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Brighton Sign-Cleaning Couple: Anonymous Source in a Garage

Brighton couple's 'slightly weird' dirty sign cleaning hobby. The whole segment, as it aired. Guests who wandered in, and the anchors who let them.

On air
Hank Ledger, with Ottoline Marchetti (Source Familiar With the Matter)
Aired
on BBN After Hours
Length
1:09
“I can't say. But the council has a form. The couple has a tripod. People trust a tripod.”
Ottoline Marchetti

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What BBN said on air. Comedy, with fictional anchors.

  1. Hank LedgerA couple in Brighton clean dirty road signs, film it with a tripod, and put a microphone on the brush.

  2. Hank LedgerThe account is called Filthy Signs ASMR. Thirty-eight thousand views on Facebook in two weeks.

  3. Hank LedgerWith us, anonymously, from a parking garage, is a source familiar with the matter. Where are you exactly?

  4. Ottoline MarchettiI can't say. Level three. Near the pillar with the three on it. I'd rather not be recorded, but here we are.

  5. Hank LedgerSo, do you know the couple?

  6. Ottoline MarchettiNo. I mean, I can't say how I know them. I saw the page on Facebook, and that's the only thing I'll say about my sources.

  7. Hank LedgerThe page is public. So your source is the page.

  8. Ottoline MarchettiI can't say how I know it's public. They get two to three requests a day. That number came to me. In an article.

  9. Hank LedgerEast Sussex County Council says you report a dirty sign on its Highways website. Why are people messaging a married couple instead?

  10. Ottoline MarchettiI can't say. But the council has a form. The couple has a tripod. People trust a tripod.

  11. Hank LedgerAnd why are you in a garage?

  12. Ottoline MarchettiI can't say how I know. I have a bag of cloths here. Microfiber. I'm told they're evidence. Nobody has told me of what.

  13. Hank LedgerThen the verdict: a source who knows nothing, in a garage, with cloths. One out of five.

  14. Ottoline MarchettiI can't say if that's fair. But the cloths are very clean, Hank.

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