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W. Empire pod UK.com. Hello and me, Empire with me Anita Arnd and me William Druple

Are you doing it on purpose?

I'm not that was absolutely up to the minute

I came straight in there without a pause without even a hesitation.

The thing is William people are sending us mail now.

Dear Anita in brackets, pause and William.

Most unjust, no one is more awake than me on this one.

What are you awake?

So I think you're just, anyway, we're here and we're delighted to be here and we are, can I just say, absolutely overwhelmed the pair of us with the response particularly to last podcast with David Orisuga because you know you have been writing in your hundreds it has been it has been rather

Amazing he was so good we were both of us very anxious how we were going to pitch last week's one because it was absolutely

the center of what we're trying to do at this podcast and yet it's very difficult to reconcile these two diverging

worlds and David did it like a ballet dancer

dancing Swan Lake through the middle of a minefield I thought I thought he was

extraordinary. Yeah and you know and people have very much responded I mean I'll tell you what you know that you're never going to please everybody in that we know and we're prepared for that but we weren't prepared for just the sheer volume of love and affection that came for last weeks.

This one here, let me just read a few of the messages that have come through and thank you

so much and we are going through everything.

William and I read everything that you send and so we're very grateful and I know a lot of you sending

suggestions for future podcast but Peter Bale speaks for many when he said I was

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