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For July 18, 2025, my name is Bernie Burns sitting all the way over there in Spain.

It's Ben King. Say hi to Ben King, everybody. How you, Ben?

Hey, Bernie. How's it going?

Are you doing? Are you okay that I told everybody that you're in Spain right now?

Oh, yeah, I'm off the grid. I'm actually in witness protection, so you've blown my cover. How is it there? Because the heat wave in the UK has been a nightmare. Yeah. And the temperatures in Spain are much higher, but you guys are much more equipped to deal with it, right? I'm feeling hot, I'm looking hot, it's going great. But it's, you know, having lived in the cold, bleak England for the first 30 years of my life, like, I've earned this. So it's, it's okay, I'm enjoying it. Do you say you've earned it or you deserve it? I don't know which one you're... Both, yeah, both, yeah. Yeah, I'm in my hot girl summer era now, but it's like, it's my whole life, so it's great.

Hey, can you explain something to me as an old guy?

Does hot girl summer mean that people are getting hot girls or the hot girls are having a great time?

Or is it both?

No, in this context, you are the hot girl.

Am I the hot girl?

And it's suggesting that you're single and free and you're out sipping apriol spritz on the beach and dancing to disco lines, you know, you're having a great time. Having rosé and such. So do you get to travel much? Because now it's, it's even less of a journey for you to go to a bunch of different countries from Spain. You could just hop on a bus or a train and go to a lot of different places. I guess you can do that from London, but really kind of plane is kind of still the default because of the channel. Well, it's kind of weird. Like one thing I did for the first time, I think maybe, oh no, I did it in America, but sort of domestic flights, that's a really foreign concept to me, because we don't do that in England because it's too small, right?

Right. So I did Barcelona to Ibiza, and it was just like a normal flight. I don't know what I was expecting, but yeah, it was kind of interesting being able to just sort of fly. I guess I was going to a different island technically. But yeah, I know you can, there's definitely, there's like cities in Spain that I want to see.

I want to see, I, you can, there's definitely, there's like cities in Spain that I want to see. I want to see at Bilbao, Sevilla, Valencia, places like that. But yeah, I mean, I ping pong back to London a lot. It's like a 90-minute flight. And it's, you know, I've still got a house over in London. So, yeah, I drop in and I get to, you know, sort of dip in my toes to

the British life so I don't lose all that kind of cultural stuff that I've built up. And it's,

yeah, I stay in touch with my, with my roots that way. I, you know, I didn't think about this before,

but especially post-Brexit, you would almost never get on a plane from the UK and not need your

passport at this point. Yeah, exactly. Whereas if you're an American growing up, it's very rare that

you ever do have your passport. It's like a very exceptional journey if you're traveling somewhere

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