On the Empire podcast this week, White House down, director Rilland Emmerich takes

over our pod booth and threatens to do.

Well, nothing dastardly at all, really, which is nice, plus Ron Howard pops in for a pitstop

to talk about Rush, while we have all the movie news and nonsense is fit to pod.

Only movie podcaster realizes you probably skipped this bit already, so it doesn't really

matter what it is here at all, does it?

Hello pod, I'm Chris Hewitt and welcome to the Empire podcast, as ever I'm joined

by three of my learned and esteemed colleagues.

Well, that was the plan, but traffic's a bit, so instead I'm joined by Geek, Queen,

Helen, O'Hara, Arthouse, Guru, Phil, Desemnon, and Philm, Fact, Fiend, Ali, Plum.

Hello, welcome all, I'm trying a new intro this week because someone wouldn't say they

know who we are already, so they skipped this bit.

But then, how will new listeners know your voices, I was wondering, and it actually gives

me no room to write an Arthouse joke for Phil, which I enjoy doing every week, and it's

very disappointing.

So, do you let us know, do you like the long tortured introductions, or the shorter introduction

that I'm doing now, where I just introduce the guys and then get on with the show instead

of wasting time on a long, laborious introduction that really drags things out for ages.

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