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Search get into teaching. Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby. Radio X.

Hello everybody and welcome to the podcast of our Radio X show.

I'm Matthew Crosby and down the line is Ed Gamble.

Yes, I'm here on my telephone. We're going old school.

It's like I've phoned into the radio show like a listener.

It does sound like you phoned into the radio show from the past though.

It does sound like you're calling from the 1940s. It's quite a crackly little line we've got going on here, but...

Ah, yes, I have one of those telephones where you need to dial with a little wheel. Oh, really? You've got the old rotary phone still?

Yeah, it's a nightmare when I want to take it out the house, but while I'm here, it's okay. You just,

you can't even get a snake on it, can you? That's the problem. No, I mean, you can put a snake on it,

but why would you do that? No, no, no, no. I know you're a fan of metal, but that's taking things way too far. Um, it is. So, so this was a fun show. We had you via FaceTime and the connection quality was, was a lot stronger than it is

in this intro. So don't worry if you're being freaked out by the sound quality here. It's much

better during the episode. And it is. It was, you know, in spite of all that's going on in the world,

it really was a little, it was a little break from all of that. We had a really fun time. I enjoyed myself. Yes, it was, you know what? I'm looking forward to doing it every Sunday because at the moment

it's the only thing in my diary.

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