14: A flaming good flight
Lateral with Tom Scott
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Is There a Surplus of Incense?
San Diego de Compostela, Spain. It is the endpoint of a popular pilgrimage route. Did they all bring their own incense and just kept burning bigger and bigger piles? That'd be like, you rock up, you finish your pilgrimage like, add my incense to the incense pile and then they add it to the pile and the pile gets too big. I want to put my vote in for a surplus of incense. People stank too much. The priest got onto the incense and he swung and he said, you know who else swung in like a wrecking ball to break the traditions of the Pharisees? It's a young man named Jesus Christ.
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