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Hello, Alex.
Hello, James.
You all right?
I'm good, how are you?
Very well, thank you.
Very well.
And like the six ton altar stone at the heart of Stonehenge, this episode of newscast is coming to you from Scotland.
Did you know it was from Scotland, the big giant stone in the middle of Stonehenge?
They thought.
They used to think it came from Wales.
I was going to say I thought it came from Wales because I was actually there at the end of last year and I thought it came from Wales.
You thought that looks like a welsh stone?
Well, no, somebody told me I couldn't just identify it.
By the way, formation, very impressive.
But also wrong, because it's from Scotland, as it turns out, according to experts.
But not only is it from Scotland, they reckon that it came from the very far north of Scotland.
Six tons of sand.
How was it transported?
I mean, yeah, the $64,000.