Hi, Mark here. Just to say, we recorded this on what will likely turn out to be the hottest day of the year, or possibly the hottest day ever. That's what it felt like.

So we had fans going and Tim's kitchen doors were open and this has resulted in quite noisy audio.

It won't affect your enjoyment, but we just didn't want you to think the dear listener that our

standards had slipped anyway with that here's the podcast 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 dear love joy podcast today is a mailbag special

welcome to everybody who's listening to this on iTunes, whatever you listen to it,

and welcome to everyone who's watching us on YouTube tonight. We record all these live now.

So yeah, you can watch them as well as listen to this. During this podcast, I'm going to be giving

advice, so please don't forget if you are going to take advice off me, you know you're taking

advice off a TV presenter.

Don't forget that because it is a horrible idea, as we all know.

Mark is here to keep me in check.

Hi Mark.

Hi Mark.

Hi, Mark. I'd see him.

I'm so right.

I've got your name wrong.

It's the first thing I've done.

We have done one of these for a while.

Hi, everybody.

And Mark's slightly out of practice.

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