Hello there, welcome to a brand new R-Splug R-Scast right here on R-Splug.com.

Hope you're well.

I hope you're all well every week.

I hope you're well and happy and content because otherwise you wouldn't be listening to this.

And if you're not listening, what's the point?

I remember many years ago before I got my first ever radio job which was I think about the

age of 15 when I went to this old pirate radio station here in Dublin called Radio Dublin.

And the man in charge was a man called Aiman Cook.

Captain Cook they called him.

I went and knocked on the door of the radio station spanning this story about how I wanted to be a radio presenter.

I was going to go to college and do communications and I was giving him the whole hard sell of myself and how conscientious and how dedicated I would be.

If I was just given a chance on the radio, not really expecting anything to happen.

He said, you're on Friday at 9.

And I went, what?

So I had to come down a Friday and I do my first ever radio show and I was quite terrified.

And I remember somebody saying to me, that old thing about when you're giving a speech or if you have to do some kind of public talking,

imagine the audience naked and that makes it easier than this person said to me.

Just imagine that you're talking to one person and that one person is naked which was clearly not any help whatsoever because I was probably thinking of

Patsy Kenzett and I was 15.

I didn't have, but I just wanted you to know that I don't picture any of you, any of you naked whatsoever when I do this,

but I do hope that you are well.

It has been something of a difficult week, right?

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