All right. Do we want to just dive right in or would you like a little more small chalk to small, small chalk? Small chalk. That's what we do around here. Would you like a little more of that or are we ready to rock? I'm not trying to rush you. I just am trying to be cognizant of the fact that you're probably sleepy. So listeners, I should tell you that we are recording on the night of the 29th of August. And this interesting sounding fellow

that's joining me today is not Mike Hurley, despite his impeccable British accent. It is actually

somebody else. So hello, the Slightly Ill, Stephen Hackett. How are you, sir? Hey, like I said,

slightly ill, so I apologize for any grossness of my voice.

But we're recording this today.

I don't think I'm going to have a voice tomorrow.

So I was like, no, we got to get this done while I can still talk.

Because Mike's on vacation.

He was here in Memphis, and now he is at the beach.

And I'm feeling in for a bunch of shows.

So if you listen to several relay shows, you're going to hear me a bunch this weekend next week. So sorry, I would sound progressively worse as the shows go

on. By the time download comes around on Thursday, I'm going to be like scratching things out

to Jason and Skype. Or like Morse code, right? D-do-do-do-do-do. Yeah. I don't know when you're

planning on releasing this. Typically we release Sunday. We didn't talk about this before the show. Yes. Sunday. So it may be that by the time you hear this, you will have sounded as though

you've gotten sick again. Because over the course of the next few days, I'm hoping you'll get maybe

a little bit worse, but I'm mostly hoping you'll get better. And then all of a sudden this episode

will drop. Why would you hope I get a little worse? Well, you know what I mean? Like, I assume you might get a smidge worse. That's terrible. But then, uh, but then hopefully you'll

get better. And so you'll sound all spick and span maybe by the time download comes out. And then

suddenly you're going to be back in the depths of sickness. All show. I think they, I think they've got it. You've been doing it for three years. Happy birthday. Congratulations on three years of analog. Oh yeah. I didn't even think of it

that way, but I guess you're right. Yeah. You were our first show, first new show, because the other four

had come over from five by five and you, you had a new show. You took a chance on us so i think about that a lot thank you yeah well you know it's my pleasure and you took a chance on me too because i you know i i will always carry the burden of being the

other guy on ATP forever and always but uh certainly back then it was less debatable that i was

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