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Hello Bugleers, it's Monday the 17th of May 2021.

You may, if you are a Britain-based listener, now give your headphones or speaker a hug,

and it will register as a legal hug for the Bugle podcast of which this is issue 4194,

and I, Andy Zoltzmann, Am Host, joining me this week, a former resident of A, the same house

I lived in, and B, the same womb I lived and worked in for nine months, not at the same

time in the case of B, it's the quibbling sibling, Helen Zoltzmann.

That was your longest office job, wasn't it?

The second longest, Helen, second I lasted a full 11 months in the other one.

Wow, full gestation!

Joining us from a strange faraway place in another world, or at least from another half

of this world, if this is indeed a world anymore, it's Alice Fraser!

Hello Andy, yes indeed, I am in Queensland, in Australia, the strangest of Australians,

as far as places go.

Well, Queensland is also here, Britain, this is the Queensland, as indeed is the entire

earth by rights.

So to the state of Queensland, as it constantly threatens to succeed from the rest of Australia,

it is the place in Australia where I get the most culture shock, it is, and yet it insists

it is the most Australian of places.

Right, I mean how has that marked, is that because there are like a scale of Australian

ness in different categories?

A sort of parochialism and hats.

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