Hello, I'm Chris Hewitt and welcome to this very very special edition of the Empire Podcast

this is to celebrate our 200th edition I know I didn't think we'd make it either this

was recorded at the Prince Charles Cinema on Wednesday February 24th I've just a couple

of notes before we get into the show itself obviously it's a live show it was recorded

as live so the sound quality may not be as good as you would normally expect from the

Empire Podcast he says acknowledging the fact that we've had numerous sound problems

over the last 199 episodes also there may be some abrupt cuts in the edit John Eugen

will try to mitigate that a little bit because it was a live show we got carried away some

things were said that maybe we should be putting out as part of regular podcast but

anyway if you're in the room you had a lot of fun hopefully do join us for the next

live podcast by the way if you couldn't make it and one last thing the theme tune the Empire

Podcast the engine didn't work on the night we were trying to pipe it through the speakers

it didn't work so instead I got the 300 strong audience to engage in the world's biggest

bangly bang right that's the scene set the stage set everything set please do enjoy our

200th podcast as live

on the Empire Podcast this week we're live at the Prince Charles St.

Amalundan for a 200th episode

that was amazing hello pot I'm Chris you had welcomed the 200th edition of the Empire Podcast

they said it couldn't be done they said it should be done well they're not laughing now to

be fairly weren't laughing then either and they really haven't laughed at any point during

the last hundred and nine episodes but never mind then screw the haters that's what I say

because we've made it to 200 episodes which is amazing which means that instead of shouting

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