Hello, welcome back again to this bonus episode of Trash Future, that podcast you're listening

to right now. It's me, Riley. I am joined from one sunny

and disclosed location. I'm joined by Nate. Hello, yes. I'm actually, I'm allowed to disclose my

location this time. I'm in the studio for the first time in months and it's really weird.

You have like an arm full of those Fitbit devices, all with the locations enabled.

Just reminiscing about how much we used to be able to just move freely.

What a weird sensation.

And so if you're listening to this, please at the band The Police to let them know that Nate has been in the studio.

Yeah.

We will tactically deploy a SWAT team to the studio in order to compromise Nate to a permanent end, taking multiple trips outside in one day.

That's right. And from a sunny undisclosed location as well is Alice. Alice, how's it going?

It's going well. I love to not disclose my location, although it is very sunny, so I'll say that for it.

That's right. And joining us, we have a very special guest today, very pumped about this.

From an Eldridge Horror disclosed location, it is Charlie Strauss, the author of The Laundry Files series, as well as many other books,

and Dead Lies Dreaming, coming out on October 2020.

Charlie, how you doing?

Hi, and hello from Sunny Edinburgh in Scotland.

So if you're counting at home, that is one disclosed location.

Yeah.

Mark that down on your bingo cards.

So, Charlie, the laundry files as a series, I was hoping we could get a little bit of background on that so we can then go into your new code, which I've, uh, your new code, your new book. I've got

the bloody code written down on my notes. Um, your, you're, your new book. So we can get some

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