BS: Oh we're talking about - the activities you've gotten involved in.
ER: That's right.
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ER: So those are the shows. But there's also - training presenters. Which is is time consuming. Particularly for the planetarium because you'll often have people who make great presenters but they don't necessarily know anything about astronomy. When you go into the planetarium, have you been into the planetarium?
BS: yeah yeah.
ER: All of that technical equipment, you have to know how to work it. How to spot that there's a problem - which then you can go and get technical help for. So it's - there's a lot of training involved - to to get people up so that they can present to the public. Because you're by yourself in there as well - with with a group. So they have to be 100% confident that they they're happy to field questions, and to know when to say "actually that's an excellent question I don't know the answer but I know where to find out the answer if you bear with me and I'll just see if I can find out the answer for you." Because that's something that adults don't like doing to kids, I've noticed. If a child asks a question, a lot of adults will fudge an answer rather than say I don't know. And I think it's quite important - particularly for for us not to fudge answers, if we don't know, then we have to say actually "that's a very good question, I don't know but lets find out." And then you can, you can show them how to find out the answer by using a book in the shop or by going onto the Internet and using some of the books that we have here as a resource library. And that that's just as important to them as somebody who says, "186,000 miles an hour." It's more it's actually more of a learning experience for them to find out how to find out then answer. So that's important.
But there's also things like - things that I'm involved in. Next Wednesday I'm going up to the Edinburgh Science Festival. Presenting up there for, for a week. So that's completely external. So I have to get all the props ready for that next week, make sure the script's ready, make sure I know the script, and that I'm happy with it. Getting the risk assessment which is which is being done - all that kind of thing. It's not just about - writing the show, it's about all the, the other stuff which goes with it to make sure it's ready to take.
Currently we're working through the archives. So shows that we've written, making sure that there's a - script a risk assessment, a copy of everything that's needed the show - the theatre layout all that is available so that, if I left my job and somebody else came in if they wanted to rerun that show they just pick the file off - the shelf and it's all there. Just general stuff like that is also - a lot of - a lot of what I do.
Those are just examples. There's a lot more.