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Me Ravi Abbott and me Joe Fox.

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and the games that they worked on in the second half of the podcast.

And this week, another massive name on the show that we'll talk about in just a moment. I'm hoping that I do manage to last the next 45 minutes or so, having just got off a plane from America yesterday. I think my body clock's still at like, what, 2 or 3 a.m. at the moment. You sound quite chipper. I was expecting more jet lag. Yeah, well, I'm fuel by about three cups of black coffee at the moment,

Ravi, and it's not even 10 a.m. So we'll see how the rest of the day goes. But I just want to say,

I mean, we are going to do more about the event that I was at over the weekend for regular

listeners. You know that I went out to VCF, the Vintage federation that was held in New Jersey.

An amazing little event. I know you've been there as well, Ravi. I say a little event. Actually, it was a big event because we were walking around the venue that it's held. And like you said to me before, it's like a military base. Yeah, isn't it when I do VCF? and there's like, there's a radio museum there,

lots of old ham radio stuff,

got like,

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