don't step away from the phone I need it. all right Be it's Mist hour, which is historically often but not always the busiest part of the week. It is your opportunity to achieve the sort of satisfaction not ordinarily available anywhere else on your radio and indeed to get answers to the questions that have been bugging, puzzling plaguing you for the longest time The who's, the why, the what, the wherefores, even the occasional Wither That's how it works. Someone rings in with a question, someone else rings in with an answer. but somehow Was it last week things went bong? Last week was vintage? was it I mean, most weeks are vintage if we're honest. We're doing it so long now. We seem to have found our rhythms together, don't we? But wasas it last week or the week before that was just hysterically funny Nothing to do with me. It was at the mouse last week that I watched that clip, but you know I never watched my own clips Even I'm not that egotistical. But that that is up there for me at the moment. Be in I am laughing so much in this. You know when something just gets you I always used to site And this is quite niche because you didn't go to a school like mine Um Breaking wind in Chapel So if you're in church, a chapel is small, right? So your housemaster is a monk And he is serving mass. and the only people in the room, which is smaller than this studio, are your closest mates, the twelve or thirteen people who you have literally lived with since the age of thirteen, you've slept in the same room. you've played in the same rugby team. You've gone to the same cl, you sat in the same classrooms. are you couldn't be tighter as a group of people And you're in this room with a man you don't like very much. You are as thick as thieves. And you're in a tiny room with a priest who's also your housemaster and a hate figure and one of you lets her it. the most extraordinary gof And that laughter there. I used to think was unique and because you're trying to hold it in You have to try and you can't meet anyone's eye and everyone is sort of going and that noise and he knows what's going on, but he's a priest in the middle of a mass so he can't break off to tell us off. down the chalice and give one of us a slap or anything like that that would be frowned upon. At least it was by that time in history a few years before, it probably would have been to Rigur. and that so something about infectious laughter Blokke rang in last week to ask about the mouse that kept coming back to his house. It inevitably turned out to actually be right and I was wrong to mock him, but something happened in the course of that conversation Just set meal And I watched it back. I don't even know if we clipped it up, did we? I don't think LBC even clipped it up. Someone else clipped it up from the YouTube thing that you can usually enjoy shortly after we come off out. And I watched it back. One of my kids brought it to me to show me justust I just laughed andgh and it works. It works like that guy Goma clip. is it actually sets you off again and it makes you feel better than you did before you watched it. It was extraordinary and I didn't even send him the game I can't even remember why. U Anyway, none of that's got anything to do with what happens next. It's eight minutes after twelve and Mystery hour is upon us U Matt's in Manchester. Matt, question or answer Hey up, James. it's still pretty sunny up here. He up, Matt. That's the last hour. That was the last h. sorry, sorry. I have a question. Carry on I'd like to know how the ice cream man or the ice cream seeller in a van, how they decide what their route's going to be because you only see one ice cream van around each sort of neighborhood, but Like do they sort of go onto each other's patch or like how historically It got quite tasty. It was quite, I mean, there were, I think ice cream walls It would it would you would protect your patch quite Robustly, I think historically, I can't have imagined this, can I? Right. Exactly. So I'm thinking that There has to be some kind of organization between them all or ice cream van guild or something that you know sets out who goes where to avoid. So you don't mean a pitch, you mean a patch because a pitch will involve probably paying or my friend Enzo has a pitch in the car park at the Hillias Garden Center in Isisleworth and you know no one else can just come and park next to him and start knocking out strawberry movies. It's obviously an established business arrangement, but a patch when you drive around, stick green sleeves on, park up on one road, flog a few lollies and then you know move on, shut up and move on to another to another wr. Yeah, I like that. Do they still I mean this is going to make me sound very London centric. they still a thing I have Z Zach goes around my By street He does and you listen, you hear the music and your dad and your dad says, Oh, he only plays the music when he's sold out, son Yeah, no, I could hear in and I kind of know How close it is It kind of circles around. You can hear it getting louder and louder and louder. then I hear it come down my street and get a little bit of excitement when he's there, butm Yeah, we had it in Kiddy when I was growing up and for some reason I always remember it. My godmother's in Stockport. in Badbury Green, ice cream vand there. So yeah, and there must be loads of patches that aren't. Exploited. So how do they decide? How does an ice cream man decide A, what patch he wants, what his patch is going to be And B, how can he be confident that he's not going to be turning up ten minutes after someone else has just done a load of ice creams? I like that question. zero three four five sixzero six zero nine seven three. We stayed in the North as well, although I don't think this is true from Helen who texted me to say, I go on holiday to Barnley James Really, Helen? I think you might be yanking my chain Nigel is in Box Hill, Nigel, question or answer It's a question, James. Good morning. Good morning. Yes. Sorry about your tennis, by the way. There are someere. There. They'll be breathing a sigh of relief, my opponent You might have to go to the pub instead. There's always an option My question is, James, how is it that dogs are able to run through a wooded area like light And ofvoid that all the trees and the stumps and all of it. I was out walking the doors early with my daughter this morning up at Bx Hill. Wealled two of them and they came literally like lightning through every. It was two days running. I've had to correct someone for using the word literally. It was not literally like lightning. It was literally like lightning. It was not literally like lightning. It wasn't an electrical charge in the sky Okay. I had to draw a breath because I thought they were going to hit something miraculously, they never seem k it. And I think that some dogs do My dog would how they do it. My dog would. My dog would run headf into a tree. My dog once jumped into the canal because it was covered in green Algi and she thought and she thought it was ground. so she just jumped on it and we got to fish her out. bless her. She's not been near water since. I think she was traumatized by the whole experience. But that's not what you're asking about. So So they have got an almost sort of like those like the fighters in Star Wars. You remember the scene in Star Wars where they're going through Jed Yeah the Jedi' going the side Exactly that, exactly that Precisely what I was thinking of as you describe your lightning like dogs What breed are they Cockap poos. Are they?. So it's the poodle in them, the hunting dog in them Maybe the Spaniel hunting side, yeah, for sure. But the Poodle was a hunting dog originally as well So mine's half poodle as well. M mine's half poodle, but she's not built for She started getting wared. Did you know that Poodles get wed at a certain age No Well you've got that. you've got that. to look forward. You've got that to come. How about you' glad you rang in today And I haven't even started talking about Cobbler's Cream yet. that's coming up next. Nigel, you're on. How can dogs navigate their way through wooded areas so expertly and so quickly in a way that humans can't Oh three four five it must be something to do with their eyesight I'm not expecting any prizes for that observation, by the way. It's not likely to be radar, is it or sar. Ice crereams and dogs. What else are we going to get on the board today Luke's in Bromley, Luke, question or answ Jam is the question scientifically, why do we lovegh Make us laugh. As in as in the chemical reaction as it were O yes. I mean You know, and it can be a picture, it can be a smurf, can be somethingitt down it can be someone telling a joke You know, number of thing make us laugh. What is I don't think we know. I don't think we know Someone later. yeah, I mean, it's on the board. but I you know by coincidence, I saw a post on Blue skky this morning from a guy who is a very successful writer, a comedy writer. And he was talking about how they got called into an advertising agency in the nineties because the The guys in the advertising agencies thought they'd actually come up with a formula for comedy. with an equation that would deliver comedy and they were deploying it in some of the adverts that they made And obviously all the comedians that they brought in to regale with this discovery thought it was the stupidest thing they'd ever heard. because it's more like alchemy than chemistry. So we may not know if we knew thenen we'd be able to sort of trigger it, wouldn't we Yeah, And obviously you can suppress it because some people are just measurable and they don'tu much at all. So that's That's probably more down to the character and personality. but you we have the ability to laugh and look at little babies and things they laugh. They do laugh. So exactly what is going on actually scientifically when we laugh. I like that question. Oh three, four, five, six zero six zero nine seven three. I We haven't done the terms and coitions for the, but we haven't done the board game. One job, key Oonjo My favourite contribution of the week will win a board game or indeed in a tin. Last week's winner put a picture of himself on social media with the game in a tin The full terms and conditions for this competition are lbc. co. uk and you can find out more about the ball game at mysterhour. co. uk.Questions on the board at the moment involve the science of laughter, dogs running and Iice cream van patches Granger knows, when you're a procurement manager for an office park You're not managing one building, you're managing all of them. And to stay ahead, you need to see through walls and around corners Light's about to fail, filters ready to clog, H back on its last leg. If you wait until something breaks, you're already behind Count on Granger for quality products, easy reordering and twenty four seven support. Call one eight hundred Granger, clickranger. com or just stop by. Granger. For the ones who get it done It's twelve sevententy, Mreryr is aonit us. I've got two phone well at least one phone line freeero three four five six zero six zero nine seven three. and now for fans of alliteration, Brenda is in Bigleswade in Bedfordshire. That is Bigleswade, Bedfordshire, Brenda. Brenda, question or answer questions Carry on, Brenda. In Biggles Wade in Bedfordshire. Your fingernails and your toenails. Yes. Do they do they breathe? Sometimes if I put varnish on ye you put noail varnish on. Sometimes they feel claggy as soough they're They can't breathe. But whereere are you getting that sensation in your fingers Noes nails. Yeah, that's what I mean. they feel what, like muffled or something Yeah. So you think so you think normally there would be some sort of passage of air through them. and when you put the varnish on there isn't. Yes Oh, you know, I quite like that question I quite like that question. I mean, I don't know, is it dead material? It's Keratin, isn't it? your fingernails, I think I'm not sure. But I know sometimes if especially in this heat, sometimes I'll take varnish off my toes and then take Oh that's nice. Do you? Oh that's that Oh, that's nice Gainting a bit more circulation around my toes. Yeah which you want in nice weather. Don't tell anyone, Brenda that I'm wearing sandals. I'm wearing sandals in the studio today for the very first time. and between you and me, it was a mistake. Wh freezing. My feet are absolutely freezing what you could do? I asked Keith if I could borrow his socks, but he looked at me in a very disapproving fashion And there were socks and sandals, but in the studio. No one's going to see Oh they? No, but you could get what my husband's got. What's that then drives my two daughters aroundound the twist and he's got sock toosing Why because he s said they're comfortable. He's also got sandals that have got like toe posts in that he can wear with his socks with toes in. Good lord, there's a man who's prepared There's a man. As you got like five hundred liters of water in the cellar as well, just in case? Yeah P fifty pot noodles. don't I just wish I'd put socks on or brought some socks to her in the studio. I won't be doing this again. Anyway, Brenda, some nail varnish on on it. I was just thinking if I did put some nail varnish on, maybe it' warm them up a little bit. So did nails breathe Oh That's a lovely question. Oho three, four five six zero six zo nine, seven three. I had a little thought, Thankk you, Brenda So I came to work today in sandals and shorts I don't think I've done that before. I may have done shorts. I don't think I've done sandals before. And it set me thinking about my late father, which obviously I think about him a lot. but I don't think I ever saw my dad in shorts Thates I mean swimm or something like that he'd be in trunks, but he was of that generation. I hardly ever saw him not wearing a tie. Never under a pair of jeans I mean, the idea of coming to work in shorts and sandals. T a man of my father's generation and sensibilities would have been like turning up dressed as Ronald MacDonald or naked or something Just a little thought I had when I got in this morning and a s of colleague and they commented on my Very relaxed wardrobe today and I just look hard dad Dad would not really have appreciated this particular sutorial departure Claire' is in rugby Claire question or answer Oh question, please. Carry on Claire. Oh dear. Take your time, no rush. It ocurtsey me because I was on my it came on my feed with looking at YouTube. Oh yes. And there was different marches of military people. You've been looking up soldiers a lot on YouTube. Well you obviously have, madam, you obviously have. G on whatever. Anyway It came up and there's a competition or whatever. But so why and when did exaggerated marching like goose stepping happen? And why? I mean, you're only allowed one question. Oh, I know. it's of when and why isn't it so Yeah. So which one is which one is it going to be Because I think I know one of them? Oh, well, you say you choose then. I think I know why It looks so comical It does look comical, but I think it involves a sort of form of self hypnosis Do do that noise again?? Did you snort then nor me? Oh than goodness for that. I think it involves a form of self hypnosis. I think that they goose step and it sort of puts them in a A sort of semirance like state where they won't challenge your question any orders. That doesn't sound right now, I've said it out loud, doesn it? I mean, it obviously became fashionable at some point. I don't know if fashionable is the word I'd go with, but commonplace. I don't know if it was a fashionable thing to goost up. I think I don't think it was optional All right, you're on. So I'll let you have the win of it as well, because I've had a half try at the why. So when and why did soldiers start doing? And it's not just the Nazis. There are other that I think I've got a really exaggerated way of I think I've got an idea that there's Russian troops who were doing it long before the twentieth century. Corssacks. I could be wrong. anyyway. So what's it all about?zero three four five, six zero sixzero nine seven three. I like that question. Dan is in Brist or, Dan question or answer. Thereere's a question, please, James. Carry on, Dan. Nice to speak to you again. Likewise My last question to you was a confectionary based question. I've got another one. Oh good. It was a sol of vinear crisp and the green blue packaging question. beforees. Did we get answer from someone whose dad worked for Walkers's Crisps? You did. It was quite fantastic. It was fantastic, but I saw Gary that night, would you believe I know, I remember you saying this. It's quite amazing. And he't he didn't remember at all. So otherwise I'd have come back on air and shared it as a wonderful little post sccriptagical to a magical mystery hour moment. But Gary he in fact, he looked at me in a slightly pityingly way that you sometimes see him deploying in the television studio. When he still gets to Mika Richards And he said, I did meet quite a lot of people when I was working with Walkers Crisps, James. and I went, Yeahah, all right, mate. I was only asking And I can say that now because he won't be listening He's in New York Anyway whereere were we? What's today's question M mayaybe he's listen to this one. Yeah. so I'm Celiac. obviously difficult liid. Yes. glluten, ye. So one thing which just absolutely gets on my nerdves every time I go buy a gluten free product is everything is so absolutely tiny and especially the bread. So I need to know why. I yes, I need to know why. I need to know why. Greek soldiers. The Greek soldiers do the funny marching as well. They still do it now in front of the Parliament building in Ethens. So you mean like a loaf of bread will have fewer slices in it than Well the amount of slices physical it's a physical size. I've actually sent you a picture. If you want to check out my slice of gle free bread, you'll feel very, very sorry for me and my very large and ever increasingly growing in size community of CLAac. So you get sent where did you send it to I saidnd it to your WhatsApp Oh, you mean in the studio. We'll try and dig that out I mean, is it not obvious Well, I obviously understand the gluten has an element of fulfilling God it's tin mate. It's about the size it's abouto the size of your hand Yeah Keith just pointed out you might have enormous hands. How big Do you have an average size? Im just thinking of the person who's just tuned in. It's a large isish. Can canan we get something for scale? Can you put it what have you got in front of you at the moment? The hum is the scale No, but it's not is it because you might have an enormous hand In which case the bread is not noticeably small, is it? So what have you got nearby? It's a an old picture. I don't know what I can send you But what I don't need a picture. I just I take it on trust. Where are you now? I'm sing my air conditioned car in my very, very hot workshop. Okay. have you got and you've got your iPhone with you? Are you on an iPhone I am, I am. All right, so just put the bottom of the ipher. Brat what series is it don Is it the big one? or or is it a little one? It's a big one.teen Put the bottom of your iPhone just at the bottom of your palm Yeah. And tell me how much knuckled is left poking out the top We've got about ten millers side. Now the top O side. No okay, yeah. so that's God that's Yeahah, it's about the same as mine maybe slightly bigger And what about the top? Is there any fingers poking out the top I don't I don' we've got about a centimeter and a half of finger at the top. So just that top knuckle on the middle finger really, the swearing finger yeah and then that one now because I'm a woodwker. No fair enough. o, so you've not got a particularly freakish hand. have you? Well is medium. Yeah, but maybe slightly above average, but not freakish is what we needed to establish. whichich means that that slice of toast that you took a picture of for me in your hand is tiny. It looks like Melbour toast. It's absolutely incredibly small. Yeah. And that's always the way with the gluten free stuff. Al the way. always the way. I mean it's three times the price as well. Well, is that's the thing though, isn't it? Because if it was the size of the normal bread, it would be six or seven times the price. Exactly. So that's the answer. Why is it always so small? No can't be that can't be why. Can I put that picture on my blue sky, the picture of your hand with the toaster, just so that people at home can see So pleaseed do it. All right, you're on I don't know how we're going to do that, Eleanor, I've asked him now. We're working out. All right, whyy is gluten free stuff so small zero three four five six zero six zeroine seven three. Thank you, Dan. I'm hungry now. Sophie's in Heinspark, and to tell you what that toast wouldn't fill me up. Sophie question our answer Hello, it's a question, please. Oh yes I was wondering every morning I wake up, I check my smart watchatch to see how I sleep during the night.. And it tells me how long I slept for, how long I was awake for, my REM sleep, my core sleep and my ' other one? My deep sleep. I was wondering, how does it know I mean, I Yeah, I don't know why I was preparing to try to answer that question. I haven't got a clue, but I mean it try. Yeah, I do always. I'm getting better actually. I used to be unbearable, but it is yeah, I mean it's going be right, you're on. How does your watch know so much about your sleep couldould just be making it up. We've all fallen for it. C. I do know when I wake up I've had a good sleep all night and I check my watch and it always kind of sounds about right magic. I could Google it, but I thought I'd call you. No, you're on. I like that. you We'll find out for you. how does Sophie's watch or indeed all smart watches No so much about your sleep. What is it doing? I mean, it's going to be looking at pulse Maybe movement, restlessness, all of those things, but it's on your wrist. So what if you You know, if you handcuffed yourself to the bedstead Careful, Keith. Well if you handcuffed yourself to the bedset and fell asleep, then what would happen? Becauseuse I'm just interested in the way that a watch on a wrist can establish so much about the entire sleep process. I bought a new is anecdote for you I bought a new watch strap yesterday That's that's the anecote I bought it in Timpson's. a special shout out to the two. I've never met A bloke and it's usually blokes, not always, I've never met anyone working in Timpsons's who isn't charming I know that they've got a practice of hiring prisoners, but I don't think everyone that works in Timpsononss is a former prisoner. And that of course means that there's more likely to be an element of gratitude, perhaps, attack. But I'd love everyone who I've ever dealt with in a Timpsonons. And you know that the most profitable Timpsons in the whole country is the one outside Sainsbury's in Kidermminster Mr. Timpson told me that himself I've never met always had a charming time with Timpson stuff, probably the most friendly staff in the country And I bought a watch strap off for a couple of them in Hoben yesterday. and then because I've got my sandals on, as I mentioned earlier, and I only wear them in the summer and I normally only wear them in Greece So they got a bit crusty with the sea water. No, not my feet, like seawater crusty, not feet crusty. And there was this little pot in Timpson's called Cobbbler' Cream I've never seen it before and I bought some and you can resurrect sandals Let's cay. And that is the end of my anecdote. H's Amelia Cox with your headlines T thir. When you're a maintenance engineer in a beverage manufacturing plant, you keep production lines moving and quality on track because there's no room for slowdowns. With Granger's vast selection of high quality motors, sensors, belts, and hard to find parts, you can get what you need fast and all in one place, so nothing gets in the way of getting the job done Call one eight hundred Ganger, click ranger d. com or just stop by Ranger. for the ones who get it done time tune in tomorrow for more tales of Cobbler's Cream. But for now we return to MysteryHour. The questions still need answers. Ice cream van patches, running dogs, not hitting trees, the science of laughter the porousness or breathability of finger and toenails, the strange marching of soldiers, the small size of Gluten free products Is that all of it That's Oh, and of course, Sophie's smmart watchatch as well. How does a watch know so much about your sleep U Steve's in Hockley, Steve question or answer It's a question, please James. T' in Crete at the moment, my friend on Oolid de Calimira. Kandy G,ir. Thank you Carry on You Thank for that. What's the temperature in Crete? It's twenty nine at the moment and very dry dry heat. So's a different than what you got. differentere kind of heat It's the humidity here that's the killer because I'm off deck next week and I've been comparing the temperatures. I'll be cooling down in Greece this year, which is a bit insane, isn't it? Absolutely If you've ever tried it, Late Cornos in Crete, near Hana Mate, I would been' fabulous. been to Crete. I don't know if we went there. Anyway, where were we? questestion question. So yeah, so this question isn't quite as intelligent as the ones you' asked before today And I think you're probably going know the answer to this, but given the recent activity With Downing Street, you know, it's more of a sort of best selling short stay Airbnb or else Yeah Who decided or how it was decided that ten Downing Street was going to be the residence for our PM's? Is there any PMs that have previously lived else? Where did they come to be? Oh I like that. I don't actually know. I think I might have known once, so your faith in me was not entirely misplaced and I know that He was a bit of a wrongun George Downing. He was sort of knocking about Charles I second kind of era. He was an American bloke who sort of came over here and calleds mischief and made a ton of money, a property developer. and That the street Yeah. Yeahah, it does, doesn't it? That's who the street was named after. But I can't I can't remember when it became residence of the Prime Minister so So you're on. Yeah. I like that. It's a good. Thank very much. It's a clever qu question. Wh'd you say it wasn't very intelligent question? It's a really intelligent question. thank you. Well, I just thought it'd been a pretty standard one that's come up in the past Am I doneum late but you know where it is I can't remember I had for breakfast let alone. We're similar ages, Jam. you know exactly on as well, my friends.. Have you ever come across C cobbler's crere No, I don't think Ill have yet. Here you go. seeee, for men like us. it's a God send. you can resurrect all your old shoes, you can make them all shiny and A moist stick, that's not the right word to use, is it? You can make them all supple and shiny again. My sandals are like brand new. Thank you, Steve. I'll be wearing them in Greece next week. being well, Kirin is in Dublin. Kirin question her answer Qion, James. Car So James the freshly squeezed ornange juice in the supermarket that has excuse me the shelf life on it, the short shelf life we'd say four or five days. I've noticed regularly doesus the orrange juice that doesn't have the bits in it has a longer shelf life on it than the juice that has the bits in it Is that head to the supermarket? orr is there something in the bits that makes the orange juice lasts not as long as the stuff that doesn't have it in it I think they're but yeah, I mean the It's more likely to pair it, more likely to go off a bit with the flesh than with the juice Yeah. Is it is it the smooth orange juice has got the longer shelf life Yeah. It's Ocham's Razor Kin, isn't it? I mean, it must be that the bits in it. the only difference between them is the bits. And that must explain the shelf life difference has to be Well it does explain it, but what I'm saying is that why is that? Yeah, you're turning into me now. You don't want the what of it, you want the why of it. No, I actually want to speak to someone James who actually knows what they're talking about. Well, youve founded the wrong show G so do I Mate. Good luck with that. Seriously, welcome to my world. You're on. Let's do it. I mean, it must be the bits, but why? Why do the bits make the shelf life shorter? You're on. Now you're on. Stay care. Stay safe, it's top thirty seven. James is in Dundee. James, question or answer It's anser, James. Good afternoon. Good afternoon to you. What have you got Right. So I was on ice cream vandans from a young age of nine up until maybe my late twenties I had my own ream vine as well, obviously not from the Jerane, but when I got older. Now you would get your license from the local authority on that license they told you where you couldn't go. Now you couldn't go to places like the two football stadiums in Dundee, you couldn't go to couldouldn't go to Brocki Ferry, there's something that's been in the news lately. And the reason for that is because that's dundy by the seaside. That's got the beach in that and they don't want an influx of ice cream bandans going down there now There'd be pitches. there'd be pitches there that they were specifically paid for. Yes.'re right Pites, not patches Y and that still goes on to this day. There is an ice cream var that sits on a ticulous pitch all year There it is, you see. That's that Ezo in the car park at the garden centre near me Correct, correct Now as for the House and theestates in Dundee, you just took it upon yourself. Like the state next to where I used to work He didn't start to like five o'clock in the afternoon. So what I would do is I would nip in there at three o'clock in the afternoon and do a little tidying up And then we would come in at five o'clock. So there was no animosity. I was sort of like yeah, that's George that does the estate next to me. and you would sometimes meet them in the cash and carry and that. and It was all jovial, but if you look on YouTube, there's plenty about Glasgow with the guns and the Back in the day. Back in the day the ice cream Wars Yeah, that didn't ever happen where I was. There's a film as well, isn't there with Bill Patterson in it I think. There was a film made.ill Yeah, that's right Bill Patterson is in the movie about the Eamvan. so that's it. So there's not sort of you don't get it on your license where you're allowed to go. You only get it on your license where you couldn't go're not allowed stad. Are you Are you of Italian heritage No no There's a lot of the ice cream men are, particularly in Scotland. Yeah it strange as you say that, yeah, because back in the day there was Cabrellis in Dundee. they had like sixty ice cream vans in Dundee and then there was Freddy Ayonetta. I believe they had thirty two ice cream vans back in the day. Nowadays there' not you don't see really ice cream vanans though, but I'm going to tell you about the difference between the ice cream van in Scotland and in England because in England they're called softy van. a window they've got a window on either side and they only sell ice cream and they only sell ice lollies. Now an ice cream van in Scotland is called a Harvey van, that's only got a window on the passenger side. for ping up against a curb. And on the driver's side behind you're going to have chocolate bars, you're going to have all sorts. You're going to have your carmax back in the day. That would have been there as well. Oh I didn't know that. I't I mean think I don't think it's like binary. I've seen some ice cream vans in England that have got a bit of confectionery for sale Oh could that say I tried to get you, Caramac probably about two years ago. Sth, Stt Mark's in St. Andrews, you remember. I do. I do. Are you' a gentleman? You're a gentleman. upstairs I sat upstairs that night with you' your two daughters there as well.. Fantastic. I did. That was happy days. We've had some wonderful Iarently was What was I going to say that? When I so North Berwick is where we used to holiday when we were going to Scotland a bit when they were younger And there were two there. on the seafront in North Berwick, you had like a traditional ice cream van, which would be selling like all the lollies and stuff. But then you had the S Lucca it was called, Lucca LUCA, which was likeike a like a slightly more well I don't know if you'd say artisan, but like not generic, not the kind of stuff you'd buy in the cash and carry. It was like they made it themselves. And so they obviously managed to two different pitchures on the same little small patch of car park in North Bur. I don't know why I love ice cream bands so much. They've got such I guess it's just joy, isn't it? You hear the music starting when you're a kid and it's It's just joyful. Why did you knock it on the head? I got myself off to college and just learned something else I could imagine. I can imagine that. Yeah You didn't knock out single cigarettes for twenty five pence a pop, did you Well, well I didn't but that was a thing. That was a thing. Another thing we used to do as well you were able to go to a stream van with milk token back in the day. get a lolly with a milk token anyway, you've got this . Beutifly done James. God bless you, thank you At twelve forty two is the time, Paul's in Swansea, Paul question or answer Answer. Cry on But that guy just took the wind out my cells. Oh Well, never mind, I've got room for more. It's not a steward's inquiry, but you can add to his answer My aunt had an ice cream van. Oh ye and back in the eighties and she it was in Mr. Whippie And she was she encroached in somebody else's patch. And the other guy turned up in his van and he was furious. Really? He chased her for about a mile. What van vanasing van Yeah. What was he going to do if he caught her Well, she drove into her husband's tire changing garage. veryery wise. And he came out. he's six foot six with a crowbar. So the guy jumped back in his van and reversed and he said, Tell her to stay off my patch. Yes. And did she She did yes. I mean it's a livelihood, isn't it? It's not nice to hear the previous caller sharing stories of harmony and peace. but generally speaking, if you're parking up particularly for a prolonged period of time, it's a bit like opening a shop next door to someone who's already selling the same stuff You didn't fancy following her into the ice cream business, Paul? No, no it was too dodgy, too dodgy. I love it. You get a round of applause though, so you know, twelve forty three is the time. And Marion' in high wicker. Marian, question, or answer Carryo, Marri Many years ago, I had a little growth on my nose, which required a few sessions of cryosurgery. Right And when it healals The one half of the tip of my ne was kind of sheared off It was very noticeable that my nose was asymmetric. And when I went for a check upp and I said to the nurse that I didn't realize this was going to happen because it's really noticeable. And he said, Well, don't worry about it, it'll go back It knows Yeah, well just it was a very sort of like a very small shving off it, but it was very fl and very noticeable that happened Yeah And mean she said, donon'try, or'll go back I overver a period of months, suddenly, you kind of looking at there and say, o, what my nose is fine But my question is No that it grew back. But how does your body know when to stop growing When it thinks, yees, that looks about right, n is normal again we'll stop goinging because that's what it did Who knows? Yeah. I think to paraphrase Kemmy Bohinner, I reject the parameters of your question Because well how does it know to stop like the first time round Why doesn't whyy don't our noses just keep growing anyway like Pinocchio? forever? Well ind did, yeah, that is for sure. So there must be it's just like a genetic code, isn't it? yourour nose stops growing Yes. So it must just be the same reason why your feet stop growing, the same reason why everything stops growing. But yeah, it's more interesting when a bit's being shaved off and it grows back, isn't it? Yeah because I was really worried because it was so noticeable that it was just like this like a sword had just kind of taken the very edge of this not was so flat and so noticeable And then it did go back back to exactly like it was before. I mean, because also how much grows back? Be if you'd lost your whole nose, I don't think it would have grown back. I don't think it work. because it was just skin. It wasn't cartridage or anything because I don't think that would. it's just how does it know when it kind of goes right or yeah back Tight we'll stop there I like that question and for people who listened to this progo a little bit more than is necessarily healthy. Id just quote Isaac who's been in touch to say donon't knows Nobody knows, don't need to know I this is my second question on your program as well. Congratulations. Let's try and get you an answer. I mean, how does your nose know to stop growing when it's growing back after being chopped off or sliced off. O like. twelve forty six is the time When you're a maintenance engineer in a beverage manufacturing plant, You keep production lines moving and quality on track because there is no room for slowdowns With Granger's vast selection of high quality motors, sensors, belts, and hard to find parts, you can get what you need fast and all in one place, so nothing gets in the way of getting the job done. callall one eight hundred Ganger, click ranger. com or just stop by Ranger for the ones who get it done T forty nine. 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When did the Prime Minister move into Downing Street? like originally Um, and why does Orange juice with bits in it have a much shorterf or a memasurably shorter shelf life than orange juice without bits in it. And how does your nose? If your bit of your nose gets chopped off And it goes back. How does it know It's not osnosis, is it Thank you for that. I stole that from my own inbox, but it was unsigned, so I probably didn't even need to admit that. that's how I work. I'm just too honest for my own good. How does it knows when to stop goes How does the nose nose? when to stop it grows, grows? Aby's in Brxton, Abbey question or answ It's a question, Je. You'll be lucky. G on I know, I know, honestly, I've got no hope for it, That's the spirit. carry on. You see washing machines, right? Yeah. Every washing machine that I've ever had an interaction with When it gets to the last minute, always never a minute. And I don't understand why the manufacturers make it like that. L surely by now, they know how long a cycle is supposed to be. whyy are they lying I don't know if they're lying as such Is that I mean so what you mean? it says one minute left and it always takes longer than a minute. Yeah, well, have you not experienced that? Yeah, I'm always doing the washing me. Yeah So I just checking with you that it says one minute left and it's probably got something to do with the hardness or the softness of your water Right, but like why is it all washing machines that like I've ever Well how many washing machines have you had an interaction with? Well now you're asking, I don't know. Maybe around ten. Yeah. And were they all in South London No, they weren't actually. they were all over the world, Jame. Really, whereere else? Where's the most exotic washing machine you've ever had a relationship with? I've had one in Morocco. Wh! Wh! Wow! I w traveveled me. You are. You're an international washing machine expert and all of them suffer from this condition Yeah, they always get to that last minute and it's never a minute. Yeah like Yeah don't know why. whyy do they do that? Yeah, don't they know by now how long a cycle should be? and it's not like it's O minute and then it's two minutes. It's like one minute, and then it's five minutes is? Yeah, I do. I know. I mean, I recognize what you describe. I just always presumed it was sort specific to the location you were in and it would have something to do with hard water or something of it's not like they're selling you advertising in the meantime. or It's not like an algorithm where they need to keep you scrolling for longer because they make more money or you're just standing staring at your bloody plumbing washing machine All right, you're on. Why is that? It's a great question. It's a classic. that will have touched a lot of people that way. There'll be people up and well, as we've established all over the world, Abby, there'll be people going Yes She's right. Why? In fact, I'm not even joking. Let me read you some messages that have come in since you spoke She's telling you the truth, James, we want the truth. You can't handle the truth. This woman is so right. I've never had a washing machine that tells you how long a cycle actually lasts. I'm in Spain. I can confirm that she's right. I regularly accuse my washing machine of lying. Of course it's and that's the gluten one. That's not about you. Oh my God, this lady is so right. It always fibbs. James asks Kevin, have you ever used a washing machine? Jamie says she's spot on. We had six minutes left on once and it took more than twenty, says I. I mean, it goes on and on and on and on. You win the prize for touching the most nerves today, Abby. And you may well win a board gameet. It's twelve fifty two. Rob's in Maidston. Rob question or answ Hi, James. So it's an answer. Carry on. We're only going to get through about three this week. We've done it all wrong, Rob, but I'll shut up and let you speak. It'll be quick. I'll be quick then. So in seventeen thirty two, George II offered the House to his principal minister. Robert Walpole. He declined as a personal gift but he accepted it for the government but on the condition that it was attached to the office of the first Lord of the Treasury And it's remained that way. So it's actually they reside there as first Lord of the treasury rather as the prrime Mister. And I think Walpool moved in in seventeen thirty five. There you go. Beautifully done qualifications I used to be a duty cler at number ten many, many moons ago. Did you really I was Gosh. and I mean there's a little bit of history. what? is it up on the wall inside or you just swat it up on it or you go go on a course? I no cases, G heavens no, not in youngmen. No. I retained a little book and some keepsakes from my time at Downy Street.iffing that's great. I mean, it's not quite I think to get a rleota, you'd have to be a prime mininister. Is that fair Yes. I think But you get a round of applause. And there's plenty of Prime mininisters knocking about these days. and say it's not like twenty years ago where they were ten a penny when they were as rare as Hen's teeth, they're ten a penny now. Mike's in Beverly, Mike question or answer. Answer James. Make it snappy, Mike, we're sure a time. It's an answer to the dogs question. Oh yes And there are many reasons, but one of the main ones is that dogs R this vision a lot quicker than we do. That's it. That's what we want. How much quicker Well, if we process out sixteen frames a second, think back your cinema Doogs process at fifty frames a second. Really So they get information quicker than humans do. So they're in a sort of slow motion, then. Yes. as they're going through the trees, they've got a lot more time So Navigate because they're seeing everything three times quicker Yes, basically. And one of the big reasons is that they've got four leengs. so they have more opportunities to deviate. than a human. Well they've got more pivot? of course, they have. Yeah. Yeah, of course. Well, that's a brilliant answer.Qalifications Bre and train dogs all night. Right there you go. Round of applause for M, please, greatreat answer. D's in Fincham in Norfolk, D question or answer It's an answer. Carry on de. It's an answer. it is the gluten in bread justust to say that gluten allows the bread to scretch And obviously the bread becomes bigger. and we don't have that in gluten free bread. so our bread is much smaller We use things to mimic gluten such as villium, hus or, other things. but it doesn't give you that same stretch and that same size. Fantastic. What a perfect answer. Qalifications I've seen the act of about fifteen years. and you've done your research. I have indeed, I love making bread at home. Oh, I've got to do this, even though I'm short of time. What's going on? What's happening Is that your phone The ali's trying to make you'rear Kingss Ln, are't you about ten miles outside Kings Lyne? I am, yes. Do you know what happened in Kings Lyn yesterday No. I think it's a reform UK Council and they would due to pass a bill to abandon all of their climate change requirements and sort of decarbonization programs But the meeting had to be cancellled. You know why? No Jones why? Beacause it was so hot It's just perfect, isn't it? I hope it's true. I hope I didn't just make that up.ave a round of applause, de lovely work. Thank you. Thank you, No, thank you. Sharon's in Houndslow, Sharon, question or answer. I've got an answer. Tarry on Sar. What's wrong? are you al right? I'm excited, I've got answer. Yes, C on. It's about the washing machine. M it, let's do it. Right. so If you put when you think it's a minute, it never is a minute because it depends on how much washing you've got in. the washing machine will calculate the weight of the water and the items you've got in it. So it will calculate how long it needs. It will tell you a minute, but it might be three or four U yeah, that's what it is. Wh I mean, it's not doing a very good job of calculating it then No, it's really annoying. But I think the problem is most people don't look When you start a wash, it might say that it's going to take ninety minutes Yeah. But in fact It doesn't take ninety minutes. It will calculate it again later on if you looked again, but most people look towards the end So that's why you just think it's the last minute that No. I think I understand qualifications I asked a fellow that came to fix my washing machine.' spib. I mean, that is about as big an authority as you can appeal to, isn't it? So it gets you a definite round of applause. Thank you, Sharot. So thank you. David's in Richmond, David, question or answer answer Car, Carol process for the cells growing is called contact inhibition. Contact inhibition. C and you were right. They're pre programmed to do that The bad news is cancer cells don't obey that rule Yeah, off course they don't. And did there be some sort of hormonal or