This episode is sponsored by ASICS. Rick, you're going to tell me what ASICS is an acronym for.

Anemisana Incorporacano. Yes. I can't believe it. Unbelievable. I got it. Sound mind in a sound body. I thought we're going to catch you out. You had ASICs to support you for your first ever half marathon. Yeah, they kept me on an even keel. Got through it. No problems. We're deep into marathon season.

Training's hard, but that doesn't mean you have to compromise on comfort and a good running

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Music at checkout for 15% off the marathon race day pack. Hello, on today's show, we're talking about mortgage interest rates, so drop in

inflation and, oh, wrong job. I saw economy in the title and got interested. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Brilliant. Brilliant. So professional. Sorry.

But you are right. Today we're going to be talking about running economy. What is it? Can you improve it? Why is it a problem if you aren't very good? It felt like that was just an excuse for you to tell us that you do have another job, that you talk about money and various different guys on various different radio shows. But we're not doing it today. We're doing it today.

No, we're not.

We're talking about running economy.

We're also got a really cool question sent over from our

Tokyo correspondent, Aubrey, who's been out there. And we're going to talk about a little

piece from the news that we're all going to have a hot take on. But we'll have a catch-up as

well and then talk about running economy. Let's go.

Well, that was quite a weekend. Oh my gosh. Rick has extensive notes on everything today. So this could be one of those episodes. Strap in is what I'd say. Strap in. Should we talk about what happened on Friday night? We... And then the impact... We're going to talk about Friday night, right?

And then we're going to talk about the impact that that had on both of your weekends from that point on this.

Oh, no.

A strong impact, I would say.

Strong.

So, Ross Noble, who's been on the show, the British comedian who lives in Australia.

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