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Hello and welcome back to Big Mood, Little Mood. I am your host, Daniel Lavery, and with me in

the studio this week is Daniel Shannon, a senior software engineer and technical lead at Fox Media,

where he works on digital editorial content, and a serial founder of D-Funked Queer Literary

Magazines. He once saw Julia Stiles eating alone in a bar, and hopes she's doing all right. Daniel,

I am so, so, so glad that you are here. The two Daniels reunited professionally at last.

I'm delighted to be here. I feel like there's either going to be a competitive thing or

sort of like a dual tap dancing thing. Maybe both. Dual tap dancing. I'm never competitive with you.

I, you know, my whole career has been hoping to eventually get to start one of those D-Funked Queer

Literary Magazines with you. And I think my whole career has been chasing you down to participate in

them. So, you know, perhaps the problem is with us, then, if neither of us has been able to make

this one happen. But I do want you and all of our listeners to know that I will be recording my end

from a friend of a friend's apartment where there is a copy of Country Living Magazine that

asks the question, who is the most beloved person in Britain? And that is going to be the spirit

that informs all of my advice today. Who is the least beloved person in Britain? That was exactly,

exactly, my first thought. And this is why you and I need to start something that fails together.

Is immediately I thought you got to do it. You got to do a follow-up for who just fucking hates

their person. What little cute, parish full of, you know, strawberry-faced kids is just like,

we hate this guy. He's awful. And I'm just going to take a wild guess and say it's at Romley on C,

which I don't know if that's a real village, but it sounds plausible. I am very excited to have

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