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Jul 7
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113 = Marg Ana Names and Mid Career Chan...

Matt Parker, Bec Hill
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🚂 If you want a career change, how do you decide what to retrain as?

👶 What would be a good set of names for twins or triplets?

🦷 And there’s some Any Other Busi


Here’s some baby naming code from Colin Beveridge: https://github.com/icecolbeveridge/zoe_names


If you’re heading to the Edinburgh Fringe, you can get tickets to see Bec here: https://tickets.gildedballoon.co.uk/event/14:5884/


And you can get tickets see to Matt here: https://www.pleasance.co.uk/event/getting-triggy-it-matt-parker-does-maths


If you are in Edinburgh and fancy seeing Matt and Bec battle it out in Ikea Wars on Sunday 10th August, tickets are here: https://www.edfringe.com/tickets/whats-on/ikea-wars

Here’s how to get involved with Matt’s Moon Pi Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/profile/standupmaths 


If you are on Patreon and have a creative Wizard offer to give Bec and Matt, please comment on our pinned post!  


If you want to (we’re not forcing anyone) please do leave us a review, share the podcast with a friend, or give us a rating! Please do that. It really helps. 


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