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The Squareball podcast. Well, welcome to the show. This is the Weststand, our guest-led show here on the square ball.

Dan here with Michael. We've got a remote guest today. That's exciting.

It is weird to look at a screen, not just your face.

Do you know, it's also very exciting. The fact that it turns out NordVPN are still on board for the summer, as we've discovered in the last week or so.

Just goes to show what a good job we've done.

And I don't think they're listening to the more recent reads,

which is probably for the best,

sort of checked in at the start,

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