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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks at B.

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Speaker 2: D Icing the freezer. That's it, That is it? You know,

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Speaker 2: without doubt, I always thought it was the worst possible

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Speaker 2: domestic chore, because you know, the tricky thing is, once

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Speaker 2: you've successfully taken the plug out of the wall, got

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Speaker 2: rid of the electricity, melted the water, where does it

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Speaker 2: all go? Where does the water go? I remember my

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Speaker 2: mum running a system with our big chest freezer when

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Speaker 2: I was a kid. She needed buckets, she needed pots

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Speaker 2: and pans, towels and mops, baby baths even and still

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Speaker 2: it took her the whole weekend. But now you know what,

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Speaker 2: I'm not totally sure that de icing the freezer is

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Speaker 2: still top of the pops in miserable domestic jobs. And

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Speaker 2: that is the kind of sentence own ever uttered by

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Speaker 2: someone who has recently tried to fill a bean bag

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Speaker 2: ugh A bean bags Having a moment, I reckon they

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Speaker 2: might be and I just personally figured that having a

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Speaker 2: versatile option for vegging out in front of the telly

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Speaker 2: might be quite nice. When I searched them online, there

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Speaker 2: were a couple of different options for bean bags for

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Speaker 2: most you had to buy the bag and then the

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Speaker 2: beans separately. But if you really wanted, you could spend

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Speaker 2: a little bit more money and order a bean bag

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Speaker 2: that was already filled.

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Speaker 1: Ha.

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Speaker 2: I thought, what do they take me for some kind

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Speaker 2: of sucker bean bags? It turns out actually have two bags.

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Speaker 2: So you fill the inner bag and then you put

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Speaker 2: that inside the outer bag. It's easy in principle, not

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Speaker 2: necessarily in practice. I figured that I would tackle the

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Speaker 2: job alone as a nice surprise for when my wife

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Speaker 2: got home. My first mistake I began in the lounge.

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Speaker 2: That was my second mistake. I laid out the bean

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Speaker 2: bag in it and snipped the top corner off the

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Speaker 2: huge bag of beans, two hundred liters of them. As

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Speaker 2: the scissor blades glided through the plastic, it was kind

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Speaker 2: of like a can of fizzy drink that had been

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Speaker 2: furiously shaken up. Beans exploded out all over me, all

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Speaker 2: over the floor, all over the couch, everywhere, and they

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Speaker 2: seemed to have some sort of static electricity attraction. So

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Speaker 2: even as I picked them off my chest and tried

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Speaker 2: to sweep them together with my fingers off the carpet,

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Speaker 2: the beans kind of had a mind of their own.

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Speaker 2: Twenty minutes down. For my second attempt, I moved into

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Speaker 2: the kitchen, pinched part of the inner bag and a

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Speaker 2: kitchen drawer so that I could hold the bag open.

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Speaker 2: As soon as I started pouring the beans, I inadvertently

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Speaker 2: relaxed the inner bag, closing the mouth of the opening

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Speaker 2: and pouring roughly ten thousand bean bags bean bag beans

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Speaker 2: all over the kitchen floor. It turns out when you

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Speaker 2: get on your hands and knees and start trying to

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Speaker 2: pick up pathetically small bits of polystyrene, you get a

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Speaker 2: new appreciation for just how greasy the kitchen floor actually is.

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Speaker 2: It made them less staticky, but alas it did not

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Speaker 2: make them easier to collect. I cut a pitiful figure

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Speaker 2: when my wife found me scratching around trying to pinch

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Speaker 2: up the last of the beans from under the fridge.

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Speaker 2: Another half an hour I'll never get back. If there's

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Speaker 2: one thing my experience has taught me, filling a bean

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Speaker 2: bag is a two person job. It's also the kind

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Speaker 2: of thing where you should really review the instructional video

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Speaker 2: on YouTube before kicking off. If I'd done that, I

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Speaker 2: would have known the best place to fill the bean

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Speaker 2: bag isn't in the lounge or in the kitchen, but

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Speaker 2: in an empty bath. That way if there is any spillage,

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Speaker 2: and trust me, there will be spillage. At the very

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Speaker 2: least it's contained. Third time was a relative charm. It

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Speaker 2: wasn't seamless. We still managed to pour liters of beans

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Speaker 2: onto the floor. I still spent ages on my hands

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Speaker 2: and knees scrabbling around in the muck. Every time I

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Speaker 2: thought I'd got them all, I walked out of the

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Speaker 2: room for a moment and then came back in, only

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Speaker 2: to discover a couple of rogue beans hiding underneath some furniture.

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Speaker 2: I feel like they're going to keep popping up for

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Speaker 2: months at least, though there is an upside. If I

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Speaker 2: ever feel like a lazy slob for crashing into my

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Speaker 2: bean bag and vegging out in front of the television,

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Speaker 2: I can remind myself earnestly, nah, I had to work

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Speaker 2: for this.

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