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False Economy
Ep17: Mark Read
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A1's very own Mark Read has some excellent spending habits for Vix and Paul to dig into (spoiler alert, they're almost exclusively around geeky memorabilia).
On the agenda this week, amongst other things, are grand pianos, Darth Vader, sex toys, Muppets and Elvis barbies which I'm sure you'll agree is a fairly wide spectrum.
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