This week in Retronauts, all our hosts are male, so I think you'll find we have men here. Oh, Hello welcome to

to retrorods. I'm Stuart Jip, your indominable host and we are talking about the toast of Europe. Yes, that's right. We're talking

about Asterix. Is that how it's pronounced? Asterix? Asterix, yeah?

Asterix, okay.

And whether or not you're familiar with Asterix, I think you'll find we've got an excellent

crowd here to talk about it, so let's introduce all of them.

Let's start with someone who has never ever been on retinorts before but has in fact listened to

retronots and that's hello. Who are you?

Who are you?

Who me?

Yes.

Y'all it's a bad damn time on here.

I'm Audis Early.

You might know me from Digital Foundry where I co-produced Theafretra with my dear friend John

Littimix and also producer at Limited Run games, not Limtron Pants.

I heard you mentioned John Lim in excess there, so hello John, how are you today?

As the token American on this podcast, I am doing quite well and I'm eager to talk about the superior European mascot

Asterix not Hugo. Oh God, there's an episode in waiting and who else is

with it who else is with us today? So hello, I'm Thomas Nickle, as you might have already guessed from the description of the

podcast and I want to mention a bit of background so to get this trait

galle here is omnis de Vise in parties,

Farum unum, in cold and Belge,

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