Hi, it's producer Chris from the Bugle here. Did you know that I have a new series of my podcast,

Richie Firth Travel Hacker, out now. It's the show where Richie Firth and I talk about how to make

travel better in our very special way. In this series, we discuss lime bikes, Tesla's, the London

Overground and a whole bunch of other random stuff that possibly involves wheels or tracks or engines of some variety.

God, what a hot sell this is. I mean, you must be so excited. Listen now.

When passions run high And secrets run deep

When plots twist and turn and turn and twist

When you love and loathe characters in equal measure

Oh I think she's a wrongan

Yeah, it's the shifty eyes

Nothing brings us together like great TV

And a TV licence covers you to watch all TV channels plus BBC Eye Player

so you can bond over your favourite soaps and dramas.

Search TV licence together. Hello, hello, hello, hello,

and welcome to the last post, the final word in this, the most post-final of post worlds.

As I circle the ruined Earth in my orbiting space station slash luxury

podcasting studio, I look at the dark wasteland that remains of humanity's birthplace and

wonder, is there anyone still out there? I stare at what we've made of this place, the

burgeoning new cities tentatively rebuilding fragmentary civilizations on the rubble of totally dragon

ruins in the north,

the tentacular spread of the octopus overlords in the global south, the huge warring shrines

to Silvio Berlusconi and to Dorothy the dinosaur in the wreckage of Rome.

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