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Probably science. I'm Matt Kersh. I'm Andy Wood.

Hey, Andy. I'm excited by this guest. We haven't done, we haven't nearly enough taken advantage of the fact that we are recording remotely, so we're no longer constrained by different locations of possible guests.

And this is one of my favorite comics, and someone who was kind enough to take me on tour when I was just a baby, just a little runt of a comedian, is Ed Byrne. Hey, Ed.

Hello, Matt.

How you good? It only just occurred to me that that's why I'm on the show because now you're doing it remotely. I don't need to be with you. Because I'm kind of like, when you called me, said, would you come and be on the I won't just go, yes, why thank you and graciously accept.

I will start looking at the negatives and go, this show's been going ages and they haven't

asked me.

But yes, because previously you've only been recording people who can physically be in a room

with you.

Yeah, and you selfishly don't even live in London anymore.

I don't even live in London.

I don't even, I live, well, but I live like an hour from London.

So selfish.

It is very selfish of me.

I live in a big selfish house in selfish Essex.

With a selfish garden and selfish space and...

I was going to say, and a selfish family, but that's...

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