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Podcast: How to Lend Money to Strangers
Episode: How to stop lending money to strangers and follow your dreams, with Gideon Griebenow (World Turtles)
Description: Stephen Hawking starts A Brief History of Time with an anecdote he attributes to Bertrand Russel who, having just finished a lecture on the heliocentric nature of the planetsโ orbits, was challenged by a lady in the audience. โWhat you have told us is rubbish.โ She said, โThe world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant turtle.""If your theory is correct, madam," Russell replied, "then what does this turtle stand on?""You're a very clever man, and that's a very good question," she replied, "but the first turtle stands on the back of a second...