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The perpetrator was sentenced to 99 years until a confession changed everything. I was a monster. Listen to Burden of Guilt Season 2 on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Bless me. Hello, Crimeless Nation, and welcome to our second ever bonus episode, inspired by one of my favorite rabbit holes from this week's episode, when I read Rory some of my favorite honest-to-God British town names. What was the second one? Cockermouth. All right, what was the one before that? Bitchfield. Yeah, I'm either going to go Bitchfield or what was the titty one? due to time constraints and lane's ruthless editing i could only get through a handful in the show but trust me when i say that when it comes to silly town names the united kingdom does not disappoint i spent hours looking at these incredible names and got so excited that i had to share my favorites with you unfortunately rory was too busy touring america doing stand-up comedy to call in and humor me today. So I did the next best thing. I called the first British person I could think of. My friend and the producer of my other podcast, Chameleon, Joe Barrett. Joe is sort of the opposite of Rory. For example, he's very calm and measured. He works in journalism, and he doesn seem to find titty nearly as funny as Rory or me He also just a very good sport So please listen on as I try to convert this stoic Brit into a childish American Wish me luck Welcome Joe Let first establish your bona fides. You are, in fact, British. Can you confirm? I am. I'm British. I was born in Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire. And you still live in England today. I still live in England today in Berkshire. I thought you were in Reading. That's in Berkshire. Berkshire is the royal county. Oh. Yeah, if you're in London and you're traveling to Wales, Reading is the place in between those two places. It's the city of the three Bs, beer, bulbs, and biscuits. Bulbs? Like what? I think light bulbs, but there's often confusion about whether it seeds because Reading's quite a big garden center. But I think it's bulbs, as in light bulbs. I'm glad we cleared that up. All right. And people from Reading are called Reading Injins. As in? I think it's named after an ancient tribe by a guy with red hair. So it's a coincidence. But Injins, you said? Yeah. I don't think that's appropriate anymore. well speaking of inappropriate we're going to talk about funny british place names because there are many that are i was going to say arguably vulgar but i don't even think arguably they're just entertainingly and amusingly vulgar there was always a place growing up near where my grandparents lived not a million miles away from here called soggy bottom i've heard of it Can confirm. That did not make my list, though. But I was going to say, do you have a favorite silly British town name? But it sounds like there it is. So I'm going to read you a list, okay? And if you've visited any of these places, let me know. And if you think I'm making them up, I'm not. All right. In no particular order, this is a list of my 15 favorite ridiculous British town names that I found either on Reddit or on one of the many online maps of funny place names. I'm going to read them through once quickly and then a second time more slowly. If you happen to know the place, I guess tell me something about it. I don't expect you to, but I'll just, just in case. And just as a quick side note, I ruled out any place that included the word cock or cocks because there are just too many. Apparently in old English, it means small hill-like mound or stream. Here we go. Shitterton, Lousy Bush, Donkey Town, Mumbles, Great Snoring, Brown Willie, Puckle Church, Fanny Barks, Blubber Houses, Queen Camel, Barton and the Beans, Rams Bottom, Loose Bottom, Rotten Bottom. Why are there so many bottoms, Joe? I've only been to one of these places. Which one? Ramsbottom. And? I'm just going to have to double check. Is there a reason that there's so many towns with bottom in the name? Well, there's probably quite a lot of towns with top in them, too. So there's a Ramsbottom and a Ramstop. Okay. Ramsbottom is near Manchester which is near where my mum is from and is is you thinking that there often and this the jokes will write themselves a top and a bottom because it's like the top of a hill and the bottom of a hill like these are towns on a hill this is my guess but I was thinking more top of bottom of a map oh very literal which is what you want in a map very very fair point oh and I forgot I got caught up on the bottoms. The last one was twat with two T's. T-W-A-T-T. I apologize to the residents of twats. Oh, there were so many on the show that we talked. There was this wet wang. There was titty ho. Wet wang. Well, we don't call them wangs. It's not as funny to. Are you looking some of them up? Yes. Which one? I can't find twats. No, there's no S. Twats. T-W-A-T-T. How about Lousy Bush? Oh, yeah. Twat. Well, Twat is in Orkney, so that's still the UK. It's right at the top. There you go. I'm one for one. I'm telling you, I did not make any of them up. Give me another one at random. Let's go. Donkey Town. Yeah, that seems to be real. not not very far from me actually okay we won't fact check them all how about great snoring also real doesn't seem that like there's much going on here i did not say that there was much going on any of these places i just i would like so i think like random fact checking of three of them have proven that they these are real i think we can assume the entire list is real there's something in great snoring called the great snoring social club which i like the look of you and i in in uh the other show that that we actually work on we made an episode in which i had to pronounce a welsh town name and i screwed it up yes i'm gonna put a few welsh names into the dm and you're you're gonna help me pronounce them this is the bonus round of our game okay i don't speak welsh so i understood and i'm gonna get in trouble because i've got a lot of welsh friends. Can you pronounce this one? I'll spell it for listeners. B-W-L-C-H-G-W-Y-N. That's pronounced Cardiff. How does Welsh work? There are no vowels. I'm not sure. I can find you a Welsh person. You're not even going to try? No. What about this one? That one is spelled Y-S-B-Y-T-Y-Y-S-T-W-Y-T-H. Again, the only vowel is Y. Yes, but he yes with. There you go. Is Y the only vowel in Welsh? It seems to be. There's loads of vowels in Welsh. Yeah, I'll prove that here when I share this one with you, which is the longest place name in the United Kingdom. It has 58 letters, and I will read them here slowly for you. Please play along at home. L L A N F A I R P W L L G W Y N G Y L L G O G E R Y C H W Y R N D R O B W I think it 4Ls L L L L A N T Y S I L I O G O G O G O C H holy shit but we have a video of a weatherman saying it that we going to cut in In the sunshine in northwest Wales at RAF Mona, just up the road from Llanbar to Pirlgwing, Llanbar to Sileo Gorgorg, the temperature got to 21 Celsius. Wow. That's a mouthful. I'm not going to try it. Good work, weatherman. The weatherman, for the record, is Liam Dutton of England's Channel 4. He is a brave, brave man for even attempting this. Incredible name. He's very pleased with himself, and rightly so. Yes, I would also be. I mean, he probably was planning that. He knew that he had to say it and had been practicing. Yes, absolutely. Have you looked if there were in other languages even longer place names? I have not, but I'm guessing Finnish or Hungarian maybe. Is that the longest place name in the world? I can find out we can all find out we can all find out together there's an 85 letter hill in New Zealand but the place in northwest Wales is the longest official town name yep exactly that concludes our game okay thanks for tuning in to our second ever bonus episode more coming including some very fun stuff we'll see you next week What if mind control is real? If you could control the behavior of anybody around you, what kind of life would you have? Can you hypnotically persuade someone to buy a car? When you look at your car, you're going to become overwhelmed with such good feelings. Can you hypnotize someone into sleeping with you? I gave her some suggestions to be sexually aroused. Can you get someone to join your cult? NLP was used on me to access my subconscious. Mind Games, a new podcast exploring NLP, aka neurolinguistic programming. Is it a self-help miracle, a shady hypnosis scam, or both? Listen to Mind Games on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Amanda Knox, and in the new podcast, Doubt, the case of Lucy Letby, we unpack the story of an unimaginable tragedy that gripped the UK in 2023. But what if we didn't get the whole story? I've just been made to fit. The moment you look at the whole picture, the case collapsed. What if the truth was disguised by a story we chose to believe? Oh my God, I think she might be innocent. Listen to Doubt, The Case of Lucy Letby on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is Special Agent Regal, Special Agent Bradley Hall. In 2018, the FBI took down a ring of spies working for China's Ministry of State Security, one of the most mysterious intelligence agencies in the world. The Sixth Bureau podcast is a story of the inner workings of the MSS and how one man's ambition and mistakes opened its vault of secrets. Listen to The Sixth Bureau on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Nancy Glass, host of the Burden of Guilt Season 2 podcast. This is a story about a horrendous lie that destroyed two families. Late one night, Bobby Gumpright became the victim of a random crime. The perpetrator was sentenced to 99 years until a confession changed everything. I was a monster. Listen to Burden of Guilt Season 2 on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. 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