Bengal
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From the start of his career, where he started out in Bengal, he called himself the world's greatest magician immediately before even really starting his career and shortened it, bizarrely, to TW's GM, the world's greatest magician, which feels like a really complicated weird non-acronym.
from 402: No Such Thing As A Pig Playing Fortnite, 2021-12-03 at 00:33:38 · read transcript
Other times Bengal came up
Exactly. On prime time television. This was so weird. It was on panorama, which feels like it must have been a very different show back in the day. This was a magician called P.C. Sorsa, who was an Indian magician, is born in Bengal. He was over. It was one of his first big international gigs. He sought his assistant in half. She was called Dipty Day. The show was running really short of time, and it was all live, so they just ran out of time.
402: No Such Thing As A Pig Playing Fortnite, 2021-12-03 · listen
It's all about the first times that people from some parts of the world encountered stuff from other parts of the world. This was a sailor called Thomas Bowery and 10 of his mates. They were English, actually. This was in the 1670s and they were in Bengal. So in India at the time, lots of weed were smoked. all over the shop. It was called Bang, B-H-A-N-G.
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