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S2, Ep8 How to Fail: David Baddiel

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

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The Importance of Memory in Truth Telling

I think that my own anxiety about getting dementia, which perpetuates as I grow older, worries me not just in terms of the hideous ness of getting that but also memory is very crucial to truth. If your memory starts to fail you, then you don't know that. And interestingly, it happened recently, which is coming back to my son. My son is very funny. He says really funny things all the time, all the time. But he said, for that Volvo, you'll get a couple of thumbtacks and a shilling. A strange, 19th century thing to say. So I put it on Twitter. People thought it was really weird but kind of funny

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