Good evening and welcome to the Pompey Politics Podcast.

I'm Ian Tiny Morris.

And I'm Simon Sandsbury.

Well, Simon, back at last after our super extended summer break.

And I guess we probably ought to start with an apology for last week where

the technical gremlins ran us through. Yeah, they did. But the lesson that we learned was,

if you're going to move your mixer desk and all of your setup around, don't dust your mixer

desk because you accidentally press a button that basically disables the feedback

from the computer to the mixer.

That's the really stupid thing

that I discovered shortly after saying,

no, we can't do this, we're going to have to bail.

But it's like a little tiny thing

about the size of a, well,

it's even smaller than my little finger now.

So, was...

Yes, so tragedy, but for those of you who were tuning in last week for In Liz, we trust,

we will be running the episode next Sunday.

But this evening's episode, we are turning our thoughts to the ocean,

and we actually have another apology from the relatively

newly formed conservative friends of the ocean who wanted to be with us this evening but

unfortunately they are all at conservative party conference which is their kind of official launch

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