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Hello. You're about to drift into an episode of the Nightly, a podcast designed to help you unwind and relax. For the full phone free immersive light experience, visit Hatch Co. Enjoy. All right, I'm Mat.
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And I'm kp. Welcome to the Nightly from Hatch, where your late night thoughts go to rest.
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Kp, we talked recently about your bidding on five different chessboards online after you discovered the Goodwill auction website. Yeah, I'm obviously very invested in this. I've got to know, how's it going? How many have you got? What's the latest?
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Terrible news. I won a lot of them.
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Really? How many?
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One has already made it to my door and then I have two more on the way.
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Oh, my God, that was quick.
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That is too many chessboards.
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How do you feel about that? Because, I mean, you won. Great.
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Yeah.
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Sounds incredibly inconvenient, though.
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Well, I opened the first package of them yesterday and that one was probably my best deal. And I should have stopped there. That was enough. Because in this bundle, it was like a games bundle. So this one had two random games and then two chess sets.
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What do you mean by random games? Like a keplunk or something.
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This was like two. Yeah, two different board games. So this was the Wordle game, which is apparently a in person version of the crossword puzzle game.
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I can't imagine why anyone would be going for the in person version of that.
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But sure, yeah, it's still wrapped and I don't think I'll ever unwrap it. I may just try and give that away at some sort of garage sale that I'll have in the future. But that one is like, yeah, you're thinking of a secret word and then other people are trying to guess it and then you tell them how they did.
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Right.
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Then there's a game that's Pop Tarts branded. So that is Pop Tarts went ahead and made themselves a board game or a card game.
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Pop Tarts, the game. Have you got any indication of what on earth that looks like?
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Not a clue, it seems. Maybe like Uno. Like it's like you put a card down and then that blueberry Pop Tart does something to me.
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Right.
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That does something good or bad? I don't know. It does something. It affects me in some way.
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Okay.
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And then a nice vintage chessboard. That was what it was all for.
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It was for that one. Yeah.
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And I opened that one up and it is in poor shape. I will say it's had better days. It's definitely vintage.
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What are we talking? Is it Are we like, wooden marble? Alabaster?
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It's wooden, and it's got an inlay of all Chinese characters. Like, it's got all Chinese writing on the inside, which is very pretty. And the pieces are very cool. And then there's dragons on the outside of the wooden board.
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Okay.
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So it's got a cool look, but it is cracked. Seen some better days.
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Pretty ironic, really, because that's what you ended up doing was chasing the dragon, wasn't it, after that?
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Absolutely. And I'm getting burnt.
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Ended up. So you've got that one, which is the one that you're really in it for. And then was it two more?
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Okay. So then in this bundle came a, like, on the go, chess bag. So it's got a foldable board and a bunch of pieces inside. And I actually like this one. This one's looking very good. And then we have a really, really beautiful marble one that will be sent tomorrow that I didn't check the shipping on. And I'm about to get. They're about to really get me on this.
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It sounds heavy.
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Yeah, sure is. It's from Italy.
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From Italy originally.
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Now it's in Ohio.
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Oh, I see. Okay. Right.
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Yeah. And the shipping is $24 on that.
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Oh, wow. I'm assuming that was probably more than the chessboard, Was it?
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Yep. Then a green and white checkered board.
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Oh, just a. That's not the marble one.
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That's the fourth one that will be coming. Yes. It's not marble. It's wood. I'd love if. I mean, it's too late, but if you're listening to this, save me, please get on that site and outbid me so that I don't win this. Please.
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Absolutely. Don't do that. KP has made her bed.
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Please go in and if you see anything that I shouldn't have, just bid on it, please. So I can't have that.
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I feel like you've got to learn a lesson here. This is an educational moment, kp.
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Absolutely.
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This is a huge question amidst all of this talk. How much chess do you play, Matt?
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I do not play chess. This is for my boyfriend's birthday this week. So I've gone from getting him one nice chess set to now overwhelming him with seven to ten chess sets. And he plays a little. He will like it more than I will.
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He needs to start playing a lot. Like, a lot.
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He needs to get good and get some money back in these competitions. He needs to get good. Yeah.
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You're gonna have to wear out an ancient ch. Chessboard stat.
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Maybe it's blessed with some good energy because we need to be winning. We need to make him a chess shark in some local bars to bring some back.
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Yeah. Maybe that's the way to do it. Could you. Yeah. Start sharking people at chess.
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Yeah.
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Would you say is this something that he asked for or something that you've thought, I think he'll like this.
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He kind of asked for it. I have a good memory with gift things. So he said once he's like, you know, in my apartment, someday I would like to have a nice chess set. And I clocked that, opened up my little notes and wrote down, chess set. So this is something he will be excited, but maybe he was only excited for one of them.
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I feel like it will probably be diminishing returns by the time when he opens up the third or fourth one, for example.
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Yeah. Maybe I could prank it. Maybe I individually wrap each piece so it becomes, like, so overwhelming. It's now a joke that would be
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very funny to watch.
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Yeah. Scatter them around like an Easter egg hunt around the yard. A bishop. I found another bishop.
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Happy birthday.
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Yeah. And keep him occupied.
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Well, it's a lovely thought.
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I mean, there's still. There's like, six more hours on this marble one from Italy, and I'm really hoping it catches someone's eye.
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Can I have a quick look at it? What was it on?
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Oh, my gosh. As we speak, I just got outbid by a dollar.
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No way.
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As we speak, they just got me.
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This is huge. You've got a guardian angel.
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See, in my sick brain, I see that I got outbid. I go, well, let me do one more. Let me do one more. This one's gorgeous, isn't it?
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Do you know what? My parents had one like that. I think they got it. In fact, it's genuinely identical. Pretty much. They got it as, like, a wedding present. Yeah.
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Now I'm sad. I know I talked a lot, but I am a little bit sad. Okay. And I got outbid by this one just a second ago.
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It's all falling apart.
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I know. I just was miserable. But that marble one is looking really good, isn't it?
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This is incredible, this website.
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And I'm sorry to even bring it to you because you're gonna be doing some horrible things. And then I'm have to do an intervention to you next week. It's just gonna go back and forth that we intervene on each other.
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Well, this is gonna be an endless cycle.
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I know. Well, see this green one that I just sent too that's not too bad. I can live without this one, though.
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So you're indifferent towards this one.
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Let me have a quick look for people listening. It's the folding one, which I really like. It's like you can keep the pieces inside of the chessboard, which I think is a very nice, practical thing. And the pieces are. They look, honestly, plastic. That's why I'm okay losing this. But there's green, like a jade color, and then there's white ones and they look like medieval figures.
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They do.
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So they're pretty.
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I actually. Do you know what? The more I look at this cape, I quite like that one.
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The green one. Should I go one more dollar on that?
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I feel like it's got history. This whole thing is going to be financially quite crumbling. Yeah. Sort of crippling for you if this all comes off.
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Yeah, 100%. But then you look at it and you go, well, 32 total for this vintage set. That's not crazy. It's not impossible.
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No. I wish I knew more about the market generally so I could tell you whether this was a good deal or not. It looks really nice, is what I will say.
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All right, I'm gonna put one more
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dollar, stick another dollar in there.
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I'm sticking one more dollar in.
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We have one day and one hour left. So this is gonna be a real intense bidding war.
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I think the marble one's done. It's five hours. So he's winning this. Something else interesting. I was the first one to bid on this collection of. It said it's just a bundle of gold plated or filled jewelry. I was like, eh, that's not too bad. I put $9 down. I was the leader for a while. And I was like, oh, gosh, I'm gonna have pounds of jewelry now. So the current price. $354.
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You're kidding.
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So somebody got to this one and was jacking this price way up.
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That happened to me actually, last year with. Are you. Do you know of a sitcom over here called Only Fools and Horses?
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No.
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So it's probably culturally one of the biggest comedy things that's ever happened over here. It was a sitcom that ran from. It was probably like the middle mid to late 80s until maybe like 2004. 2003. 2004. Massive. Huge sitcom. Biggest thing in the country.
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What's it called again?
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Only Fools and Horses.
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Only Fools and Horses. Okay.
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Yeah. And there's a flat. It's about two brothers who. They're living like a council flat at the top of this Tower block and they just wanna be rich. So Delboy and Rodney, Del's the older brother. They run a market stall and it's all sorts of capers to try and get rich, basically. And they had a bar in their flat which was like this Art Deco 70s, curved front bar. And it came up for auction last year.
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Oh, the whole bar?
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The whole bar. Whoa. It basically in the description, it said the guide price.
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Yeah.
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Was something like 800 quid.
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Okay.
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It's obviously a lot of money, but
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I thought for a whole bar, if
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that went for 800 quid. Yeah. It's iconic. If it went for that, I would never forgive myself.
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Yes.
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So I thought, I'm gonna go for it. And I put in a max bid of like a grand.
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Okay.
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Sat there watching it, it went over a grand within 10 seconds. It ended up going for £22,000.
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Oh. It's not even like a huge bar. It's just a little bit of a bar.
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It's a little corner bar.
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22 grand.
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It's like a faux marble top. It's a rounded art deco y thing and like, I guess it's like a leather on the front. Yeah.
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Wow. Well, yeah.
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Pre sale estimate of 5 to 600 pounds was made by Italian company Muscagni Mobili and stands just over a meter tall.
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22,000.
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22 grand. Can you believe that?
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I mean, I guess when people come over, the compliments you're gonna get.
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But is it worth 22 grand though?
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Not much is because I don't have it. I can't put a price on that. I don't have that. That is wild. Well, that would have been really cool. If you got it for a thousand, would you have made room for it?
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Oh, 100%.
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Yeah. You would have figured out a spot.
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Yeah. I mean, that's the kind of thing where I would ditch. I mean, basically, I think any other bit of furniture, you name, whatever you want me to get rid of fridge, I'd get rid of it.
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You're sleeping on top of the bar.
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Yeah, I'd sleep under it, just curled up. Speaking of which, I just saw on that Goodwill site, well, two things that really got me powers on. Singing machine, karaoke system.
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Oh, a karaoke system. Yeah, those are very fun.
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That really got me in the nostalgia right there.
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I just went to a party this past weekend and the night ended with karaoke in the living room because they had a whole system and you could cue your own song. The QR code is up on the tv. You cue your own song.
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Oh, wow.
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You're next. Then the microphone gets passed around. There was two microphones. This was clearly people that were very serious about the art of karaoke in their home.
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Oh, how do you feel about those people?
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You know, it was 2am So I was ready to go from this party, and then karaoke started. I stayed another hour. I had a really good time.
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I bet you did.
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It was really good. And we played one song just back to back because people were having so much fun.
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I mean, what were you going back to back with?
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Well, I actually don't know this song, but I'm sure you do. Come ye Black and Tans.
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Oh, my God. Okay.
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Yeah. I don't think it was an odd choice, but it was 2:30 in the morning.
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Wow.
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A lot of people just wanted to sing that exact song.
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Fascinating.
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Yeah. I don't know.
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It's a very catchy song. It is very catchy.
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It's really catchy.
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Could potentially get you in a serious amount of trouble if you sang it in the wrong place.
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See that? I don't. Yeah, we. I don't think this party in California had the exact right zoom of what it meant, but I think we were all in it for the catchy. I didn't sing it. I don't know it that much, but I found it very catchy.
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It is catchy.
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So we did it back to back. Yeah.
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I should actually. I mean, I should explain what that song is for anyone who's listening. Come out, you. Black and Tans is a. It's an Irish rebel song which basically criticizes Irish people who are pro British. And its title refers to the Black and Tans who were former British army soldiers who reinforced the Royal Irish Constabulary during the Irish War of Independence.
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So it's a real karaoke fun time.
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Very contentious song.
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Absolutely.
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But as you said, extremely catchy.
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Extremely catchy. And a few people at that specific party were like, this is my karaoke song specifically. And I think they were Irish, to be fair. Irish American.
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But, yeah, I mean, you certainly hope. That'd be kind of a weird thing to be into.
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Yes. Yes. I think they. Yeah. I didn't ask anyone for their background check, but I think everyone that identified with it had their reasons.
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What did you go for? What was your song?
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I did. Was it Creed? Let me see. Let me see. I wrote it down.
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I love a bit of Creed.
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I know.
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It really reminds me of brilliant wrestling montages from the 2000s.
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Yeah. Okay. I actually did how to Save a Life by the Fray.
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Oh, huge song. Yeah.
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Which is frequently used on Grey's Anatomy and any other hospital show you can think of.
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A little bit dour for a party.
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It was. Well, when I started, there was only two other people in the living room. So I thought, you know what? This is fine.
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Let's try and clear this room entirely.
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Exactly. I was trying to leave, so I was laser focused on. Perfect. I'm just gonna end everyone's evening.
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Let's make them as sad as possible.
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Well, and then it goes to come ye black and tan. So I don't know. The vibes were. We also had Linger by the Cranberries.
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I don't think those two songs have ever been played in the same setness before.
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Everyone was letting out whatever emotion they had to let out.
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Interesting.
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Yeah.
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Irish rebel in them. Yeah.
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Yes. Yeah.
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Wow. Great. So what was this party? What was the occasion?
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This was a birthday party for a friend and it was medieval themed, which was really fun.
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Medieval themed.
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It was really, really fun. Yep.
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What did you go as?
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I just have this kind of huge tent dress with stripes and tigers on it that looks very like puff sleeve. Medieval princess. Spice trader was kind of the look that was coming together.
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Was that just a Goodwill auction find?
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This was Etsy or something? Yeah, I just found it struck my fancy and I found it. There was a lot of men of the cloth, a lot of monks.
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A bit direct that for me. Bit too obvious.
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Most men were men of the cloth at this party. I'd say there was 70%. Were monks.
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Lazy.
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Yeah. But then there were some warriors. I mean, and then there was a few peasants. There were some people that had. I liked a costume where this man had a bunch of turnips. Just real turnips were just sort of on his belt. Turnips like radishes.
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Oh, turnips. Yeah, I think turnips, as in like he had jeans. Like turnips on his jeans.
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No, turnips.
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Mm, turnips. Okay.
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Yeah. He had big turnips on his belt.
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Weird that, isn't it? You don't really see. I mean, they're still around, but you don't really see turnips anymore, do you?
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No, I, I, that's what it was. Nice. And it was. They had dirt on them too. I mean, they were really organic turnips he had on his belt.
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Dirty turnips. Yeah.
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And that's what I called him. I said, you little dirty turnips.
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Favorite euphemism.
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Just show me your dirty turnips. And then this was my favorite part of the party is People were playing beer pong, but it was with goblets.
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Great.
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So big sort of metal goblets. And then you had to have your hand and heads in a stockade the whole time. Or that thing, what is that called?
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Stocks. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Not a stockade. Right. No, stocks.
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So you had to throw the ball. So your heads are by Your hands are by your head in a. You have to throw the ball.
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Yeah. You kind of have to flick the ball into the goblets. It required some skill.
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Sounds tough.
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It was tough, but fun to watch. I really liked it.
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Yeah, that's. That's an interesting take on it, actually. That does sound fun.
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So the whole party vibe wise, real highs and lows.
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Yeah. Nice. Okay, cool.
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Yeah. So that was different. Different. What. What do you usually end the night karaoke wise with?
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I'm terrible with stuff that people make me do.
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Ah.
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I mean, the last time that I was in a position to do karaoke, we were in Benidorm. And it just annoys me. Someone went, you've got to do it. And immediately, even if I'm up for it, as soon as someone says, you've got to do it, I automatically just go, oh, no, I don't. You can't tell me what to do.
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Defiance disorder, things going on.
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Yeah, but only with very, very menial things like karaoke.
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I don't have to do it and you'll never make me.
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Yeah. So unfortunately, that does it. Scuppers some fun sometimes. But otherwise what you need is a song that you can almost talk through. Yes, that's my ideal. I like. There's a band called Pulp.
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Okay. Yeah.
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Who did like Common People. Common People would probably be. That'd be up there for me.
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Sure.
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Because you can get away with that without having to, you know, really sing. Because I've got mates who'll get up and do like Ness and Dormer. And it's incredible.
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I can sing pretty good, but it is some people. You're just in awe. They're really hitting the hard songs. Come Ye Black and tans. That's a talk through. You can talk that song.
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You absolutely could talk.
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Well, we've talked about such lovely, lovely people today. And specifically one has saved me even more than Creed. And I want to say a good night specifically to the person that outbid me on this marble chess set. It was gonna bankrupt me. And although I am sad now that I don't have to have this and I won't get to see it in person, I want to say goodnight to H E3 I don't know your real name, but goodnight to you and thank you.
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It's really kind. He has or she has no idea what they've done there. Yes, really good deed I owe you. And I'd like to say goodnight to the person who originally bought Pop Tart the game which you ended up with. Good luck to you.
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Good luck. I hope you're doing well without it.
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Good night and good luck.
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Good night to them and good night to you, Matt. I'll talk to you next time. Good night.
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May 5, 2026 – Hosted by Matt Bragg and KP Parker
This episode of The Nightly is a blend of cozy late-night conversation revolving around the chaos of online auctions, thrifted treasures (with an unexpected chessboard haul!), and the highlights of a medieval-themed party. Matt and KP share personal stories, invite listeners into their quirky gift-giving escapades, and swap karaoke anecdotes with warmth, wit, and a generous dash of self-deprecating humor.
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This episode captures the spirit of The Nightly: playful confessions, the relatable perils of online shopping, and the joy of sharing the oddities of life with a friend. Whether you dream of medieval soirees or fear the ever-mounting shipping fees of late-night auctions, Matt and KP’s banter is a comforting send-off for your day.