Hi folks, good morning. It's Ritchie and Salford. It's Wednesday morning and it is the 26th of November 7.30 as I record this absolutely freezing out there.

It's really wintry, really frosty, kind of Christmasy as well. It must be said.

If you don't follow me on Facebook or Twitter, you might be in the dark as to where

the Richie Allen show has been on Monday and Tuesday of this week.

Apologies for this.

I'll get to it in a second.

But for future reference, it's not a bad idea.

Even if you don't have a Facebook account, even if you don't have a Twitter account, it's

worth checking in there. You don't

need an account to check in there, right? So, Facebook.com forward slash BBG Richie, that's

RIC-H-I, that's Facebook.com forward slash B-BG-Ritchie. And it's X.com forward slash BBG Richie again.

Worth checking in there because in an emergency, I will always post an update there

if something has gone wrong. So ultimately what's what's gone wrong? On Monday, I was preparing

for Monday's program. Jerry O'Neill was going to come on from Ireland

to talk about a book that he has just published and the core processing unit which is the central

hub, it's like a server really for the studio, went down and took the studio down with it and after

determining that it wasn't a simple fix, like a fuse or something like that,

and having spoken with the company AEQ, they said that the thing to do was to send the unit to them

in Spain, which is what I've done. In fact, it's arrived there this morning. I've just been told by

DHL that it arrived in Madrid at 8 o'clock this morning.

So sometime around about mid-morning, they'll have the unit.

Now, more than likely, it's going to be a component fix, meaning that it'll be fairly quick for them to do it.

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