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Phew, Ian, we, I think, are recording. Can I hear you? Can I hear you? Because we did have a few

problems last week and we should apologise for the terrible quality and in retrospect we shouldn't

have put it up really, should we? But I say that quite a lot in a non-creepy kind of way.

So, look, the explanation is that we record this on something called clean feed

and clearly something has gone wrong with my laptop.

I thought it was a Yoram, but it was clearly at mine as it turned out.

So we went to record this on

Thursday and the same thing happened so we're now recording it at your end and you are

responsible for all the technical I get to I get to press start and download the recording

and oh my God I just feel like I'm in mission control whereas actually i'm in i'm in my

front room which and as you well know because you just face time me or rather would he just

face time me i'm i'm very red in the face and i've got wet hair because i've just come back from

my run and i just did a very quick shower before I did all this technical stuff.

I was going to say something obscene then.

Well, don't.

I, on Thursday, I went, I had a lovely afternoon.

I addressed the Association for former MPs.

Oh yeah.

Yeah.

And some of them hadn't heard of the podcast, but anyway, they have now. No.

But I did say to quite a few of them had, but some of them hadn't.

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