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W. Empire pod UK.com. Hello and me, Empire with me Anita Annan.

And me, William Durandpaugh.

Thank you very much for joining us, William.

Listen, listen.

The laughter there is because we've got a very special guest on.

And if you blow the surprise in the first five seconds

I'm going to reach into this screen.

No, look in the last few episodes I think maybe I'm so hypercharged because the last few

episode we have had a lot of islands mate.

I mean there's so many things that have gone boom, things that went bang, things that went

flay. I like the flay, oh I like a bit of flaying on a little bit too much if you don't mind me saying a stuffing withdrawal

Yes, this is however a very special episode where we're going to slightly

No flaying at all.

For my sanity more than anything,

step out of the cut-nen and a-flaying and a-slaying,

and we're going to talk about women.

Because you know what, William?

Particularly, I was fascinated with the Lopanto stuff that we did which was

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