Hello and welcome to a brand new ArsBlog arsecast right here on arseblog.com. How are you? Hope you're well. Thank you very much indeed. As always for being here. You may have noticed a little change in the theme music. It's had a

20-25 polishing, upgrade, remix, whatever you want to call it. And a big thank you to Billy Lund,

who is the man who took our very old vintage. Is that a better way of putting it? But our original

Arscast theme from 2006, that's how long it has been going and gave it a bit

of a modern twist and also upgraded the quality of the audio as well, because over the years

it is, I don't know, saving it as an MP3 here, MP3 there, I think it's lost or it did

lose a little bit of its sound quality. So thank you very

much indeed to Billy for doing that. And before we get home at today's show, and I'm sure you've

seen this across social media, an arse cast listener, a long time arscast listener, has had what

you would call, I guess, a pretty good week on the workfront. So congratulations to

Zoran Mamdani, who is going to be the Democratic nominee to become the mayor of New York City.

And we know he's an arscast listener because he did an interview with Vulture magazine,

which you can find a link to in the show notes.

And it was all about what he's listening to.

And he picked the arscast and the arscast extra as his podcast.

So clearly a man of impeccable taste.

Lots of people said we've got to get him on the podcast.

I suspect he might be very, very busy over the coming

weeks and months, but let's see, you never know. We might be able to make something happen there.

And well done again to him. I love it when our listeners do well. I hope all of you are doing well.

Don't I say that at the very start of every podcast? I do. And I mean it, and I especially mean it for the people who are trying

to do good things in this world. This particular show is a slightly interesting one, because until

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