Hello and welcome to this week's Blind By Podcast.

You might notice the sound is slightly different, there's no tinkling piano in the background.

That's because I'm not in Ireland, I'm over in America.

I couldn't record the fuck, I couldn't get back to my studio on time to record this week's podcast properly.

And the place that I'm staying in, the sound is absolutely shit.

So the sound of the hotel room, you know, bounce in everywhere and passable to do a podcast.

So when this happens, I often find the best thing to do is to fuck off outside and find a reason,

reasonably quiet area and record the podcast there.

So at the moment I'm kind of squirreled away in a little cafe in San Francisco on the outside.

And it's a blisteringly hot sunny day which is quite nice.

But you're going to be hearing cars and trams and hopefully not,

but some loud yanks passing by as they tend to do.

What you want here unfortunately is the sound of birds.

There's not a lot of wildlife in San Francisco, it's, there's a lot of concrete.

You know what you really notice is when you're in a big mass of American city, you really notice the sheer lack of birds and insects and what have you.

But anyway, it's going to be a sharp-ish podcast this week.

I'm committed to trying to give you a podcast every single week and I don't want to leave a week with no podcast.

I have the technology to be bringing a mobile recording thing on the road.

So fuck it, why don't I use it.

Love podcasts last week with Emma Dabbery.

That was good crack, got a great response from that.

And a lot of people just saying they were really interested to find an outshade about Africa that they never knew.

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