Hi, Mark the producer here. Don't worry. I'm not going to sing. Just a quick note to say that we

used a new bit of equipment this week to record the podcast and I must confess I bolzed up the

settings massively. You may experience some rather odd sounding audio that sounds a bit like we

recorded it in a room made of Velcro. It's all sort of

that sort of thing. I won't bore you with the details, but I think it's something to do with

sample rates or something, which I'll hopefully fix by next week. And the level's all over the place,

and someone's really loud, and well, I'm really loud and someone else is really quiet,

and it's all just a bit messy but if you can bear with us for

this week we'll hopefully get it sorted out by next week anyway enjoy this is just a guide to modern life

modern life is hard to get just right it can frustrate you and annoy it and if it does write into dear love joy

welcome to the award winning dear lovejoy podcast this is an advice podcast we all have problems

even people without problems have problems i will help you problemless people

with your problems that's what i'll do um though never ever forget if you are taking advice off me

you'll take advice off a tv presenter dress it up any way you want but it's like taking financial

advice of the fella down the pub mark mark is here to keep me in check. Hello, Mark.

Hi, Tim. Hi, everyone. Mark is distracted today because we've got new equipment and new material,

new, well, no, new hardware, basically, isn't it? We've got a new mixing desk. I'm pretty anxious. I'll be

honest, I can't even tell if it's recording now. So you might not be hearing this ever.

Ah.

So yeah, Mark might be distracted during this week's podcast.

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