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. Hello there, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to a very unique episode of the Midlife Game of Podcast.

Would you care to explain why, Matthew?

Yes, I was feeling...

I can't see you!

I know!

Yeah, we're actually recording this independently, in different countries nonetheless.

Through the power of the Skype, which I understand is a very popular method of recording podcasts.

So obviously Sunday came and went and we were unable to record a show.

And, well, Matt, you take over because it impacted you more than it impacted me. Well, I wasn't, I don't know, I wasn't, I wasn't well. But it's one of those things where, you know, if you're not well sometimes, you're not well. And it was just like, I don't know, a three-hour journey when you're not well is, do you know what I mean?

Sometimes you just can't face that. But then later in the day, it was like, it was like those times where you have a day off from work, and then you do get that bit of guilt come midday, like, shit. I should have gone in today because I'm not getting paid for it either. And it was like that. I just felt like, I kind of felt like I'd, not let people down, but I'd missed an opportunity to have fun.

To have fun with my brother. So I think we just wanted to try

and attempt something which we've never done before, which is recording without having that

physical contact. You make it sound like we tri tri-humping each other through the entire recording.

You know, you're not a million miles away, actually, if the truth be told.

So I think what we're going to do in this show, and this is very much an experiment for us.

So if you're actually listening to this, it's an achievement in itself.

I think we need to get that out there.

So we're going to, you know, we're going to change things up a little.

We're going to cover a lot of the main beats that we have in our show, which is, you know,

which sticks to a tried and tested formula that we've run for many years. But, you know,

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