Hello and welcome to Shut Up and Sit Down, the podcast, the very 17th Paul.

Is it? I thought we were just on 18. I thought you just said you think this is 18.

But it turned out to be 17. This is a very special edition of the

Shut Up and Sit Down podcast. This is the Mega Game podcast.

On Friday we published a very long video, which you guys haven't seen yet,

of attending the Mega Game. My name is Quentin Smith.

Hello. I was the commander of the Japanese Armed Forces. Paul, what were you?

My name is Paul Deenon and I was the Japanese Foreign Minister, which meant that I went to the

UN and negotiated with other countries. And we are joining today by Mr Brendan Coldwell,

Brendan. What were you? I was the head of science for Japan. How did that work out?

I, I, science. Novel prize. I won a Nobel Prize. I won many Nobel prizes.

And we are joined by Mr. Matt Lees. Hello.

Our esteemed president. Prime Minister. Prime Minister of Japan.

How would you describe your experience as a Prime Minister of Japan?

Stressful.

Okay, so people haven't seen the video yet. You absolutely should go and watch it,

because while I haven't finished editing it yet, I'm sure it's excellent.

The Mega Game gamers are a group of UK gamers who for the last, for almost 30 years now,

I think we're making these enormous large-scale games of their own design.

So I would kind of went along being, you know, sort of like nervous about the quality of the

thing, but it was just astonishing. They really knew what they were doing. And in our game,

it was teams of people all running countries in the world and then a very rapid, fast and

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