So welcome to episode 29 of the Cakewatch podcast.

I'm Chris Kendall, one of your co-hosts.

I'm an EU official, a Eurocrat, working in Brussels, slaving away in the paper mines.

But that's not important because I'm podcasting in a strictly personal capacity.

And with me is not Steve Bullock, but Steve Analyst.

Hello.

Steve.

Steve, you're being promoted from occasional guest to occasional co-host.

Yeah.

Well, yeah, all the all the mail bags of mail that you've had demanding that I made a co-host it's uh it's

finally paid off well our listener numbers always spike when you're on so you know we thought we

could do with the we thought we could do with the hits yeah that won't last so we weren't we

weren't here last week um for a couple reasons. One was that I was on holiday.

It was half term.

And the other reason was that poor old Steve B is down with some kind of horrible lurgie, and he still is.

So he's not match fit.

So we're going to do it instead

yeah i was going to do it um we talked about me doing it last week didn't i did me with um steve

and then steve said i can't do it i'm really ill um and he and we said okay we'll we'll talk about

it next week and he's still ill it's uh still so get well soon steve yeah come on steve pull it together mate we need you we need you back

we do yeah we definitely do but in the meantime um god there's so much to talk about i've

i started making a note of all the follow-up and i just kind of gave up and discussed because i'm i'm

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