And the Hello everyone and welcome to Series 2 of the Disclosure Podcast. It's so good to be back. I'm really, really excited for everything

I've got lined up for Series 2. I've got some really interesting conversations with a variety

of different guests and I can't wait to upload those I think you guys really

enjoy them so yeah it's so good to be back and I hope you had a wonderful new year

happy 2020 or welcome to 2020 and happy new year I hope had a good time celebrating

if you enjoy celebrating and I hope you had a good time celebrating if you enjoy celebrating and I hope you had a wonderful

holiday and festive period if you celebrate the holiday and festive period.

It's been a while since I finished Series 1 and it's just been really really busy since then actually and there's lots for us to talk about today.

I kind of want to focus a lot on what 2020 has been like so far and maybe go through some of the big things

that have happened so far because of course there's been plenty hasn't there already

even though we're only so many in such a short space of time into the year there's

already so much to talk about as there always is so I thought we'd maybe

we start series two with we've kind of a recap of how 2020 is going so far and then of course

as the series progresses there'll be a variety of episodes talking about a variety of different

subjects as well so yeah I mean it's it's definitely been an interesting period so far hasn't it

and we'll probably try and fit as well, try and fit as much

as I can in this space of time that we have for the podcast. But before we get into

then, just want to do a little kind of like introduction thing really which is is to kind of go

through just very briefly 2019 last year which was a really busy year for me and I kind of

just actually a few days ago tallied up all the talks that I'd done throughout 2019 and I put

them kind of into like a little spreadsheet thing.

And by the end of the year, so throughout the whole year I did a total of 107 talks and I also I'd asked

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