This is the Guardian.

Hi, this is Gabi Logan here from my podcast midpoint and I'm here to talk to you about how

Mercedes-Benz are going to be making your life easier by changing the way you buy a new car.

Seeing as we're now into this fresh new year, happy new year, for your new Mercedes-Benz,

no matter where or when you buy it online or in store, you can choose your car and there's just one

price, their best price, no haggling needed for ease and simplicity. You can search for a new

Mercedes-Benz on their online showroom or speak with the sales agent at one of their showrooms

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search Mercedes-Benz online showroom or visit them in store, subject to availability,

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This episode contains strong language.

Hi, I'm David Wolff, Editor of the Guardian Long Read. For the rest of the month,

we'll be pausing our normal schedule to replay some of our favourite episodes from 2022 in case

you miss them first time around. Each episode will begin with an introduction from one of the

Long Read's editors, reflecting on why we think it's such a good piece. We'll be back to our regular

programming in the new year. So today I picked a fun piece by Kirin Morris under the title,

the amazing true-ish story of the Honduran Maradona. It's a story of a teenage prank that got

totally out of control and seemingly propelled an obscure Honduran footballer to fame. This is one of

those pieces that started in the idealised way that people like to imagine articles get commissioned,

which is I was talking to Kirin over drinks and then he told me this story about the Honduran

Maradona and this crazy prank he played and how it had kind of got out of hand. And from that

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