If the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say this was their finest hour.

We stand for Queen, Country and Video Games.

BRB, UK.

Worst teeth. Better accents.

Hello, hello. Ahoy, hoie. Actually, is how you normally do it, but we're not having the person that normally does it.

I know, but, you know, hey, it doesn't matter. Dan's not here in case you had, by his lack of dulcet tones and velvety smoothness,

generally saying things in better sentence structures than I can manage. But yeah, he's not here this week.

Instead, we have someone else who I'll introduce in a minute, but as per normal, we do have the Scottish one along for the ride.

Hello, John.

This is Big Red Barrel UK podcast. It was 48, by the way.

Oh yeah, I forgot that bit. See, I'm, I don't, I shouldn't introduce us, really, should I ever. This is a podcast about video games.

About barrels that are red, isn't it?

Sometimes, once in a while, I'm John.

Hi.

Now that you've just, you know, completely sold the whole idea to the rest of the nation in such a stunning way.

I have fixed your introduction. I mean, the raw affection that comes through for the love of podcasting in your voice, though, makes it all worthwhile, John. I basically spooge affection. You splooge affection. You splooge affection. You're more like you scrooge affection. I was about to say, let's sploge some affection on Matt.

No, I'm not, I'm not sploogeing any affection on Matt.

I'd probably get too much out of it.

Yeah, that's true.

This is great.

I'm always glad I do this.

Yeah, we have Matt, who does stuff for us and the average gamer, and appears on Ono Video Games,

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