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Hello, Adam Bucksston here. Honestly, I can't remember if they're swearing in this podcast or not.

If there is, there's really not much of it. What there is much of is inconsequential chat.

Here we go.

Now you have plugged that podcast out and started listening.

I took my microphone and found some human folk. Then I recorded all the noises while we spoke.

My name is Adam Bucksston. I'm a man. I want you to enjoy this. That's the plan.

Hey! How you doing?

It's Pod job here.

Recklessly tossing out his razor-edged chat hat into the public sphere.

That's not a nice image, is it? That could cause a lot of damage, not to mention decapitation.

And that's not the point of the podcast. What is the point? The point, I suppose, is to

communicate some kind of vaguely thoughtful levity. That's what it says on my contract with myself.

In which case, a better thing to line the edge of the chat hat with would be

like strawberry flavored sugar. A bit like the rim of a strawberry margarita. Oh mate, come on.

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